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Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life

Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life

Russon, John

Paperback

Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy

PhilosophyCognitionGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0791457540
ISBN13: 9780791457542
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 28 2003
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.70 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

Proposes that philosophy is the proper cure for neurosis.

Co-winner of the 2005 Biennial Book Prize for the best philosophy book published in English presented by the Canadian Philosophical Association

John Russon's Human Experience draws on central concepts of contemporary European philosophy to develop a novel analysis of the human psyche. Beginning with a study of the nature of perception, embodiment, and memory, Russon investigates the formation of personality through family and social experience. He focuses on the importance of the feedback we receive from others regarding our fundamental worth as persons, and on the way this interpersonal process embeds meaning into our most basic bodily practices: eating, sleeping, sex, and so on. Russon concludes with an original interpretation of neurosis as the habits of bodily practice developed in family interactions that have become the foundation for developed interpersonal life, and proposes a theory of psychological therapy as the development of philosophical insight that responds to these neurotic compulsions.

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