How to Laugh Your Way Through Life: A Psychoanalyst's Advice

How to Laugh Your Way Through Life: A Psychoanalyst's Advice
ISBN-10
0429914636
ISBN-13
9780429914638
Category
Psychology
Pages
170
Language
English
Published
2018-04-17
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Paul Marcus

Description

While living in anti-Semitic Vienna, Freud wrote in a letter to Ernest Jones, 'What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. Unlike most books on the psychology and philosophy of humour, and following Ludwig Wittgenstein's wonderful advice-'A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes,' this book is replete with jokes, humorous stories, and amusing maxims and quotes making it a lively reading experience that aims to help people fashion the 'good life'-a life of deep and expansive love, creative and productive work, that is aesthetically pleasing and in accordance with reason and ethics.

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