Author Archives: Jwalant Swaroop

Which Of These Defence Mechanisms Do You Often Use?

Sigmund Freud

Nandita Kochar Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist and the first person to ever devise a formal theory about the human personality, believed that one’s mental events could be divided into three categories: Conscious mind: It consists of mental events in current awareness (I am typing out this sentence, at the moment) Preconscious mind: It contains […]

Spinoza’s philosophy of “Substance Monism” and “Substance Dualism”

Like most philosophies of th seventeenth centrury, Spinoza philosophical has the nottion of substance at its heart. This concept can be traced back to Aristotle, who asked, “ what is it about an object that stays the same when it undergoes change?” Wax, for example, can melt and change its shape, size, color, smell, and […]