This cross-genre novella introduces a comic hero the psychoanalyst who muses on ordinary yet essential psychological, philosophical and theological questions following The Catastrophe. Everyday scenes and characters form a background as he considers various issues, most centrally a feeling that good and evil have become inverted and that the western world has lost its meaning. In the first chapter the analysts efforts to comprehend a patients chaotic existence leads him to wonder how we think about life. Through a series of ...
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This cross-genre novella introduces a comic hero the psychoanalyst who muses on ordinary yet essential psychological, philosophical and theological questions following The Catastrophe. Everyday scenes and characters form a background as he considers various issues, most centrally a feeling that good and evil have become inverted and that the western world has lost its meaning. In the first chapter the analysts efforts to comprehend a patients chaotic existence leads him to wonder how we think about life. Through a series of conversations with a comedian friend, he argues that we have a psychic obligation to consider life as an object in itself, rather than merely to assume it exists and to go our own way. The three remaining chapters address other questions ones self as the others object versus ones self as the others other; the ironic function of descending towards transcendence; and the moribund nature of soul without spirit. His investigations are set against a post 9
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Good. No jacket. Book is shelf worn and creased from the top corner edge, otherwise cover is in good condition with no visible flaws apart from some light handling wear. Binding is tight and inside is clean, bright, and unmarked.
