Human Experience : Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life (Suny series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Russon, John

State University of New York Press（2003/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 170 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791457542
• DDC分類 128

基本説明

Proposes that philosophy is the proper cure for neurosis.

Full Description

Proposes that philosophy is the proper cure for neurosis.

Co-winner of the 2005 Biennial Book Prize for the best philosophy book published in English presented by the Canadian Philosophical Association

John Russon's Human Experience draws on central concepts of contemporary European philosophy to develop a novel analysis of the human psyche. Beginning with a study of the nature of perception, embodiment, and memory, Russon investigates the formation of personality through family and social experience. He focuses on the importance of the feedback we receive from others regarding our fundamental worth as persons, and on the way this interpersonal process embeds meaning into our most basic bodily practices: eating, sleeping, sex, and so on. Russon concludes with an original interpretation of neurosis as the habits of bodily practice developed in family interactions that have become the foundation for developed interpersonal life, and proposes a theory of psychological therapy as the development of philosophical insight that responds to these neurotic compulsions.

Contents

Acknowledgments


Introduction

PART I. The Form of Human Experience


1. Interpretation

2. Embodiment


3. Memory


PART II. The Substance of Human Experience


4. Others


5. Neurosis

PART III. The Process of Human Experience


6. Philosophy


Bibliography


Index