Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Author: Carl G. Jung
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2011-01-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0307772713

An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. "An important, firsthand document for readers who wish to understand this seminal writer and thinker." —Booklist In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materials. Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961, making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life. Fully corrected, this edition also includes Jung's VII Sermones ad Mortuos.

The Running Dream

The Running Dream
Author: Wendelin Van Draanen
Publisher: Ember
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-01-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375866280

When Jessica is told she’ll never run again, she puts herself back together—and learns to dream bigger than ever before. The acclaimed author of Flipped delivers a powerful and healing story. Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She’s not comforted by the news that she’ll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run? As she struggles to cope, Jessica feels that she’s both in the spotlight and invisible. People who don’t know what to say act like she’s not there. Jessica’s embarrassed to realize that she’s done the same to a girl with CP named Rosa. A girl who is going to tutor her through all the math she’s missed. A girl who sees right into the heart of her. With the support of family, friends, a coach, and her track teammates, Jessica may actually be able to run again. But that’s not enough for her now. She doesn’t just want to cross finish lines herself—she wants to take Rosa with her. “Inspirational. The pace of Van Draanen’s prose matches Jessica’s at her swiftest. Readers will zoom through the book just as Jessica blazes around the track. A lively and lovely story.” —Kirkus Reviews

A Runner's Memories, Dreams, Reflections

A Runner's Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Author: Tom Bulger
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-01-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781614686088

This book represents the author's 40 years of writing about distance running. As a runner and coach himself, he has tried to bring up different topics and stories that would be of interest to distance runners. The book includes descriptions of various races, local, national, and international; brief portraits of a variety of distance runners; advice about training and recovering from injury; and a host of other issues relating to distance running. The overarching purpose of the book is how distance running remarkably parallels one's existence, and is a metaphor for an individual's life.Tom Bulger is a native of troy, new york. After high school, he attended and graduated from the University of Notre Dame, 1974. After that, he got a masters in English literature from the University at Albany (1976), and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Rochester (1986). He was a professor of English literature at Siena College for 30 years until his retirement 10 years ago. At Siena, he was also dean of the Arts Division for 5 years, and he was the founder and first coach of the women's cross country team for 5 years. Prior to that, he was also Bob Reilly's assistant coach of the men's cross country team for 3 years. In addition to coaching at Siena, he also was the first coach of the Willow Street Athletic Team, and was a running coach for Team in Training.He has been writing about running for over 40 years. For 6 years, he was the Troy Times Record running columnist. He also wrote quite a bit for the Hudson Mohawk Road Runner's magazine The Pacesetter. He has been very active with the HMRRC, being its president (1992-3) and as a volunteer at races. He is a member of the HMRRC Hall of Fame. He ran in hundreds of races, with a marathon best of 2:28.

Summary of Carl Gustav Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Summary of Carl Gustav Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2022-03-24T22:59:00Z
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1669363910

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I have many memories from when I was young, but the earliest is from when I was six months old. I was lying in a pram in the shadow of a tree, and I saw the sun glittering through the leaves and blossoms. Everything was wholly wonderful and splendid. #2 I was born in 1878, and my parents were soon separated. I remember my mother spending several months in a hospital in Basel, and I remember the time when I was crossing the bridge over the Rhine Falls to Neuhausen. I may have been suicidal or resistant to life in this world. #3 I had fears at night, and I would hear things walking about in the house. I would say a prayer every evening, which gave me a sense of comfort in face of the vague uncertainties of the night. #4 I had a traumatic encounter with a Jesuit priest when I was between three and four years old. I was terrified of him, and hid under a beam in the attic. I did not know what Jesuits were, but I was familiar with the word Jesus from my little prayer.

Once a Runner

Once a Runner
Author: John L. Parker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2009-04-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416597913

The undisputed classic of running novels and one of the most beloved sports books ever published, Once a Runner tells the story of an athlete’s dreams amid the turmoil of the 60s and the Vietnam war. Inspired by the author’s experience as a collegiate champion, the novel follows Quenton Cassidy, a competitive runner at fictional Southeastern University whose lifelong dream is to run a four-minute mile. He is less than a second away when the turmoil of the Vietnam War era intrudes into the staid recesses of his school’s athletic department. After he becomes involved in an athletes’ protest, Cassidy is suspended from his track team. Under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, Bruce Denton, a graduate student and former Olympic gold medalist, Cassidy gives up his scholarship, his girlfriend, and possibly his future to withdraw to a monastic retreat in the countryside and begin training for the race of his life against the greatest miler in history. A rare insider’s account of the incredibly intense lives of elite distance runners, Once a Runner is an inspiring, funny, and spot-on tale of one individual’s quest to become a champion.

