Joseph Gomez has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 10 ratings. The most-rated is The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes.
The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes
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In this 1912 work, Jung seeks to find symbolic meaning and purpose behind a given set of symptoms within the larger context of the psyche. It examines the fantasies of a patient whose vivid and poetic mental images enabled Jung to redefine libido as psychic energy which arises from the unconscious to manifest itself consciously in symbolic form. The work marks a theoretical divergence between Jung and Freud on the nature of the libido. Moving beyond psychopathology and its symptoms, Jung incorporated dreams, mythology, and literature to identify and define the universal patterns of the psyche. His commentary on his patient's fantasies presents a complex framework of symbolic psychiatry and foreshadows his development of the theory of the collective unconscious and the archetypes inhabiting it.
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a seminal work on crowd psychology by Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), a French social psychologist. He observes that a crowd forms when an influential idea unites a number of individuals and prompts them to act towards a common goal. In a crowd, the conscious personality of the individual is submerged and dominated by the collective mind. Furthermore, every sentiment becomes contagious to a degree that individuals readily sacrifice their personal interest to the collective. Le Bon discusses the general characteristics, ideas, reasoning power, imagination, morality and mental unity of the crowd, including the behavior of criminal juries and parliamentary assemblies. Crowds often act in an immoral manner because mankind’s primitive instincts that lie dormant in the isolated individual, are unleashed by the dynamics of the crowd. Le Bon’s fascinating work also examines the ways in which a nation’s generally accepted beliefs influence the processes of history.
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The Conception of the Unconscious
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Jung contends that the personal unconscious consists of more or less superficial layers, but that it rests upon a deeper layer, which does not derive from personal experience; it is not a personal acquisition but an inborn quality. He calls the deeper layer the collective unconscious and explains that it is universal; it contains images and modes of behavior that are more or less similar everywhere, in all individuals. Jung describes the collective unconscious as a common psychic substrate of a suprapersonal nature which is present in every human being. As opposed to the personal unconscious which consists mostly of complexes, the collective unconscious contains archetypes. The concept of the archetype, which is closely associated with the idea of the collective unconscious, refers to the existence of definite forms in the psyche which appears to be present always and everywhere.
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Robert S. Mueller III's Summaries of the Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election
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"The Mueller Report" is the official report documenting the findings and conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in the US presidential election of 2016, allegations of conspiracy between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, and allegations of obstruction of justice. It was submitted to Attorney General William Barr on March 22, 2019, and a redacted version was publicly released by the Department of Justice on April 18, 2019. Volume I of the redacted report concludes that the investigation did not find sufficient evidence that the campaign "coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities." Addressing obstruction of justice, volume II of the report does not conclude that the president committed a crime.
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The Prince
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The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513, after he was forced to leave Florence as a political exile. Dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici, the work is Machiavelli’s advice to the ruler of Florence on how to stay in power.
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The Sigmund Freud Collection
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This collection features some of the most prominent works written by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the founding father of psychoanalysis. These are the original authorized translations approved by the author; they were translated into English by prominent psychologists of his time, like A.A. Brill, M. D. Eder, Alfred B. Kuttner, and G. Stanley Hall. The collection contains: A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis; Psychopathology of Everyday Life; Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex; Totem and Taboo; Leonardo Da Vinci; Dream Psychology; On Aphasia: A Monograph; The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego; Studies on Hysteria; Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious; Delusion and Dream Reflections; On War and Death; The Interpretation of Dreams; On Narcissism: an Introduction; The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement; Dream Psychology; Psychoanalysis for Beginners; Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics.
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