Roy Schafer (1976), in his book, A New Language for Psychoanalysis, noted the special relevance of the tragic vision to the psychoanalytic. It has long been apparent that this new understanding of tragedy has important implications for our understanding of psychoanalysis. It is reflected in the very titles of the works that have developed this particular viewpoint: Unamuno's The Tragic Sense of Life, Muller's The Spirit of Tragedy, and Sewall's The Vision of Tragedy. This new approach is based on a view of tragedy as a mode of experience, a particular way of viewing life. In recent years, a phenomenological approach to the understanding of tragedy has developed that has replaced more formalistic and stylistic definitions, in vogue since the time of ancient Greece. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFEĪnd as regards its truth, the real truth, that which is independent of ourselves, beyond reach of our logic and of hearts- of this truth who knows aught?"
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