The first modern book on anxiety following Freud and Kierkegaard―psychologist Rollo May brings order and lucidity to the subject of anxiety. May challenges the idea that "mental health is living without anxiety," believing it is essential to being human. He explores how it can relieve boredom, sharpen sensibilities, and produce the tension necessary to preserve human existence. May sees a link extending from anxiety to intelligence, creativity, and originality, and guides the reader away from destructive ways to positive ways of dealing with anxiety. He convincingly proposes that anxiety can impel personal change, as it is only by confronting and coping with it that self-realization can occur.

**Join us to discuss this classic book over the course of 5-weeks!**

Week 1 Sat 7/5 12:30-2:30pm Oyster Room @ Pier 57

**Reading for Week 1**
Ch.1-3 (roughly 75pgs)
\*reading will be shorter in subsequent weeks. It is just how the chapters broke up.

Physical copy I'll be reading available [here](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393350878/ref=sw_img_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1)
Free online version available [here](https://archive.org/details/meaningofanxiety00mayr/mode/2up) \*note this version is missing Part 3 so will not have the reading for the final week\*
Free pdf download from Annas-Archives [here](https://annas-archive.org/md5/4c7106657760dcea8fc8b1106868a86e) \*click on the first "slow downloads" option\* \*also available in epub or modi format for kindle. Just search the title and find the format you want

We follow a mindful conversation approach, details on this along with a general FAQ on how we run the meetup can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dfefKv8HVAvyeXOvk1k8ihRqml5jnrI3mbvU-D6i0iA/edit?usp=sharing).
Reading is required to participate in the discussion, but not required to attend.

Can't wait discuss these ideas with all of you!
-Zach

Reading Philosophy and Psychology (NYC)

Zach

Leah

Judy Pretto

Christine 

Natalie 

Kris

Jeff

Pierre

Boris Li

Noah Hanser-Young

Kilaya Ciriello

Pradeep

Diane

Josephine

Oriane Hakkila

Sonia

larry K

Patrick Liu

Matt Lyons

D.Seiple

The Meaning of Anxiety- Rollo May (Book Discussion) -week 1

Pier 57

Part 2
We are going to finish the life of Antony from roughly section 38 till the end plus comparison with Demetrius.
At the end we will give Antony our usual Legacy factor score.

Mark Antony (83 BC – 30 BC), also known as Marcus Antonius, was a prominent Roman general and politician who played a key role in the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. He served as a lieutenant to Julius Caesar and later became a Triumvir alongside Octavian and Lepidus after Caesar's assassination. His life was marked by political maneuvering, military campaigns, and a famous love affair with Cleopatra VII of Egypt.

We will be referencing this reading
[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Antony*.html](https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Antony*.html)

However any other version works as well.

This is a reading group in which we read from **Plutarch's Parallel Lives** about the virtues and faults of great leaders from ancient Greece and Rome. At the end of each life, we rate them for their leadership quality, virtues, entertaining reading, and legacy.
For our leader scoreboard, check out this Google doc:
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K66HPHPO_elctuHjCLAWnv5w_3HCY8YbxEK4SgCa_Gg/edit#gid=0](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K66HPHPO_elctuHjCLAWnv5w_3HCY8YbxEK4SgCa_Gg/edit#gid=0)

For questions please send me a message or post to meetup.
Zita

Zita Vasilisinova

Brandi King-Herzog

Emma Rajkovic

Arthur O'Dwyer

Fernando

Plutarch Parallel Lives: Antony Part 2/2

Online event

A little divergence from Plutarch into Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
This play was written at the height of Shakespeare's carrier, featuring his most soaring poetic idiom.

The play explores the intense and politically charged relationship between Antony and Cleopatra as it unfolds across two worlds: **Rome**, representing duty, order, and empire, and **Egypt**, representing passion, pleasure, and personal loyalty.
Antony struggles between his responsibilities to Rome—especially as part of the ruling **Triumvirate** with **Octavius Caesar (later Augustus)** and **Lepidus**—and his deep love for Cleopatra. Their love ultimately leads to **betrayal, war, and tragic downfall**, making it one of Shakespeare’s most powerful explorations of love and power.

Please come ready having to read the play. Any version will do.

For questions please send me a message or post to meetup.
Zita

Laurence T Maloney

barbara s.

Mahbuba Nimme

Dave G

Ryan Bohman

Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra

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