Wild Thought

Wild Thought
Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2021-02-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022641311X

As the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Lévi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a mixture of insights gleaned from linguistics, sociology, and ethnology, Lévi-Strauss elaborated his theory of structural unity in culture and became the preeminent representative of structural anthropology. La Pensée sauvage, first published in French in 1962, was his crowning achievement. Ranging over philosophies, historical periods, and human societies, it challenged the prevailing assumption of the superiority of modern Western culture and sought to explain the unity of human intellection. Controversially titled The Savage Mind when it was first published in English in 1966, the original translation nevertheless sparked a fascination with Lévi-Strauss’s work among Anglophone readers. Wild Thought rekindles that spark with a fresh and accessible new translation. Including critical annotations for the contemporary reader, it restores the accuracy and integrity of the book that changed the course of intellectual life in the twentieth century, making it an indispensable addition to any philosophical or anthropological library.

Wild Thoughts from Wild Places

Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Author: David Quammen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1439125279

In Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, award-winning journalist David Quammen reminds us why he has become one of our most beloved science and nature writers. This collection of twenty-three of Quammen's most intriguing, most exciting, most memorable pieces takes us to meet kayakers on the Futaleufu River of southern Chile, where Quammen describes how it feels to travel in fast company and flail for survival in the river's maw. We are introduced to the commerce in pearls (and black-market parrots) in the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. Quammen even finds wildness in smog-choked Los Angeles -- embodied in an elusive population of urban coyotes, too stubborn and too clever to surrender to the sprawl of civilization. With humor and intelligence, David Quammen's Wild Thoughts from Wild Places also reminds us that humans are just one of the many species on earth with motivations, goals, quirks, and eccentricities. Expect to be entertained and moved on this journey through the wilds of science and nature.

Wild Thoughts

Wild Thoughts
Author: Leena Love
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1525528033

Jake is new to town and determined, for once, to live a simple life. All he wants is to work his groundskeeper job, stay fit, make some friends, and find romance with his sexy, cat-loving hairdresser, Joline—and keep the secret that he’s ludicrously wealthy. When romance sparks between Jake and Joline, he thinks he’s got it all figured it out, that is until he discovers Joline has her own secrets. The truth is that she has more in common with her cats than Jake could ever guess. Jake soon discovers that his new life is nothing close to simple, and that his normal friends are anything but. Then, sabotaged by an old, jealous flame, Jake soon discovers just how it feels to be in touch with his wild, inner animal and he finds himself losing the love of his life. Can these lovers reconcile their true natures? Can there be harmony between the conflicting parts of themselves? Or will Jake’s quest to change his own animal instincts cause him to lose everything? Wild Thoughts is part romance, part paranormal fantasy. Erotic, compelling, and mysterious, the heat between these characters will keep you reading and wanting more.

Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker

Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker
Author: Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2018-03-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429924054

Freud, Klein and Bion have provided the most relevant and substantial contributions to psychoanalytical theory and praxis. Klein was very much Freudian and Bion was both. There is undoubtedly a progressive epistemological evolution in their creativity; it will be similar to observe the same phenomenon by changing the objective of a microscope from a lower to a higher resolution power. It will be of lesser advantage for the understanding of the mind, to disregard this analogy and to accept as true that psychoanalysis, like religion, represents different beliefs. There is only one mind, but different viewers. Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker is essentially a clinical book that explores the connections between some of Bion's novel theories and those from Classical Psychoanalysis, mainly contributions from Freud, Klein and Winnicott. It also represents a substantial endeavour to make Bion not only more accessible to readers, but also and very important, to see his theories at work, in direct practical use during the here and now interaction throughout the consulting hour.

Taming Wild Thoughts

Taming Wild Thoughts
Author: Wilfred R. Bion
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429919832

Taming Wild Thoughts brings together previously unpublished works from two different periods of the author's life which are linked, as the author says in her introduction, by the concept of classifying and conceptualizing thought. The first paper, "The Grid", dates from 1963 and is a discussion of great clarity about one of the author's most widely-used conceptual tools; it predates his more discursive paper of the same title (published in Two Papers) by several years. As a teaching paper on this topic, this version of "The Grid" is without parallel, and will doubtless be of great value to all students of his work. The second part of the book consists of transcripts of two tape-recordings made by Bion in 1977. They underline his interest in "wild" or "stray" thoughts; and they provide an insight into his extraordinary sensibility at the time of A Memoir of the Future.

Wild Thoughts

Wild Thoughts
Author: Charity Ferrell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre:
ISBN:

I want to kill my new stepbrother. He's an asshole, arrogant, and can't stop talking about sex. The worst part? He has blackmail on me. Addison is the epitome of a good girl. She follows the rules to a tee and never colors outside the lines, but a girl can't be perfect. There's a rule she's breaking, a lie she's kept hidden, and she gets busted red-handed by him-her new step-brother. Zeth made a mistake that resulted in him having to move across the country for six months. His plan was to lay low, do his time, and stay out of trouble. His new step-sister wasn't in his plan. Her thoughts about him are wild. His thoughts about her are wilder.All he wants to do is push her buttons, break her out of her shell, and drag the bad girl out. He wants her to fall in his bed, so he can have his way with her. When they can't resist any longer, they agree it's only temporary, but what happens when they want more?

The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

The Complete Works of W.R. Bion
Author: W. R. Bion
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3603
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429920334

The Complete Works of W. R. Bion is now available in a coherent and corrected format. Comprising sixteen volumes bound in green cloth, this edition has been brought together and edited by Chris Mawson with the assistance of Francesca Bion. Incorporating many corrections to previously published works, it also features previously unpublished papers. Including a general index and editorial introductions to all the works, these volumes will be a useful and valuable aid to psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians, and all those interested in studying and making use of Bion's thinking.Bion's writings, including the previously unpublished papers and additions to his Cogitations, collected together in the Complete Works, show that the clinical thrust of Bion's work has clear lines of continuity with that of Melanie Klein, just as her work has an essential continuity with the later work of Freud. In Bion's clinical work and supervision the goal remains insightful understanding of psychic reality through a disciplined experiencing of the transference and countertransference; the setting and the method - however much Bion's terminology might suggest otherwise - remains rigorously psychoanalytic.

In . . . Tanglement

In . . . Tanglement
Author: Sophia
Publisher: Partridge Africa
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2016-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1482876876

What seems like devastation and destruction of the mind, soul, emotion and spirit awakens a strength and understanding that could not have been gained from anything less than an astounding, traumatic happening for any woman. Life for Beth seemed usual and situations were turning around, or so it seemed. The events about to take place were beyond her understanding and comprehension at the time. Her journey of discovery through the adventure, heartbreak, tears and excitement leaves the reader captivated by all that is imaginable and beyond. It resonates deep within, for we all possess, all that is needed in order to search for the truth

Blind Date

Blind Date
Author: Anne Dufourmantelle
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2007
Genre: Sex
ISBN: 0252074882

An intimate discussion of sex and philosophy