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Psychoanalysis and Toileting is an accessible book that delineates
and interprets the psychological meanings of defecating and
urinating in everyday life. Paul Marcus' work gives the clinician
an in-depth view of an activity that every patient and practitioner
engage in and shows how not dealing with toileting in its wide
range of social and practical contexts leaves out a huge aspect of
the patient's everyday experience. Drawing from psychoanalytic
theory and practice, the author discusses such subjects as
constipation, diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome, adult female
incontinence, toilet cursing, public toilet graffiti and toilet
humor. The book also considers the personal meaning of urinating
and defecating as seen in men suffering from an enlarged prostate,
in 'excremental assault' in the Nazi concentration camps, and in
dreaming. Marcus considers not only what is typically negative
about these experiences, but what can be seen as positive in terms
of growth and development for the ordinary person. The book is
illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes and observations
taken from the author's private practice. Psychoanalysis and
Toileting will be a key text for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic
psychotherapists in practice and in training. It will also be
relevant to other mental health practitioners.
Psychoanalysis and Toileting is an accessible book that delineates
and interprets the psychological meanings of defecating and
urinating in everyday life. Paul Marcus' work gives the clinician
an in-depth view of an activity that every patient and practitioner
engage in and shows how not dealing with toileting in its wide
range of social and practical contexts leaves out a huge aspect of
the patient's everyday experience. Drawing from psychoanalytic
theory and practice, the author discusses such subjects as
constipation, diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome, adult female
incontinence, toilet cursing, public toilet graffiti and toilet
humor. The book also considers the personal meaning of urinating
and defecating as seen in men suffering from an enlarged prostate,
in 'excremental assault' in the Nazi concentration camps, and in
dreaming. Marcus considers not only what is typically negative
about these experiences, but what can be seen as positive in terms
of growth and development for the ordinary person. The book is
illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes and observations
taken from the author's private practice. Psychoanalysis and
Toileting will be a key text for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic
psychotherapists in practice and in training. It will also be
relevant to other mental health practitioners.
The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously
pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be
understood as the result of something which could be called a
deficiency of spirit." Binswanger was surprised when Freud agreed,
asserting, "Yes, spirit is everything." However, spirit and the
spiritual realm have largely been dropped from mainstream
psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book seeks to help
revitalize a culturally aging psychoanalysis that is in conceptual
and clinical disarray in the marketplace of ideas and is viewed as
a "theory in crisis" no longer regarded as the primary therapy for
those who are suffering. The author argues that psychoanalysis and
psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be reinvigorated as a discipline
if it is animated by the powerfully evocative spiritual, moral, and
ethical insights of two dialogical personalist religious
philosophers-Martin Buber, a Jew, and Gabriel Marcel, a
Catholic-who both initiated a "Copernican revolution" in human
thought. In chapters that focus on love, work, faith, suffering,
and clinical practice, Paul Marcus shows how the spiritual optic of
Buber and Marcel can help revive and refresh psychoanalysis, and
bring it back into the light by communicating its inherent
vitality, power, and relevance to the mental health community and
to those who seek psychoanalytic treatment.
The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously
pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be
understood as the result of something which could be called a
deficiency of spirit." Binswanger was surprised when Freud agreed,
asserting, "Yes, spirit is everything." However, spirit and the
spiritual realm have largely been dropped from mainstream
psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book seeks to help
revitalize a culturally aging psychoanalysis that is in conceptual
and clinical disarray in the marketplace of ideas and is viewed as
a "theory in crisis" no longer regarded as the primary therapy for
those who are suffering. The author argues that psychoanalysis and
psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be reinvigorated as a discipline
if it is animated by the powerfully evocative spiritual, moral, and
ethical insights of two dialogical personalist religious
philosophers-Martin Buber, a Jew, and Gabriel Marcel, a
Catholic-who both initiated a "Copernican revolution" in human
thought. In chapters that focus on love, work, faith, suffering,
and clinical practice, Paul Marcus shows how the spiritual optic of
Buber and Marcel can help revive and refresh psychoanalysis, and
bring it back into the light by communicating its inherent
vitality, power, and relevance to the mental health community and
to those who seek psychoanalytic treatment.
