18 books like The science of living

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

Ecrits Jacques Lacan · 1966 · ★ 4.2 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Presents an English translation of Jacques Lacan's most famous work, with translations of all the papers featured in the original French edition. Shares: Psychanalyse, 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

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

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, Psychoanalysis, 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

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

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

The analysis of mind Bertrand Russell · 1921 · ★ 3.8 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The book is mind blowing. It gives you insight of how mind works. You will know the more about how we understand, remember, dream, recollect and worry. You can't read fast as it is a mind stretching subject !!!. Shares: Philosophy of mind, Psychology

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

Elements of the philosophy of the human mind Dugald Stewart · 1792 · 589p · ≈ 19h · Demanding The HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY & ETHICS collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The works in this collection include expositions and scholarly analyses of philosophy and ethics for the earliest recorded Western religious and secular works. Documents concern prehistoric, medieval, and modern times, with background and historical narratives on Western thought. The… Shares: Philosophy of mind, Psychology

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

The Forgotten Language; An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths Erich Fromm · 1951 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In this book, the author presents a challenging discussion of the nature of the dream experience. Dr. Fromm offers his own concepts in dream interpretation, supported by numerous case histories. He presents a comprehensive study of the Oedipus myth, among other myths and fairy tales; outlines the differing approaches of Freud and Jung in relation to his own; and relates his perspectives on modern… Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis

The hero with a thousand faces Joseph Campbell · 1949 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Originally written by Campbell in the '40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas' inspiration for "Star Wars," this book will likewise inspire any writer or reader in its well considered assertion that while all stories have already been told, this is not a bad thing, since the retelling is still necessary. And while our own life's journey must always be ended alone, the… Shares: Psychanalyse, Psychoanalysis

De anima Aristotle · 1877 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Challenging For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the emerging sciences of logic and biology. His examination of the huge variety of living organisms -… Shares: Philosophy of mind, Psychology

Fantasia of the unconscious D. H. Lawrence · 1922 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Challenging This is novel book. Let us start by making a little apology to Psychoanalysis. It wasn't fair to jeer at the psychoanalytic unconscious; or perhaps it was fair to jeer at the psychoanalytic unconscious, which is truly a negative quantity and an unpleasant menagerie. What was really not fair was to jeer at Psychoanalysis as if Freud had invented and described nothing but an unconscious, in all his… Shares: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

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

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