17 Psychology Posts For You To Philosophize and Over Analyze at 2am

Here's the syllabus for today's scroll: big thoughts, small attention spans, and absolutely no prerequisites beyond having a pulse and a Wi‑Fi signal. Philosophy and psychology both promised to explain why we are like this, and memes deliver the same result in fewer words and with a picture of a confused owl. Efficiency.

So, proceed to a compilation where philosophy and psych collide with everyday mental static: Jungian vibes, Rorschach inkblot energy, Descartes with a headache, plus the full spectrum of delightfully unhinged mental‑illness‑adjacent humor. Bring eyes, a screen, and the courage to laugh at the abyss while it drafts a follow‑up.
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Consider the classics reimagined for our overcaffeinated era. Descartes offers I think therefore I am while the brain replies I catastrophize therefore I don’t sleep. Jung waves in with archetypes, and suddenly every ex is The Trickster and every Sunday night is Shadow Work. The Rorschach test politely asks what you see, and the answer is always the same: unresolved emails and a snack I definitely did not plan to eat.
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Therapy language has gone fully public domain, which means everyone is doing exposure therapy by opening their banking app and calling it resilience. Defense mechanisms are the original productivity hacks: repress, project, intellectualize, repeat.

Some days the psyche feels like a group chat where the Id is sending voice notes, the Superego is forwarding rules from 1998, and the Ego is just silently typing. Meanwhile, existentialism keeps asking for meaning while the prefrontal cortex keeps requesting an extension.
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