Shattered Psyche Vol 1(1),. Ed 2


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Shattered Psyche Volume 1, issue 1 is a florilegium of Contemporary by Marie Moldovan and Max Myers. Each collection takes the viewer on a journey and paints a well of insight into the realm of the subconscious mind.




Shades of Life


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Did you experience pain and loss in the spring of your life? Were you robbed of family, security, and love at an early age? Did you find yourself empty of color and overcast by shades of grey after losing a loved one? Have you experienced hopelessness, sadness and depression? Then, Shades of Life is the book for you.... Shades of Life by Emma Hilson-Gregory poetically reminds the reader that it is ok to cry and not feel ok. Life does not always go how we think or expect it should, bur our will to carry on and hold onto love and hope is part of the wonder of living. What people are saying about Shades of Life: There is a fine line between love and hate, light and dark, good and bad, some may even say there’s only a shade difference between them all. Two emotions seemingly opposite one another, but in fact they’re lighter and darker shades of the same feeling. This book, “Shades of Life” blends those emotions, exposing the hues of the human experience so honestly. Shade is a result of how light or dark a color appears to its counterparts, and that effect can be seen in our life experiences as expressed in “Shades of Life.” From the dark stains of tragedy to the bright tones of innocence and triumph, Emma Hilson-Gregory casts an array of tints and tinges across these pages in the form of colorful penmanship. Accompanying the words are shadows, coolness, and intensity in the form of black-and-white artwork and imagery that live amongst the shade cast by the author’s mighty pen. The illustrator, Marie Moldovan crosshatches the words to the artwork with a perfect understanding of light and darkness that brings playful images from the shadows and fills in the shadows with a darkness that is felt. This read spans the emotional spectrum, from tapping into the inner child to triggering the heavier-hearted realities of life. --Joe Mykut, Author of Beautiful Boy




The Future Life of Trauma


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The Future Life of Trauma elaborates a transformation in the concepts of trauma and event by situating a groundbreaking encounter between psychoanalytic and postcolonial discourse. Proceeding from the formation of psychical life as presented in the Freudian metapsychology, it thinks anew the relation between temporality and traumatized subjectivity, demonstrating how the psychic event, as a traumatic event, is a material reality that alters the character of the structure of repetition. By examining the role of borders in the history of the 1947 partition of British India and the politics of memorialization in postgenocide Rwanda, The Future Life of Trauma brings to light the implications of trauma as a material event in contemporary nation-formation, sovereignty, and geopolitical violence. In showing how the form of the psyche changes in the encounter, it presents a challenge to the category of difference in the condition of identity, resulting in the formation of a concept of life that elaborates a new relation to destruction and finitude by asserting its power to transform itself.




Kabbalistic Visions


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In 1944, C. G. Jung experienced a series of visions which he later described as "the most tremendous things I have ever experienced." Central to these visions was the "mystic marriage as it appears in the Kabbalistic tradition", and Jung’s experience of himself as "Rabbi Simon ben Jochai," the presumed author of the sacred Kabbalistic text, the Zohar. Kabbalistic Visions explores Jung’s 1944 Kabbalistic visions, the impact of Jewish mysticism on Jungian psychology, Jung’s archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism, and his claim late in life that a Hasidic rabbi, the Maggid of Mezhirech, anticipated his entire psychology. This book places Jung’s encounter with the Kabbalah in the context of the earlier visions and meditations of his Red Book, his abiding interests in Gnosticism and alchemy, and what many regard to be his Anti-Semitism and flirtation with National Socialism. Kabbalistic Visions is the first full-length study of Jung and Jewish mysticism in any language and the first book to present a comprehensive Jungian/archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism.




