THE CALL OF CHARACTER: LIVING A LIFE WORTH LIVING

Book ID/图书代码： 06840014B69840

English Summary/英文概要： Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thinking," Mari Ruti calls for a resurrection of character that honors our more eccentric frequencies and argues that sometimes a tormented and anxiety-ridden life can also be rewarding.

Ruti critiques the search for personal meaning and pragmatic attempts to normalize human beings’ unruly and idiosyncratic natures. Exposing the tragic banality of a happy life commonly lived, she instead emphasizes the advantages of a lopsided life rich in passion and fortitude. She also shows what matters is not our ability to evade existential uncertainty but our courage to meet adversity in such a way that we do not become irrevocably broken.

We are in danger of losing the capacity to cope with complexity, ambiguity, melancholia, disorientation, and disappointment, Ruti warns, leaving us feeling less "real" and less connected and unable to process a full range of emotions. Heeding the call of our character means acknowledging the marginalized, chaotic aspects of our being, and it is precisely these creative qualities that make us inimitable and irreplaceable.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当我们的健康状况大不如前，平衡性缺失，调节功能障碍时，我们真的应该感到无所适从，难以满足吗？努力地寻求达到这样的一种所谓平衡的生存状况是否真的现实，又是否真的是你所渴望的呢？玛丽•卢迪对我们当前沉溺于所谓欢乐和“正能量”思考法的文化习惯表示强烈的谴责，她呼唤我们让我们性格中另一面的复苏与重生，她认为我们应该更加提倡标新立异观点的出现，并且有时候历经磨难和焦虑横亘的生活往往更具有价值。

对于那些寻求个人意义和通过实际行动去让人们桀骜不驯、难以驾驭的性格特征趋于平淡与寻常的做法和研究，卢迪是持反对意见的。她提到了绝大多数人的所谓幸福但实则平淡无奇甚至可悲的生活，但却着重强调了另一种不平衡，但却充满着激情与坚韧的生活的可贵与美妙。她还为我们展示了：躲避既然存在的未知其实并不重要，重要的是我们拥有的直面困境的勇气，正因为它们我们才能够不至于变得支离破碎到无可挽回。

如今，我们正面临着一个巨大的可怕危险，我们正在逐渐丧失应对复杂性、模糊性、精神忧郁症、茫然不知所措和失落的能力，卢迪向我们发出了警示，并让我们倍感不真实，难以和一系列的大量情感获得共鸣并进行整理。关注来自我们性格的呼唤意味着去关注和了解那个我们灵魂深处被边缘化和叫嚣而混乱的一面，因为正是这些充满着创造力的特质使得我们每个人显得无可比拟、不可替代。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：“知识面极度渊博，却又有着平实而质朴的语言表达，真诚中闪烁着自我意识的火花。。。。。。全篇读来仿佛一部有关于存在主义的经典篇章，令人爱不释手。。。。。。《个性的呼唤》应该被学者、临床医师和学生们广泛阅读，最重要的是那些渴望在这个日益艰难的虚假世界中活出自己的真实活力的人们----也就是，我们每一个人。”-----约瑟夫•S•雷诺斯，博士，《心理分析的心理学》书评编辑

“从自我的外部和内部的颇具争议的心理分析过程出发，本书将引发强有力的讨论。”----盖尔•纽曼，博士，威廉姆斯大学教授

“《个性的呼唤》所涉及的是一系列具有永恒乐趣的话题，不论是对哲学家，理论学家和个体而言，而玛丽•卢迪本人更是可能是最特别并且最有资格去写作本书的人。她拥有一种将复杂的理论问题转化为清晰且具有可读性，却又不至于愚蠢问题的神奇魔力----本文文风更

是。。。。。。极具原创性和深刻的洞见。我发自内心地为大家强推本书。”---艾米•艾伦，达特茅斯大学

“Expansively erudite yet plain-spoken, honest with a dazzling self-consciousness...The prose reads like an existential page-turner...The Call Of Character should be read by academics, clinicians, and students, but most importantly those who want to live with authentic vitality in a world that makes it seem difficult to do so—namely, all of us.” --Joseph S. Reynoso, Phd, Book Review Editor, Psychoanalytic Psychology

“This book will contribute powerfully to discussions of the self from a position that is both inside and outside the critical psychoanalytic discourse.” --Gail Newman, Ph.D, Professor at Williams College

“The Call of Character engages questions of perennial interest to philosophers, theorists, and all individuals, and Mari Ruti is perhaps uniquely qualified to write it. She has an uncanny ability to translate complex theoretical issues into clear and readable—yet not the least bit dumbed-down—prose...Original and insightful. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.” --Amy Allen, Dartmouth College

About the Author/作者介绍： 玛丽•卢迪拥有布朗大学学士学位，巴黎大学硕士学位和哈佛大学的社会学硕士，比较文学博士等学位。在完成博士学位期间，她成为了哈佛女性教育、性别和两性项目的助理主管员。作者现为多伦多大学批评理论专业副教授，并在该学科中教授当代理论和批评主义，心理分析，大陆哲学，现象学，后结构主义，以及性别与两性研究。2011年，她通过 Sourcebooks出版发行了一部主流书作The Case for Falling in Love。此前，其主要学术著作包括The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (复旦大学出版社, 2012), The Summons of Love (哥伦比亚大学出版社, 2011), A World of Fragile Things (纽约州立大学出版社, 2009), and Reinventing the Soul (其他出版社, 2006)。卢迪定期为今日心理学发表博客内容。

Mari Ruti holds degrees from Brown (B.A.), the University of Paris (DEA), and Harvard (M.A. Sociology; M.A. Comparative Literature; Ph.D. Comparative Literature). Upon completing her doctorate, she became Assistant Director of the Harvard program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is currently Associate Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Toronto, where she teaches contemporary theory and criticism, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, phenomenology, poststructuralism, and gender and sexuality studies. In 2011, she published a mainstream book, The Case for Falling in Love, through Sourcebooks. Her previous academic books include The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (Fordham University Press, 2012), The Summons of Love (Columbia University Press, 2011), A World of Fragile Things (State University of New York Press, 2009), and Reinventing the Soul (Other Press, 2006). Ruti blogs regularly for Psychology Today.

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