Bear with me, many people think that I am completely crazy when I say what I am about to say but I think that it has some relevance to the rest of the seminar. ... I need to make it clear that I am using a metaphor to explain the baby's state of mind. ... By internal world I am talking about the world we inhabit in our minds. ... As a psychoanalyst I believe that these three domains all have importance but today I am obviously concerned mostly with the third domain, that of the internal world. ... Of course I am interested in the ways in which all of this can go wrong. ...

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Plato vs. Augustine on the Nature of Humanity Humans have struggled throughout the centuries with the complexity and ambiguity of our humanity. The question of who or what we are as humans is difficult one and does not have an easy answer. Our first understanding of humanity is based within ...

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For Johnson, Thoreau's ecological perspective emerges in the writer's "observation and knowledge of the literal, physical world" in the work of his last decade that moves beyond his own (and not just Emerson's) use of metaphor to describe the physical world. (5) Lance Newman argues further that the "irreducibly material environment" of Concord that Thoreau records so palpably in his journals and unpublished natural history projects transforms his "writing and even his consciousness." ...

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For instance, I believe that my roommate Chris is home from work if I see the headlights flash in the window, and the time is 1:00 AM and I see a figure walking up to the door, however as Descartes notes, "From time to time I have found that senses deceive."" ...

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