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Adam Sandel revives one of the oldest philosophical questions: What constitutes a good life? Drawing on thinkers ancient and modern, as well as his own experience as a record-setting athlete, he argues that fulfillment lies not in achieving goals but in forging a life journey that enables us to see our struggles and triumphs as an integrated whole.

Self-actualization (Psychology). --- Self-realization --- Well-being --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy. --- Aristotle. --- Nietzsche. --- Plato. --- Socrates. --- achievement. --- culture. --- emptiness. --- ethics. --- existence. --- friendship. --- hardship. --- how to live. --- mindfulness. --- nature. --- overcoming. --- redemption. --- self-help. --- self-improvement. --- self-possession. --- social critique. --- suffering. --- well-being. --- wellness.

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This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory.

Vodou --- Spirit possession --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- Haitian studies --- French critical theory --- postcolonial theory --- possession --- dispossession --- self-possession --- pathology --- healing, braiding intellectual histories --- nationhood --- citizenship --- personhood --- pathologizing and a 'Western' intellectual history of possession --- 'unhappiness' as taboo --- anthropology --- psychology --- the disciplining of 'possession' --- secularizing possession --- revolution --- Breton's 'Haitian lectures' --- Leiris's 'lived theater' --- possession as the autobiography of the conscious and unconscious --- Brazil --- Herskovits --- Métraux --- anthropology and human rights --- Verger --- Bataille's 'Tears of Eros' --- Hollier's dispossessed intellectuals and Vodou thought --- biopolitical order --- de Certeau --- Michel Foucault --- Judith Butler --- Athena Athanasiou --- Franco-American ethnography --- Duvalier --- Vodou in Depestre's 'Hadriana dans tous mes rêves' --- 'A New World Mediterranean' --- the West's obsession with defining art --- aesthetic-empirical order of things --- Frankétienne --- Glissant --- 'Hadriana's' Realpolitik --- self-repossession --- the dispossessed --- subjectivities --- Jean-Claude Fignole's and Kettly Mars's novels --- 'un-becoming' racial --- 'AubeTranquille' --- possession as fluidity --- neoliberal order --- 'L'Heure hybride' --- 'Aux frontieres de la soif' --- transatlantic and hemispheric atlantic thought --- France --- Haiti --- the United States