The book presents a groundbreaking synthesis of semiotics, depth psychology, pragmaticism, and a post-Monotheistic theology of nature. It explores the intersections of these fields, offering fresh insights into how they inform and enrich one another. Through this interdisciplinary approach, Corrington seeks to deepen our understanding of human experience and the natural world, challenging traditional theological perspectives and inviting readers to reconsider their relationship with nature and meaning.
This work revitalizes religious naturalism and redefines pantheism, positioning it as a compelling alternative to panentheism. It innovatively enhances psychoanalysis through the introduction of ordinal psychoanalysis, offering deeper insights into the human psyche. Additionally, the book pioneers a novel approach to phenomenology, termed ordinal phenomenology, which promises to reshape the understanding and practice within this philosophical domain.
Focusing on his personal experiences with manic-depressive disorder, Robert S. Corrington offers a profound exploration of bipolar disease, advocating for a reevaluation of its nature. He integrates contemporary medical, psychological, and spiritual insights, shedding light on the complexities of the condition marked by severe mood fluctuations. Through his narrative, Corrington not only shares his struggles but also aims to raise awareness about the disorder's impact, which contributes to numerous untimely deaths annually.
Exploring the interplay between nature and spirituality, Robert S. Corrington presents the idea of infinite semiosis, suggesting that individuals can access an intrinsic religious essence within the natural world. Through the lens of transference, he argues for a profound connection between self and nature, highlighting the spiritual dimensions that arise from this relationship. Corrington's work invites readers to reconsider the ways in which nature can inform and enrich their understanding of religion.
The book transcends and transforms current work in the field of religious
naturalism, gives pantheism new life over against the more fashionable
panentheism, radicalizes and deepens the thought and practice of
psychoanalysis with its creation of ordinal psychoanalysis, and creates a
whole new way of doing phenomenology called ordinal phenomenology.
A stirring reappraisal of the brilliant, maligned psychoanalytic thinkerRobert S. Corrington offers the first thorough reconsideration of Wilhelm Reich's life and work since Reich's death in 1957. Reich was seventeen years old at the outbreak of World War I and had already witnessed the suicides of his mother and father. A native of Vienna, he became a disciple of Freud; but by his late twenties, having already written his classic The Function of the Orgasm , he fled the Third Reich and departed, too, from Freudian psychoanalysis.In The Mass Psychology of Fascism , Reich first took the now classic position that social behavior has its every root in sexual behavior and repression. But the psychoanalytic community was made uncomfortable by this claim, and it was said -- by the time of Reich's death in an American prison on dubious charges brought by the federal government -- that Reich had squandered his prodigal genius and surrendered to his own paranoia and psychosis, an opinion still responsible for the neglect and misconception of Reich's contribution to psychology.In this transfixing psychobiography, Corrington illuminates the themes and obsessions that unify Reich's work and reports on Reich's fascinating, unrelenting one-man quest to probe the ultimate structures of self, world, and cosmos.
Exploring the aesthetic dimensions of nature, this book presents a transformative perspective that emphasizes the arts as a means to connect with the infinite aspects of the natural world. It challenges traditional religious views on healing and salvation, proposing that human engagement with nature is enriched through artistic expression. By focusing on how finite beings interact with the boundless, it offers a profound understanding of our relationship with the environment.
The exploration of four distinct types of nothingness in nature forms the core of this work. It delves into concepts such as holes in nature, the totalizing nothingness associated with horror, naturing nothingness, and encompassing nothingness. Robert S. Corrington presents the idea that despite their varied manifestations, all these forms ultimately represent a singular, vast Nothingness.
