From Aristotle’s ‘Golden Mean’ to Gen Z’s rebellion: Enes Özel on ‘Normal’
On his very active Instagram account, M. Enes Özel describes himself as “Psychiatrist. Amateur at everything else, lucky freak, fumbling servant.” We spoke to Özel about his new book “Normal” and the ways different generations perceive the normal.
M. Enes Özel describes himself on his very active Instagram account as “Psychiatrist. Amateur at everything else, lucky freak, fumbling servant”. Yet Özel broke the routine of that description and went and wrote a book called “Normal”. So, normally enough, our questions were shaped by what he means by “normal”.
How “normal” it is to write a book about the normal is open to debate, but will the person who reads it have grasped “normal”? Are you at peace with the result?
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