
- 146 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The Challenge of Being Human
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Preface
- Chapter One Alternate infinities
- Chapter Two Psychopathy in everyday life
- Chapter Three Image, fullness, void
- Chapter Four Where are we going?
- Chapter Five Thinking about squirrels
- Chapter Six O, orgasm, and beyond
- Chapter Seven Just beginning: ethics of the unknown
- Chapter Eight Life kills, aliveness kills
- Chapter Nine Mini-moments
- Chapter Ten Leaving and the impossible place
- Chapter Eleven Giving it a try
- Chapter Twelve Affect images and states
- Chapter Thirteen Everything human; hidden sprouts and psyche talk
- References
- Index