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How to Live. What To Do. Josh Cohen

How to Live. What To Do. von Josh Cohen

How to Live. What To Do. Josh Cohen

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Zusammenfassung

'We tell ourselves stories in order to live' Joan Didion

From the truths and lies we tell about ourselves to the resonant creations of fiction, stories give shape and meaning to all our lives. So what might the most memorable characters in literature tell us about how to live meaningfully?

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How to Live. What To Do. Zusammenfassung

How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature Josh Cohen

'We tell ourselves stories in order to live' Joan Didion

From the truths and lies we tell about ourselves to the resonant creations of fiction, stories give shape and meaning to all our lives. Both a practicing psychoanalyst and a professor of literature, Josh Cohen has long been taken with the mutual echoes between the life struggles of the consulting room and the dramas of the novel. So what might the most memorable characters in literature tell us about how to live meaningfully?

In How to Live. What to Do, Cohen plots a course through the various stages of our lives, discovering in each the surprising and profound insights literature has to offer. Beginning with the playful mindset of Wonderland's Alice, we discover the resilience of Jane Eyre, the rebellious rage of Baldwin's Johnny Grimes and the catastrophic ambitions of Jay Gatsby, the turbulence of first love for Sally Rooney's Frances, the sorrows of marriage for Middlemarch's Dorothea Brooke, and the regrets and comforts of middle age for Rabbit Angstrom.

How to Live. What To Do. Bewertungen

Josh Cohen's fascination with the struggle of being human is filled with curiosity and compassion. The rabbit holes he takes us down are thick with enlightening tales and thoughtful solutions for the battles in our minds. * Robin Ince *
Deftly linking literature and clinical stories Josh Cohen invites us into the ways we humans deal with inner conflicts, voids, losses, insecurities and abandonments. And he invites us to see how conflict - with its steps forward, to the side and back are part of the struggle to live a life as fully and as engaged as we can. * Susie Orbach *
Wonderful... a surprising and variously perceptive book about the forms of knowledge and solace that are available to us as long as we cultivate a sense of curiosity about ourselves, and other people. -- Leo Robson * New Statesman *
I loved it so much I rationed myself to a few pages a night to make it last through the long evenings of lockdown. It's compassionate, wise and thought-provoking- like having a gifted and sympathetic psychoanalyst at your side. By engaging with the problems of fictional characters, it returns us both to books we've loved and books we need to read. Above all, it raises important questions about human existence and challenges us all to lead richer, more examined lives. * Marcel Theroux *

Über Josh Cohen

Josh Cohen is Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of books and articles on modern literature, cultural theory and psychoanalysis, including How to Read: Freud, The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark, and Not Working.

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GOR011254325
9781785039799
1785039792
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature Josh Cohen
Josh Cohen
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Ebury Publishing
2021-02-11
384
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