From Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, from Freud and Jung to Lacan and women-centred therapies, this is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last 200 years and how we conceive of them today.
From Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, from Freud and Jung to Lacan and women-centred therapies, this is the sto...
Simone de Beauvoir was a member of the intellectual elite of philosopher-writers whose feminist ideas revolutionised conventional thinking. She is known primarily for her monumental work: The Second Sex, (1949) a scholarly and passionate seminal work, which became a classic of feminist literature but also for her partnership with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, France's most celebrated and unconventional intellectual couplings.
Simone de Beauvoir was a member of the intellectual elite of philosopher-writers whose feminist ideas revolutionised conventional thinking. She is kno...
