The current state of medicine has witnessed the long-term adverse effects of certain medications, an increased rate of polypharmacy, and a cultural shift that emphasizes patient-centered practice. The term "deprescribing" refers to the optimization of the pharmacological regimen by reducing or cessing medications that incur more risks than benefits.
Many people consider stopping their psychiatric medications, but prescribers may not know how to do this in a collaborative, systematic way. Deprescribing in Psychiatry presents a framework for deprescribing to guide the prescriber-patient dyad through the process of deciding if and when to reduce psychiatric medication, how to go about doing it, and at the same time, acknowledge the inherent risks in such an endeavour.
As the first book on the subject, Deprescribing in Psychiatry stands to serve as a definitive text in this burgeoning field and as a 'rallying call' to raise crucial and topical questions in psychiatric practice, promote innovation, and act as a resource on the current state-of-the-art care. It describes the ins and outs of how clinicians can work closely with their patients to consider whether or not to try decreasing medications. It also discusses the anticipated future research directions, considerations for the field, and emphasizes collaboration with the patient, transparency, and the acknowledgement of uncertainty in psychiatric practice. (amazon) (kindle 2019-8-17)
Sunday, August 18, 2019
中央发起天安门七百万韭菜群众示威游行慶祝六四屠殺中國人民
https://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2019/08/15/8584673.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbfSt19J1Zw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbfSt19J1Zw
屆時沒有記者證的自稱記者的國安特工付國豪將發表長篇演說「我們要效法屠殺中國人民的六四劊子手」
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Autotelic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotelic
https://ir.nctu.edu.tw/bitstream/11536/80242/3/352703.pdf
https://www.cwilsonmeloncelli.com/the-autotelic-personality-finding-happiness-in-flow/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dSzKnf5WWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h6IMYRoCZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXD8QjpQrFc
https://ir.nctu.edu.tw/bitstream/11536/80242/3/352703.pdf
https://www.cwilsonmeloncelli.com/the-autotelic-personality-finding-happiness-in-flow/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dSzKnf5WWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h6IMYRoCZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXD8QjpQrFc
The Dark Side of Close Relationships II (ed. William R. Cupach, Brian H. Spitzberg, Routledge, 2010)
The Dark Side of Close Relationships II is a completely new and up-to-date version of the original volume published in 1998, featuring new topics and authors. The volume showcases cutting-edge work on important topics by prominent scholars in multiple disciplines. It sheds light on the paradoxical, dialectical, and mystifying facets of human interaction, not merely to elucidate dysfunctional relationship phenomena, but to help readers explore and understand it in relation to a broader understanding about relationships. As previous Dark Side investigations have revealed, negative or dysfunctional outcomes can occur in relationships even though positive and functional ones are expected, and at the same time, positive silver linings are often found in some dark relational clouds. Such nuanced approaches are needed to better account for the complexity of close relationships. A unique and provocative collection, this volume will appeal to relationship researchers in communication, social psychology, family studies, and sociology. (amazon) (accessible via questia)
The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit: From Attraction to Obsession and Stalking (2004) (accessible via scribd)
The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit: From Attraction to Obsession and Stalking (2004) (accessible via scribd)
Dark Side of Close Relationships (1998) (accessible via scribd)
Creativity: Theories and Themes: Research, Development, and Practice (Mark A. Runco, Academic Press, 2 ed, 2014)
An integrative introduction to the theories and themes in research on creativity, the second edition of Creativity is both a reference work and text for courses in this burgeoning area of research. The book begins with a discussion of the theories of creativity (Person, Product, Process, Place), the general question of whether creativity is influenced by nature or nurture, what research has indicated of the personality and style of creative individuals from a personality analysis standpoint, and how social context affects creativity. This wide-ranging work then proceeds to coverage of issues such as gender differences, whether creativity can be enhanced, if creativity is related to poor mental or physical health, and much more.
The book contains boxes covering special interest items, including one-page biographies of famous creative individuals, and activities for a group or individual to test or encourage creativity, as well as references to Internet sites relating to creativity.
