Michal Barnea Astrog: 2 books
Carved by Experience
Vipassana, Psychoanalysis, and the Mind Investigating Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
How does the tendency to crave pleasure and reject pain shape our lives? How does it affect the way we perceive reality, and how is it related to the emergence of suffering and the way it is experienced and transmitted? Can we live free of this tendency, beyond the pleasure principle? This book approaches...
Psychoanalytic and Buddhist Reflections on Gentleness
Sensitivity, Fear and the Drive Towards Truth
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Inspired by Buddhist teachings and psychoanalytic thought, this book explores gentleness as a way of being and a developmental achievement. It offers reflections on the unique position of "gentle people", as well as certain gentle layers of the psyche in general, as they meet the world....