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Writing and Difference |
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Jacques Derrida |
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Review pending. |
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Brave New World |
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Aldous Huxley |
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A wonderful science fiction novel. |
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Burger’s Daughter |
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Nadine Gordimer |
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An intriguing philosophical novel about South African events. |
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Cure or Heal? |
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Avicenna |
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A sensitive and thoughtful book on psychotherapy, which influenced R.D. Laing and many others. |
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Death of the Family |
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James Agee |
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A book examining the nature of the family as an agent of alienation, acting for the social capitalist order to generate alienation n the individual -- leading to dissociations and mental illness in many individuals. |
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Deconstruction in a Nutshell |
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Jacques Derrida |
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Want a short introduction to deconstruction? Read this book! |
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Despair and the Return of Hope |
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Peter Shabad's remarkable new book reminds us of the reach and the resonance of the language of psychoanalysis at its best. His subject, in a sense, is the retreat from sociability; and his descriptions of what he calls the "desperate morality of survival," of the ways in which the troubled person cures himself by segregating his experience and then can't find a cure for his self cure, are among the most powerful in contemporary psychoanalysis. This is a book not merely for psychoanalysts, but for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary morality. - Adam Phillips |
