Second Chances
Shakespeare & Freud
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A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud
In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again.
Innumerable stories, from the Homeric epics to the New Testament, and from Oedipus Rex to Hamlet, explore the realization or failure of second chances—outcomes that depend on accident, acts of will, or fate. Such stories let us repeatedly rehearse the experience of loss and recovery: to know the joy that comes with a renewal of love and pleasure and to face the pain that comes with realizing that some damage can never be undone.
Through a series of illuminating readings, the authors show how Shakespeare was the supreme virtuoso of the second chance and Freud was its supreme interpreter. Both Shakespeare and Freud believed that we can narrate our life stories as tales of transformation, of momentous shifts, constrained by time and place but often still possible. Ranging from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter’s Tale, and from D. W. Winnicott to Marcel Proust, the authors challenge readers to imagine how, as Phillips writes, “it is the mending that matters.”
“In this scintillating collaboration between our leading Shakespearean and our most trenchant interpreter of Freud, the concept of the second chance keeps gathering momentum and reach. Second Chances is intellectually nimble and emotionally wise.”—Christopher Benfey, author of A Summer of Hummingbirds
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Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic by Lucretius—a beautiful poem containing the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very compelling history, a less compelling thesis
- De A reader en 05-01-12
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 158
Bolder even than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
- De Darwin8u en 02-11-18
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Unforbidden Pleasures
- De: Adam Phillips
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author of Missing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the unforbidden, from the fall of our "first parents", Adam and Eve, to the work of the great psychoanalytic thinkers.
De: Adam Phillips
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
- How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
- De: Elizabeth Winkler
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English literature. Scholars admit that the Bard’s biography is a “black hole,” yet to publicly question the identity of the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) “immoral.” In Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, journalist and literary critic Elizabeth Winkler sets out to probe the origins of this literary taboo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Virgil Tracy en 06-03-23
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Jacques Lacan
- The Basics
- De: Calum Neill
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
- Duración: 4 h y 22 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 9
Jacques Lacan: The Basics provides a clear and succinct introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century.
De: Calum Neill
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The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis
- De: Louis Markos, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Louis Markos
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 527
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 457
What can we still learn from C.S. Lewis? Find out in these 12 insightful lectures that cover the author's spiritual autobiography, novels, and his scholarly writings that reflect on pain and grief, love and friendship, prophecy and miracles, and education and mythology.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Basically a collection of sermons
- De Richard en 11-20-13
De: Louis Markos, y otros
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How To Read and Why
- De: Harold Bloom
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threatens to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Like a review of my graduate English degree
- De Barbara en 10-01-12
De: Harold Bloom
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Psychoanalytic Diagnosis
- Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
- De: Nancy McWilliams PhD
- Narrado por: Allison Posner
- Duración: 19 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 19
This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thorough and in depth
- De ashley en 01-31-25
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Open Socrates
- The Case for a Philosophical Life
- De: Agnes Callard
- Narrado por: Agnes Callard
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” yet take no steps to live examined ones. In Open Socrates, acclaimed philosopher Agnes Callard recovers the radical move at the center of Socrates’ thought, and shows why it is still the way to a good life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An opposite of hell
- De Anonymous User en 04-17-25
De: Agnes Callard
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Second Chances
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- whosis
- 12-20-24
Two insightful writers but…
Strangely for me it seemed the two kinda cramped each other’s style. Like two that were so deferential to each other they didn’t wield their own pens with the same concise abandon they ordinarily would. My opinion only. Just a little disappointed.
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