David Lynch Opens a Portal to Our Minds
When filmmaker David Lynch died this month, I grieved not simply the loss of a terrific skill, however likewise a fresh method to comprehend individuals's minds. I'm a social and cultural psychologist, and I study how individuals tackle understanding their lives. My trainees and I had actually found that Lynch's work produces effective mental stimuli in the laboratory to expose a few of the inner functions of the mind.
I'm especially thinking about what occurs when we fall under a state that theorist Albert Camus called "the ridiculous," when we understand that we are not able to continue making significance in our lives. In some cases we reach a point where absolutely nothing appears to make good sense anymore. And it ends up that studying this specific state assists expose how...