Download or read book PARALLEL LIVES a way of enjoying our fantasies written by Adrian Gabriel Dumitru and published by Adrian G Dumitru. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Parallel lives … a way of enjoying our fantasies” … might sound as a title of a book that reveals … immoral facts. But i haven’t defined … only that. I’ve dared to go deeper into a journey of analyzes … as a very simple … ordinary person … that dreams about lots of … fantasies. Love … fantasies. … spiritual. … sexual. … financial. But … all was about … an amazing reality that had nothing to do with my present moment. Cause … yes … maybe the first step is … to allow ourselves to dream … and have any kind of fantasy. … no matter what it is about.
Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Phyllis Rose and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1984-10-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot--née Marian Evans.
Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Olivier Schrauwen and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collects six wildly inventive short comics stories that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his offspring's upcoming lives include alien abduction, dialogue with future agents, and coded messages in envelopes at breakfast.
Download or read book CONNECTING DISCONNECTING written by Adrian Gabriel Dumitru and published by Adrian Gabriel Dumitru. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing in freudian style my own life … i’ve finally understood why i am … an idiot. I was mad. … and also sad. I could say that i was actually an emotional cocktail of madness and sadness … but …. I just could not accept it … even if i knew it by few days already. But like all the ones that studied psychology… into a very deep way … i knew to hide all so damn good. On the real scene of life … i was always wearing a very nice emotional mask … and no one really knew what is going on into my soul. But … Well … randomly… there were situations when i was becoming so furious …. actually acting like a … devil. It was a total nonsense … but i was keep doing that … letting those daemons from inside of me … to dominate … all i was doing. And that happened … on and on and on. Today i was ok … and one day later … all those strong emotions from inside of me … were taking the control over my soul. I was actually connected to beautiful vibes … then again to negativity. It was all an emotional balance. I was connecting… then disconnecting …. then connecting again … I’ve tried to understand myself … but more i was going deeper and deeper … i’ve felt that i could not accept that i dislike so much … something specific from my reality. This connecting … disconnecting… story … was actually … a chain reaction. Not being happy of some of the elements of my life … i was randomly losing control on myself … allowing to …. explode … as a nuclear bomb … destroying all around myself. I was basically… a person that could be defined as … a good guy. … but …. Randomly… allowing those little devils from inside my soul … to dominate the energies beyond the scene of my life … i proved myself to actually be … on and on and on … an idiot. Only the deep analyzes … done into a freudian style … made me see the fact … that not practicing the honesty … in front of myself … carrying all the time emotional masks that were actually hiding my real emotions … i was always ending up balancing between beautiful and ugly energies. I had to accept my emotions. … even to accept that i act like a …. great idiot … but … I preferred to … hide the truth. To hide my emotions … So … i simple continued life … connecting… and disconnecting… to beautiful … but also … ugly energies.
Download or read book Everyone Remain Calm written by Megan Stielstra and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Everyone Remain Calm reveal landscapes where the surreal and the familiar clash, to visceral effect. A woman yearns for—and dreads—the snowfall that arrives whenever her ex-boyfriend returns to the home she shares with their son. Another character reassures herself after breakups by seeking out the monster under her bed, the Incredible Hulk himself, for rebound sex that can be hot, heavy, and unnerving. Marching bands blare all the way from New Orleans to the Midwest. There are wild shootouts, rising tides, and perils embedded in the act of storytelling itself. “There are words that can kill you if you’re not careful,” Stielstra writes. And the stories we tell ourselves are the most fantastic tales of all. Everyone Remain Calm is eerie, hilarious, moving, and down-to-earth, even as its characters defy the rules—sometimes in the ways we wish we could.
Download or read book The Man Who Grew His Beard written by Olivier Schrauwen and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Who Grew His Beard is Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen's first American book after having staked a reputation as one of Europe's most talented storytellers. It collects seven short stories, each a head-spinning display of craft and storytelling that mixes early twentieth-century comics influences like Winsor McCay with a thoroughly contemporary voice that provokes and entertains with subversively surreal humor and subtle criticism of twentieth-century tropes and images.
Download or read book Once I Was Cool written by Megan Stielstra and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once I Was Cool contrasts past aspirations with the mess and magic of the present. In her younger days, essayist Megan Stielstra saw Jane’s Addiction at the Aragon Ballroom and fantasized about living on the same block, right in the thick of music and revelry. As an adult, she lives in a turreted condo across the street, with her husband, a child, and an onerous mortgage. It’s just the home her young, cool self imagined. And it isn’t what she expected, either. With conversational flourishes and on-the-mark descriptions, Stielstra’s essays evoke the richness of her everyday life and the memories that are never far away. She remembers learning how to shoot a gun, a cancer scare, and—in a piece that was anthologized in The Best American Essays 2013—the time she eavesdropped on another new mother using her son’s baby monitor. “I shouldn’t have listened,” she writes. “But it was the first time since my son was born that I didn’t feel alone.” Combining footnotes, electric sentences, and uproariously funny anecdotes (have you ever run into an ex while rolling on ecstasy?), Stielstra shows us that maturity is demanding, but its rewards are a gift.
