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Civilization and Its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.80 — 46,583 ratings — published 1930
The Interpretation of Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 273 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.84 — 83,925 ratings — published 1899
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,002 ratings — published 1920
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,255 ratings — published 1917
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
by (shelved 171 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,877 ratings — published 1973
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.63 — 8,339 ratings — published 1905
Totem and Taboo (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,840 ratings — published 1913
How to Read Lacan (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,772 ratings — published 2006
The Ego and the Id (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.81 — 12,881 ratings — published 1923
Écrits (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,437 ratings — published 1966
Man and His Symbols (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.18 — 36,625 ratings — published 1964
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.37 — 881 ratings — published 1997
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 895 ratings — published 1995
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.52 — 4,413 ratings — published 1994
Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,750 ratings — published 1995
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,146 ratings — published 1901
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.18 — 40,187 ratings — published 1962
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,455 ratings — published 1989
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,181 ratings — published 1972
The Uncanny (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,170 ratings — published 1919
Playing and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,811 ratings — published 1971
The Future of an Illusion (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,506 ratings — published 1927
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
by (shelved 78 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.25 — 552 ratings — published 1986
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,891 ratings — published 1953
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,594 ratings — published 1981
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,979 ratings — published 1991
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,150 ratings — published 1931
Studies in Hysteria (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,615 ratings — published 1895
What IS Sex? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.30 — 464 ratings — published 2017
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,900 ratings — published 1952
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
by (shelved 70 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.14 — 626 ratings — published 1953
On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.09 — 642 ratings — published 1975
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.36 — 3,957 ratings — published 1905
The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,766 ratings — published 1905
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,205 ratings — published 1980
The Art of Loving (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.99 — 101,831 ratings — published 1956
The Undiscovered Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,753 ratings — published 1961
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,779 ratings — published 2011
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 32,210 ratings — published 1979
Envy and Gratitude and Other Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.17 — 361 ratings — published 1968
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,707 ratings — published 1960
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.14 — 536 ratings — published 1988
My Teaching (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.50 — 516 ratings — published 2009
Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.25 — 258 ratings — published 1994
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,977 ratings — published 1941
Moses and Monotheism (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,006 ratings — published 1939
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,176 ratings — published 1973
Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (The Writings of Anna Freud, Vol 2)
by (shelved 49 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,041 ratings — published 1936
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 390 ratings — published 1978
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)
by (shelved 48 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,638 ratings — published 1959
“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.”
― Playing and Reality
― Playing and Reality
“As adults, we have many inhibitions against crying. We feel it is an expression of weakness, or femininity or of childishness. The person who is afraid to cry is afraid of pleasure. This is because the person who is afraid to cry holds himself together rigidly so that he won't cry; that is, the rigid person is as afraid of pleasure as he is afraid to cry. In a situation of pleasure he will become anxious. As his tensions relax he will begin to tremble and shake, and he will attempt to control this trembling so as not to break down in tears. His anxiety is nothing more than the conflict between his desire to let go and his fear of letting go. This conflict will arise whenever the pleasure is strong enough to threaten his rigidity.
Since rigidity develops as a means to block out painful sensations, the release of rigidity or the restoration of the natural motility of the body will bring these painful sensations to the fore. Somewhere in his unconscious the neurotic individual is aware that pleasure can evoke the repressed ghosts of the past. It could be that such a situation is responsible for the adage "No pleasure without pain.”
― The Voice of the Body
Since rigidity develops as a means to block out painful sensations, the release of rigidity or the restoration of the natural motility of the body will bring these painful sensations to the fore. Somewhere in his unconscious the neurotic individual is aware that pleasure can evoke the repressed ghosts of the past. It could be that such a situation is responsible for the adage "No pleasure without pain.”
― The Voice of the Body