- Includes all major theories and perspectives on creativity
- Consolidates recent research into a single source
- Includes key terms defined and text boxes with interesting related material
- Single authored for clarity and consistency of presentation (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
Creativity and Crime: A Psychological Analysis (David H. Cropley, Arthur J. Cropley, Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Creativity is typically perceived to be a positive, constructive attribute and yet, highly effective, novel crimes are committed which illustrate that creativity can also be utilised to serve a darker and more destructive end. But how can these 'creative criminals' be stopped? Adopting a psychological approach, renowned subject experts Cropley and Cropley draw upon concepts such as 'Person,' 'Process', 'Press' and 'Product' to explain how existing psychological theories of creativity can be applied to a more subtle subset of ingenuity; that is to say criminal behaviour and its consequences. Creativity and Crime does not look at felony involving impulsive, reflexive or merely deviant behaviour, but rather the novel and resourceful measures employed by criminals to more effectively achieve their lawbreaking goals. The book transcends the link between crime and creativity, and proposes a range of preventative measures for law enforcers. Scholars and graduates alike will find this an invaluable and illuminating read. (amazon)
The Dark Side of Creativity (ed. David H. Cropley, Arthur J. Cropley, James C. Kaufman, Mark A. Runco, Cambridge University Press, 2010)
With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others, such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts. This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering, education, history, and design) and with different interests (personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect society from its effects. (amazon)
Encyclopedia of Creativity (Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker, Academic Press, 2 ed, 2011)
The first edition of the successful Encyclopedia of Creativity served to establish the study of creativity is a field in itself. Now completely updated and revised in its second edition, coverage encompasses the definition of creativity, the development and expression of creativity across the lifespan, the environmental conditions that encourage or discourage creativity, creativity within specific disciplines like music, dance, film, art, literature, etc., the relationship of creativity and mental health, intelligence, and learning styles, and the process of being creative. This reference also appeals to a lay audience with articles specifically on the application of creativity to business settings. Available online via ScienceDirect and in limited print release.
- Named a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice publication
- Serves as a compendium of reviews of a number of domain-specific areas, such as acting, dance, expressive arts, film, food, music, religion, science, sports, theater, and writing.
- Creativity and education are examined in articles about thought processes, such as developmental trends in creative abilities and potentials, the enhancement of creativity, intelligence, knowledge, play, prodigies, programs and courses, talent and teaching creativity.
- Cognitive aspects of creativity can be investigated in articles about altered and transitional states, analogies, attention, cognitive style, divergent thinking, flow and optimal experience, metacognition, metaphors, problem-finding, problem-solving, and remote associates.
- Covers business and organizational creativity in articles about advertising with art, creative visuals, business/management, creativity coaching, creativity exercises, entrepreneurship, group dynamics, innovation, leadership, organizational culture, organizational development, teams, and training, among others.
- Explicitly examines the complex interrelationship between society and creativity in articles about awards, conformity and conventionality, the creative sector and class of society, cultural diversity, the dark side of creativity, East vs. West, networking, social psychology, war, zeitgeist, and others.
- Personal and interpersonal creativity is discussed in articles relating to collaboration, family, life stages, mentors, networking, personal creativity and self-actualization.
- Focuses on scientific information about creativity, there are also articles that discuss brain and neuropsychology, concepts of creativity, definitions of creativity, expertise, longitudinal studies, researching art, artists and art audiences, research methods, phenomenology research and qualitative research.
- Online version contains an additional 26 biographies of famously creative people (amazon)
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, HarperCollins, 1991)
THE BESTSELLING CLASSIC ON 'FLOW' – THE KEY TO UNLOCKING MEANING, CREATIVITY, PEAK PERFORMANCE, AND TRUE HAPPINESS
Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi ("the leading researcher into ‘flow states’" —Newsweek) demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness, unlock our potential, and greatly improve the quality of our lives.
