{"title":"Paul Marcus","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Marcus offers insightful works that explore the intersections of philosophy and psychology, inviting readers to reflect on life with a thoughtful yet engaging perspective. His writing often encourages embracing humour and resilience as essential tools for navigating life's challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a tone that balances wisdom and warmth, Marcus's books provide both comfort and inspiration, appealing to those seeking deeper understanding of the human condition alongside a fresh, hopeful outlook.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"how-to-laugh-your-way-through-life-by-paul-marcus-9781780490953","title":"How to Laugh Your Way Through Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile living in anti-Semitic Vienna, Freud wrote in a letter to Ernest Jones, 'What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTragicomic attunement—seeing the comic in the tragic and the tragic in the comic—is a perspective on life that, following Freud, is one of the best ways to 'ward off possible suffering' and better manage the stressors, anxieties, and worries of everyday life. Moreover, tragicomic attunement and intervention has a meaning-giving, affect-integrating, life-affirming, double structure that is especially pertinent to sensible living in our troubled and troubling post-modern world: 'In tragedy', said theologian Harvey Cox, 'we weep and are purged. In comedy we laugh and hope.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Monty Python's \u003cem\u003eLife of Brian\u003c\/em\u003e, a bunch of crucified criminals happily sing 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'; in Stephen King's book \u003cem\u003eThe Tommyknockers\u003c\/em\u003e, the central character thinks about a joke he heard once: as a man is about to be executed, the firing squad officer in charge offers the man about to be shot a cigarette. He replies, 'No thanks, I'm trying to quit.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is precisely this capacity to use one's imaginative resources to create a tragicomic 'form of life'—a way of thinking, feeling, and acting in the service of aesthetic, epistemological, and ethical deepening, of affirming Beauty, Truth and, especially, Goodness—that mainly constitutes the art of living the 'good life.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn chapters on love, work, suffering, death, and psychoanalysis, the author shows how the 'nuts and bolts' of tragicomic attunement and intervention can be cultivated and used to help people better manage the harshness, if not outrageousness, of life, as well as more deeply engage its beauty and nobility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike most books on the psychology and philosophy of humour, and following Ludwig Wittgenstein's wonderful advice—'A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes'—this book is replete with jokes, humorous stories, and amusing maxims and quotes making it a lively reading experience that aims to help people fashion the 'good life'—a life of deep and expansive love, creative and productive work, that is aesthetically pleasing and in accordance with reason and ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs tragicomic master Mel Brooks noted, 'Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you,' and becoming more attuned to its dynamics and applications in everyday life is the art of living the 'good life'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47606026764524,"sku":"9781780490953","price":70.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781780490953-how-to-laugh-your-way-through-life.jpg?v=1778146542"},{"product_id":"the-psychoanalysis-of-career-choice-job-performance-and-satisfaction-by-paul-marcus-9781138211643","title":"The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFreud said that \"love and work\" are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the \"good life.\" While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to understanding the experience of love, it has only made a modest contribution to understanding the psychology of work. This book is the first to explore fully the psychoanalysis of work, analysing career choice, job performance, and job satisfaction, with an eye toward helping people make wiser choices that bring out the best in themselves, their colleagues, and their organisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book addresses the crucial questions concerning work: how does one choose the right career; what qualities contribute to excellence in performance; how best to implement and cope with organisational change; and what capacity and skills does one need to enjoy everyday work?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on psychoanalytic thinking, vocational counselling, organisational psychology, and business studies, \u003ci\u003eThe Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction\u003c\/i\u003e will be invaluable in clinical psychoanalytic work, as well as for mental health professionals, scholars, career counsellors, and psychologists looking for a deeper understanding of work-based issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47608133550316,"sku":"9781138211643","price":353.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138211643-the-psychoanalysis-of-career-choice-job-performance-and-satisfaction.jpg?v=1778185042"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/paul-marcus.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}