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“leonard shengold”

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  • If You Can't Trust Your Mother, Whom Can You Trust?

    Soul Murder, Psychoanalysis and Creativity

    by Leonard Shengold ...
    The main theme of this book concerns the continuing psychic centrality of parents for their children. Several chapters examine an author and his works, outlining that author's relationships with parents, good-and-bad, and making descriptive comments about these based both on information gleaned from the author's life and writings as well as from observations found in autobiographies, biographies ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Is There Life Without Mother?

    Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity

    by Leonard Shengold ...
    In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to negotiate a universal longing to refind the mother without sliding back into neglect, abuse, and despair. In the foreground of his analysis are moving portraits of Jules Renard and Anthony Trollope ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Promise

    Who is in Charge of Time and Space?

    by Leonard Shengold ...
    Our sense of identity begins (our psychological birth sometime in the first year of life) with the feeling that we are the centre of the universe, protected by godlike benevolent parents who will enable us to live happily ever after. This is the "Promise" that is never given up, lurking in the unconscious part of our minds. We must learn, reluctantly, that our parents are unable to protect us from ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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  • Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning

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  • How to Read Literature

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    A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasureWhat makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing ... Read more

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  • How Novels Work

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  • Life Lessons from Freud

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    Series Book 9 - School of Life
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