Shakespeare criticism. A very good hardcover copy with decorative boards and gilt spine decorations and lettering. Light shelf wear. Tight binding. Deckled but clean, unmarked pages. Very good jacket in removable mylar; price-clipped; some chipping and light tearing. NOT ex-library. Indexed. 551pg. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Literary Criticism; Inventory No: 014897.

The Design Within; Psychoanalytic Approaches to Shakespeare

Literature & Fiction

M.D. Faber

History & Criticism

Science House

WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TO ABANDON ONE'S TIE TO THE SYMBOLIC ORDER?Following the path Freud laid down in Civilization and Its Discontents, M. D. Faber presents a profound analysis of the relationship between the individual and society. Faber contends that "ordinary consciousness" serves a defensive purpose: Even as we struggle to become separate individuals, we ceaselessly project the objects of our internal world into the environment. Our ordinary way of being is "transitional awareness," a perceptual condition in which we strive to maintain our tie to the inner world by discovering substitute objects in the reality of our cultural realm. The symbolic sphere is a magic system of support whose purpose is to protect human beings against the danger of object loss. 
 Exploring alternatives to ordinary consciousness, Faber turns to Buddhism, which provides practical techniques for moderating our tie to objects and liberating us from the symbolic order. In proposing emptiness of mind as the essence of mind, Buddhism offers an alternative to the Western attachment to (and glorification of) the cultural sphere. Resting within the space of emptiness, one is freed from tormenting internal objects and the oppressive universe of symbols. 
 Faber's book presents a vision of culture as a vast transitional space. In our flight from separation and death, we project existence into symbolic objects, quelling anxiety and releasing ourselves from a sense of smallness and aloneness. As we feel enhanced by the objects with which we identify, we simultaneously are oppressed by them. Faber poses the question: What type of human being (and society) might emerge if people no longer clung so desperately to the symbolic order? 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 Foreword by Richard A. Koenigsberg 
 Acknowledgements 
 Part One: The Transitional Nature of Ordinary Consciousness 
 The Process of Mind-Body Conversion From the Cradle The Internalization of the World The Mirror The Dark Side of the Mirror: Splitting The Agony of Differentiation The Sands of Time and the Container of Space The Stimulus Itself The Ward The Tie to the Culture The Oedipus, and After Notes and References Part One 
 Part Two: The Cultural Sphere 
 Some Background The Religio-Economic Realm Money and Magna Mater The Sacrificial Way to the Object Sacred Lucre Psychodynamic Extrapolations The Metaphors of Marx The Interest in Interest The Vicious Circle and the Bad Parent More Opiates, More Anxieties Lurking Ambivalence Goods and More Goods Notes and References Part Two 
 Part Three: Disrupting the Tie to the Inner World 
 A Glance Backward, A Glance Forward The Meaning of Non-Ordinary Moments The Emergence of the Non-Ordinary World Solidifying One's Change Transforming the Past at the Mind-Body Level Notes and References Part Three

The Withdrawal of Human Projection: Separating from the Symbolic Order

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