"Explores a happy state of mind called flow, the feeling of complete engagement in a creative or playful activity." —Time (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
The Evolving Self: Psychology for the Third Millennium (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, HarperCollins, 1993)
The author of the bestselling Flow (more than 125,000 copies sold) offers an intelligent, inspiring guide to life in the future. (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
Friday, August 16, 2019
Karl Abraham: Life and Work, a Biography (The History of Psychoanalysis Series) (Anna Bentinck van Schoonheten, Routledge, 2018)
This book provides the reader with rich evidence of the very contemporaneity of Karl Abraham, reminding the reader of his unique clinical contributions to such diverse areas of concentration as the psychoses, depression, and the pre-oedipal. (amazon) (kindle 2019-8-16)
About the Author
Anna Bentinck van Schoonheten is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Amsterdam. She is a member of the Dutch Psychoanalytic Group, the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society and the IPA, and President of the Board of the Dutch Journal of Psychoanalysis. She specializes in the early history of psychoanalysis, with a special focus on Freud and the secret committee. She has conducted extensive research on Karl Abraham and the role of the secret committee in the development of psychoanalytic theory. (amazon)
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures (Eric Kandel, Columbia University Press, 2016)
Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. Kandel illustrates how reductionism—the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable components—has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths. He draws on his Nobel Prize-winning work revealing the neurobiological underpinnings of learning and memory in sea slugs to shed light on the complex workings of the mental processes of higher animals.
In Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Kandel shows how this radically reductionist approach, applied to the most complex puzzle of our time—the brain—has been employed by modern artists who distill their subjective world into color, form, and light. Kandel demonstrates through bottom-up sensory and top-down cognitive functions how science can explore the complexities of human perception and help us to perceive, appreciate, and understand great works of art. At the heart of the book is an elegant elucidation of the contribution of reductionism to the evolution of modern art and its role in a monumental shift in artistic perspective. Reductionism steered the transition from figurative art to the first explorations of abstract art reflected in the works of Turner, Monet, Kandinsky, Schoenberg, and Mondrian. Kandel explains how, in the postwar era, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Louis, Turrell, and Flavin used a reductionist approach to arrive at their abstract expressionism and how Katz, Warhol, Close, and Sandback built upon the advances of the New York School to reimagine figurative and minimal art. Featuring captivating drawings of the brain alongside full-color reproductions of modern art masterpieces, this book draws out the common concerns of science and art and how they illuminate each other. (amazon)
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves (Eric R. Kandel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)
A Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist’s probing investigation of what brain disorders can tell us about human nature
Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts.
In his seminal new book, The Disordered Mind, Kandel draws on a lifetime of pathbreaking research and the work of many other leading neuroscientists to take us on an unusual tour of the brain. He confronts one of the most difficult questions we face: How does our mind, our individual sense of self, emerge from the physical matter of the brain? The brain’s 86 billion neurons communicate with one another through very precise connections. But sometimes those connections are disrupted. The brain processes that give rise to our mind can become disordered, resulting in diseases such as autism, depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. While these disruptions bring great suffering, they can also reveal the mysteries of how the brain produces our most fundamental experiences and capabilities—the very nature of what it means to be human. Studies of autism illuminate the neurological foundations of our social instincts; research into depression offers important insights on emotions and the integrity of the self; and paradigm-shifting work on addiction has led to a new understanding of the relationship between pleasure and willpower.
By studying disruptions to typical brain functioning and exploring their potential treatments, we will deepen our understanding of thought, feeling, behavior, memory, and creativity. Only then can we grapple with the big question of how billions of neurons generate consciousness itself. (amazon)
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America (John Charles Chasteen, 2001)
https://archive.org/details/borninbloodfirec00chas (loan for two weeks, 2019-8-16)
4 ed (2016) e-text available at Wiley Direct
https://www.wileydirect.com.au/buy/born-in-blood-and-fire-a-concise-history-of-latin-america-4th-edition/
4 ed (2016) e-text available at Wiley Direct
https://www.wileydirect.com.au/buy/born-in-blood-and-fire-a-concise-history-of-latin-america-4th-edition/
epigraph
“I am no psychiatrist, no social worker, no psychoanalyst, not even an ordinary psychologist — and to tell you the truth I am glad of it … " (Otto Rank, May 1930)
In May 1930, Rank spoke before the First International Conference on Mental Hygiene, in Washington, D.C. The APsaA had its annual meeting in conjunction with the Conference. He lectured on "The Training of the Will and Emotional Development." Later that day, Rank was expelled from honorary membership in the APsaA.