Download or read book Haunting Legacies written by Gabriele Schwab and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies in a number of narratives, primarily through the writing of postwar Germans and the descendents of Holocaust survivors. She connects their work to earlier histories of slavery and colonialism and to more recent events, such as South African Apartheid, the practice of torture after 9/11, and the "disappearances" that occurred during South American dictatorships. Schwab's texts include memoirs, such as Ruth Kluger's Still Alive and Marguerite Duras's La Douleur; second-generation accounts by the children of Holocaust survivors, such as Georges Perec's W, Art Spiegelman's Maus, and Philippe Grimbert's Secret; and second-generation recollections by Germans, such as W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz, Sabine Reichel's What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, and Ursula Duba's Tales from a Child of the Enemy. She also incorporates her own reminiscences of growing up in postwar Germany, mapping interlaced memories and histories as they interact in psychic life and cultural memory. Schwab concludes with a bracing look at issues of responsibility, reparation, and forgiveness across the victim/perpetrator divide.
Download or read book THE DIRTY MIND written by Adrian Gabriel Dumitru and published by Adrian G Dumitru. This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressing all our ideas … or thoughts is most probably …a must. Accepting that into one point we’ll be shocked discovering our dirty minds … it’s also a must. But i believe it’s all part of understanding us as humans. Concepts us spiritual ugliness … sins … and many other similar ideas must be avoid for a while … if we really want to heal our broken souls. We should not be surprised …. or socked and not try to avoid … the truth. We should simple allow our personality to be expressed the way it wants to be expressed. … and stop judging ourselves. Yes … we should allow ourselves to be wild … allow all our thoughts to be expressed in any way they need to be expressed … but also do your best to practice the acceptance …
Download or read book The Spiritual Truth Series written by Lucian Phoenix-Wolf and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had anything weird or unusual happen to you? You are not alone. Most people use religion to explain anything supernatural that may have happened to them. The author did this, and he soon found out how wrong he was. Finding the truth is a very freeing experience. This book is about opening your mind and finding out the power you have in your beliefs. I bet you would be surprised at what you could do if you just change how you think. That's right--you control what you believe. When you uncover the power that you have in your beliefs, you could do almost anything. All you have to do is accept the fact that "truth is stranger than fiction."--Publisher description
Download or read book Twin written by Allen Shawn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autism. When Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two, Mary began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed many years later as autism. Understanding Mary and making her life a happy one appeared to be impossible for the Shawns. At the age of eight, with almost no warning, her parents sent Mary to a residential treatment center. She never lived at home again. Fifty years later, as he probed the sources of his anxieties in Wish I Could Be There, Shawn realized that his fate was inextricably linked to his sister's, and that their natures were far from being different. Twin highlights the difficulties American families coping with autism faced in the 1950s. Shawn also examines the secrets and family dramas as his father, William, became editor of The New Yorker. Twin reconstructs a parallel narrative for the two siblings, who experienced such divergent fates yet shared talents and proclivities. Wrenching, honest, understated, and poetic, Twin is at heart about the mystery of being inextricably bonded to someone who can never be truly understood.
Download or read book H P Lovecraft s Creatures and Monsters A Collection of Short Stories Fantasy and Horror Classics written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Lovecraftian universe there exist many terrible and horrifying things from extraterrestrial gods and portentous nightmares, to zealous cults, supernatural curses, and beyond. Perhaps some of the most terrifying imagery, however, originates from Lovecraft's gruesome creatures. Part of our "Fantasy and Horror Classics" imprint, the chilling tales of this short story collection feature some of Lovecraft's most terrifying monsters and creatures. A fantastic collection of classic horror fiction not to be missed by lovers of the genre. Contents include: “The Transition Of Juan Romero”, “The Doom That Came To Sarnath”, “The Nameless City”, “The Music Of Erich Zann”, “The Lurking Fear”, “The Shunned House”, “The Unnameable”, “The Outsider”, “The Call Of Cthulhu”, “The Dunwich Horror”, “From Beyond”, and more. Other notable works by this author include: “At the Mountains of Madness”, “The Rats in the Walls”, and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer of supernatural horror fiction. Though his works remained largely unknown and did not furnish him with a decent living, Lovecraft is today considered to be among the most significant writers of supernatural horror fiction of the twentieth century. Read & Co. is publishing this classic collection of short stories now in a new edition complete with a dedication by George Henry Weiss.
Download or read book In the Midst of Parenting written by Carol Smaldino and published by . This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A respected psychotherapist offers a much-needed book that teaches parents to value their own knowledge when parenting their children.
