Stephen Grosz

The Examined Life

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An extraordinary book for anyone eager to understand the hidden motives that shape our lives.

We are all storytellers—we create stories to make sense of our lives. A moving collection of short, personal encounters between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding, and human of experiences. Ultimately, these stories show us not only how we love ourselves but how we might find ourselves.
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174 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
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  • jimena astridhas quoted3 years ago
    Experience has taught me that our childhoods leave in us stories like this – stories we never found a way to voice, because no one helped us to find the words. When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us – we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand
  • jimena astridhas quoted3 years ago
    It’s about our desire to talk, to understand and be understood. It’s also about listening to each other, not just the words but the gaps in between. What I’m describing here isn’t a magical process. It’s something that is a part of our everyday lives – we tap, we listen
  • jimena astridhas quoted3 years ago
    We receive and we lose, and we must try to
    achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to
    embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that
    remains after the losses.
    ANDRE DUBUS, Broken Vessels

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