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Unforbidden Pleasures

Adam Phillips
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Author : Adam Phillips
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780374712716

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Much has been written of the forbidden pleasures. But what of the "unforbidden" pleasures? Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author of Missing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the unforbidden, from the fall of our "first parents," Adam and Eve, to the work of the great psychoanalytic thinkers. Forbidden pleasures, he argues, are the ones we tend to think about, yet when you look into it, it is probable that we get as much pleasure, if not more, from unforbidden pleasures than from those that are taboo. And we may have underestimated just how restricted our restrictiveness, in thrall to the forbidden and its rules, may make us. An ambitious book that speaks to the precariousness of modern life, Unforbidden Pleasures explores the philosophical, psychological, and social dynamics that govern human desire and shape our everyday reality.

Unforbidden Pleasures

Adam Phillips
Unforbidden Pleasures Book PDF

Author : Adam Phillips
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780374278021

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"Originally published in 2015 by Hamish Hamilton, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

Unforbidden Pleasures

Adam Phillips
Unforbidden Pleasures Book PDF

Author : Adam Phillips
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780241964095

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Unforbidden Pleasures is the dazzling new book from Adam Phillips, author of Missing Out and Going Sane Adam Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the Unforbidden, from the fall of our 'first parents' Adam and Eve to the work of the great twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinkers. Unforbidden pleasures, he argues, are always the ones we tend not to think about, yet when you look into it, it is probable that we get as much pleasure, if not more, from them. And we may have underestimated just how restricted our restrictiveness, in thrall to the forbidden and its rules, may make us. Adam Phillips' latest ambitious project explores the philosophical, psychological and social complexities that govern human desire and shape our reality. Praise for Adam Phillips: 'Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer' The New Yorker 'Phillips is one of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson for our time' - John Banville 'Every mind-blowing book from Adam Phillips suspends all the certainties we are most attached to and somehow makes this feel exhilarating' - Deborah Levy 'Phillips radiates infectious charm. The brew of gaiety, compassion, exuberance and idealism is heady and disarming' - Sunday Times 'The best psychotherapist in Britain and one of our greatest contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers' New Statesman 'Brilliantly amusing and often profoundly unsettling... [he is] the Martin Amis of British psychoanalysis' The Times

Forbidden Pleasures

Bertrice Small
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Author : Bertrice Small
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101153352

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Replacing a social life with a career, bestselling romance novelist Emily Shann has gotten by on a vivid imagination, hiding a shocking secret that not even her publisher suspects—until she’s asked to write something that’s hotter, sexier, more explicit, and true to life. Emily has nowhere to turn for advice except to her new editor—tall, dark, and handsome Michael Devlin—who’s already stirring her fantasies. So is The Channel—a secret network designed to tutor women in the art of sensual delight. Now more willing than ever before, she must convince Devlin to teach her everything he knows...if her literary fantasies are finally to become unedited flesh-and-blood reality.

Forbidden Pleasures

Jo Rees
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Author : Jo Rees
Publisher : Random House
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409095361

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From Las Vegas to Dubai, from Shanghai to London, the fatal pull of the gambling world stretches... Savannah, pleasure-loving It Girl, wants to prove herself to her powerful, ruthless father Michael Hudson - until a terrible tragedy forces her to re-think her life Lois, an ex-cop from the wrong side of the tracks, , is now running the gambling business of Michael's greatest rival, Roberto Enzo - and torn between the glamour and wealth of the casinos and the needs of her vulnerable young daughter. Both women have to confront their pasts, discover new loves, and find out the really important things in life before the greed and corruption of their worlds consume them.

Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí

Gwynne Edwards
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Author : Gwynne Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857714480

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Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí by Gwynne Edwards Pdf

Lorca, Bunuel and Dali were, in their respective fields of poetry and theatre, cinema, and painting, three of the most imaginative creative artists of the twentieth century; their impact was felt far beyond the boundaries of their native Spain. But if individually they have been examined by many, their connected lives have rarely been considered. It is these, the ties that bind them, that constitute the subject of this illuminating book. They were born within six years of each other and, as Gwynne Edwards reveals, their childhood circumstances were very similar. Each was affected by a narrow-minded society and an intolerant religious background which equated sex with sin and led all three to experience sexual problems of different kinds: Lorca the guilt and anguish associated with his homosexuality; Bunuel feelings of sexual inhibition; and, Dali virtual impotence. Having met during the 1920s at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, they developed intense personal relationships and channelled their respective obsessions into the cultural forms then prevalent in Europe, in particular Surrealism. Rooted in emotional turmoil, their work - from Lorca's dramatic characters in search of sexual fulfilment, to Bunuel's frustrated men and women, and Dali's potent images of shame and guilt - is highly autobiographical. Their left-wing outrage directed at bourgeois values and the Catholic Church was strongly felt, and in the case of Lorca in particular, was sharpened by the catastrophic Civil War of 1936-9, during the first months of which he was murdered by Franco's fascists. The war hastened Bunuel's departure to France and Mexico and Dali's to New York. Edwards describes how, for the rest of his life, Bunuel clung to his left-wing ideals and made outstanding films, while the increasingly eccentric and money-obsessed Dali embraced Fascism and the Catholic Church, and saw his art go into rapid decline.

Forbidden Pleasures

Monica Burns
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Author : Monica Burns
Publisher : New Concepts Pub
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1586087347

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Love's Revenge: Quentin Blackwell, the Devil of Devlyn, has returned home five years after a bitter betrayal by the woman he loved. He'd like nothing better than to extract his pound of flesh and when the opportunity presents itself, he's more than eager to accept the challenge. Especially when it means exploring Sophie Hamilton's delicious curves. Love's Portrait: When Julia Westgard commissions a nude portrait of herself, her rebellious behavior puts her at odds with the Marlborough Set's most notorious rake, Morgan St. Claire. From the first moment Morgan sees Julia's portrait, he's determined to have her. But the woman he meets is a far cry from the image on canvas. What starts out as a simple exercise in seduction quickly evolves into a quest to reveal the true Julia Westgard. With each sensually, erotic encounter, he employs every seductive weapon at his disposal....

