It is fortunate when people learn about mimetic rivalry and are able to adjust their lives accordingly, but there are many who will not learn this and bound into every conflict, and these conflicts can start early in childhood and pathology can develop before they enter the workforce. Everything is just an empty search for approval from others for the objects that are chosen. When people look at work as only a means to an end, motivation saps and it becomes robotic. One of the best psychoanalysts that understood this problem well was Heinz Kohut who was in the lineage of Ego Psychology. Ideally employers provide boundaries to work within, but many people have grown up in families where everything is motivated by parents, and eventually authority figures in the world of work. To not be able to create personal goals to fulfill means no fulfillment. One just looks for cues from authority figures, and like a slave, one's emotions are tied to the criticisms of others. Attention is an unreliable source of energy. Resources: The Analysis of The Self - Heinz Kohut: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780226450124/ How Does Analysis Cure? - Heinz Kohut: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780226006000/ The Search For The Self - Heinz Kohut: Volume 1: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780367328702/ Volume 2: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781855758742/ Volume 3: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780367328733/ Volume 4: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780429907890/ Aggressivity, Narcissism, and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship - Otto Kernberg: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780300101805/ Narcissistic Supply - Freud and Beyond: https://rumble.com/v1gveop-narcissistic-supply-freud-and-beyond-wnaad.html The Ego and the Id - Sigmund Freud: https://youtu.be/Le_jw0YgTwo Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder: https://youtu.be/a5rk8PrA1sY How to motivate yourself - Freud and Beyond: https://rumble.com/v1gv3zl-how-to-motivate-yourself-freud-and-beyond.html Beyond the Pleasure Principle - Freud & Beyond - War Pt. (2/3): https://youtu.be/sU2cZriJZT0 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life - Sigmund Freud: https://youtu.be/oIc_h2tub5M Otto Rank Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNBLR4djB7GEFYv3W5GzYp_DuH0WOsOO Cult Psychology: https://youtu.be/ywWQLOar5Bo Case Studies: Dora and Freud: https://rumble.com/v1gu2dt-case-studies-dora-and-freud.html Saul Alinsky "I'd Organize Hell": https://www.openculture.com/2017/02/13-rules-for-radicals.html

Blog: https://psychreviews.org/the-presocratics-empedocles/ He believed that the universe was a combination of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. The world is ruled by positive and negative forces, and it's up to us if we want to reach the afterlife. This is the story of Empedocles. Intro: 0:00 On Nature: 2:15 Purifications: 12:38 Thales: https://rumble.com/v1gsojr-the-presocratics-thales.html Anaximander: https://rumble.com/v1gsppb-the-presocratics-anaximander.html Anaximenes: https://rumble.com/v1gsqol-the-presocratics-anaximenes.html Xenophanes: https://rumble.com/v1gsr8l-the-presocratics-xenophanes.html Heraclitus: https://rumble.com/v1gst93-the-presocratics-heraclitus.html Pythagoras: https://rumble.com/v1gsugl-the-presocratics-pythagoras.html Parmenides: https://rumble.com/v1gsvkl-the-presocratics-parmenides.html Zeno of Elea: https://rumble.com/v1ydoqc-the-presocratics-zeno-of-elea.html Melissus: https://rumble.com/v2gq916-the-presocratics-melissus.html Anaxagoras: https://rumble.com/v4erh9k-the-presocratics-anaxagoras.html Empedocles: https://rumble.com/v4gwesw-the-presocratics-empedocles.html Leucippus and Democritus: https://rumble.com/v4ifd2u-the-presocratics-leucippus-and-democritus.html Diogenes of Apollonia: https://rumble.com/v4jqfph-the-presocratics-diogenes-of-apollonia.html All pictures, sound effects, and music from Wikipedia and Pixabay Resources: The Presocratic Philosophers - Kirk & Raven: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780521274555/ Parmenides and Empedocles: The Fragments in Verse Translation - Stanley Lombardo: Paperback: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780912516660/ A Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia - Richard D. Mckirahan: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781603843058/ The Poem of Empedocles A Text and Translation - Brad Inwood: Paperback: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780802083531/

Blog: https://psychreviews.org/the-eightfold-path-right-action/ What's brewing in the mind can lead to action, but the problem with actions are that you can't take them back, and you can't reverse your actions like changing your mind. Thinking a bad thought, is not as important as the action itself. Pictures and Video from Pexels Resources: Right Action - Thanissaro Bhikkhu: https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/CrossIndexed/Published/Meditations7/071128RightAction.pdf SN 35:145: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN35_145.html Right Action - Jill Shepherd: https://dharmaseed.org/talks/player/65822.html Be Angry - Dalai Lama, Noriyuki Ueda: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781642970074/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PLXf2H8PHc

Blog: https://psychreviews.org/object-relations…-of-success-pt-2/ So much the of fear of success comes from what we deem as a True Self and being able to gain success with a clear conscience. If you look closely, the True Self appears to be built up of many Selves, and there's confusion on which one to follow at any one time. Intro: 0:00 Ontological Disease: 0:24 All photos, video and music from Storyblocks, Artlist.io, Wikipedia, Pexels, Musopen, and Mynoise.net Photo credits: Hermit's shelter. Photo: By Sergey Pashko, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57243915 Madeleines au miel de lavande By crayonmonkey - https://www.flickr.com/photos/crayonmonkey/5893964821/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52627935 Resources: Deceit, Desire, & the Novel - René Girard: Paperback: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780801818301/ Violence and the sacred -  René Girard: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780801822186/ Things hidden since the foundation of the world - René Girard: Paperback: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780804722155/ The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays - Dumouchel, Paul: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781611861327/ René Girard's Mimetic Theory - Palaver, Wolfgang: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781611860771/ The One by Whom Scandal Comes - René Girard: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781611861099/ The Past Recaptured: Marcel Proust's Aesthetic Theory Author(s): John Arthur Hogan Source: Ethics, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Jan., 1939), pp. 187-203 Time Regained - Marcel Proust: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300691h.html How Proust Can Change Your Life - Alain De Botton: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780679779155/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abWmjxMtI1Q