{"product_id":"making-sense-8","title":"Making Sense","description":"\u003cp\u003eA literary masterpiece from world-renowned psychoanalyst and distinguished writer, Professor Martin Stanton that picks up the baton from R. D. Laing. Spanning a novel, travel-guide, documentary, self-help book, play, photo album, film script, and work of art, \u003cem\u003eMaking Sense\u003c\/em\u003e is a cultural phenomenon – a long overdue wake-up call – railing at society’s idealisation and narcissism. Martin Stanton has created a guide for a postmodern world that is constructed through social media, and communicates principally through tweets, texts and selfies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike Homer’s \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, this is an epoch-changing classic that takes a timely quantum leap from a cognitive world of straight-line argument and causal interpretation, into a parallel unconscious universe of uncontrolled feeling, which traps fragments of fantasy in the retreating tides of reality. \u003cem\u003eMaking Sense\u003c\/em\u003e collects together a group of major and minor characters, some real, some imaginary, who set out to make sense of life together by opening the social media gate between Reality and Fantasy. A survey of Martin Stanton’s own thinking and feeling on his original psychoanalytic odyssey across becalmed seas, random conversations with a therapeutic parrot, stranded for a while with Socrates on the black sandy beach of Paradise, he explores how a bezoar stone, a caddis insect, and a karaoke moment can linger through his life, and make sense for him as a primary source; as unconscious effects which sustain, enlighten, and entertain him through darker times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book scrawls a message of hope in the sand once the outgoing tide has retreated. ‘Enjoy life’, it says. ‘Celebrate it in yourself and in others.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karnac Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260359725400,"sku":"9781912691555","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781912691555.jpg?v=1780404352","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/making-sense-8","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}