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Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, ...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1963
To make a Freudian slip on a banana peel
Freud did not see jokes as minor nonsense and insignificance. He saw them as deeper messages delivered to us from our unconscious. He saw them as telling the secrets about ourselves to ourselves and the world that we do not necessarily want to tell. He saw them as acts ...
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Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
Gerd Gigerenzer
Viking Adult, 2007
Making sense of the social brain
Why are amateurs better than professionals at picking stocks? Why are 99.9 percent of French citizens registered as organ donors but only 28 percent of Americans? How did a simple rumor bring down the Berlin Wall?
Gigerenzer focuses primarily on the advantages ...
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The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1)
C. G. Jung
Princeton University Press, 1981
An Essential Work by Jung.
This work, along with _Modern Man in Search of a Soul_, is one of the best places to start if you are new to reading Jung. It is also the companion piece and predecessor to _Aion_, which is another spectacular and groundbreaking work. If you want to read _Aion_, it ...
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The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
Christof Koch
Roberts & Company Publishers, 2004
What causes consciousness?
This is a great book that describes where we stand in the search for neuronal correlates of consciousness (NCC). The problem has been attacked by people from various different fields. Still, it has to be a biology problem. Consciousness clearly resides in the brain. ...
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At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability
Ira Progoff
Tarcher, 1992
Very Powerful Tool
This book is a powerful tool for self analysis as well as for anyone that meditates.
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Dream Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Understanding Your Unconscious Mind
Tony Crisp
Gramercy, 2005
Accurate and helpful
This book has been right on the money when it comes to interpreting my dreams, and I love the detail and history of dreams for different cultures, since so much of what we dream is drawn from icons of our subconscious.
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Mentalization-based Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Practical Guide
Anthony Bateman, Peter Fonagy
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
Mentalizing - the ability to understand oneself and others by inferring the mental states that lie behind overt behavior - develops during childhood within the context of a secure attachment relationship. It is crucial to self-regulation and constructive, intimate relationships. Failure to retain mentalizing, particularly in the midst of ...
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The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis: Harnessing the Power of Your Unconscious Mind
Adam Eason
Network 3000 Publishing, 2005
This is a fantastic book
This book is fantastic. You read all these books about NLP and quick persuasion and stuff like that but they never get really in depth with the topic of hypnosis or anything like that. You only get the over view of hypnosis and the point where the mind changes state or ...
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Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
Timothy D. Wilson
Belknap Press, 2004
Great reding and very informative
The idea that there is so a huge amount in our brain/personality/etc. which we are not conscious of, is extremely interesting. It also have many practical implication.
While giving very deep material and various research stuff, it is very readable. A great ...
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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
Lois P. Frankel
Business Plus, 2004
From Nice Girl to Leader
I use this book all the time in my life leadership coaching with women whether they work in corporations or they're entrepreneurs because for women to succeed anywhere they have to grow to overcome their own self-limiting behaviors and beliefs.
What I love about ...
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Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (American Philosophy)
Shannon Sullivan
Indiana University Press, 2006
great book in a field that needs more work
Dr Sullivan's work in this book is a masterful blend of pragmatism, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology to reveal the hidden privelges that we white-people engage in without our awareness, and thus helps to open up a new dimension of self-understanding that is sorely ...
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Rosen Method Bodywork: Accessing the Unconscious Through Touch
Marion Rosen, Sue Brenner
North Atlantic Books, 2003
Rosen Method Bodywork
The Southwest, and Santa Fe in particular, has long been a mecca for the healing arts. The area seems to produce a kind of mentality and lifestyle for all types of alternative healers, from astrology to hypnosis to massage to Chinese medicine. Rosen Method Bodywork is ...
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Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill: Using Dreams to Tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious
Rev. Jeremy Taylor
Grand Central Publishing, 1993
The method works; book ties together dozens of ideas
Having read the book with care, and having experienced the author live, I can and will testify that, for the group in which I participated, the processs works, and the book fairly represents the process. All dreams that can be remembered ultimately do seem "to come in ...
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The Political Unconscious
Fredric Jameson
Cornell University Press, 1982
Paralogisms and enchainment. Literary productions...,
The Political Unconscious is a prodigious crical enterprise that unveils in a stimulating protean verve, the relationship between the political structure and the narrative enterprises of a variety of literary movements and/or individual authors. A model work of Marxist ...
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The Optical Unconscious (October Books)
Rosalind E. Krauss
The MIT Press, 1994
Can you see the watcher?
Kraus's "The Optical Unconcious" is a good companion, as it were, to Martin Jay's "Downcast Eyes." Both discuss the dilema of visuality in Modernist thought and then -whoa - bring out post-modernism just by speaking about the eye and seeing. While Jay gets technical ...
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