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher
and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest
ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in
the philosophical and scholarly community, especially in Europe,
there are few if any books or articles written that take Levinas's
extremely difficult to understand, if not obtuse, philosophy and
apply it to the everyday lives of real people struggling to give
greater meaning and purpose, especially ethical meaning, to their
personal lives. This book attempts to fill in the large gap in the
Levinas literature, mainly through using a Levinasian-inspired,
ethically-infused psychoanalytic approach.
The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite
Pain offers a guide to understanding and working with a range of
everyday causes of suffering from a psychoanalytic perspective. The
book delineates some of the underappreciated, everyday facets of
the troubling and challenging psychological experiences associated
with love, work, faith, mental anguish, old age, and
psychotherapeutic caregiving. Examining both the suffering of the
patient and therapist, Paul Marcus provides pragmatic insights for
changing one's way of being to make suffering sufferable. Written
in a rich but accessible style, one that draws from ancient wisdom
and spirituality, The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering
provides an essential guide for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists
and their clients, and will also appeal to anyone who is interested
in understanding how we suffer, why we suffer and what we can do
about it.
Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals
of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living
the "good life." While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed
to understanding the experience of love, it has only made a modest
contribution to understanding the psychology of work. This book is
the first to explore fully the psychoanalysis of work, analysing
career choice, job performance and job satisfaction, with an eye
toward helping people make wiser choices that bring out the best in
themselves, their colleagues and their organization. The book
addresses the crucial questions concerning work: how does one
choose the right career; what qualities contribute to excellence in
performance; how best to implement and cope with organizational
change; and what capacity and skills does one need to enjoy every
day work? Drawing on psychoanalytic thinking, vocational
counseling, organizational psychology and business studies, The
Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction
will be invaluable in clinical psychoanalytic work, as well as for
mental health professionals, scholars, career counselors and
psychologists looking for a deeper understanding of work-based
issues.
Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and
phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an
accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote
brilliantly about many of the classic existential themes associated
with Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers and Buber prior to the publication
of their main works. Marcel regarded himself as a homo viator, a
spiritual wanderer: If man is essentially a voyager, it is because
he is en route . . . towards an end which one can say at once and
contradictorily that he sees and does not see. As a self-described
philosopher of the threshold and an awakener, his stated goal was
to shed some light on the nature of spiritual reality, those
moments when one experiences an upsurge of the love of life. In
this book, Marcus joins the best of Marcellian and psychoanalytic
insights to help the reader develop an inner sensibility that is
more receptive, responsive and responsible to the transforming
sacred presences that grace everyday life, such as are experienced
in selfless love, hoping beyond hope, and maintaining faith in the
goodness of the world despite its harsh challenges. Whether one is
reading Re-finding God during Chemo-therapy, Maintaining Personal
Dignity in the Face of the Mass Society, On Fidelity and Betrayal
in Love Relationships or The Kiss, Marcus, with the help of his two
spiritual masters, Marcel and Freud, points the reader in the
direction of a greater everyday sacred attunement to the eternal
presences that life mysteriously reveals to those with a discerning
eye and an open heart."
This book is a most impressive and important study of the presence
of the spiritual and the sacred in the writings of the twentieth
century French philosopher Gabriel Marcel, offering immense help in
understanding Marcel and in seeing the usefulness of his ideas in
psychoanalysis.
The art of living the "good life" requires skilful attunement to
the lovely presences in everyday life. Lodged in a psychoanalytic
sensibility, and drawing from ancient and modern religious and
spiritual wisdom, this book provides the details, conceptual
structures, and inner meanings of a number of easily accessible,
everyday activities, including gardening, sport, drinking coffee,
storytelling, and listening to music. It also suggests how to best
engage these activities, to consecrate the ordinary in a way that
points to experiential transcendence, or what the author calls
"glimpsing immortality", a core component of the art of living the
"good life".
