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…..and the pursuit of Happiness

If you were a marketing executive you might seriously struggle to sell psychoanalysis.1 And one reason for this difficulty might be that psychoanalysis has never promised to make anyone happy.  At best, to paraphrase Freud, it can only hope to convert neurotic suffering into everyday misery.2  If anything psychoanalysis is …

The pursuit of happiness?

Recently I’ve wrote about enjoyment in an age of austerity.1  But what about happiness? This might seem a strange question: after all, isn’t enjoyment just another word for being happy? Not really. After all, it’s quite possible to enjoy being very miserable, in the sense one can gain a great …