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Nigel Cooke (Paperback)
Marie Darrieussecq, Darian Leader, Tony Godfrey
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An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist,
who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting Nigel
Cooke is known for his complex paintings, which thematically
explore the meeting point between creative labour, consciousness,
art history, consumer culture, and nature. Primarily centred on
meticulously painted, large-scale urban landscapes, which he calls
'hybrid theatrical spaces', Cooke's work employs disparate styles,
often integrating trompe l'oeil miniature rocks and trees with
backdrops of graffiti-marked buildings, to create scenes conveying
obscure and macabre narratives. This survey of Cooke's career to
date explores the artist's style, approach, and impact on
contemporary art and includes his very latest works, completed
shortly before publication.
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from
brilliant psychoanalyst Darian Leader 'It was just sex.' It's a
familiar claim. But is it really possible? The old idea that
sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate
for release yet restrained by social forces, has little to support
it. Bodies aren't just sticks that make fire when you rub them
together, and the pain, heartache, and regret that can accompany
the highs of sexual excitement show us that much more is at stake.
So, what are we really thinking about when we think about sex? And
what are we really doing when we do it? As acclaimed psychoanalyst
Darian Leader argues, with his trademark clarity, energy and wit,
there is no such thing as 'just sex'. It is always about so much
more than that - about phantasy, anxiety, guilt, revenge, violence,
love - and Leader draws on his analytic experience, historical
research and case studies to explore their importance to every
aspect of our sexual lives. 'One of our most important contemporary
thinkers' Guardian 'Leader writes beautifully, with majestic
clarity and an easy flow between argument and case-study' Telegraph
'Leader is as much a philosopher as a psychoanalyst and his ideas
are engrossing and enlightening' Metro
When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, thousands of
people flocked to see where it had once been on display. Many of
them had never seen the painting in the first place. What could
have drawn these crowds to an empty space? And can this tell us
something about why we look at art, why artists create it, and why
it has to be so expensive? Taking the intriguing story of the Mona
Lisa's two year disappearance as his starting point, Darian Leader
explores the psychology of looking at visual art. What do paintings
hide from us? Why should some artists feel compelled to lead lives
that are more colourful than their works? And why did the police
bungle their long investigation into the theft of Leonardo's
masterpiece? Combining anecdote, observation and analysis, with
examples taken from classical and contemporary art, Leader
discusses such seminal figures as Leonardo, Picasso and Duchamp, as
well as Bacon, Lowry and the Young British Artists. This is a book
about why we look at art and what, indeed, we might be hoping to
find.
There are many footnotes to Freud, but Freud himself is never a
mere footnote. What makes him so special? Each of Freud's works
should make us ask the question, why did he write this? What
footnotes do we need to put Freud in perspective, and to revive the
neglected problems of psychoanalytic theory? In Freud's Footnotes,
Darian Leader brings to life debates in the history and theory of
psychoanalysis, opening up new perspectives on areas that are all
too often taken for granted. Leader explores the questions that
preoccupied Freud and his followers. He shows how their theories
were formed and modified, and situates their contributions in the
history of ideas. Contexts and influences, revisions and apparently
insignificant details are brought to the foreground in an important
study which is characteristically profound, witty and persuasive.
Why do men tend to keep love letters in files along with their
other correspondence, whereas women keep them with their clothes?
And if a letter is written but not posted, at whom is it really
directed? As psychoanalyst Darian Leader shows, such questions go
to the heart of sexual desire, which is never addressed to our
flesh and blood companion, but always to something beyond him or
her. In an engaging, at times startling, enquiry into the
fundamental loneliness of each sex, Leader asks why relationships
frequently run aground on the trivial question, 'What are you
thinking?' If a man chooses as his partner a woman unlike his
mother, why does he try to make her behave towards him exactly as
his mother did, when he was a boy? And why might a woman decide not
to spend the night with a man, after one glimpse of his apartment?
Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological
disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the 'Age
of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now
live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely
prescribed to adults and children alike, with child prescriptions
this decade increasing by 400% and overall diagnoses by 4000%. What
could explain this explosion of bipolarity? Is it a legitimate
diagnosis or the result of Big Pharma marketing? Exploring these
questions, Darian Leader challenges the rise of 'bipolar' as a
catch-all solution to complex problems, and argues that we need to
rethink the highs and lows of mania and depression. What, he asks,
do these experiences have to do with love, guilt and rage? Why the
spending sprees and the intense feeling of connection with the
world? Why the confidence, the self-esteem and the sense of a
bright future that can so swiftly turn into despair and dejection?
