Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (Diaeresis)
By: Richard Boothby
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A radical reinterpretation of the origin of religion through a psychoanalytic theorization of the u…
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1. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
By: Jacques Lacan , Jacques-Alain Miller , John Forrester , None , None , John Forrester
4.16
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching wi… read more
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- philosophy
- psychoanalysis
2. 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)
3. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
4. Freud and the Non-European
By: None , Jacqueline Rose , Christopher Bollas , Edward W. Said
3.81
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said e… read more
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- philosophy
- psychoanalysis
- religion
5. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
6. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
By: William Gibson
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more
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"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
7. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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8. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
In private life we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotiona… read more
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9. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
10. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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11. 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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12. The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity
By: Catherine Malabou
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily … read more
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13. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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14. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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15. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.79
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more
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"Never be daunted"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"I am always in love."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
16. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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17. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- philosophy
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
18. The Summons of Love
By: Mari Ruti
4.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
We are conditioned to think that love heals wounds, makes us happy, and gives our lives meaning. Wh… read more
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- philosophy
- psychoanalysis
"When our stoicism interferes with our humanity, we risk developing a wooden emotional life and an equally wooden personality. In contrast, the realization that our ability to work through pain makes …"-Mari Ruti, The Summons of Love
19. What IS Sex?
By: Alenka Zupančič
4.25
Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition
Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual s… read more
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- psychoanalysis
"It is perhaps not enough to say that there is no essence of femininity; one could go a step further and say that the essence of femininity is to pretend to be a woman. One is a woman if one carries c…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
"... 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?
"... 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 meaningsless, n…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
20. Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.89
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from … read more
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- psychoanalysis
- religion
21. Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves
By: Todd McGowan
4.30
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the b… read more
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- philosophy
22. Enjoyment Right & Left
By: Todd McGowan
4.28
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to gras… read more
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- psychoanalysis
23. Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution
By: Todd McGowan
4.38
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentie… read more
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- psychoanalysis
24. The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living
By: Mari Ruti
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Should we feel inadequate for failing to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is such an existe… read more
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- psychoanalysis
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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- psychoanalysis
"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)
26. Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive
By: Julie Reshe
4.33
Format: 155 pages, Hardcover
This book offers a radical alternative to the positive orientation of popular psychology. This posi… read more
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- philosophy
- psychoanalysis
27. Status: Why Is It Everywhere? Why Does It Matter?
By: Cecilia L. Ridgeway
3.42
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Status is ubiquitous in modern life, yet our understanding of its role as a driver of inequality is… read more
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28. Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (Diaeresis)
By: Richard Boothby
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A radical reinterpretation of the origin of religion through a psychoanalytic theorization of the u… read more
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- philosophy
- psychoanalysis
- religion
29. The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence (The Palgrave Lacan Series)
By: Isabel Millar
4.15
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
This book examines the crucial role of psychoanalysis in understanding what AI means for us as spea… read more
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- philosophy
- psychoanalysis
30. Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect
By: Mari Ruti
4.50
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought t… read more
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- philosophy
31. Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan's Theory of the Subject (Suny Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)
By: Ed Pluth
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In Signifiers and Acts, Ed Pluth examines Lacan's views on language and sexuality to argue that Lac… read more
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