In May 1930, Rank spoke before the First International Conference on Mental Hygiene, in Washington, D.C. The APsaA had its annual meeting in conjunction with the Conference. He lectured on "The Training of the Will and Emotional Development." Later that day, Rank was expelled from honorary membership in the APsaA.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
走了十公里後
我沒有見到消失點
因為這是繞圈子走
消失點的起因
是因為有觀點
但是三年前我說
我已經不要觀點
所以我還有消失點可說嗎
消失點隱含著遙遠的無窮盡
沒有消失點可說隱含著不信
地平線的後面的居然有許諾
在這個no
country for old men
意思是說我相信隨時可以倒下來
就像沈崇文筆下客死邊城的落葉
這時你知道為什麼這是繞圈子走
香港區歌 -- 海闊天空 MV (駒哥)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EPI4a13Z0
this is Hong Kong, before the damned Chinese sabotaged and ruined it
this is Hong Kong, before the damned Chinese sabotaged and ruined it
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Cesária Évora (1941-2011)
Nicknamed the "Barefoot Diva" for performing without shoes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ces%C3%A1ria_%C3%89vora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FqJnypYbQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWYKTiqPvYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQtxDgeC6Ig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ces%C3%A1ria_%C3%89vora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FqJnypYbQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWYKTiqPvYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQtxDgeC6Ig
Monday, August 12, 2019
Lobo-Cabernite Affair
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zuGjySJhmeATDAUGrN5CP_zcwPnzxlRz?usp=sharing
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Florida Straits (1986)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Straits_(film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrZpGrY3q8Q
the huge don quixote, which was torn, page by page, for that proper sea burial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrZpGrY3q8Q
the huge don quixote, which was torn, page by page, for that proper sea burial
被雷鋒的精神分析心理動力考察
劉大任杜鵑啼血裡那朵讓人狂亂的紅花
就是多年前被迫生吃的愛人的心臟
雷鋒知道這件事他也吃過但是他不會狂亂
用現在流行的話雷鋒說贈人玫瑰手有餘香
當然我們知道雷鋒也知道那是血腥的餘香
Saturday, August 10, 2019
US hits back at China for targeting diplomat in Hong Kong (Rheuters, The Guardian, 2019-8-10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mtRjOmIAhA
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/10/us-hits-back-at-china-for-targeting-diplomat-in-hong-kong
On Thursday, Ortagus called China a “thuggish regime” for disclosing photographs and personal details of the diplomat.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/10/us-hits-back-at-china-for-targeting-diplomat-in-hong-kong
On Thursday, Ortagus called China a “thuggish regime” for disclosing photographs and personal details of the diplomat.
Eye in the Sky (2015)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_in_the_Sky_(2015_film)
this film teaches us to keep watching movie, which is the only ethical way to live your life
this film teaches us to keep watching movie, which is the only ethical way to live your life
Rankians Unbowed (1974)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/02/11/rankians-unbowed/amp
http://archives.newyorker.com/default.aspx?iid=18623&startpage=page0000032#folio=CV1
Robinson, V. (1974). Rankians unbowed. The New Yorker, Feb. 11, pp. 30- 32
http://archives.newyorker.com/default.aspx?iid=18623&startpage=page0000032#folio=CV1
Robinson, V. (1974). Rankians unbowed. The New Yorker, Feb. 11, pp. 30- 32
Robert Kramer (1995, 2019)
Robert Kramer (1995) The Birth of Client-Centered Therapy: Carl Rogers, Otto Rank, and "The Beyond". Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 35(4): 54-110
Carl Rogers is one of the most influential figures in humanistic psychology. Surprisingly, however, almost no one knows the full story of how he came to develop client-centered therapy. Yet Rogers always acknowledged that a personal encounter with Otto Rank in 1936 revolutionized the way he thought about psychotherapy. "I became infected with Rankian ideas," he told his biographer. Like Rank, whose last book was entitled Beyond Psychology, Rogers concluded by the end of his life that there is a realm "beyond" scientific psychology, a realm he came to prize as "the transcendent, the indescribable, the spiritual." Ironically, the spiritual had always been there, hidden in what was closest and most familiar to Rogers: the empathic relationship between therapist and client. The spirit of Otto Rank, from whom client-centered therapy originated, lived on in the mind, heart, and soul of Carl Rogers.