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 especially pertinent to sensible living in our
troubled and troubling post-modern world: "In tragedy," said
theologian Harvey Cox, "we weep and are purged. In comedy we laugh
and hope." In Monty Python's "Life of Brian," a bunch of crucified
criminals happily sing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"; in
Stephen King's book "The Tommyknockers," the central character
thinks about a joke he heard once. As a man is about to be
executed, the firing squad officer in charge offers the man about
to be shot a cigarette. He replies, "No thanks, I'm trying to
quit." It is precisely this capacity to use one s imaginative
resources to create a tragicomic "form of life," a way of thinking,
feeling, and acting in the service of aesthetic, epistemological,
and ethical deepening, of affirming Beauty, Truth and, especially,
Goodness, that mainly constitutes the art of living the "good
life."In chapters on love, work, suffering, death, and
psychoanalysis, the author shows how the "nuts and bolts" of
tragicomic attunement and intervention can be cultivated and used
to help people better manage the harshness, if not outrageousness,
of life, as well as more deeply engage its beauty and nobility.
Unlike most books on the psychology and philosophy of humor, and
following Ludwig Wittgenstein s wonderful advice "A serious and
good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of
jokes," this book is replete with jokes, humorous stories, and
amusing maxims and quotes making it a lively reading experience
that aims to help people fashion the "good life" a life of deep and
expansive love, creative and productive work, that is aesthetically
pleasing and in accordance with reason and ethics. As tragicomic
master Mel Brooks noted, "Life literally abounds in comedy if you
just look around you," and becoming more attuned to its dynamics
and applications in everyday life is the art of living the "good
life.""
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher
and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest
ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in
the philosophical and scholarly community, especially in Europe,
there are few if any books or articles written that take Levinas's
extremely difficult to understand, if not obtuse, philosophy and
apply it to the everyday lives of real people struggling to give
greater meaning and purpose, especially ethical meaning, to their
personal lives. This book attempts to fill in the large gap in the
Levinas literature, mainly through using a Levinasian-inspired,
ethically-infused psychoanalytic approach.
In Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let
the Conversation Begin, Paul Marcus uniquely draws on
psychoanalysis and social psychology to examine what affects the
ethical decisions people make in their everyday life.
Psychoanalysis traditionally looks at early experiences, concepts
and drives which shape how we choose to behave in later life. In
contrast, classic social psychology experiments have illustrated
how specific situational forces can shape our moral behaviour. In
this ground-breaking fusion of psychoanalysis and social
psychology, Marcus gives a fresh new perspective to this and
demonstrates how, in significant instances, these experimental
findings contradict many presumed psychoanalytic ideas and
explanations surrounding psychoanalytic moral psychology. Examining
classic social psychology experiments, such as Asch's line
judgement studies, Latane and Darley's bystander studies, Milgram's
obedience studies, Mischel's Marshmallow Experiment and Zimbardo's
Stanford Prison Experiment, Marcus pulls together insights and
understanding from both disciplines, as well as ethics, to begin a
conversation and set out a new understanding of how internal and
external factors interact to shape our moral decisions and
behaviours. Marcus has an international reputation for pushing
boundaries of psychoanalytic thinking and, with ethics being an
increasingly relevant topic in psychoanalysis and our world, this
pioneering work is essential reading for psychoanalysts,
psychoanalytic psychotherapists, moral philosophy scholars and
social psychologists.
The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite
Pain offers a guide to understanding and working with a range of
everyday causes of suffering from a psychoanalytic perspective. The
book delineates some of the underappreciated, everyday facets of
the troubling and challenging psychological experiences associated
with love, work, faith, mental anguish, old age, and
psychotherapeutic caregiving. Examining both the suffering of the
patient and therapist, Paul Marcus provides pragmatic insights for
changing one's way of being to make suffering sufferable. Written
in a rich but accessible style, one that draws from ancient wisdom
and spirituality, The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering
provides an essential guide for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists
and their clients, and will also appeal to anyone who is interested
in understanding how we suffer, why we suffer and what we can do
about it.
