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Jūnijs 27., 2016
![[info]](http://klab.lv/img/userinfo.gif) f | 11:55 - : the call of the void
L’appel du vide: You’re waiting for the train when an
inexplicable thought flashes into your mind: What if you jumped off the
platform? Or perhaps you’re driving up some precarious mountain pass,
when you feel strangely moved to jerk your steering wheel to the right
and sail clear off the road. American psychologists in 2012
published a paper in which this feeling was dubbed the “high place
phenomenon” (and their study suggested, by the way, that its presence
does not necessarily signal suicidal ideation), but the French term for
the phenomenon is much more alluring, as French words so often are: l’appel du vide,
or “the call of the void.” As the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once
observed, the emotion is so unsettling because of the way it “creates an
unnerving, shaky sensation of not being able to trust one’s own
instincts.” It’s a reminder, then, to perhaps not always let your emotions rule your behavior.
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