Sartre’s phenomenology reveals the shift from subject to object (and back) is not just grammar. It is a matter of power ...

What would it mean to love a stranger just as you love your closest friends? A philosopher makes a case for ‘love ethics’ ...

Visualisation activates similar brain areas as real-life experiences. Here’s how to use mental imagery to improve results ...

is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine and Cosmopolitan, among others. She has also ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, ...

You’re often asked what you believe. Do you believe in God? Do you believe in global warming? Do you believe in life after love? And you’re often told that your beliefs are central to who you are, and ...

Carl Jung’s approach to architecture is a provocation: how are we creating spaces for the forgotten dimensions of our minds? Architecture is physical, tangible and material. It is concrete, steel and ...

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung surveying his life and extraordinarily influential career at the age of 84, just two years before his death.

Scenes from books, movies and games sometimes carry as much weight as events from people’s own lives. We’re finding out why Ask someone to describe their most vivid and emotionally charged memories ...

Aphantasia veils the past and the future from the mind’s eye. That can be a gift to philosophers like Derek Parfit and me There’s an early memory from my childhood, representative of its peak ...

Last summer, just after turning 50, I gave myself a kind of permission I’d never granted before. I rented a small cottage by a lake in southern Finland, moved in with my dog for nearly four months, ...