Carol Saller’s recent post on repetition inspires me to say just a little more about the subject. Let me take the sentence I just wrote, and you just read, as a path to talking about the basic issue ...

No matter how many times we’ve seen it before, the frenzy for launching a military attack on another country is — to the extent we’re not numb — profoundly upsetting. Tanked up with talking points in ...

Why do we keep going back to the parents that mistreated us? It often takes years and many attempts before we finally free ourselves from our abusive, undermining, and bullying parents. We can’t stop ...