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Becoming William James

  • Howard Feinstein
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2000
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For William James, work was the problem. Ultimately, going to work was the resolution, and James's quest for meaningful work remains as relevant at the end of the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. Weaving letters, diaries, drawings, and...

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Howard M. Feinstein is a practicing psychiatrist.

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R.W.B. Lewis:

The best and truest thing one could say about the richly provocative Becoming William James is that William, while perhaps raising an eyebrow here and there, would have welcomed it and praised it lavishly.

Richard Poirier:

Howard Feinstein has written a brilliant study of William's crises over idleness, illness, and vocation within the context of intense parental and sibling entanglement.

A study equal in richness to James himself.


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October 18, 2018
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9781501721489
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With a New Introduction
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