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The decline and fall of practically everybody Will Cuppy · 1950 · ★ 3.2 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Why do unfortunates suffer from Montezuma's revenge? Just what was so Great about Peter, Catherine, Frederick and Alexander? What did Cleopatra see to admire in the fat man with a beard - Mark Anthony? Learn all this and more in Will Cuppy's humorous romp through the great names of world history. Shares: Wit and Humor as Topic, Humor

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: Psychoanalysis, Psychological aspects, Psychology

Psychoanalytic approaches to myth Daniel Merkur · 2002 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Moderate This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights. Shares: Psychoanalysis, Psychological aspects, Psychology

Bossypants Tina Fey · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Tina Fey’s new book Bossypants is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the… Shares: Wit and Humor as Topic, Wit and humor

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk David Sedaris · 2010 · ★ 3.4 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate If animals were more like us, if mice kept pets and toads could cuss, if dogs had wives and chipmunks dated, sheep sat still and meditated, then in the forest, field, and dairy you might find this bestiary, read by storks, by rats and kitties, skimmed by cows with milk-stained titties. "I found the book to be most droll," might quip the bear, the owl, the mole. Others, though, would be more… Shares: Wit and Humor as Topic, Humor

More Fables George Ade · 1900 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Challenging After he had Registered at the Hotel and Swelled Up properly when addressed as "Mister" by the Clerk, he wanted to know if there was a Lively Show in Town. The Clerk told him to follow the Street until he came to all the Electric Lights and there he would find a Ballet. Uncle Brewster found the Place and looked in through the Hole at an Assistant Treasurer who was Pale and wore a Red Vest. Shares: Wit and humor, Humor

Are you a bromide?, or, The sulphitic theory expounded and exemplified according to the most recent researches into the psychology of boredom Gelett Burgess · 1906 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Wit and humor, Humor

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: Psychoanalysis, Psychological aspects, Psychology

Observations by Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne · 1902 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Observations by Mr Dooley presents a witty and sharp examination of society through the eyes of an observer who spends each day surrounded by conversations, opinions, and shifting beliefs. The narrative uses a relaxed conversational tone to explore how people respond to cultural trends, political debates, and the constant urge to appear informed. Instead of focusing on individuals, the book… Shares: Wit and humor, Humor

Mr. Sponge's sporting tour Robert Smith Surtees · 1852 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Ill-mannered foxhunter Mr. Sponge is the anti-hero of this 1853 farce of Victorian England. This book also includes illustrations by John Leech. Shares: Wit and humor, Humor

Le rire; essai sur la signification du comique Henri Bergson · 1901 · 149p · ≈ 4h · Challenging En este ensayo Henri Bergson analiza las diversas cosas que provocan la risa con el fin de determinar los elementos humorísticos que nos hacen reí. Bergson describe la risa como un ser vivo que tiene un objetivo en gran parte social. Henri Bergson (1859-1941) fue el primer gran filósofo del siglo XX. Su originalísima obra, a menudo situada entre el análisis psicológico, la sociología, la… Shares: Wit and humor, Humor, Psychology

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

Das NEINhorn Marc-Uwe Kling · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Im Herzwald kommt ein kleines, schnickeldischnuckeliges Einhorn zur Welt. Aber obwohl alle ganz lilalieb zu ihm sind und es ständig mit gezuckertem Glücksklee füttern, benimmt sich das Tierchen ganz und gar nicht einhornmäßig. Es sagt einfach immer Nein, sodass seine Familie es bald nur noch NEINhorn nennt. Eines Tages bricht das NEINhorn aus seiner Zuckerwattewelt aus. Es trifft einen… Shares: Humor

The dispensary Sir Samuel Garth · 1699 · 84p · ≈ 2h · Demanding A satire on the opponents of the dispensary organized by the Royal College of Physicians. Shares: Wit and Humor as Topic, Humor

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: 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: Psychoanalysis, 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

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