Consideraciones psicoanalíticas sobre diarios de Marion Milner

Este libro trata sobre un momento en la vida de los diarios de Marion Milner, quien fue una destacada psicoanalista y amiga de Donald Winnicott. Lo que este libro intenta establecer es una interpretación desde dos perspectivas del psicoanálisis: primero, la clásica freudiana y luego, la intersubjetiva. Aprenderá más sobre su vida, su obra y también sobre las formas de pensamiento respecto a lo que se puede decir sobre el psicoanálisis contemporáneo.

Finding May

And there she sat. Legs crossed with eyes straight as an arrow.

The sun slipped inches at a mile behind Snow Recreation Center on the eleventh of October, two thousand and two. John met May in the hustle of his happy, full life. Pausing the daily exercising. Exchanging numbers and smiles, the two briefly tucked away from time. Centrum to Eastern Michigan’s heart, ideation began blooming. Tracing began—Finding May and John adoring each other’s warmth inside—if only for two minutes.

Two minutes that day, seconds later next month as John reached a suicidal breaking point, and months forward into 2004.

The girl he was destined to barely know. A Monet-traced beauty. Kind. Sweetly adorable. A thousand budding, poetic lines incapable of capturing May’s immediate place in John’s mind. She’d try to save his life with these two minutes, and later eleven seconds, of her time. A northern star streaking across the Vanilla Sky.

Life Threads – A Memoir

The core of this illuminating memoir consists of threads of consistency and learning that have emerged through Carol’s life experiences. We learn, as she and her sister Linda did, of the constructive optimism of their parents and how that mindset underlies successfully facing life’s struggles. Mistakes can be overcome. The burdens lift. Life is meant for living.With well-balanced sensitivity and striking honesty, she frankly reveals the false starts in her career and her love life and how things worked out in the end. We gain perspective, as she did, through spirited tales of her life experiences.Heart-wrenching events mix with moments of light, hope, and relief. Even the death of loved ones, people, and dogs doesn’t have to be a downward pull, as Carol learned from her dad.Carol has found that angels have an impact on our experiences, too. Although she has never seen an angel, her dogs saw several one evening.Her experiences in finally finding and settling into her career, her love life, and several events that didn’t seem significant, and some that did, all seem to fit together to form those surfacing life threads.

My Name Is My Soul

To have a name is to have a soul (Ɔkra), and to have a soul is to exist as a conscious living being. Meaning, every soul has a day of ascendency (Krada) as an extrinsic agency with a unique name (Kradzin) and characteristic attributes leading to a spiritual life during adulthood.

As an extrinsic phenomenon, the soul survives death not as a human being, but rather as a spiritual personality called Ɔsaman. It is this posthumous abstract personality (Ɔsaman) that is recalled by name and remembered periodically by the Akan and kindred African peoples.

Far from being ancestor worship, the ancestors are rather remembered (Nkai) in all matters of state. That is, the Akan recall and remember their resurrected dead (Nsamanfo) and the Ancestors (Nananom Nsamanfo) as though they were still living members of the community.

Indeed, Africans worship souls, but it is the eternal souls of God, the Abosom (Gods and Goddesses), that Africans and Black diasporic Africans worship directly as custodians of the world at the behest of God.

Free Reading of the Gospel of the Essenes

The Essenes were one of the most influential sects in Jewish society during the time of Jesus of Nazareth. He himself, along with his relative John the Baptist, practised Essene traditions. Their way of life continued within Christianity for many centuries. Long concealed by Christian exegetes, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, or Qumran Scrolls, has brought the Essenes back to the centre of many studies.

The dramatic impact of Rome’s occupation of the Middle East (since 63 B.C.) led to a renewed focus on the ancient prophecy of the coming of a liberating Messiah. The greatest threat to the Jewish world was the clash of civilisations between pagan Imperial Rome and Mosaic traditions. It is within this context—and within the Essene precepts regarding the interpretation of the law, both divine and secular—that the birth of Christianity is rooted.

Muslim School Dropout

Muslim School Dropout is the uproariously honest semi-autobiographical life of Amir Yass, a gay Persian Muslim who traded Quran recitations for comedy sets under Hollywood lights.

