LISTEN. AT&T is out again, I’m thumb-typing this on the phone. Do I get bonus points?
Another look at "Freedom and Life," chapter 2 in Sick Souls, Healthy Minds...
"Anhedonia," the inability to feel pleasure, is a strange condition indeed. Even the most miserably deprived sufferer must have some derivative notion of what it might be like to experience the cessation of pain. Wouldn't the contrast, even if only imagined, be pleasurable? But young James, on his Amazon voyage with Louis Agassiz in the late 1860s, turned "with disgust" from every imagined good. It appears he'd “just about touched bottom” well before that crisis diary entry in 1870... (continues)
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