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Author Lowen, Alexander, 1910-2008.

Title Fear of life / Alexander Lowen.

Publication Info. Alachua, Fla. : Bioenergetics Press, 2006.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.852 LOW    Check Shelf
Edition Second Bioenergetics Press edition.
Description 261 pages ; 20 cm
Note "A therapy for being"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-261).
Contents The neurotic character -- The Oedipal problem -- The Oedipus legend -- The Oedipus complex -- Fate and character -- The operation of fate -- The nature of fate -- The fate of love -- Being and fate -- Being as authenticity -- Being as sexuality -- Being as not-doing -- The fear of being -- The fear of living and of dying -- The fear of sex -- The fear of insanity -- A therapy for being -- The spiral of growth -- Breakthrough and breakdown -- Castration anxiety -- A heroic attitude to life -- Regression and progression -- Despair, death and rebirth -- The Oedipal conflict becomes a fact of modern life -- The rise of the ego to dominance -- The hierarchy of power and power struggles -- Progress produces conflict -- The wisdom of failure -- The Riddle of the Sphinx -- Reconciling the contradictions -- The wisdom of the Sphinx.
Subject Neuroses.
Fear.
Life.
ISBN 9780974373706
0974373702
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