Cult Fictions

Cult Fictions
Title Cult Fictions PDF eBook
Author Sonu Shamdasani
Publisher Routledge
Pages 158
Release 2003-09-02
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1134664613

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Controversial claims that C.G. Jung, founder of analytical psychology, was a charlatan and a self-appointed demi-god have recently brought his legacy under renewed scrutiny. The basis of the attack on Jung is a previously unknown text, said to be Jung's inaugural address at the founding of his 'cult', otherwise known as the Psychological Club, in Zurich in 1916. It is claimed that this cult is alive and well in Jungian psychology as it is practised today, in a movement which continues to masquerade as a genuine professional discipline, whilst selling false dreams of spiritual redemption. In Cult Fictions, leading Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani looks into the evidence for such claims and draws on previously unpublished documents to show that they are fallacious. This accurate and revealing account of the history of the Jungian movement, from the founding of the Psychological Club to the reformulation of Jung's approach by his followers, establishes a fresh agenda for the historical evaluation of analytical psychology today.

The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction

The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
Title The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction PDF eBook
Author Paul Simpson
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2005
Genre American fiction
ISBN 9781843533870

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An overview of cult fiction that profiles key writers and their works and provides trivia related to cult fiction works.

Cult Fiction

Cult Fiction
Title Cult Fiction PDF eBook
Author Paul Gravett
Publisher Hayward Gallery Publishing
Pages 98
Release 2007
Genre Art
ISBN

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Published to accompany the Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition, held at New Art Gallery, Wallsall, 4 May - 1 July 2007, Nottingham Castle, 14 July - 16 September 2007, Leeds City Art Gallery, 21 September - 11 November 2007, Aberystwyth Art Gallery, 17 November 2007 - 13 January 2008 and Tullie House, Carlisle, 19 January - 16 March 2008.

Cult Fiction

Cult Fiction
Title Cult Fiction PDF eBook
Author Andrew Calcutt
Publisher Prion (GB)
Pages 332
Release 1998
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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What makes a novel cult?: drink and drugs; sex and rock 'n' roll?; a window on subcultures?; the ability to tap into the zeitgeist? This book provides an insight into the cult canon assessing 250 authors who have pioneered experiments in style and content, from Kathy Acker and Nelson Algren via Burroughs and Bukowski to Tom Wolfe and Irvine Welsh.

Cult X

Cult X
Title Cult X PDF eBook
Author Fuminori Nakamura
Publisher Soho Press
Pages 529
Release 2018-05-22
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1616957875

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The magnum opus by Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection. When Toru Narazaki’s girlfriend, Ryoko Tachibana, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of the private detective he’s hired to find her. Ryoko’s past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue to her whereabouts is a previous address in the heart of Tokyo. She lived in a compound with a group that seems to be a cult led by a charismatic guru with a revisionist Buddhist scheme of life, death, and society. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru’s brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn’t what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence he is stepping into. Inspired by the 1995 sarin gas terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway, Cult X is an exploration of what draws individuals into extremism. It is a tour de force that captures the connections between astrophysics, neuroscience, and religion; an invective against predatory corporate consumerism and exploitative geopolitics; and a love story about compassion in the face of nihilism.

Cult Classic

Cult Classic
Title Cult Classic PDF eBook
Author Sloane Crosley
Publisher MCD
Pages 195
Release 2022-06-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0374603405

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Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR at the Washington Post, the BBC, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, and more! One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only with the viability of her current relationship but with the fact that both her best friend and her former boss, a magazine editor turned mystical guru, might have an unhealthy investment in the outcome. Memories of the past swirl and converge in ways both comic and eerie, as Lola is forced to decide if she will surrender herself to the conspiring of one very contemporary cult. Is it possible to have a happy ending in an age when the past is ever at your fingertips and sanity is for sale? With her gimlet eye, Sloane Crosley spins a wry literary fantasy that is equal parts page-turner and poignant portrayal of alienation.

500 Essential Cult Books

500 Essential Cult Books
Title 500 Essential Cult Books PDF eBook
Author Gina McKinnon
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Best books
ISBN 9781402774850

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500 essential cult books brings together some of the best cult books ever written, assembling an incredible list comprising fiction, memoirs, thrillers, sci-fi and fantasy epics, self-help tomes, graphic novels and children's books from across the ages.