The Challenge of Being Human
By: Michael Eigen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780429443060
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Psychanalyse
Description: "Freud wrote that the greatest problem facing humanity is its destructive urge. There is no one factor that solves the issue. The Challenge of Being Human explores tendencies that make us up and capacities that try to meet them. The shock of ourselves is perennial. We are challenged by our own aliveness and a need to open doors as yet unknown. We are not done evolving, growing, learning, feeling, caring. Growth of capacity to tolerate and work with experience is part of our evolutionary challenge. This book seeks to support us in whatever ways we can begin to meet this challenge."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter One Alternate infinities  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Two Psychopathy in everyday life  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Three Image, fullness, void  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Four Where are we going?  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Five Thinking about squirrels  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Six O, orgasm, and beyond  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Seven Just beginning: ethics of the unknown  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Eight Life kills, aliveness kills  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Nine Mini-moments  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Ten Leaving and the impossible place  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Eleven Giving it a try  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Twelve Affect images and states  -- Michael Eigen; title: chapter Thirteen Everything human; hidden sprouts and psyche talk * -- Michael Eigen.