Freedom and Destiny by May, Rollo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents Foreword One: The Crisis of Freedom

I The Present Crisis of Freedom

1. The Uniqueness of Freedom 2. The Hypocrisies of Freedom 3. Therapy: To Set People Free

II One Man’s Passage

1. The Fear of Abandonment 2. The Acknowledging of Destiny 3. The Confronting of Mother 4. Little Philip 5. Anger as a Path to Freedom 6. The Green-Blue Lad 7. Loneliness and Rebirth

III The Dynamics of Freedom

1. Freedom of Doing, or Existential Freedom 2. Freedom of Being, or Essential Freedom 3. Is There a Conflict between Freedom of Doing and Freedom of Being? 4. Growing in Freedom

IV The Paradoxes of Freedom

1. The Grand Inquisitor 2. Freedom and Rebellion 3. Freedom as Participation

V On Human Destiny

1. From Determinism to Destiny 2. What Is Destiny? 3. Destiny and Responsibility

VI Destiny and Death

1. The Poignance of the Transient 2. Witchcraft and the Projection of Destiny 3. Destiny and the Poets 4. The Uses of Destiny

Two: Mistaken Paths to Freedom

VII The New Narcissism

1. The Threat of Loss of Self 2. “If I Am Me, Will I Be Free?” 3. The Myth of Narcissus and Revenge

VIII Is Sex without Intimacy Freedom?

1. Freedom from Barriers 2. Sensation without Emotion 3. The Lost Power of Eros

Three: Characteristics of Freedom

IX The Significance of the Pause

1. The Language of Silence 2. Time and the Pause 3. Creativity and the Symbol 4. Leisure and the Pause 5. The Psyche and the Ego 6. Meditation and the Holy Void

X The Dizziness of Freedom

1. Anxiety and the Pause 2. Anxiety and Discovery 3. The Anxious Prophet 4. Dogmatism Is Fear of Freedom

XI Freedom and Destiny in Illness and Health

Four: The Fruits of Freedom

XII The Renewal of Life

1. Freedom and the Human Spirit 2. The Authentic Mystics 3. Compassion and the Meaning of Evil 4. Forgiveness and Mercy

XIII Despair and Joy

1. The Values of Despair 2. Despair in Therapy 3. The Link between Despair and Joy 4. The Nature of Joy

Notes Index Also by the Author Copyright page