Updated, Dec. 28th, 2009
Hegel's Hotel: DGB Philosophy-Psychology...For The Mind, Body, and Soul...(As Well As For The Motivated Layperson, Academic, and Professional...)
Table of Contents
Blog (Floor) Number:
Part 1: General Introductions
Floor 01: First Introductions
Floor 02: More on The Dialectic Perspective
Part 2: The History, Evolution, and Integration of Western Philosophy
Floor 03: The Pre-Socratics (Anaxamander and Heraclitus)
Floor 04: Comparisons To Ancient Chinese Philosophy
Floor 05: Parmenides, The Sophists, and Socrates
Floor 06: Plato and Aristotle
Floor 07: Post-Aristotlean Roman Philosophy
Floor 08: Scholastic (Early Religious) Philosophy
Floor 09: Early Scientific Philosophy
Floor 10: Rationalism: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz
Floor 11: British Empiricism: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
Floor 12: Enlightenment Philosophy, Part 1: Adam Smith: Free Market Capitalism
Floor 14: Enlightenment Philosophy, Part 2: Diderot, Voltaire, Montesque, Paine, Jefferson...
Floor 15: German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling
Floor 16: German Idealism: Hegel
Floor 17: 19th Century Romanticism: Rousseau, Goethe...
Floor 18: Marx: Dialectic-Materialism, Socialism, Communism
Floor 19: Schopenhauer: Irrationalism
Floor 20: Existentialism: Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre
Floor 21: American Pragmatism: James, Dewey
Floor 22: Russell, Wittgenstein,
Floor 23: Korzybski, Hayakawa, and General Semantics
Floor 24: Hegel, Darwin, and The Evolution of Evolution Theory
Floor 25: The Philosophy of Science: Kuhn vs. Popper
Floor 26: The Philosophy of Power and Deconstruction: Foucault and Derrida
Floor 27: Ayn Rand: From Rational-Empiricism to Objectivism
Part 3: The History, Evolution, and Integration of Western Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Floor 28: Hypnosis to Clinical Psychology: Charcot, Janet, Freud
Floor 29: Freud and Breuer: Early Unconscious Traumacy Theory
Floor 30: Freud: The Seduction Theory
Floor 31: Freud: Fantasy Theory and Screen Memories
Floor 32: Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams
Floor 33: Freud: The Childhood Sexual Stages of Development and The Oedipal Theory
Floor 34: Freud: Sexual Instincts and Objects
Floor 35: Freud: The Evolution of Transference Theory
Floor 36: Freud: On Narcissism
Floor 37: Freud: The Repetition Compulsion, Mastery Compulsion, and Life-Death Instinct Theory
Floor 38: Freud: The Id, Superego, and Ego
Floor 39: Freud: Ego-Splitting and Object Relations
Floor 40: Ferenczi, Rank, and Wilhelm Reich
Floor 41: Adler
Floor 42: Jung
Floor 43: Object Relations: Klein, Fairbairn, Guntrip
Floor 44: Narcissistic Transferences and Self-Psychology: Kohut
Floor 45: Berne: Transactional Analysis and Games People Play
Floor 46: Erich Fromm: Humanism and Neo-Freudianism
Floor 47: Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy
Floor 48: Integrating Humanism and Existentialism
Floor 49: Nathaniel Branden and The Psychology of Self-Esteem
Floor 50: Cognitive Therapy: Ellis, Kelley, Beck...
