// "how to think straight"
| 04/16/2004 - 9:03 p.m. |

i found a bunch of old papers i had written for school the other day.
starting to type a few up to add to the EDR site.

the one, from 1998 (damn, i'm getting old) is a summary/reflection type thing on an essay by Robert Thouless, "How to Think Straight".
my paper was entitled 'A Feminist Perspective on the Psychology of Thought Habits'.

this one small part that i wrote really struck me, SO relevant to some stuff i am currently trying to get a handle on...


"Later in his essay, Thouless speaks of people's tendency to ignore the presence of core parts of who they are, sides of themselves that actually define them as human beings...This reluctance to connect with one's own humanity often leads to a deficiency in self-awareness that can paralyze and diminish one's abiltiy to lead a full and complete life."


hmmm...