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Book SynopsisAnn Ulanov examines her own illness in the light of modern psychology. Her personal point of view in applying the symbolism of Jung's archetypes to these attacks is refreshing in its individualization of the analysis and serves as an example of psychology in practice.

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Book SynopsisA revelatory new theory of consciousness that returns emotions to the center of mental life.Trade Review"[R]emarkably clear, accommodating and exciting to read…The Hidden Spring provides a necessary reminder that rational thinking isn't all it seems to be." -- Jess Keiser, Washington Post"One of the worthiest efforts to come out of neuroscience in recent memory." -- Jason Kehe, WIRED"Nobody bewitched by these mysteries [of consciousness] can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms…Fascinating, wide-ranging and heartfelt." -- Oliver Burkeman, Guardian"Intriguing…There is plenty to provoke and fascinate along the way." -- Anil Seth, Times Higher Education"This is truly a remarkable book. It changes everything." -- Brian Eno"A remarkably bold fusion of ideas from psychoanalysis, psychology, and the frontiers of theoretical neuroscience that takes aim at the biggest question there is. Solms will challenge your most basic beliefs." -- Matthew Cobb, author of The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience"Solms’s efforts…have been truly pioneering. This unification is clearly the direction for the future." -- Eric Kandel, Nobel laureate for Physiology and Medicine"This treatment of consciousness and artificial sentience should be taken very seriously." -- Karl Friston, scientific director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging"Solms’s vital work has never ignored the lived, felt experience of human beings. His ideas look a lot like the future to me." -- Siri Hustvedt, author of The Blazing World"To say this work is encyclopedic is to diminish its poetic, psychological and theoretical achievement. This is required reading." -- Susie Orbach, author of In Therapy"At last the emperor has found some clothes! For decades, consciousness has been perceived as an epiphenomenon, little more than an illusion that can't really make things happen. Solms takes a thrilling new approach to the problem, grounded in modern neurobiology but finding meaning in older ideas going back to Freud. This is an exciting book." -- Nick Lane, author of The Vital Question

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Book SynopsisThese stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us from the other side of the disaster.Trade ReviewOf immense significance to scholars in multiple disciplines, including history, literature and literary theory, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis, this book will set the tone for future discussion... Essential. Choice Caruth, then, presents a "new kind" of history: a history that is itself under erasure and that calls for an urgent reimagining of the way we think of-and write about-the past. Journal of Literature and Trauma StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart One: Literature and the Life Drive1. Parting Words: Trauma, Silence, and SurvivalSigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle2. The Claims of the Dead: History, Haunted Property, and the LawHonoré de Balzac, Colonel ChabertPart Two: After the End3. Lying and HistoryHannah Arendt, "Truth and Politics" and "Lying in Politics"4. Disappearing History: Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human RightsAriel Dorfman, Death and the Maiden5. Psychoanalysis in the Ashes of HistoryWilhelm Jensen, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques DerridaAfterwordNotesIndex

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Book Synopsis‘There was a time when I felt that I had grasped Lacan’s essential being from within – that I had gained, as it were, an apperception of his relation to the world, a mysterious access to that intimate place from which sprang his relation to people and things, and even to himself. It was as if I had slipped within him.’ In this short book, Catherine Millot offers a richly evocative reflection on her life as analysand and lover of the greatest psychoanalyst since Freud. Dwelling on their time together in Paris and in Lacan’s country house in Guitrancourt, as well as describing their many travels, Millot provides unparalleled insights into Lacan’s character as well as his encounters with other major European thinkers of the time. She also sheds new light on key themes, including Lacan’s obsession with the Borromean knot and gradual descent into silence, all enlivened by her unique perspective. This beautifully written memoir, awarded the André Gide Prize for Literature, will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the life and character of a thinker who continues to exert a wide influence in psychoanalysis and across the humanities and social sciences.Trade Review"This beautiful poetic book is not only a unique portrait of Lacan by someone who knew him better than others, but is in itself a remarkable literary and autobiographical work. It draws us into the adventure of psychoanalysis, into a relationship with all its complexities, and into an era, described with an elegance and precision that we find so rarely today. A remarkable work that will find a readership far beyond psychoanalytic circles."Darian Leader, Psychoanalyst and author"Millot’s elegantly written little volume, winner of the Prix de littérature André-Gide, serves as refreshing antidote to those who pigeonhole Lacan as writer of gibberish and irresponsible id."The Spectator "A love letter celebrating someone Millot sees as an extraordinary and implacable genius."Times Higher Education"The portrait of Lacan which Millot offers is of an insatiable mind, always open to the world with the unbounded curiosity of a child.... the reader comes away learning much about what made Lacan tick. Millot is....a fantastic writer, and any reader with even a passing interest in Lacan would do well to pick up a copy of her book."Psychology Today

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Book SynopsisThis work presents a synopsis of the development of the major theories of psychoanalysis including the special theory of neurosis. Emphasis is placed upon the problems that Freud struggled with as he tried to understand his patients, and the way in which his concepts, models and theories were shaped and refined by his successive experiences of success and failure.

