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Double: A Psychoanalytic Study (Enduring Editions) by Otto Rank, Harry Tucker Jr.

By Otto Rank, Harry Tucker Jr.

Alive, clean, and stimulating, the topic of The Double includes the problems of id, narcissism, and the terror of death--actually the center of human life. Rank's booklet is basically a examine of the double because it seemed in notable examples in German, French, Russian, English, and American literature from Goethe to Oscar Wilde.

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251–253. Yearley, L. (1983). The perfected person in the radical Chuang Tzu. In: V. H. ), Experimental Essays in Chuang Tzu (pp. 130–131) Honolulu, HI: University of Honolulu Press. 85 38 IN SEARCH OF THE SPIRITUAL diminishes and vanishes; a kind of mindfulness, the Buddhists call it. This “hold and let go” approach sees everyday life as a movie, a series of changing frames. Unlike other forms of mysticism in which union with an absolute reality or higher being is mainly sought, intra-worldly mysticism primarily aims to see the world in a new way, to create “a way through the world”.

91. , p. 93. 44 Marcel, 1965, op. , p. 264. 45 Cain, 1979, op. , p. 75. 46 Johnson, A. G. (1995). The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User’s Guide to Sociological language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 24. , p. 309. 41 28 IN SEARCH OF THE SPIRITUAL that direct behaviour on a long-range basis towards a particular goal. 48 For Marcel, the domain of being, of “fullness” and transcendence, of which creativity is one of its most exquisite points of entry and expression, is always embedded in and animated by values.

Emotional creativity: toward “spiritualizing the passions”. In: C. R. Snyder & S. J. ) (2009), Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 249. Averill is quoting from and commenting on Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols, though from a translation other than the one I used. 2 Marcel, 2001a, op. , pp. 44–45. Marcel approvingly quotes Nietzsche, “I love the man who wants to create something higher than himself and does not perish” (p. 45). 3 Marcel, 1964, p. 96. 4 Anderson, 2006, op.

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