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The Weeders, by Jules Breton, 1868.

Preamble

The Enchanted Loom

By Lewis H. Lapham

On the mind’s ability to reinterpret the past and the tenth anniversary of Lapham’s Quarterly.

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 Seated Male Figure with Folded Hands (detail), by Édouard Vuillard, c. 1895. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Family of Howard Jay Barnet, in his memory, 1995.

Essay

The Difficult Task of the Future

By Damion Searls

Carl Jung’s fight to find psychological types.

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Joko.

Essay

The Person in the Ape

By Ferris Jabr

A history of humans trying and failing to understand the minds of apes.

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Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (detail), by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1653.

Essay

The Ghost and the Princess

By Anthony Gottlieb

The correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia—a debate about mind, soul, and immortality.

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Whalers, by J.M.W. Turner, c. 1845. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1896.

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Thoughts Made Visible

By Noga Arikha

Where does the mind reside?

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