The Life Of The Self
Title | The Life Of The Self PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Lifton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1983-11-14 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN |
The Life Heroic
Title | The Life Heroic PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Svoboda |
Publisher | Zest Books (Tm) |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1541578600 |
An approachable, research-backed guide that will equip middle grade readers with the tools they need to become everyday heroes.
Life Without A Self
Title | Life Without A Self PDF eBook |
Author | Odeh Turjman |
Publisher | Notion Press |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 2022-01-06 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1685633269 |
“Who am I?” “From whence am I?” These perennial questions have plagued mystics, philosophers, theologists and scientists since time immemorial. Mankind is still grappling with the mystery of the self and consciousness. And many have given up and declared, “One cannot know!” This book unravels the mystery of the self and consciousness, and elucidates it in a comprehensive fashion supported by scientific research. An explanation is provided about the state of enlightenment, which mystics have attempted to expound in the absence of modern empirical knowledge. Upon the discovery of one’s real nature, the pressure of living ceases to exist and the conflict within subsides. Disturbing questions regarding love and relationships, behaviour and morality, and the search for enlightenment are investigated and resolved in such a manner to remove the burden they impose. This publication does not propose to change you, rather it questions the concept of self. Who is this ‘you’? It highlights that the focus should be elsewhere and offers a new perspective.
The Self on the Shelf
Title | The Self on the Shelf PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Greenberg |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1994-08-04 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780791420461 |
The Self on the Shelf examines the cultural and philosophical determinants of popular recovery books. Greenberg argues that this literature can be read as documents of the prevailing understanding of the self in American society. The construction of the self promoted by recovery literature is seen as a nihilistic one insofar as it denies the significance of what continental philosophy calls the Other. In this sense the self-help books are correct in their assertion that we have lost sight of how to love, but their proposed solution shows up as a recapitulation and strengthening of the conditions that gave rise to this situation in the first place. Greenbergs critique provides a commentary on the difficulties that face our culture in achieving any sense of meaningful community, and on the way that this problem surfaces in a highly popular discourse.
Self and Emotional Life
Title | Self and Emotional Life PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Johnston |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2013-06-11 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 023153518X |
Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and politically suspect, they view recent advances in neurobiology and its adjacent scientific fields as providing crucial catalysts to a radical rethinking of subjectivity. Merging three distinct disciplines—European philosophy from Descartes to the present, Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and affective neuroscience—Johnston and Malabou triangulate the emotional life of affective subjects as conceptualized in philosophy and psychoanalysis with neuroscience. Their experiments yield different outcomes. Johnston finds psychoanalysis and neurobiology have the potential to enrich each other, though affective neuroscience demands a reconsideration of whether affects can be unconscious. Investigating this vexed issue has profound implications for theoretical and practical analysis, as well as philosophical understandings of the emotions. Malabou believes scientific explorations of the brain seriously problematize established notions of affective subjectivity in Continental philosophy and Freudian-Lacanian analysis. She confronts philosophy and psychoanalysis with something neither field has seriously considered: the concept of wonder and the cold, disturbing visage of those who have been affected by disease or injury, such that they are no longer affected emotionally. At stake in this exchange are some of philosophy's most important claims concerning the relationship between the subjective mind and the objective body, the structures and dynamics of the unconscious dimensions of mental life, the role emotion plays in making us human, and the functional differences between philosophy and science.
The Book of Life
Title | The Book of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Dr.Rajan Pandey |
Publisher | Notion Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2016-08-10 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1945497572 |
THE BOOK OF LIFE is not another book that should find its way to the self-help shelf; rather it’s a coach for life adding a Midas touch. It is that missing jigsaw piece that will help you solves the puzzle of life. It does not promise to make you a millionaire or a billionaire; rather it is a manual of self-development. It is an approach to a positive way of life; it is your best friend and guide. It discloses secrets about Karma and its circle, silver lines, mistakes that help learn, anger management, communication, dreams, and aspirations. It coaches you and helps build a positive attitude. It motivates you and boosts your self-esteem. Also, it brushes your interpersonal skills and translates positive thinking into SUCCESS all this in a simple yet practical and effective way. This book will definitely give you a winning edge.
Life Force
Title | Life Force PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Houston |
Publisher | Quest Books |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1993-03-01 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 9780835606875 |
Jean Houston takes her audience on an exhilarating adventure through the stages of human and personal evolution. Borrowing from her workshops, she leads us through a series of processes, which can be done either individually or in a group, and guides us in recovering lost abilities and expanding human capacities.