Tag: Psychology
Freud Museum, Vienna
The psychic centre of the western world is quiet, the empire emptied. The hoardings on the street outside reveal the unconscious to be incorporated, c …
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Liberating Dylan Thomas: Rescuing a Poet from Psycho-sexual Servitude AND Notes from the End of History: A Memoir of the Left in Wales
Both Liberating Dylan Thomas and Notes from the End of History suggest we damage our own souls – and the hope of the world – if we abandon the passion …
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The Visitations
In The Visitations, there is often an insidious feeling that – like the women with children in Larkin’s ‘Afternoons’ – something is pushing her to the …
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The Shape of a Forest
Things have been looking great for Jemma L King. The Powys-based poet and academic won the Terry Hetherington Young Welsh Writer of the Year Award in …
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The Messenger
This is a novel which will divide readers, with some appreciating its heartfelt values and others feeling a lack of sophistication. Like the story’s h …
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Snowdon, The Story of a Mountain
For a book ostensibly tied to a specific locality, Jim Perrin’s Snowdon covers a lot of ground. The mountain itself stands at the centre of the narrat …
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