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Book SynopsisBy the mid-eighties, the provision of psychotherapy for people who could not get out of bed, bathe, get dressed, prepare meals, and manage their own money had diminished. Treatment centered on case management and rehabilitation. This virtual elimination of psychotherapy made sense economically as well as therapeutically: traditional psychotherapy had little success with people suffering from schizophrenia. However, the advent of novel antipsychotic medications has created a need for psychotherapy tailored to this population. Sudden reduction in pervasive, persistent delusions and hallucinations, and recovery of motivation, energy, volition, and the ability to experience pleasure from something other than cigarettes is a mixed blessing. Patients are relieved of terrible suffering but left with new problems. Shedding the lifelong identity of a mental patient, they no longer need case management but require help adjusting to major changes in their thinking and functioning. Kathleen Degen and Ellen Nasper describe group therapy that helps patients identify and cope with unexpected, intense feelings such as sadness or painful memories of childhood trauma, increase their interpersonal skills, and advance their sense of self beyond that of their label as mental patients. The authors show how to build on the phenomenal changes that the new medications provide.Trade ReviewArgues in a very compelling manner for the importance of understanding the inner experience of patients who respond well to some of the newer neuroleptic drugs and are thus challenged to move beyond the disabilities of chronic mental illness. Using the format of group therapy for patients receiving clozapine, the authors illustrate the remarkable changes that may occur when this novel medication is combined with a sensitivity to the re-emergence of developmental tasks that have long lain dormant. A very timely and helpful work. -- Malcolm B. Bowers, Jr.Return from Madness is a profound and moving book. In the tradition of Oliver Sacks' Awakenings it tells the dramatic story of patients suddenly liberated from lives destroyed by mental illness. Most of Degen and Nasper's patients are forced to organize life around the illness, their psychological and social development cut short by its onset. The authors not only describe the startling relief Clozaril provides for symptoms of chronic schizophrenia, but understand that relief from schizophrenic symptoms demands deep reorganizations of living as the patients resume development and mourn decades lost to illness. This intelligent, compassionate, and engaging book brings us close to their patients' experience. It clarifies the psychotherapeutic tasks that must be accomplished for even so potent a medicine as Clozaril to truly heal. Not only those of us who work professionally with severely psychiatrically disturbed people but any reader who wants to understand the world of the recovering schizophrenic will find a superb guide in this fine volume. -- Robert M. Galatzer-LevyKathleen Degen and Ellen Nasper have produced a cogent and timely treatise on the problems and issues confronting patients who recover almost unexpectedly from prolonged psychotic states of withdrawal and nonparticipation in the world around them. The authors portray the not always pleasant behaviors and circumstances of these long-suffering patients as well as the complex difficulties confronting them once their psychotic state has receded. The case presentations are exemplary, sometimes gripping, sometimes almost whimsical. The book then turns to therapeutic issues inherent in drug treatment and the authors' group therapy with these patients, a welcome success story on the whole. Anybody prescribing the latter-day antipsychotic medications for chronic patients cannot afford to miss this superbly written volume that illustrates the multisystemic needs of patients, an important paradigm for community mental health services. -- Stephen Fleck

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Book SynopsisThe essays collected in Re-inventing the Symptom explore the final period of Jacques Lacan’s teaching, focusing on his 1975-76 seminar Le sinthome. This book sheds light on the central questions of this last “phase” of Lacanian theory and unravels the principal enigmas of the seminars. The work as a whole breaks through previous obstacles to the act of reading Lacan’s last work, among them the notorious restrictions placed upon the publication and translation of Lacan’s teachings. The contributors examine Lacan’s late work from a variety of perspectives. They consider his theories on Boromean knot topology and rethink readings of his views on sexual difference, his encounter with Joyce, and even his consideration that his work was not theory at all, but rather a kind of writing. These lucid essays offer a dazzling reading of works previously considered elusive. Students and practitioners of psychoanalysis alike will benefit from this revolutionary collection. The contributors mark the territory for a more widespread deployment of Lacanian theory in our cultural landscape, from modernism to deconstruction and feminism. At last, those who seek to approach Lacanian thought and apply its relevance to their own fields have a radical new tool made readily available to them.

