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Book SynopsisAn engaging book that charts the turbulent journey from childhood to adulthood of a well-known psychoanalyst.
"Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my having lived in it?"
Neville Symington has written a dozen books about psychoanalysis but this one is different from all the others. It is an emotional autobiography that starts with his own birth and gives a character sketch of his mother and father and his upbringing in Portugal, with a two year period in Canada, and takes the reader through to the age of 45 by which time he was a qualified psychoanalyst, married with two sons and, at the time, living in London.
This sounds like the story of a peaceful journey from childhood through to his chosen career in adulthood. However, the author takes the reader through the period of his earlier career in the Church in a parish in the East End of London and the turbulent period of change that led him to take leave of this first career, seek psychoanalysis and finally to become a psychoanalyst himself.
This is an engaging book that charts the emotional storms and the ups and downs that beset the life's journey of a well-known psychoanalyst.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix
CHAPTER ONE
Father 1
CHAPTER TWO
Mother 49
CHAPTER THREE
School and after school 69
CHAPTER FOUR
Nightmare in Lisbon 101
CHAPTER FIVE
The seminary 119
CHAPTER SIX
The birth of subjectivity 149
CHAPTER SEVEN
In exile 201
CHAPTER EIGHT
Disaster and recovery 261
