Love & Will Pa

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Pub. Date: 2007-07-17
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Summary

The heart of man's dilemma, according to Rollo May, is the failure to understand the real meaning of love and will, their source and interrelation. Bringing fresh insight to these concepts, May shows how we can attain a deeper consciousness.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. 9
Introduction: Our Schizoid Worldp. 13
Problems as Propheticp. 18
The Artist and the Neuroticp. 21
The Neurotic as Predictivep. 24
The Emergence of Apathyp. 27
Love
Paradoxes of Sex and Lovep. 37
Sexual Wildernessp. 39
Salvation Through Techniquep. 43
The New Puritanismp. 45
Freud and Puritanismp. 48
Motives of the Problemp. 53
Revolt Against Sexp. 59
Eros in Conflict with Sexp. 64
The Return of Repressed Erosp. 65
What Is Eros?p. 72
Eros in Platop. 77
Freud and Erosp. 81
The Union of Eros: A Case Studyp. 89
Eros Sickeningp. 94
Love and Deathp. 99
Love As the Intimation of Mortalityp. 100
Death and the Obsession with Sexp. 105
The Tragic Sense in Lovep. 109
The Tragic and Separationp. 111
Contraceptives and the Tragicp. 117
Love and the Daimonicp. 122
Defining the Daimonicp. 123
Objections to the Termp. 129
The Daimonic in Primitive Psychotherapyp. 131
Some Historical Soundingsp. 135
Love and the Diamonicp. 145
The Daimonic in Dialoguep. 154
Dialogue and Integrationp. 155
Stages of the Daimonicp. 159
The Daimonic and the Anonymousp. 161
The Daimonic and Knowledgep. 164
Naming the Daimonicp. 167
Naming of the Daimonic in Therapyp. 172
Will
The Will in Crisisp. 181
Undermining of Personal Responsibilityp. 182
Contradiction in Willp. 185
The Case of Johnp. 189
Will in Psychoanalysisp. 194
Illusion and Willp. 196
Wish and Willp. 202
The Demise of Will Powerp. 204
Freud's Anti-Will Systemp. 207
The Wishp. 208
Illness As the Inability to Wishp. 212
Lack of Capacity to Wishp. 215
William James and Willp. 218
Intentionalityp. 223
The Roots of Intentionalityp. 225
Examples from Psychoanalysisp. 231
Perception and Intentionalityp. 235
The Body and Intentionalityp. 238
Will and Intentionalityp. 241
Intentionality in Therapyp. 246
Case of Prestonp. 248
Stages in Therapyp. 262
From Wish to Willp. 266
Wish and Will to Decisionp. 267
Human Freedomp. 268
Love and Will
The Relation of Love and Willp. 275
Love and Will Blocking Each Otherp. 276
Impotence As an Examplep. 280
Imagination and Timep. 281
Union of Love and Willp. 283
The Meaning of Carep. 287
Care in Love and Willp. 289
The Mythos of Carep. 293
Care in Our Dayp. 303
Communion of Consciousnessp. 307
Love as Personalp. 309
Aspects of the Love Actp. 313
Creating of Consciousnessp. 316
Love, Will, and the Forms of Societyp. 320
Notesp. 326
Indexp. 344
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