18 books like Ecrits

What to read after Ecrits — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Jenseits des Lustprinzips Sigmund Freud · 1920 · ★ 3.0 · 81p · ≈ 2h · Challenging p. 64 missing Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse, 1964 Jacques Lacan · 1973 · ★ 3.0 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate L'hospitalité reçue de l'Ecole normale supérieure, un auditoire très accru indiquaient un changement de front de notre discours. Pendant dix ans, il avait été dosé aux capacités de spécialistes ; sans doute seuls témoins recevables de l'action par excellence que leur propose la psychanalyse, mais, aussi bien, que les conditions de leur recrutement laissent très fermés à l'ordre dialectique qui… Shares: Psychanalyse, Addresses, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Abriss der Psychoanalyse Sigmund Freud · 1949 · ★ 4.3 · 75p · ≈ 2h · Challenging One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, which goes way beyond the institutional/clinical market and presents material to the reader in a new way. This volume will contain NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS and AN OUTLINE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

The science of living Alfred Adler · 1929 · ★ 3.9 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The Science of Living (Published in 1930) looks at Individual Psychology as a science. Adler discusses the various elements of Individual Psychology and its application to everyday life. This book includes sections on the inferiority complex, the superiority complex, and other related aspects like love, marriage, sex and sexuality, and the education of children. Concrete, particular, unique… Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Reason & violence R. D. Laing · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decades The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss key social issues. Edited by David… Shares: Addresses, Psychoanalysis, Essays

Einführung in das Wesen der Mythologie Carl Gustav Jung · 1949 · ★ 5.0 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Challenging _Essays on a Science of Mythology_ is a cooperative work between C. Kerényi, who has been called “the most psychological of mythologists,” and C. G. Jung, who has been called “the most mythological of psychologists.” Kerényi contributes an essay on the Divine Child and one on the _Kore_ (the Maiden), together with a substantial introduction and conclusion. Jung contributes a psychological… Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis

Psychology and the human dilemma Rollo May · 1967 · ★ 4.1 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The development of an existential psychology in America is in good part the work of Rollo May. He helped bring existentialism to psychology some fifteen years ago, and since then his impact has increased each year. As he says here, he isn't an existentialist in a cultist sense. In American psychology, the existential approach is part of a wider trend which includes many views" (Eugene T. Gendlin,… Shares: Addresses, Essays, Psychology

Psychologische Typen Carl Gustav Jung · 1921 · ★ 4.5 · 653p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Overview: The book is rich in material drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The extended chapters that give general descriptions of the types and definitions of Jung's principal psychological concepts are key documents in analytical psychology. Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

The Dogma of Christ Erich Fromm · 1963 · ★ 4.0 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "Fromm's developing thought merits the critical attention of all concerned with the human condition and its future." —The Washington Post The essays in this fascinating volume examine present-day psychological and cultural problems with the keen insight and humanistic sympathies characteristic of Erich Fromm's work. The Dogma of Christ provides some of the sharpest critical insights into how the… Shares: Addresses, Psychoanalysis, Essays, Psychology

The symbolic & the real Ira Progoff · 1963 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In this book the advanced conceptions of depth psychology are brought to bear upon the fundamental human problems of modern civilization. Dr. Progoff points out that one precondition for a significant development of creative personality is an expanded perception of reality beyond the current intellectual boundaries. It is not à question of ideas about what is real, but of the relation to reality… Shares: Psychoanalysis, Essays

Totem und Tabu Sigmund Freud · 1913 · ★ 3.7 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Freud investigates the function and structure of totemic systems among primitive peoples and presents a psychoanalytical study of modern taboos. Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Science and the human temperament Erwin Schrödinger · 1935 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares: Addresses, Essays

Die Traumdeutung Sigmund Freud · 1899 · ★ 3.8 · 692p · ≈ 23h · Demanding Die Werke von Sigmund Freud sorgsam zusammengetragen und gesammelt in E-Book-Ausgabe. Diese umfangreiche Sammlung der Werke des weltweit bekannten und berühmten österreichischen Neurologen, Tiefenpsychologen, Kulturtheoretikers, Religionskritikers und Begründers der Psychoanalyse enthält u. a.: Das Ich und das Es Über Psychoanalyse Totem und Tabu Die Traumdeutung Massenpsychologie und… Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Essays in applied psycho-analysis Ernest Jones · 1923 · 454p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares: Psychoanalysis, Essays

La nausée Jean-Paul Sartre · 1938 · ★ 3.9 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port in northern France to research a biography he is intending to write. Whilst there his senses become dulled and he becomes increasingly disgusted by his own existence, finding no solace with friends or a woman he begins an affair with. Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis

The crisis of psychoanalysis Erich Fromm · 1932 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Dr. Fromm analyzes the role and promise of psychoanalysis in nine brilliant essays. Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis, Essays

A Primer of Freudian Psychology Calvin S. Hall · 1954 · ★ 3.7 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The purpose of this primer is to present clearly, briefly, and systematically the psychological theories advanced by Sigmund Freud. Freud's contributions in the areas of abnormal psychology, psychopathology, psychotherapy, and psychiatry have been summarized by a number of writers, but his work as a psychological theorist in the area of general psychology has not been presented in a systematic… Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Eros and Civilization Herbert Marcuse · 1955 · ★ 3.9 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This is Herbert Marcuse's masterpiece which transfixed youth in the 1960s, convincing the New Left there was hope in revolutionary activity. It's also Marcuse encounter with Signmund Freud, well worth the time to decipher it. Narcuse is optimistic, in that if we tame or transform capitalism, we can fix ourselves. It's a far cry from Freud's pessimistic outlook. Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

About the book Ecrits →