Freedom and Destiny

The popular psychoanalyst examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny.May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist. . . . Freedom''s characteristics fruits and problems; destiny''s reality; death; and therapy''s place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined. . . . Poets social critics artists and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May''s theory of freedom and destiny''s interdependence.Library Journal Especially instructive even stunning is Dr. May''s willingness to respect mystery. . . .There is too at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind inclined to celebrate . . . what Flannery O''Connor called ''mystery and manners'' and to do so in a tactful meditative manner.Robert Coles America