Scott Turner
@scottturner.bsky.social
Psychoanalyst, FIPA. Retired attorney. MA, Biblical Studies.
"We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it. We have not yet learned to understand: if I am starving, you are in danger."
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November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it. We have not yet learned to understand: if I am starving, you are in danger."
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"In some countries, a concept of popular and national unity influenced by various ideologies is creating new forms of selfishness and a loss of the social sense under the guise of defending national interests."
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November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"In some countries, a concept of popular and national unity influenced by various ideologies is creating new forms of selfishness and a loss of the social sense under the guise of defending national interests."
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Happy birthday, Dorothy Day. 08 November 1897.
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happy birthday, Dorothy Day. 08 November 1897.
"...the data on primitive hunters demonstrates that qualities often attributed to human nature, such as destructiveness, cruelty, asociability—in short, those of Hobbes’s 'natural man,' are remarkably missing in the least 'civilized' men!"
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November 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"...the data on primitive hunters demonstrates that qualities often attributed to human nature, such as destructiveness, cruelty, asociability—in short, those of Hobbes’s 'natural man,' are remarkably missing in the least 'civilized' men!"
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"The current attacks on Islam and on Muslims in general are a case in point where Western media, political pundits, and academics often totalize religio-cultural extremists and generalize the extremism to all Muslims, framing them all as potential terrorists.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"The current attacks on Islam and on Muslims in general are a case in point where Western media, political pundits, and academics often totalize religio-cultural extremists and generalize the extremism to all Muslims, framing them all as potential terrorists.
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"Just Wages.
If through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."
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If through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."
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November 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Just Wages.
If through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."
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If through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."
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"You know...anger, sadness, and longing are cousins."
Durban, J. (2021). The pipe child and the cork child: Infantile vulnerability and malignant symbiosis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18(1), 43–67.
Turner, S. (2020). Together in different directions [Photo]. Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.
Durban, J. (2021). The pipe child and the cork child: Infantile vulnerability and malignant symbiosis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18(1), 43–67.
Turner, S. (2020). Together in different directions [Photo]. Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.
November 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"You know...anger, sadness, and longing are cousins."
Durban, J. (2021). The pipe child and the cork child: Infantile vulnerability and malignant symbiosis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18(1), 43–67.
Turner, S. (2020). Together in different directions [Photo]. Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.
Durban, J. (2021). The pipe child and the cork child: Infantile vulnerability and malignant symbiosis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18(1), 43–67.
Turner, S. (2020). Together in different directions [Photo]. Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.
“The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.”
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October 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.”
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"...the more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled.
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October 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"...the more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled.
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"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty."
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October 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty."
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"Any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature."
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October 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"Any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature."
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I wondered if this is Ukraine, the West Bank, or Chicago?
October 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I wondered if this is Ukraine, the West Bank, or Chicago?
Free link in comments below.
October 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Free link in comments below.
Baldwin, J. (1965). Debate with William F. Buckley [Transcript]. Cambridge University, England.
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Baldwin, J. (1965). Debate with William F. Buckley [Transcript]. Cambridge University, England.
"The patriarchal bias so characteristic of Freud’s thinking was also criticised by psychoanalysts. Gershon Barag, who received his medical and psychoanalytic training in Europe, published his article 'On prostitution' just a short time after joining the Palestinian Psychoanalytic Society
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October 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"The patriarchal bias so characteristic of Freud’s thinking was also criticised by psychoanalysts. Gershon Barag, who received his medical and psychoanalytic training in Europe, published his article 'On prostitution' just a short time after joining the Palestinian Psychoanalytic Society
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"...workingmen have been given over, isolated and defenseless, to the callousness of employers and the greed of unrestrained competition. The evil has been increased by rapacious usury, which, although more than once condemned by the Church,
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October 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"...workingmen have been given over, isolated and defenseless, to the callousness of employers and the greed of unrestrained competition. The evil has been increased by rapacious usury, which, although more than once condemned by the Church,
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"Now, from this night, this coming morning, no matter how many beds I find myself in between now and my final bed, I shall never be able to have any more of those boyish, zestful affairs - which are, really, when one thinks of it, a kind of higher, or, anyway, more pretentious masturbation."
October 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Now, from this night, this coming morning, no matter how many beds I find myself in between now and my final bed, I shall never be able to have any more of those boyish, zestful affairs - which are, really, when one thinks of it, a kind of higher, or, anyway, more pretentious masturbation."