Decoding the Meaning of Life — Vol. 2
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Finally, new answers to the enigmas of human existence
Volume II: The Double Life - 280 pp.
Volume I: [here] Survival
Volume III: [here] Material Life
• Why are there so many double lives in love affairs?
• Are an artist's life and a comfortable life compatible?
• Why do we seek out fusional love?
• If you had to choose between love and work, what would you choose?
• Is it possible to live against the survival programs of one's ancestors?
• What is psychoanalysis and how can it help one live better?
• What is the role of the unconscious?
• Is there a life after survival (is there anything more to life than survival)?
• What is the meaning of the alternation between day and night?
• Why is life always more complex from generation to generation?
• What part of my father (or my mother) is in who I am?
• Why are there so many paired organs in the human body?
• What is a double brain?
• What remains of our aquatic fetal life?
• Why am I always hot (or cold)?
• Why do we enjoy playing roles so much?
• What are all the solutions invented by humans through the double?
• What does it mean to have two fathers (or two mothers)?
• What is the meaning of divorce (why create two families instead of one)?
• What is the point of having a twin?
• Who has a double brain?
• Perhaps me too?
• Why do so many things repeat themselves in temporal cycles?
• What is in my past that keeps me from moving toward my future?
• Can you make a (long) list of all your identities?
• What is the meaning of emigration?
• What mark does it leave for future generations?
• What is the meaning of travel?
• What happens that is important when we become parents?
• Why should I always have to choose between being alone or feeling guilty?
• What is the double separation?
• Why is it so hard to be caught in a double bind?
• Why is it better to avoid double relationships with others?
• Should one be happy to be sick?
• What are, for example, the secondary benefits of an illness?
• What is the fundamental biological role of microbes?
• What is sympathicotonia?
• And vagotonia?
• Do parasites rule the world?
• Was I a parasite to my mother (and am I still one)?
• What is the difference between eating and nourishing oneself?
• Why are all diets on the wrong track?
• Is life an eternal return or is this notion a myth?
• Is life heavy or light?
• And you, are you more of a misanthrope or a courtier?
• What is the fundamental role of schizophrenia in the logic of survival?
• Totem or taboo?
• What is the meaning of your values?
• Could everything we experience be the fruit of frantic autosuggestion?
• Or of unconscious affinity?
• Who is God, where is He, how can I connect with Him?
• What is bravery?
• And kindness?
• Why are beauty and intelligence considered feminine virtues?
• What does yin and yang mean, ultimately?
• What gift could you develop?
• How can women do two things at the same time (unlike men, it seems)?
• How can one be Zen?
• What is the origin of the universe (is there an origin to the universe)?
• In what way is elegance an important value?
• What is otium? Where is our lost paradise?
• How can we find it?
• What is the first thing to do to set off on an adventure?
• "Courage, let's flee"?
• Yes, but where?...
To each their own double life!
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