Hard agree, most people have resistance to the idea of wanting to frick their own mother or getting cucked by their dad and projecting their parents onto their partners but its true.
If you can't accept that thought to change how you see your relationships with others you literally can't grow or change your perspective on things.
That's a load of bullshit. I can understand a young teenage boy having hots for his mother, but a baby?
And the daddy envy thing is pure utter moronation. And probably projection. The fact that western intelligentsia takes this homosexual seriously tells you all you need to know about their degenerate ways
He doesn't 'help' people. The goal of psychoanalysis is to relax a bit the chain with which the super ego holds the ego. Gain a little freedom from your own.
The worst thing about psychology is the way it seeks to help individual persons by making sweeping generalizations and assertions that jam particular persons into one universal formless mass of people to which all of the “laws” or psychology apply uniformly. It is truly the most sinister and nefarious innovation in the modern world.
Hard agree, most people have resistance to the idea of wanting to frick their own mother or getting cucked by their dad and projecting their parents onto their partners but its true.
If you can't accept that thought to change how you see your relationships with others you literally can't grow or change your perspective on things.
somebody wants to frick their mother and has paternal problems (aka daddy issues)
clue: it's not an everybody issue. it's a (you) issue
That's a load of bullshit. I can understand a young teenage boy having hots for his mother, but a baby?
And the daddy envy thing is pure utter moronation. And probably projection. The fact that western intelligentsia takes this homosexual seriously tells you all you need to know about their degenerate ways
im actually jealous for everyone that had such a hot mum that they'd conceivably want to frick her. i think those people are the true normies.
>People having sex >Oh yeah daddy frick me harder! >Ah mommy! >You >Freud wasn't right!
True normies (male and female) wanted to frick their parents at an early age and grew out of that phase by getting a partner. You also grew out of that phase but didn't realize. The only difference between a kid and a horny teen is that the kid hasn't discovered sex yet. Kids are horny mfs that get the horny shamed or beaten out of them and then frick in their teens with whoever they can. Its all subconscious anyways but the father figure and mother figure are real and you're supposed to kill them to grow and become independent.
in my culture people actually dont say that daddy mommy shit during sex, nice try at cultural imposition though, but my point was that even if freuds theory was true there surely wouldve been differences in sexual attractiveness of the mothers
Porn addled coomsumer. Regular people do not say or do these things. To the extent anyone does, it is entirely due to the israeli influence of porn and degenerate media.
Demian, when I was a teenager
Mere Christianity, when I was at the threshold of adulthood
Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines, around the return of Saturn
The various books by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. Debunker Skeptic types love to unfairly dunk on Neuro Linguistic Programming since it didn't catch on with university academics, and Bandler/Grinder were more than willing to sacrifice respect with the academic establishment (save for hypnotherapy) to have their own seminar circuit cashcow to themselves.
One last thing, Mr McCarthy, said the interviewer.
Yes son.
It's well known you don't much care for punctuation. A lot of little black marks cluttering up the page, I believe you said.
I do remember something to that effect.
Well, the other day, I couldn't help but notice...
Can I fix you some more beans?
I'm good. Thankyou.
There's more tortillas too.
That's very kind, but I ate earlier. Thankyou.
Well, if you change your mind, you just say.
I will.
Anyway.
Right. I couldn't help but notice a sentence in Blood Meridian. Is it all right if Iquote it?
Quote away.
The interviewer pulled the novel from his satchel and flipped it open. In two days they began to come upon bones and cast-off apparel, he said.
Well?
Cast-off is hyphenated.
I like as little punctuation as possible. Doesn't mean none at all. Suppose we took that hyphen away. What's the sentence saying then?
I suppose, strictly, it's saying that Glanton and his gang began to come upon bones and then took off their clothes.
Exactly.
But surely the reader could guess you didn't mean that?
I don't want the reader to have to read what I wrote and then say to himself well, he didn't mean that, I'll just take a little break and figure out what he did mean.
Right.
For one thing, it wastes his time.
Right.
Another thing, I don't want to encourage him to start second-guessing me. I want him to trust that what I say is what I meant to say. That way, when I'm saying something trickier, we'll get through it with a whole lot less heartache.
I do believe you used another hyphen there, sir.
Noticed that did you?
Well, anyway, thankyou for your time.
You're welcome. Sure you won't have any more beans before you go?
I'm fine. Thankyou.
It's entirely possible if I searched around I could find a bottle of hot sauce.
I'm good.
The interviewer rose with as much haste as was polite and replaced the novel in his satchel and returned to his car and started the engine and swung around in a broad arc to head back the way he'd come. As he pulled onto the highway he raised a hand and the author acknowledged it with a slight movement of his chin. After the car was lost in the wobbling heat the author took another tortilla and spooned beans into it and raised it to his mouth and took a bite and chewed meditatively and swallowed.
