Openings

A neuroscientist claims that eternal love belongs only to geniuses. Provocation, or clinical truth? This piece explores why duration, routine, and wear test every couple — and how, despite ourselves, every argument becomes a melodrama.

Addiction or disease? Narcotics Anonymous claims that addiction is a chronic illness; the WHO, meanwhile, stays silent on its severity. This piece questions that assumption in light of Peter Sloterdijk's more radical questions: where does the very idea of "addiction" actually come from?

Narcissism and the sea squirt: before becoming plant-like, this marine organism has a full nervous system — which it digests itself, once settled, never to move again. A biological fable, drawn from Llinás and Jules Verne, introducing the psychoanalytic concept of narcissism.