Is the Intellectual Life Unfeeling?

The author is skeptical of the endeavor to pursue a kind of self-knowledge through the therapeutic or how do you know? Well, I would say that I'm very influenced by Christopher Lash on this question. And I think that the... It depends on what we mean by therapeutic, right? But I think insofar as we understand the therapeutic is kind of like emphasizing feelings over truth and reality, I think it's a distortion.