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Few, especially in this country, realize that while Freudian themes have rarely found a place on the programs of the American Psychological Association, they have attracted great and growing attention and found frequent elaboration by students of literature, history, biography, sociology, morals and aesthetics, anthropology, education, and religion.These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth...

Like fire in a piece of flint, knowledge exists in the mind, suggestion is the friction which brings it out. So with all our feelings and actions-our tears and our smiles, our joys and our griefs, our weeping and our laughter, our curses and our blessings, our praises and our blames-every one of these we may find, if we calmly study our own selves, to have been brought out from within ourselves by so many blows. The result is what we are, all ...

A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term utopia was created from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America. His book invented a new genre of fiction. It was the first book to use a made up world, a "Utopia" in its framing.

I intend, by God's help, to put together sundry thought upon faith, each of which I may have spoken at different times, but which have not been collected before, and which, I have no doubt, have been misunderstood from the want of their having been put together in their proper consecutive order. I shall say a little on each of these points:1-The object of faith, or, to what it looks.2-The reason of faith, or, why doth any man believe, and when...

Richly illuminating, The Rubáiyát, a collection of poems attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám, sing the impermanence of things, and in the face of it, the necessity of enjoying the present moment. The present edition, illustrated in black and white by René Bull, contains translations by Edward FitzGerald and Edward Heny Whinfield.

Recueil de pensées sous forme de courtes méditations classées par thèmes (intelligence, beauté, violence, religion etc…) cet ouvrage singulier peut être considéré comme un livre de sagesse dont la profondeur philosophique reste inégalée. Oeuvre incontournable de l'auteur, il fut publié pour la première fois à titre posthume en 1947.

Laurent Lacherez, thérapeute en PNL (Programmation Neuro-Linguistique) et auteur des best-sellers L'anxiété, comment s'en sortir et L'Art de lâcher prise, vous propose de Guérir de l'Anxiété pour réussir votre vie. Dès que l'anxiété apparaît, vous perdez votre pleine capacité à agir dans la direction souhaitée et vous nourrissez l'inquiétude au détriment de l'intention. Afin de reprendre le dessus sur l'anxiété, j'ai élaboré ce livre pour vous...

Œuvre la plus connue de Stefan Zweig, cette nouvelle relate une partie d'échecs durant laquelle un inconnu oppose une résistance inattendue à l'un des grands champions de la discipline. Mais qui est cet homme dont on apprendra plus tard qu'il fut prisonnier du régime nazi ? Comment fait-il pour jouer si bien aux échecs ? Quel est son secret ? Stefan Zweig livre ici un récit haletant dont les personnages et leurs histoires respectives lui perme...

All men, in virtue of their humanity, are image-makers, but in some the image is clear and vivid, in others dull, lifeless, wavering. The Greeks were the supreme ikonists, the greatest image-makers the world has ever seen, and, therefore, their mythology lives on to-day. The genius of Rome was not for ikonism, their mythology, save when they borrow from the Greeks, is negligible. They worshipped not gods, not dei, but powers, numina. These num...

The Praise of Folly is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in June 1511. Considered one of the most notable works of the Renaissance, it is a satirical attack on superstitions and other traditions of European society as well as on the Western Church.

The Pilgrim's Progress, a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678, is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature. The entire book is presented as a dream sequence narrated by an omniscient narrator. The allegory's protagonist, Christian, is an everyman character, and the plot centres on his journey from his hometown, the "City of Destruction" ("this world"), to the "Celestial City" ("that which is t...

Known as "the master key" and Dedicated to Hermes Trismegistus, « Master of Masters », this book explains the "science" of spirit and outlines seven universal principles : Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, and Gender. It clarifies the principles behind all religions and philosophies, and redefines the nature of reality and the supersensible universe.

This book has a way of speaking to people at different stages in their lives. It has this magical quality, the more you read it the more you come to understand the words, " Reverend Laurie SueWritten by one of the world's bestselling poets, The Prophet, since it was first published in 1923, has been translated into more than 50 languages. Made up of 26 prose poems, delivered as sermons by a wise man called Al Mustapha, The Prophet is a timeles...

THIS little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that-"They themselves are makers of themselves."by virtue of the thoughts, which they choose and encourage, that mind is the master-weaver, both of the inn...

♦ This book has been aesthetically optimized for reading ♦Often referred to as Torah, the first five Books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) are the foundation of Judaism.