The Soul in Everyday Life

By Daniel Chapelle

Book Overview

Argues that contemporary psychology neglects the soul and addresses ways to remedy this.

The Soul in Everyday Life argues that modern psychology has given up on dealing with the idea of soul (or psyche), even though the field is named after it. If psychology wishes to be truly satisfying, it needs to be more than behavioral science, according to Daniel Chapelle. He concludes that psychology can only satisfy the deepest human needs when it can offer a sense of soul in everyday life. He explores ways of restoring this sense of soul to everyday life by examining how talk about something as elusive as the soul is possible and by reanimating a sense for what the notion of soul can mean. Working in the tradition of Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, and Jung's student James Hillman, Chapelle reaches back into millennia of Western thought to reanimate the dying sense of soul in everyday life and put the "psyche" back in "psychology."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791458644
• ISBN13: 9780791458648
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher