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les meilleurs acteurs étaient les personnes les plus ennuyeuses du monde. Un sens développé de soi était nuisible, parce qu’un acteur devait laisser son ego disparaître ; il devait se laisser subsumer par un personnage. – Si vous voulez être une personnalité, devenez une pop star, avait déclaré son prof. Il avait compris la sagesse de ces mots, et
... See moreEmmanuelle Erthel • Une vie comme les autres (Littérature étrangère) (French Edition)
He was just part of the overall erasure that I was enacting: the eradication of my real self into the tangible participant who saw everything as normal.
Bret Easton Ellis • The Shards: A novel
Harold: As my first job out of college, I worked in a mental institution for seven months. I learned how to deflect insanity, or how to deal with it, and how to speak to schizophrenics, catatonics, paranoids, and suicidal people. It sounds funny, but it really expanded my tolerance for the extremes of human behavior, which turns out to be great tra
... See moreJudd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
The psychologist Jerome Bruner distinguished between two different modes of thinking, which he called the paradigmatic mode and the narrative mode. The
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Jonathan Bi • Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
only therapists are likely to encounter you in the here-and-now.
Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
This may be defined as a series of semi-ritualistic, simple, complementary transactions arranged around a single field of material, whose primary object is to structure an interval of time.
Eric Berne • Games People Play
Theater & Other Productive Rituals
In Which We Discover The Power Of Modern Shamanism
Bradley McDevitt • 6 cards
In his classic book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman suggests that in our daily lives we are like characters in a play: We take on roles and present a front. Accordingly, what we say and do during a social interaction is like a script. Goffman says that it is easier to stay in character than to react authentically. When we act an
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