The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective
By: Stijn Vanheule
4.44
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
This book discusses what Jacques Lacan's oeuvre contributes to our understanding of psychosis. Pres…
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By: George Steiner
4.15
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
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2. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
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3. What Is Madness?
By: Darian Leader
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Madness, in our culture, is defined by visibility. From the popular press to TV soaps and films, th… read more
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4. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro
4.05
Format: 336 pages,
Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more
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6. Desperate Characters
By: Jonathan Franzen , Paula Fox
3.51
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7. Why do women write more letters than they post?
By: Darian Leader
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
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8. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
By: Sigmund Freud , None
2.69
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9. No Longer Human
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3.99
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Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more
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"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
10. Of Grammatology
By: Jacques Derrida , Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3.40
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11. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
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13. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
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14. What IS Sex?
By: Alenka Zupančič
4.25
Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition
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"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningless, no…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
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15. Is It Ever Just Sex?
By: Darian Leader
3.66
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian … read more
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16. Sex and the Failed Absolute
By: Slavoj Žižek
4.12
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Zizek provides nothin… read more
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17. The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective
By: Stijn Vanheule
4.44
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
This book discusses what Jacques Lacan's oeuvre contributes to our understanding of psychosis. Pres… read more
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18. Introduction to Psychoanalysis
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3.96
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The need for a concise, comprehensive guide to the main principles and practice of psychoanalysis a… read more
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19. The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange
By: Kōjin Karatani
4.14
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of wor… read more
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