Eros on crutches; reflections on psychopathy and amorality

Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf

Eros on crutches; reflections on psychopathy and amorality - Irving, TX Spring Publications c1980 - 126p.

Translation of Seelenwusten--Betrachtungen ueber Eros und Psychopathie, Schweizer Spiegel Verlag, Zurich, n.d., by Gary V. Hartman.

Total health and the unhealed daimon. The archetype of the invalid. Eros. Outsiders, delinquents--and invalids of Eros (psychopaths). Psychopaths in literature. Historical development of the term psychopathy. Deserts of the soul--lacunae and heredity. Eros as invalid. The missing morality. Lack of psychic development. Background depression and fear. Sexuality and religion in psychopaths. Secondary symptoms of psychopathy. Psychopaths and compensation. Aggression, shadow and Eros (the miracle of why psychopaths do not rule the world). Treatment of psychopaths. In praise of morality and good manners

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Psychopathology
Eros (The Greek word)
Invalid archetype
Jungian psychology

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