Stories
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Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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The eye of darshan
The Hindu concept of darshan means “divine revelation”, but it’s also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Adrian Plau explains how one image in a Panjabi manuscript relates to darshan, and why it’s so striking.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death of the subject" / Rei Terada.
Terada, Rei, 1962-Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe : representation and the loss of the subject / John Martis.
Martis, JohnDate: [2005], ©2005- Books
Michel Foucault : subversions of the subject / Philip Barker.
Barker, Philip, 1950-Date: 1993- Books
Lacan et Descartes : la tentation métaphysique / Joël Sipos.
Sipos, Joël.Date: [1994], ©1994- Archives and manuscripts
Commonplace book
Blagden, Sir Charles, 1748-1820.Date: 1769-1773Reference: MS.1245Part of: Blagden, Sir Charles (1748-1820)