The Book
Sample chapters from Lee Strauss’s book-length projects on the body, language, and the failure to adapt.
A Bioenergetic Analysis of Language
A life’s work in progress — a non-linear reading of language and the body, built to be navigated as a web of linked ideas rather than a single line.
- Intro (Caveat: Please understand that this page and the three that follow it in this section are all very much still works in progress, and thus potentially subject…
- Book Learning Book learning, self-knowledge, and spirituality, while composing the three cornerstones of our lives, and thus too of any real effort to change ourselves, are…
- Self-Knowledge Self-Knowledge As with many other topics, self-knowledge can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. In the context of this book, however,…
- Spiritual Spiritual I put this component first because in my view one's spiritual connection to the creator of the universe – however one expresses it – for me at least…
Towards A Biology of Culture
Sample chapters from the earlier book. Presented here alphabetically rather than in book order — see the List of Chapters for the intended sequence, and begin with “Dennis’ Story.” The complete book is available under Lee J. Strauss on Amazon Kindle.
- A List of Chapters TOWARDS A BIOLOGY OF CULTURE A Preliminary Note . . . 5 Dennis' Story . . . 9 Introduction . . . 25 1. Bioenergetics . . . 35 2. Words . . . 50 3. Biology and…
- Dennis' Story Dennis could scarcely believe it. Amazingly, it had happened just like Tom Sanders said it would, but he still felt like pinching himself to make sure it had…
- The Synchronic Body One cannot believe in kindness, in morality, and in disinterestedness because of psychology. But one cannot believe in evil, etc., because of history. Albert…
- Space and Information The exercise was to find the muscle tension in our body that was like an old friend. And the workshop leader had us tighten those muscles and then walk around…
- Everyone or No One The pure form of the movement of rebellion is thus crowned with the heart-rending cry of Karamazov: if all are not saved, what good is the salvation of one…
Linknotes
Short glosses and asides linked from within the chapters.
- Introjects "Those demons are just projected parts of yourself, or of the authority figures and significant others in your life," Tom explained. "Throughout our childhood…
- The Letter R as a Fulcrum By itself the "fulcrum" r sound-- whether used alone or in the form "er " (cf. the letter "r" in the bioenergetic alphabet) -- is, in a tactile and affective…