Dreams from My Father

Dreams from My Father
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2007-01-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307394123

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World). “Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Praise for Dreams from My Father “Beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . This book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride’s The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williams’s Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America’s racial categories.”—Scott Turow “Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.”—The New York Times Book Review “Obama’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here “One of the most powerful books of self-discovery I’ve ever read, all the more so for its illuminating insights into the problems not only of race, class, and color, but of culture and ethnicity. It is also beautifully written, skillfully layered, and paced like a good novel.”—Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place “Dreams from My Father is an exquisite, sensitive study of this wonderful young author’s journey into adulthood, his search for community and his place in it, his quest for an understanding of his roots, and his discovery of the poetry of human life. Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white.”—Marian Wright Edelman

The Red Book

The Red Book
Author: Carl G. Jung
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2012-12-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0393089088

In 'The Red Book', compiled between 1914 and 1930, Jung develops his principal theories of archetypes, the collective unconscious & the process of individuation.

Running Into Myself

Running Into Myself
Author: Thea Euryphaessa
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1848763735

While celebrating her 26th birthday, Thea listens on as her thirty-something friends discuss their lives. Their conversation leads her to realise she’s been drifting through life and hasn’t grown up. In addition, she can’t tell where she ends and her mother begins. The realisation gradually takes its toll and several months later, she’s diagnosed with depression. Refusing medication, she leaves her soul-constricting job and pursues a more meaningful path.Along the way she discovers spirituality – in particular, Japanese Energy healing – but with a fragile sense of Self, lacks the confidence and belief required to cross the threshold to a new life. Instead, she unquestioningly accepts others’ views on life and slides back into a mundane existence.Three years later a terrifying nightmare provides another wake-up call. This time with no game plan, she sells her house, leaves her 9-5 job and embarks on a relationship that takes her to Santa Fe (US). Once there, she encounters several mentors who introduce her to Jungian psychology, Greek mythology, BodySoul work, fairytales, folk tales and alchemical symbolism.Soon after, overweight and unable to run more than a few metres at a time, she impulsively signs up for three marathons – New York, Rome and Athens – with the first only months away.What unfolds over the next eighteen months is an inspiring rite of passage into conscious womanhood: an unintentional pilgrimage healing old wounds, and a revelatory experience with her deep Self. The book is a personal narrative accompanied by examinations of myth and depth psychology, in which life illuminates ancient tales and archetypes find form in modern experience.

The Red Book: A Reader's Edition

The Red Book: A Reader's Edition
Author: C. G. Jung
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2012-12-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 039324248X

A portable edition of the famous Red Book text and essay. The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung’s later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the higher development of the personality. As Sara Corbett wrote in the New York Times, “The creation of one of modern history’s true visionaries, The Red Book is a singular work, outside of categorization. As an inquiry into what it means to be human, it transcends the history of psychoanalysis and underscores Jung’s place among revolutionary thinkers like Marx, Orwell and, of course, Freud.” The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition features Sonu Shamdasani’s introductory essay and the full translation of Jung’s vital work in one volume.

One Year to a Writing Life

One Year to a Writing Life
Author: Susan M. Tiberghien
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2007-09-07
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0786750421

Whether you are a writer of fiction or essays, or want to explore poetry or memoir, Tiberghien's twelve fundamental lessons will help you discover and develop your own distinct voice. Tiberghien's inventive exercises focus on the processes unique to each genre, while also offering skills applicable to any kind of writing, from authentic dialogue to masterful short-shorts. With vivid examples from literary masters such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Eduardo Galeano, May Sarton, Terry Tempest Williams, and Orhan Pamuk, One Year to a Writing Life is an essential guidebook of exercises, practical advice, and wisdom for anyone looking to embrace, explore, and implement creativity in everyday life.