Deep drama : exploring life as theater /: exploring life as theater. ([2017])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Deep drama : exploring life as theater /: exploring life as theater. ([2017])
- Main Title:
- Deep drama : exploring life as theater
- Further Information:
- Note: Karl E. Scheibe.
- Authors:
- Scheibe, Karl E, 1937-
- Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Profound Drama; Drama, Appearance, Reality, and Depth1; The Importance of Profound Drama; The Provision of Depth Through Narrative; Breakdowns; Damage to Life's Dramatic Temple, the Body; The Return to Spirit; A Study in Shallowness: Donald Trump; Character as Depth; References; 2: The Person as Actor, the Actor as Person: Personality from a Dramaturgical Perspective; Drama in Personality Assessment; Dramatizing Assessment; Why is the MBTI So Compelling and Dramatic?; References; 3: The Drama of the Scientific Life. 6: Paradoxes of Well-being: A Dramatic Analysis Standard Assumptions About Well-being Are Questionable; The Two Major Paradoxes of Well-being: "Eutrophication" and "Out of the Mud Grows the Lotus"; Drama and the Paradoxes of Well-being; In Sum: Reflections on the Separation of Joy and Reason; References; 7: Narratives of Addiction; Biology and Biography; Doing What Works; Stories of Failure and Failed Stories; Institutional Structures and the Context of Addictions; A Success Story; Conclusions; References; 8: On the Psychological Absurdity of a War on Terror. On the Secondary Gain of Shame and Guilt in the Drama of LifeReferences; 5: The Drama of Fear; Escaping Pain and Avoidance Responses; The Face of Fear; The Enduring Effects of Public Disasters; Disaster Produces Drama, and with It Meaning; Qui Bono?; Replacing Fear with Confidence: The End of the Great Depression and the Control of Inflation in Brazil;Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Profound Drama; Drama, Appearance, Reality, and Depth1; The Importance of Profound Drama; The Provision of Depth Through Narrative; Breakdowns; Damage to Life's Dramatic Temple, the Body; The Return to Spirit; A Study in Shallowness: Donald Trump; Character as Depth; References; 2: The Person as Actor, the Actor as Person: Personality from a Dramaturgical Perspective; Drama in Personality Assessment; Dramatizing Assessment; Why is the MBTI So Compelling and Dramatic?; References; 3: The Drama of the Scientific Life. 6: Paradoxes of Well-being: A Dramatic Analysis Standard Assumptions About Well-being Are Questionable; The Two Major Paradoxes of Well-being: "Eutrophication" and "Out of the Mud Grows the Lotus"; Drama and the Paradoxes of Well-being; In Sum: Reflections on the Separation of Joy and Reason; References; 7: Narratives of Addiction; Biology and Biography; Doing What Works; Stories of Failure and Failed Stories; Institutional Structures and the Context of Addictions; A Success Story; Conclusions; References; 8: On the Psychological Absurdity of a War on Terror. On the Secondary Gain of Shame and Guilt in the Drama of LifeReferences; 5: The Drama of Fear; Escaping Pain and Avoidance Responses; The Face of Fear; The Enduring Effects of Public Disasters; Disaster Produces Drama, and with It Meaning; Qui Bono?; Replacing Fear with Confidence: The End of the Great Depression and the Control of Inflation in Brazil; The Extremes of Fear Are Greater than the Extremes of Greed; Incongruity: A Source of Fear and Humor; Cheap Thrills and Fear; Cosmic Fear; The Functions of Fear in the Dramatic Context; References. The Drama of Everyday Life The Arbitrary Becomes Essential; Dramatic Contexts; Major and Minor Actors and the Audience; The Drama of Reciprocal Action; Conclusions and Cautions; References; 4: Reflections on the Drama of Shame and Guilt; Classical Images of Shame and Guilt; Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; Lessons from the Classical Cases; Some Dramatic Representations of Shame and Guilt; Othello; Death of a Salesman; Equus; Cyrano de Bergerac; Life is Not Neat: Mergings of Shame and Guilt and Other Complications; Emancipation; False Shame and False Guilt; Coping and Legitimacy. The War on Terror as a Chimera Strategy, Tactics, and the War on Terror; The Preconditions for Terrorism; Reflections on the Rhetoric of Terror; Perverse Consequences and the Prospect of Reversal; The Conundrum of Terrorism from Above; Ingroups and Outgroups: Conflicts Formed and Dissolved; References; 9: Three Modes of Human Aggression, Plus Pure Evil; The Three Kinds of Ordinary Aggression; Caused Happenings Versus Reasoned Actions; The First Type: Aggressive Acts As Caused Happenings; The Second and Third Types: Reasoned Actions with Selfish Purposes or Self-transcending Purposes. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Copyright Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 700.1/9
Psychoanalysis and the arts
Drama -- Psychological aspects
Psychology
ART -- Performance
ART -- Reference
Drama -- Psychological aspects
Psychoanalysis and the arts
Psychology
Electronic books
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319629865
3319629867 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783319629858
3319629859 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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