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Eros and Thanatos. Love across Civilizations

Author : Alberto Castelli
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648898386
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Eros and Thanatos. Love across Civilizations written by Alberto Castelli and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Eros and Thanatos' is about the deadly nature of love. It is remarkable that literary critics have paid so little attention to the combination between love and death in literature. This book seeks to address this significant scholarly lacuna by exploring key literary texts of the last two hundred years as exemplary of a consistent tendency toward love and death. Its emphasis on singular characters and close readings suggests the spectrum of an arbitrary dichotomy never fully resolved. The existential discussion triggered by each plot is so intense that the erotic and the merely sexual seem inappropriate. Indeed, each writer chose to reduce it to the setting and background of a story that takes place elsewhere. With this in mind, the author intends to reflect love’s paradoxical nature. If love is triggered by beauty, beauty can be immoral and love must die to preserve the illusion of beauty.

The Labyrinth of Love

Author : Alberto Castelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040110282
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Labyrinth of Love written by Alberto Castelli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the various narrative shades of love in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. It examines writings by Isabel Allende, Roberto Arlt, García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The author provides a close textual reading of each novel and discusses how humans make sense of their lives through love. He shifts the focus of these writings from political violence and historical disillusionment to the illusion of love. An important contribution to Latin American literary criticism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, history, Latin American literature, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, comparative literature, and sociology.

A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death

Author : Alberto Castelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819730368
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death written by Alberto Castelli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141931663
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Pleasure Principle written by Sigmund Freud and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR.

Civilization and Its Discontents

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486282538
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Its Discontents written by Sigmund Freud and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Dover thrift editions).

Back to the Core

Author : Emma Cohen de Lara
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622739795
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Back to the Core written by Emma Cohen de Lara and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas liberal arts and sciences education arguably has European roots, European universities have evolved over the last century to become advanced research institutions, mainly offering academic training in specialized disciplines. The Bologna process, started by the European Union in the late nineties, encouraged European institutions of higher education to broaden their curricula and to commit to undergraduate education with increased vigor. One of the results is that Europe is currently witnessing a proliferation of liberal arts and sciences colleges and broad bachelor degrees. This edited volume fills a gap in the literature by providing reflections on the recent developments in Europe with regard to higher education in the liberal arts and sciences. The first section includes reflections from either side of the Atlantic about the nature and aims of liberal arts and sciences education and the way in which it takes shape, or should take shape in European institutions of higher learning. The edited volume takes as a distinct approach to liberal arts and sciences education by focusing on the unique way in which core texts – i.e. classic texts from philosophical, historical, literary or cultural traditions involving “the best that has been written” – meet the challenges of modern higher education in general and in Europe in particular. This approach is manifested explicitly in the second section that focuses on how specific core texts promote the goals of liberal arts and sciences education, including the teaching methods, curricular reflections, and personal experiences of teaching core texts. The edited volume is based on a selection of papers presented at a conference held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in September 2015. It is meant to impart the passion that teachers and administrators share about developing the liberal arts and sciences in Europe with the help of core texts in order to provide students with a well-rounded, formative, and genuinely liberal education.

Unification Ethics of True Love

Author : Akifumi Otani
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 130067993X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Unification Ethics of True Love written by Akifumi Otani and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, critique and counterproposal are given to Freudianism, Freudian Leftist's theory, poststructuralism, postfeminism and to queer theory, which are the foundation of today's sex liberation theories based on Unification Thought, which was advocated by Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Psychoanalytic Theory

Author : Anthony Elliott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137300841
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Theory written by Anthony Elliott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential, exciting and often controversial, psychoanalytic theory has had a major impact in the humanities and social sciences. In a new edition of this classic book, Anthony Elliott masterfully introduces the reader to psychoanalytic theory. - Discusses leading psychoanalytic theorists - from Freud to Lacan, Klein to Kristeva, Žižek to Laplanche; - Examines the political and cultural dimensions of psychoanalytic studies, from feminism to postmodernism; and - Contains new material on Lacanian and post-Lacanian theory, the post-Kleinian psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, psychoanalytic feminism and deconstructive psychoanalysis. Written by one of the world's leading social theorists, this engaging and influential text is essential reading for anyone wanting to learn about psychoanalytic theory and its cultural importance in our lives. New to this Edition: - New and fully revised edition with new material on theories

