On Loving, Hating, and Living Well

The Public Psychoanalytic Lectures of Ralph R. Greenson

Ralph R. Greenson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781782204626
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429916984
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Emotions in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The author, was perhaps psychoanalysis's most gifted and eloquent spokesperson. In this volume the author is presented in one of the roles he enjoyed most: communicating to a lay audience his understanding of people and life and his insights into the science and art of psychoanalysis. These important talks profoundly influenced countless professional workers and lay people. The twenty-four public lectures in this remarkable collection are each a gem of wisdom and humor. With deep psychoanalytic wisdom the author addresses such timeless and universal human concerns as love and emotional development; hate, aggression, and war; masculinity, femininity, and sexuality; jealousy, envy, and possessiveness; and the vicissitudes of child rearing and family development. Reading these entertaining public talks of the author now is like reading a chronicle of the great psychosocial issues of the past half-century. One is impressed with not only the wisdom they offer for our current concerns, but also with how revolutionary, original, and prophetic was his thinking.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• The Man and His Life
• The Public Lectures
• 1. Misunderstandings of Psychoanalysis (1955)
• 2. Apathy, Boredom, and Miltown (1958)
• 3. People Who Hate (1960)
• 4. The Conflict Between Psychoanalysis and Religion (1960)
• 5. Sleep, Dreams, and Death (1961)
• 6. Varieties of Love (1961)
• 7. Emotional Involvement—Genuine and Counterfeit (1961)
• 8. Why Men Like War (1963)
• 9. Laughter and Tears (1963)
• 10. Masculinity and Femininity Reconsidered (1965)
• 11. Sex Without Passion (1966)
• 12. The Fascination of Violence (1968)
• 13. Why People Hate Psychoanalysis (1970)
• 14. Hate in the Happy Family (1970)
• 15. The Dread and Love of Death (1971)
• 16. Boredom, American Style (1971)
• 17. A MCP Freudian Psychoanalyst Confronts Women's Lib (1972)
• 18. Sophie Portnoy Finally Answers Back (1972)
• 19. Jealousy, Envy, and Possessiveness (1973)
• 20. Crisis in Adult Life: Prevention and Survival (1974)
• 21. The Devil Made Me Do It, Dr. Freud (1974)
• 22. You Only Live Twice (1975)
• 23. Beyond Sexual Satisfaction ...? (1976)
• 24. People in Search of a Family (1978)