Second-guessing, he said. He chuckled. Maybe I could have got away with a kenning, at that.
The Remains of the Day hit me incredibly hard, right through a chink in my armor. That deep sorrow of Stevens felt like it was aimed directly at people like me. I cried because it scared me more deeply than anything ever had before or since. I became terrified that I'd go through life with my armor up and my detachment so complete that, at my own twilight, I'd look back and regret the way I'd spent my life. I resolved to work to lower my guard, bit by bit. I'm now dating the woman who's the love of my life, and with whom I want to grow old. It can be two of us sitting together, all wizened and half-dead, recounting our shared life at the end. Add in a couple of goats, a chicken coop, a cat, and no neighbors within eyesight, and I could die happy with a life well-lived.
The Hagakure and various Buddhist texts had a large impact on my early life and echo decades later. Death is the greatest teacher. I believe that many modern problems are caused by western culture's belief that death can be somehow conquered by living in drywall boxes and taking enough pills. This unhealthy obsession with extending life and suffering no matter the cost to friends or family members is absurd. MAID and suicide booths should be a common fact of life. The government should be issuing large tax breaks to the families of people that voluntarily choose to end their lives.
Based manga life experience haver. For me it was Spirit Circle. And then somehow every other work by the same author. He communicates such an unashamed appreciation for simply being alive.
Considering that the OP spoke about books broadly it came to my kind a religious one.
And for me the Holy Quran changed all the perspectives in my life after a long time being an atheist. It gave me spirituality because it taught to understand the things that I cant see, it gave me faith because it taught me to believe and trust in the Creator of heavens and earth and finally but not least it gave me a way of life with a daily activity of prayer, discipline and self-improvement. All in one book, all in one religion and I dont regret it.
This didn't change my mind on anything but rather reaffirmed the beliefs I've held throughout my entire life (though sadly I don't think Camus' ideas come through in his novels as much as he thinks they do). It's great though, the final image is still one I think of often.
Oh yeah sorry I forgot, it's impossible for a philosopher's ideas to become so pervasive that one grows up with them as a given. Camus, just like Hobbes, Locke, Aristotle, and Plato before him, is as unique a philosopher now as he was in his day, as none of them had any influence on culture going forward.
Seriously though, give the average Chinese citizen a copy of Confucius' writings and they'll tell you a variant on what I said. Some ideas don't stay revolutionary, and much of modern western culture has been shaped by Camus' absurdism.
Oh yeah sorry I forgot, it's impossible for a philosopher's ideas to become so pervasive that one grows up with them as a given. Camus, just like Hobbes, Locke, Aristotle, and Plato before him, is as unique a philosopher now as he was in his day, as none of them had any influence on culture going forward.
Seriously though, give the average Chinese citizen a copy of Confucius' writings and they'll tell you a variant on what I said. Some ideas don't stay revolutionary, and much of modern western culture has been shaped by Camus' absurdism.
Same, I'm quite proud of having been exposed to people in my life that (without even knowing it) helped me develop camus' philosophy.
Nothing really. Sometimes things change temporarily but I fundamentally remain the same pile of shit. Sometimes I think I've made progress but I snap to and I'm standing in the same place.
This one. Turned me to fedora atheism in college days. Even though I later returned to faith for a few years, but my worldview was never the same again after this book
The Tao te Ching opened me up to the spiritual world, Thus spoke Zarathustra sparked a fire in my younger self to affirm life and to seek the truth, and finally, the Holy Bible led me to the truth
Feeling Good: the new mood therapy, nonviolent communication, this naked mind, why does he do that, screwball asses, emotional first aid (primarily the sections on loneliness and trauma). Every one of these books fundamentally changed me. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Spark Joy did change me a lot but I wouldn't include it in this list, it was a big shift and then a long-term ingestion of that philosophy that changed my lifestyle...but these other books really shook up my perspective. Lifechanging magic was more of an active change in philosophy, even if the konmari itself is a big startling reveal/change.
Moby dick
A lot of morons just like the book cause it’s rides just hunting a whale but once you really dive into the whole literary aspect of every other chapter you gain a huge and new perspective on things
All the Freud books I read. He is right about everything and anyone who says otherwise is projecting and proving his point.
Hard agree, most people have resistance to the idea of wanting to frick their own mother or getting cucked by their dad and projecting their parents onto their partners but its true.
If you can't accept that thought to change how you see your relationships with others you literally can't grow or change your perspective on things.
That's a load of bullshit. I can understand a young teenage boy having hots for his mother, but a baby?
And the daddy envy thing is pure utter moronation. And probably projection. The fact that western intelligentsia takes this homosexual seriously tells you all you need to know about their degenerate ways
the fact that he is a psychologist to "help" people is enough to know he is nor really right about anything.