Hesiod's Theogony

Author : Stephen Scully
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190463848
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Hesiod's Theogony written by Stephen Scully and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Scully both offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's own creation myth, which sought to "soar above th' Aonian Mount [i.e., the Theogony]...and justify the ways of God to men." Scully also considers the poem in light of Near Eastern creation stories, including the Enûma elish and Genesis, as well as the most striking of modern "scientific myths," Freud's Civilization and its Discontents. Scully reads Hesiod's poem as a hymn to Zeus and a city-state creation myth, arguing that Olympus is portrayed as an idealized polity and--with but one exception--a place of communal harmony. This reading informs his study of the Theogony's reception in later writings about polity, discord, and justice. The rich and various story of reception pays particular attention to the long Homeric Hymns, Solon, the Presocratics, Pindar, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and Plato in the Archaic and Classical periods; to the Alexandrian scholars, Callimachus, Euhemerus, and the Stoics in the Hellenistic period; to Ovid, Apollodorus, Lucian, a few Church fathers, and the Neoplatonists in the Roman period. Tracing the poem's reception in the Byzantine, medieval, and early Renaissance, including Petrarch and Erasmus, the book ends with a lengthy exploration of Milton's imitations of the poem in Paradise Lost. Scully also compares what he considers Hesiod's artful interplay of narrative, genealogical lists, and keen use of personified abstractions in the Theogony to Homeric narrative techniques and treatment of epic verse.

Modernity and Its Discontents

Author : Steven B. Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220987
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Its Discontents written by Steven B. Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project’s most powerful defenders and critics—from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin—this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.

Civilization and Its Discontents

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460402324
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Its Discontents written by Sigmund Freud and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Civilization and Its Discontents Freud extends and clarifies his analysis of religion; analyzes human unhappiness in contemporary civilization; ratifies the critical importance of the death drive theory; and contemplates the significance of guilt and conscience in everyday life. The result is Freud’s most expansive work, one wherein he discusses mysticism, love, interpretation, narcissism, religion, happiness, technology, beauty, justice, work, the origin of civilization, phylogenetic development, Christianity, the Devil, communism, the sense of guilt, remorse, and ethics. A classic, important, accessible work, Freud reminds us again why we still read and debate his ideas today. Todd Dufresne’s introduction expands on why, according to the late Freud, psychoanalysis is the key to understanding individual and collective realities or, better yet, collective truths. The Appendices include related writings by Freud, contemporary reviews, and scholarly responses from Marcuse, Rieff, and Ricoeur.

The Death and Life of Drama

Author : Lance Lee
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292778058
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of Drama written by Lance Lee and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a film "work," so that audiences come away from the viewing experience refreshed and even transformed in the way they understand themselves and the world around them? In The Death and Life of Drama, veteran screenwriter and screenwriting teacher Lance Lee tackles this question in a series of personal essays that thoroughly analyze drama's role in our society, as well as the elements that structure all drama, from the plays of ancient Athens to today's most popular movies. Using examples from well-known classical era and recent films, Lee investigates how writers handle dramatic elements such as time, emotion, morality, and character growth to demonstrate why some films work while others do not. He seeks to define precisely what "action" is and how the writer and the viewer understand dramatic reality. He looks at various kinds of time in drama, explores dramatic context from Athens to the present, and examines the concept of comedy. Lee also proposes a novel "five act" structure for drama that takes account of the characters' past and future outside the "beginning, middle, and end" of the story. Deftly balancing philosophical issues and practical concerns, The Death and Life of Drama offers a rich understanding of the principles of successful dramatic writing for screenwriters and indeed everyone who enjoys movies and wants to know why some films have such enduring appeal for so many people.