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive guide to hand reading, based on Ellen Goldberg's 40 years of teaching palmistry and the Western Mystery tradition, the authors detail how to interpret all features of the hand, not simply the lines of the palm. They explain the character traits and personality archetypes associated with each of the seven mounts of the palm and how to determine which are most influential in the nature of the individual. The mount archetypes reveal the lifestyle, love, sex, and marriage preferences, the best career choices, and the unique strengths and weaknesses for each person. The authors examine the shapes of the palm, fingers, and nails as well as the texture of the skin and the flexibility of the hand, factors that enhance the qualities revealed by the palm. They explain the meaning of each major and minor line and include timing guides for each, making it possible to locate specific events. They show how your lines change over time, reflecting the influence of the person's own mind in healing defects found on their lines. Presenting the hand as a guide to self-fulfilment, the authors incorporate correspondences to other mystical sciences such as astrology, Kabbalah, the Hermetic teachings, and archetypal psychology. With detailed sample readings and hundreds of illustrations, they show how to integrate the meanings of each part of the hand to form a complete picture of your inner psychology and your ever-changing destiny.Trade Review"In this comprehensive guide to hand reading, based on Ellen Goldberg’s 40 years of teaching palmistry and the Western Mystery tradition, the authors make the powerful insights of the hand accessible in an inviting and user-friendly manner. The book presents the character traits and personality archetypes associated with each of the seven mounts of the palm and shows how to determine which are most influential in the nature of the individual" * The Edge, March 2016 *"Anyone interested in palmistry will be hard-pressed to find a book more thorough than this one. Classical planetary correspondences are melded with crisply defined pictures of hands, hands and more hands. From broad general interpretations to the most minute details, mounds, lines, spacing, phalanges and much more are illustrated clearly, with Goldberg and Bergen helping the reader combine all the myriad parts into a clear and cohesive reading. Well-written and well-designed, this book is a simply beautiful bible of palmistry. Highly recommended." * The Witches’ Almanac, March 2016 *Table of ContentsAn Introduction to Hand Reading The Hand-Mind Connection PART ONE The Basic Modifiers The Attributes That Make Each Hand Unique 1 Texture, Flexibility, Consistency, Coloring, and Size of the Hand Texture of the Skin: Fine, Coarse, and Medium • Flexibility of the Hand: Stiff, Flexible, Extremely Flexible, and Straight • Consistency of the Palm: Flabby, Soft, Elastic, and Hard • Color in the Hands and Lines • Hair on the Hands • Nails: Color, Texture, and Shape and Size • The Three Worlds of Palmistry: Mental, Practical, and Physical 2 The Fingers Carriage • Setting • Structure: Bent, Twisted, and Leaning • Finger Lengths: Long, Short, and Standard • Smooth and Knotty • Three Worlds in the Phalanges of the Fingers • Fingertip Shapes: Spatulate, Square, Conic, and Pointed • Sensitivity Pads 3 The Thumb The Three Parts of the Thumb • Size and Setting: High, Medium, and Low • How to Measure the Size of the Thumb • Carriage • Shapes: Elementary, Nervous, Broad, and Balanced • The First and Second Phalanges • Supple and Stiff Thumbs • Checklist for Reading the Thumb PART TWO The Mounts The Seven Archetypes of the Palm 4 How to Judge the Mounts Physical Characteristics of the Seven Mounts • Designating Mount Prominence • Other Factors Influencing the Prominence of the Mount 5 The Mount of Jupiter Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of Jupiterian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices • Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount • Jupiter and the Basic Modifiers 6 The Mount of Saturn Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of Saturnian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices • Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount • Saturn and the Basic Modifiers 7 The Mount of Apollo Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of Apollonian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices • Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount • Apollo and the Basic Modifiers 8 The Mount of Mercury Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of Mercurian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices • Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount • Mercury and the Basic Modifiers 9 The Mount of Mars Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of Martian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices • Signs on the Mount • Mars and the Basic Modifiers 10 The Mount of Luna Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of Lunarian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices • Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount • Luna and the Basic Modifiers 11 The Mount of Venus Archetypal Associations • How to Judge the Mount • Personality Traits • Lifestyle • Love, Sex, and Marriage • The Lower Type of Venusian • Physical Characteristics • Health • Career Choices • Signs on the Mount • Absence of the Mount • Venus and the Basic Modifiers 12 Mount Combinations PART THREE The Lines The Road Map of the Hand 13 General Principles of the Lines How to Judge the Lines • The Checklist • Signs on the Lines: Defects, Repairs, and Strengthening Agents • Age on the Lines 14 The Heart Line Quality • Curved or Straight • Color • Proportion to Other Major Lines • Beginning of the Line • Influence of a Forked Line • Defects • Repair Signs and Strengthening Agents • Heart Line and Head Line • Length of the Line • The Quadrangle • Branches and Splits • The Simian Line 15 The Head Line Quality • Curved or Straight • Color • Proportion to Other Major Lines • Beginning of the Line • Defects • Repair Signs and Strengthening Agents • Length of the Line • Influence of a Forked Head Line • Deflections, Splits, and Branches 16 The Life Line Beginning of the Line • Factors that Help Determine Life Span • The Line of Preservation • Quality • Color • Proportion to Other Major Lines • Chance Lines • Defects • Breaks • Splits • Repair Signs and Strengthening Agents • Termination of the Line 17 The Line of Saturn Age on the Line • Quality • Absent Line of Saturn • Proportion to Other Major Lines • Color • Beginning of the Line • Childhood on the Line of Saturn • Line of Saturn as a Sign on the Mount • Defects • Repair Signs and Strengthening Agents • Length • Multiple Lines • Partnership • Inheritance • Use of Chance Lines • Branches and Splits 18 The Line of Apollo Quality • Age on the Line • Color •Beginning of the Line • Defects • Repair Signs and Strengthening Agents • Special Strengthening Agents • Termination of the Line and Signs on the Mount • Branches • Apollo and Risk Taking 19 The Line of Mercury Health on the Line of Mercury • Age on the Line • Beginning of the Line • Quality • Health Defects of the Archetypes • Color • Defects • Repair Signs and Strengthening Agents • Termination of the Line and Signs on the Mount • Branches 20 The Lines of Influence Read Both Hands • Timing on the Line of Influence • Worry Lines • Chance Lines • Influence Lines at Different Stages of Life • Special Formations on Influence Lines • End of the Line • Maturity, Friends, and the Public 21 The Minor Lines Girdle of Venus • Ring of Solomon • Mystic Cross • Line of Mars • ia Lascivia • Ring of Saturn • Line of Intuition • Lines of Affection • Children Lines • The Rascettes, or Bracelets • Lines of Travel Conclusion. Reading a Palm Putting It All Together Appendix A. The Hand Classified by the Four Elements Fire, Water, Air, and Earth Appendix B. Fingerprints Acknowledgments Index About the Authors The Authors’ Stories • The Hands of the Authors and How They Work Together

