Thought

The Invisible Essence

Maurice Whelan

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Ginninderra Press
25 July 2022

Poetry; Psychology; Psychotherapy

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'It struck me at some point when reading Maurice Whelan's Thought: The Invisible Essence that thinking

a bit like reading

writing and dreaming

is not framed often enough as conversation. As readers

when we're lucky

we enter into dialogue with the writer

and when fruitful

the conversation continues long after the book is finished. This poetic and meditative book offers an unhurried

deep analytic conversation with Maurice

as he wanders through the question of what it is to have a mind and to use it.' - Charlie Stansfield

Maurice Whelan

psychoanalyst

poet

novelist

non-fiction writer

travels down many paths and asks the reader to travel with him. The places he offers are real and imagined: William Hazlitt's English countryside

John McGahern's Ireland's lanes and hedgerows; Shakespeare's island in The Tempest

Richard Dyer's poetic kingdom of the mind. And more. All places become spaces to the extent we are willing to explore them. Some journeys are not easy. Whelan uses his knowledge of Irish history

of the internal workings of the Catholic church and his lifetime experiences as a social worker and psychoanalyst

to interrogate the scandal of clerical child sexual abuse. He highlights an abject failure to think about the damage done to children

to their minds

hearts and souls. While content to wander

Whelan has the real business of living in his sights. He sees an appreciation of the essence of thought as necessary to maintain and improve the living of any life.

By: Maurice Whelan
Imprint: Ginninderra Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9781761093470
ISBN 10: 1761093479
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 25 July 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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