Robert Kramer (2019) The Birth of Relationship Therapy: Carl Rogers meets Otto Rank, Psychosozial Verlag GbR
被割韭菜的秘訣
昨晚颱風繞回來有風無雨破窗幾乎
那個十三歲的紅衛兵睡在洞裡夢到殺光全人類微笑地
雷鋒現在巴黎讀精神分析和洗錢術
中國的希望在合理的政治制度和每個人可以好好做人
走到這裡我明確知道已經到了盡頭
Friday, August 9, 2019
香港抗争者致内地同胞书
https://pincong.rocks/article/2942
http://cn.rfi.fr/20190808-%E6%88%91%E4%BB%AC%E4%B8%BA%E4%BB%80%E4%B9%88%E6%8C%BA%E8%BA%AB%E8%80%8C%E5%87%BA-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E6%8A%97%E4%BA%89%E8%80%85%E8%87%B4%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%86%E5%90%8C%E8%83%9E%E4%B9%A6%E7%BD%91%E7%BB%9C%E7%83%AD%E4%BC%A0/
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2019/08/%E5%93%81%E8%91%B1-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E6%8A%97%E4%BA%89%E8%80%85%E8%87%B4%E5%86%85%E5%9C%B0%E5%90%8C%E8%83%9E%E4%B9%A6/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMawV4HgE5k
http://cn.rfi.fr/20190808-%E6%88%91%E4%BB%AC%E4%B8%BA%E4%BB%80%E4%B9%88%E6%8C%BA%E8%BA%AB%E8%80%8C%E5%87%BA-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E6%8A%97%E4%BA%89%E8%80%85%E8%87%B4%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%86%E5%90%8C%E8%83%9E%E4%B9%A6%E7%BD%91%E7%BB%9C%E7%83%AD%E4%BC%A0/
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2019/08/%E5%93%81%E8%91%B1-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E6%8A%97%E4%BA%89%E8%80%85%E8%87%B4%E5%86%85%E5%9C%B0%E5%90%8C%E8%83%9E%E4%B9%A6/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMawV4HgE5k
Dialogues with Michael Eigen: Psyche Singing (Relational Perspectives Book Series) (Michael Eigen, Loray Daws (Editor), Routledge, 2019-7-22)
Dialogues with Michael Eigen spans 20 years of diverse interviews and interactions with the acclaimed psychologist Michael Eigen, including interlocutors from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Sweden, Israel, and the United States, published together for the first time.
This book explores the importance of soul reveries, psychoanalytic "prayers", and cultivation of psychoanalytic "faith" in Eigen’s work. The dialogues lay out Eigen’s privileging of emotions as messengers in need of recognition, as welcoming inner gestures for incubation, enabling a deep vitalizing contact of being with oneself and others. Eigen reminds us that struggling with one’s personality remains a life-long task, exposing us to various existential sufferings, agonies, traumas, and losses in need of soul confession, if not analytic prayer.
The book seeks to help readers find, touch, and work with emotional realities a little better and support a growing intimate, creative relation to ourselves. The rich explorations of the interviews and interactions with Eigen help contribute to further appreciation of our experiential life and worlds it opens. Building on his work on mind–body–soul connections, Dialogues with Michael Eigen is an essential book for anyone interested in the spiritual side of psychoanalysis.(amazon)
Identity in Adolescence 4e: The Balance between Self and Other, 4 ed (Laura Ferrer-Wreder, Jane Kroger, Routledge, 2019-7-5)
This fully revised fourth edition of Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other presents four theoretical perspectives on identity development during adolescence and young adulthood and their practical implications for intervention. Ferrer-Wreder and Kroger consider adolescent identity development as the unique intersection of social and cultural forces in combination with individual factors that each theoretical model stresses in attempting to understand the identity formation process for contemporary adolescents.
