18 books like Aion

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Psychology Dennis Coon · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 716p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior.https://www.apa.org/support/about-apa Frequently asked questions about APA] Retrieved on November 28th, 2023. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of broad scope,… Shares: Psychology & Psychiatry, Psychology

The lost language of symbolism Harold Bayley · 1912 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies. Bayley spent years gathering knowledge of symbols and emblems from many different areas. He has a scholarly command over mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world that shows clearly how and why important symbols were used. Stories are often cross-referenced,… Shares: Mind, Symbolism, Mythology

The Varieties of Religious Experience William James · 1817 · ★ 4.0 · 472p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This is one of the most remarkable books ever written about religious experience. James captures the reader’s attention with vivid instances of religious experience collected from diverse sources, including classical religious texts, newspaper articles, and clinical studies. In this collection of Gifford lectures given in Scotland in 1901, James analyzes religious experience, using wonderful… Shares: Religion and Psychology, Religious Psychology, Psychology

Sygdommen til døden Søren Kierkegaard · 1849 · ★ 4.1 · 153p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The 'sickness' which Kierkegaard's book refers to as 'unto death' is resistance to this belief. It is the inclination to accept that as far as the individual is concerned, death is indeed the end. Now why should Kierkegaard want to call that a sickness? After all, even in his own time there must have been people strong both in might and body who rejected the Christian teaching of sin and… Shares: Religious Psychology, Self, Psychology

Les structures anthropologiques de l'imaginaire Gilbert Durand · 1960 · 536p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Ce volume rassemble quatorze articles de Gilbert Durand publiés de 1953 à 1996, inédits en France ou devenus introuvables. Hommage à l'auteur, il se veut aussi un véritable outil théorique, méthodologique et bibliographique. Les articles choisis couvrent des champs divers : littérature et poésie, sociologie et anthropologie, histoire et introduisent très concrètement les concepts-clés de… Shares: Archetype, Psychology, Mythology

Medea Esa Roos · 2015 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This book takes Euripides tragedy of Medea as its starting point. Our unconscious fantasies can be embedded in age-old myths, and many modern works about Medea reflect our ever-present interest in such myths. The Danish film director T.H. Dreyer had plans to produce a film about the story of Medea, while his countryman Lars von Trier did in fact make his own version of Medea, based on Dreyers… Shares: Archetype, Psychology

Aspects du mythe Mircea Eliade · 1963 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Moderate First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide… Shares: Symbolism, Mythology

Women Who Run with the Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estés · 1982 · ★ 4.1 · 563p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own… Shares: Archetype, Psychology

Goddesses in everywoman Jean Shinoda Bolen · 1984 · ★ 4.4 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing behavior patterns and personality traits is being introduced to the next generation of readers with a new introduction by the author. Psychoanalyst Jean Bolen's career soared in the early 1980s when Goddesses in Everywoman was published. Thousands of women readers became fascinated with identifying… Shares: Archetype, Psychology, Mythology

Myth and Science Tito Vignoli · 1882 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Myth, as it is understood by us, and as it will be developed and explained in this work, cannot be defined in summary terms, since its multiform and comprehensive nature embraces and includes all primitive action, as well as much which is consecutive and historical in the intelligence and feelings of man, with respect to the immediate and the reflex interpretation of the world, of the Individual,… Shares: Religious Psychology, Mythology

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 · ★ 3.8 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his… Shares: Self, Psychology

Rabbit, Run John Updike · 1960 · ★ 3.6 · 317p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a… Shares: Self, Psychology

Understanding human sexuality Janet Shibley Hyde · 1979 · 710p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Since its conception, Understanding Human Sexuality has achieved distinction and success by following the science of human sexuality. The first of the modern sexuality textbooks, Understanding Human Sexuality introduced this topic to students through the science that has uncovered what we know about the field. Groundbreaking when it first appeared, this research-based tradition continues to… Shares: Psychology & Psychiatry, Psychology

Dream Psychology Sigmund Freud · 2017 · ★ 3.4 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The publication inaugurated the theory of Freudian dream analysis, which activity Freud famously described as "the royal road to the understanding of unconscious mental processes". Shares: Symbolism, Psychology

The masks of God Joseph Campbell · 1959 · ★ 4.3 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The author of such acclaimed books as Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology Shares: Symbolism, Mythology

Advances in Psychology Research Alexandra M. Columbus · 2008 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial psychology advances across a broad spectrum. Shares: Psychology

Voices Staroba · 2015 Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors. Shares: Psychology

The principles of psychology William James · 1890 · ★ 3.9 · 897p · ≈ 29h · Demanding The Principles of Psychology is a monumental text in the history of psychology, written by William James and published in 1890. There were four methods in James' psychology: analysis (i.e. the logical criticism of precursor and contemporary views of the mind), introspection (i.e. the psychologist's study of his own states of mind), experiment (e.g. in hypnosis or neurology), and comparison (the… Shares: Psychology

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