Ambivalence A Love Story

Author : John Donatich
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781466832725

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Ambivalence, a Love Story by John Donatich Pdf

Ambivalence, a Love Story is a deeply nuanced accounting in which two people come together to make a marriage work. Rarely has marriage and its compromises been so intimately portrayed, especially when tested by depression, unemployment, miscarriage and other realities of contemporary life. Whether inside the sterile out-placement offices for reengineered executives or traipsing through the suburban homes and competing lifestyles with perky realtors, Donatich muses on life's transitions with rare candor and insight. Ambivalence traces the inner life of a man coming into adulthood: on being first generation, on interfaith marriage, on playing the accordion and ultimately on the question of whether we are better off solitary or coupled. But at heart, it is a tender -- if circumspect -- love story. An astonishing middle-aged debut.

Author : John Donatich
Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312996020

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Ambivalence by John Donatich Pdf

Author : Rivka Galchen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811222976

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Little Labors by Rivka Galchen Pdf

In paperback at last: Rivka Galchen’s beloved baby bible—slyly hilarious, surprising, and absolutely essential reading for anyone who has ever had, held, or been a baby In this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers—Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Djuna Barnes, Mavis Gallant—is zero, that orange is the new baby pink, that The Tale of Genji has no plot but plenty of drama about paternity, that babies exude an intoxicating black magic, and that a baby is a goldmine.

Author : Rebecca Walker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440662836

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Baby Love by Rebecca Walker Pdf

From the international bestselling author of Black, White, and Jewish comes a "wonderfully insightful" (Associated Press) book that's destined to become a motherhood classic. Now in trade. Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. As an adult she longed for a baby but feared losing her independence. In this very smart memoir, Walker explores some of the larger sociological trends of her generation while delivering her own story about the emotional and intellectual transformation that led her to motherhood.

Author : Rozsika Parker
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ambivalence
ISBN : 1844081710

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Torn in Two by Rozsika Parker Pdf

Can the coexistence of love and hate actually stimulate and sharpen a mother's awareness of what is going on between her and her child? Reversing the conventional psychoanalytic approach, in which maternal ambivalence has been chiefly understood from the point of view of the child, this book gives precedence to the mother's perspective. Rozsika Parker draws on interviews with mothers, clinical material from her practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and a range of literary and popular sources, to create a powerful exploration of maternal ambivalence in a culture painfully and profoundly uneasy at its very existence. Original and accessible, with new readings of the work of Klein, Winnicoot, Bowlby and others, Torn in Two will enrich and change our thinking about mothering.

Author : Crystal Hana Kim
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062645203

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If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim Pdf

“An immersive, heartbreaking story about war, passion, and the road not taken.” — People "One of the most beautiful and moving love stories you’ll read this year." — Nylon Magazine NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The New York Post • Vulture • Real Simple • Bustle • Nylon • Thrillist • Mental Floss • Self magazine • Booklist • Refinery 29 An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love—the unforgettable saga of two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they’re forced to make in the years surrounding the civil war that still haunts us today. When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a few hours each night, she escapes her family’s makeshift home and tragic circumstances with her childhood friend, Kyunghwan. Focused on finishing school, Kyunghwan doesn’t realize his older and wealthier cousin, Jisoo, has his sights set on the beautiful and spirited Haemi—and is determined to marry her before joining the fight. But as Haemi becomes a wife, then a mother, her decision to forsake the boy she always loved for the security of her family sets off a dramatic saga that will have profound effects for generations to come. Richly told and deeply moving, If You Leave Me is a stunning portrait of war and refugee life, a passionate and timeless romance, and a heartrending exploration of one woman’s longing for autonomy in a rapidly changing world.

Author : Laura Kipnis
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780593316283

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Love in the Time of Contagion by Laura Kipnis Pdf

In this timely, insightful, and darkly funny investigation, the acclaimed author of Against Love asks: what does living in dystopic times do to our ability to love each other and the world? COVID-19 has produced new taxonomies of love, intimacy, and vulnerability. Will its cultural afterlife be as lasting as that of HIV, which reshaped consciousness about sex and love even after AIDS itself had been beaten back by medical science? Will COVID end up making us more relationally conservative, as some think HIV did within gay culture? Will it send us fleeing into emotional silos or coupled cocoons, despite the fact that, pre-COVID, domestic coupledom had been steadily losing fans? Just as COVID revealed our nation to itself, so did it hold a mirror up to our relationships. In Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis weaves (often hilariously) her own (ambivalent) coupled lockdown experiences together with those of others and sets them against a larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, and the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, mapping their effects on the everyday routines and occasional solaces of love and sex.

