Tag: Oriental

Lisboa Oriental e seus Imaginários: novas questões

In the first round of this roundtable on Lisbon, we looked at ongoing changes in its eastern districts through the common framework of “conflicting imaginaries”. This proved to be a productive way to survey the multiplicity of narratives and agents implicated in the material and symbolic...

Oriental Philosophy Explains What Sigmund Freud’s “Eros and Thanatos” Couldn’t

At end of his long and illustrious career, his book, Beyond The Pleasure Principle, propounded a new theory to describe the other side of human behaviour. It was an antithesis to his lifelong work to describe the “pull of life” as the single biggest human drive. Freud’s the...