[I]s it not already and in itself alarming that Europe’s Christian culture is barely in a position to uphold Europe’s own Christian values? With these words, Victor Orban justified his government’s resistance to welcoming those refugees presently streaming into Europe on the grounds that the influx of Muslim migrants is a threat to so-called “Christian values.”…
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Understanding the psychoanalytic theory of dreams
This is the first post of our Academic Dialogues series, to be continued on a weekly basis. In this series, we attempt to revisit some of our favourite (and typically obscure) topics learned in previous classes. This post is about dream interpretation and psychoanalytic theory. If you know nothing about these topics and would like to be…
“My Life”: Stills from an imaginary Netflix series
I seem to take some weird pictures with my phone, a lot of which seem almost cinematic — if my life was interesting enough to have movie (or better, a Netflix series) made out of it. So anyway, if indeed my life was made into a series, these are some of the still shots you would find in this week’s…
Self-Reflection, Weird Cat Metaphors and Growing Up
I open my eyes as the alarm blares in the background, I blink, I squint at the sun accosting my sleepy and unprepared face, and burrow deeper into the blankets, hiding my head under a pillow. The alarm continues to blare and I hiss in annoyance, rising slowly. As I lash out my arm to…
On moving home after college, especially when that home is in another country
Going to a Top-20 university has the tendency to instill in students just a tad bit of arrogance. Right off the bat, on Frosh-O weekend (now “welcome weekend” at Notre Dame, because somehow it is so offensive to say “freshman” these days), first-year students are told, “you’re the most accomplished incoming class this university has…
Memory as the Intersection of Past, Present and Future
If you read Rafa’s “Theories of Time Pt. I: The Fundamental Paradox of Nostalgia & the Perils of the Treasure Chest,” I would just like to commend you for putting up with the type of hyper-intellectualized, abstract discourse with which I have put up for the past four years—the type in which we can take a very simple…
Theories Of Time Pt. I: The Fundamental Paradox Of Nostalgia & The Perils Of The Treasure Chest
Like other posts in this blog so far (n = 2), this one offers a combination of self-mockery with a legitimate thought behind it. Perhaps it will end up on the more serious side, for I come today to share some “insights” (quotation marks added because it could turn out to be complete BS) on…
A Creed for a New Year
Above: Seriously, what do we even do with these? A creed for a new year. Well, not really a “year,” I guess, because our academic lives are now (hopefully temporarily) finished and the year now runs from January to December, like it does for normal people, instead of from August to May, like it does for the…
A blog for…
Well, quite frankly, nothing. More like a dialogue between two overcomplicated ex-students that feel they should have PhDs but don’t want to put the work into getting one. In here, you will find insights on philosophy, theology, psychology, society, and Notre Dame.
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