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  • Performative Beauty

    A Pragmatist and Somaesthetic Account

    by Falk Heinrich ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Philosophy
    This book develops an original theory of performative beauty by reconsidering and reworking Deweyan pragmatic aesthetics through the lens of somaesthetics, contemporary embodiment theories, and philosophies of play.While philosophical aesthetics has traditionally focused on beauty as a property of external objects, this book explores beauty as an enacted experience that emerges through our own ... Read more

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  • A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty

    Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia

    by Falk Heinrich ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one’s own actions as a potential experience of the beautiful. Throughout the book, the author uses his own experiences of Argentine tango as a case study; one important incentive for social dancing is to have pleasurable and beautiful experiences.This book begins by investigating the ... Read more

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  • Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture

    by Falk Heinrich ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations.After considering established theories of beauty, for example, Plato, Alison, Hume, Kant, Gadamer and Santayana through to McMahon and Sartwell, Heinrich argues that ... Read more

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    Anthropology, Psychopathology, and Care

    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
    The field of psychiatry has long struggled with developing models of practice; most underemphasize the interpersonal aspects of clinical practice. This essay is unique in putting intersubjectivity front and center. It is an attempt to provide a clinical method to re-establish the fragile dialogue of the soul with oneself and with others. Throughout, the book builds on the assumption that to be ... Read more

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  • The Ego and the Id

    100 Years Later

    Edited by Fred Busch, Natacha Delgado ...
    Series series The International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues Series
    The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later revisits Freud’s classic 1923 essay, which developed key psychoanalytic concepts and presented a radical revision of his earlier theory.International contributors explore the themes of this remarkable work from their own perspective, with novel and surprising results. There are mysteries uncovered, questions raised about the validity of Freud’s perspective, ... Read more

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  • Losing Ourselves

    Learning to Live without a Self

    Why you don’t have a self—and why that’s a good thingIn Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us and improve our lives, our relationships, and the world. Drawing on Indian and East Asian Buddhism, Daoism, Western philosophy, and cognitive ... Read more

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  • Projective Identification

    The Fate of a Concept

    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    In this book Elizabeth Spillius and Edna O'Shaughnessy explore the development of the concept of projective identification, which had important antecedents in the work of Freud and others, but was given a specific name and definition by Melanie Klein. They describe Klein's published and unpublished views on the topic, and then consider the way the concept has been variously described, evolved, ... Read more

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  • Jung: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

    by Phil Goss ...
    Jung: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing added-value features like summaries of key books, and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.The book uses a structure that mirrors ... Read more

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  • Jungian Psychoanalysis

    Working in the Spirit of Carl Jung

    Edited by Murray Stein ...
    Written by 40 of the most notable Jungian psychoanalysts - spanning 11 countries, and boasting decades of study and expertise - Jungian Psychoanalysis represents the pinnacle of Jungian thought. This handbook brings up to date the perspectives in the field of clinically applied analytical psychology, centering on five areas of interest: the fundamental goals of Jungian psychoanalysis, the methods ... Read more

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  • Unconscious Logic

    An Introduction to Matte Blanco's Bi-Logic and Its Uses

    by Eric Rayner ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    While the theories of Matte Blanco about the structure of the unconscious and the way in which it operates are generally recognised to be the most original since those of Freud, for many people the ways in which his ideas are expressed, including the use of terminology from mathematics and logic, make them difficult of access.Eric Rayner has written the first clear introduction to Matte Blanco's ... Read more

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  • Politeness

    Some Universals in Language Usage

    Series Book 4 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for ... Read more

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  • Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy

    Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics

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