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Stephen Grosz
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Author : Stephen Grosz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780393349320

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The author describes his work as a psychoanalyst over a twenty-five year period, describing his efforts to guide his patients to personal insights into their behaviors and resolutions which can change their lives for the better.

Attention Seeking

Adam Phillips
Attention Seeking Book PDF

Author : Adam Phillips
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780374722852

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Attention Seeking is a short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness. Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship between the two). Based on three connected lectures by Adam Phillips, this compact book is a lucid and memorable introduction to the concept of our attention, spanning from interest to obsession, private desire to corporate commodity. What is attention, and why do we seek it? How does our culture moralize attention as a force in need of control? Phillips is one of our brightest and most unusual thinkers, uniquely capable of bringing our deepest impulses and instincts to light.

Forbidden Pleasures

M. S. Parker
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Author : M. S. Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1507735715

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I had a very definite plan for the rest of my life, and it mostly consisted of getting laid by random strangers and never having to deal with the possibility of anyone getting close enough to hurt me again. Now, after one stupid mistake, I couldn't quit thinking about him, and I knew it was just going to get worse from here. When twenty-two year-old Jenna Lang went in to Archer Enterprises for a job, she doesn't expect her entire world to be turned upside-down. Now, she can't get wealthy CEO Rylan Archer out of her mind and she has a bad feeling that he's just as intrigued by her. As his intentions become clear, she must decide if she's willing to risk everything on the chance he's different. Including the steamy prequel, Broken Pleasures, M.S. Parker's new scorching Pleasures series is not to be missed. See what Forbidden Pleasures has in store.

Forbidden Pleasure

Robyn Donald,Rikako Tsuji
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Author : Robyn Donald,Rikako Tsuji
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596354532

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The career of a television host with an interest in marine biology is shattered when a bad accident leaves her with a massive scar on her leg, months of rehab and an ever-present fear of water. Ianthe Brown must find the courage to conquer her fears, and Alex Considine is more than willing to help. Ianthe knows nothing about him, but her new friend soon reveals problems of his own, including exile and rebellion. Will Ianthe sink or swim in the dangerous world of royalty and romance?

Forbidden Pleasure

Lora Leigh
Forbidden Pleasure Book PDF

Author : Lora Leigh
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312535376

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The Club is private, exclusive, and only for those men whose fantasies run tothe more forbidden side, in this title of "New York Times"-bestselling authorLeigh's outrageously sexy Bound Hearts series.

Forbidden Pleasures

Amanda McIntyre
Forbidden Pleasures Book PDF

Author : Amanda McIntyre
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426851544

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Britannia, 400 A.D. Torin has dedicated his life to battle, first as a Roman warrior and now defending his native Britannia from the Saxons. Finding pleasure with a woman is far from his mind-until he encounters Alyson, a flame-haired Celtic servant who arouses his desire like never before. Alyson is also drawn to the strong yet gentle warrior, especially when she feels magic in his touch. How could she resist his allure when the gods themselves compel her to be with him? But while fate may have a special destiny in store for Torin, it is Alyson's choice to act on their passion....

Mars

Asja Bakic
Mars Book PDF

Author : Asja Bakic
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936932498

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Mars by Asja Bakic Pdf

A debut collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the Balkans, “sly, uncommon stories” by “a major talent” (Jeff VanderMeer, award-winning author of Hummingbird Salamander). Mars showcases a series of unique and twisted universes, where every character is tasked with making sense of their strange reality. One woman will be freed from purgatory once she writes the perfect book; another abides in a world devoid of physical contact. With wry prose and skewed humor, an emerging feminist writer explores twenty-first century promises of knowledge, freedom, and power. “Bakic’s stories are a dark delight—a treasury of forbidden pleasures, moments of resistance and resilience, and terrifying possibilities.” —Strange Horizons “At turns funny, surreal, and grounded in simple language but flung through twisted realities, the stories in this collection are provocative and utterly readable.” —The Brooklyn Rail “Skillfully disorienting.” —BUST “There’s an immediacy to Bakic’s offbeat worldview, sometimes strange and surreal, sometimes terrifying and upsetting, that pairs perfectly with the madness of the current political moment.” —Locus Magazine “Bosnian writer Bakic’s debut teems with the oddball narratives of George Saunders, the eerie atmosphere of Edgar Allan Poe, and the feminist intellect of Marge Piercyc. . . Told in a straightforward manner that transports speculative fiction into almost realist territory, Bakic’s collection imaginatively and strikingly examines sci-fi tropes from not only the point of view of women, but also from the voice of an effortlessly gifted writer whose future is much brighter than that of those depicted in her stories.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Society of Timid Souls

Polly Morland
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Author : Polly Morland
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847659408

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This book is a modern investigation of an ancient virtue, inspired by a group for stage-frightened musicians in 1940s Manhattan. Coinciding with the terrifying height of World War Two, it was called The Society of Timid Souls. Seventy years later, as fear about everything from terrorism to economic meltdown has become part of our daily lives, Polly Morland reconvenes the society, setting out to discover what it means to be brave in an age of anxiety. Her journey-and this book-is full of amazing people and surprising ideas. It explores how and why people are brave, from battlefield to hospital ward, circus tightrope to suburban street, disaster zone to political protest. It throws light on some of the myths and lies that surround our favourite virtue. And most of all, it asks can we learn to be brave?