Growth and Guilt: Psychology and the Limits of DevelopmentPsychology Press, 1995 - 235 pages The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When did this race towards the limitless begin? The Greeks, who shaped the basis of Western thinking, lived in mortal fear of humanity's hidden hunger for the infinite and referred to it as hubris, the one true sin in their moral code. Whoever desired or possessed too much was implacably punished by nemesis, yet the Greeks themselves were to pioneer an unprecedented level of ambition that began to reverse that tabu. If it is true that no culture can truly repudiate its origins, and that gods who are no longer potent can vanish but still leave behind a body of myth which coninues to live and assert itself in modernized garb, then our concern with the limits of growth reflects something more than an awareness of new technological problems - it also brings to light a psychic wound a a feeling of guilt which are infinitely more ancient. |
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Table des matières
THE MYTH OF GROWTH THE MYTH OF LIMITS | 3 |
TOWARDS A PSYCHOLOGICAL TERRITORY | 13 |
THE LIMITS OF ENDEAVOR IN NONWESTERN | 20 |
THE EGOISM OF THE ARCHAIC GODS | 35 |
THE GREEK SENSE OF LIMITS | 46 |
HISTORY BEGINS TO MOVE | 62 |
NEW HORIZONS | 81 |
FROM | 117 |
WESTERN | 142 |
THE SITE OF THE CRISIS | 159 |
ROUTES TOWARDS RECONSTRUCTION | 174 |
DEATH DEPRESSION AND GUILT | 185 |
Notes | 192 |
Primary sources and bibliographical note | 219 |
227 | |
GREEK | 130 |
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action Aeschylus already ancient Greece ancient Greeks Archaic Aristotle arrogance Athenians Athens attempt attitudes barbarians Chapter Christianity civilization Club of Rome concept conquest consciousness continued course cult culture death deity depth psychology destiny divine emotions enantiodromia enemy epic epoch ethics Euripides evil existence expansion fact faith feeling fifth century forces gods Greece Greeks growth guilt hand Hellenic Herodotus Hesiod Homer human hybris Ibid Iliad individual interior jealousy Jung justice knowledge less likewise limits lives lógos means mind modern modes monotheism moral myth mythic nature Nemesis never Nietzsche notion Odysseus Persian Persian Wars philosophy phthónos Plato point of view pólis political polytheism principle Prometheus psyche psychic psychology punishment rational reference religion religious secular seems seen sense society Socrates soul story things thinking thought Thucydides tradition tragedies transformed turn Ulysses unconscious victory western word Xerxes Zeus