ABSTRACT
This chapter defines a series of ontological zones – Meaning, Aesthetics, Desire, and Well-Being – using them to flesh out our understanding of the positive side of Human Being and how to enhance it beyond addressing its psychopathology. It discusses these ontologies with considerable care and at some length. The term Positive Psychoanalysis is used to describe the incorporation of a broad range of positive psychology interventions (PPIs) and a search for personal meaning into clinical psychoanalysis as it is practiced across varying metapsychological orientations. Positive Psychology has stayed on the level of the person, to whom various techniques (PPIs) are applied. Creative Aesthetics sometimes makes artists compulsive and miserable. Desire is sometimes empty. The relationship of Desire to Subjective Well-Being is more complex.
