Betrayal of the Self
10 best books like Betrayal of the Self (Arno Gruen): Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes, Self-Analysis, Amok and Other Stories, Works of Love, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams, Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It, On Self-Respect, İnsan Olmak, Angst, İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. Its Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler...
| Author | Karen Horney |
| ISBN | 1406797480 |
Originally published the 1940s, this is one of the founding texts in the self-analysis movement. It still has much practical advice to offer to today's audience. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive....
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 1901285669 |
A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death, and...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0691059160 |
The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works of Love, the midpoint in the series, is also the...
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0691099685 |
Together for the first time in one paperback volume are two of Jung's major late works, in the version published in The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, as rendered by Jung's official translator. "The Undiscovered Self" (1957) integrates many of Jung's lifelong social and psychological concerns and...
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
| Author | Kamal Ravikant |
| ISBN | 1478121734 |
In December of 2011, I gave a talk to an audience of scientists, Pentagon officials, politicians, and CEO's on the secret of life and how I'd figured it out the previous summer.
Afterwards, people came up individually and told me how much what I'd shared meant to them. This book is based on the...
“Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power" was first published in Vogue in 1961, and which was republished as “On Self-Respect” in the author’s 1968 collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Didion wrote the essay as the magazine was going to press, to fill the space left after another writer...
İlk kez yayımlandığı 1983'ten günümüze defalarca baskı yapmış ve okurla kurduğu yapıcı ilişkiyi kanıtlamış olan bu kitabında Engin Geçtan insan olmanın ikilemini şöyle anlatır: "Çağdaş toplumlar kendine özgü bir olguyu da birlikte getirmiştir. İnsan eskisinden...
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 3150065402 |
Irene Wagner, verheiratet und Mutter zweier Kinder, lebt vordergründig ein Leben, das den Anforderungen bürgerlicher Moralvorstellung vollauf genügt. Im Widerspruch zu diesem Leben steht ihr Verhältnis mit einem Musiker. Sorgsam um Geheimhaltung bemüht, wird sie bei einem Treffen mit...
"İnsan Ne İle Yaşar" ünlü düşünür ve yazar Tolstoy'un okuyucunun manevi dünyasına hitap eden hikâyelerinden oluşan en önemli eserlerinden biridir. Kitaba ismini veren hikâyede, fakir bir ayakkabıcı ustası olan Simon tarafından kurtarılan Michael, şu temel soruların...
Psikiyatrist Engin Geçtan Zamane'de geniş bir zaman aralığında, Türkiye'de yaşanan süreçlere bakıyor, toplumun ve bireylerin değişmesine dair tespitlerde, yorumlarda zaman zaman da önerilerde bulunuyor. Otorite, öfke, sıkışmış kızgınlıklar, persona ve gölge,...
'Niçin hep acı şeyler yazayım? Dostlar, yufka yürekli dostlar bundan hoşlanmıyorlar. 'Hep kötü, sakat şeyleri mi göreceksin?' diyorlar. 'Hep açlardan, çıplaklardan, dertlilerden mi bahsedeceksin? Geceleri gazete satıp izmarit toplayan serseri çocuklardan; bir kaşık...
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 6053326097 |
Olağanüstü Bir Gece, seçkin bir burjuva olarak rahat ve tasasız varoluşunu sürdürürken giderek duyarsızlaşan bir adamın hayatındaki dönüştürücü deneyimin hikâyesidir. Sıradan bir Pazar gününü at yarışlarında geçirirken, belki de ilk kez burjuva ahlakından...
| Author | William H. Danforth |
| ISBN | 0960241604 |
I Dare You! is the expression of William H. Danforth's personal philosophy of "Four-square" personal development. Much more than a primer on the mechanics of balanced success, it is a riveting and motivational incitement to action. This brief book will provide you with the roadmap for success as well...
Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis
| Author | Wilhelm Reich |
| ISBN | 0374516413 |
Jewish Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance...
| Author | Sonu Shamdasani |
| ISBN | 0415854741 |
Written three years before his death, The Undiscovered Self combines acuity with concision in masterly fashion and is Jung at his very best. Offering clear and crisp insights into some of his major theories, such as the duality of human nature, the unconscious, human instinct and spirituality, Jung...
Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis
| Author | Karen Horney |
| ISBN | 0393309401 |
This book explains everything about human character and is really beautifully written. It's as breezy as Linda Goodman's Sun Signs but much more complex. Horney theory is actually so complex that most people don't talk about her anymore, even though she was one of the most important psychoanalytic...
| Author | Rollo May |
| ISBN | 0393350878 |
Rollo May challenges the idea that "mental health is living without anxiety," believing it is essential to being human. He explores how it can relieve boredom, sharpen sensibilities, and produce the tension necessary to preserve human existence. May sees a link extending from anxiety to intelligence,...