Identity in Adolescence addresses the complex question of how adolescent identity forms and develops during adolescence and young adulthood and serves as the foundation for entering adult life. The book is unique in its presentation of four selected models that address this process, along with cutting-edge research and the implications that each of these models hold for practical interventions. This new edition has been comprehensively revised, with five completely new chapters and three that have been extensively updated. New special topics are also addressed, including ethnic, sexual, and gender identity development, the role of technology in adolescent identity development, and ongoing identity development beyond adolescence.
The book is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying adolescent development, self and social identity within developmental psychology, social psychology and clinical psychology, as well as practitioners in the fields of child welfare and mental health services, social work, youth and community work and counselling. (amazon)
Sweet Thursday (John Steinbeck 1954)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Thursday
According to the author, "Sweet Thursday" is the day between Lousy Wednesday and Waiting Friday. (Epub accessible via scribd)
According to the author, "Sweet Thursday" is the day between Lousy Wednesday and Waiting Friday. (Epub accessible via scribd)
Conversations with James Ellroy (Literary Conversations Series) (Steven Powell, University Press of Mississippi, 2012)
As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction" persona, James Ellroy has used interviews as a means of shaping narratives outside of his novels. Conversations with James Ellroy covers a series of interviews given by Ellroy from 1984 to 2010, in which Ellroy discusses his literary contribution and his public and private image.
Born Lee Earle Ellroy in 1948, James Ellroy is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers of crime and historical fiction. Ellroy's complex narratives, which merge history and fiction, have pushed the boundaries of the crime fiction genre: American Tabloid, a revisionist look at the Kennedy era, was Time magazine's Novel of the Year 1995, and his novels L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia were adapted into films. Much of Ellroy's remarkable life story has served as the template for the personal obsessions that dominate his writing. From the brutal, unsolved murder of his mother, to his descent into alcohol and drug abuse, his sexual voyeurism, and his stints at the Los Angeles County Jail, Ellroy has lived through a series of hellish experiences that few other writers could claim.
In Conversations with James Ellroy, Ellroy talks extensively about his life, his literary influences, his persona, and his attitudes towards politics and religion. In interviews with fellow crime writers Craig McDonald, David Peace, and others, including several previously unpublished interviews, Ellroy is at turns charismatic and eloquent, combative and enigmatic. (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
Dutch on Dutch: One of the Last In-depth Interviews with the Incomparable Elmore Leonard (T.V. LoCicero, TLC Media, 2014)
In this lively, expansive and generous interview, the greatest crime novelist of our time, Elmore “Dutch” Leonard, talks about everything from the essence and appeal of his stories, to why he writes in longhand, to the finer points of robbing a bank.
“…a fantastic interview—amazingly rich and informative and wonderfully telling of his character.”—Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading Room
“He really was such an amazing man. The attitudes and approaches to writing he expresses are always entirely consistent and he has a way of demystifying the process, treating it not as being some gift from the gods, nor as being easy but as a craft that has to be worked at.”—Bill Kirton, author of The Figurehead (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
“…a fantastic interview—amazingly rich and informative and wonderfully telling of his character.”—Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading Room
“He really was such an amazing man. The attitudes and approaches to writing he expresses are always entirely consistent and he has a way of demystifying the process, treating it not as being some gift from the gods, nor as being easy but as a craft that has to be worked at.”—Bill Kirton, author of The Figurehead (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing (Elmore Leonard, William Morrow, 2007)
"These are the rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story."—Elmore Leonard
For aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing process with simplicity and clarity. From adjectives and exclamation points to dialect and hoopetedoodle, Elmore Leonard explains what to avoid, what to aspire to, and what to do when it sounds like "writing" (rewrite).
Beautifully designed, filled with free-flowing, elegant illustrations and specially priced, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing is the perfect writer's—and reader's—gift. (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
Elmore Leonard (1925 – 2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmore_Leonard
He was known to many as the ‘Dickens of Detroit’ and was a long-time resident of the Detroit area.
He was known to many as the ‘Dickens of Detroit’ and was a long-time resident of the Detroit area.
