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Love and Will

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ISBN-10: 0393330052

ISBN-13: 9780393330052

Edition: 2007

Authors: Rollo May

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"An extraordinary book on sex and civilization....An important contribution to contemporary morality."Newsweek The heart of man's dilemma, according to Rollo May, is the failure to understand the real meaning of love and will, their source and interrelation. Bringing fresh insight to these concepts, May shows how we can attain a deeper consciousness.
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Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Rollo May (1909-1994) was an influential existential psychologist and the author of Love and Will, The Courage to Create, and The Discovery of Being.

Foreword
Introduction: Our Schizoid World
Problems as Prophetic
The Artist and the Neurotic
The Neurotic as Predictive
The Emergence of Apathy
Love
Paradoxes of Sex and Love
Sexual Wilderness
Salvation Through Technique
The New Puritanism
Freud and Puritanism
Motives of the Problem
Revolt Against Sex
Eros in Conflict with Sex
The Return of Repressed Eros
What Is Eros?
Eros in Plato
Freud and Eros
The Union of Eros: A Case Study
Eros Sickening
Love and Death
Love As the Intimation of Mortality
Death and the Obsession with Sex
The Tragic Sense in Love
The Tragic and Separation
Contraceptives and the Tragic
Love and the Daimonic
Defining the Daimonic
Objections to the Term
The Daimonic in Primitive Psychotherapy
Some Historical Soundings
Love and the Diamonic
The Daimonic in Dialogue
Dialogue and Integration
Stages of the Daimonic
The Daimonic and the Anonymous
The Daimonic and Knowledge
Naming the Daimonic
Naming of the Daimonic in Therapy
Will
The Will in Crisis
Undermining of Personal Responsibility
Contradiction in Will
The Case of John
Will in Psychoanalysis
Illusion and Will
Wish and Will
The Demise of Will Power
Freud's Anti-Will System
The Wish
Illness As the Inability to Wish
Lack of Capacity to Wish
William James and Will
Intentionality
The Roots of Intentionality
Examples from Psychoanalysis
Perception and Intentionality
The Body and Intentionality
Will and Intentionality
Intentionality in Therapy
Case of Preston
Stages in Therapy
From Wish to Will
Wish and Will to Decision
Human Freedom
Love and Will
The Relation of Love and Will
Love and Will Blocking Each Other
Impotence As an Example
Imagination and Time
Union of Love and Will
The Meaning of Care
Care in Love and Will
The Mythos of Care
Care in Our Day
Communion of Consciousness
Love as Personal
Aspects of the Love Act
Creating of Consciousness
Love, Will, and the Forms of Society
Notes
Index