A Dictionary of Dream Symbols (8) 更多

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    If something is going wrong in our life, we tend to put the blame on to other people, the government, or our parents; we look for some scapegoat to carry the blame. The blame, however, is ours, bec...
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    Oedipus complex (the ambivalent, love-hate feelings of an infant towards a parent) may display itself in later life in a similar ambivalence towards a spouse - an inability to love someone without ...
  • 第46页 Introduction
    Symbolically - in myths and in dreams - consciousness is usually represented as male, the unconscious as female; and the sexual penetration of female by male is therefore a common symbol of the des...
  • 第37页 Introduction
    For Freud, religion was a neurosis; for Jung, religion was therapeutic - it was the ultimate cure for the troubled human psyche.
  • 第32页 Introduction
    Perhaps a more common instance is where fear of one's strong sexual desires leads one to become a stern campaigner against pornography, prostitution, sex outside marriage, sex education in schools,...
  • 第27页 Introduction
    Fixation at the anal expulsive stage, the stage where pleasure is found in expelling faeces, will tend to produce an untidy, wasteful and extravagant (perharps extravagantly generous) person.
  • 第19页 Introduction
    In other words, what you are frightened of is what your id wants. The difference between suppressing a desire and repressing it is that suppression is done consciously and repression is done uncons...
  • 第11页 Introduction
    Bragging about a lack of dreams is a sure sign that the person is hiding his or her fears behind a foolish bravado, preferring to remain ignorant of his or her own neurotic hang-ups.

The Death Penalty (15) 更多

Paranoid (5)

  • 第101页 The Engine of Paranoia
    Given the sheer complexity of the brain, it is a wonder that any of us develop normal brains at all. Throw on top of that the unique nature of our individual experiences--each of which helps shape ...
  • 第84页 Where Else Do We Find Paranoia?
    It will be argued here that like many human characteristics, both normal and abnormal, the origins of suspiciousness--paranoia"s sister--are to be found in the distant past of human evolution. Seem...
  • 第77页 Where Else Do We Find Paranoia?
    There are two non-exclusionary explanations for paranoia in patients with delirium. The first is that critical brain regions where paranoia is thought to "live" are directly affected by whatever ca...
  • 第53页 Kinds of Paranoia
    It is important to note that research has indicated that delusions are not distinctly different from "normal" thought but reflect degrees of abnormal thinking. Most of us figure out along the way t...
  • 第42页 Inside The Mind of Paranoia
    The world is perceived by the paranoid person as a dangerous place where a "dog-eat-dog" mentality prevails. As such you must be constantly on your guard and hypervigilant lest someone sneak behind...

The Beauty of the Real (19) 更多

  • 第174页 Isabelle Carré and Madness
    Drama and comedy are the polite genres, founded on collectively agreed-upon ideas, perceptions and truths. But life, as subjectively experience, is not like comedy or drama; it is much more disorga...
  • 第148页 Marriage and Adultery (Same Thing)
    In ANNA KARENINA, Tolstoy famously wrote, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Yet, though one should not lightly start an argument with Tolstoy, I wonder...
  • 第92页 The Allure of Hollywood
    In person, there is nothing of the diva about Marceau. She is wryly funny and reflexively self-deprecating, with a lightness that has made her a natural for comedy, though she is not limited to tha...
  • 第136页 Agnès Jaoui
    Jean-Luc Godard once said, "The history of cinema is boys photographing girls." Photographing girls is something that Godard himself did exceptionally well, and it's a history that for many reasons...
  • 第131页 Agnès Jaoui
    Whenever I watch a movie written by Jaoui and Barci--or rather, think about it, having seen it-- I am always struck by how they manage to hold audience interest without conventional narrative hooks...
  • 第130页 Agnès Jaoui
    "It's very jubilating for me when somebody I really don't like, suddenly, because this event or moment, I discover I was wrong, that he has a beautiful humanity. Of course, I don't like somebody I ...
  • 第127页 Agnès Jaoui
    For an artist of strong opinions and snap judgments, there are a lot to take in: I was completely shocked by the way you just have two seconds to speak. Everybody was thanking God and their parents...
  • 第119页 The French Meryl Streep
    Because illness is so disturbing, so terrifying, people react to it by trying to make sense of it. In life, we do this by explaining to ourselves why it makes sense when someone else gets sick. Lik...
  • 第113页 The French Meryl Streep
    Actresses are very often people who are not the most comfortable in their own skin. They become actresses as a way of transcending shame. So their bodies and faces are the scenes of an internal str...
  • 第104页 Nathalie Baye in the Nineties
    As Dashiell Hammett once commented on writing, "It's the beginning of the end when you discover you have a style."
  • 第97页 The Allure of Hollywood
    Just as French actresses have to make American films just to let us see how boring they can be, Kristen Scott Thomas had to go to France for people to understand the exciting, vital, not-mired-in-t...
  • 第89页 The Allure of Hollywood
    France has the largest, most lucrative cinema in Europe, making it the second most successful cinema in the Western world (a distant second, monetarily), and in terms of roles for women, it's unque...
  • 第88页 The Allure of Hollywood
    A French actress arrives from Paris with an aura of mystery and complexity and gets fed into machinery that turns her into nothing.
  • 第87页 The Allure of Hollywood
    For French stars, there is an artistic allure as well. Unlike American screen actors, who often know shockingly little about film history pre-Spielberg, most French stars are familiar with American...
  • 第75页 Bonnaire, Huppert, and La Cérémonie
    This is as good a place as any to mention that French films stars are never shy about announcing which of their own films they dislike. If you like a film that they don't, they will even try to tal...
  • 第68页 Sandrine Kiberlain
    French cinema, as its most tiresome, has a weakness for propositions in place of character, for mysteries that are essentially empty, which are then offered as vague testament to the unknowability ...
  • 第42页 Binoche, Beart, and the Temptations of Vanity
    When a friend remarks that she (Beart) should stop smoking, she answers, "I enjoy blackening my lungs."
  • 第5页 Introduction: Two Myths
    The French are not like this. They may care about right and wrong as much as we do, but they're much less interested in exploring moral gradations in their stories. There movies are more intereste...
  • 第3页 Introduction: Two Myths
    In reality, American independent cinema is very much a product of the same culture that produces Hollywood films. The aesthetic values may be different, but the cultural values and assumptions are ...

西西弗神话 (2)

  • 第42页 哲學性的自殺
    一個已經覺悟到荒謬的人永遠要和荒謬聯繫在一起。一個無所希望並意識到存在的人就不再屬於未來了。這是合乎情理的。但他所以在情理之中，同樣也是因為他努力想脫離這個他創造的世界。
  • 荒誕與自殺
    自殺只不過是承認生活著並不‘‘值得’’。誠然，活著從來就沒容易過，但由於種種原因，人們還繼續著由存在支配著的行為，這其中最重要的原因就是習慣。一個人自願去死，則說明這個人認識到--即使是下意識的--習...
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