7 must-read psychoanalysis books like Instincts and Their Vicissitudes by Sigmund Freud

Instincts and Their Vicissitudes

By: Sigmund Freud

4.07

Format: None pages, None

Written between March 15 and April 4, 1915, and immediately published, Instincts and Their Vicissit…

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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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2. Crash

By: J.G. Ballard

3.59

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more

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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

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3. The Way Things Are

By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius

3.97

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"There can be no centre in infinity."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

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4. The Principles of Communism

By: Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: 25 pages, ebook

In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. On the Jewish Question

By: Karl Marx

3.44

Format: 50 pages,

Karl Marx's views on the Jews Question and Zionism... read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself."

-Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question

"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony God's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my own intelligence."

-Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question

"Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essen…"

-Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question

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6. Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being

By: Sabina Spielrein

4.13

Format: 32 pages,

This publication anticipated by eight years Freud’s conception of the death instinct. read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
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7. Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan

By: Alenka Zupančič

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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8. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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10. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience

By: Jacques Lacan

4.25

Format: None pages,

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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11. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature

By: Franz Kafka , Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

In KafkaDeleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditio… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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12. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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13. Écrits

By: Jacques Lacan , Bruce Fink

4.60

Format: 431 pages,

"Fink's precise new translation makes this pivotal period in Lacan's thought more accessible to Eng… read more

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14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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15. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more

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16. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

By: None , Lee Edelman

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory… read more

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17. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

By: Jacques Lacan

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized au… read more

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18. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

By: Friedrich Engels

4.24

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

19. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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20. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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21. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

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22. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

23. Instincts and Their Vicissitudes

By: Sigmund Freud

4.07

Format: None pages, None

Written between March 15 and April 4, 1915, and immediately published, Instincts and Their Vicissit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

24. Activism

By: Amadeo Bordiga

4.16

Format: None pages, None

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25. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

By: Jacques Lacan

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psycho… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"L'unica cosa di cui si possa essere colpevoli è di aver ceduto sul proprio desiderio"

-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

"From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire (Seminar 7, 319)"

-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

"My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing."

-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

"The 'fool' is an innocent, a simpleton, but truths issue from his mouth that are not simply tolerated but adopted, by virtue of the fact that this 'fool' is sometimes clothed in the insignia of the j…"

-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

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26. Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia

By: Avgi Saketopoulou

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Radical alternatives to consent and trauma. Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

27. Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis

By: Wilhelm Reich

3.56

Format: None pages, Pamphlet

[from Marxists.org https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1972/reich2.htm ] Socialist Reprodu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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28. X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction

By: Thomas Moynihan

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate c… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"In 1967, the architect Lewis Mumford wrote of the human brain as a 'neural efflorescence' like those 'in the botanical realm', one of those 'extravagances and exuberances of nature' in which evolutio…"

-Thomas Moynihan, X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction

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29. Alleen nog een God kan ons redden. Heidegger in gesprek met Der Spiegel

By: Martin Heidegger

3.38

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Enkele dagen na het overlijden van Martin Heidegger, in mei 1976, verscheen in het Duitse weekblad … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

30. Contradiction and Overdetermination

By: Louis Althusser

3.50

Format: 18 pages, None

None read more

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  • philosophy
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31. La transformación de la filosofía: Conferencia de Granada

By: Louis Althusser

3.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

La conferencia La transformación de la filosofía fue un acontecimiento en la trayectoria del filóso… read more

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3.97

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Friedrich Engels

4.06

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Karl Marx

3.44

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Sabina Spielrein

4.13

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3.59

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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