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Epiphanies, Individuation, and Human Flourishing: Essays on Nature, Beauty, and Art book cover

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Epiphanies, Individuation, and Human Flourishing Essays on Nature, Beauty, and Art

By Frances Gray Copyright 2023
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge
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Within this book, Gray argues that moments of profound existential importance are given to us in the presence of Art, and that such moments are important motivators in our personal, civic, and moral lives. Using the work of Jung, Freud, Berger, and Nussbaum, this book looks to Art in its theory and practice as a driver of psychic epiphany. Examining music, environment, architecture, poetry,... Read more

Livining Bodies and Consciousness: Foundations  Introduction  1. Existential Experience and Epiphany  2. Change: Nature, Beauty, Art  3. Touch, Beauty, Place  4. Art and its Functions: Some comments about Freud and Jung  5. Nature, Beauty, Art: foundations of an ethical life  6. Appendix: Personal Experience

Biography

Frances Gray is a philosopher with a strong interest in Jungian psychology, neuroscience, and feminism. Her work attempts to figure out the relationship between individual and collective with an emphasis of ethics and its political implications. Frances Gray is the author of the following Routledge titles: Jung, Irigaray, Individuation: Philosophy, Analytical Psychology and the Question of the Feminine; Cartesian Philosophy and the Flesh, Reflections on Incarnation in Analytical Psychology; and Jung and Levinas: An Ethics of Mediation, as well as co-editor of Feminist Views from Somewhere. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

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