• Is a sense of existential fullness always a fantasy?

• Unrequited meaning

• Lacan on the anxiety of love

• Making the familiar strange

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• Seeing my response under the new description allows me to experience it in a new way

• The libidinal economy of symbolisation

• Our conception of the lifeworld needs the mundane as much as it needs the dramatic

• On finding the words that work

• How to enjoy writing #5: keep trying to say what you’re trying to say

• “We all have a sense of what really living, and not just existing, would be. We know that there’s a level of life that’s rare to attain”

• Charles Taylor on the Four Modes of Modern Seeking

• We are what we care about, we are what we lack

• John Stuart Mill on libidinal collapse: some thoughts on socialisation and human purpose

• What does it mean to live a good life in a broken world? Some post-pandemic thoughts on Charles Taylor’s philosophy

• Groping nervously towards the expression of inner life

• The malaise of modernity

• The voyages of concepts: some critical thoughts on sociotechnical imaginaries and its application in education

• The intellectual legacy of Charles Taylor: securing the vantage point of (historical) philosophical anthropology

• Subtraction stories and social change

• Some notes on naturalism

• Poetry and resonance

• The Reflexive Imperative and Shaping a Life