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Works: 305
Authors: 94
Passages: 89,767

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Private works: 46
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Private excerpts: 20,006
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Editions and translations: 849
Languages: 17
Works in French and English: 259
Multilingual works: 259
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Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleSigmund Freud

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Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Faced with painful repetitions that pleasure-seeking does not explain, Freud advances new hypotheses about repetition compulsion and drives. The text shows a theory risking a step beyond its evidence.

What you will learn

Composition: 1920
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 60 passages · 18,851 words

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CaligulaAlbert Camus

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Caligula

The play tests unlimited freedom after loss turns it into arbitrary and murderous power.

What you will learn

Composition: 1944
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 4 passages · 18,161 words

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Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung

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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

These essays by the early Jung trace the emergence of analytical psychology through word association, complexes, dreams, and the therapeutic relationship. Their collection shows a field in formation, still near Freud yet already developing its own distinctions.

What you will learn

Composition: collected papers, c. 1902-1916
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 508 passages · 156,362 words

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Exile and the KingdomAlbert Camus

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Exile and the Kingdom

Six stories confront solitude, belonging, hospitality and responsibility in distinct situations.

What you will learn

Composition: 1957
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 6 passages · 44,987 words

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Existentialism Is a HumanismJean-Paul Sartre

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Existentialism Is a Humanism

Sartre defends existentialism against quietism and despair: a person defines themselves through acts, within a situation they did not wholly choose.

What you will learn

Composition: October 1945 lecture; 1966 Nagel manifestation
Editions / translations: 1966
Languages: French · English
Extent: 20 passages · 11,542 words

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Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel LectureAlbert Einstein

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Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel Lecture

Einstein retraces the problems leading from Lorentz transformations to special relativity and then to a theory of gravitation based on spacetime geometry. The lecture emphasizes physical principles rather than only the result recognized by the prize.

What you will learn

Composition: 11 July 1923
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 14 passages · 3,579 words

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Geometry and Experience, French TranslationAlbert Einstein

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Geometry and Experience, French Translation

Einstein asks how axiomatic geometry, valid by deduction, can describe physical bodies and measurements. This French translation clarifies the difference between a formal system, practical geometry, and the choice of a framework for relativity.

What you will learn

Composition: 1921 lecture
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 18 passages · 4,856 words

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How Great Leaders Inspire ActionSimon Sinek

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How Great Leaders Inspire Action

Simon Sinek presents the Golden Circle and asks why some organizations inspire commitment beyond products or incentives.

What you will learn

Composition: 17 September 2009, TEDxPuget Sound, Seattle
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 36 passages · 3,012 words

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Interview on The Philosopher on CallRaphaël Enthoven

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Interview on The Philosopher on Call

Twenty-nine answers attributed to Raphaël Enthoven examine the media philosopher, ordinary objects, radio work, and the risk of confusing a thing with its label.

What you will learn

Composition: interview published 30 April 2011
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 29 passages · 7,725 words

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Jokes and Their Relation to the UnconsciousSigmund Freud

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Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

Freud analyzes how condensation, double meaning, displacement, and savings in inhibition give a joke its form and pleasure. Verbal technique and the joke’s social tendency must be examined together.

What you will learn

Composition: 1905
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 224 passages · 81,188 words

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Psychological TypesCarl Gustav Jung

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Psychological Types

Jung develops introverted and extraverted orientations together with four psychological functions: thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition. The book places this typology within a broad history of conflicts among ways of evaluating the world.

What you will learn

Composition: 1913-1921; published in 1921
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 527 passages · 183,662 words

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Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the LibidoCarl Gustav Jung

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Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the Libido

Using fantasy material published by another writer, Jung compares myth, religion, and poetic imagery to broaden libido beyond sexuality. The work marks a decisive stage in his theoretical break with Freud.

What you will learn

Composition: 1911-1912; later revisions
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 357 passages · 115,916 words

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Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English TranslationAlbert Einstein

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Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English Translation

This English translation carries Einstein’s introduction to special and general relativity. Through measurement, reference frames, and thought experiments, it leads readers from the limits of classical mechanics toward spacetime and geometric gravitation.

What you will learn

Composition: 1916; English translation published in 1920
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 105 passages · 30,599 words

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Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German EditionAlbert Einstein

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Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition

In this German exposition for nonspecialists, Einstein builds relativity through trains, clocks, measuring rods, and elevators. Thought experiments replace some formalism without concealing the transformation of space, time, and gravitation.

What you will learn

Composition: 1916
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 76 passages · 21,317 words

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Sidelights on RelativityAlbert Einstein

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Sidelights on Relativity

Two lectures supplement relativity through foundational questions: the status of ether after 1905 and the relation between geometry and experience. Einstein clarifies what his theories abandon, transform, or leave open.

What you will learn

Composition: 1920 lectures
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 27 passages · 8,533 words

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State of SiegeAlbert Camus

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State of Siege

The spectacle tests fear, bureaucracy and obedience against a revolt grounded in solidarity.

What you will learn

Composition: 1948
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 3 passages · 22,905 words

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The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein

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The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s Letters

Einstein’s letters to Max and Hedwig Born combine disputes over quantum mechanics, personal news, exile, and political concern. This selection preserves Einstein’s voice within an exchange whose replies from the Borns remain necessary context.

What you will learn

Composition: correspondence, 1916-1955
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 127 passages · 40,539 words

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The Creative Process in the IndividualThomas Troward

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The Creative Process in the Individual

Eleven chapters ask how a universal creative principle could become individual expression without collapsing order into private wish.

What you will learn

Composition: 1915 edition; foreword dated 1910
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 11 passages · 36,376 words