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To Whom Little Is Not Enough: On Sufficiency, Excess, and the Self That Cannot Stop Wanting

The Greeks had a precise diagnosis for the condition that defines our age. They called it pleonexia — the desire for more, the wanting that has no natural limit, the reaching that cannot stop because it does not know what it is reaching for. They considered it not merely a practical error but a moralContinue reading “To Whom Little Is Not Enough: On Sufficiency, Excess, and the Self That Cannot Stop Wanting”

Things My Therapist Taught Me…

On Hierarchy, Belonging, and the Strange Relief of Being Understood There are moments in a therapy session when something is said so plainly, so without drama, that you feel almost cheated. You expected the revelation to arrive with more ceremony — a swelling of strings, perhaps, or at least a lengthier preamble. Instead it comesContinue reading “Things My Therapist Taught Me…”