CiNii Books - Growth and guilt : psychology and the limits of development

The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When did this race towards the limitless begin? The Greeks, who shaped the basis of Western thinking, lived in mortal fear of humanity's hidden hunger for the infinite and referred to it as hubris, the one true sin in their moral code. Whoever desired or possessed too much was implacably punished by nemesis, yet the Greeks themselves were to pioneer an unprecedented level of ambition that began to reverse that tabu. If it is true that no culture can truly repudiate its origins, and that gods who are no longer potent can vanish but still leave behind a body of myth which coninues to live and assert itself in modernized garb, then our concern with the limits of growth reflects something more than an awareness of new technological problems - it also brings to light a psychic wound a a feeling of guilt which are infinitely more ancient.

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Part 1 The Problem
Chapter 1 The Myth of Growth, the Myth of Limits
Chapter 2 Towards a Psychological Territory
Chapter 3 The Limits of Endeavor in Non-Western Cultures
Part 2 The Hellenic Past
Chapter 4 The Egoism of the Archaic Gods
Chapter 5 The Greek Sense of Limits
Chapter 6 History Begins to Move
Chapter 7 New Horizons
Part 3 From the Greeks to the Present
Chapter 8 Continuity and Transformation: From the Sense of Limits to the Hunger for Infinity
Chapter 9 The Continuity of the Myth of Limits: Greek Stories
Chapter 10 The Continuity of the Myth of Limits: Western Stories
Part 4 Nemesis Returns
Chapter 11 The Site of the Crisis
Chapter 12 Routes Towards Reconstruction
Chapter 13 Death, Depression and Guilt

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