He doesn't 'help' people. The goal of psychoanalysis is to relax a bit the chain with which the super ego holds the ego. Gain a little freedom from your own.
The worst thing about psychology is the way it seeks to help individual persons by making sweeping generalizations and assertions that jam particular persons into one universal formless mass of people to which all of the “laws” or psychology apply uniformly. It is truly the most sinister and nefarious innovation in the modern world.
somebody wants to frick their mother and has paternal problems (aka daddy issues)
clue: it's not an everybody issue. it's a (you) issue
im actually jealous for everyone that had such a hot mum that they'd conceivably want to frick her. i think those people are the true normies.
>People having sex
>Oh yeah daddy frick me harder!
>Ah mommy!
>You
>Freud wasn't right!
True normies (male and female) wanted to frick their parents at an early age and grew out of that phase by getting a partner. You also grew out of that phase but didn't realize. The only difference between a kid and a horny teen is that the kid hasn't discovered sex yet. Kids are horny mfs that get the horny shamed or beaten out of them and then frick in their teens with whoever they can. Its all subconscious anyways but the father figure and mother figure are real and you're supposed to kill them to grow and become independent.
in my culture people actually dont say that daddy mommy shit during sex, nice try at cultural imposition though, but my point was that even if freuds theory was true there surely wouldve been differences in sexual attractiveness of the mothers
Porn addled coomsumer. Regular people do not say or do these things. To the extent anyone does, it is entirely due to the israeli influence of porn and degenerate media.
>Oh yeah daddy frick me harder!
>Ah mommy!
Stop watching porn, its rotting your brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychoanalysis
>anyone who says otherwise is projecting and proving his point.
Red flag for pseuds. See: Nietzsche, Marx etc.
I don't want to frick my own mother but I do want to frick THE Mother. Jungchads win again.
>All the Freud books I read. He is right about everything
He isn't.
All the stoic books I read. They are right about everything and anyone who says otherwise is projecting and proving his point.
Demian, when I was a teenager
Mere Christianity, when I was at the threshold of adulthood
Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines, around the return of Saturn
Read the Screwtape Letters as a follow-up.
Blood meridian made me want to buy a horse and shoot beaners and Black folk in the wild west
horses are for women and gay guys
imagine being this much of a mental peasant
you haven’t been around horse people have you?
"horse people" are mostly cancer, yes.
The various books by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. Debunker Skeptic types love to unfairly dunk on Neuro Linguistic Programming since it didn't catch on with university academics, and Bandler/Grinder were more than willing to sacrifice respect with the academic establishment (save for hypnotherapy) to have their own seminar circuit cashcow to themselves.
One last thing, Mr McCarthy, said the interviewer.
Yes son.
It's well known you don't much care for punctuation. A lot of little black marks cluttering up the page, I believe you said.
I do remember something to that effect.
Well, the other day, I couldn't help but notice...
Can I fix you some more beans?
I'm good. Thankyou.
There's more tortillas too.
That's very kind, but I ate earlier. Thankyou.
Well, if you change your mind, you just say.
I will.
Anyway.
Right. I couldn't help but notice a sentence in Blood Meridian. Is it all right if Iquote it?
Quote away.
The interviewer pulled the novel from his satchel and flipped it open. In two days they began to come upon bones and cast-off apparel, he said.
Well?
Cast-off is hyphenated.
I like as little punctuation as possible. Doesn't mean none at all. Suppose we took that hyphen away. What's the sentence saying then?
I suppose, strictly, it's saying that Glanton and his gang began to come upon bones and then took off their clothes.
Exactly.
But surely the reader could guess you didn't mean that?
I don't want the reader to have to read what I wrote and then say to himself well, he didn't mean that, I'll just take a little break and figure out what he did mean.
Right.
For one thing, it wastes his time.
Right.
Another thing, I don't want to encourage him to start second-guessing me. I want him to trust that what I say is what I meant to say. That way, when I'm saying something trickier, we'll get through it with a whole lot less heartache.
I do believe you used another hyphen there, sir.
Noticed that did you?
Well, anyway, thankyou for your time.
You're welcome. Sure you won't have any more beans before you go?
I'm fine. Thankyou.
It's entirely possible if I searched around I could find a bottle of hot sauce.
I'm good.
The interviewer rose with as much haste as was polite and replaced the novel in his satchel and returned to his car and started the engine and swung around in a broad arc to head back the way he'd come. As he pulled onto the highway he raised a hand and the author acknowledged it with a slight movement of his chin. After the car was lost in the wobbling heat the author took another tortilla and spooned beans into it and raised it to his mouth and took a bite and chewed meditatively and swallowed.
Second-guessing, he said. He chuckled. Maybe I could have got away with a kenning, at that.
