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'.
‘He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’: the double lives
of Ukraine’s Antarctic scientists
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When the research team at Vernadsky base are not defending their homeland,
they are on the frontline of the climate crisis
When Ukraine’s Antarctic resea...
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