April 2014 - The STOP Radio Network

11Apr

The Tyranny of Cool

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Ask them about what's important to them and they'll counter your enthusiasm with a shrug and a mumbled, "I don't know." Somewhere between kid-dom and adolescence, your child stops asking sweek, inquisitive questions and starts acting like everything you care about and they

08Apr

Our Inverted Contra Ego

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. It was part of the psychic apparatus defined in Freud's Structural Model of the Psyche. Its role was to mediate between the desires of our uncoordinated instinctual tendencies - the ID - and our critical moralizing part called the Super-Ego. For Freud, our