The Psychic Home Psychoanalysis, consciousness and the human soul

<P><EM>The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul</EM> develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives. <B>Roger Kennedy</B> puts forward the central role of what he has termed a ¿<I>psychic home</I>¿ as a vital psychic structure, which gathers together a number of different human functions. <B>Kennedy</B> questions what we mean by the powerfully evocative notion of the human <I>soul, </I>which has important links to the notion of home and he suggests that what makes us human is that we allow a home for the soul. As an illustration of this concept he explores how it can help to understand a vital element of William Wordsworth¿s development as a poet.</P><P>The word soul is both abstract and yet also powerfully emotive. <B>Kennedy </B>shows that it can be approached from a number of different angles, from psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature and neuroscience. <I>The Psychic Home</I>, discusses the my