Other Times, Other Realities

Other Times, Other Realities
Author: Arnold H. Modell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1990
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780674644984

Nearly a century has passed since Freud's theories unleashed a revolution in our understanding of the human psyche. Yet, as Arnold Modell firmly points out, we still do not possess a theory that explains how psychoanalysis works. Other Times, Other Realities provides brilliant insight into this perplexing problem and lays the foundation for a comprehensive theory of psychoanalytic treatment. Modell's careful consideration of Freudian theory, the interpretations of contemporary ego psychology, and the contribution of object theory discloses the changing significance of the fundamental elements of the therapeutic process. In Other Times, Other Realities, readers will discover an illuminating synthesis of concepts underlying the various interpretations of the psychoanalytic process.

Subject to Change

Subject to Change
Author: Polly Young-Eisendrath
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135844119

What can psychotherapy and psychoanalysis teach us about turning human misery into insight and personal freedom? Polly Young-Eisendrath offers a response that opens new vistas in our understanding of ourselves within the complexity of a postmodern world. Subject to Change is a collection of essays spanning a twenty-year period of theorising and practice of a highly regarded senior Jungian analyst. The diverse ideas and perspectives discussed in the essays deal with the big issues surrounding how Jungian analysts and psychoanalysts understand their profession and what it teaches us about our subject lives. The book is divided into four clear and informative sections: * Subjectivity and uncertainty * Gender and desire * Transference and transformation * Transcendence and subjectivity. The classic essays presented in this book will have significant appeal to all those concerned with Jungian analysis, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, gender development, and the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality.

A Desire for Women

A Desire for Women
Author: Suzanne Juhasz
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813532744

Annotation An exploration of women's desire for women.

Time, Language, and Ontology

Time, Language, and Ontology
Author: M. Joshua Mozersky
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-01-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191028002

This book brings together, in a novel way, an account of the structure of time with an account of our language and thought about time. Joshua Mozersky argues that it is possible to reconcile the human experience of time, which is centred on the present, with the objective conception of time, according to which all moments are intrinsically alike. He defends a temporally centreless ontology along with a tenseless semantics that is compatible with - and indeed helps to explain the need for - tensed language and thought. This theory of time also, it is argued, helps to elucidate the nature of change and temporal passage, neither of which need be denied nor relegated to the realm of subjective experience only. The book addresses a variety of topics including whether the past and future are real; whether temporal passage is a genuine phenomenon or merely a subjective illusion; how the asymmetry of time is to be understood; the nature of representation; how something can change its properties yet retain its identity; and whether objects are three-dimensional or four-dimensional. It is a wide-ranging examination of recent issues in metaphysics, philosophy of language and the philosophy of science and presents a compelling picture of the relationship of human beings to the spatiotemporal world.

The Private Self

The Private Self
Author: Arnold H. Modell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1993
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780674707528

The concept of the self is the subject of intense debate in psychoanalysis - as it is in neuro-science, cognitive science, and philosophy. In The Private Self Arnold Modell, a leading thinker in American psychoanalysis, studies selfhood from the inside by examining variations on the theme of the self in Freud and in the work of object relations theorists, self psychologists, and neuro-scientists. His significant contribution is an interdisciplinary perspective in formulating a theory of the private self. Modell contends that the self is fundamentally paradoxical in that it is both dependent and autonomous - dependent upon social affirmation, but autonomous in generating itself from within: we create ourselves by selecting values that are endowed with private meanings. (Modell presents an extensive view of these self-generative and self-creative aspects.) The private self is an embodied self: the psychology of the self is rooted in biology. By thinking of the unconscious as a neurophysiological process and the self as the subject and object of its own experience, Modell is able to explain how identity can persist in the flux of consciousness. In arriving at his unique synthesis of psychoanalytic observations and neurobiological theory, Modell draws on the contributions of Donald Winnicott in psychoanalysis, William James in philosophy, and Gerald Edelman in neurobiology. The Private Self boldly explores the frontier between psychoanalysis and biology. In replacing the "instinct-driven" self and the "attachment-oriented" self with the "self-generating" self, the author offers an exciting and original perspective for our understanding of the mind and the brain.

