frank lloyd wright designed a dog house - the original of which, tragically, no longer exists. however there is a photo of the dog (eddie) inside: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e6228c14000627d691d61db1b0f21e190ea7861112990c86c81fde80cfe49a4d.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/814874b80a9aacc04160f5829572914c3592b93ad7275e43f4ebf29be4928436.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b8ea0f534bb3ed9ceeccd4c5430113a00fa1fca6b180514d907ca4b226be0e15.file

i should note at the end: i am not opposed to the endeavor of "mind studies" - i subscribe to some alternate psychological models. i also don't have the same aversion to postmodernism as a condition that many of my co-religionists have. this is just something i observed. thanks

they can sense a kind of "playing both sides" of this when people discuss what therapy is supposed to do, or how, or why they "should" do it. one minute, we're talking in modernism world - the next, we're talking in postmodernism world. but those two worlds are antithetical. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1c9a7d58aaeb84cb87ad9f4efa9248866494ae9d950127c2079d22f718086e03.file

i mean some of them have theories, there are books and essays about it, but on the ground: normal people do not know. theyre also generally unfamiliar with this distinction (modernism vs postmodernism): but they intuit that something is "up" to me, this is what theyre intuiting

put simply: when a therapist sees you, if you were to say all this - everyone has their own viewpoint, no worldview or larger narrative is objectively correct - is the therapist supposed to think, "yes, that is true", or see this as just another idea in your mind? no one knows.

again, it's two completely different things. if "therapy" says, "yes, this is how the world is, time for me to come under the subjective worldview umbrella" that is a different universe from "therapy" seeing the umbrella as a psychological phenomenon in and of itself, to observe

that's the exact node that makes this electric cloud around "therapy culture", to me. this big umbrella opens where underneath is the postmodern world we now inhabit. was "therapy" supposed to come under that umbrella? or, was it supposed to study the umbrella from the outside? https://hell.twtr.plus/media/05fd71e935b4a9054481dcd09606b00e484ebf04b3ff82dd1e1fe2ce6a67c6c1.file

that's the real on the ground experience of postmodernism - "my" truth, "my" lived experience, "my" perspective is just as valid as yours, and so on. the question is, is this phenomenon (total subjectivity) how the world really is - or, is it something for psychology to study?

to me, after postmodernism, the "on the ground" application of psychology (what normal people think and experience) never really knew how to reconcile itself with radical subjectivity: the highlighting of the fact that everyone has their own viewpoint and subjective experience.