Author : Alexandra Sacks,Catherine Birndorf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781501112577

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What No One Tells You by Alexandra Sacks,Catherine Birndorf Pdf

Your guide to the emotions of pregnancy and early motherhood, from two of America’s top reproductive psychiatrists. When you are pregnant, you get plenty of advice about your growing body and developing baby. Yet so much about motherhood happens in your head. What everyone really wants to know: Is this normal? -Even after months of trying, is it normal to panic after finding out you’re pregnant? -Is it normal not to feel love at first sight for your baby? -Is it normal to fight with your parents and partner? -Is it normal to feel like a breastfeeding failure? -Is it normal to be zonked by “mommy brain?” In What No One Tells You, two of America’s top reproductive psychiatrists reassure you that the answer is yes. With thirty years of combined experience counseling new and expectant mothers, they provide a psychological and hormonal backstory to the complicated emotions that women experience, and show why it’s natural for “matrescence”—the birth of a mother—to be as stressful and transformative a period as adolescence. Here, finally, is the first-ever practical guide to help new mothers feel less guilt and more self-esteem, less isolation and more kinship, less resentment and more intimacy, less exhaustion and more pleasure, and learn other tips to navigate the ups and downs of this exciting, demanding time

Author : Tracy Shields
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1098313844

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Girl Rebuilt by Tracy Shields Pdf

You're miserable, in pain, frustrated. He says he loves you, but he's never available. Wtf? No matter what you do, no matter how successful you are, you can't seem to break the pattern of dating unavailable, avoidant guys, and you're sick of it. "Girl Rebuilt" is designed for women who are seeking to avoid dating those partners. It requires asking yourself a tough question: could you be a love addict? Tracy Shields is the bestie you need to talk it out with. She offers up fresh, intense insight on how to reconfigure your defense mechanisms, ditch your fears of abandonment, and become the person you need to be to experience healthy love.

Author : Hili Razinsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786601544

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Ambivalence by Hili Razinsky Pdf

Combining Analytic and Continental approaches, this book provides a detailed analysis of mental ambivalence and its structures, forms and possibilities, in a philosophical context. The author explores ambivalence alongside issues relating to subjectivity, action and judgement, developing new and highly original accounts of these concepts.

Author : Rebecca Walker
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544149229

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Ade by Rebecca Walker Pdf

Named one of Time magazine's most influential leaders of her generation, celebrated writer Rebecca Walker delivers her stunning debut novel--a heartbreaking, unforgettable love story in the tradition of Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending and Marguerite Duras's The Lover.

Author : Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229043

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Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy Pdf

On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

Author : Linda Paulk Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990344568

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A Clinician's Guide to Pathological Ambivalence by Linda Paulk Buchanan Pdf

Resistant. Oppositional. Borderline. Mental health professionals commonly use such terms to describe patients who, despite expressing a strong desire to reduce their emotional distress, repeatedly reject or ignore their therapist's interpretations andadvice. When this continues session after session, both patient and therapist end up feeling stuck and frustrated.This book offers an alternative interpretation of patients' apparent resistance, termed pathological ambivalence, which is rooted in early experience, biological functioning, and psychological narrative. The concept of pathological ambivalence draws from several established theoretical perspectives in explaining why some people seem to sabotage their progress in psychotherapy and how some therapists become unintentional enablers.

Author : Jonathan Garfinkel
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131650223

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Ambivalence by Jonathan Garfinkel Pdf

TRAVEL WRITING. This provocative memoir chronicles Garfinkel's travels in Israel and Palestine and his journey away from a Zionist education in Toronto. After a screening of a Palestinian film, he meets a Palestinian woman who tells him about a house in Israel occupied by an Arab and a Jew. The story compels him to travel to Israel and the West Bank in search of the house with the hopes of discovering a truer sense of life in the Middle East. But the address she's given him doesn't exist, and nothing is as simple as it seemed...Bringing to light the complexities of real life as opposed to the religious or political ideal, this memoir questions what it really means to adhere to a culture or faith. Rife with riotous, sometimes surreal comedy, as well as tragic misunderstandings, "Ambivalence" offers a vivid and challenging portrait of life in Israel and Palestine.

Author : Katherine Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0995759103

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How to Fall in Love - A 10-Step Journey to the Heart by Katherine Baldwin Pdf

Are you struggling to understand why you're single and why none of your relationships work out? Do you find yourself drawn to men or women who won't commit? Do you wonder if you'll ever meet your match? How to Fall in Love is a relationships guide with a difference, written for those who want to explore the real reasons for their singleness.