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Liz_M
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness | Daniel Paul Schreber
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#threelistthursday #tlt @dabbe

Pictured are three books that I resent having read.

kspenmoll Resent reading! Love it! There surely are those for all of us! 1mo
dabbe Holy guacamole, Batman! Have you been following this list as your TBR? 🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻 #TFPAS (Thanks for playing and sharing) 😊 1mo
Liz_M @dabbe Yes! I have been actively reading books from this list since 2007 (I own the 2008 edition of the book). 😁 1mo
dabbe @Liz_M A.W.E.S.O.M.E.!!! 😍 1mo
TheBookHippie Clearly I should buy this book… 1mo
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lil1inblue
The Sane Society | Erich Fromm
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Eggs Chilling 😳 1mo
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BarbaraJean
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Pickpick

Catching up on belated reviews (still)… I read this for my spiritual direction program back in March.

I don‘t have much of a background in psychology, so this was a great intro to the Jungian idea of the shadow: the aspects of ourselves, both good & bad, that we unconsciously hide or suppress. There‘s a lot packed into this slim volume, and I was surprised by—but appreciated—the connections Johnson makes to faith ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …and the role that spirituality plays in the realm of the shadow. I was especially intrigued by the concept of the “mandorla”—the overlap between seeming binaries, where they can be held together in the mystery of paradox. 1mo
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Suet624
In the Freud Archives | Janet Malcolm
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After finishing this book I went on to The New Yorker website to see how many of Janet Malcolm‘s articles I had read in the past and to my surprise there was a brief article in this recent issue about Malcolm and Eissler! Janet Malcolm‘s nonfiction writing about three men involved in the Freud archives - two of whom have massive egos and one wanting to believe in the brilliance of a protege - is so engaging. 🔽
#offtheshelf #bookspin

Suet624 Debunking the history and theories of Freud is a no-no and yet that‘s what two of the men attempt to do. Witnessing the clash between two of the men and the heady society they move about in is riveting. 4mo
Leftcoastzen I will have to check that out! 4mo
Suet624 @Leftcoastzen my review is a bit half-assed. You should check out the review of others to see if they officially push you to read the book. 😊 4mo
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kspenmoll Me too! 4mo
Leftcoastzen I meant the article, I read the book back in the #NYRBBookclub 4mo
Suet624 @Leftcoastzen oh! 😊 4mo
Leftcoastzen And :this is subtitle to this one:The Impossible Profession 4mo
Suet624 @Leftcoastzen thank you. 4mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo
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Suet624
In the Freud Archives | Janet Malcolm
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Yes!! I‘m finally starting to read my December #bookspin!

AmyG Ha! 4mo
BarbaraBB It‘s good! 4mo
Lindy Every book has its time. 😊 4mo
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Suet624
In the Freud Archives | Janet Malcolm
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#11 on my December bookspin.

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 7mo
BarbaraBB It‘s good!! 7mo
youneverarrived I loved this. 7mo
sarahbarnes Loved this one. 7mo
Suet624 @youneverarrived @BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes I‘m so glad to hear you all liked this book. I was looking at it today with some trepidation. 7mo
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IuliaC
When Nietzsche Wept | Irvin D Yalom
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In this historical fiction, in 1882 Josef Breuer, a physician who made discoveries in neurophysiology, meets philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The first is a renowned scientist in his mid-life crisis, the latter is a difficult to treat patient with a fabulous mind.
Their conversations are absolutely brilliant and set the bases for psychoanalysis at a time when Dr. Breuer's young friend Sigmund Freud is just a 25-year old medicine student.

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sue0815

the superego. It originates from the long dependency of the infant on his parents; the parental influence remains the core of the superego. Subsequently, a number of societal and cultural influences are taken in by the superego until it coagulates into the powerful representative of established morality and “what people call the ‘higher‘ things in human life.”

sue0815 This development, by which originally conscious struggles with the demands of reality (the parents and their successors in the formation of the superego) are transformed into unconscious automatic reactions, is of the utmost importance for the course of civilization. 10mo
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sue0815

According to Freud, the history of man is the history of his repression. Culture constrains not only his societal but also his biological existence, not only parts of the human being but his instinctual structure itself. However, such constraint is the very precondition of progress.

sue0815 Later, Freud, in order to illustrate the regressive character of sexuality, recalls Plato‘s “fantastic hypothesis” that “living substance at the time of its coming to life was torn apart into small particles, which have ever since endeavoured to reunite through the sexual instincts.” 10mo
sue0815 Eros is defined as the great unifying force that preserves all life.16 The ultimate relation between Eros and Thanatos remains obscure.
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sue0815 Fenichel pointed out20 that Freud himself made a decisive step in this direction by assuming a “displaceable energy, which is in itself neutral, but is able to join forces either with an erotic or with a destructive impulse” — with the life or the death instinct. 10mo
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