中国混改背后政府隐秘的意图/王剑财经观察
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Y1k9JemGs
中共政權的治國唯一三招是打土豪分田地大躍進文化大革命這裡講的混改就是打土豪分田地意思是說二馬也不能免於韭菜被收割的命運
M (FJU 2019 入夏之後) - Otto Rank
The only remedy is an acceptance of the fundamental irrationality of the human being and life in general, an acceptance which means not merely a recognition or even admittance of our basic “primitivity,” in the sophisticated vein of our typical intellectuals, but a real allowance for its dynamic functioning in human behavior, which would not be lifelike without it. When such a constructive and dynamic expression of the irrational together with the rational life is not permitted, it breaks through in violent distortions which manifest themselves individually as neurosis and culturally as various forms of revolutionary movements which succeed because they are irrational and not in spite of it.
Even if a more harmonious medium is struck temporarily by any given civilization, it seems to challenge the irrational by introducing a foreign element into its dynamic functioning. Thus I understand the need for a complementary psychology as we find it operating on every plane of life: from the individual conception of the Double, manifested in what we termed “twin-relationship” to the acceptance of the exceptional psychology of the deviate by the masses, to the world-wide process of the diffusion of cultures in which one civilization reacts necessarily upon the other. The ego needs the Thou in order to become a Self, be it on the individual plane of human relationship or on the social plane of a foreign group-ideology, or on the broadest basis of one civilization needing another one for its development and maintenance. The tragic element in this process is that the ego needs a Thou to build up an assertive self with and against this Thou.
Just as in individual therapy this complementary Thou is only partly assimilated, while partly reciprocated, so all inspirational ideologies as well as cultural diffusions are in the last analysis therapeutic, that is, serve the purposes of strengthening a self—be it personal, social or national —by borrowed support from the opposite type, whether directly as borrowed strength or indirectly as strengthening the assertive forces by stimulating them antagonistically. In this sense, we do not have to carry the personality build-up beyond the psychology of the individual by showing the real stuff it is made of because we find it to be by its very nature beyond the individual. The psychology of the Self is to be found in the Other, be that Other the individual Thou, or the inspirational ideology of the leader, or the symbiotic diffusion of another civilization. Inasmuch as this symbiotic twinship operates as mutually complementary it is therapeutic, that is, strengthening, although at best on borrowed strength which can last only temporarily. But inasmuch as the two opposing personalities or ideologies or civilizations assert their difference, it is bound to produce violent reactions of a revolutionary nature in personal relationships and of social crises on a bigger scale, which are then condemned as neurotic by the rational self. Granted an acceptance of the fundamental irrationality of the human being and life in general with allowance for its dynamic functioning in human behaviour, we have the basis for the emergence of everything of which mankind is capable in personal and social capacity for betterment.
Rank, Otto. Beyond Psychology (pp. 289-291). Dover Publications. 1941, Kindle edition.
now, this is the end of that famously not-completed last chapter "Psychology beyond the self", and we come full circle, back to the other, again
Even if a more harmonious medium is struck temporarily by any given civilization, it seems to challenge the irrational by introducing a foreign element into its dynamic functioning. Thus I understand the need for a complementary psychology as we find it operating on every plane of life: from the individual conception of the Double, manifested in what we termed “twin-relationship” to the acceptance of the exceptional psychology of the deviate by the masses, to the world-wide process of the diffusion of cultures in which one civilization reacts necessarily upon the other. The ego needs the Thou in order to become a Self, be it on the individual plane of human relationship or on the social plane of a foreign group-ideology, or on the broadest basis of one civilization needing another one for its development and maintenance. The tragic element in this process is that the ego needs a Thou to build up an assertive self with and against this Thou.
