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Can reason absorb the psyche’s nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear says, philosophy is cut from its moorings in human life. He brings into conversation psychoanalysis and moral philosophy, which together form a basis for ethical thought about how to live.

Table of Contents:
Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Chapter One. Wisdom Won from Illness Chapter Two. Integrating the Nonrational Soul Chapter Three. What Is a Crisis of Intelligibility? Chapter Four. A Lost Conception of Irony Chapter Five. Waiting for the Barbarians Chapter Six. The Ironic Creativity of Socratic Doubt Chapter Seven. Rosalind’s Pregnancy Chapter Eight. Technique and Final Cause in Psychoanalysis Chapter Nine. Jumping from the Couch Chapter Ten. Eros and Development Chapter Eleven. Mourning and Moral Psychology Chapter Twelve. Allegory and Myth in Plato’s Republic Chapter Thirteen. The Psychic Efficacy of Plato’s Cave Chapter Fourteen. The Ethical Thought of J. M. Coetzee Chapter Fifteen. Not at Home in Gilead Notes Acknowledgments Index

About the Author :
Lear Jonathan : Jonathan Lear is John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is also the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.

Review :
James Doyle, Harvard University: This book makes original, insightful, and important contributions to the interpretation of Plato and Aristotle, to philosophical psychology in general, and to psychoanalysis and the philosophical issues that arise out of it. The broadly composite models of the psyche presented by Plato and Aristotle are investigated in a highly original and fruitful way. The importance of the issues they present is never merely antiquarian. Lear is committed to the vital relevance of these works to our own understanding of what is important about the life of an embodied human soul.Adam Leite, Indiana University, Bloomington: Jonathan Lear looks towards a day when psychoanalysis and philosophy will be complementary parts of a single practical endeavor in which we fashion our lives. This book shows us Lear's mind at work--developing, deepening, connecting, and extending themes from his earlier books, and striking out in rich and exciting new directions. This book will be useful not only for philosophers interested in psychoanalysis and analysts interested in philosophy, but also for anyone interested in the question of how reflection and conversation might change our lives for the better. Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame: What resources does psychoanalysis provide for those who seek to understand their lives in broadly Aristotelian terms? Jonathan Lear has given an unusually interesting and insightful answer to this question. M. Uebel: Lear offers a brilliant tour of the interpenetrations of moral philosophy and psychoanalysis...Lear has long been recognized as a leading scholar of philosophy and psychoanalytic thought, and Wisdom Won from Illness represents another important contribution to these fields. This is a work of massive philosophical and psychological authority and consistent revelation. Brian O'Connor: Jonathan Lear writes about a diverse range of topics with a steady mix of persuasion and provocation... His inventive interpretative moves, to bring out an epistemic radicalism in the allegory of the Noble Falsehood, ...add up to an absorbing and quite startling piece of philosophy... This excellent volume is filled with finely developed and irreducibly particular insights that deserve to be read on their own terms. Robert Kehoe III: Bracingly unorthodox...One of Lear's great contributions is his attentiveness to the power of trauma, and to the possibility of healing by working through the process of mourning...Facilitating communication between philosophy and psychanalysis, Lear has once again performed his own therapeutic action by inviting a harmonious conversation between the rational and irrational parts of the soul. William Kolbrener: [An] extraordinary and varied collection of essays. Benjamin H. Ogden: Lear takes a subtly radical position in Wisdom Won from Illness, arguing that psychoanalysis is not merely a venture one undertakes in the hope of relieving suffering (of achieving a level of contentment, of escaping symptoms of depression and anxiety), but in the hope of living well. This is one of the poignant qualities of this collection of essays: it asks more of humans than that they be content; it asks that humans not only live happily, but excellently. And it doesn't merely hope for humans to do this, it expects it of them, and shows in clinical vignettes drawn from Lear's private practice that the human need for truth--to understand ourselves and the world in which we live, and to be able to consciously marshal our unconscious life for our own development--is overwhelmingly powerful. Lear, like all great teachers, has the remarkable ability to remind us of this truth, even when this truth has gone out of fashion. Such a grand expectation for human life belongs, traditionally, to philosophy, not to psychoanalysis, but in Lear's hands psychoanalysis is unique in that it can do the healing work of medicine and the enlightening work of philosophy.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780674973602
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 330
  • ISBN-10: 0674973607
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2017
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis


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