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 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 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 Strictly Fantasy written by Gerald Nachtwey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Role-playing games seemed to appear of nowhere in the early 1970s and have been a quiet but steady presence in American culture ever since. This new look at the hobby searches for the historical origins of role-playing games deep in the imaginative worlds of Western culture. It looks at the earliest fantasy stories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at the fans--both readers and writers--who wanted to bring them to life, at the Midwestern landscape and the middle-class households that were the hobby's birthplace, and at the struggle to find meaning and identity amidst cultural conflicts that drove many people into these communities of play. This book also addresses race, religion, gender, fandom, and the place these games have within American capitalism. All the paths of this journey are connected by the very quality that has made fantasy role-playing so powerful: it binds the limitless imagination into a "strict" framework of rules. Far from being an accidental offshoot of marginalized fan communities, role-playing games' ability to hold contradictions in dynamic, creative tension made them a necessary and central product of the twentieth century.
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 The Complete Works of Plutarch Parallel Lives Moralia Illustrated written by Plutarch and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 7863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch created a diverse range of works that have entertained generations of readers since the days of Imperial Rome. Plutarch's writings had an enormous influence on English and French literature. Plutarch was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches.
Download or read book Human Virtuality and Digital Life written by Richard Frankel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gradiva® Best Book Award 2022, and the Courage to Dream Book Prize 2023 from the Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association! This book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of how the digital is transforming our perception of the world and our understanding of ourselves. Drawing on examples from everyday life, myth, and popular culture, this book argues that virtual reality is only the latest instantiation of the phenomenon of the virtual, which is intrinsic to human being. It illuminates what is at stake in our understanding of the relationship between the virtual and the real, showing how our present technologies both enhance and diminish our psychological lives. The authors claim that technology is a pharmakon - at the same time both a remedy and a poison - and in their writing exemplify a method that overcomes the polarization that compels us to regard it either as a liberating force or a dangerous threat in human life. The digital revolution challenges us to reckon with the implications of what is being called our posthuman condition, leaving behind our modern conception of the world as constituted by atemporal essences and reconceiving it instead as one of processes and change. The book’s postscript considers the sudden plunge into the virtual effected by the 2020 global pandemic. Accessible and wide-reaching, this book will appeal not only to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and philosophers, but anyone interested in the ways virtuality and the digital are transforming our contemporary lives.
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 Fantasy Life written by Matthew Berry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes new chapters with small, easy-to-understand words. Bestselling words! Fantasy football, fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, even fantasy sumo wrestling: the world of fantasy sports is huge, and still growing. Today, more than 35 million people in the United States and Canada spend hours upon hours each week on their fantasy sports teams. And as the Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst for ESPN, Matthew Berry is on the front lines of what has grown from a niche subculture into a national pastime. In his New York Times-bestselling Fantasy Life, Berry celebrates every aspect of the fantasy sports world. Brilliant trash talk. Unbelievable trophies. Insane draft day locations. Shake-your-head-in-disbelief punishments. Ingenious attempts at cheating. And surprisingly uplifting stories that remind us why we play these games in the first place. Written with the same award-winning style that has made Berry one of the most popular columnists on ESPN.com, Fantasy Life is a book for both hard-core fantasy players and people who have never played before. Between tales of love and hate, birth and death, tattoos and furry animal costumes, the White House Situation Room and a 126-pound golden pelican, Matthew chronicles his journey from a fourteen-year-old fantasy player to the face of fantasy sports for the largest sports media company in the world. Fantasy will save your life. Fantasy will set you free. And fantasy life is most definitely better than real life. You’ll see.
Download or read book Daring to Love written by Tamsen Firestone and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to finding love, are you standing in your own way? Daring to Love will help you identify the internal barriers that cause you to sabotage your love life, open yourself up to vulnerability, and build the intimate, lasting relationship you truly desire. After a breakup, most of us spend a lot of time thinking long and hard about what the other person did to cause it, rather than reflecting on ourselves. It seems self-evident that we want our romantic relationships to work, and that love and long-term commitment are our ultimate goals. But what if our desire for love is actually not as straightforward as our emotions make us believe? What if, instead of pursuing love, we are unconsciously pushing it away? In Daring to Love, Tamsen and Robert W. Firestone offer techniques based in Robert Firestone’s groundbreaking voice therapy—the process of giving spoken word to unhealthy patterns—to help you understand how you are getting in your own way on the quest for true love. Love, the Firestones argue, makes us vulnerable and triggers old defenses we formed in childhood, causing us to sabotage our relationships in myriad subtle—and not-so-subtle—ways. Using the voice therapy strategies in this book, you will be able to identify your own defensive patterns and uncover the destructive messages your critical inner voice is telling you about yourself, your partners, and your relationships. If you’re struggling to cultivate lasting relationships, this book can help you embark on your next romantic journey with more openness and self-knowledge.
