Existentially Challenged (Deda Files, 2)

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Foe Romance Subtext: Adam initially assumes Victor got a girlfriend. Then when he denies it, Adam guesses boyfriend, but Victor says that Leslie-Ifrig totally has arch-nemesis potential. Adam isn't too keen on this, given they had a pact to get an arch-nemesis together. Leslie-Ifrig pretty clearly has the exact same idea and treats it much more like courting than serious attempts to kill each other. They end up breaking up as nemeses, but stay enemies. An early contributor to existentialist psychology in the United States was Rollo May, who was strongly influenced by Kierkegaard and Otto Rank. One of the most prolific writers on techniques and theory of existentialist psychology in the US is Irvin D. Yalom. Yalom states that Apathy Killed the Cat: Invoked by Alison to keep her job. She was originally employed by the Ministry solely for the sake of secrecy, but is still hanging around after that's out the window. Nobody thinks to ask why until the end of the book, and she's well enough established by then that they're fine with her staying. a b Wartenberg, Thomas (2009). Existentialism: A Beginner's Guide. Oxford: One World. ISBN 9781780740201.

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This becomes a plot point later in the novel when Alison's neighbor claims Shgshthx is the Fluidic Killer. Unfortunately they can't identify which Shgshthx it is clearly enough for Alison to understand. Turns out the Shgshthx in question is the original body who's killing its renegade bits via its infusion in Jessica. Martin Heidegger, "Letter on Humanism", in Basic Writings: Nine Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time , trans. David Farrell Krell (London, Routledge; 1978), p. 208. Google Books. The term existentialism ( French: L'existentialisme) was coined by the French Catholic philosopher Gabriel Marcel in the mid-1940s. [11] [12] [13] When Marcel first applied the term to Jean-Paul Sartre, at a colloquium in 1945, Sartre rejected it. [14] Sartre subsequently changed his mind and, on October 29, 1945, publicly adopted the existentialist label in a lecture to the Club Maintenant in Paris, published as L'existentialisme est un humanisme ( Existentialism Is a Humanism), a short book that helped popularize existentialist thought. [15] Marcel later came to reject the label himself in favour of Neo-Socratic, in honor of Kierkegaard's essay " On the Concept of Irony".Gabriel Marcel, long before coining the term "existentialism", introduced important existentialist themes to a French audience in his early essay "Existence and Objectivity" (1925) and in his Metaphysical Journal (1927). [70] A dramatist as well as a philosopher, Marcel found his philosophical starting point in a condition of metaphysical alienation: the human individual searching for harmony in a transient life. Harmony, for Marcel, was to be sought through "secondary reflection", a "dialogical" rather than "dialectical" approach to the world, characterized by "wonder and astonishment" and open to the "presence" of other people and of God rather than merely to "information" about them. For Marcel, such presence implied more than simply being there (as one thing might be in the presence of another thing); it connoted "extravagant" availability, and the willingness to put oneself at the disposal of the other. [71] Keen, E. (1973). "Suicide and Self-Deception". Psychoanalytic Review. 60 (4): 575–85. PMID 4772778. 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). Baird, Forrest E.; Walter Kaufmann (2008). From Plato to Derrida. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-158591-1.

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Stewart, Jon, ed. (2011). Kierkegaard and Existentialism. Farnham, England: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-2641-7. Messud, Claire (2014). "A New 'L'Étranger' ". The New York Review of Books. 61 (10) . Retrieved 1 June 2014.The Reveal: Eventually it is discovered that The Fluidic Killer was Jessica the entire time. However, the trope gets taken a step further, as it is then revealed that her online “friend” xxReaverxx was actually Jessica’s Ancient, who is THEN revealed to be the original being the Fluidics escaped from. Wren, Celia (12 December 2007). "From Forum, an Earnest and Painstaking 'Antigone' ". Washington Post . Retrieved 2008-04-07. Simone de Beauvoir, an important existentialist who spent much of her life as Sartre's partner, wrote about feminist and existentialist ethics in her works, including The Second Sex and The Ethics of Ambiguity. Although often overlooked due to her relationship with Sartre, [88] de Beauvoir integrated existentialism with other forms of thinking such as feminism, unheard of at the time, resulting in alienation from fellow writers such as Camus. [66]