The Power of Being a Subject

Amid countless prescriptive self-help manuals, The Power of Being a Subject: Transcending Myth and Machine emerges as a refreshing intellectual cornerstone in contemporary psychology and personal development literature.

Part I: Realities and Myths 1. States of Confusion 2. "Something Wrong" 3. The Fear of Freedom 4. The Great Machinery and the Myth of Human Mechanics 5. Realities 6. Subjects and Objects Part II: Critical Thinking Is Radical Thinking 7. What Is Critical Thinking? 8. Paradigms 9. Critical Thinking as a Set of Capacities 10. Resilience and Growing-up Experience 11. The Dilemma of Activation 12. The Dilemma of Teaching and the Solution of Facilitation Part III: Lessons in Subject-Activation: Honesty, Patience, and Bravery 13. Living and (Almost) Dying Honestly 14. Patience, Breaking, and Writing 15. Bravery and Working Through Subjectivity in Psychoanalysis Conclusion: Thinking, Happiness, and the Problem with Eckhart Tolle