The Good Life: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love, Ethics, Creativity, and Spirituality

by Jeffrey B. Rubin

Overview

Psychoanalysts have traditionally been expert at uncovering what afflicts and damages people, argues Jeffrey B. Rubin, but by focusing on narcissism and perversions, depression and sadism, psychoanalysis has all too often disregarded what nourishes and sustains us. In The Good Life, he demonstrates how psychoanalysis can make a profound contribution to the well-lived life by drawing on a neglected but potent aspect of psychoanalysis—its capacity to illuminate a psychology of health as well as illness. Rubin shows that, at its best, psychoanalysis can highlight both the ingredients of love, ethics, creativity, and spirituality, as well as the obstacles to experiencing them. Exploring the good life from this dual perspective provides an indispensable resource for helping us live with greater meaning and vitality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791484494
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	02/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	142
File size:	271 KB

About the Author

Jeffrey B. Rubin is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and Bedford Hills and is also Faculty and Training Supervisor at Harlem Family Institute. He is the author of the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration and A Psychoanalysis for Our Time: Exploring the Blindness of the Seeing I.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Psychoanalysis and Creative Living

2. Values and Ethics in Psychoanalysis

3. Psychoanalysis at Play in the Garden of Love

4. There's More Than Meets the I: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Spirituality

5. Psychoanalysis and the Good Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index