Psychic Home

<p><em>The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul</em> develops from a number of different viewpoints the significance of home in our lives. <b>Roger Kennedy</b> puts forward the central role of what he has termed a ‘<i>psychic home</i>’ as a vital psychic structure which gathers together a number of different human functions. <b>Kennedy</b> questions what we mean by the powerfully evocative notion of the human <i>soul </i>which has important links to the notion of home and he suggests that what makes us human is that we allow a home for the soul. As an illustration of this concept he explores how it can help to understand a vital element of William Wordsworth’s development as a poet.</p><p>The word soul is both abstract and yet also powerfully emotive. <b>Kennedy </b>shows that it can be approached from a number of different angles from psychoanalysis philosophy religion sociology literature and neuroscience. <i>The Psychic Home</i> discusses the mysteries and complexities of the soul and aims to evoke some restoration of its place in our thinking. It illustrates how the word soul and similar key words such as spirit and inwardness express so much that is essential for humans even if we cannot be too precise about their meanings.</p><p>Insightful enlightening and broad reaching <i>The Psychic Home</i> brings the concept of the soul centre stage as an entity that is elemental an essence irreducible and what makes us human as subjects of experience. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts psychotherapists neuroscientists philosophers and those interested in spirituality and religion.</p>