Only by looking at these questions in a new way will we be able to
understand and help the person caught between feelings that can be
so terrifying and so exhilarating, so life-affirming yet also so
lethal. Strictly Bipolar is essential reading for anyone interested
in contemporary views of the self, bipolarity and a deeper
understanding of manic-depression. Praise for Strictly Bipolar: 'A
beautifully thoughtful understanding not just of highs and
lows,mania and depression, but of why and how these mechanisms work
in our mindsand bodies and how the human subject is coerced todayto
embrace a culture of 'bipolarity'' Susie Orbach 'A timely book.
Darian Leader's thoughts are more fixated strong-arm interesting,
more humane and more persuasive than the profit coercion of the
madness industry. Instead of the shoddy reasoning that leads to
wrong treatment and over-treatment, he offers illumination and
insight; his book is a contribution to a debate, but it could also
change lives' Hilary Mantel Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst
practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian
Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK. He
is the author of What is Madness?, The New Black, Why do women
write more letters than they post?, Promises lovers make when it
gets late, Freud's Footnotes and Stealing the Mona Lisa, and
co-author, with David Corfield, of Why Do People Get Ill? He is
Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Life
Sciences, Roehampton University.
'Well-argued, thought-provoking . . . will make you think twice
before reaching for the painkillers' Daily Mail Have you ever
wondered why we get ill? Can our thoughts and feelings worsen or
even cause conditions like heart disease, cancer or asthma? And
what - if anything - can we do about it? Why Do People Get Ill?
explores the relationship between what's going on in our heads and
what happens in our bodies, combining the latest research with
neglected findings from medical history. With remarkable case
studies and startling new insights into why we fall ill, this
intriguing book should be read by anyone who cares about their own
health and that of other people. 'Fascinating . . . compelling'
Observer 'An absorbing examination of the mind-body connection'
Harper's Bazaar 'Illuminating, fascinating' Financial Times
From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What
is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human
sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more 'Persuasive,
absorbing and refreshingly sane... [A] bracing and important
intervention in the debate... Leader points the way to a richer and
more humane understanding of our problems with sleep' Guardian One
in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have
increased dramatically over the last three decades, as have the
incidence of sleep clinics. Sleep used to be a natural state, easy
as breathing, but increasingly it is an insecure commodity.
...Isn't it? Our relationship to sleep surfaces and resurfaces
throughout human history, each time telling us something new about
our indivudual and collective psychology. From the industrial
revolution to blue-light on our phones, from the ancient art of
dream interpretation to the modern science of Freud, sleep is
connected to wider social patterns, to shifting norms and
expectations. Weaving together cultural, social, economic and
psychoanalytic influences, Darian Leader delves into the truth
about this universal human experience.
The New Black is Darian Leader's compassionate and illuminating
exploration of melancholy What happens when we lose someone we
love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are
some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into
a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live and see no hope
for the future. What matters at this crucial point is whether or
not we are able to mourn. In this important and groundbreaking
book, acclaimed psychoanalyst and writer Darian Leader urges us to
look beyond the catch-all concept of depression to explore the
deeper, unconscious ways in which we respond to the experience of
loss. In so doing, we can loosen the grip it may have upon our
lives. 'His orthodox, psychoanalytical approach, produces an
unpredictable, occasionally brilliant book. The New Black is a
mixture of Freudian text, clinical assessments and Leader's own
brand of gentle wisdom' Herald 'Compelling and important . . . an
engrossing and wise book' Hanif Kureishi 'There are many self-help
books on the market . . . The New Black is a book that might
actually help' Independent Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst
practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian
Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK. He
is the author of The New Black, Strictly Bipolar, Why do women
write more letters than they post?, Promises lovers make when it
gets late, Freud's Footnotes and Stealing the Mona Lisa, and
co-author, with David Corfield, of Why Do People Get Ill? He is
Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Life
Sciences, Roehampton University.
Fifty years ago, the terms mourning and melancholia were part of
the psychological lexicon. Today, in a world of rapid diagnoses,
quick cures, and big pharmaceutical dollars, the catch-all concept
of depression has evolved to take their place. In "The New Black,"
Darian Leader argues that this shift is more than semantic; rather,
it speaks to our culture's complicated relationship with loss,
suffering, and grief.
Part memoir, part cultural analysis, Leader draws on examples from
literature, art, cinema, and history, as well as case studies from
his work as a psychologist, to explore the unconscious ways our
culture responds to the experience of loss. He visits a bookstore
in search of studies on mourning, and, finding none, moves on to
the fiction and poetry sections, where he finds countless examples
of mourning in literature. Moving from historical texts of the
Middle Ages, to Freud's essays, to Lacan, to Joan Didion's "The
Year of Magical Thinking," Leader provides an innovative tour of
mourning and melancholia and our culture's struggle to understand
them.
