Existentially Challenged (Deda Files, 2)

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Elizabeth is kinder to Allison in this book compared to the last, being willing to indulge her curiosities and at one point even giving her encouraging talks to boost her low confidence. At times, she seems almost like she's grooming Allison to be some kind of successor, herself acting as a kind of mentor. Deurzen, Emmy van (2010). Everyday Mysteries: a Handbook of Existential Psychotherapy (2nded.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-37643-3. In Existentially Challenged, the sequel to Differently Morphous, the men and women of the Department of Extradimensional Affairs continue their struggle to uncover the motives of the Ancients under the ever-present threat of death, insanity, and sensitivity training. Trigger warning: the culture war takes aim at Christianity in this one. I thought I knew where that was headed, but it went somewhere fairly different and suitably horrifying to everyone involved. Croshaw loves to laugh at all sides of current culture wars. I probably don't always find it as funny as he does, but it's good to see things from a different perspective. Croshaw's voice is really fantastic for every character except the American minister's southern drawl. Southerners usually do not emphasise the Grrr in the R sound the way most of the other American accents do.

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Simone de Beauvoir, Force of Circumstance, quoted in Ronald Aronson, Camus and Sartre, University of Chicago Press, 2004, p. 48.Around this same time, I read John Scalzi’s Agent to the Stars, Jason Pargin’s John Dies at the End. This was after exhausting myself on stuff from Project Gutenberg and looking for free fiction that was a bit more modern. ↩︎

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Xanatos Gambit: This was the plan in setting up an obscure American fundamentalist pastor as Modern Miracle's opponent in the faith healing contest. If he somehow wins, fine; the Govrnment is on the Christian side via the Church of England in any case. If he loses then the anti-Christian side can enjoy their win and the Christian side (especially the Church of England members) will immediately dismiss it as him not representing 'real' Christianity. Either way everyone will move on to the next thing, which is the main thing the Government wants. I've read all of Yahtzee Crosshaw's books, from the more humble beginnings of Mogworld and Jam to the more excellent books like Differently Morphous and Will Save the Galaxy for Food, and even for those works I've not enjoyed as much, there is definite quality to the writing. An author narrating their own work is often hit and miss, but Yahtzee does a decent job. A major offshoot of existentialism as a philosophy is existentialist psychology and psychoanalysis, which first crystallized in the work of Otto Rank, Freud's closest associate for 20 years. Without awareness of the writings of Rank, Ludwig Binswanger was influenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. A later figure was Viktor Frankl, who briefly met Freud as a young man. [114] His logotherapy can be regarded as a form of existentialist therapy. The existentialists would also influence social psychology, antipositivist micro- sociology, symbolic interactionism, and post-structuralism, with the work of thinkers such as Georg Simmel [115] and Michel Foucault. Foucault was a great reader of Kierkegaard even though he almost never refers to this author, who nonetheless had for him an importance as secret as it was decisive. [116]Klempe, Hroar (October 2008). "Welhaven og psykologien: Del 2. Welhaven peker fremover"[Welhaven and psychology: Part 2. Welhaven points forward]. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening (in Norwegian Bokmål). 45 (10) . Retrieved 2022-07-14.

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Copleston, F. C. (2009). "Existentialism". Philosophy. 23 (84): 19–37. doi: 10.1017/S0031819100065955. JSTOR 4544850. S2CID 241337492.The twist at the end of the book is extremely obvious when the characters find out the most basic information about the people involved. This is why the last paragraph is a thing. There is no narrative reason for any of it apart from to obscure what the end twist is. In comparison the twist reveal of the last book was actually well thought out. There were hints throughout the book and nothing needed to be artificially obscured to achieve it. I find it incredibly ironic that Yahtzee has made a living pointing out these kind of inconsistencies in games but doesn't apply the same standard to his own writing. There's a lot of this type of thing in this book. Nobody knows the name of a character who not only shows his face on internet streams he also invites those who watch his stream to his house. This is because.... the story needs it like that. Don't think about it, here's a joke about a vicar not knowing what doxing is. No one investigates people related to major crimes because..... the story needs it. No one comments on the blatant incompetence of the investigation because.... best not to think about it (seriously it's not remarked on once). Planet of Steves: The Fluidics, having originally been one part of the same entity, all possess the same name (Pronounced: Shug-shuh-thx). If you suggest this is confusing the internet hate machine will be all over you for being racist. Loving that the LGBT and POC rep is even better than before and how almost everyone develops in surprising ways.