The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1940–1959: Mind, Medicine, and Man is the second volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the impact of the Second World War on his work and thinking as well as his divorce, remarriage, and conversion to Catholicism.With extensive references to Zilboorg’s writing and politics, this book demonstrates the significance of his contributions to the fields of psychia...

This moving memoir opens a door into the life of a young girl growing up in a psychoanalytic household. It offers insight into not only the expectations of girlhood in upper-class New York in the 1950s, but also the burgeoning psychoanalytic community at that time with particular focus on the brilliant Gregory Zilboorg. Caroline Zilboorg draws on her memories of growing up in a what she calls 'a psychoanalytic household', and on a wealth of privately held scrapbooks and photographs. She re...

The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890–1940: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis is the first volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the period from his birth as a Jew in Tsarist Russia to his prominence as a New York psychoanalyst on the eve of the Second World War.Educated in Kiev and Saint Petersburg, Zilboorg served as a young physician during the First World War and, after the revolut...

Every knitter takes a different approach, and this revolutionary guide fosters experimentation and self-expression. Author Anna Zilboorg defies the notion of a one-size-fits-all teaching method, assuring readers that the techniques most comfortable and intuitive for individual knitters are always correct. Her explorations of the construction of knitted fabrics are founded upon the understanding that there are many different ways to produce the same satisfying result.Offering advice ...

A mysterious gentleman arrives at Papa Briquet's circus, and applies to be a clown; unable to do a backflip, and with the circus unwilling to accept the idea of political discourse among the clowns, they settle together on the role of He Who Gets Slapped. Unfortunately for the troupe, He has motives for joining that aren't immediately apparent; motives that start to threaten the integrity of the circus.He Who Gets Slapped was first presented in Moscow in 1915 to enthusiastic audien...

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 in New York. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. George Orwell claimed that Aldous Huxley's 1931 Brave New World must be partly derived from We, but Huxley denied it. A few hundred years after the One State's conquest of the entire world, the spaceship Integral is being built ...

This classic Russian dystopian novel inspired George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and many other science fiction writers, and now this reprint of the original 1924 translation of We is available from Dover. Set in a future under a unified totalitarian state, in a society ruled by conformity and where humans are identified by their assigned number, spaceship engineer D-503 must face his beliefs about the One Party head-on after a chance encounter with the beautiful and dissident I-330. I...

Yevgeny Zamyatin'Äôs seminal work, *WE*, emerges as a groundbreaking dystopian novel that critiques the mechanization of human life and the suppression of individuality within a totalitarian state. Written in 1920, the narrative unfolds through the eyes of D-503, a chief engineer in the One State, a society governed by mathematics and conformity. Zamyatin'Äôs innovative use of a first-person narrative, interspersed with mathematical formulae and reflective epiphanies, underscores the dehum...

In "We," Yevgeny Zamyatin crafts a pioneering dystopian narrative set in a future society governed by absolute rationality and conformity. Written in a fragmented, mathematical style reflective of its protagonist, D-503, the text juxtaposes the sterile, regimented lives of citizens in the One State against the chaotic beauty of individualism and passion. As D-503 begins to grapple with emotions and rebellion upon encountering the enigmatic I-330, Zamyatin delves into themes of freedom, ide...

We, written between 1920 and 1921, is set many centuries in the future. D-503, a mathematician, lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass apartment buildings, which assist mass surveillance by the secret police, or Bureau of Guardians. People march in step with each other and are uniformed. There is no way of referring to people except by numbers assigned by the One State. The society is run strictly by logic or reason. The individual's behaviour...

A comprehensive presentation of the dynamics of neurosis, with valuable clinical material and a discussion of treatment; translated from the German.The wealth of clinical and theoretical data which psychoanalysis has been gathering for almost forty years as yet awaits an adequate systematization. A number of summaries and more or less complete systematic reviews of the field of psychoanalysis have been attempted and a number of them, of greater or less value, have been published wi...

WE is a classic of dystopian science fiction by the Russian revolutionary Yevgeny Zamyatin. The novel is set 1,000 years after a revolution that brought the One State into power, a society where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist.Citizens are known only by their number, and the story's main character is D-503, an engineer working on a spaceship that aims to bring the glorious principles of the Revolution to space. This world is c...