| Freedom and Destiny Contributor(s): May, Rollo (Author), May, Rollo (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0393318427 ISBN-13: 9780393318425 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: The popular psychoanalyst examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Self-help | Personal Growth - General |
| Dewey: 158.1 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.48" W x 8.19" (0.70 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist. . . . Freedom's characteristics, fruits, and problems; destiny's reality; death; and therapy's place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined. . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May's theory of freedom and destiny's interdependence.--Library Journal Especially instructive, even stunning, is Dr. May's willingness to respect mystery. . . .There is, too, at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind, inclined to celebrate . . . what Flannery O'Connor called 'mystery and manners, ' and to do so in a tactful, meditative manner.--Robert Coles, America |
Contributor Bio(s): May, Rollo: - Rollo May (1909-1994) taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, and was Regents' Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An influential psychologist, he was the best-selling author of Love and Will, as well as the author of The Courage to Create, Man's Search for Himself, The Meaning of Anxiety, and Psychology and the Human Dilemma. |