A leading psychoanalyst examines romantic passion, how it affects our psychological growth, and the differences in the way men and women experience romance
Ethel Spector Person Books
Ethel Person was a psychiatrist whose pioneering research delved into the complexities of human sexuality. Through immersive study, including visits to sex shops and drag dance clubs, she sought to understand the motivations behind transgender and transvestite experiences. Her extensive clinical work also explored the significant role of sexual fantasy in shaping individual lives. Person’s writings frequently appeared in general interest publications, exploring her central argument that people consciously or unconsciously construct their lives by striving to embody their fantasies.
Feeling Strong
How Power Issues Affect Our Ability to Direct Our Own Lives
- 432 pages
- 16 hours of reading
In Feeling Strong , noted psychoanalyst Ethel S. Person redefines the notion of power. The stigma of evil we associate with the subject of power comes from this one conception of power -- the drive for dominance over other people, or, in its most extreme form, an overriding and often ruthless lust for total command. But this is far too limited a definition. Pointing to a more fulfilling sense of self-empowerment than is being touted in pop-psychology manuals of our time, Feeling Strong shows us that power is really our ability to produce an effect, to make something we want to happen actually take place. Power is a desire and a drive, and it is central in our lives, dictating much of our behavior and consuming much of our interior lives. Drawing from her expertise honed in clinical practice, as well as from examples in literature and true-life vignettes, Person shows how you can achieve authentic power to find something that matters; to feel inner certainty; to find a personality of your own and effectively plot your life story.
Lust auf Liebe
- 525 pages
- 19 hours of reading
Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann, geboren 1950, beschloss nach dem Studium (Anglistik, Germanistik, Romanistik) und einem Lehramtsreferendariat, es mit dem literarischen Übersetzen zu probieren und ist seither hauptberuflich dabeigeblieben. 2021 wurde sie mit dem Übersetzerpreis für langjähriges Übersetzen, „Rebekka“, ausgezeichnet.
Freud heute - 3: Über Freuds "Bemerkungen über die Übertragungsliebe"
- 237 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Freud was the first to describe and try to explain »transference love.» Based on Freud‹s ‹Bemerkungen‹ (Observations), the authors discuss their view of love, female sexuality and conventional morality. They shed light on the role of the analyst and psychotherapist in the development of »transference love,» explore the differences between remembering, re-experiencing, acting and staging and study Freud‹s theory in light of current developments in psychoanalytic thinking.