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Wisdom won from illness : essays in philosophy and psychoanalysis /

What is the appropriate relation of human reason to the human psyche--indeed, to human life--taken as a whole? The essays in this volume range over literature and ethics, psychoanalysis, social theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. But, from different angles, they all address this question. Wisdom W...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lear, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Wisdom won from illness
  • Integrating the non-rational soul
  • What is a crisis of intelligibility?
  • A lost conception of irony
  • Waiting for the barbarians
  • The ironic creativity of Socratic doubt
  • Rosalind's pregnancy
  • Technique and final cause in psychoanalysis
  • Jumping from the couch
  • Eros and development
  • Mourning and moral psychology
  • Allegory and myth in Plato's Republic
  • The psychic efficacy of Plato's Cave
  • The ethical thought of J.M. Coetzee
  • Not at home in Gilead.