Nina Sander

Psychoanalyst. Human. Exploring, questioning, learning, growing.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“A principal task of art is to strengthen the adversarial consciousness.” —Susan Sontag https://t.co/meBGpu03T5

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Poems for Lent (Day 19)

[La femme merveilleuse invisible @larwoolf]

In 1933, visionary choreographer Busby Berkeley stunned audiences with one of the most spectacular musical sequences ever filmed in the classic pre-Code movie Footlight Parade.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Feeling a kinship with...

• Ella Wheeler Wilcox •

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Studies show that watching a beaver eat cabbage lowers stress by 17%

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Linger upon...

• Mary Oliver •

[Explore @Explorer]

Anaïs Nin, born on this day in 1903, on why emotional excess is vital for creativity https://t.co/mJybCSLJkv

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

It's going to be okay ☀️⛵️

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Esther Perel dismantles two romantic myths in one breath: There is no "one and only"—no destined soulmate waiting to complete you.

You choose someone at a particular moment, with timing, chemistry, and shared effort shaping what becomes possible. You could have built something profound with others too.

Soulmate? That's a metaphor for a transcendent connection—not a literal person. (Soulmate was once reserved for God, not humans.)

And unconditional love? It doesn't exist in adult relationships. We live with ambivalence: loving deeply while still resenting, needing space, or wishing for distance at times. That's not failure—it's normal, human reality.

Love isn't fairy-tale certainty; it's chosen, flawed, and co-created every day.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

— James Baldwin

[Mahlerite @jesusrglez]

“Madness must not be ignored or brushed aside, but spoken, written, and thought: it is a formidable transitory state, a tireless source of creativity”
J. Kristeva

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”

―Joseph Campbell

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

💘 Celebrating the captivating Nastassja Kinski on her birthday. 💘

On @criterionchannl, watch her iconic performance alongside Harry Dean Stanton in Wim Wenders's PARIS, TEXAS (1984) alongside archival interviews, deleted scenes, and more from our edition of the film.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

'Optimism' by Jane Hirshfield