Download or read book American Abductions written by Mauro Javier Cardenas and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Cárdenas’ novel unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century. American Abductions opens in a near-future United States whose omnipresence of data-harvesting and algorithms has enabled the mass incarceration and deportation of Latin Americans—regardless of citizenship. After their father is abducted by immigration officials before their eyes and deported to Colombia, Ada and her sister Eva are left to contend with a United States as all-seeing as it is hostile. Now adults, Ada remains in San Francisco while Eva has joined their father in Colombia, tending him in his ailing health. When his condition worsens, Eva asks Ada to come see them: a nearly impossible feat, given the United States’ restrictions on Latin Americans’ movements. Ada, terribly alone, must come to terms with the violence of American society and the grief of lost community. Exploring the role of technology, mass society, and American expectations on how Latin American deportees should tell their stories, the novel delves into the ties, memories, and lines of code binding communities together. Mauro Javier Cárdenas has been lauded as one of the most promising Latin American authors, and in American Abductions, his deconstruction of American society and the surveillance state proves his generation-defining acuity and storytelling. The book’s polyphony of mysticism, technology, and philosophy calls to mind the perceptive dystopian visions of Philip K. Dick and the visionary stylistic fluidity of Samuel Delany. The result is a sharp and metaphysical narrative, a masterwork examining the place of Latin Americans in a United States that is always changing.
Download or read book Urban Fantasy Series Starter 2 Pack written by Jayne Faith and published by Jayne Faith. This book was released on with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover two urban fantasy series by bestseller Jayne Faith with this special edition first-in-series collection! Stone Cold Magic (Ella Grey Series Book 1): Demon patrol officer Ella Grey beat death after an accident on the job, but something followed her back from the grave. Will it eat her soul or become her greatest ally? Perfect for fans of Kim Harrison and early Anita Blake! Oath of Blood (Tara Knightley Series Prequel): When Tara Knightley's mother falls prey to a deadly magic-borne illness, Tara refuses to accept there's no cure. Her quest for answers takes her into the dangerous world of the Fae, where words are weapons and promises are forever. What will she have to sacrifice to save her mother? Download this collection today because you're going to love getting lost in the magic, action, and adventure of Jayne Faith's bestselling urban fantasy stories. This special edition box set is only available for a limited time! This box set collection contains two complete books: Stone Cold Magic (Ella Grey Series Book One) Oath of Blood (Tara Knightley Series Prequel/Book Zero)
Download or read book Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative Trauma and Body Pain written by Paula L. Ellman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide demonstrates that the concept of the unconscious is profoundly relevant for understanding the mind, psychic pain, and traumatic human suffering. Editors Paula L. Ellman and Nancy R. Goodman established this book to discover how symbolization takes place through the "finding of unconscious fantasy" in ways that mend the historic split between trauma and fantasy. Cases present the dramatic encounters between patient and therapist when confronting discovery of the unconscious in the presence of trauma and body pain, along with narrative. Unconscious fantasy has a central role in both clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis. This volume is a guide to the workings of the dyad and the therapeutic action of "finding" unconscious meanings. Staying close to the clinical engagement of analyst and patient shows the transformative nature of the "finding" process as the dyad works with all aspects of the unconscious mind. Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide uses the immediacy of clinical material to show how trauma becomes known in the "here and now" of enactment processes and accompanies the more symbolized narratives of transference and countertransference. This book features contributions from a rich variety of theoretical traditions illustrating working models including Klein, Arlow, and Bion and from leaders in the fields of narrative, trauma, and psychosomatics. Whether working with narrative, trauma or body pain, unconscious fantasy may seem out of reach. Attending to the analyst/ patient process of finding the derivatives of unconscious fantasy offers a potent roadmap for the way psychoanalytic engagement uncovers deep layers of the mind. In focusing on the places of trauma and psychosomatic concreteness, along with narrative, Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide shows the vitality of "finding" unconscious fantasy and its effect in initiating a symbolizing process. Chapters in this book bring to life the sufferings and capacities of individual patients with actual verbatim process material demonstrating how therapists and patients discover and uncover the derivatives of unconscious fantasy. Finding the unconscious meanings in states of trauma, body expressions, and transference/countertransference enactments becomes part of the therapeutic dialogue between therapists and patients unraveling symptoms and allowing transformations. Learning how therapeutic work progresses to uncover unconscious fantasy will benefit all therapists and students of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy interested to know more about the psychoanalytic dialogue.
Download or read book Positive Management written by Jack Walters and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mythology has arisen in American business that being 'tough' and unreasonable are keys to extracting high productivity from employees. But profound demographic and cultural changes are suggesting just the opposite. This book explains how to achieve higher productivity through positive management and how to use PM in a variety of situations, including difficult and negative ones.
