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Civilization and Its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.79 — 43,886 ratings — published 1930
The Interpretation of Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.84 — 79,916 ratings — published 1899
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,489 ratings — published 1920
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
by (shelved 158 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,769 ratings — published 1973
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,613 ratings — published 1917
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,856 ratings — published 1905
Totem and Taboo (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,161 ratings — published 1913
How to Read Lacan (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,431 ratings — published 2006
The Ego and the Id (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,229 ratings — published 1923
Écrits (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,361 ratings — published 1966
Man and His Symbols (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,727 ratings — published 1964
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,790 ratings — published 1901
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.38 — 790 ratings — published 1997
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 800 ratings — published 1995
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,699 ratings — published 1962
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,033 ratings — published 1989
Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,614 ratings — published 1995
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,479 ratings — published 1972
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,737 ratings — published 1994
The Uncanny (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,775 ratings — published 1919
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,899 ratings — published 1991
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,719 ratings — published 1953
The Future of an Illusion (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,181 ratings — published 1927
سيكولوجية الجماهير (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,927 ratings — published 1895
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
by (shelved 67 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.25 — 507 ratings — published 1986
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,539 ratings — published 1952
Studies in Hysteria (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,528 ratings — published 1895
On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.10 — 608 ratings — published 1975
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 13,832 ratings — published 1931
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
by (shelved 62 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.16 — 573 ratings — published 1953
The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,675 ratings — published 1905
Playing and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,578 ratings — published 1971
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.37 — 3,771 ratings — published 1905
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,924 ratings — published 1980
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,422 ratings — published 1981
The Art of Loving (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.00 — 92,858 ratings — published 1956
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,840 ratings — published 1979
What IS Sex? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 380 ratings — published
The Undiscovered Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,595 ratings — published 1961
My Teaching (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.51 — 473 ratings — published 2009
Envy and Gratitude and Other Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.17 — 679 ratings — published 1968
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,355 ratings — published 1960
Moses and Monotheism (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,838 ratings — published 1939
Introducing Lacan (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,095 ratings — published 2000
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,726 ratings — published 1941
Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (The Writings of Anna Freud, Vol 2)
by (shelved 44 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.87 — 945 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 43 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.30 — 350 ratings — published 1978
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,360 ratings — published 1933
Freud: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,504 ratings — published 1989
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as psychoanalysis)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,434 ratings — published 1973
“Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel.”
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
“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
