The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo starts with Friedrich Nietzsche’s antimetaphysical diagnostic of the ego, his realization that mimetic reflexes—from sympathy to hypnosis, to contagion, to crowd behavior—move the soul, and his insistence that psychology informs philosophical reflection. Through a transdisciplinary, comparative reading of landmark modernist authors like Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Georges Bataille, Lawtoo shows that, before being a timely empirical discovery, the “mimetic unconscious” emerged from an untimely current in literary and philosophical modernism. This book traces the psychological, ethical, political, and cultural implications of the realization that the modern ego is born out of the spirit of imitation; it is thus, strictly speaking, not an ego, but what Nietzsche calls, “a phantom of the ego.” The Phantom of the Ego opens up a Nietzschean back door to the unconscious that has mimesis rather than dreams as its via regia, and argues that the modernist account of the “mimetic unconscious” makes our understanding of the psyche new.

It's never been done before, so Saul Weissman decides to do it. The century's greatest retailer is going to create the first ever male supermodel to launch his new cologne. All that employee Miles Jensen has to do is find the perfect man. Two weeks, twenty-four time zones and countless agencies and nightclubs later, Miles returns to New York with six possibles - among them an Italian playboy, a British ex-army officer and a Brazilian Casanova. They may be worlds apart but they're all hungry for the six million dollar contract. Some of them want it more badly than others. One will stop at nothing to get it.

#1 New York Times bestseller What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers simple yet profound answers to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or you’ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. You’ll discover what you can do to put an end to the habitual thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness. By tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, author and spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization. Copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) The Untethered Soul begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being. The Untethered Soul has already touched the lives of more than a million readers, and is available in a special hardcover gift edition with ribbon bookmark—the perfect gift for yourself, a loved one, or anyone who wants a keepsake edition of this remarkable book. Visit www.untetheredsoul.com for more information.

A light-hearted look at the nature of academic science, intended for anyone interested in biology but particularly for biology students who want to find out what the future holds in store. The "Egg" of the title refers to the science of developmental biology, which is the speciality of the author, and which provides the material for many of the anecdotes. The "Ego" relates to the vanity of the scientists themselves. Academic scientists have to struggle to maintain their research funding. To do this they must persuade other scientists that they are very good, and that means working at a good institution, publishing papers in the most fashionable journals and giving lectures at the most prestigious meetings. Success often goes to those with the largest egos and it is their style of operation that is described in this book. The author is a well-known scientist who has worked at both universities and research institutes. He has published over 100 scientific papers and an influential book about embryonic development: "From Egg to Embryo".

From one artist to another, a helpful guide and a meditation on the nature of the ego and its toxic effects on the creative process Life Without Envy by Camille DeAngelis is a game-changer for artists of all stripes: a practical guide for navigating the feelings of jealousy, frustration, and inadequacy we all experience to create a happy life regardless of how your career is (or isn’t) going. In these pages you'll find strategies for escaping the negative feedback loop you get stuck in whenever you compare yourself to your fellow artists. You'll begin to resolve your hunger for recognition, shifting your mindset from “proving yourself” to making a contribution and becoming part of a supportive creative community. Best of all, you'll come to understand that your worth—as an artist and a human being—has nothing to do with how your work is received in the wider world. Life Without Envy offers a blueprint for real and lasting contentment no matter what setback you’re weathering in your creative life.

Read What’s Your Story? to Discover— • How To Recognize Ego-Story • How To Remove Ego-Story • How To Replace Ego-Story • How To use the 3Rs for Freedom from Ego How Story Shapes Ego • This book is about how story shapes, defines, and guides your self. • This book is about understanding the power and control the story has over your definition of self, your mental life of self-talk, and how you respond to life. • By discovering how story manipulates and controls your life, you will learn how to live free of ego-story. Ego Is Your Problem • Ego is the underlying problem in both personal and social plights. • Learning to see your ego as your real problem begins your journey to sanity. • Solving your problems by working on the reduction of your ego until it is eliminated is the practice of sanity. • Helping others do the same is love, compassion, and kindness. Purpose of Book and Chapters • The story or purpose of this book is to explain the relationships between story, self-talk, and ego. • Such understanding is necessary to realize the book’s goal, which is to help people discover how to live free of ego-story. • The first two chapters explore the nature and structure of the story to help you achieve the goal of freedom from ego. • The following chapter explores the ego’s relationship to self-talk and story. • These together lead to the most important chapter that explores the means and methods for living free of ego-story. Books Expose and Reduce Ego • In Ego, FitzMaurice introduced self-talk as the workings of the ego. • In Games Ego Plays, FitzMaurice introduced social and psychological relationship issues as ego games. • In What’s Your Story?, FitzMaurice introduces the human obsession with the story as the human obsession with ego. • The more ways you have to recognize ego, the more ways you have to begin the process of reducing and eliminating the ego from your life. Uproot Ego and Uproot Misery • Once you recognize ego, you begin to remove and replace your ego. • Most of the many books written by FitzMaurice provide insights and tools to help you Recognize, Remove, and Replace (3Rs) your ego. • While not prerequisites for reading this book, most readers would do well to read both “Garden” and “Ego” before reading “What’s Your Story?” • “Garden” will teach you how to track, process, and improve your thinking, feeling, and reaction. • “Ego” will teach you to focus on your thinking as self-talk to maintain your ego. • Stop being a slave and victim of your ego. • Take charge now of how ego-story controls you and your life. • Choose freedom and authenticity now over ego. • Read and Enjoy Now!

As a society, we have become so accustomed to ego-based emotions like misery, worry, fear, and conflict that we believe these are the norm. This is not the truth, however. We were born to be happy and love unconditionally—it's the gift of self. How can we return to a non-linear state of happiness and peace when everything around us says that nothing is more important than me, me, me? The Ego-Less SELF is a journey of discovery and a return to the self by "one of the most influential clinical and spiritual teachers in North America." It looks closely at the notion of "spiritual transformation" by first showing readers how the ego develops over time to cause suffering in our lives. Once the ego is stripped away, then the historical pathways to the self—heart, mind and action—can begin to work. With a broad range of spiritual influences, from the Bible to the Dalai Lama, personal stories of enlightenment, and real employable strategies and techniques, The Ego-Less SELF sets out to deflate the ego to let the true self shine through. Readers will begin to learn how to get rid of resentments, surrender the ego's unconscious programs for happiness, and employ simple techniques to increase contact with consciousness through the right-brain hemisphere. The road to self is not about trying to acquire anything but rather the willingness to surrender all of our culture's egotistic ways, thus taking us back to that which we are—the purest self. The Ego-Less SELF is the GPS for the journey.