Creating Heaven on Earth: The Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life Contributor(s): Marcus, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1782201785 ISBN-13: 9781782201786 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Mental Health |
Dewey: 150.195 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.52 lbs) 256 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The art of living the "good life" requires skilful attunement to the lovely presences in everyday life. Lodged in a psychoanalytic sensibility, and drawing from ancient and modern religious and spiritual wisdom, this book provides the details, conceptual structures, and inner meanings of a number of easily accessible, everyday activities, including gardening, sport, drinking coffee, storytelling, and listening to music. It also suggests how to best engage these activities, to consecrate the ordinary in a way that points to experiential transcendence, or what the author calls "glimpsing immortality", a core component of the art of living the "good life". |
Contributor Bio(s): Marcus, Paul: - Paul Marcus is a supervising and training analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Being for The Other: Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Living and Psychoanalysis; Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps, and Mass Society and Ancient Religious Wisdom, Spirituality and Psychoanalysis, among other books. Dr Marcus is married with two children and lives in Great Neck, New York. |