Download or read book Discipline and Desire written by Elise Morrison and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on how contemporary artists have responded to the ubiquitous presence of surveillance technologies in our daily lives

Download or read book On Disciplining the Soul written by Ghazzālī and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spiritual life in Islam begins with riyadat al-nafs, the inner warfare against the ego. Distracted and polluted by worldliness, the lower self has a tendency to drag the human creature down into arrogance and vice. Only by a powerful effort of will can the sincere worshipper achieve the purity of soul which enables him to attain God's proximity. This translation of two chapters from The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din) details the sophisticated spiritual techniques adopted by classical Islam. In the first step, On Disciplining the Soul, which cites copious anecdotes from the Islamic scriptures and biographies of the saints, Ghazali explains how to acquire good character traits, and goes on to describe how the sickness of the heart may be cured. In the second part, Breaking the Two Desires, he focusses on the question of gluttony and sexual desire, concluding, in the words of the Prophet, that 'the best of all matters is the middle way'. The translator has added an introduction and notes which explore Ghazali's ability to make use of Greek as well as Islamic ethics. The work will prove of special interest to those interested in Sufi mysticism, comparative ethics, and the question of sexuality in Islam.

Download or read book Discipline Over Desire written by Sandra Williams and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is my story and testimony of how I overcame my desire (craving, drive, appetite and lust) concerning food. Through discipline I applied self-control and orderly conduct above my desire. If you're struggling with unconstrained desires then it's going to take more than just a New Year's Resolution, it's going to take a Revelation and this book is a revealed word by God for you. I don't have a quick solution to solving your problems on how to lose weight, but I do have facts and truth on how to lose weight safe and naturally so that you can keep it off for good. In this book you will learn about:* A Child Without A Revelation* An Giant Killer Eating Habit* Despair--How to Conquer It* Our Restaurant Business* Set Back to Go Forward* Self Examination* The Blame Game* My Food Journal* Your 31-Day Food Journal* And Much More...

Download or read book The Desire of Psychoanalysis written by Gabriel Tupinambá and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desire of Psychoanalysis proposes that recognizing how certain theoretical and institutional problems in Lacanian psychoanalysis are grounded in the historical conditions of Lacan’s own thinking might allow us to overcome these impasses. In order to accomplish this, Gabriel Tupinambá analyzes the socioeconomic practices that underlie the current institutional existence of the Lacanian community—its political position as well as its institutional history—in relation to theoretical production. By focusing on the underlying dynamic that binds clinical practice, theoretical work, and institutional security in Lacanian psychoanalysis today, Tupinambá is able to locate sites for conceptual innovation that have been ignored by the discipline, such as the understanding of the role of money in clinical practice, the place of analysands in the transformation of psychoanalytic theory, and ideological dead-ends that have become common sense in the Lacanian field. The Desire of Psychoanalysis thus suggests ways of opening up psychoanalysis to new concepts and clinical practices and calls for a transformation of how psychoanalysis is understood as an institution.

Download or read book Life Together in Christ written by Ruth Haley Barton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all been let down by so-called community. Why is it so hard for us to connect and grow together for the long haul? Veteran spiritual director Ruth Haley Barton helps us get personal and practical about experiencing transformation together. This interactive guide allows us to grow through and by the experience of transforming community.

Download or read book Celebration of Discipline written by Richard J. Foster and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1988-10-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. For this special twentieth anniversary edition, Richard J. Foster has added an introduction, in which he shares the story of how this beloved and enduring spiritual guidebook came to be. Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the "classic Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found. Dividing the Disciplines into three movements of the Spirit, Foster shows how each of these areas contribute to a balanced spiritual life. The inward Disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study, offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward Disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service, help prepare us to make the world a better place. The corporate Disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration, bring us nearer to one another and to God. Foster provides a wealth of examples demonstrating how these Disciplines can become part of our daily activities-and how they can help us shed our superficial habits and "bring the abundance of God into our lives." He offers crucial new insights on simplicity, demonstrating how the biblical view of simplicity, properly understood and applied, brings joy and balance to our inward and outward lives and "sets us free to enjoy the provision of God as a gift that can be shared with others." The discussion of celebration, often the most neglected of the Disciplines, shows its critical importance, for it stands at the heart of the way to Christ. Celebration of Discipline will help motivate Christians everywhere to embark on a journey of prayer and spiritual growth.

