What is psychoanalysis? Whereas there was once a time when proponents of -mainstream psychoanalysis- could point to the preeminence of Freud's drive theory and the version of the human condition associated with it-man as seeking pleasure in an erotically tinged universe-contemporary psychoanalysis is a fractured and contentious discipline in which competing theories share little more than the basic concepts of unconscious mental processes, repression, and transference.
Taking the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions engendered by psychoanalysis over the past several decades...
What is psychoanalysis? Whereas there was once a time when proponents of -mainstream psychoanalysis- could point to the preeminence of Freud's driv...
Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly about many of the classic existential themes associated with Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers and Buber prior to the publication of their main works. Marcel regarded himself as a -homo viator, - a spiritual wanderer: -If man is essentially a voyager, it is because he is en route . . . towards an end which one can say at once and contradictorily that he sees and does not see.- As a self-described...
Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, d...
While living in anti-Semitic Vienna, Freud wrote in a letter to Ernest Jones, -What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.- Tragicomic attunement--seeing the comic in the tragic and the tragic in the comic--is a perspective on life that, following Freud, is one of the best ways to -to ward off possible suffering- and better manage the stressors, anxieties, and worries of everyday life.
Moreover, tragicomic attunement and intervention has a meaning-giving, affect-integrating, life-affirming, double structure...
While living in anti-Semitic Vienna, Freud wrote in a letter to Ernest Jones, -What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned ...
Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the "good life." While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to understanding the experience of love, it has only made a modest contribution to understanding the psychology of work. This book is the first to explore fully the psychoanalysis of work, analysing career choice, job performance and job satisfaction, with an eye toward helping people make wiser choices that bring out the best in themselves, their colleagues and their organization.
The...
Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the "good lif...
This book claims that a tragicomic outlook-the kind that echoes in black and gallows humour and the "laughter through tears" of Jewish humour-is the most effective way to manage what Freud called the "harshness" of everyday life.
This book claims that a tragicomic outlook-the kind that echoes in black and gallows humour and the "laughter through tears" of Jewish humour-is the m...
This book is a most impressive and important study of the presence of the spiritual and the sacred in the writings of the twentieth century French philosopher Gabriel Marcel, offering immense help in understanding Marcel and in seeing the usefulness of his ideas in psychoanalysis.
This book is a most impressive and important study of the presence of the spiritual and the sacred in the writings of the twentieth century French phi...
For Marcus, each sport is a "parable of life" that depicts the existential challenges and dilemmas that ordinary people face as they attempt to fashion the "good life" of creative and productive work, guided by reason and ethics, and aesthetically pleasing. Sports are "moral fables," accesses to the landscape of diverse emotions with a rich vocabulary for personal and social narratives. Sports as amalgamations of visual art, theater, civic religion, and science, have become resources for many to shape personal and collective identities.
For Marcus, each sport is a "parable of life" that depicts the existential challenges and dilemmas that ordinary people face as they attempt to fashio...
As Freud has suggested, the "good life," which is characterized by deep and wide love and creative and productive work, that is also guided by reason and ethics and is aesthetically pleasing, has been the quest of philosophers, psychologists, and all "deep thinkers" from time immemorial. The central premise of this book is that there is an intimate, dynamic, and animating analogy between the art and science of war, as practiced by the great classical military strategists and generals, and the art and science of living the "good life." Indeed, the masterful strategic, operational, and tactical...
As Freud has suggested, the "good life," which is characterized by deep and wide love and creative and productive work, that is also guided by reason ...
