a healthy and well-integrated self

a healthy and well-integrated self

Paper instructions:
Answer the following question in approximately two hours of writing.

1. What is the most important obstacle to a healthy and well-integrated self? How can this obstacle best be overcome? Answer from the perspective of (a) Kosinski’s Being There, (b) Plato’s Phaedrus or Lao-Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, (c) Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents or Hesse’s Steppenwolf, and (d) yourself. Spend approximately 30 minutes on each of the four perspectives. Discuss at least one supporting quotation from each of the three assigned authors.