Others: Positive A psychiatrist's probings into the mind of a young man who has blinded six horses with a spike, leaves him questioning his own purpose and the work he is doing.
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Georges Bataille
1943 · 251 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveHis is a journey marked by the questioning of experience itself, until what is reached is sovereign laughter, non-knowledge, and a Presence in no way distinct from Absence, where "The mind moves in a strange world where anguish and ecstasy coexist."
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Jordan B. Peterson
1999 · 564 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveWhy have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.
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Rob Doyle
2020 · 336 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveRob has spent most of his confusing adult life wandering, writing, and imbibing literature and narcotics in equally vast doses. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, between exaltation and despair, his travels have acquired a de facto purpose: the immemorial quest for transcendent meaning.
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Emil Michel Cioran
2011 · 224 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveIn this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience.
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Richard Matheson
1954 · 162 pages · 10 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveSee work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL64225W
John Lewis
2016 · 560 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveSee work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20115508W
Loved itin treating him daer realizes he'll be suppressing a pure form of ecstatic Pagan worship this true religious spirit he'll be eradicating an authentic part of what it means to be human... it's a haunting story so good love that book love that play
