Love & Will Pa

by May,Rollo

• ISBN13: 9780393330052
• ISBN10: 0393330052
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction: Our Schizoid World	p. 13
Problems as Prophetic	p. 18
The Artist and the Neurotic	p. 21
The Neurotic as Predictive	p. 24
The Emergence of Apathy	p. 27
Love
Paradoxes of Sex and Love	p. 37
Sexual Wilderness	p. 39
Salvation Through Technique	p. 43
The New Puritanism	p. 45
Freud and Puritanism	p. 48
Motives of the Problem	p. 53
Revolt Against Sex	p. 59
Eros in Conflict with Sex	p. 64
The Return of Repressed Eros	p. 65
What Is Eros?	p. 72
Eros in Plato	p. 77
Freud and Eros	p. 81
The Union of Eros: A Case Study	p. 89
Eros Sickening	p. 94
Love and Death	p. 99
Love As the Intimation of Mortality	p. 100
Death and the Obsession with Sex	p. 105
The Tragic Sense in Love	p. 109
The Tragic and Separation	p. 111
Contraceptives and the Tragic	p. 117
Love and the Daimonic	p. 122
Defining the Daimonic	p. 123
Objections to the Term	p. 129
The Daimonic in Primitive Psychotherapy	p. 131
Some Historical Soundings	p. 135
Love and the Diamonic	p. 145
The Daimonic in Dialogue	p. 154
Dialogue and Integration	p. 155
Stages of the Daimonic	p. 159
The Daimonic and the Anonymous	p. 161
The Daimonic and Knowledge	p. 164
Naming the Daimonic	p. 167
Naming of the Daimonic in Therapy	p. 172
Will
The Will in Crisis	p. 181
Undermining of Personal Responsibility	p. 182
Contradiction in Will	p. 185
The Case of John	p. 189
Will in Psychoanalysis	p. 194
Illusion and Will	p. 196
Wish and Will	p. 202
The Demise of Will Power	p. 204
Freud's Anti-Will System	p. 207
The Wish	p. 208
Illness As the Inability to Wish	p. 212
Lack of Capacity to Wish	p. 215
William James and Will	p. 218
Intentionality	p. 223
The Roots of Intentionality	p. 225
Examples from Psychoanalysis	p. 231
Perception and Intentionality	p. 235
The Body and Intentionality	p. 238
Will and Intentionality	p. 241
Intentionality in Therapy	p. 246
Case of Preston	p. 248
Stages in Therapy	p. 262
From Wish to Will	p. 266
Wish and Will to Decision	p. 267
Human Freedom	p. 268
Love and Will
The Relation of Love and Will	p. 275
Love and Will Blocking Each Other	p. 276
Impotence As an Example	p. 280
Imagination and Time	p. 281
Union of Love and Will	p. 283
The Meaning of Care	p. 287
Care in Love and Will	p. 289
The Mythos of Care	p. 293
Care in Our Day	p. 303
Communion of Consciousness	p. 307
Love as Personal	p. 309
Aspects of the Love Act	p. 313
Creating of Consciousness	p. 316
Love, Will, and the Forms of Society	p. 320
Notes	p. 326
Index	p. 344
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