Philosophy &amp; Psychology

Philosophy & Psychology

Archetype

A recurring template — character, image, story — held to be shared across cultures.

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Aristotle

Plato's most famous student and the philosopher who tried to catalog everything — logic, biology, ethics, rhetoric, politics, poetry.

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Attachment Styles

A typology of how people relate in close relationships: secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganized.

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Aura

The invisible energy or vibe a person is said to give off — and, casually, the impression they make in a room.

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Buddha

The Indian prince who walked away from a palace, sat under a tree until he understood why people suffer, and founded one of the world's major religions.

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Dopamine Detox

A self-imposed break from quick-hit pleasures — phones, sugar, porn, games — meant to 'reset' the brain's reward system.

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Eat, Pray, Love

The post-divorce travel-the-world-to-find-yourself template — usually invoked with a small smirk.

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Ego

The conscious self — or, casually, an inflated sense of self-importance.

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Existential Crisis

A moment when one's sense of meaning, identity, or purpose collapses.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

The German philosopher who declared God dead, attacked conventional morality, and went mad before anyone took him seriously.

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God Is Dead

Nietzsche's claim that traditional religious belief no longer grounds Western culture — and the consequences are about to be enormous.

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Hubris

Self-confidence so excessive it invites destruction.

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I Think, Therefore I Am

Descartes' bedrock proof that he exists, because he's thinking.

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Karl Marx

The German philosopher whose analysis of capitalism produced the most consequential political movement of the 20th century.

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Machiavellian

Cunning, manipulative, and willing to do whatever is necessary to retain power.

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Manifesting

The practice of trying to summon a desired outcome by focusing on it — saying it out loud, writing it down, picturing it.

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Narcissism

Excessive self-focus or self-love, often at the expense of others.

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Nihilism

The view that life has no inherent meaning, purpose, or moral order.

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Occam's Razor

When several explanations fit, prefer the simplest one.

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Persona

The face one presents to the world, distinct from the inner self.

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Plato

Socrates's student, the author who shaped Western philosophy more than any other single writer.

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Platonic

Affectionate but non-sexual — used most often of close friendships.

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Shadow Self

Jung's term for the parts of the personality a person refuses to acknowledge.

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Sigmund Freud

The Austrian neurologist who invented psychoanalysis and made the unconscious mainstream — even though most of his clinical claims have not aged well.

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Socrates

The Athenian philosopher who insisted he knew nothing — and was executed for asking too many questions.

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Stockholm Syndrome

A captive's emotional bond with their captor.

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect

The cognitive bias by which people with low ability in a field overestimate their competence, while genuine experts tend to underestimate theirs.

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The Secret

The pop-spiritual claim that focused positive thought literally pulls matching outcomes — money, love, parking spots — out of the universe.

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The Thinker

Rodin's bronze of a naked seated man, elbow on knee, fist under chin — the universal cartoon pose for someone concentrating hard.

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There Is No Spoon

The constraint you're struggling against isn't real — it's in your mind.