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Reading to Stay Alive Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence.

This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dowrick, Christopher
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Anthem Press, 2022.
Collection:Anthem studies in bibliotherapy and well-being.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover
  • Halftitle Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Staying Alive?
  • Five Stories
  • Suicidal Ideas and Actions
  • Caring for People with Suicidal Thoughts
  • Acknowledge the Deeply Unconsolable
  • Themes of This Book
  • Perspectives
  • Notes
  • 2. Thwarted Belongingness
  • Anomie and Alienation
  • Melancholia and Thanatos
  • Social Roots of Suicide
  • Belonging and Burden
  • Defeat and Entrapment
  • Sense of Safety
  • Suicide as a Communicative Act
  • Informing Literary Reading
  • Notes
  • 3. Escape from Them All and from Myself
  • It's All So Unimportant
  • So as Not to Be Ashamed
  • You Will Regret This
  • The Zest Is Gone
  • He Acted and Lived Unfalteringly and Definitely
  • Serving the Universe
  • Notes
  • 4. Not Choose Not to Be
  • Simple and Beautiful Oneness
  • A Continually Jaded and Harassed Mind
  • My Lament Is Cries Countless
  • It Brings a Closeness
  • Can Something, Hope
  • Leave Comfort Root-Room
  • Plough Down Sillion Shine
  • Notes
  • 5. Points of Transformation
  • An Everyday Temptation
  • A Denial of Experience
  • Prate Not to Me of Suicide
  • The Artist Must Play
  • I Can't Wrap This Up
  • What Good Is Done?
  • And Then We Shall Dwell Together
  • Points of Transformation
  • Notes
  • 6. Creating Raisons d'etre
  • A Vain, Fruitless, and Self-Contradictory Effort
  • Intentional Entity
  • Desire Is the Very Essence of Man
  • Vastly More Intersubjectivity
  • The Struggle Towards the Heights
  • Continually Completely New?
  • Notes
  • 7. Staying Alive
  • Sunt Lacrimae Rerum
  • Back to Black
  • Final Reflections
  • Notes
  • Index