Name: Solitude
ISBN: 9782221064825

Anthony Storr

Béatrice Vierne

Les vertus du retour à soi-même

Solitude 

A landmark study of the nature of solitude examines its crucial role in creativity, mourning, religious experience, and other aspects of human life; discussses enforced solitude; and argues that solitude can foster postive behavior. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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Solitude

Gavin

Really enjoyed this, and the core idea (being social is not a necessary condition of flourishing for some people) is important and still insufficiently appreciated. The method is not scientific (but this is only a problem because it uses the pseudoscientific register of psychoanalysis).

I find it hard to place Storr - almost all of his work was hagiographies of Freud and Jung, but he seems to have reviewed Richard Webster's classic hatchet job well, and Jeffrey Masson's famous hatchet job poorly, so I dunno.

Solitude Les vertus du retour à soi-même

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