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Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time. Appearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the Feminine is seen as an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual consciousness, symbolized by the child, to ...
Jordan Peterson
2023-01-12T00:23:37.000Z
The Discovery of the Unconscious
The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
This classic work is a monumental, integrated view of man's search for an understanding of the inner reaches of the mind. In an account that is both exhaustive and exciting, the distinguished psychiatrist and author demonstrates the long chain of development—through the exorcists, magnetists, and hypnotists—that led to the fruition of dynamic psych...
Jordan Peterson
2022-12-12T18:19:25.000Z
The Return of the God Hypothesis
Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt and Intelligent Design scholar presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology. In 2004, Stephen C. Meyer, one of the preeminent scientists studying the origins of life, ignited a firestorm of media and scientific c...
Jordan Peterson
2021-08-14T17:30:36.000ZMama’s Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals— beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like it show that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy, and open our hea...
Jordan Peterson
2021-06-05T15:42:37.000ZAlso recommended by
Yuval Noah Harari
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know
And Many Others You Will Find Interesting
You're wrong: The world is, for the most part, not getting worse. 58 percent of folks in 17 countries surveyed in 2016 thought the world is getting worse rather than better or staying the same. Americans were even more glum: 65 percent thought the world is getting worse and only 6 percent thought it was getting better. The uncontroversial data on m...
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Patrick OShaughnessyThe Horse's Mouth, famously filmed with Alec Guinness in the central role, is a searing portrait of the artistic temperament. Gulley Jimson is the charming, impoverished painter who cares little about the conventional values of his day. His unfailing belief that he must live and paint according to his intuition without regard for the cost to himsel...
Jordan Peterson
2020-12-21T14:00:33.000ZA masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th centuryNothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov’s crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darke...
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2020-12-14T14:00:30.000ZIn his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an age...
Jordan Peterson
2019-02-16T14:44:00.000ZAlso recommended by
Aubrey MarcusThe Old Man and the Sea, an apparently simple fable, represents the mature Hemingway at his best. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature soon after its publication, and half a century later it is still one of his most read books....
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2019-02-15T19:55:00.000ZBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C. G. Jung
Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Unsafe Space by Tom Slater
The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by BjøRN Lomborg
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen R. C. Hicks
Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham
The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas S. Szasz
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
The Gulag Archipelago Abridged by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Our Culture, What's Left of It by Theodore Dalrymple
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp
Panzram A Journal of Murder by Thomas E. Gaddis
Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 3 by Mircea Eliade
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 by Mircea Eliade