My Head and My Heart: Sex, Love, Life, and the Unconscious

Author - Jorge Dr De Gregorio ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Random House was reviewed on 16-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book My Head and My Heart: Sex, Love, Life, and the Unconscious by Random House. Dr.DeGregorio traces marvelous historical parallel between President Thomas Jefferson and Bill Clinton while also illustrating from clinical case studies ("diagnostic existential interviews"). What shines through is a love for his patients and subjects and the desire to allow them to discover the oppportunity for happiness. DeGregorio´s analysis of the Clinton-Lewinsky matter sheds a new light on some of the unconcious or partially conscious motivations that led to the affair. Some readers might find this hard accept or understand. Occasionally the author´s leaps from psychoanlytic insight to interpretations may seem unclear to some readers. All in all a fascinating, thought-provoking read that helps make a fair case of how psychoanlysis can offer deeper insights into our existential situations and thus,eventually, the potential for deeper contentment -- perhaps even happiness -- to emerge.¤

2) Hardcover Book My Head and My Heart: Sex, Love, Life, and the Unconscious by Random House. Want to know what sex, dreams, and sprained knees have in common? Want to understand the unconscious psychodramas that ignited when Bill´s coatsleeve touched Monica´s breast? If you can handle a little home truth with your voyeurism, this book should not be missed. Read it if you ever took sides in the Clinton impeachment affair that split the American psyche. Read it if you ever wondered why Thomas Jefferson had sex and children with his teenage slave. Read it if you ever were ambushed by your own passions and lived to wonder why. This book is a gift of love. Buy it, read it, pass it on.¤

3) Hardcover Book My Head and My Heart: Sex, Love, Life, and the Unconscious by Random House. Want to know what sex, dreams, and sprained knees have in common? Want to understand the unconscious psychodramas that ignited when Bill´s coatsleeve touched Monica´s breast? If you can handle a little home truth with your voyeurism, this book should not be missed. Read it if you ever took sides in the Clinton impeachment affair that split the American psyche. Read it if you ever wondered why Thomas Jefferson had sex and children with his teenage slave. Read it if you ever were ambushed by your own passions and lived to wonder why. This book is a gift of love. Buy it, read it, pass it on.¤

4) Hardcover Book My Head and My Heart: Sex, Love, Life, and the Unconscious by Random House. Want to know what sex, dreams, and sprained knees have in common? Want to understand the unconscious psychodramas that ignited when Bill´s coatsleeve touched Monica´s breast? If you can handle a little home truth with your voyeurism, this book should not be missed. Read it if you ever took sides in the Clinton impeachment affair that split the American psyche. Read it if you ever wondered why Thomas Jefferson had sex and children with his teenage slave. Read it if you ever were ambushed by your own passions and lived to wonder why. This book is a gift of love. Buy it, read it, pass it on.¤

5) Hardcover Book My Head and My Heart: Sex, Love, Life, and the Unconscious by Random House. Sex, love, work, how our days and lives unfold--in this extraordinary book, Jorge De Gregorio explores how the human unconscious works, and shows how an understanding of the unconscious can help us assess and change our own behavior, as well as gain insight into the otherwise inexplicable actions of others, including world leaders. "What did I ever see in her?" "Why do I feel and behave this way?" "Why did Bill Clinton risk so much over Monica Lewinsky?" Dr. De Gregorio draws on years of experience as a psychoanalyst to reveal how the dramas in our inner worlds, the important episodes of love and loss, become imprinted in us and are reenacted by us in our daily lives; and how, once we understand that this unconscious "genetic code" is written in our hearts and minds, we can go on to rediscover ourselves, and to create lives of greater originality and freedom.
        Two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to himself in which he carried on an imaginary dialogue between what he called "My Head" (the conscious mind, with its rationality and rules) and "My Heart" (the unconscious, the source of our passions, instincts, love, and sexual behavior). Using this letter as a model for knowing ourselves, Dr. De Gregorio discusses why, when it comes to sex and love, "it´s never just sex." An interpretation of the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affair and of Thomas Jefferson´s relationship with Sally Hemings; why insights into the private lives of world leaders often don´t seem to match their public personalities; stories about people who discover the unconscious meaning beneath their bizarre behavior; how character and personality can be reconfigured and redefined--these and many other topics are illuminated in this brilliant and provocative book.¤

6) Hardcover Book My Head and My Heart: Sex, Love, Life, and the Unconscious by Random House. What makes us do the things we do? Though evolutionary psychology may be in vogue, some still cling to less biologically oriented beliefs about our motivations, and their explanations can often be deeply resonant with our intuitions. Dr. Jorge De Gregorio is a psychoanalyst in the Freudian tradition who tackles the problems of unconscious desires in My Head and My Heart. Using Presidents Bill Clinton and Thomas Jefferson as examples of people with libidinous conflicts that had dramatic impacts on their public and private lives, he untangles their early lives from a mix of primary sources and inspired guesswork to arrive at mythic explanations for their seemingly self-destructive behavior.

Monica Lewinsky, who performed [Clinton´s] rejuvenated and resurrected mother for him, made her Valentine´s Day call heard, just as his paternal grandmother (who died on a Valentine´s Day) did to his father. Monica, as representative of the President´s mother and daughter, desperately asked to be filled with life, a request he could not refuse.

Those who see in psychoanalysis little more than a 19th-century parlor game will find little here to convince them otherwise. Conversely, those who prefer less reductionism in their psychology will find De Gregorio´s tales of extraordinary forces driving ordinary people charming and even compelling. He believes that his "existential diagnoses" of clients permits him to quickly reach solutions with them, and he makes a strong, if understated, case for reclaiming our emotional lives from pill-wielding doctors. It´s refreshing to see that the community of psychotherapists still supports such a diversity of opinion. --Rob Lightner¤

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