Download or read book Hidden Notes written by Eva Alton and published by Eva Alton. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family secrets always resurface... if not in life, then after death. Spain, 1937. In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a young woman crosses Europe for love, forced to exile herself in former Yugoslavia. Carmen never thought that her secret, hidden since the forties, would come to light in the 21st century… An 18th-century inheritance that can save a woman with no future. A ghost with a debt to settle. Madrid, 2016. After receiving a visit from her late mother’s ghost, Vesna travels to a tiny country in Central Europe in search of an enigmatic inheritance. A failed musician accompanies her on her quest, during which they will unearth family mysteries buried amid the ruins of World War II-occupied Europe. A story told in three voices by three generations of one family; three women bound by decades of secrets and troubles that must be unraveled if they want to find peace. What readers are saying about Hidden Notes: "You immediately immerse yourself in the character of Vesna and her ghosts. I love her character and irony. The romantic relationship with Max keeps you in suspense, while the grandmother's story during the war unfolds in alternating chapters and compels you to keep reading..." —G. G. A historical fantasy romance fiction that straddles the present, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, and will captivate readers of Lucinda Riley, Kate Morton, and V. E. Schwab alike. Dive into this romantic suspense novel where intrigues are masterfully intertwined, creating an impossible-to-put-down read that combines elements of our cultural heritage with a supernatural thriller plot. Other books by Eva Alton: Stray Witch - Book Award Winner Witch’s Mirror Witches' Masquerade Witches' Elements The Vampire’s Assistant A Winter's Cobalt Kiss
Download or read book Recovering History through Fact and Fiction written by Dallas John Baker and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together research that focuses on historic figures who have been largely neglected by history or forgotten over time. The question of how to recover, reclaim or retell the histories and stories of those obscured by the passage of time is one of growing public and scholarly interest. The volume includes chapters on a diverse array of topics, including semi-biographical fiction, digital and visual biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs, among others. Apart from the largely forgotten, the book provides fresh perspectives on historical figures whose biographies are distorted by their fame or limited by public perception. The subjects explored here include, among others, a child author, a Finnish grandmother, a cold war émigré, an Elizabethan era playwright, a castaway, a celebrated female artist, and the lauded personalities Mary Shelley, Judy Garland and J.R.R. Tolkien. Altogether, the chapters included in this collection offer a much-needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations and hybrids which will be of interest to academics and students of biography and life writing in general.
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 The Collected Works of C S Lewis Fantasy Classics Science Fiction Novels Religious Studies written by C.S. Lewis and published by Andrii Ponomarenko. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 1565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clive Staples Lewis, better known as C.S. Lewis, was a respected academic, writer, and speaker. While he might be best known for his works of fantasy, especially the Chronicles of Narnia and Space Trilogy series, he also wrote many books on Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. While Lewis was a lecturer at Oxford, he became close friends with fellow lecturer J.R.R. Tolkien, future author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Both authors participated in an informal writing group, The Inklings, where they critiqued and debated each other’s texts and ideas. His works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe stands out as his most popular fantasy work. Initially, the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia, though chronologically the second by order, it tells of the adventures of children who magically arrive in a magical country called Narnia. In Narnia, magic comes as no surprise, animals both speak and act, and good strives against evil. Lewis weaves Christian themes throughout the Chronicles of Narnia in a manner that is both accessible and picturesque for readers young and old. Attentive readers will also spot elements of Roman and Greek mythology as well as British and Irish folklore. Contents: Fantasy Classics - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Prince Caspian - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - The Silver Chair - The Horse and His Boy - The Magician's Nephew - The Last Battle Science Fiction Novels - Out of the Silent Planet Religious Studies - Mere Christianity - The Screwtape Letters - Screwtape Proposes a Toast
Download or read book Acting Imaging and the Unconscious written by Eric Morris and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting, Imaging, and the Unconscious is the fifth in a series of books written by Eric Morris on his unique system of acting. In this book the emphasis is on imaging as an acting tool to fulfill dramatic material. The work begins with an exploration of the various uses of imaging and goes on to delineate very specific techniques and approaches on how to image, when to image and why. Involved in this process are dreams and dreaming, as well as subpersonalities, which all serve to access and communicate with the unconscious, where ninety-five per cent of an actor's talent lives. Also explored is a process of programming the unconscious to liberate the images that lie at the core of an actor's experience and talent, thus releasing the exciting wellsprings of creativity in the roles an actor plays. With complete examples taken from classical and contemporary plays and films, this book enters territories that had never before been tread upon, thus taking the art of acting into a totally new dimension.
Download or read book THINKING LIKE FREUD written by Adrian Gabriel Dumitru and published by Adrian G Dumitru. This book was released on with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rule number 1 in … self therapy. Whatever happens …. happens for a reason …. but it’s never what it looks like. Even if we agree … or not. A very wise thing which i realised by the passing of time is that i should accept all what happens into my life … cause there are certainly things which i don’t clearly understand …. and most probably i won’t be able to do it so very soon. “Thinking like Freud” …. is a way of expressing my influence to the public … of following the path of a so called self therapy … and always keep in mind that we should analyse and define all related to our lives. But analyse … very, very deep. …. and define with honesty … all what is going on. Keep also in mind that all is a non ending process … that … one day … might help us to understand better who we are … but also why our lives looks like they look like. Of course …. not many have a psychologist diploma …. but we don’t need one … for having this process of healing our souls. Hell … no …. I don’t have such a diploma of psychologist either … and i’ll never bother to do something so that i could get one. All i know is that i have the right …. to speak to myself … but also whisper to the others that they should try to find the elements that influence their lives … and even dominate all around … in such a profound way … that in fact the whole scenario has nothing to do with what they really wanted. All becomes a story about seeing life … and mostly our lives from on million perspective. So … the final question remains … should we bother to do it?! Maybe yes …. maybe no … But if your life just sucks …. this process of self therapy … might be the right magic pill that you should test … for a better existence. And … yes … i believe it’s better than alcohol, drugs, gambling … and many other addiction that this life has to offer to us.
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.