Growing up in a conservative Iranian-American family, Amir was the golden child—until he dropped out of Islamic school, came out of the closet, and discovered that prayer rugs and punchlines don’t always mix. From awkward mosque moments to wild West Hollywood nights, Amir takes readers on a whirlwind journey through identity, faith, and finding your voice when you’re caught between worlds.

With razor-sharp humor and heartfelt vulnerability, Muslim School Dropout is a coming-of-age tale for anyone who’s ever felt like the ultimate outsider—and learned to turn that into their superpower.

The Walls of Villa Fatema

The Walls of Villa Fatema follows the unexpected journey of an American girl who finds herself a guest in a traditional Moroccan family’s home in Casablanca, the port city made famous by the classic film starring Humphrey Bogart.

By turns humorous and unsettling, this memoir by Avery Russell captures Alice’s struggle to navigate – and sometimes ignore – the complexities of a sex-segregated society.

Rich in detail and cultural insight, the book offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women in 1960s Morocco and explores the tension and fascination that arise when two very different worlds collide.

Juglar de Pueblo

Un viaje increíble donde el comercio se mezcla con la picardía, la miseria con el ingenio, y la inocencia se pierde entre ferias, estafas y ruletas.

A través de la mirada curiosa de un joven aprendiz de comerciante, Juglar de Pueblo nos sumerge en las entrañas del mundo ambulante de los comerciantes de las ferias del ayer, revelando una fauna de personajes memorables: ruleteros, cocineras, culebreros, falsificadores y soñadores.

Escrito con humor, ternura y una aguda crítica social, este relato oral convertido en crónica vibrante retrata el alma popular de un comunidad que sobrevive a punta de astucia, sudor y esperanza.

Contado como se habla en la calle y con la memoria de quien lo vivió todo, este libro no embellece ni esconde nada. Porque a veces, la mejor literatura es la que no se inventa, si no la que se recuerda.

Una novela entrañable, callejera y profundamente humana.

In the Modern Tower of Babel

In the original fable of the Tower of Babel, as punishment for attempting to build a tower into the heavens, the people were relegated to an inability to communicate, each speaking a different language. Hence the term “to Babel.”

The Modern Tower of Babel refers not to multiple languages but to the increasing spread of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news. We are increasingly disadvantaged in our ability to establish fact from fiction and truth from lies. This confusion is leading to the chaos we now see across many aspects of society: In medicine, should we vaccinate our children or not? In the health of our environment, are global warming and climate change a reality, or are they a hoax? And, of course, in politics, where anything seems permissible and truth is often discarded in favor of retaining power.

But all is not lost. If we are smart enough to use modern technologies; such as AI; intelligently and with proper regulation, we can harness the wealth of information available to us and leverage modern tools to distinguish fact from fiction and rigorously evaluate evidence. But that will only happen if we use AI properly, and given our current course, that outcome is far from assured.

Jousting with Death

Jousting with Death relates the many interesting experiences required to become an internationally recognized heart surgeon researcher. Just to become certified as such takes fourteen very busy years. Then in training, as afterward in practice, life can be fully lived and not just experienced. For an appropriate mindset, my hobbies were skydiving and cave diving. Old New Orleans, a tour in the military, and professorships at Tulane and Baylor College of Medicine, which were the places modern heart surgery originated, were filled with phenomenal happenings, which are described in detail. Overall, my four decades of medical practice earned seventy awards and recognitions.

Let Earth Heal

Planet Earth is beautiful and resilient. For several billion years, a combination of planetary forces and natural processes on Earth and in its atmosphere determined the makeup and interactions of the physical and biological components of our planet. There were major disruptions, but Earth always rebounded.

In the relatively short time humans have been on the scene, Earth has provided us with an abundance of resources while keeping things in balance by patiently adjusting to an increasing array of abuses.

Earth is also vulnerable. About two centuries ago, the burning of fossil fuels began increasing the amount of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere at a rate that nature could no longer control. Those excess gases are warming the air, land, and oceans. Our failure to reduce the amount of these fossil fuel emissions has brought about major disruptions to Earth’s ecosystems that are putting all forms of life at risk.

In these pages the reader will learn about some of global warming’s most profound effects on the natural world and the consequences for people. Some promising initiatives are described that can give Earth a chance to heal.