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For some 50 years, Roberto Assagioli, M.D., an Italian psychotherapist, has quietly elaborated a notion of the will, which he fully describes in his forthcoming book, The Act of Will. Until very recently, the will has not been fashionable. Disgusted by the Victorian notion of the will as “will power”, many intellectuals joined the revolt against the will that in many ways characterizes our century. Permissiveness, spontaneity, release became the watchwords of art, psychotherapy and education. With bitter abandon, many thinking people embraced their sufferings as the inevitable price of having their joys. Emotions, impulses a
For some 50 years, Roberto Assagioli, M.D., an Italian psychotherapist, has quietly elaborated a notion of the will, which he fully describes in his forthcoming book, The Act of Will. Until very recently, the will has not been fashionable. Disgusted by the Victorian notion of the will as “will power”, many intellectuals joined the revolt against the will that in many ways characterizes our century. Permissiveness, spontaneity, release became the watchwords of art, psychotherapy and education. With bitter abandon, many thinking people embraced their sufferings as the inevitable price of having their joys. Emotions, impulses and desires were to be embraced because the truth was in them, The Victorians had repressed their impulses and the Victorians had suffered the twin punishments of psychological disease and social hypocrisy.
In recent years there have been signs that people are looking anew at the will. Not the least of these signs has been the stream of foreign, especially American, visitors to see Dr. Assagioli, whom Michael Murphy, president of Esalen Institute, has called, quite simply, “a sage.”
The Will, interview with Roberto Assagioli by Stuart Miller in Intellectual Digest, October 1972 [Link removed - login to see]
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Manufacturer: David E. Platts and Associates
Release date: 1 June 1999
ISBN-10 : 0952400413 |
ISBN-13: 9780952400417
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