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  • Antonino Ferro

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Robert Snell ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
    This book provides a clear, thorough, and accessible introduction to the work of Antonino Ferro and draws on the clinical vignettes that punctuate his writings to show how Ferro has built on Bion’s revolutionary achievements to develop a distinctive, game-changing version of field theory in psychoanalysis.The book clarifies the phenomenological insight that the analyst and the patient together ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Developments in Field Theory for Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts and Counsellors

    Edited by Robert Snell, Richard Morgan-Jones, Del Loewenthal ...
    This book explores developments in psychoanalytic field theory internationally, and their relevance for therapeutic theory and practice.The roots of psychoanalytic field theory can be traced back to the work of Kurt Lewin, and it has taken particular shape in the hands of the Barangers, Bion and Ferro. The book's focus is on developments in field theory post-Bion ('Post-Bionian Field Theory') in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Cézanne and the Post-Bionian Field

    An Exploration and a Meditation

    by Robert Snell ...
    By inviting a ‘conversation’ between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cézanne—the ‘father of modern art’—and perhaps the most vital body of theory in contemporary psychoanalysis, ‘post-Bionian field theory’, as it has been evolving in Italy in the hands of Antonino Ferro, Giuseppe Civitarese, and others.Cézanne and Bion, each insisting on his own truths, spearheaded quite new ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts

    Romanticism and the analytic attitude

    by Robert Snell ...
    What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?'This book is about what Freud called "freely" or "evenly suspended attention", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. The author steps outside the usual parameters of psychoanalytic writing and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Portraits of the Insane

    Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy

    by Robert Snell ...
    In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five portraits of patients in an asylum or clinic. No depictions of madness before or since can compare with them for humanity, straightforwardness and immediacy. The portraits challenge us to find responses in ourselves to the face and the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • On Difficulty

    And Other Essays

    by George Steiner ...
    A distinguished collection of essays on language, literature, and philosophy from acclaimed scholar and critic George SteinerOn Difficulty is as provocative and relevant today as when its essays were first published. Ranging from critical topics such as the understanding of language to the meaning of meaning, inward speech to the relationship between erotic sensibility and linguistic convention, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theory of the Novel

    by Guido Mazzoni ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    The novel is the most important form of Western art. It aims to represent the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature sends out against the systematic thought of science and philosophy. Indebted to Lukács and Bakhtin, to Auerbach and Ian Watt, Guido Mazzoni’s Theory of the Novel breaks new ground, building a historical understanding of how the novel became the modern book of life: one ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Secrets of Words

    by Noam Chomsky, Andrea Moro ...
    Noam Chomsky and linguist Andrea Moro explore language, the history of science, Big Data and AI, and the mysteries of the human brain.Influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. Chomsky discusses today’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • After Babel

    Aspects of Language and Translation

    by George Steiner ...
    "A brilliant work . . . A dazzling meditation on the very nature of language itself" from the world-renowned scholar and author of The Poetry of Thought ( Kirkus Reviews).In his classic work, literary critic and scholar George Steiner tackles what he considers the Babel "problem": Why, over the course of history, have humans developed thousands of different languages when the social, material, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cybersemiotics

    Why Information Is Not Enough

    by Soren Brier ...
    A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living natural and technical world. Cybersemiotics provides such a framework.By integrating cybernetic information theory into the unique semiotic ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Uncanny

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Translated by David McLintock ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES.Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his personality was so incomprehensible to his contemporaries. In this probing biographical essay he deconstructs both da Vinci's character and the nature of his genius. As ever, many of his exploratory ... Read more

    $12.99 USD