The Good Life, livre ebook

Explores how psychoanalysis can nurture and vitalize, rather than only focusing on affliction and neuroses.

Explores how psychoanalysis can nurture and vitalize, rather than only focusing on affliction and neuroses.

Psychoanalysts have traditionally been expert at uncovering what afflicts and damages people, argues Jeffrey B. Rubin, but by focusing on narcissism and perversions, depression and sadism, psychoanalysis has all too often disregarded what nourishes and sustains us. In The Good Life, he demonstrates how psychoanalysis can make a profound contribution to the well-lived life by drawing on a neglected but potent aspect of psychoanalysis-its capacity to illuminate a psychology of health as well as illness. Rubin shows that, at its best, psychoanalysis can highlight both the ingredients of love, ethics, creativity, and spirituality, as well as the obstacles to experiencing them. Exploring the good life from this dual perspective provides an indispensable resource for helping us live with greater meaning and vitality.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Psychoanalysis and Creative Living
2. Values and Ethics in Psychoanalysis
3. Psychoanalysis at Play in the Garden of Love
4. There's More Than Meets the I: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Spirituality
5. Psychoanalysis and the Good Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index