Description
Relationships are hard enough to negotiate without advice from outsiders who don’t know you at all. This book is not a “how-to” aimed at attaining the ideal. Rather, it is a how-it-is, an exploration of how relationships are, how they develop, how they deteriorate, how they may end and how they may even revive. Strange as it may seem, it is not a book about how individual human beings are. It doesn’t concern itself with individual human failings. Those failings are given in being human. Instead, it describes the potentials for joy, disappointment and burden that are intrinsic to relationship and by extension to the process of becoming fully human. In a world obsessed with attaining an illusory ideal, becoming fully human is the greatest threat.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preamble
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One—Introduction
Chapter Two—Animation
Chapter Three—The Psyche: Structure and Contents
Chapter Four—How We Animate
Chapter Five—Dreams
Chapter Six—Marriage and Separation
Chapter Seven—Reunion
Chapter Eight—The Symbolic Life
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
