New issue—
“Everyone’s Deepest Desire”
Number 2159.—April 9, 2025
Dear Unknown Friends:
We are publishing, in two parts, portions of a definitive lecture—at once definitive and warm—that Eli Siegel gave in 1974. The title is What Are We Going After?, and here, in this issue, is the second and final part.
At the point we’ve reached, Mr. Siegel has been commenting on an article, “The Demoralized Mind,” by Jerome Frank, published in the journal Psychology Today. It provides, Mr. Siegel says, an opportunity to show what differentiates Aesthetic Realism from other ways of seeing the human self.
A central, enormous difference is in the lecture’s title, What Are We Going After? Aesthetic Realism shows that there is a fundamental purpose had by every human being, just as every human being has arteries. That purpose, in us from birth, is to like the world through knowing it….more
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