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What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood's glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally, what can we learn about death from Virginia Woolf?Literature matters. Not only does it provide escapism and entertainment, but it also holds a mirror up to our lives to show us aspects of ourselve...

Focusing on some of the best known characters in all of literature--chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age--a brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction ... From maddening jealousy to unbearable grief, from transcendent love to bottomless hatred ... [this work] invites us to ponder deep questions about the human experi...

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He walks us through the different stages of existence, from childhood to old age, showing that literature is much more than a refuge from the banality and rigour of everyday life - through the experiences of its characters, it can show us ways to be wiser, more open and more self-aware.

A PROBING EXPLORATION OF THE CREATIVE AND IMAGINATIVE POSSIBILITIES OF INACTIVITY' FINANCIAL TIMES'To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.' Oscar WildeMore than ever before, we live in a culture that excoriates inactivity and demonizes idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms, and a permanent busyness pervades even our quietest moments. Little wonder so many of us are burning...

Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen considers the philosophical benefits of inactivity, suggesting idleness as the road to any kind of life worth living, drawing on Andy Warhol, Emily Dickinson, David Foster Wallace and "The Simpsons".

An essay about politics, humility, and loss.

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Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as Freud's core conviction that our innermost truths manifest only as distortions.

From a talented and original thinker comes this passionate critique of the intrusiveness of modern culture which advocates an exploration and cultivation of our unconscious - of who we really are - in a world where everything we do is deemed public knowledge

In MEN IN BLACK 3 kehren die Agenten J (Will Smith) und K (Tommy Lee Jones) zurück... und zwar gerade noch rechtzeitig. Denn in den 15 Jahren, die J bereits bei den Men in Black war, hat er zwar schon so einige unerklärliche Dinge gesehen, aber nichts, nicht einmal die Aliens, macht ihn regelmäßig so perplex wie sein ironischer und wortkarger Partner. Doch als Ks Leben und das Schicksal des ganzen Planeten auf dem Spiel stehen, muss Agent J ei...

This highly conceptual and beautiful art work in book form is the result of a unique collaboration between an artist photographer and psychoanalyst writer.

This text examines the aesthetic and religious questions at the centre of the European thought, particularly the work of Theodor Adorno, Emmanuel Levinas and Edmond Jabes.