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How James Joyce Made his Name

A Reading of the Final Lacan

by Roberto Harari
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013

In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, “Le Sinthome,” Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics. Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay...
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by Ivan Vladislavic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014

It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favourite neighbourhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar old South Africa has almost vanished. Standards, he...
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by Merethe Lindstrom
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

From the acclaimed Nordic Council Literature Prize winner, a story that reveals the devastating effects of mistaking silence for peace and feeling shame for inevitable circumstances ** ** Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is a teacher, and they...
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The Ladies Gallery

A Memoir of Family Secrets

by Irene Vilar
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009

A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representatives with gunfire, wounding several...
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by Marie Luise Knott
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedom   After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of the most chilling...
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My Name is Victoria

The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity

by Victoria Donda
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011

Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families...
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Introduction to the Reading of Lacan

The Unconscious Structured Like a Language

by Joel Dor
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013

About this Book... "A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject—are developed in depth." -Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School
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Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety

An Introduction

by Roberto Harari
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013

Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's theory of drives. Moreover, they answer some of the criticisms that have been leveled at Lacan by forms of psychoanalysis unable or unwilling to incorporate his ideas.
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The Faithful Scribe

A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War

by Shahan Mufti
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

A journalist explores his family’s history to reveal the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the world’s first Islamic democracy ** ** Shahan Mufti’s family history, which he can trace back fourteen hundred years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened...
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by Rodrigo Souza Leao
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

All Dogs are Blue is a fiery and scurrilously funny tale of life in a Rio de Janeiro insane asylum. Our narrator is upset by his ever-widening girth and kept awake by the Rio funk blaring from a nearby favela - fair enough, but what about the undercover agents infiltrating the asylum? He misses the...
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Everything Is Broken Up and Dances

The Crushing of the Middle Class

by Edoardo Nesi, Guido Maria Brera
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

This extended autobiographical essay explains in clear, engaging terms how the role of economics and finance in the Western world has shifted in the twenty-first century, from cultivating wellbeing in society to eroding the wealth of the middle class. Just a handful of years into the new millennium,...
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Departures

A Memoir

by Paul Zweig
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011

Departures is Paul Zweig’s celebration of life and love. Zweig thought of himself as a sojourner, a contemporary Wandering Jew, a man with “a loose wire in his genes.” He led a number of distinct lives: as a Jewish child in Brooklyn and on a farm in the Catskills; as a literature student at...
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We Are Rich

Stories

by Dori Carter
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009

The little, leafy town of Rancho Esperanza has been a perfect place to live for over a century–a bastion of good, solid, Anglo-Saxon, Republican money. These founding fathers built their gracious estates and country club and fondly called their town, “Ohio by the Sea.” There was only one traffic...
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La Petite

A Memoir of Childhood

by Michele Halberstadt
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

In La Petite, the renowned French writer and film producer Michèle Halberstadt vividly recounts the painful events that surrounded the death of her beloved grandfather, which led to a suicide attempt when she was twelve years old. Michèle’s mother favored her older sister, her father was emotionally...
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