Tag: existential
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“Embracing the Ambivalence…” new article in JHP on Otto Rank’s unity of opposites and creativity
Continuing the journey into existential psychoanalyst Otto Rank’s innovative later work, this article highlights his focus on the therapeutic relationship, the co-creative nature of the encounter, and his logic of complementarity. Spiced up with excursions into Eros and quantum holism. Drawing on my work on Rank to physicist, David Bohm, I also touch on my…
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“Life as a Flow” : new essay in Blog of American Philosophical Association
Sara Ekenstierna’s new essay, Life as a Flow, explores the concept of self and authentic living, presenting two common interpretations and a third alternative centered on the idea of self-as-process. It promotes a life-affirming and optimistic notion of time, highlighting the endless unfoldment of personality.
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Problems of the Beyond: Exploring the Holistic Thought of Otto Rank
New article in Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, on Otto Rank’s intriguing notion of ‘the Beyond’. A realm which is more existentially known than cognitively apprehended. Although this realm is not directly accessible empirically it is subject to experience in the here-and-now, and thus influences what it means to be human on all manifest…