By Rollo May
ISBN-10: 0440530121
ISBN-13: 9780440530121
The preferred psychoanalyst examines the ongoing rigidity in our lives among the chances that freedom bargains and some of the obstacles imposed upon us through our specific destiny or destiny.
"May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a name between either common and important readers as an available and insightful social and mental theorist. . . . Freedom's features, end result, and difficulties; destiny's fact; demise; and therapy's position within the war of words among freedom and future are tested. . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and different thinkers are invoked safely to aid May's conception of freedom and destiny's interdependence."—Library magazine "Especially instructive, even wonderful, is Dr. May's willingness to appreciate secret. . . .There is, too, at paintings in the course of the publication a disciplined but secure scientific brain, prone to rejoice . . . what Flannery O'Connor referred to as 'mystery and manners,' and to take action in a tactful, meditative manner."—Robert Coles, America
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It turned out that her father was an executive, and at home he had been exceedingly authoritarian, blustering about the house and cursing at her mother, a weak person. The bind in which this would-be patient is caught and which radically curtails her freedom is that her father was the only image of strength she had, and in spite of her hatred for him, she also identified with him. The dilemma, then, is that she identifieswith the person she feels she hates, and how could she then escape hating her executive job?
The unfortunate duck, seemingly welded to a way of life that was continuously punishing, continued following the rabbit. Paradoxically, when ' 34 Freedomand Destiny .. ' . . the imprinting is made especially difficult for the creature being imprinted-say, by such punishment of the duck-the attachment becomes even stronger. 1 felt like crying out to the duck, "For God's sake, go away and find your own mother! "" Sometimes in my patients I see a similar blind, irrational attachment to a way of behaving to which the person has been conditioned by his fate at a very early age.
The fine summer had convinced her how easy and gratifying it was to live with someone. She was planning to marry Craig at the end of the month and move across country, where Craig had promised to get her a job at his company. Yes, she still loved Philip. She had thought Philip would be upset, but he would get over it. Philip's world collapsed. He was overcome with feelings of betrayal. How could she do this after their idyllic summer? Coming back to the city, he lost fifteen pounds in the next three weeks.
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