Prisoner of Infinity


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Using UFOs and the work of "experiencer" Whitley Strieber as its departure point, Prisoner of Infinity explores how beliefs are created and perceptions are managed in the face of the inexplicably complex forces of our existence. While keeping the question of a nonhuman and/or paranormal element open, the book maps how all-too-human agendas (such as the CIA's MK Ultra program) have co-opted the ancient psychological process of myth-making, giving rise to dissociative Hollywood versions of reality. Prisoner of Infinity examines modernday accounts of UFOs, alien abductions, and psychism to uncover a century-long program of psychological fragmentation, collective indoctrination, and covert cultural, social, and mythic engineering.




Aftershocks


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Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock and imagery presenting the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons' understandings of their political selves in the 1920s. It connects the force of emotions to the political culture of a decade which saw extraordinary violence against those regarded as 'un-English'.




Shattered Psyche Vol 1(7)


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Shattered Psyche Vol 1(7) is a florilegium of photography and modern art by artists Marie Moldovan, Alycia Hodge, Joe Mykut and Rati Banga Pala. The collection focuses on the complicated relationship between man and nature. A behind the lens statement about Shattered Psyche 1(7) by artist Joe Mykut: The span of this book and it's images feel like one is following the journey of a single life force energy as it experiences existence in infinite forms all at once. The false line between man and nature is blurred back to nonexistence as we bare witness to them both entangled as one. From wildlife to human form, each one neglected by the other and by self, it becomes more apparent than ever that we are all connected to the same source as the source. Divinity within dumps and symbolism of the journey through life and death, and a face seen in various values, each express a life being simultaneously and omnipotently lived out frame by frame. Like a still movie brought to life by the scanning of the readers eyes this mental movie reel is captivating and fascinating.




The Democratic Arts of Mourning


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The Democratic Arts of Mourning reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. In recent decades, political theorists have increasingly examined and explored the themes of loss, grief, and mourning. With an introduction that contextualizes the turn to mourning in previous scholarship on the politics of tragedy, this book includes twelve chapters that clarify the intertwinement between politics and mourning. The chapters are organized into five thematic sections that each shed light on how democratic societies relate to loss, grief, suffering, and death. Collectively, the chapters explore the concept of mourning and its relationship to civic rituals, memorials, taboos, social movements, and popular music. Chapters examine how social groups defend their members against experiences of grief or mourning, or how poetic expressions—such as ancient Greek tragedy—can address the catastrophes of human life. Other chapters explore the politics of symbols and bodies, and how they can become fraught objects that stand in for a society’s undigested—unmourned—losses and absences. The book concludes with an interview with Bonnie Honig, whose own work on mourning has been deeply influential in contemporary political theory.




Shattered Psyche Vol 1(1)


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Shattered Psyche Volume 1, issue 1 features artists Marie Moldovan and Max Myers. Each artists collection takes the viewer on a journey and paints a well of insight into the realm of the subconscious mind.




Thoughts, Dreams, and Poetry


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Thoughts, Dreams, and Poetry, was created out of the will for creativity and exploratory imagination. it’s what I’ll call an artistic vagabond’s dream. For the painters, writers, musician, filmmaker’s of the new age, and for the scoundrels or misfit souls, looking for lantern to lead you home, this one is for you. I merely don’t create poetry, I create dreams, and for the reader who’s fascination has lead them down several turnpikes, the cost of a Kaleidoscopic rabbit hole, is most certainly worth the ride. Come with me and my twist and turns of humanity, and I’ll reveal the illusion of magic within us all. "Thoughts, Dreams and Poetry is a thought-provoking, engaging poetry collection. I find your work reminiscent of beat poetry (for example, Allen Ginsberg’s work), and as such, it is a delight to read out loud. Your poems have a unique beat and rhythm that makes reading and/or hearing them most enjoyable." - Elizabeth Siegel "Your poems are filled with careful word choices that evoke strong images...Within each poem, these distinct images slowly build upon each other until they mesh to reveal a 'bigger picture' with an observation, truth, or message for the reader. This is an effective and powerful way to share your creativity and vision with others." - Elizabeth Siegel