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Book SynopsisSigmund Freud hired Otto Rank as his secretary and funded Rank’s PhD in literature at the University of Vienna. In 1910, at age 26, Rank published ‘A Dream That Interprets Itself’. Freud could not praise the essay highly enough; impressed by Rank’s erudition, Freud invited his protégé to contribute two chapters, on poetry and myth, in 1914 to The Interpretation of Dreams. Thereafter, Rank’s name would appear under Freud’s on the title page of the foundational text of psychoanalysis for the next fifteen years. Grateful for Freud’s generosity, Rank published a stream of articles and books advancing psychoanalytic thinking into almost every area of the arts and humanities, thus demonstrating to Freud’s critics that the validity of psychoanalysis did not hinge solely on his autobiographical work The Interpretation of Dreams. Rank died in 1939 and his work fell out of favor until a renaissance of interest beginning in the 1970s. This is the first English translation of Rank’s masterpiece of dream interpretation, originally published in 1910 as “Ein Traum, der sich selbst deutet” in the journal Jahrbuch für Psychoanalytische und Psychopathologische Forschungen, 2(2): 465–540. It is accompanied by an in-depth introduction from editor Robert Kramer, the world’s only Rankian psychologist. The book is essential reading for all psychoanalytic scholars, practitioners, and historians, and those interested in dream analysis.Trade Review‘Otto Rank’s A Dream That Interprets Itself is a tour de force by a thinker who radically rethought Freud’s model for dream analysis. Bringing all of his cultural and literary sophistication to bear, Rank examines something very rare in the early psychoanalysis, a dream from a member of the working class, a governess in a wealthy family. Such analysis provides not only innovative insight into the internal processes of the dreamer but into her sense of the world which she inhabits. A shining translation by Gregory Richter of a major milestone in the psychoanalytic literature of the first generation.’ -- Sander L. Gilman, author of Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity‘Otto Rank – one of the founders of global psychoanalysis – became, alas, “vilified, ignored, or simply forgotten”. Happily, due to Robert Kramer’s passionate and meticulous scholarship and Gregory Richter’s superb and fluid translation skills, English-language readers now have the privilege of enjoying Rank’s much-overlooked text, which provides us all with immense insight and understanding of dreams and the human mind.’ -- Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London, and visiting professor of psychoanalysis and mental health at Regent’s University London‘A young woman amused by her eccentric dream asks Otto Rank to interpret her dream. She is not a patient, not neurotic, and has little interest in psychoanalysis. Rank uses her dream to prove the validity of Freud's theory. The result is a remarkable and exceptionally multi-layered, highly intricate text with an insightful introduction by leading Rankian expert Robert Kramer.’ -- Professor Aner Govrin, Director of Psychoanalysis and Hermeneutics Doctoral Track, Bar-Ilan UniversityTable of ContentsAbout the editor and translator Introduction Robert Kramer A dream that interprets itself Otto Rank Index

