Alistair AppletonMay 7, 20216 minPlaces“Being incarnate is a business”, Iris Murdoch.Adrian’s boyfriend was telling me about epiphytic plants which are not directly parasitic on the tree they dwell on but rather hop on…
Alistair AppletonApr 23, 20214 minCultureThe Supersumptuous That voice is all wrong, really. It’s not formal, it’s not ‘correct’ but it gushes and it’s unstoppable. It IS supersumptous. And that’s wh
Alistair AppletonMar 22, 20215 minEmbodimentUnderstanding the weather of emotions: Candace Pert’s “Molecules of Emotion”that phrases like ‘I’ve got a gut feeling about this’ turn out to be literally correct.
Alistair AppletonMar 12, 20218 minTherapyFreudThis is a tidied up transcript of an answer I gave in the Live Sessions in February 2021. Tamsyn mentioned her dislike of reading Freud...