Unemployment. Why do we say "stop"?
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The book by British psychoanalyst Josh Cohen is dedicated to our relationship with work, or more precisely, the desire not to work that is inherent in each of us, which coexists far from harmoniously with the desire to work - and achieve success, prestige, well-being - and, as the author believes, is not less, and perhaps even more important, even defining for a person. This desire is familiar to us from childhood when it is easily satisfied, but we learn to suppress it and get used to devoting all our energy to work, sometimes forgetting that life is not limited to it. Sometimes the result is great achievements in the profession we have chosen, sometimes depression, sometimes both together. How to deal with the need for "non-work" that cannot be fully realized, but denying it, suppressing it in oneself is extremely dangerous? The author seeks approaches to answering this, presumably, unsolvable question in his own life experience, in the stories of his patients, and in the fates of several outstanding individuals who have faced the conflict between work and "non-work" head-on - Emily Dickinson, Orson Welles, Andy Warhol, and David Foster Wallace. This text, composed of autobiographical essays, psychoanalyst notes, and subtle observations on the nature of creativity, is dictated by Josh Cohen's desire to understand himself and is capable of helping us in this.
Author:
Author:Cohen Josh
Cover:
Cover:soft
Category:
- Category:Politics & Social Science
Dimensions:
Dimensions:18.5x13x2 cm
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91103-705-5
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