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In Search of the Spiritual: Gabriel Marcel, Psychoanalysis by Paul Marcus

By Paul Marcus

Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the 1st French existentialist and phenomenologist, was once a world-class Catholic thinker, an entire playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly approximately a few of the vintage existential topics linked to Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers and Buber sooner than the book in their major works. Marcel appeared himself as a “homo viator,” a non secular wanderer: “If guy is basically a voyager, the reason for this is that he's en direction . . . in the direction of an finish which one could say instantaneously and contradictorily that he sees and doesn't see.” As a self-described “philosopher of the edge” and “an awakener,” his said target was once to shed a few gentle at the nature of religious fact, these moments while one studies an upsurge of the affection of lifestyles. during this ebook, Marcus joins the easiest of Marcellian and psychoanalytic insights to assist the reader boost an internal sensibility that's extra receptive, responsive and dependable to the reworking sacred presences that grace daily life, equivalent to are skilled in selfless love, hoping past desire, and retaining religion within the goodness of the area regardless of its harsh demanding situations. no matter if one is studying “Re-finding God in the course of Chemo-therapy,” “Maintaining own Dignity within the Face of the Mass Society,” “On constancy and Betrayal in Love Relationships” or “The Kiss,” Marcus, with the aid of his non secular masters, Marcel and Freud, issues the reader towards a better daily sacred attunement to the everlasting presences that existence mysteriously unearths to these with a discerning eye and an open center.

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In Search of the Spiritual: Gabriel Marcel, Psychoanalysis and the Sacred

Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the 1st French existentialist and phenomenologist, was once a world-class Catholic thinker, an complete playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly approximately the various vintage existential issues linked to Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers and Buber sooner than the book in their major works.

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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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