The friendship contract of a murderer – examining friendships and self-perception in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

How does self-identification lead to the formation of relationships? Self-perception can be one of the most unreliable sources of one’s character; I will show how relationships are based on one’s idea of themselves, rather than who they actually are. I would like to illustrate how the ego prevents one to seek friendships of whom they… Continue reading The friendship contract of a murderer – examining friendships and self-perception in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

The broke student phenomena

Young people go to university with the hopes to gain a good future for themselves and what they are returned with is an insurmountable amount of pressure and financial debt When thinking about student life, one often imagines the glamour of freedom, the joy of following intellectual pursuits, the idea of sitting in a giant… Continue reading The broke student phenomena