By M. Guy Thompson
ISBN-10: 1138790222
ISBN-13: 9781138790223
A gorgeous exploration of the relation among hope and psychopathology, The loss of life of Desire is a distinct synthesis of the paintings of Laing, Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger that renders their frequently tricky options brilliantly obtainable to and usable through psychotherapists of all persuasions. In bridging a severe hole among phenomenology and psychoanalysis, M. man Thompson, one of many prime existential psychoanalysts of our time, firmly re-situates the subconscious – what Freud known as "the misplaced continent of repressed wants" – in phenomenology. In so doing, he offers us with the richest, so much compelling phenomenological therapy of the subconscious so far and likewise makes Freud’s idea of the subconscious newly understandable.
In this revised and up-to-date moment variation to the unique released in 1985, M. man Thompson takes us within his soul-searching seven-year apprenticeship with radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing and his cohorts because it opened up in counterculture London of the Nineteen Seventies. This ceremony de passage culminates with a four-year sojourn within one in every of Laing’s post-Kingsley corridor asylums, the place Laing’s unorthodox notion of therapy dispenses with traditional limitations among "doctor" and "patient." during this extraordinary exploration, Thompson finds the key to Laing’s miraculous replacement to the traditional psychiatric and psychoanalytic remedy schemes.
Movingly written and deeply own, Thompson indicates why the very proposal of "mental disease" is a misnomer and why sanity and insanity can be understood in its place as inherently confusing stratagems that we devise to be able to guard ourselves from insupportable psychological affliction. The demise of Desire bargains a provocative and difficult reappraisal of intensity psychotherapy from an existential point of view that may be of curiosity to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, philosophers, social scientists, and scholars of the human condition.
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I have yet to find a satisfactory etiological theory of what causes us to become neurotic, or psychotic, or just plain crazy, though I readily favor the environmental The myth of mental illness 17 thesis over the biological. Neither model, however, is entirely compelling and, like the good sceptic I aspire to be, it seems to me that our mental states and what accounts for them are for the most part a mystery, and may always be. We may never know why this person is crazier than the next person, or why, in fact, all of us are crazy in some contexts and not in others.
Or I feel anxious and break out in hives or stomach pain. Or on my first day at school I’m so panicstricken that I refuse to leave home. When finally I am obliged to attend school despite my reluctance, I become so timid I stay to myself, which only arouses the attention of my teachers and classmates. Or I develop an obsession with counting, avoid stepping on the cracks in the sidewalk, or become depressed and lose interest in playing, an activity children typically relish. This is only a sample of the kinds of symptoms we frequently observe in children, here or there, at one time or other, in the course of their childhood.
If these criteria offer a rough and ready means of discerning what it means for me, or you, to be crazy, what does it mean to be sane? It would more or less approximate the opposite of feeling crazy. Our judgment would be sound, relatively speaking; our use of defensive maneuvers would be minimal because we would bear our anxieties with relative ease; and we would not find ourselves in a state of panic or agitation, but one of serenity, at peace with ourselves and the world. When we weigh the two, there are no crazy people, or sane people.
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