To be human is to carry (or drag) a load of "emotional knots." Each signifies an emotional entanglement, an unhealthy compulsion, or a habitual reaction of anxiety, jealousy, envy, greed, frustration, ...
In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research laid the foundation for modern knot theory, was trying to find a ...