Download or read book The Four D s of Life written by Cameron Scott and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes it's hard to focus on important things as a kid. Filled with curiosity as an infant, Cameron closely watched sports on television and learning activities. The more curious, the more he learns. Cameron asks questions relentlessly, and his mind is always active and observant of new ideas, which opens him up to opportunities that bring excitement to his life. It's Cameron's experiences that give him joy and pleasure, and increases his willingness to learn "The Four D's Of Life" to share with other children

Download or read book Desire s Discipline written by Amira Lane and published by Racy Romance Reads. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a world of tantalizing pleasure and unyielding control with Desire s Discipline - Stories of BDSM Adventures. This collection of 21 erotic tales will take you on a thrilling journey into the realm of domination, submission, and exquisite desire. Each story is crafted with the perfect balance of intensity and sensuality, leaving you breathless as you turn each page. Indulge in the forbidden fantasies that have been locked away in your deepest desires. With Desire s Discipline, you'll submerge yourself in scenes filled with power dynamics, bondage, spanking, and so much more. Let your imagination run wild as these captivating stories transport you to an alternate reality where passion knows no bounds. Experience the raw emotions that come with surrendering oneself completely to another's command. Allow yourself to be captivated by the characters' struggles for dominance and their unrelenting pursuit of pleasure. Whether you're new to BDSM or a seasoned enthusiast looking for fresh inspiration, Desire s Discipline is guaranteed to ignite sparks within your imagination like never before. Embark on this seductive journey today!

Download or read book Pursuing God s Will Together written by Ruth Haley Barton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church boards and other Christian leadership teams have long relied on models adapted from the business world. Ruth Haley Barton, president of the Transforming Center, helps teams transition to a much more fitting model—the spiritual community that practices discernment together.

Download or read book Outwitting the Devil written by Napoleon Hill and published by Sharon Lechter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.

Download or read book The Power of Having Desire written by Bruce Garrabrandt and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of having desire teaches you how to emulate the people you admire, do new things, and live the life you dream of -even if you don't think you can. Most of us already know the basics of success-self-belief, purpose, action, discipline, and perseverance. So why aren't we all doing the things we would like to do and living the lives we want? This book teaches you to Ư Stop fear and insecurity from crippling your potential. Put an end to procrastination. Use habit and routine to work for you. Benefit from the world's wisest mentors. Use your most valuable natural resource. What would you love to accomplish? Bruce paints a revealing portrait of what it takes to accelerate success or create it in a new area. He'll help you understand that you were born gifted and talented, and can do anything you passionately desire. In a most intriguing, motivational seminar-in-a-book way, Bruce shares the key secret to all success, and guides you to discover your unique life's mission-and how you can live it.

Download or read book Desire and Discipline written by Jacqueline Murray and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays looks at sexuality in the long stretch between the 12th and the early 17th centuries ? a period that remains relatively unexplored, yet one that has deeply informed contemporary ideas about sex.

Download or read book The Ways of Desire written by Joel Marks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume marks the coming into its own of a discipline in philosophy: theory of desire. It presents discussions whose primary focus is on desire, with secondary mention of its implications for ethics, action, emotion, mind, and so forth.

Download or read book The Therapy of Desire written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tradition" has to offer. By examining texts of philosophers such as Epicurus, Lucretius, and Seneca, she recovers a valuable source for current moral and political thought and encourages us to reconsider philosophical argument as a technique through which to improve lives. Written for general readers and specialists, The Therapy of Desire addresses compelling issues ranging from the psychology of human passion through rhetoric to the role of philosophy in public and private life.

