The promise : who is in charge of time and space? /
Our sense of identity begins (our psychological birth sometime in the first year of life) with the feeling that we are the centre of the universe, protected by godlike benevolent parents who will enable us to live happily ever after. This is the ""Promise"" that is never given up...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London :
Karnac Books,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Our sense of identity begins (our psychological birth sometime in the first year of life) with the feeling that we are the centre of the universe, protected by godlike benevolent parents who will enable us to live happily ever after. This is the ""Promise"" that is never given up, lurking in the unconscious part of our minds. We must learn, reluctantly, that our parents are unable to protect us from the passage of time, from decline, and from death. Yet we retain, even as adults, the delusion that, while others may die, we never will. This adds fuel to the murderous anger we are born with and m. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 170 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-157) and index. |
ISBN: | 1782412689 9781782412687 |