Love and Will (book)

• Full Title: Love and Will
• Author: Rollo May
• ISBN: 0393330052

Contents

Foreword

One – Introduction: Our Schizoid World

• Problems as Prophetic
• The Artist and the Neurotic
• The Neurotic as Predictive
• The Emergence of Apathy

Part I: Love

Two – Paradoxes of Sex and Love

• Sexual Wilderness
• Salavation Through Technique
• The New Puritamism
• Freud and Puritanism
• Motives of the Problem
• Revolt Against Sex

Three – Eros in Conflict with Sex

• The Return of Repressed Eros
• What Is Eros?
• Eros in Plato
• Freud and Eros
• The Union of Eros: A Case Study
• Eros Sickening

Four – Love and Death

• Love As the Intimation of Mortality
• Death and the Obsession with Sex
• The Tragic and Separation
• Contraceptives and the Tragic

Five – Love and the Daimonic

• Defining the Daimonic
• Objections to the Term
• The Daimonic in Primitive Psychotherapy
• Some Historical Soundings
• Love and the Daimonic

Six – The Daimonic in Dialogue

• Dialogue and Integration
• Stages of the Daimonic
• The Daimonic and the Anonymous
• The Daimonic and Knowledge
• Naming the Daimonic
• Naming of the Daimonic in Therapy

Part II: Will

Seven – The Will in Crisis

• Undermining of Personal Responsibility
• Contradiction in Will
• The Case of John
• Will in Psychoanalysis
• Illusion and Will

Eight – Wish and Will

• The Demise of Will Power
• Freud’s Anti Will System
• The Wish
• Illness As the Inability to Wish
• Lack of Capacity to Wish
• William James and Will

Nine – Intentionality

• The Roots of Intentionaity
• Examples from Psychoanalysis
• Perception and Intentionality
• The Body and Intentionality

Ten – Intentionality in Therapy

• Case of Preston
• Stages in Therapy
• From Wish to Will
• Wish and Will to Decision
• Human Freedom

Part III: Love and Will

Eleven – The Relation of Love and Will

• Love and Will Blocking Each Other
• Impotence As an Example
• Imagination and Time
• Union of Love and Will

Twelve – The Meaning of Care

• Care in Love and Will
• The Mythos of Care
• Care in Our Day

Thirten – Communion of Consciousness

• Love as Personal
• Aspects of the Love Act
• Creating of Consciousness
• Love, Will, and the Forms of Society

Notes

Index