SELF-ARCHEOLOGY

Contrary to some people’s expectation, this article will not be a jolly, ho-ho-holiday read, despite it having both "holiday" and "hope" in its title. It will be about the reality of how a lot of people perceive holidays and their life in general, and about a possible alternative to that. As some of you may or may not have observed, many people live a lost, confusing, unconscious, and unhappy life. One of the manifestations of this phenomenon is that they live from one event or happening to another. Halloween is coming! I better get those decorations and candy ready! Aaaand it’s gone—but Christmas is next! Family time, gifts, Jesus, and songs! Aaaand it’s gone—but New Year is next! Aaaand it’s gone—but my birthday is next! Your friend John’s birthday; a new Star Wars movie, a new Fallout video game; NBA playoffs; Black Friday, a new episode of Game of Thrones, a weekend, etc. Don’t get me wrong, it’s wonderful to feel excited, and some of those things can provide ...

The following text is a quote from Lundy Bancroft's book "Why Does He Do That?" In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients were revealing childhood incest victimization to him. Freud concluded that child sexual abuse was one of the major causes of emotional disturbances in adult women and wrote a brilliant and humane paper called “The Aetiology of Hysteria.” However, rather than receiving acclaim from his colleagues for his ground-breaking insights, Freud met with scorn. He was ridiculed for believing that men of excellent reputation (most of his patients came from upstanding homes) could be perpetrators of incest. Within a few years, Freud buckled under this heavy pressure and recanted his conclusions. In their place he proposed the “Oedipus complex,” which became the foundation of modern psychology. According to this theory any young girl actually desires sexual contact with her father, because she want...

Hi everybody, it’s been a while! This blog post will be a little different. As some of you have noticed, there haven’t been many blog posts in the last year or so. I’ve posted some videos on the Self-Archeology YouTube channel , but some of them are directed to a slightly more general audience; meanwhile the blog posts are more complex and dig deeper. During this time of my literary stillness, I’ve received several messages saying they find this blog really informative and valuable, and they want to know if I will continue writing. The truth is, I was quite preoccupied with a big project that is a book I plan on self-publishing in a digital form later this year. I didn’t want to announce it earlier because it’s quite a huge project for me. I’m working on it on and off for about a year now, so there are not much resources left for this blog. Because when I feel like writing, I work on the book—and when I’m not doing that, I’m either working with my clients or relaxing. I feel more...