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- When the daimonic takes over without one having made a responsible choice, however, it can lead to violence toward others. Our lives often involve conflict between those who have power and those who do not. When a person feels powerless, helpless, or insignificant, they can lash out under the control of the daimonic.
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Jan 1, 1996 · 4.3 39 ratings. See all formats and editions. Explores the links between anger, rage, violence, evil, and creativity and describes a dynamic therapeutic approach that can help channel anger and violent impulses into constructive and creative activity. Though the causes of violence in our society are complex, the troublesome human emotions of ...
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- Stephen A. Diamond
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- State University of New York Press
When a person feels powerless, helpless, or insignificant, they can lash out under the control of the daimonic. According to May, violence is bred in impotence and apathy (May, 1972). This can be particularly important for those who have little or no advantage in our society.
Daimons, at first, were potentially both good and evil, constructive and destructive, depending in part upon how the individual would relate to them. But one of Plato’s pupils, Xenocrates, separated the gods and daimons, shifting the destructive aspects of the gods onto the daimons.
- Stephen A. Diamond
Feb 21, 2017 · May: Repression of the Daimonic and the Denial of Evil Leads to Violence. During the Vietnam War and following race riots in major cities, May ( 1972) explored the roots of violence in Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence.
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Using clinical and biographical case studies, as well as . . . visual images, he traces anger, rage, and violence through their most destructive, negative expressions to their constructive, creative, and transcendent functions in art, psychotherapy, and spirituality.
- Stephen A. Diamond
- 1996
Feb 5, 2020 · Internet Archive. Language. English. xxv, 402 pages : 24 cm. In this book, clinical psychologist Stephen A. Diamond determines where anger and rage originate and explores whether these powerful passions are - as most people believe - purely negative, pathological, and evil or can be meaningfully redeemed and rechanneled into constructive activity.
And what is the psychological link between anger, rage, violence, evil, and creativity? Drawing on the discoveries of depth psychologists such as Freud, Jung, Adler, Rank, Reich, and Rollo May, as well as the work of other contemporary psychotherapeutic pioneers, Diamond examines these timely yet eternal questions.
