Freedom and Destiny

Name: Freedom and Destiny
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Rollo May
ISBN: 9798331919641

Author: Rollo May

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/15/2025

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Emotions, Self-help

Synopsis

The popular psychoanalyst examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny.

"May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist . . . Freedom's characteristics, fruits, and problems; destiny's reality; death; and therapy's place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May's theory of freedom and destiny's interdependence." —Library Journal

"Especially instructive, even stunning, is Dr. May's willingness to respect mystery . . . There is, too, at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind, inclined to celebrate . . . what Flannery O'Connor called 'mystery and manners,' and to do so in a tactful, meditative manner." —Robert Coles, America

About Rollo May

Rollo May (1909-1994) taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, and was Regents' Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An influential psychologist, he was the bestselling author of Love and Will, as well as the author of The Courage to Create, Man's Search for Himself, The Meaning of Anxiety, and Psychology and the Human Dilemma.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean on November 22, 2019

My second Rollo May and I'm really enjoying him. In this book destiny is not meant in the poetic or storytelling sense of a path that one is meant to take. Destiny here is the set of circumstances of your life that you have very little, if any, control over. Rollo May then explores what freedom might......more

Goodreads review by Kenneth on March 14, 2023

It took me 3 months to read this book because just about every page had something that made me stop and think. This book isn’t meant to be ripped through. May presents some very big topics in life in a very approachable way. This book has really helped solidify my belief that life is truly happening......more

Goodreads review by loafingcactus on September 01, 2014

I don't think I'm capable of writing the sort of review of which this book is worthy. I read all of Rollo May's books shortly after graduating from college and they were life changing, and I only just returned to this book for a project. Live. Changing. I will leave it at that.......more

Goodreads review by Roxanna on September 03, 2019

This book was first published in 1981 and it shows its age mainly in the lack of the thirty plus years of psychological research that have come after it. That said, I found much to like, still many sections to challenge my thoughts and my world view. I'm taking one star away because: (i) I disagree......more

Goodreads review by Hamêd on February 29, 2016

It's a very useful and rich book. It's a classic book like Love and Will. According to May freedom and destiny are dialectically interdependent. One can't be genuinely free without recognizing the limitations that destiny imposes. When we are ready to face our destiny, then we can reach a higher lev......more