Promises, Promises : Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis
By: Adam Phillips
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and…
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. The Days of Abandonment
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.87
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more
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3. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
4. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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5. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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6. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
7. On Love
By: Alain de Botton
3.97
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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"Must being in love always mean being in pain?"-Alain de Botton, On Love
"Because I have this thing about birthdays--they always remind me of death and forced jollity."-Alain de Botton, On Love
"The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call."-Alain de Botton, On Love
"Does beauty give birth to love? Or does love give birth to beauty? Did I love Chloe because she was beautiful? Or was she beautiful because I loved her?"-Alain de Botton, On Love
8. The Letters of a Portuguese Nun
By: Mariana Alcoforado , Gabriel de Guilleragues
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
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9. The Agony of Eros
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.93
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
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"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
10. The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.15
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Ha… read more
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"One feels free in relationships of love and friendship. It is not the absence of ties, but ties themselves which set us free. Freedom is a word which pertains to relations par excellence. Without hol…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
"As soon as one looks deeper into being one recognizes that all things are interconnected, that even the least of them communicates with a whole world. But the age of haste does not have the time to h…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
"An altogether different temporality is inherent in information. It is a phenomenon of atomized time, namely of point-time. [...] Atomized time is a discontinuous time. There is nothing to bind events…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
11. Şu Bizim Kırılganlığımız
By: Eugenio Borgna
3.56
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
“taşlaşmış varlıklar değiliz, başkalarıyla ilişki içinde olan varoluşlarız” “Kırılganlıktan ve d… read more
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12. Afacan Bir Psikanalistin Düşünceleri
By: Antonino Ferro
3.92
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
uzanmak istemeyen hastası bir seansta onun koltuğuna oturunca divana uzanıp seanslara öyle devam ed… read more
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13. Promises, Promises : Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis
By: Adam Phillips
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
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