How to laugh your way through life: a psychoanalyst's advice
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Main Author: Marcus, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Karnac Books 2013
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Laughing your way through life -- Love -- Work -- Psychoanalysis -- Suffering -- Death -- The art of tragicomic attunement and intervention
While living in anti-Semitic Vienna, Freud wrote in a letter to Ernest Jones, 'What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.' Tragicomic attunement-seeing the comic in the tragic and the tragic in the comic-is a perspective on life that, following Freud, is one of the best ways to 'to ward off possible suffering' and better manage the stressors, anxieties, and worries of everyday life. Moreover, tragicomic attunement and intervention has a meaning-giving, affect-integrating, life-affirming, double structure that is especi
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ISBN:1299538886
1782410856
9781299538887
9781782410850

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