How does one best fashion an internal world, a personal identity,
that creates the conditions of psychological possibility to
apprehend immortality, that almost magical Infinite-conceived as
something-outside-everything, God, or the Other-from everyday
living? The art of living the good life-following Freud, one of
deep and wide love, creative and productive work, one that is
guided by reason and ethics and is aesthetically pleasing-requires
skillful attunement to these lovely presences in everyday
life.Lodged in a psychoanalytic sensibility, and drawing from
ancient and modern religious and spiritual wisdom, this book
provides the details, conceptual structures and inner meanings of
four easily accessible, everyday activities: gardening, especially
the creations of British horticulturist and garden designer,
Gertrud Jekyll; baseball spectatorship; coffee drinking; music
listening and storytelling (i.e., in professional storytelling,
child analysis, encountering a charming person, and in love and
friendship).It also suggests how to best engage these activities,
to consecrate the ordinary in a way that points to experiential
transcendence, or what the author calls glimpsing immortality, a
core component of the art of living the good life.
This book claims that a tragicomic outlook-the kind that echoes in
black and gallows humour and the "laughter through tears" of Jewish
humour-is the most effective way to manage what Freud called the
"harshness" of everyday life.
Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals
of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living
the "good life." While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed
to understanding the experience of love, it has only made a modest
contribution to understanding the psychology of work. This book is
the first to explore fully the psychoanalysis of work, analysing
career choice, job performance and job satisfaction, with an eye
toward helping people make wiser choices that bring out the best in
themselves, their colleagues and their organization. The book
addresses the crucial questions concerning work: how does one
choose the right career; what qualities contribute to excellence in
performance; how best to implement and cope with organizational
change; and what capacity and skills does one need to enjoy every
day work? Drawing on psychoanalytic thinking, vocational
counseling, organizational psychology and business studies, The
Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction
will be invaluable in clinical psychoanalytic work, as well as for
mental health professionals, scholars, career counselors and
psychologists looking for a deeper understanding of work-based
issues.
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Black-Jewish relations--at the symbolic level--are in shambles,
writes Cornel West. One has only to recall the 1991 Crown Heights
tragedy and its aftermath to recognize to what extent Black-Jewish
relations have deteriorated. The emergence of frequently
anti-Semitic black demagogues like Louis Farrakhan and Leonard
Jeffries and the Jewish community's turn to neo-conservatism have
only made matters worse. Mistrust, ambivalence, and other negative
feelings characterize much of Black-Jewish relations. Unlike most
books on this topic which are written from a sociocultural,
historical, and literary perspective, this anthology looks at the
psychological motives, beliefs, and desires that impair relations
between the two groups. For example, unresolved vulnerabilities in
respective communities from the Holocaust and slavery remain
driving and complex passions that still disrupt Black-Jewish
relations. Psychoanalysis is a powerful conceptual tool to untangle
these issues and other aspects of the larger societal
race-relations problem.
In Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let
the Conversation Begin, Paul Marcus uniquely draws on
psychoanalysis and social psychology to examine what affects the
ethical decisions people make in their everyday life.
Psychoanalysis traditionally looks at early experiences, concepts
and drives which shape how we choose to behave in later life. In
contrast, classic social psychology experiments have illustrated
how specific situational forces can shape our moral behaviour. In
this ground-breaking fusion of psychoanalysis and social
psychology, Marcus gives a fresh new perspective to this and
demonstrates how, in significant instances, these experimental
findings contradict many presumed psychoanalytic ideas and
explanations surrounding psychoanalytic moral psychology. Examining
classic social psychology experiments, such as Asch's line
judgement studies, Latane and Darley's bystander studies, Milgram's
obedience studies, Mischel's Marshmallow Experiment and Zimbardo's
Stanford Prison Experiment, Marcus pulls together insights and
understanding from both disciplines, as well as ethics, to begin a
conversation and set out a new understanding of how internal and
external factors interact to shape our moral decisions and
behaviours. Marcus has an international reputation for pushing
boundaries of psychoanalytic thinking and, with ethics being an
increasingly relevant topic in psychoanalysis and our world, this
pioneering work is essential reading for psychoanalysts,
psychoanalytic psychotherapists, moral philosophy scholars and
social psychologists.
For Marcus, each sport is a "parable of life" that depicts the
existential challenges and dilemmas that ordinary people face as
they attempt to fashion the "good life" of creative and productive
work, guided by reason and ethics, and aesthetically pleasing.
Sports are "moral fables," accesses to the landscape of diverse
emotions with a rich vocabulary for personal and social narratives.
Sports as amalgamations of visual art, theater, civic religion, and
science, have become resources for many to shape personal and
collective identities.
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