Wisdom Won from Illness

339 Pages·2017·4.984 MB·English

by  Lear, Jonathan

Wisdom Won from illness

Wisdom Won from Illness
Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Jonathan Lear
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England
2017
Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Printed in the United States of America
First printing
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lear, Jonathan, author.
Title: Wisdom won from illness: essays in philosophy and psychoanalysis /
Jonathan Lear.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016017882 | ISBN 9780674967847
Subjects: LCSH: Psychoanalysis and philosophy. | Reason. | Literature—Philosophy. |
Philosophical anthropology. | Philosophy and social sciences.
Classification: LCC BF175.4.P45 L434 2017 | DDC 150.19/5—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017882
For gabriel, sophia, and samuel, with love

Contents
Introduction / 1
one Wisdom Won from Illness / 11
two Integrating the Nonrational Soul / 30
three What Is a Crisis of Intelligibility? / 50
four A Lost Conception of Irony / 63
five Waiting for the Barbarians / 80
six The Ironic Creativity of Socratic Doubt / 103
seven Rosalind’s Pregnancy / 120
eight Technique and Final Cause in Psychoanalysis / 138
nine Jumping from the Couch / 159
ten Eros and Development / 175
eLeven Mourning and Moral Psychology / 191
tweLve Allegory and Myth in Plato’s Republic / 206
thirteen The Psychic Efficacy of Plato’s Cave / 227
fourteen The Ethical Thought of J. M. Coetzee / 244
fifteen Not at Home in Gilead / 269
Notes / 287
Acknowledgments / 317
Index / 321

Wisdom Won from illness