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Book On Dreams and Death

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  • Author : Marie-Luise von Franz
  • Publisher : Shambhala Publications
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book On Dreams and Death written by Marie-Luise von Franz and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dreams of Decay

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  • Author : Shelby Martinez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-11-21
  • ISBN : 9780692825860
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Dreams of Decay written by Shelby Martinez and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look in the closet and check under the bed; lay down to sleep and pull the covers up to your chin as you drift off into the whimsical world of dreams. But sometimes dreams decay, becoming nightmares, black and frightening. Journey into the darker realms where the fantastical meets the horrific. From deep within the terrifying imagination of S. Alessandro Martinez, this collection delves into the darkly amusing, the strange, and the eerie; poems guaranteed to send shivers down your spine and make your skin crawl.

Book Dreaming

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  • Author : Jennifer M. Windt
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2015-06-05
  • ISBN : 0262028670
  • Pages : 825 pages

Download or read book Dreaming written by Jennifer M. Windt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary consciousness studies. Dreams, conceived as conscious experience or phenomenal states during sleep, offer an important contrast condition for theories of consciousness and the self. Yet, although there is a wealth of empirical research on sleep and dreaming, its potential contribution to consciousness research and philosophy of mind is largely overlooked. This might be due, in part, to a lack of conceptual clarity and an underlying disagreement about the nature of the phenomenon of dreaming itself. In Dreaming, Jennifer Windt lays the groundwork for solving this problem. She develops a conceptual framework describing not only what it means to say that dreams are conscious experiences but also how to locate dreams relative to such concepts as perception, hallucination, and imagination, as well as thinking, knowledge, belief, deception, and self-consciousness. Arguing that a conceptual framework must be not only conceptually sound but also phenomenologically plausible and carefully informed by neuroscientific research, Windt integrates her review of philosophical work on dreaming, both historical and contemporary, with a survey of the most important empirical findings. This allows her to work toward a systematic and comprehensive new theoretical understanding of dreaming informed by a critical reading of contemporary research findings. Windt's account demonstrates that a philosophical analysis of the concept of dreaming can provide an important enrichment and extension to the conceptual repertoire of discussions of consciousness and the self and raises new questions for future research.

Book Decay and Afterlife

Download or read book Decay and Afterlife written by Aleksandra Prica and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism’s nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects, or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of postindustrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our immediate, visual fascination with ruins, focusing instead on the textuality of ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an impressive array of literary, philosophical, and historiographical works both canonical and neglected, and encompassing Latin, Italian, French, German, and English sources, Aleksandra Prica addresses ruins as textual forms, examining them in their extraordinary geographical and temporal breadth, highlighting their variability and reflexivity, and uncovering new lines of aesthetic and intellectual affinity. Through close readings, she traverses eight hundred years of intellectual and literary history, from Seneca and Petrarch to Hegel, Goethe, and Georg Simmel. She tracks European discourses on ruins as they metamorphose over time, identifying surprising resemblances and resonances, ignored contrasts and tensions, as well as the shared apprehensions and ideas that come to light in the excavation of these discourses.

Book The Decay of the Angel

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  • Author : Yukio Mishima
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1990-04-14
  • ISBN : 0679722432
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book The Decay of the Angel written by Yukio Mishima and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-04-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yukio Mishima’s The Decay of the Angel is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda’s pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. It is the late 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, once more encounters a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, Kiyoaki — this time restored to life as a teenage orphan, Tōru. Adopting the boy as his heir, Honda quickly finds that Tōru is a force to be reckoned with. The final novel of this celebrated tetralogy weaves together the dominant themes of the previous three novels in the series: the decay of Japan’s courtly tradition; the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics; and, underlying all, Mishima’s apocalyptic vision of the modern era.

Book Dreaming in Cuban

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  • Author : Cristina García
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2011-06-08
  • ISBN : 0307798003
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Dreaming in Cuban written by Cristina García and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post

Book Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature

Download or read book Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature written by Holger M. Zellentin and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. - Princeton) under the title: Late Antiquity Upside Down: Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature.

Book The Everything Dreams Book

Download or read book The Everything Dreams Book written by Jenni Kosarin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now fully revised with an all-new interior design, this expanded edition of The Everything Dreams Book provides even more explanation of the subconscious, additional dream symbols, and even greater depth of explanation about dreams themselves. This second edition explains how to: Interpret nightmares and fantasies Find meaning in symbols and images-from eyes to birds to familiar people Remember dreams

Book An Inquiry Into the Causes of the Growth and Decay of Civilisation

Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Causes of the Growth and Decay of Civilisation written by Thomas Lloyd (of London.) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beckett and Decay

Download or read book Beckett and Decay written by Kathryn White and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'decay' is often used by critics in general reference to Beckett's thematic emphasis and philosophical outlook. However, this book explores the idea of decay as the fundamental core of Beckett's work, dominating it thematically, linguistically and artistically. Kathryn White explores Beckett's representation of physical decay, mental and spiritual deterioration and finally the idea that 'decay' is to be found in language itself. This study explores the importance of both theme and form in Beckett's work and considers whether Beckett will, in future generations, be remembered both for his representation of existence and his innovations in language.

