The Pleasure Principle

The Pleasure Principle
Author: Michael Bronski
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2000-02-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780312252878

A brilliant and thought-provoking examination of the complicated relationship between gay and mainstream culture--and a finalist for the 1998 Lambda Literary Award and the Randy Shilts Award.

Kosher Sex

Kosher Sex
Author: Shmuley Boteach
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1510779906

Great sex consists entirely of motions, Kosher Sex consists of motions that elicit lasting emotions. Great sex is an undertaking of two separate bodies, Kosher Sex is two halves of the same whole. Twenty-five years ago, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's celebrated international bestseller Kosher Sex changed how we view and approach sex, marriage, erotic attraction, and personal relationships by drawing on traditional Jewish wisdom. Based on his extensive experience counseling individuals and couples, the author breaks down sexual taboos and openly yet respectfully discusses the meanings, emotions, and hidden power of sex. With his unique anecdotal style, Rabbi Boteach illustrates each and every point, using real couples who have discovered the joys of "kosher sex"—sex that blends passion and lovers—and suggests revolutionary ways of synthesizing the best that each has to offer. When half of all marriages fail and one third are sexless and platonic, Kosher Sex has an astonishing and electrifying impact.

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2011-03-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1551119943

Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud’s most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces the fundamental concepts of the “repetition compulsion” and the “death drive,” according to which a perverse, repetitive, self-destructive impulse opposes and even trumps the creative drive, or Eros. The work is one of Freud’s most intensely debated, and raises important questions that have been discussed by philosophers and psychoanalysts since its first publication in 1920. The text is presented here in a contemporary new translation by Gregory C. Richter. Appendices trace the work’s antecedents and the many responses to it, including texts by Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Melanie Klein, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, among many others.

I Served the King of England

I Served the King of England
Author: Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811216876

Chronicles the experiences of Ditie, who rises from busboy to hotel owner in World War II Prague, and whose life is shaped by the fate of his country before, during, and after the conflict.

Marital Intimacy

Marital Intimacy
Author: Avraham Peretz Friedman
Publisher: Compass Books
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0976196603

On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored

On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1998-07-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0674417968

In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis--kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates to worrying. He argues that psychoanalysis began as a virtuoso improvisation within the science of medicine, but that virtuosity has given way to the dream of science that only the examined life is worth living. Phillips goes on to show how the drive to omniscience has been unfortunate both for psychoanalysis and for life. He reveals how much one's psychic health depends on establishing a realm of life that successfully resists examination.

Dictionary of Scientific Principles

Dictionary of Scientific Principles
Author: Stephen Marvin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 111858239X

Dictionary of Scientific Principles presents a unique and timeless collection of (almost) all known rules or laws commonly called principles, identified throughout the history of scientific development, their definition, and use. Exploring a broad range of disciplines, the book first lists more than 2,000 principles organized in a standard alphabetical order, then provides a list of subject headings for which related principles are identified. A staple addition to every library, the dictionary will also be of interest to scientists and general readers.

The Jewish Derrida

The Jewish Derrida
Author: Gideon Ofrat
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2001-06-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780815628859

A fresh look at the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida...

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher:
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2009
Genre: Pleasure principle (Psychology)
ISBN: 9781578988174

Reprint. Originally published: London, Vienna: The International psycho-analytical press, 1922, in the series: International psycho-analytical library, no. 4.