Author: Esther Hunter Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 1982292520 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 108
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Narcissism has gained popularity as people scramble to try and understand the strange behavior of so-called toxic individuals. A mountain of information exists to help identify red flags, often with the intention of ascertaining whom to avoid. In Narcissism to Nirvana, author Esther Hunter explains how narcissism is not a dirty word and shouldn’t be feared. It’s simply a form of arrested development. She tells how the purpose of narcissism is to trigger us toward spiritual awakening. Conquering a narcissistic situation has extreme transformative power and can awaken the dormant leadership qualities inside of us. We no longer need to be confused, hurt, or in a state of fear about encountering narcissists in our lives. By shining a light on the different ways we can use our own experiences with narcissism to achieve enlightenment, Narcissism to Nirvana provides the ultimate guide to alchemizing our struggles.
Author: Kurt St. Thomas Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312206635 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 332
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For the fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death comes a "you are there" look at the career of Nirvana, by the world's authority on the Voice of Grunge. 100 photos, 75 in color.
Author: Joel Whitebook Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262731171 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 372
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In this sweeping challenge to the postmodern critiques of psychoanalysis, Joel Whitebook argues for a reintegration of Freud's uncompromising investigation of the unconscious with the political and philosophical insights of critical theory. Perversion and Utopia follows in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization and Paul Ricoeur's Freud and Philosophy. It expands on these books, however, because of the author's remarkable grasp not only of psychoanalytic studies but also of the contemporary critical climate; Whitebook, a philosopher and a psychoanalyst, writes with equal facility on both Habermas and Freud. A central thesis of Perversion and Utopia is that there is an essential affinity between the utopian impulse and the perverse impulse, in that both reflect a desire to bypass the reality principle that Freud claimed to define the human condition. The book explores the positive and negative aspects of the relationship between these impulses, which are ubiquitous features of human life, and the requirements of civilized social existence. Whitebook steers a course between orthodox psychoanalytic conservatism, which seeks simply to repress the perverse-utopian impulse in the name of social continuity and cohesion, and those forms of Freudo-Marxism, postmodernism, and psychoanalytic feminism that advocate its direct and full expression in the name of emancipation. While he demonstrates the limitations of the current textual approaches to Freud, especially those influenced by Lacan, Whitebook also enlists the lessons of psychoanalysis to counteract the excessive rationalism of the Habermasian brand of critical theory, thus making a substantial contribution to current discussions within critical theory itself. His analysis and interpretation of perversion, narcissism, sublimation, and ego bring new insight to these central and thorny issues in Freud, and his discussions of Adorno, Marcuse, Castoriadis, Habermas, Ricoeur, Lacan, and others are equally penetrating.
Author: Rossella Valdrè Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429756240 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 188
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Psychoanalytic Reflections on The Freudian Death Drive is a highly accessible book that investigates the relevance, complexity and originality of a hugely controversial Freudian concept which, the author argues, continues to exert enormous influence on modernity and plays an often-imperceptible role in the violence and so-called "sad passions" of contemporary society. With examples from cinema, literature and the consulting room, the book’s four chapters – theory, the clinic, art and contemporaneity – investigate every angle, usually little explored, of the death drive: its "positive" functions, such as its contribution to subjectification; its ambiguous relationship with sublimation; the clues it provides about transgenerational matters; and its effects on the feminine. This is not a book about aggression, a type of extroflection of the death drive made visible, studied and striking; rather, it is about the derivatives of the pulsion that changes in the clinic, in life, in society, in artistic forms. With bold and innovative concepts and by making connections to film and books, Rossella Valdrè unequivocally argues that the contemporary clinic is a clinic of the death drive. Psychoanalytic Reflections on The Freudian Death Drive seeks to relaunch the debate on a controversial and neglected concept and will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Today’s renewed interest in the Freudian death drive attests to its extraordinary ability to explain both "new" pathologies and socio-economic phenomena.
