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Book Cover for: Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare
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Psychoanalysis on the stage "Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings". Cassius (John Gielgud) to Casca (Edmund O'Brien), William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II https://t.co/KprxSiZOKR

Paperback, Mass Market, 2004

$6.99Member price:$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Ego and the Id, Sigmund Freud

The Ego and the Id

Sigmund Freud
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"The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the mother; thus giving rise to the Oedipus complex." Sigmund Freud, The Ego and The Id @HermannNitsch, Oedipus https://t.co/Tanq9CrAA4

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Book Cover for: Antigone, Sophocles

Antigone

Sophocles
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Fine playwrights do psychoanalysis “Oh Oedipus, father and brother! Your marriage strikes me from the grave to murder mine. I have been a stranger here in my own land. All my life.” Sophocles, Antigone, lines 696 - 700 Sculpture by Hadi Ziaoddini هادی ضیاالدینی https://t.co/A9h2kNoOeg

Paperback, 2023

$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sex and the Failed Absolute, Slavoj Zizek

Sex and the Failed Absolute

Slavoj Zizek
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“Sexuality is not a mystery in the sense of an impenetrable enigma for us. It is an enigma in itself. And this enigma makes it work AS sexuality.” Slavoj Žižek, Sex and the Failed Absolute https://t.co/Wb5cp9wWd2

Paperback, 2021

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka

Letters to Milena

Franz Kafka
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Fine writers do psychoanalysis “Everything is exaggeration, the only truth is longing, which cannot be exaggerated.” Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena @DonellGabriele https://t.co/JRZ1Py6zT9

Paperback, 2015

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: 1984: 75th Anniversary, George Orwell

1984: 75th Anniversary

George Orwell
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Fine writers do psychoanalysis “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.” George Orwell, 1984, published today in 1949 https://t.co/6UJ66ESHKG

Paperback, Mass Market, 1950

$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rainer Maria Rilke in his Letters to a Young Poet: “Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them...the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will ... https://t.co/r14Az9nXtE

Paperback, 2014

$14.00Member price:$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Weight of Glory, C. S. Lewis

The Weight of Glory

C. S. Lewis
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Fine writers do psychoanalysis: “We meet no ordinary people in our lives” C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory The movie of a fictional meeting between Freud (Anthony Hopkins) and Lewis (Matthew Goode), ‘Freud’s Last Session’, is currently in production in London. https://t.co/k7MOPn8Ska

Paperback, 2001

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: As You Like It, William Shakespeare

As You Like It

William Shakespeare
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Fine Bards do psychoanalysis “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” Spoken by the court jester and fool Touchstone in William Shakespeare’s 1599 comedy, As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1. https://t.co/K1RILzd6Fo

Paperback, 2019

$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy
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Fine writers do psychoanalysis “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way ... Everything was in confusion in the Oblonsky’s house.” Line 1 and line 2 of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, 1878 https://t.co/5rDDXonTbO

Paperback, 1995

$7.99Member price:$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book