Book On Dreams and Dreaming

Download or read book On Dreams and Dreaming written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping the uncharted territory at the edges of psychological knowledge, these fascinating essays explore compelling aspects of dreams and dreaming. They discuss topics as diverse as memorable dreams, lucid dreaming, the role of dreams in the evolution of human consciousness and the relationship between dreams and the waking state. In ‘The Dream and Its Embedding’, psychoanalyst Patrick Mahony demonstrates, with absorbing case studies, how dreams can become effective therapeutic tools, while dream scholar Kelly Bulkely concludes in ‘Big Dreams’ that, ultimately, the function of dreams is to make the brain grow. Luigi Zoja, dream analyst, explores the profusion of nightmares among soldiers, prisoners and other victims of war in ‘Nightmares’. And Madhu Tandan, who lived for seven years at an ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas, explains how dreams can access a level of consciousness beyond the psychological. This volume is the first in the ‘Boundaries of Consciousness’ series, which, under the leadership of Sudhir Kakar, seeks to bring together psychoanalysts, philosophers, religious studies scholars and neuroscientists in order to expand the frontiers of current psychological understanding. Subsequent volumes will spring from symposia held at Wasan Island, Canada, on the supernatural, death and dying and creativity and imagination. Edited and introduced by Sudhir Kakar, On Dreams and Dreaming will be of interest to scholars and to all who dream and seek to understand why.

Book Dreams That Speak

Download or read book Dreams That Speak written by Antoinette M. White and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birth from her mother womb as the mouth piece for God, evolved the anointed infallible, woman of God, Prophetess Antoinette M. White. As God molded her in His hands, He purposed her for His works and for His people. From the cradle to the pulpit this Prophetess was destined to bring forth the word of God with the anointing and power. Hearing the call in her tender years, Antoinette began her ministry with a Yes Lord, her am I, and sojourns her call in the path of ministerial greatness. With an ear to hear His voice, and her affections toward heavenly matters, this Prophetess is unmovable and unstoppable on her mission. In her childhood years it was evident Antoinette was a gifted child; peculiar, anointed and called to ministry. As the gift of prophecy manifested through her voice, and prophetic dreams became perceptible through full materialization, the mantel as Gods Prophetess was apparent. Prophetess White is the wife of the powerful Apostle Michael S. White Jr. and mother of six children. These two anointed vessels established Remnant Apostolic Prophetic Outreach (wwwrapoutreach.org).

Book The mighty magician   Such stuff as dreams are made of   The downfall and death of King Oedipus   Agamemnon   Rub  iy  t of Omar Khayy  m   Sal  m  n and Abs  l   Bredfield Hall   Chronomoros   Virgil s garden   Translation from Petrarch   Preface to Polonius   Introduction to readings in Crabbe   Written by Petrarch in his Virgil

Download or read book The mighty magician Such stuff as dreams are made of The downfall and death of King Oedipus Agamemnon Rub iy t of Omar Khayy m Sal m n and Abs l Bredfield Hall Chronomoros Virgil s garden Translation from Petrarch Preface to Polonius Introduction to readings in Crabbe Written by Petrarch in his Virgil written by Edward FitzGerald and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narcissus and Iscariot

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernest Hartsock
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Narcissus and Iscariot written by Ernest Hartsock and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The mighty magician  taken from Calderon  Such stuff as dreams are made of  taken from Calderon  Euphranor  Agamemnon  taken from Aeschylus  The downfall and death of King Oedipus  taken from Sophocles

Download or read book The mighty magician taken from Calderon Such stuff as dreams are made of taken from Calderon Euphranor Agamemnon taken from Aeschylus The downfall and death of King Oedipus taken from Sophocles written by Edward FitzGerald and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Songs on the Death of Children

Download or read book Songs on the Death of Children written by Friedrich Rückert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German poet Friedrich Ruckert's (1788-1866) youngest children died of scarlet fever, the pandemic of his age. Over a six month period in 1834, he wrote hundreds of laments that were published posthumously in the classic poetry collection Kindertotenlieder. Here in English for the first time, these evocative modern translations by a fellow bereaved father reveal "an honest grappling with grief" (The Christian Century). Each poem is accompanied by insights into the bereaved, along with personal anecdotes, historical and cultural information, the latest research on grief, and discussions of literary and biblical allusions.

Book Death  Grief  and Caring Relationships

Download or read book Death Grief and Caring Relationships written by Richard A. Kalish and published by Thomson Brooks/Cole. This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: