The broken connection : on death and the continuity of life

Prologue - The lost theme. Part 1 - Death and immortality. 1 Approaches and modes. 2 The experience of transcendence. 3 The inchoate image. 4 The natural unity of death. 4 Infant and child. 6 Adolescent and adult. 7 Culture and connection. 8 Culture, integrity, and movement. Part 2 - Death and emotion--psychiatric boundaries. 9 Love and energy. 10 Anxiety and numbing. 11 Guilt. 12 Anger, rage, and violence. 13 Survivor experience and traumatic syndrome. 14 Depression: static protest. 15 Disruption and neurosis. 16 Schizophrenia--lifeless life. 17 Suicide--the quest for a future. 18 Yukio Mishima--the lure of death. Part 3 - Death and history--the nuclear image. 19 The historical animal. 20 Dislocation and totalism. 21 Victimization and mass violence. 22 Nuclear distortions. 23 Nuclearism. Epilogue - Awareness and renewal. Appendix. A Seeking the perfect death--Japanese examples. B Death imagery in psychosomatic and character disorder. C Schizophrenia and death--historical notes. D Scientists and nuclearism

'...examines the phenomenon of death and the flow of life in a book that is a synthesis of all his previous work...engages in a sustained dialogue with Freud and seeks to recast in a symbolizing perspective important insights obscured by Freud's instinctual model....explores the individual life cycle and discusses anxiety and tension, conscience and guilt, anger, violence and depression as central not only to all mental sufferiing but to the life process....An awareness and acceptance of death and death imagery is necessary to the sense of being and feeling alive....'

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