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The author looks at sensuality and sexual desire in the Greek, Roman and early Christian worlds, demonstrating how modern concepts of sexuality emerge from the practices and theories of the ancient world. In particular, she draws a distinction between pleasure and desire, and analyses the different ways in which men and women were seen to experience erotic feeling, looking at the portrayal of transgressive women such as Medea, Clytemnestra and Jocasta. Based on the literature and philosophy of the time. Originally published as 'Eros tiranno: Sessualità e sensualità nel mondo antico' (2003).
In this controversial and provocative book, Sarah Bartlett explores the history of sensuality and how it can be seen in great women of the past, including those portrayed in myth and legend, and how today's generation can, if willing, recover the lost benefits of true sensuality. The book argues that today's society has reduced sensuality to a visual phenomenon wnen, in truth, it is a multi-sense, multi-dimensional feature that can be of immense benefit to the inner person. Sarah Bartlett gently but firmly guides the reader through the history of her diverse topic, discussing the roots and ealy examples of sensual women, showing how ancient races and cultures developed it, questioning if men have sacrificed their sensuality for the cause of a dominant role which shunned its values, and giving copious examples of sensuality in women from history, myth and legend, and the present day.
This book is a theoretical account for general psychology of how human beings meaningfully relate with their bodies-- from the basic physiological processes upwards to the highest psychological functions of religiosity, ethical reasoning, and devotional practices. It unites art and science into a new theory of affective synthesis that human minds are constantly involved in their everyday life worlds. Provides a new theory of aesthetic synthesis; Demonstrates the links between art and science; Provides a new understanding of the role of affect in human cognition.
What would it be like to know that you are indeed immortal, that your physical body is but the outward form taken by your own eternal inner form or soul body? What would it be like to dissolve the bodily boundaries that seem to separate you from the souls of others, learning to feel your soul in their body and their soul in yours? What would it be like to see and feel your partner as the embodiment of a god or goddess, and to experience the bliss of 'soul body sex' - an intensely sensual intimacy and intercourse with their divine soul body? The New Yoga is a yoga of the soul body - that body with which we can intimately sense, feel and touch others - independently of physical contact. The Ne...
Let me introduce myself, me as rememberer, writing about what I have done, how and when, seldom why. This book is written as a docudrama in parts, in others as poems and excerpts of commentary or assonant rhythms. Formal in content or informal in context, each part contributes to a totality greater than the sum of their separate insights. (So will yours be larger than their total by the end of your journey through these pages.)
This book provides an overview of the events of intimacy, a chronicle of the erogenous events that occur in a woman's body. It discusses the concept of psychoanalysis keeping very close to the body—a body that feels, vibrates, and is repressed, a body that depends on its fellow beings.
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject German Studies - Modern German Literature, grade: 1,0, University of London (Queen Mary College), language: English, abstract: Regarding the sheer functions of the senses, one usually refers to anatomy or medicine. Thinking of the effects of sensual perception on the human psyche, however, one inevitably has to turn to psychology. Even in our postmodern multimedial world, there still exists a certain segregation between outer sensual perception and inner feelings or imaginations. There are rare attempts to bring together both mind and body, medicine and psychology and, for instance, to heal diseases in a holistic way. And yet, in the 18th century, the ...
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Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. The exciting discovery of childhood sexuality filled the literature. Then other discoveries came to the fore until sexuality slipped far in the background. This book evokes the excitement of the original discoveries of childhood sexual experience while linking childhood sensuality and sexuality to adult attachment, romantic, and lustful love. This revised perspective offers the general reader insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and presents clinicians with a perspective for exploring their patients sensuality and sexuality with renewed interest and knowledge.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.