Growth and guilt; psychology and the limits of development
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TextLondon/New York Routledge c1995Description: ix, 235p.; bibliog. refs; primary sources and bibliog. note; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-415-11661-9
- Mythology--Psychological Aspects
- Greece
- Civilization
- Jungian psychology
- Culture--Psychological aspects
- Mythology, Greek
- Economic Development
- Civilization, Western--Greek Influences
- Guilt--Psychological Aspects
- Consciousness--Research
- Politics and Culture
- Club of Rome
- Courage
- Daedalus (Greek mythology)
- Icarus (Greek mythology)
- Human Ecology--Philosophy
- BL795.M94 Z65 1995
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1st pub. as Crescita e Colpa by Edizioni Anabasi Spa, 1993. Trans. by Henry Martin.
Global Consciousness : p159-169.. Analytical Psychology and Politics : p169-173.. Club of Rome : p159-161.. Courage : Ideative courage, p174-178.. Daedalus and Icarus : Reckless Icarus, p130-141.
Part 1. The problem: The myth of growth, the myth of limits -- Towards a psychological territory -- The limits of endeavor in non-Western cultures. Part 2. The Hellenic past: The egoism of the archaic gods -- The Greek sense of limits -- History begins to move -- New horizons. Part 3. From the Greeks to the present: Continuity and transformation: from the sense of limits to the hunger for infinity -- The continuity of the myth of limits: Greek stories. Part 4. Nemesis returns: The site of the crisis -- Routes towards reconstruction -- Death, depression and guilt
Zoja's book...takes on the great question of all western psychology: its devotion to expansion. By placing personal psychology and all the therapies within the limits of western history, culture and myth, Zoja shows the millennial denial of limits...." --James Hillman
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