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Wisdom of the Psyche

Beyond neuroscience

By: Ginette Paris

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The first edition of Wisdom of the Psyche engaged with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination. In this revised edition, Ginette Paris re-focuses her attention on the modern lack of desire to become adult and updates the book with brand new neuroscientific research. Paris uses cogent and passionate argument, as well as stories from patients, to demonstrate that the human psyche seeks to destroy relationships and lives as well as to sustain them. She makes clear that the way out of those destructive states does not start with an upward, positive, wilful effort of the ego, but with an opening of the imagination, and aims to foster the dialogue between psychotherapists and neuroscientists. In clear and accessible language, Paris describes how depth psychology can be seen as a subject of the humanities rather than the sciences, and explains how gaining an understanding of neuroscience will not necessarily make us psychologically wiser. A unique and powerful book, Wisdom of the Psyche will be fascinating reading for Jungian and depth psychologists, psychotherapists, analysts and others in the helping professions, as well as students and those in training, and readers with an interest in psychology and neuroscience who want to create an inner life worth living.

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Routledge

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1317458664

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"Toubab La!" Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

By: Ginette Curry

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"Toubab La!" Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

By: Ginette Curry

The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, The French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and Jamaica), Europe (France and England) and Africa (Burkina Faso, South Africa, Botswana and Senegal). The objective of this study is to capture a realistic view of the literature of the African diaspora as it pertains to biracial and multiracial people. For example, the expression “Toubab La!” as used in the title, is from the Wolof ethnic group in Senegal, West Africa. It means “This is a white person” or “This is a black person who looks or acts white.” It is used as a metaphor to illustrate multiethnic people’s plight in many areas of the African diaspora and how it has evolved. The analysis addresses the different ways multiracial characters look at the world and how the world looks at them. These characters experience historical, economic, sociological and emotional realities in various environments from either white or black people. Their lineage as both white and black determines a new self, making them constantly search for their identity. Each section of the manuscript provides an in-depth analysis of specific authors’ novels that is a window into their true experiences. The first section is a study of mixed race characters in three acclaimed contemporary novels from the United States. James McBride’s The Color of Water (1996), Danzy Senna’s Caucasia (1998) and Rebecca Walker’s Black White and Jewish (2001) reveal the conflicting dynamics of being biracial in today’s American society. The second section is an examination of mixed-race characters in the following French Caribbean novels: Mayotte Capécia’s I Am a Martinican Woman (1948), Michèle Lacrosil’s Cajou (1961) and Ravines du Devant-Jour (1993) by Raphaël Confiant. Section three is about their literary representations in Derek Walcott’s What the Twilight Says (1970), Another life (1973), Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) and Michelle Cliff’s Abeng (1995) from the British Caribbean islands. Section four is an in-depth analysis of their plight in novels written by contemporary mulatto writers from Europe such as Marie N’Diaye’s Among Family (1997), Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara (1997). Finally, the last section of the book is a study of novels from West African and South African writers. The analysis of Monique Ilboudo’s Le Mal de Peau (2001), Bessie Head’s A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings (1990) and Abdoulaye Sadji’s Nini, Mulâtresse du Sénégal (1947) concludes this literary journey that takes the readers through several continents at different points in time. Overall, this comprehensive study of mixed-race characters in the literature of the African diaspora reveals not only the old but also the new ways they decline, contest and refuse racial clichés. Likewise, the book unveils how these characters resist, create, reappropriate and revise fixed forms of identity in the African diaspora of the 20th and 21st century. Most importantly, it is also an examination of how the authors themselves deal with the complex reality of a multiracial identity.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443810711

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9781443810715

Brigitte Bardot

By: Ginette Vincendeau

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Brigitte Bardot

By: Ginette Vincendeau

Ginette Vincendeau analyses Bardot's rise to fame as a highly-acclaimed French international film star and fashion icon from her early days as a fashion model and ballet dancer to her period of 'high stardom' between 1956 and 1960.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838714707

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9781838714703

Jean-Pierre Melville

An American in Paris

By: Ginette Vincendeau

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Jean-Pierre Melville

An American in Paris

By: Ginette Vincendeau

Ginette Vincendeau discusses the artistic value of his films in their proper context and comments on Jean-Pierre Melville's love of American culture and his controversial critical and political standing in this English language study.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838716548

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9781838716547

Stars and Stardom in French Cinema

By: Ginette Vincendeau

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Stars and Stardom in French Cinema

By: Ginette Vincendeau

French cinema is second only to Hollywood in the number of its movie stars who have emerged to achieve international fame. France is, in fact, arguably the only country other than the United States to have an international "star system." Yet these glamorous and charismatic stars differ from their U.S. counterparts in that they maintain more freedom to control their own images and often straddle both mainstream and auteur cinema.Ginette Vincendeau, a leading authority on French cinema, analyzes the phenomenon of French film stardom and provides brilliant in-depth studies of the major popular stars of the French cinema: Max Linder, Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Louis de FunFs, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, GTrard Depardieu, and Juliette Binoche. This volume analyzes these stars' images and performance styles in the context of the French film industry, but also in relation to national culture and society. In the country where Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve have modeled for Marianne (the effigy of the Republic) and left-wing politicians have held up Jean Gabin as a role model, Vincendeau examines the unusual relationship between French film stars and national identity.Ginette Vincendeau is professor of film studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author and editor of a number of books on cinema.

