Please recommend a book

[buretto1234]

I've watched and read some commentaries about Da Vinci after reading it. As far as I'm concerned it was only novel in which he tried to inject historical facts(?).
Now another book I'd like to recommend is: Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber. It is a story of a woman with a multiple personality, the trauma she suffered as a child which caused her dissociation and her road to becoming whole. As I was reading the book, I was awed by how the mind works (she had 16 distinct personalities). You see, Sybil's other selves were a defence against the cruel environment she grew in. Sybil only knew of the "other selves" at the course of her therapy, but since the beginning, those "other selves" were aware of her. Her road to recovery was long and hard but she survived.

That sounds pretty familiar. We studied a case like that in my philosophy 101 class. The name was different though.

We had to write a paper on whether or not each of her personalities could be considered to have a personal identity - if each personality was valid. I stated that they were not, since each one stood to represent a specific aspect of herself. The personalities also only served one function or another.

Was hypnosis part of her therapy?

 

[yaschan]

I recommend Haruki Murakami's novels.

 

[If time can talk...]

1.Ulysses
2.A la recherche du temps perdu
3.Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
4.A Review of Robert Kagan's Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
... ...

 

[Flashjeff]

Well, I just finished "Memoirs of a Geisha" (spurred on to buy the book after seeing the movie) and found it to have been a very enjoyable read. It was quite fascinating, poignant and entertaining.

 

[Yokan]

Battle Royale novel, and the Memoirs of a Geisha! ^^

 

[mintuna]

i like Taiko (Shinsho taikoki) by Eiji Yoshikawa. i fell in love with Oda Nobunaga back then,,

 

[Sukotto]

"OKINAWA: COLD WAR ISLAND"

and

"Multicultural Japan : Palaeolithic to Postmodern"

omoshiroi hon ni-satsu.

 

[Sukotto]

"Little Boy : The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture"
by Takashi Murakami (Editor)

Here's a art/sociology? book for anybody who's an anime freak.
(much less in recent years for me. Ever since Pokemon...
It might have been the first for many, but....)
:smoke:

Kono hon wa (This book is)
Nihongo & English de,

I've only read a couple essays so far, including one on "otaku".
I wasn't aware of a Japanese serial killer that stalked young girls
some years ago that was way far gone into an imaginary world of anime.
Likewise the Aum cult that gassed Tokyo was reportedly really
into a movie released State-side as "Harmegeddon".

It is these events that evidently wound up giving the word "otaku" a bad
connotation. (There could be more....?)
Sure movies can have messages, but come on folks...


Before studying Japanese at college I was not aware of any such
bad connotation at all. And in fact, many of us were under the impression
that comics and animated movies/shows in Japan were not "only for kids".
And we as Americans had it backwards in shunning the medium.

So far I can't really tell what to book is saying beyond the obvious
from the title. The essays thus far are extremely intriguing.
But for anyone into anime

 

[Ma Cherie]

There's a book out by a Chinese author named Annie Wang. She wrote a book entitled "The People's Republic of Desire" which is like a Chinese version of Sex and The City. And it's also a window into how China has changed since it became a member of the WTO.

 

[dangdaga]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John kennedy toole

 

[sadakoyamamura]

That sounds pretty familiar. We studied a case like that in my philosophy 101 class. The name was different though.
We had to write a paper on whether or not each of her personalities could be considered to have a personal identity - if each personality was valid. I stated that they were not, since each one stood to represent a specific aspect of herself. The personalities also only served one function or another.
Was hypnosis part of her therapy?

Yes it was but this story turned out to become controversial because it caught the attention of Hollywood and the mental health world as well. Who Sybil really was only became known after she died. There were claims that her 16 personalities were created during the therapy sessions especially during the time of her hypnosis. We could never really know for sure what happened as both the doctor and patient are already deceased. But I know that someone out there owns the recording of the therapy sessions.

 

[Sadakogfx]

Ring by koji Suzuki