Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

Talking about hysteria, as well as about melancholy, can be a controversial issue because contemporary psychiatry does not use such terms anymore. Mostly for good reasons. The systematic century-long oppression of women through the pseudo-diagnosis of hysteria is a case in point. However, a deeper historical outlook should warn us from trusting uncritically whatever is […]

Even though he is the one who popularized in the 20th century the notion of men’s feminine core, or anima, Carl Gustav Jung is not the first one who discussed this topic. As he himself acknowledged, gendering the soul in the opposite sense to the person’s outer identity is a recurrent theme in alchemical and […]

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I very much agree with Matthew Fox’s recent suggestion to apply to the attitude and behavior of people such as Hegseth a new phrase, namely “hysterical masculinity” (see DM July 27). The notion of “hysteria” — the word itself is derived from the Latin word for uterus — as a tool for the submission of […]

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A powerful response to the SCOTUS Callais decision, which gutted the Voting Rights Act, appeared in SLATE magazine recently. There, Shirin Ali interviewed descendants of three civil rights activists who gave up their lives to ensure voting rights.* All six MAGA members of today’s SCOTUS should be forced to read this document: they who unleashed […]

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In Saturday’s DM, I pointed out some silver linings inherent in the rampant run into fascism that is coming to a head in MAGA America today, beginning with learning lessons of solidarity. The galloping into fascism is in fact a project devised over fifty years ago by then corporate lawyer Lewis Powell. Democratic senatorial candidate […]

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