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  • Analog Hunger in a Digital World

    Confronting Today's Identity Crisis

    by Paul C. Vitz ...
    Renowned psychologist Paul Vitz addresses the troubling fact that scientific progress is no longer making human beings happy. In fact, the reverse trend is taking hold: individuals are more distressed and struggle with overwhelming confusion regarding personal identity and the meaningfulness of life as technology makes daily life more 'manageable.' Vitz asserts there is a noteworthy connection ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Psychology as Religion

    The Cult of Self-Worship

    by Paul Vitz, Ph.D. ...
    Narrated by Dan Strutzel ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 39 min

    Now available for the first time in audiobook format! Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship, has been hailed by many as a “modern classic” among both secular and Christian thinkers alike. This work is a trenchant analysis of modern psychology—an enterprise that Paul Vitz maintains has become a religion, a secular cult of self, now part of the problem of modern life rather than part of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Faith of the Fatherless

    The Psychology of Atheism

    by Dr. Paul C. Vitz ...
    In this updated, expanded edition, starting with Freud's "projection theory" of religion - that belief in God is merely a product of man's desire for security - Professor Vitz argues that psychoanalysis actually provides a more satisfying explanation for atheism. Disappointment in one's earthly father, whether through death, absence, or mistreatment, frequently leads to a rejection of God.A ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis

    Point/Counterpoint

    by Joel Kupfersmid, Rosemary Sand, Paul Vitz, Grant Gillett, Edwin Erwin, Douglass Kirsner, Dr. Michael Michael, M. Andrew Holowchak, John Cottingham, Michael Lavin, Adolf Grünbaum, Andreas De Block ...
    Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis: Point/Counterpoint, edited by M. Andrew Holowchak, features pro and con essays on some of the most extreme Freudian claims, including the Freudian unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Holowchak collects the writings of critical scholars in the fields of psychology and philosophy who have distinguished themselves in the area through prior publications.This ... Read more

    $106.19 USD

  • The Naturalness of Belief

    New Essays on Theism’s Rationality

    by Paul Copan, Charles Taliaferro, Clifford Williams, Aku Visala, Ronald Scott Smith, Graham Oppy, Angus Menuge, Jonathan J. Loose, Jeremiah J. Johnston0, Matthew Flannagan1, Robert Larmer2, J.P. Moreland3, Paul C. Vitz4, James S. Spiegel5, Justin L. Barrett6 ...
    Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty, personal agency, and the like. But in doing so, broad naturalism begins to look more like theism. ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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  • The Shipwrecked Mind

    On Political Reaction

    by Mark Lilla ...
    Covering centuries of thought and politics, this collection of essays “offers a fascinating framework for making sense of our contemporary political landscape” (Vox).“Skillfully untangles the apocalyptic ‘mytho-histories,’ ‘just-so narratives,’ and ‘political bedtime stories’ favored by the modern right, in Europe and America.” —The New YorkerWe don’t understand the reactionary mind. In this ... Read more

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  • The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology

    by Rollo May ...
    Rollo May draws on the insights of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and other great thinkers to offer a helpful roadmap of the ideas and techniques of existential psychotherapy.He pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation, and to our search for stability in an age of anxiety. ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Minor Gesture

    by Erin Manning ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the minor ... Read more

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  • Spinoza

    Freedom's Messiah

    by Ian Buruma ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
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  • This Incredible Need to Believe

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    "Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism."So writes Julia Kristeva in this provocative work, which skillfully upends our entrenched ideas about religion, belief, and the thought ... Read more

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  • Reading Freud

    A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings

    by Jean-Michel Quinodoz ...
    Series series New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series
    Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable background ... Read more

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