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Wisdom Won from Illness - Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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Wisdom Won from Illness - Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of
humane inquiry-psychoanalysis and moral philosophy-that seem to
have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a
basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live. Jonathan Lear
begins by looking to the ancient Greek philosophers for insight
into what constitutes the life well lived. Socrates said the human
psyche should be ruled by reason, and much philosophy as well as
psychology hangs on what he meant. For Aristotle, reason organized
and presided over the harmonious soul; a wise person is someone
capable of a full, happy, and healthy existence. Freud, plumbing
the depths of unconscious desires and pre-linguistic thoughts,
revealed just how unharmonious the psyche could be. Attuned to the
stresses of modern existence, he investigated the myriad ways
people fall ill and fail to thrive. Yet he inherited from Plato and
Aristotle a key insight: that the irrational part of the soul is
not simply opposed to reason. It is a different manner of thinking:
a creative intelligence that distorts what it seeks to understand.
Can reason absorb the psyche's nonrational elements into a whole
conception of the flourishing, fully realized human being? Without
a good answer to that question, Lear says, philosophy is cut from
its moorings in human life. Wisdom Won from Illness illuminates the
role of literature in shaping ethical thought about nonrational
aspects of the mind, offering rich readings of Shakespeare,
Kierkegaard, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, and others.
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