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Perspectives on Neuroscience
Published on: July 31, 2007
Why nature doesn't turn off neurosis
1The Nathan Kline Institute, Scientific Support, Westwood, NJ 07675, USA. afjb@ix.netcom.com
Abstract:
This paper develops an integration of psychoanalytic and wisdom tradition concepts to answer the question as to why nature does not turn off neurosis, The proposed answer is that nature wants a person to exploit the neurosis for two gains, one being the increase in adaptive capacity resulting from releasing it and the second involving the difficulty in the release itself, the latter related to gains proffered by the world's wisdom traditions. These see a movement from the psyche's creation by passive, unconscious means of finite promise rooted in parental love to creation by active, consciously chosen means of unlimited promise involving a direct relationship with nature and the Cosmos.
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