Author: J.H. Simon Publisher: J.H. Simon ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 244
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The follow-up to the top-seller ‘How To Kill A Narcissist’ You have successfully broken free and are on the path to recovery. Yet the weight of emotional abuse still plagues you, and you seem to keep attracting narcissists. Break free of narcissism for good by: 1. Gaining a bulletproof understanding of the psychology and sociology of narcissism, which gifts you an indispensable bird's-eye view. 2. Diving deep into your authentic Self and undergoing a complete transformation, which empowers you beyond measure. Throughout this book, the mythology of the hero’s journey will serve as a guide. Like the hero in the story, you will leave the familiar behind, venture into the depths of your shadow, and conquer the ‘demons’ of your past, before returning with the ‘gold’: an actualised Self immune from narcissistic abuse. ‘How To Bury A Narcissist’ is one of the last books on the topic you will need. It is an all-inclusive reference on narcissism and a spiritual guide for transformation, separated into four parts: I. THE ORIGINS OF SELFHOOD Learn the building blocks of the True Self; security, vitality, tenacity, divinity and wisdom, and understand how they combine to actualise your power and give your life purpose and meaning. II. THE AGE OF NARCISSISM - Discover the shadowy roots of narcissism. - Expose the many hidden faces of the narcissist, including the borderline, the histrionic, the psychopath, and other cluster A, B and C personalities. - Study the narcissist's playbook, including triangulation, gaslighting and reactive abuse. - Explore in detail the roles and dynamics of the narcissistic family and see how this blueprint corrupts friendships, workplaces and spiritual movements. - Identify your place in this landscape, and above all, discover what made you vulnerable to abuse in the first place. III. THE HERO’S JOURNEY Embark on a modern-day spiritual quest to rescue your wounded inner child and discover the source of your power - the True Self. The hero’s journey includes eight stages for ‘Self’ development: 1. Awakening: Expose and tear down the narcissist’s illusory Dystopia. 2. Orphanhood: Face and release your abandonment wound. Channel the Orphan archetype to carry you through the wilderness of transformation. 3. Metamorphosis: Use the art of centering to awaken your spiritual power and pave the way to your True Self, setting you up for transformation. 4. Reclaiming security: Anchor yourself firmly within and learn to thrive in the face of uncertainty and fear. 5. Reclaiming vitality: Unleash spontaneity and high-energy states by aligning with the flow of life. 6. Reclaiming tenacity: Welcome tension as an agent for growth, and use it to increase your assertiveness and capacity to set boundaries. 7. Reclaiming divinity: Learn to validate yourself from within, and let go of the need for outside approval. 8. Reclaiming wisdom: Tap into the vast intelligence inside you and use it for maturity, understanding and insight. IV. THE RETURN Having sufficiently developed the Self, you awaken fully. The tyranny of narcissism collapses, and you look ahead with hope to an empowered, actualised way of life. By helping you Self-actualise, ‘How To Bury A Narcissist’ opens you to an unimaginable state of power. This profound shift transforms the narcissist’s influence from a devastating storm into a harmless breeze, allowing you to finally move on and become who you were born to be. This is the art of burying a narcissist.
Author: Christopher Sandford Publisher: Orion ISBN: 1409148017 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 416
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In this compelling biography, Christopher Sandford explores the full, inside story of Kurt Cobain. From the disruptive childhood which had such a crucial impact on Cobain's personality to the ambitious career musician who, as a friend said, "lunged for success", and the worldwide breakthrough of Nirvana's Nevermind, Sandford also writes about Cobain's stormy marriage to Courtney Love, his heroin addiction, and how he became more and more of a recluse. Finally, he writes of the crisis when, in April 1994, Cobain turned a shotgun on himself and became a martyr for disaffected youth. The result is a saga of success and corruption which John Peel has called "the ultimate rock and roll morality story".
Author: Rosalind Minsky Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0745667953 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 263
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Written in a readable, accessible style, with plenty of up-to-date examples Psychoanalysis and Culture provides a brilliant introduction to key issues in the area of application of psychoanalytic theories to culture. The author argues that we cannot grasp the complexity of contemporary global issues without understanding some of the unconscious processes which underlie them. After introducing some major modern and postmodern psychoanalytic approaches, Minsky offers a broad-ranging critique of Lacan's theory of culture and the unconscious. She explores a range of crucial and topical questions: how should we explain women's historical subordination and what is now often seen as a crisis in male identity? What constitutes 'masculinity' apart from power and control? How important is the father, actually and symbolically in children's development in the context of lone-parent families? Why is contemporary culture often still so violent and destructive? Why is consumer culture so attractive to so many and why is it so difficult to put limits on economic growth in the interests of preventing environmental disaster? This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, women's studies, cultural studies, psychology and history as well as psychoanalytic studies. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in the psychology of cultural change.
Author: Joan Lachkar Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0765709090 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 219
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The Disappearing Male by Joan Lachkar, PhD, provides psychoanalytic/psychodynamic descriptions of eight different kinds of men who "disappear" from relationships seemingly without warning or explanation. This book can help to assist the women affected in recognizing the danger...
Author: William B. Parsons Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 081393480X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 256
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"It is arguably the case," writes William Parsons, "that no two figures have had more influence on the course of Western introspective thought than Freud and Augustine." Yet it is commonly assumed that Freud and Augustine would have nothing to say to each other with regard to spirituality or mysticism, given the former's alleged antipathy to religion and the latter's not usually being considered a mystic. Adopting an interdisciplinary, dialogical, and transformational framework for interpreting Augustine's spiritual journey in his Confessions, Parsons places a "mystical theology" at the heart of Augustine's narrative and argues that his mysticism has been misunderstood partly because of the limited nature of the psychological models applied to it. At the same time, he expands Freud's therapeutic legacy to incorporate the contemporary findings of physiology and neuroscience that have been influenced in part by modern spirituality. Parsons develops a new psychological hermeneutic to account for Augustine's mysticism that will capture the imagination of contemporary readers who are both psychologically informed and interested in spirituality. The author intends this interpretive model not only to engage modern introspective concerns about developmental conflict and the power of the unconscious but also to reach a more nuanced level of insight into the origins and the nature of the self.
Author: Esther Hunter
Author: Kurt St. Thomas
Author: Joel Whitebook
Author: Michael Ure
Author: Rossella Valdrè
Author: J.H. Simon
Author: Christopher Sandford
Author: Rosalind Minsky
Author: Joan Lachkar
Author: William B. Parsons