Publisher's Synopsis
This book can literally change your mind. It presents an innovative model of the personality where the mind is described as an organ that has evolved in the process of sexual rather than natural selection, just like the peacock's tail.
In contrast to what Sigmund Freud conceptualized, the mind can be viewed as a mental representation of nature instead of a mediator between the drives and "reality". The internal conflict that leads to neurosis is not between reality and pleasure principles but between the mental reality of the mind and the physical reality of the body. The author shows that the consequences to mental health are enormous. It is metaphors and not science that are key to psychological growth. Self-esteem increases when the mind can utilize the Libido to sustain its mental representations.
The author modifies the classical psychoanalytical theories and shows how meditation more than psychoanalytic treatment is most efficient to overcome neurosis. Psychoanalysis and meditation have been with us for a while, but as long as they are kept apart, a dynamic transformation of the personality remains out of reach for most people.
You will learn:
- What neurosis is and how to overcome neurosis without spending years on the couch
- Get familiar with the operating system of the mind
- Why orthodox psychoanalysis is a modern religion
- What obsessional neurosis is and why it is so prevalent among men nowadays
- Why metaphors are so important to mental health
- What is the real cause of social anxiety and shyness
- How to increase self-esteem without cognition or thoughts
- The psychodynamics that drives flirting and dating
- How to meditate to change the dynamics of the personality
- and much more
This book is not like any other book that you have read because it teaches how to think about thinking. It does not promise a quick fix to your life situations. But it will show you how you can solve the problem of not being able to deal with life situations in the first place.