Just as in individual therapy this complementary Thou is only partly assimilated, while partly reciprocated, so all inspirational ideologies as well as cultural diffusions are in the last analysis therapeutic, that is, serve the purposes of strengthening a self—be it personal, social or national —by borrowed support from the opposite type, whether directly as borrowed strength or indirectly as strengthening the assertive forces by stimulating them antagonistically. In this sense, we do not have to carry the personality build-up beyond the psychology of the individual by showing the real stuff it is made of because we find it to be by its very nature beyond the individual. The psychology of the Self is to be found in the Other, be that Other the individual Thou, or the inspirational ideology of the leader, or the symbiotic diffusion of another civilization. Inasmuch as this symbiotic twinship operates as mutually complementary it is therapeutic, that is, strengthening, although at best on borrowed strength which can last only temporarily. But inasmuch as the two opposing personalities or ideologies or civilizations assert their difference, it is bound to produce violent reactions of a revolutionary nature in personal relationships and of social crises on a bigger scale, which are then condemned as neurotic by the rational self. Granted an acceptance of the fundamental irrationality of the human being and life in general with allowance for its dynamic functioning in human behaviour, we have the basis for the emergence of everything of which mankind is capable in personal and social capacity for betterment.
Rank, Otto. Beyond Psychology (pp. 289-291). Dover Publications. 1941, Kindle edition.
now, this is the end of that famously not-completed last chapter "Psychology beyond the self", and we come full circle, back to the other, again
that friday lekima frees
rain, bursting, on and off, wind, funny, not even obvious, the chapter otto rank did not complete in beyond psychology (1941) was called psychology beyond the self, interesting indeed, how to live a life that doesn't matter, means how to live a life that's natural, last night, found quentin tarantino brought solace, ironically enough, isn't it, otto rank said in that chapter that Freud tried to rationalize the irrational, i.e., make the unconscious conscious, and he said that project was futile, so his "beyond" means to go into the wilderness, again, to let elemental forces flow through you, become you, you most likely will not survive this journey, but you see, it does not fucking matter, this is the way for creativity. which defines that artist, and which is each and every one of us, now, i seem to see rank sipping his coffee in new york eighty years ago, smiling at me, and the hong kong people on the streets, right now, god bless hong kong, i'd imagine rank say so too, and that brings him back to history,
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction (David Roche, University Press of Mississippi, 2018)
Quentin Tarantino's films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification.
Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino's films according to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight how closely the films' poetics and politics are intertwined. Each in-depth chapter focuses on a salient feature, some which have drawn much attention (history, race, gender, violence), others less so (narrative structure, style, music, theatricality).
Roche sets Tarantino's films firmly in the legacy of Howard Hawks, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, and the New Hollywood, revising the image of a cool pop-culture purveyor that the American director cultivated at the beginning of his career. Roche emphasizes the breadth and depth of his films' engagement with culture, highbrow and lowbrow, screen and print, American, East Asian, and European. (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino's films according to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight how closely the films' poetics and politics are intertwined. Each in-depth chapter focuses on a salient feature, some which have drawn much attention (history, race, gender, violence), others less so (narrative structure, style, music, theatricality).
Roche sets Tarantino's films firmly in the legacy of Howard Hawks, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, and the New Hollywood, revising the image of a cool pop-culture purveyor that the American director cultivated at the beginning of his career. Roche emphasizes the breadth and depth of his films' engagement with culture, highbrow and lowbrow, screen and print, American, East Asian, and European. (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize With a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch (Popular Culture and Philosophy, Vol. 29) (ed. Richard Greene, K. Silem Mohammad, Open Court, 2007)
The films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and the flow of time. In this witty collection of articles, no subject is too taboo for the writers to tackle. From an aesthetic meditation on the use of spraying blood in Kill Bill to the conundrum of translation and reference in Vincent and Jules' discussion about French Big Macs in Pulp Fiction, Tarantino and Philosophy shies away from nothing. Is The Bride a heroic figure, even though she’s motivated solely by revenge? How is Tarantino able to create a coherent story when he jumps between past, future, and present? The philosophers in this book take on those questions and more in essays as provocative as the films themselves.(amazon) (accessible via scribd)
在廢墟中用肉身養蚊子的哲學
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
你对真实的中国一无所知 (2019-5-16)
http://www.gznf.net/contribute/34604.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTT7zLCT378
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ug7NwiJjHkG4OjXuNHqj7fT2eeroCJGD/view?usp=sharing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTT7zLCT378
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ug7NwiJjHkG4OjXuNHqj7fT2eeroCJGD/view?usp=sharing
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