8 must-read nonfiction books like Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements by Ian Parker

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Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements

By: Ian Parker

3.70

Format: 182 pages, ebook

What is revolutionary about psychoanalysis, and why should those of us concerned with political pra…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements by Ian Parker , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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2. Jacques Lacan (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

By: Sean Homer

3.89

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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3. 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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4. The Mass Psychology of Fascism

By: Wilhelm Reich , Vincent R. Carfagno

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to ra… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

6. Resistances of Psychoanalysis

By: Jacques Derrida , Peggy Kamuf , Michael Naas , Pascale-Anne Brault , None

3.43

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

In the three essays that make up this stimulating and often startling book, Jacques Derrida argues … read more

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7. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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8. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life

By: Theodor W. Adorno , None

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more

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9. The Weird and the Eerie

By: Mark Fisher

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more

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10. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The question he addresses here is, What are the emotional bonds that hold collective entities, such… read more

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11. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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12. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

By: China Miéville

3.82

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more

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13. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • philosophy
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

14. 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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15. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

16. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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17. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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18. Catch the Rabbit

By: Lana Bastašić

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia… read more

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"He reads books that are not for school as if he has nothing better to do with his time."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"Boys just stared at you as if you were a complicated dessert surrounded by unknown tableware."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"The right to silence was always more important in our friendship than the right to questions."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

"His hair was just like yours - black, uncombed, as if someone had left it behind on his head."

-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit

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19. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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20. Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

By: Brigitte Vasallo

4.27

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Este libro es una investigación histórica sobre la centralidad de la monogamia en nuestras construc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"The times of literature defy time because, for it, time is a minor invention."

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

"Books are born from guts, from the need of writing them, and are read in the same way, in the angst to read them, from a primite need."

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

"O poliamor não vem definido pelo número de relações, e sim pelo tipo de relação que têm os meta-amores entre si: se é de cooperação e cuidados mútuos, ou de confrontação e batalha pelo topo."

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

"À guerra pela patria vão os sujeitos subalternos em primeiro lugar, como nas guerras amorosas as mulheres e os sujeitos subalternizados pelo regime do desejo heterossexual são os primeiros a serem sa…"

-Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

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21. Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements

By: Ian Parker

3.70

Format: 182 pages, ebook

What is revolutionary about psychoanalysis, and why should those of us concerned with political pra… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

8 Best philosophy books like Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements by Ian Parker

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Jacques Lacan (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

Sean Homer

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Wilhelm Reich , Vincent R. Carfagno

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Eros the Bittersweet

Anne Carson

4.00

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16 Best audiobook books like When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

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Trust

Hernan Diaz

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cormac McCarthy

3.58

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Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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