Abstract

The author applies to psychological life many of the insights of existential ontology. Her previous books on levels of being, thought, evil, and time in psychological life have already found an effective recipe for mixing psychiatric materials with structural psychological schemes. Here the exposition develops along the following lines: communication with the world, emergence of the world of science; communication with others, emergence of the moral universe; communication with oneself, emergence of the metaphysical universe. Unfortunately the synoptic style of lecture presentation is all too apparent in the composition and in the literary style of this work. This lack of polish flaws the book's freshness of content.--A. M.