tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post5652559214672629458..comments2023-08-20T04:55:39.436-07:00Comments on Ars Psychiatrica: My Fifteen for TodayNovalishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-23686037470682172692009-06-23T19:44:26.798-07:002009-06-23T19:44:26.798-07:00Man against himself by .Karl Menninger M.D.
Why I...Man against himself by .Karl Menninger M.D.<br /><br />Why I am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell<br /><br />The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir<br /><br />Molloy by Samuel Beckett<br /><br />Dark Light(photographs) by Michael Martone ,lustrum Press NY<br /><br />The Artist in Society by Lawrence<br />Hatterer M.D.<br /><br />The History of Photography by<br />Peter Pollack<br /><br />The Myth of Mental Illness by<br />Thomas Sazsz M.D.<br /><br />Accidental Center by Michael Heller<br /><br />The Balcony by Jean Genet<br /><br />The Clowns by Jean Genet<br /><br />Treatise on Conducting by<br />Hermann Scherchen<br /><br />In Cold Blood by Truman Capote<br /><br />Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-24503429972061142262009-06-22T19:54:05.701-07:002009-06-22T19:54:05.701-07:00I am an idiot, Tolstoy wrote The Death of Ivan I. ...I am an idiot, Tolstoy wrote The Death of Ivan I. But any Chekhov will do. <br /><br />Oh, and Russell Banks and T.C. Boyle and Voyage to the Bunny Planet, and, guilty pleasures like Bukowski, and so much poetry...leighnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-73818041636317428992009-06-22T19:46:16.078-07:002009-06-22T19:46:16.078-07:00In random order:
Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis B...In random order:<br /><br />Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges,<br />A clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess<br />Hunger, Knut Hamsun<br />Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky<br />Sartre<br />Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson<br />Auto Da Fe, Elias Canetti<br />The Woman Destroyed, Simone De Beauvoir<br />The Fall, Camus<br />Descartes' Error, Damasio<br />The Quantity Theory of Insanity, WIll Self<br />1984<br />The Illusion of Conscious WIll, Wegner<br />Frankenstein, Shelley<br />Other miserable/absurd Russians<br /><br /><br />Fiction moved me in my youth in a way it doesn't as a fully functional sane adult. I think there's that transitional phase between late teens and early 20s when literature transmutes your world and sense of being in a joltingly ecstatic way: ideas/values/perceptions throw sparks in all directions, disorienting you to the life you thought you knew.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-46121545878692498202009-06-22T17:35:43.855-07:002009-06-22T17:35:43.855-07:00Gravity and Grace, Simone Weil
The Death of Ivan I...Gravity and Grace, Simone Weil<br />The Death of Ivan Ilych, Chekhov<br />False Match, Henry Bean<br />Art and Ardor, Cynthia Ozick<br />Being and Time, Heidegger<br />Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Wolf<br />John D. McDonald novels<br />Dreamtime, Geoffrey O'Brien<br />The Moviegoer, Walker Percy<br />A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor<br /><br /><br />Poets...Syzmborska (sp),Charlie Smith, Stephen Dunn, William Stafford...<br /><br />And Yeah, Freud as Literature. That was the prevailing zeitgeist when I was in school. Influenced by Bloom and his proteges. The anxiety of influence and the absent fathers. <br /><br />I hate lists of favorites, and on principle don't compile them. I did this as an improv. Whatever came to mind.<br /><br />It would change if I did it in an hour, with probably Weil as the only constant.leighnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-46920574496285240962009-06-22T16:51:30.601-07:002009-06-22T16:51:30.601-07:00Sorry, clicked on the wrong comments box (brain de...Sorry, clicked on the wrong comments box (brain dead after hours of looking at financial reports all day, and lost glasses....):<br /><br />The Bible<br />E.O. WIlson Sociobiology<br />Charles Darwin Origin of Species<br />Poetry of Wilfrid Owen <br />Poetry of Anna Akhmatova<br />Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of The Bicameral Mind Julian Jaynes<br />Adaptations to Life George Vaillant<br />James Agee Let Us Now Praise Famous Men<br />The Odyssey<br />Walker Percy Love in the Ruins<br />Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal<br />Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey Into Night<br />James Joyce The Dubliners<br />Collected Poetry of William Butler Yeats<br />Shakespeare<br /><br /><br />That's my 15 as fast as I could type them (no consideration, except that these on your list would have been on it, if not for wanting to be different:<br />Walden<br />LOTR<br />Selfish Gene<br />Dickinson Poetry<br /><br />I suppose Freud, because his cases are such great short stories. He is a novelist, not a scientist. Love him as a storyteller, one of the first writing physicians one actually enjoys reading, self-deluded, blind to himself at times, always fun to read....(brace for Freud disciples to shoot a hail of arrows)Retrieverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036341287285545932noreply@blogger.com