Download or read book The Politics of Desire written by Agustín Colombo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his preface to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault notes that in the late sixties, there is a turn away from Freud anda movement toward what he calls an “experience and technology of desire that is no longer Freudian”. Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari were interested in, and engaged with this shift and their collective work in these areas spawned a larger post-Freudian literature. This book gathers contributions from international scholars with the aim of exploring the social, political, and philosophical dimension of Deleuze and Guattari’s, and Foucault’s critical encounters with psychoanalytic thought: Their possible connections, their divergences, the fields of reflection that these encounters open, and the problems and debates that led Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari to engage with psychoanalysis in the ways that they did. In doing so, the main goal of the book is not to engage in a critique of the discipline of Psychoanalysis as such, but to investigate how Foucault’s and Deleuze’s critique of Psychoanalysis gives rise to a political reflection that draws on some of Psychoanalysis key notions. Among these, the concept of Desire is central as it allows us to grasp the different ways in which Foucault and Deleuze politically engage with Psychoanalysis: for Deleuze, Desire is the element through which Revolution becomes possible, whereas for Foucault Desire is a cornerstone of the modern mechanisms of subjection. Drawing both on new material like Confessions of the Flesh, the 4th volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality and on Foucault and Deleuze main work, the book covers a variety of topics including the contrast between Foucault’s and Deleuze political understanding of desire and pleasure; the genealogy of desire as a way to investigate the historical shaping of psychoanalysis; the relationship between psychoanalysis and the normalizing mechanisms of power (e.g. biopolitics and disciplinary regimes); the ways in which psychoanalysis and neoliberalism come together in particular moments, the status and role of desire in revolt, resistance, and transformation; Foucault and Deleuze’s different approaches to the unconscious; the role of desire in the formation of identity; etc.,. In the 50th anniversary of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, one of the major references that inspires the many chapters in this book, we aim to pay homage to these two important figures of contemporary thought by enriching and opening new lines of thought and problematization of the political reflection on Desire that Foucault and Deleuze developed.

Download or read book The Sexual Economy of War written by Andrew Byers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sexual Economy of War, Andrew Byers argues that in the early twentieth century, concerns about unregulated sexuality affected every aspect of how the US Army conducted military operations. Far from being an exercise marginal to the institution and its scope of operations, governing sexuality was, in fact, integral to the military experience during a time of two global conflicts and numerous other army deployments. In this revealing study, Byers shows that none of the issues related to current debates about gender, sex, and the military—the inclusion of LGBTQ soldiers, sexual harassment and violence, the integration of women—is new at all. Framing the American story within an international context, he looks at case studies from the continental United States, Hawaii, the Philippines, France, and Germany. Drawing on internal army policy documents, soldiers' personal papers, and disciplinary records used in criminal investigations, The Sexual Economy of War illuminates how the US Army used official policy, legal enforcement, indoctrination, and military culture to govern wayward sexual behaviors. Such regulation, and its active opposition, leads Byers to conclude that the tension between organizational control and individual agency has deep and tangled historical roots.

Download or read book Your Invisible Power and Attaining Your Desires Original Classic Edition written by Genevieve Behrend and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS ORIGINAL CLASSIC EDITION OF TWO INCREDIBLE WORKS BY GENEVIÈVE BEHREND FEATURES AN AFTERWORD BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, SPIRITUAL TEACHERAND STAR OF THE SECRET, JOE VITALE. Behrend was a French-born author and teacher of Mental Science, a New Thought discipline created by Thomas Troward, with whom she studied from 1912-1914. In Your Invisible Power, Behrend, presents the Troward philosophy at its best, explaining in detail how to use the incredible mental power available to everyone to manifest and create what they desire most. Her direct and dynamic personality relates the life-changing concepts on a personal level and explains what Mental Science is and how to apply its teachings in everyday life. She offers specific examples from her own life and practical advice for understanding and incorporating Troward’s teachings. As Behrend says, “We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.” In the classic Attaining Your Desires Behrend teaches us how to utilize our God-given powers every day to live a more satisfying life. By developing our power of positive thinking and utilizing the Law of Attraction, attaining your desires becomes second nature. This is a simple guide to use in your everyday life, as you will learn how to: GET WHAT YOU WANT OVERCOME ADVERSE CONDITIONS STRENGTHEN YOUR WILL MAKE YOUR SUBJECTIVE MIND WORK FOR YOU,/li> Let Geneviève Behrend motivate and inspire you with these powerful, yet simple and easy guides to open up the way to the attainment of your desires.