Gurnow, Michael (2008-10-15). "Zarathustra . . . Cthulhu . Meursault: Existential Futility in H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Call of Cthulhu' ". The Horror Review. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014 . Retrieved 2015-02-17. Around this same time, I read John Scalzi’s Agent to the Stars, Jason Pargin’s John Dies at the End. This was after exhausting myself on stuff from Project Gutenberg and looking for free fiction that was a bit more modern. ↩︎ One of the most blatant is that public opinion declared a "Shoggoth" an N-Word Privileges level slur after one of them mentioned the preferred term was "Fluidic"; its lampshaded a few times that the Fluidics are never the ones getting offended. The Batman and Robin scene makes me laugh out loud every time and, even with how painful I found the end, there were several very funny moments too.

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Ann Fulton, Apostles of Sartre: Existentialism in America, 1945–1963, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999, p. 12-13 & 18–19.A major offshoot of existentialism as a philosophy is existentialist psychology and psychoanalysis, which first crystallized in the work of Otto Rank, Freud's closest associate for 20 years. Without awareness of the writings of Rank, Ludwig Binswanger was influenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. A later figure was Viktor Frankl, who briefly met Freud as a young man. [114] His logotherapy can be regarded as a form of existentialist therapy. The existentialists would also influence social psychology, antipositivist micro- sociology, symbolic interactionism, and post-structuralism, with the work of thinkers such as Georg Simmel [115] and Michel Foucault. Foucault was a great reader of Kierkegaard even though he almost never refers to this author, who nonetheless had for him an importance as secret as it was decisive. [116] Abusive Parent: "Miracle Dad", even after learning the cost of healing magic, encourages his own daughter to use it at her expense. He later makes other people pay the price for her, but you can very well argue that encouraging her to murder other healers is just as abusive. At least he is is horrified when his younger daughter suddenly becomes a healer and accidentally kills herself in the climax. Aho, Kevin (2023), Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.), "Existentialism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2023ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University , retrieved 2023-10-31

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Urban Fantasy: Set in modern-day England, and has magic, demons, and monster-slayers who use shotguns. Existential & Psychological Movie Recommendations". Existential-therapy.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-07 . Retrieved 2010-03-08.There's a lot of this type of thing in this book. Nobody knows the name of a character who not only shows his face on internet streams he also invites those who watch his stream to his house. This is because.... the story needs it like that. Don't think about it, here's a joke about a vicar not knowing what doxing is. No one investigates people related to major crimes because..... the story needs it. No one comments on the blatant incompetence of the investigation because.... best not to think about it (seriously it's not remarked on once). Appignanesi, Richard (2006). Introducing Existentialism (3rded.). Thriplow, Cambridge: Icon Books (UK), Totem Books (USA). ISBN 1-84046-717-7. In the very end Alison gets publicly eviscerated by the press for forcibly undoing a Demonic Possession, even though it was a clear act of immediate self-defense that saved hundreds of people. Possessed Jessica is viewed as nothing but a victim and martyr for dual-consciousness rights, with the fact that she was actively committing an explicitly racially-motivated mass murder at the time ignored by the public at large. That the original Jessica did not consent to the situation is also conveniently ignored.

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Crowell, Steven (2011). The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism. Cambridge. p.316. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Some interpret the imperative to define oneself as meaning that anyone can wish to be anything. However, an existentialist philosopher would say such a wish constitutes an inauthentic existence – what Sartre would call " bad faith". Instead, the phrase should be taken to say that people are defined only insofar as they act and that they are responsible for their actions. Someone who acts cruelly towards other people is, by that act, defined as a cruel person. Such persons are themselves responsible for their new identity (cruel persons). This is opposed to their genes, or human nature, bearing the blame. Keen, E. (1973). "Suicide and Self-Deception". Psychoanalytic Review. 60 (4): 575–85. PMID 4772778.

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Marino, Gordon, ed. (2004). Basic Writings of Existentialism. New York: Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75989-1. Apathy Killed the Cat: Invoked by Alison to keep her job. She was originally employed by the Ministry solely for the sake of secrecy, but is still hanging around after that's out the window. Nobody thinks to ask why until the end of the book, and she's well enough established by then that they're fine with her staying. That story is mostly a delivery vehicle for Mr. Croshaw's particular flavor of humor (sarcastic absurdism or something?) but