Floor 51: Psycho-Cybernetics
Floor 52: Jeffrey Masson: Countering Freud's Abandonment of The Seduction Theory
Part 4: Current DGB Philosophy-Psychology
Floor 53: DGB Learning and Lifestyle-Transference-Mastery Compulsion Theory
Floor 54: Traumacy, Narcissistic Fixation, Ego-Splitting, Ego-Positions, and Ego-States
Floor 55: The Nurturing Superego, The Narcissistic Superego, and The Righteous-Rejecting Superego
Floor 56: The Approval-Seeking UnderEgo, The Narcissistic Underego, and The Rebellious-Rejecting Underego
Floor 57: The Central (Mediating and Executive) Ego
Floor 58: DGB Language Theory and Epistemology
Floor 59: DGB Narcissistic and Altruistic Theory
Floor 60: DGB Ethics
Floor 61: The Psycho-Dynamics of Multi-Dialectic (Multi-Bi-Polar) Personality Theory
Floor 62: A DGB Theory of One-Dimensional Functioning, Extremism, 'Neurosis' and Psychopathology
Floor 63: DGB (Multi-Dialectic,Wholistic, Integrative, Humanistic-Existential) Psychotherapy
Part 5: DGB Business, Economics, Politics and Law
Floor 64: Towards A More Multi-Dialectic, Humanistic-Existential Approach to Better Business Ethics and 'Win-Win Strategies'
Floor 65: Canadian Politics/Economics
Floor 66: American Politics/Economics
Floor 67: Equal Rights/Equal Responsibilities
Floor 68: The Battle of The Sexes: Egalitarian Masculinism and Feminism vs. Narcissistic Masculinism and Feminism
Floor 69: Canadian Family Law
Floor 70: Domestic Assault and Canadian Law
Floor 71: Sexual Assault and Canadian Law
Floor 72: Unequal Lobbyism and The Process of Government Law-Making
Floor 73: Towards Better (More) Egalitarian Government Laws -- and Their Enforcement -- Between The Sexes
Part 6: DGB Romanticism, Spirituality, Pantheism, and Humanistic-Existentialism
Floor 74: Gods, Myths, Religion, Philosophers, and Psychologists
Floor 75: Gods, Myths, Spirituality, Pantheism, Humanism
Floor 76: 21st Century Romantic Philosophy, Poetry, Literature, and The Arts
Floor 77: Family and Community Work
Floor 78: Concluding Essays
Floor 79: Contact, Awarenesses, Aphorisms, Short Opinions...
Floor 80: Most Recent Essays...
It has taken me about 3 and a half years to write the number of papers that can now be found on the various blogsites of Hegel's Hotel. I am predicting that it will take me another 3 full years of writing ahead of me to finish Hegel's Hotel to my satisfaction.
To be sure, the style and technicality of my writing is far from perfect -- both in its grammatical aspects and in its degree of subjectivity and sharing of my own personal experiences as examples, both good and bad, positive and negative, constructive and self-destructive.
However, first and foremost, mainly I am trying to get my ideas out on the internet for people to read -- academics, professionals and laypersons alike. There may or may not be time to organize and professionalize some of my essays later once Hegel's Hotel is more or less fully constructed.
I don't want to run out of time, energy and/or health before it is finished.
Also, I wish to bridge the dialectic gap between an academic standard of proficiency and historical accuracy on the one side of things vs. a more 'subjective blogsite approach' with -- as I said above --my own personal experiences scattered through many or most of my essays.
Most of my essays are aimed to be 'therapeutic' at least on one level or another as I weave my way through my own myriad of life experiencs and how I react to them, again, both good and bad.
I hope that my readers can find some value in what I write, even when you disagree with some of my arguments and opinions. Again, 'feedback' and 'freedom of speech' is always welcome here as long as it is done tastefully and respectfully, and doesn't amount to 'trash-talking'. The more concrete the feedback, the better. Even essays not written by me will be published if they are deemed to be good enough to add to the overall realism, idealism, and 'multi-dialectic' vision of Hegel's Hotel. Writers don't need to agree with me -- just put together a clear and well-stated argument on what you believe and value.
I do not really value Hegel's concept of 'Absolute Knowledge' in the way that he presented it. However, I certainly do value the concept of 'Multi-Dialectic and Integrative Knowledge Aimed Towards a More Unified and Well-Balanced Enlightenment-Romantic, Humanistic-Existential, Wholistic Existence'.
This is the vision, the methodology -- and the reason for the construction -- of Hegel's Hotel.
(To be sure, there are probably underlying obsessive-compulsive, tranference-lifestyle related reasons as well...but these will have to wait for their appropriate time of self-disclosure -- i.e. when we are discussing the particular makeup of 'transference-lifestyle complexes' in concrete detail as it pertains to my obsession with the construction of Hegel's Hotel.)
-- DGB, updated, Nov. 3rd, Contents updated Dec. 28th, 2009.
-- David Gordon Bain
-- Democracy Goes Beyond Narcissism
-- Dialectic Gap-Bridging Negotiations...
-- Are Still In Progress...
