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Wisdom won from illness : essays in philosophy and psychoanalysis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lear, Jonathan (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Reason.
Literature > Philosophy.
Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.