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Big Think – The Quest for the Self or Searching for Selfies?

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Selfies are becoming more pervasive and ubiquitous, but what is driving their proliferation? It’s not so easy to take the impulse to photograph and share oneself all over social media and narrow it down to a Freudian drive or two. The Quest for the Self or Searching for Selfies? by Derek Beres June 24, 2014 … Read more

Reflecting on the 50th Anniversary of "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"

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Kelsey Osgood is the author of How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia (2013), and in this article for The New Republic she takes a look back at 50 years since the publication of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, written by Joanne Greenberg. One of the issues raised about the book since it … Read more