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Book SynopsisIt is important to point out that these essays are about character types; it is not to suggest that all borderlines, narcissists or manic depressives are the same. Everyone is an individual and are who they are for many different reasons. What they have in common is a typical relation between their subjectivity and the world they inhabit. In other words, Christopher Bollas has identified the axioms that these individuals share. Following a discussion of the features of each type, the axioms are delivered in the character’s own voice. By placing ourselves within their own logic, we can begin to identify and empathise with them. At the root of all character disorders there is mental pain and each disorder is an intelligent attempt to solve an existential problem. If the clinician can grasp their specific intelligence and help the analysand to understand this, then a natural process of healing can begin. Three Characters is a masterclass based on decades of lectures presented to psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, and psychotherapists, and is a must-read for all psychoanalytic enthusiasts.Trade Review'this book is worth the investment of both reading and thinking about. […] The book takes the reader, sometimes at breath-taking speed, through Bollas’s ideas about character developed over 30 plus years of clinical work and writing. Through his dissecting and describing the lived experiences of the various character structures, the reader is offered a way of thinking about clinical work with these sufferers. […] Bollas’s endeavour to understand the territory and to give his patients the space to be who they are comes through. In answer to one of the questions, Bollas writes of ‘the right of free speech in analysis’ (p. 67). I think the book shows something of how he has tried to demonstrate this in his writing as well as how he tries to give this freedom to his patients.' -- Jan McGregor, British Journal of Psychotherapy 38, 1 (2022)The chapters are a wonderful way of thinking about object relations in action. There is a sense of academic surety in Bollas’ psychoanalytical explanation, which, as an integrative counsellor, does not always sit easy with me. These lectures inspire me to know more, and I imagine most readers will feel the same. Have a notepad and pencil handy! -- Gavin Conn, counsellor in private practice in London, ‘Therapy Today’ April 2022‘In these pages, one can feel how Bollas has spent decades venturing to enter states of deep identification with his analysands […] Bollas is perhaps examining some of the more deadened, character-disordered aspects of psychoanalytic thinking, giving each of these age-old characters a creative reorganising that allows for new and deepening understandings.’ -- Nancy de Holl, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, IJP Vol. 104 (2023) Issue 2Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements 1. The narcissist 2. The borderline 3. The manic depressive Discussion with Sacha Bollas, PsyD

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Book SynopsisThis is the ultimate chronicle of a soul''s metamorphosis, a story of psychic encounters between the Piscean forces of dualism and the force of the new consciousness of Aquarius. From his journals, which comprise this book, we learn that Erlo van Waveren arrived at a stratum of being both common and special to all who pursue the inner path. This book records extraordinary levels of communication with another side of his being, making it a fascinating chronicle.

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Book SynopsisThis is the intimate chronicle of a soul''s metamorphosis, a story of psychic encounters between the Piscean forces of dualism and the force of the new consciousness of Aquarius. From his journals, which comprise this book, we learn that Erlo van Waveren arrived at a stratum of being both common and special to all who pursue the inner path. Pilgrimage to the Rebirth records extraordinary levels of communication with another side of his being, making it a fascinating chronicle.

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Book SynopsisWhat ever happened to silence? Actually nothing, and Harry Wilmer takes great pains to show how we have submerged it under a toxic barrage of noise. Using both clinical examples of the power of silence from his case histories, and cultural values of silence, he uncovers a astonishing theme in the Japanese idea of MA as silence. Wilmer points out how silence gives meaning to words, dreams, thought, action and music. From his long experience as a Jungian analyst, he weaves his ideas into an eminently practical treatise on the phenomenology of silence. With many references to literature as well as his personal life experiences and crises, he offers a readable and important new story of the universal and spiritual significance of silence in a world of jackhammer noise.

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