ABSTRACT
In this brief closing chapter, the author looks at human life across the generations and distinguishes between human cleverness and human intelligence when it comes to evaluating the unintended outcomes of our tools and technologies that have cost as much as they may also have profited us. The question of progress—of steadily improving our human condition—is also contrasted with human mortality, the awareness of death as an inevitable accompaniment to life. What does it mean to hope within reason? The author ends by acknowledging indebtedness to Eric Berne, Wilfred Bion, and Murray Bowen and by expressing the hope that this book might support someone in the future who will have the time and resources to articulate a more thorough integration of these three distinct yet potentially interconnected theoretical traditions.