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1441130268

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Wisdom of the Psyche

Depth Psychology After Neuroscience

By: Ginette Paris

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Wisdom of the Psyche

Depth Psychology After Neuroscience

By: Ginette Paris

In the quest for identity and healing, what belongs to the humanities and what to clinical psychology? Ginette Paris uses cogent and passionate argument as well as stories from patients to teach us to accept that the human psyche seeks to destroy relationships and lives as well as to sustain them. This is very hard to accept which is why, so often, the body has the painful and dispiriting job of showing us what our psyche refuses to see. In jargon-free language, the author describes her own story of taking a turn downwards and inwards in the search for a metaphorical personal 'death'. If this kind of mortality is not attended to, then more literal bodily ailments and actual death itself can result. Paris engages with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination. At present, she demonstrates, what is happening is damaging to both science and imagination.

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Routledge

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131772383X

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9781317723837

Pepe le Moko

By: Ginette Vincendeau

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Pepe le Moko

By: Ginette Vincendeau

Vincendeau's analysis places 'Pepe le Moko' in its aesthetic, generic and cultural contexts, ranging from Duvivier's brilliant camera-work, to Gabin's suits and the film's orientalist setting. In the BFI FILM CLASSICS series.

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1838717595

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The Sun Child

By: Ginette Sauve

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The Sun Child

By: Ginette Sauve

This fantasy fiction novel will allow readers to be transported into the realm of Greek mythology. Our main character will embark on a self-discovery journey of magic and romance. Shelley takes us to the magical city of Paris, with its cobblestone sidewalks leading her straight to Philippe. Both are unaware that their encounter will completely disrupt their daily lives. They discover that their bond goes much deeper then just the heart, it is etched in their soul for all eternity. Shelley holds within her a secret that can destroy her and all of mankind. Can she survive her curse, or will Philippe truly be the savior she believes him to be?

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FriesenPress

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1039119875

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9781039119871

The Party

By: Ginette Anfousse

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The Party

By: Ginette Anfousse

A child goes to a party with her pet aardvark.

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2762551676

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Jean-Pierre Melville

An American in Paris

By: Ginette Vincendeau

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An American in Paris

By: Ginette Vincendeau

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Brigitte Bardot

By: Ginette Vincendeau

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The Sun Child

By: Ginette Sauve

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The Popular French Cinema

From the Classical to the Trans-national

By: Ginette Vincendeau

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The Popular French Cinema

From the Classical to the Trans-national

By: Ginette Vincendeau

Extending from early cinema to the present, bringing together published and newly written works, this book traces the history of French cinema, from Renoir to New Wave and beyond. Providing a taster for the first time reader and a substantial read for the filmgoer and the student, this is a fitting tribute to a great cinema by a top scholar and writer. Vincendeau provides a full tour of the multifaceted French cinema and its enormous influence on popular culture by looking at the people, issues and icons it embraces, from stars like Josephine Baker to Juliette Binoche; woman directors and masculinity in cinema, French gangsters, fathers and daughters, and much more.

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I. B. Tauris

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1850438102

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9781850438106

La Haine

French Film Guide

By: Ginette Vincendeau

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La Haine

French Film Guide

By: Ginette Vincendeau

La Haine" is a cult classic with cinema audiences, recently re-released and available on dvd. Ginette Vincendeau is top authority internationally on French cinema, who writes (eg "Sight and Sound") and broadcasts (eg "Front Row Radio 4") on it regularly. It is hugely enjoyable, exciting book written with great panache and accessibility. Released in 1995, "La Haine" is the black and white chronicle of 24 hours in the life of a mixed-race young male trio from a run-down Parisian suburb. The work of a - then - unknown young team, it became hugely and unexpectedly successful, launching director Mathieu Kassovitz and lead player Vincent Cassel to stardom. Vincendeau provides a thorough understanding of the context of the film's making, both in terms of the film industry and of French society, of the film's narrative tension, stylistic sophistication and ideological ambiguity and of its extraordinary success nationally and internationally. She thus explains why, out of so many films about disaffected youth, "La Haine" is the one that has caught the international imagination.

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0857714147

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Wisdom of the Psyche

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Brigitte Bardot

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Jean-Pierre Melville

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Stars and Stardom in French Cinema

Stars and Stardom in French Cinema

Wisdom of the Psyche

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Pepe le Moko

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The Sun Child

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The Party

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Jean-Pierre Melville

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Brigitte Bardot

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The Sun Child

The Sun Child

The Popular French Cinema

The Popular French Cinema

La Haine

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