Here lies bitterness : healing from resentment / Cynthia Fleury ; translated by Cory Stockwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleury, Cynthia, author.

Contributor:

Stockwell, Cory, translator.

Standardized Title:

Ci-gît l'amer. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Resentment.

Democracy.

Political psychology.

Physical Description:

vii, 251 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; Hoboken : Polity Press, 2023.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Bitterness: What the Man of Resentment Experiences

1. Universal Bitterness

2. Individual and Society in the Face of Resentment: Rumbling and Rumination

3. The Definition and the Manifestations of Resentment

4. The Inertia of Resentment and the Resentment Fetish

5. Resentment and Egalitarianism: The End of Discernment

6. Melancholy in a State of Abundance

7. What Scheler Could Teach to the Ethics of Care

8. A Femininity of Resentment?

9. The False Self

10. The Membrane

11. The Necessary Confrontation

12. The Taste of Bitterness

13. Melancholic Literature

14. The Crowd of Missed Beings

15. The Faculty of Forgetting

16. Expecting Something from the World

17. The Tragedy of the Thiasus

18. Great Health: Choosing the Open, Choosing the Numinous

19. Continuing to Be Astonished by the World

20. Happiness and Resentment

21. Defending the Strong against the Weak

22. Pathologies of Resentment

23. Humanism or Misanthropy?

24. Fighting Resentment through Analysis

25. Giving Value Back to Time

26. In the Counter-Transference and the Analytic Cure

27. To the Sources of Resentment, with Montaigne

pt. II Fascism: The Psychological Sources of Collective Resentment

1. Exile, Fascism, and Resentment: Adorno, 1

2. Capitalism, Reification, and Resentment: Adorno, 2

3. Knowledge and Resentment

4. Constellatory Writing and Stupor: Adorno, 3

5. The Insincerity of Some, the Cleverness of Others

6. Fascism as Emotional Plague: Wilhelm Reich, 1

7. The Fascism within Me: Wilhelm Reich, 2

8. Historians' Readings, Contemporary Psyches

9. Life as Creation: The Open Is Salvation

10. The Hydra

pt. III The Sea: A World Opened to Man

1. Disclosure, According to Fanon

2. The Universal at the Risk of the Impersonal

3. Caring for the Colonized

4. The Decolonization of Being

5. Restoring Creativity

6. The Therapy of Decolonization

7. A Detour by Way of Cioran

8. Fanon the Therapist

9. The Recognition of Singularity

10. Individual Health and Democracy

11. The Violation of Language

12. Recourse to Hatred

13. The Mundus Inversus: Conspiracy and Resentment

14. Toward an Enlargement of the Ego, 1

15. What Separation Means

16. Toward an Enlargement of the Ego, 2: Democracy as an Open System of Values

17. The Man from Underground: Resisting the Abyss.

Notes:

Originally published 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1509551034

9781509551033

9781509551040

1509551042

OCLC:

1306525381