When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, it was
twenty-four hours before anyone knew it was missing. Afterward,
thousands of people flocked to see the empty space where it had
once hung, many of them having never seen the painting in the first
place. In Stealing the Mona Lisa, Darien Leader takes the
intriguing story of the theft of the Mona Lisa and the public's
reaction to it as a starting point to explore the psychology of
looking at visual art. What do we hope to see in paintings, and
what do they hide from us? Why should some artists feel compelled
to live lives that are more colorful than their works? And why did
the police bungle their long investigation into the theft of
Leonardo's masterpiece? Leader combines anecdote, observation, and
analysis with examples taken from classical and contemporary art to
create a surprising and fearless interrogation of what we see in
art and what we might hope to find.
How much do you really know about your own hands? Throughout
history , civilisations have been defined by the work of human
hands: inventing tools, writing records, operating machinery,
typing, texting, swiping. But beneath this known history is
another, secret story: our hands are not the obedient servants that
they seem to be. Through conscious and unconscious gesture, they
reveal our deepest psychology, our weaknesses and obsessions, our
personal history and our social conditioning. Why do zombies walk
with their hands outstretched? How does a new-born baby 'talk' with
his hands? What is the connection between prayer beads, snuff boxes
and cell phones? And most importantly, can we unlock the mystery of
our hands in order to truly know ourselves? The key to
understanding everything around you - and everything within you -
is staring you in the face. Take a journey through fascinating
anecdotes and brilliant psychoanalytic research, through a legacy
of ideas from da Vinci to Dickens to Die Hard. With wit and
dexterity, Darian Leader reveals that there's much more to your
hands than meets the eye.
What is Madness? is Darian Leader's probing study of madness,
sanity, and everything in between What separates the sane from the
mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the
difference is really between being mad and going mad? In this
landmark work Darian Leader undermines common conceptions of
madness. Through case studies like the apparently 'normal' Harold
Shipman, he shows that madness rarely conforms to standard models.
What is Madness? explores the idea of quiet madness - that at times
many of us live interior lives that are far from sane but allow us
to function normally and unthreateningly - he argues that we must
seek a new way to assess, treat and deal with those suffering
mental health problems. What is Madness? is Darian Leader's
radically insightful and masterfully convincing exploration of a
painful, complex but endlessly fascinating area of humanity. 'A
terrific intellectual stylist' Joseph O' Neill, Guardian
'Engrossing and enlightening . . . Leader is as much a philosopher
as a psychoanalyst' Metro 'The mad . . . have been segregated and
often confined; for fear, perhaps, that they will contaminate the
rest of us. But as Darian Leader brilliantly shows, things are
never so simple' Hanif Kureshi, Independent 'Provides valuable
insights into how psychiatry can help those who have suffered
psychosis to rebuild their lives' Sunday Times 'Witty, probing. A
myth-busting diagnosis of the method in our madness' Independent
'Leader's insights could have radical consequences for the way we
regard madness' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating. A formidable grasp of
psychiatric history and a storyteller's flair for detail. What
Leader does so effectively is to give us a sense of what it might
be like to live inside the mind of a psychotic. A humane and timely
book' New Statesman 'Superb insights, brilliant' Observer 'One of
our most important contemporary thinkers' Guardian Darian Leader is
a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member of the Centre for
Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts
- UK. He is the author of The New Black, Strictly Bipolar, Why do
women write more letters than they post?, Promises lovers make when
it gets late, Freud's Footnotes and Stealing the Mona Lisa, and
co-author, with David Corfield, of Why Do People Get Ill? He is
Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Life
Sciences, Roehampton University.
Whereas not too long ago the terms "mourning" and "melancholia"
used to be a part of the psychological lexicon, nowadays the
concept of depression has taken their place. Arguing that this
shift is more than a semantic one and that it speaks to modern
culture's complicated relationship with loss, suffering, and grief,
this equal parts memoir and social science study draws on examples
from art, cinema, history, and literature, as well as case studies
from the author's work as a psychologist. Exploring the unconscious
ways people respond to the experience of loss, this eye-opening
book provides an innovative tour of mourning and melancholia and
our culture's struggle to understand them. "Aunque hace poco los
terminos" duelo "y" melancolia "formaban parte del lexico
psicologico, hoy en dia el concepto de la depresion los ha
reemplazado. Arguyendo que este cambio es mas que semantico y que
alude a la relacion complicada de la cultura moderna con la
perdida, el sufrimiento y el duelo, esta memoria y estudio de
ciencia social reune ejemplos del arte, el cine, la historia y la
literatura, al igual que de casos provenientes de la labor del
autor como psicologo. Explorando las maneras inconscientes en las
cuales las personas responden a la experiencia de la perdida, este
libro esclarecedor provee una gira innovadora del duelo y la
melancolia y de la lucha de nuestra cultura para entenderlos."
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