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"Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Award, Northeast Victorian Studies Association" "Winner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, American Psychoanalytic Association" Alicia Mireles Christoff is assistant professor of English at Amherst College.
The first comprehensive look at how Victorian fiction and British psychoanalysis shaped each other
Novel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Dr. Stratham Younger, a war veteran, and James Littlemore, a friend and captain at the New York Police Department, are caught on Wall Street in 1920 when a terrorist bombing occurs in lower Manhattan, and, with the help from Colette Rousseau, a French radiochemist who harbors a secret in her past, they travel from Paris to Prague, to the home of Sigmund Freud in Vienna, and back to Washington, DC, to find out the truth about the bombing.
4) Villette
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English
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Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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Belly Song Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Where has the imagination gone in current psychiatric practice? While Psychiatry Slept dares to ask this question. It challenges psychiatry's literalistic theories and demonstrates how the imagination is always revealing itself through nighttime dreams, physical symptoms, hallucinations, delusions, and synchronicity. Using material from actual patient cases over his thirty-five years as a psychiatrist, the author weaves a collection of fictional stories...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Noted for his sympathetic portrayals of the downtrodden members of nineteenth-century Russian society, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) has exercised immense influence on modern writers. His fiction, rich in philosophical and psychological insights, anticipated the development of psychoanalysis and existentialism. This anthology offers an excellent introduction to Dostoyevsky as well as a portable collection for readers already acquainted with the Russian...
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Bancroft Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Barbra Streisand has been a show business staple for decades, from Funny Girl and Hello, Dolly! to The Way We Were and, more recently, the Fockers franchise. Whether gracing a stage, screen, or album cover, Barbra's iconic silhouette is a globally-familiar image. We know Barbra the star, but how well do we know Barbra the woman? In Dr. Alma H. Bond's latest installment of her On the Couch series, Dr. Darcy Dale-a renowned New York City psychiatrist...
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Heraclitus Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Can love be deconstructed? What happens when a famous philosopher writes about love, literature and postcards? Jacques Derrida is the father of deconstruction. In 1980 he wrote an intriguing book 'The Post Card' which weaves fact and fiction in a story told through love letters. Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida transforms The Post Card into a contemporary story about three people whose lives are intertwined in complex and unexpected ways, Theo...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.-Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction In a bold and brilliant memoir that reinvents the form, the acclaimed author of the novel Museum Pieces and the collection Mendocino Fire explores the ferocious desire...
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