13 must-read philosophy books like Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Louis Althusser

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Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

By: Louis Althusser

3.74

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Louis Althusser , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

4.11

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter… read more

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  • psychology
"Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy "

-Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

"Parents also seriously underestimate the extent of depression in their adolescent children."

-Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

"Disconcertingly, one of the highest-risk periods for suicide is when patients are actually recovering from depression."

-Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

"Suicide, dangerously, has a contagious aspect; it has, as well, for the vulnerable, an indisputable appeal as the solution of last resort."

-Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

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2. Search for a Method

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Hazel E. Barnes

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From one of the 20th century's most profound philosophers and writers, comes a thought provoking es… read more

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  • philosophy
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3. Inner Experience

By: Georges Bataille , Bruce Boone , Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

His is a journey marked by the questioning of experience itself, until what is reached is sovereign… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychology
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4. Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

By: Sigmund Freud , Philip Rieff

3.73

Format: 256 pages,

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
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5. Being and Time

By: Martin Heidegger

4.05

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychology
"But “nowhere"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"El ente existente “se"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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6. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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  • philosophy
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7. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

By: Sigmund Freud , A.A. Brill

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" Freud examines the psychological basis for the forgetting… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
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8. Asla Kimseyi Öldürmedi Benim Babam

By: Jean-Louis Fournier , Zafer Demez

3.94

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

“Bir sabah, çok erken vakitte, annem odama geldi, ‘Sanırım baban öldü’ dedi. ‘Yine mi...’ dediğimi … read more

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9. The Art of Loving

By: Erich Fromm , Rainer Funk , Peter D. Kramer

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown mill… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychology
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10. A Philosophy of Walking

By: John Howe , Clifford Harper , Frédéric Gros

3.74

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

In A Philosophy of Walking, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get fro… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychology
"Thus the man who walks all day has become certain by nightfall."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

"Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

"Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

"You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

11. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

By: M. Scott Peck

2.50

Format: 52 pages,

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12. Step Not Beyond (Suny Series, Intersections : Philosophy and Critical Theory)

By: Maurice Blanchot , None

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

This book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-cent… read more

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13. For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction

By: Alain Robbe-Grillet , Richard Howard

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the leaders of the new French literary movement of the sixties, has lon… read more

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14. Monogamy

By: Adam Phillips

5.00

Format: 120 pages,

In this sparkling, provocative collection of meditations on coupledom and its discontents, Adam Phi… read more

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15. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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16. On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore

By: Jacques Lacan , Jacques-Alain Miller , Bruce Fink

3.73

Format: 192 pages,

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17. Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , None

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the … read more

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18. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more

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19. The Writing of the Disaster

By: Maurice Blanchot , Ann Smock

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century--world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshi… read more

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20. The Meursault Investigation

By: John Cullen , Kamel Daoud

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic … read more

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21. Totem and Taboo

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboowas first pub… read more

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22. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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23. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

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24. Kuru Kız

By: Ayfer Tunç

3.72

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Ushuaia, Arjantin’in Tierra Del Fiego – Ateş Toprakları eyaletinin başkentidir. Dünyanın sonundaki … read more

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25. The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases

By: Gary Small

3.83

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

“Stories of human behavior at its most extreme….With humor, compassion, empathy, and insight, Small… read more

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  • psychology
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26. Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.11

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

Die Digitalisierung schreitet unaufhaltsam voran. Wir sind benommen vom Kommunikations- und Informa… read more

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  • philosophy
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27. Seks Olmayınca

By: Wilhelm Schmid

3.05

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Felsefeci Wilhelm Schmid Seks Olmayınca’da cinselliğin yer almadığı bir hayatın yarattığı eksiklikl… read more

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28. The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan

By: Samo Tomšič

3.84

Format: 248 pages, ebook

A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s workDespite a resurgence of int… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
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29. Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

By: Alain Badiou

2.84

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He wa… read more

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  • philosophy
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30. Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

By: Louis Althusser

3.74

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
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31. Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue

By: Alain Badiou

3.59

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Leitura fundamental para conhecer um dos homens mais influentes do seculo XX e os tentaculos de seu… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology

11 Best psychology books like Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Louis Althusser

Transform Your Habits

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Kay Redfield Jamison

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Inner Experience

Georges Bataille , Bruce Boone , Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

1.50

Transform Your Habits

Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

Sigmund Freud , Philip Rieff

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Being and Time

Martin Heidegger

4.05

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Transform Your Habits

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle

4.15

Transform Your Habits

İnsan Olmak

Engin Geçtan

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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