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Wisdom Won from illness Wisdom Won from Illness Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Jonathan Lear Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England 2017 Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First printing Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lear, Jonathan, author. Title: Wisdom won from illness: essays in philosophy and psychoanalysis / Jonathan Lear. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016017882 | ISBN 9780674967847 Subjects: LCSH: Psychoanalysis and philosophy. | Reason. | Literature—Philosophy. | Philosophical anthropology. | Philosophy and social sciences. Classification: LCC BF175.4.P45 L434 2017 | DDC 150.19/5—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017882 For gabriel, sophia, and samuel, with love Contents Introduction / 1 one Wisdom Won from Illness / 11 two Integrating the Nonrational Soul / 30 three What Is a Crisis of Intelligibility? / 50 four A Lost Conception of Irony / 63 five Waiting for the Barbarians / 80 six The Ironic Creativity of Socratic Doubt / 103 seven Rosalind’s Pregnancy / 120 eight Technique and Final Cause in Psychoanalysis / 138 nine Jumping from the Couch / 159 ten Eros and Development / 175 eLeven Mourning and Moral Psychology / 191 tweLve Allegory and Myth in Plato’s Republic / 206 thirteen The Psychic Efficacy of Plato’s Cave / 227 fourteen The Ethical Thought of J. M. Coetzee / 244 fifteen Not at Home in Gilead / 269 Notes / 287 Acknowledgments / 317 Index / 321 Wisdom Won from illness
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