The Remains of the Day hit me incredibly hard, right through a chink in my armor. That deep sorrow of Stevens felt like it was aimed directly at people like me. I cried because it scared me more deeply than anything ever had before or since. I became terrified that I'd go through life with my armor up and my detachment so complete that, at my own twilight, I'd look back and regret the way I'd spent my life. I resolved to work to lower my guard, bit by bit. I'm now dating the woman who's the love of my life, and with whom I want to grow old. It can be two of us sitting together, all wizened and half-dead, recounting our shared life at the end. Add in a couple of goats, a chicken coop, a cat, and no neighbors within eyesight, and I could die happy with a life well-lived.
wdym by going through your life with your armor up and detachment? I can't tell if I'm sperg or if I've fully checked out. maybe both
Nietzsche and Freud
I only watched the movie, but it hit me hard too.
Did he even have that introspection at the end?
No. Why else would he cry?
The Hagakure and various Buddhist texts had a large impact on my early life and echo decades later. Death is the greatest teacher. I believe that many modern problems are caused by western culture's belief that death can be somehow conquered by living in drywall boxes and taking enough pills. This unhealthy obsession with extending life and suffering no matter the cost to friends or family members is absurd. MAID and suicide booths should be a common fact of life. The government should be issuing large tax breaks to the families of people that voluntarily choose to end their lives.
No books but for me it was K-On!!
Based manga life experience haver. For me it was Spirit Circle. And then somehow every other work by the same author. He communicates such an unashamed appreciation for simply being alive.
Plato's Republic. Laozi's Dao De Jing. Aquinas's Summa.
The Book of Five Rings
Considering that the OP spoke about books broadly it came to my kind a religious one.
And for me the Holy Quran changed all the perspectives in my life after a long time being an atheist. It gave me spirituality because it taught to understand the things that I cant see, it gave me faith because it taught me to believe and trust in the Creator of heavens and earth and finally but not least it gave me a way of life with a daily activity of prayer, discipline and self-improvement. All in one book, all in one religion and I dont regret it.
Would’ve killed myself if not for this book.
This didn't change my mind on anything but rather reaffirmed the beliefs I've held throughout my entire life (though sadly I don't think Camus' ideas come through in his novels as much as he thinks they do). It's great though, the final image is still one I think of often.
woah big brain over here
Oh yeah sorry I forgot, it's impossible for a philosopher's ideas to become so pervasive that one grows up with them as a given. Camus, just like Hobbes, Locke, Aristotle, and Plato before him, is as unique a philosopher now as he was in his day, as none of them had any influence on culture going forward.
Seriously though, give the average Chinese citizen a copy of Confucius' writings and they'll tell you a variant on what I said. Some ideas don't stay revolutionary, and much of modern western culture has been shaped by Camus' absurdism.
Same, I'm quite proud of having been exposed to people in my life that (without even knowing it) helped me develop camus' philosophy.
Nothing really. Sometimes things change temporarily but I fundamentally remain the same pile of shit. Sometimes I think I've made progress but I snap to and I'm standing in the same place.
This one. Turned me to fedora atheism in college days. Even though I later returned to faith for a few years, but my worldview was never the same again after this book
*be the same
Thus Spoke Zarathustra unironically
Nietzsche,especially BGE
Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard
The Tao te Ching opened me up to the spiritual world, Thus spoke Zarathustra sparked a fire in my younger self to affirm life and to seek the truth, and finally, the Holy Bible led me to the truth
Probably schopenhauer and berkeley.
after that bernardo kastrup kind of tied things together for me in an interesting way
The only real answer.
Thought this was a political compass meme at first.
The stranger
Meditations
Tao te ching
Metamorphosis
Steppenwolf
Siddartha (read it every year)
And many more, that's the whole point
Hot take. Arthur de Gobineau. Inequality of the human races. Volume 2.
None really, most great books seem to be pretty much common sense, but in uncommon amounts as someone once said (i forget who)
Feeling Good: the new mood therapy, nonviolent communication, this naked mind, why does he do that, screwball asses, emotional first aid (primarily the sections on loneliness and trauma). Every one of these books fundamentally changed me. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Spark Joy did change me a lot but I wouldn't include it in this list, it was a big shift and then a long-term ingestion of that philosophy that changed my lifestyle...but these other books really shook up my perspective. Lifechanging magic was more of an active change in philosophy, even if the konmari itself is a big startling reveal/change.
Chick tracts
The Republic.
I know it's cringe for some but this changed my life and saved me about 10 hours per week
Pic related
mien kampf
Ficciones by Borges
The Iliad
An edition of Plato
Moby dick
A lot of morons just like the book cause it’s rides just hunting a whale but once you really dive into the whole literary aspect of every other chapter you gain a huge and new perspective on things