The April Fool’s Vaccine — Why We Need to Be Fooled
A psychoanalytical examination of why cultures institutionalize deception. Drawing on Thomas Ogden’s dialectical theory and Jaak Panksepp’s affective neuroscience, clinical psychoanalyst Oscar Rey de Castro (IPA) argues that the ritual of being fooled is a cognitive inoculation against gullibility — not a medical intervention, but a cultural one.
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