Forest lights: Notes on the conceptualization of the unconscious

Using the metaphor of lights appearing unexplained in the night, the author argues for a conceptualization of the unconscious based on a posture of trust and acceptance rather than one of fear and explanation.His last book,Idea and Experience, dealt with Husserl's project of phenomenology inIdeas I. He has recently completed another book,The Embers and the Stars: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Moral Sense of Nature.     

Being human,more or less

Robert G. Woodhouse Memorial Philosophy Lecture, Rockland Community College of the State University of New York, Tuesday, 1 December 1992.     

Sigmund freud by moonlight

In this poetic essay the author seeks to isolate moments of lived experience that can provide an experiential grounding for understanding Freud's shift from his early naturalistic conceptual apparatus to the poetic metaphors ofAnanche, Thanatos, andEros. The author concludes that the latter conceptual apparatus is no longer narrowly clinical but rather existential, articulating a fundamental structure of being human.