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by J. Edson White
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by John Wesley Howard
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Joy, Inspiration, and Hope (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology, No 1)
by Verena Kast (Translator: Douglas Whitcher)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Fromm Intl (1994-10)
ISBN: 0880642084
EAN: 9780880642088
Dewy Decimal #: 152.4
Paperback: 175 pages
Edition: 1st. paperback ed
SKU: mon0000025975
Condition: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Book Description
"Emotion is an expression of the self," Verena Kast writes in this study of the neglected emotions of joy, inspiration, and hope. "If we decide we no longer want to hide behind empty shells, then we will have to allow certain emotions more room. We will have to let ourselves laugh louder, cry louder, and shout for joy." Kast makes the case that not only therapists and analysts but also individuals seeking growth in their own lives should give more attention to the elated emotions. Fear of excess (mania) and analytic preoccupation with grief, anxiety, and depression have together caused joy and hope to be shunned as a focus in individuation (the process toward wholeness). Joy answers the human need for elated feeling and meaning in our lives, a need that is often filled in modern society by secularized parodies of religious ecstasy, such as addiction and compulsiveness. Kast suggests simple techniques for recapturing our joy through development of an autobiography of joy. Using this approach, we can discover what gives us joy personally, how we can best experience joy, and how and why we choke off our joy. By viewing joy, inspiration, and hope as core emotions in our being, we open ourselves to greater wholeness and fuller life.
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Customer Reviews
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An enriching discussing of 'positive' emotions
Rating  (4)
Date: 1998-09-19
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Kast is a Zurich-based Jungian analyst, but who has an ability to incorporate material from other psychological and philosopical schools, unlike her more ideological colleagues in the Jungian world. She provides a robust psychological discussion of material that is generally relegated to spirituality. Especially good is the discussion of the shadow side of joy, what she calls "malicious joy". She engages sucessfully ideas from Ernest Bloch and Albert Camus, though her perfunctory Jungian interpretation of the Greek myth of Dionysus is obfuscating and distracting.
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