First Approach with Dylan Evans – D32

After some individual work, Dylan Evans, a great psychologist and author of many world-recognized books, visited us. He is a visiting professor at UFM because he is writing a book about Free Cities, and since the Free Cities Institute is at UFM, it is "the place" to be if you want to do research about that subject. During his visit to the MPC, he talked us about his life and his discovery of his passion for psychology. Also, he talked us about our future reading, a book called, Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. It was a good first approach with Dylan, whom I found very honest and entertaining. What I liked about him was his honesty and courage to say what he thinks and what is, even if that is against common acceptance or of that which a group believes, for example he telling us the reason why he got expelled from school, or how he believes that laziness is a good thing if done well. We concluded our dialogue by making the schedule for this book, which we are going to discuss every Thursday.

One fun fact about Dylan’s books is that all actors in the Matrix movies must read one called, Introducing Evolutionary Psychology. Also, one of his major contributions to psychology is a dictionary of Lacan called, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis.