Future therapies
Forget about pills. It leaves us with:
- Philosophy (the best example is Descartes) and it does not work: that's Pascal's test.
- Jokes, that is Woody's Therapy.
- Routines, poetry, exercise, or a mix of both, like running while reciting poetry. A sort of Baudelerian Marathon.
- There is psychonanalysis, obviously. Freud's Couch. It is like philosophy, in that it opens up the package that the Joker leaves unopened. But it does not rely on reason to look inside. So it does not necessarily fail Pascal's test. It might work, in fact. The problem is elsewhere.
- Of course, I will have to speak about Heidegger. Perhaps Heidegger and James: the experience of fear Without Object.
- Possibly Wittgenstein: Lost in the city of language, and finding your way again. In the end, it is like psychonalysis.
- Finally, Bachelard's Imorg. Therapy as a work in the imagination. Rewrite the fear through imaginary exercises Disarm the fearsome object in a story. Reinstall an equilibrium between the elements, and between the elements and ourselves, through imaginary exercises. Despite Bachelard ambiguity, I take these imaginary exercises to be stories. Telling stories.
- Conclusion: Telling Stories.
