Many Renaissance artists sought to perfect the human form, viewing our bodies as vessels of divine creation and inspiration.

The boundaries between internal experience and the external world blur in this immersive animated rendering of autism ...

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

is a senior lecturer in political theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written two books about pragmatism, and is writing one on Ralph Waldo Emerson and another on psychoanalysis.

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The 16th-century ‘spiritual rock-star’ shows how seeing your soul as a castle can be a source of strength and consolation Courtesy the BnF, Paris ...

The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom ...

In our age of certainty and dogma, we would all do well to learn from the philosophy of the ancient Greco-Roman sceptics ...

Whether an act seems ‘good’ depends on how you look at it. Brain research reveals what happens when the lens changes ...

Articles, Films and practical Guides on goals and motivation, part of Psyche’s coverage of self-knowledge and personal growth ...

Articles, Films and practical Guides on habits and routines, part of Psyche’s coverage of self-knowledge and personal growth.