Rethinking Civilization

Author : Majid Tehranian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136036547
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Civilization written by Majid Tehranian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Civilization offers an alternative view of human civilization in a globalizing age. Majid Tehranian analyses the transition from nomadic, to agrarian, commercial, industrial, and digital civilizations and argues that the growing gaps among the five major civilizations have led to terror operating as a form of global communication. This new book explores the uneven pace of development of human societies, particularly in the last two centuries, and argues that this is leading to a global civil war. Taking a long-term historical perspective, and developing a model that explains how empires, resistance, and civilizations have evolved alongside major technological breakthroughs in history, Tehranian offers a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary analysis of the phenomenon. Seeking to counter the current rhetorical trends, Tehranian reconceptualizes "civilization" to make it a useful analytical rather than ideological category. defines the varieties of terrorism, including structural, nuclear, state, opposition, messianic, and anomic. addresses the contemporary problems of global governance and the evolution of international relations. traces the evolution of global communication from orality to literacy, print, electronic, and digital modes. forecasts the emerging problems of encounters among the five civilizations. This unique and original volume will be of great interest to students and researchers of globalization, international relations, peace studies and sociology.

History of Psychology through Symbols

Author : James Broderick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000920585
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book History of Psychology through Symbols written by James Broderick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Two of The History of Psychology through Symbols continues a groundbreaking approach of using symbols to deepen the understanding of psychological history as well as the importance of how one lives, an emphasis on engagement with symbols and with specific exercises, called emancipatory opportunities, to apply the lessons of psychological history to daily life. From the birth of modern psychology in the laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt, Volume Two discusses how the early theories of voluntarism, structuralism, evolution, and pragmatism influenced the modern development of psychology. The importance of making unconscious shadow forces in science conscious is explored through the impact of the eugenic movement, the controversies surrounding the development of psychological testing, and current research biases in psychology. Volume Two describes how clinical psychology emerged as a powerful profession in mental health care. The Four Forces of Psychology are explored through their natural and hermeneutic science influences. Psychoanalytic and Jungian analytical psychology comprise the first force, behaviorism the second force, humanistic-existential the third force, and transpersonal psychology the fourth force that includes a groundbreaking discussion of psychedelic history and research that could revolutionize mental health and drug and alcohol treatment. Rejecting that science transcends historical events, this volume provides a political, socioeconomic, and cultural context for modern psychology and all Four Forces of Psychology. This book is ideal for those seeking a dynamic and engaging way of learning about or teaching the history of psychology and would also be of interest to students, practitioners, and scholars of science, philosophy, history and systems, religious studies, art, and mental health and drug and alcohol treatment, as well as those interested in applying the lessons of history to daily life.

Civilization and Its Discontents

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393059953
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Its Discontents written by Sigmund Freud and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of 20th-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, the death drive, and its adversary eros.

Marcuse's Challenge to Education

Author : Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742564657
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Marcuse's Challenge to Education written by Douglas Kellner and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcuse's Challenge to Education, a collection of unpublished lecture notes by the thinker himself as well as essays by scholars who have explicated his theories, examines Herbert Marcuse's ground-breaking critique of education as well as his own pedagogical alternatives. Edited by Douglas Kellner, this compilation provides an overview of the various themes of Marcuse's challenges to traditional education and connections with ideas of other radical thinkers ranging from Bloch and Freire to Freud and Lacan.

Modernism After the Death of God

Author : Stephen Kern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351603175
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Modernism After the Death of God written by Stephen Kern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism After the Death of God explores the work of seven influential modernists. Friedrich Nietzsche, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, André Gide, and Martin Heidegger criticized the destructive impact that they believed Christian sexual morality had had or threatened to have on their love life. Although not a Christian, Freud criticized the negative effect that Christian sexual morality had on his clinical subjects and on Western civilization, while Virginia Woolf condemned how her society was sanctioned by a patriarchal Christian authority. All seven worked to replace the loss or absence of Christian unity with non-Christian unifying projects in their respective fields of philosophy, psychiatry, or literature. The basic structure of their main contributions to modernist culture was a dynamic interaction of radical fragmentation necessitating radical unification that was always in process and never complete.