Sidewalk Oracles

Sidewalk Oracles
Author: Robert Moss
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1608683370

Synchronicity is when the universe gets personal. Through this book of games and enchanting stories, you’ll learn how to monitor the play of coincidence and the symbolic resonance of incidents in daily life in order to tap into the deeper logic of events, receive extraordinary counsel, and have wonderful fun. You will be invited to become a kairomancer: someone who is poised to catch the messages in special moments when synchronicity is in play — and to take action to seize the opportunities those moments present. To be a kairomancer, you need to trust your feelings as you walk the roads of this world, to develop your personal science of shivers, and to recognize in your gut and your skin that you know far more than you hold on the surface of consciousness. This is a way of real magic, which is the art of bringing gifts from a deeper world into this one. Follow it, and you will put a champagne fizz of enchantment into your everyday life.

Dead Astronauts

Dead Astronauts
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: MCD
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374720703

A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth—all the Earths. A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden.

Bloom

Bloom
Author: Marva Easterly
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1452519064

Who'd a thunk it? Becoming a spiritual channel, a medium, an intuitive, and a past life regression facilitator were never on my list of goals to achieve. And yet I did. My story of evolving from normal to multidimensional is one of learning about expanding consciousness, unconditional love, and otherworldly possibilities. It is also a tale of having to confront death, near death, loss, and betrayal while keeping a sense of humor. Discovering that there is a presence, a spirit, a soul, a higher consciousness within each of us that is eternal and all knowing changed me. I went looking for the meaning of death and found immortality. Life is constantly full of surprises.

The Other: Book Two

The Other: Book Two
Author: Troy Young
Publisher: Troy Young
Total Pages: 157
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1777060362

Joe Mills and Pete Ivalu are dead, and Dr. Adele Kramer is in a coma. Harjit Singh needs to replace them in his ongoing confrontation with The Other. He turns to Malcolm Mayweather, a firefighter injured by an escaping Shoggoth, freed by the fire started by Adele to destroy it. It draws Malcolm into the world of lost alien gods and terrifying creatures. As he gets drawn further into this fantastic realm, Malcolm deteriorates mentally and physically. But he must hold on because he is one of the key figures who will determine if the entirety of existence remains or is lost in an instant. While Malcolm struggles with these challenges, Adele faces her own. Left floating in orbit around the Blind Idiot God Azathoth at the centre of the universe, she learns the depth of Nyarlathotep’s plans and her part in it all. An event is approaching, but what is it? And can they stop it? This collection of linked short stories pulls the reader into a modern take on the world of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. It contains the following stories: The Rat King: Malcolm and his new partner Mindy travel to Saskatchewan to investigate sightings of mutated rats. The rats are the least of the town's problems. The Alien Gardener: Mindy relates her strangest case to Malcolm. She investigates a strange blight impacting Niagara when she encounters a mysterious plant in a greenhouse. Are the effects hallucinogenic, or is what she sees real? The Pyramid of the Black Pharaoh: In a show of international co-operation, Malcolm joins a group of investigators drawn from around the world to investigate a mysterious pyramid uncovered in the Egyptian desert. Their delve into a building hidden for thousands of years starts in motion a terrifying future. The Druid of Castle Rock: In this second international adventure, Malcolm travels to Scotland to aid a young researcher field test her invention that can track Other-related corruption. They use it to uncover an ancient cabal hidden in plain sight in Edinburgh. The Viking's Doom: Returning to Canada, Malcolm aids a Norwegian researcher trying to discover the real reason the Vikings left North America. The Tattered Lady: Malcolm rejoins Mindy as she searches Winnipeg's homeless population for a mysterious woman known only as The Tattered Lady. We find the lengths that Harjit will go to stop the influence of The Other. The Thing In The Customs House Written in H.P. Lovecraft's style, the reader is transported to Montreal in 1928 to learn of the incident that leads to the formation of the Department of Extraordinary Phenomena. This is book two of a trilogy.