Guilt

On its surface, few books better warrant the proverb, “Physician, heal thyself,” than Caryll Houselander’s Guilt. An analysis of neurosis by a self-proclaimed neurotic, Guilt explicates a novel form of suffering: ego-neurosis. A “disease of the soul,” ego-neurosis is a “thrusting forward of the self; it may take the form of self-analysis, self-defense, self-obsession, self-aggrandizement, humiliation in being self, self-frustration or countless others…grounded in self-love.” Exploring the root causes of this neurosis and its manifestations (scrupulosity, aberrant sexual behavior, hypochondria, and other assorted manias), Houselander offers a challenging reading of human nature, and one decidedly reserved for a mature readership. Its somber subject notwithstanding, Guilt concludes on the deeply hopeful note of the revitalizing power of the Incarnation: “Christ [took] all the suffering of guilt on himself, wedding himself to our sorrow, and offering the sacrifice of his own death on the cross.” Redeeming its near-macabre fascination with psychological malformation by an abiding compassion for its sufferers and unshakeable faith that their salvation has been secured, Guilt stands as a sweepingly imaginative diagnosis of what ails mankind which sets the light of the divine Physician against the shadow of evil.
ASIN: 1685950868
VSKU: GBV.1685950868.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Houselander, Caryll
Binding: Paperback
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