Margy Sperry
Biographic Data
| ID | 5091275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margy Sperry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margy |
| FAMILY NAME | Sperry |
| SIGNATURE | SPERRY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Power of Myth
In Sacred Nature: Restoring our Ancient Bond with the Natural World, author Karen Armstrong contends that the damage that humanity is inflicting on the natural world reflects a severed link between the natural world and the sublime in Western cultures, where nature is viewed as a resource to be controlled and exploited. She contrasts this attitude with other religious traditions that venerate nature and see it as inseparable from the divine. In t…
Living History
Psychoanalysis underscores that history isn’t as distant as it may feel. Even so, it’s difficult to recognize how our ancestral history, the history that precedes our birth, influences our subjectivity. This paper explores the difficulty of recognizing and owning the implications of our throwness into particular socio-political and cultural contexts, especially the ways that larger history is embedded within our identities. To illustrate this dif…
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Living History
Psychoanalysis underscores that history isn’t as distant as it may feel. Even so, it’s difficult to recognize how our ancestral history, the history that precedes our birth, influences our subjectivity. This paper explores the difficulty of recognizing and owning the implications of our throwness into particular socio-political and cultural contexts, especially the ways that larger history is embedded within our identities. To illustrate this dif…
The Power of Myth
In Sacred Nature: Restoring our Ancient Bond with the Natural World, author Karen Armstrong contends that the damage that humanity is inflicting on the natural world reflects a severed link between the natural world and the sublime in Western cultures, where nature is viewed as a resource to be controlled and exploited. She contrasts this attitude with other religious traditions that venerate nature and see it as inseparable from the divine. In t…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Blindness (1 work) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (1 work) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (1 work) · Cultural history (1 work) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (1 work)