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Jurist, E.L. (2003). Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life. Jonathan Lear. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 189 pp. $26.00 ($16.95 pb).. Am. Imago, 60:537-544.

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(2003). American Imago, 60:537-544

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Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life. Jonathan Lear. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 189 pp. $26.00 ($16.95 pb).

Elliot L. Jurist Author Information

During the Freud wars of the ′90s, Jonathan Lear's voice stood out for its eloquent defense of Freud's enduring importance for our culture. In the essay, “On Killing Freud (Again),” which originally appeared in 1995 in the New Republic (and was reprinted in Open Minded [1998]), Lear makes the case passionately but not heatedly that psychoanalysis—far from being marginal—is consistent with the deepest thinking in Western culture because of its refusal to neglect, deny, or soften human suffering. The commitment to the unconscious, according to Lear, gives psychoanalysis a distinctive understanding of the limits of self-knowledge and the inevitability of self-deception. Lear's avoidance of the use of technical language in explicating psychoanalysis to nonpsychoanalytic readers is especially noteworthy.

It is in this context that Lear also makes the bold proposal that psychoanalysis is a necessity, rather than a luxury, to a democratic society. Lear has not

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