Navvab Tadjvar

Navvab Tadjvar’s philosophical interests began at the age of thirteen when he first read Plato’s allegory of the cave and felt enticed at the idea that reality could be experienced with a sort of richness that was currently unavailable to him, that a kind of interiorization could result in universalization, that the wisdom gained could be used to facilitate the healing of others, and that such excellence was as difficult as it was rare. It wasn’t until graduate school that his formal philosophical education began. During his years studying philosophy, he developed a personal telos which involves a commitment to expanding his discursive horizons and the container that is his ontological being, very much inspired by the Hegelian absolute spirit and Nietzschean perspectivism. After graduate school, Navvab began teaching at San Francisco State University where he lectured on ancient philosophy, ethics, and critical thinking. While writing a paper on Foucault and the 1978-79 Iranian Revolution, he came across Lacan and became interested in Psychoanalysis. Navvab is currently a Psy.D candidate at California Institute of Integral studies where he studies Classical, Relational, and Lacanian Psychoanalysis.