Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline: In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel
Paul Marcus, "Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline: In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel"
English | ISBN: 0367754002 | 2021 | 210 pages | EPUB | 725 KB
English | ISBN: 0367754002 | 2021 | 210 pages | EPUB | 725 KB
The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of spirit." Binswanger was surprised when Freud agreed, asserting, "Yes, spirit is everything." However, spirit and the spiritual realm have largely been dropped from mainstream psychoanalytic theory and practice.
This book seeks to help revitalize a culturally aging psychoanalysis that is in conceptual and clinical disarray in the marketplace of ideas and is viewed as a "theory in crisis" no longer regarded as the primary therapy for those who are suffering. The author argues that psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be reinvigorated as a discipline if it is animated by the powerfully evocative spiritual, moral, and ethical insights of two dialogical personalist religious philosophers―Martin Buber, a Jew, and Gabriel Marcel, a Catholic―who both initiated a "Copernican revolution" in human thought.
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