In Samuel Beckett's Letters (blogged here), we see how his intense encounter with psychotherapy presented him with a direct challenge to the rationalism of Descartes.
J. M. Coetzee writes that Wilfrid Bion, Beckett's therapist at the Tavistock Clinic, offered 'an analytic deconstruction of the Cartesian model of thinking' and challenged 'the notion of a private, inviolable, nonphysical mental realm'.
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #17 2024
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*Open access notables*
*Ice acceleration and rotation in the Greenland Ice Sheet interior in
recent decades*, Løkkegaard et al., *Communications Earth & E...
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