/lit/ - Literature

>>4476888
>CoNstanza

>>3954643
>So you, indeed.

>>3782368
wat up fellow psych major

considering psychology is a big fucking field, i'll give you my recommendations in related clumps

more intuitive/introspective/littheoryrelated:
- anything by william james
- 'the archetypes and the collective unconscious' jung
- 'beyond the pleasure principle' or 'civilization and its discontents' freud
- anything by lacan and zizek

cognitive/evolutionary psych:
- 'the ego tunnel' thomas metzinger
- 'the mismeasure of man' steven jay gould
- 'the bell curve' richard herrnstein
- anything by daniel dennett & steven pinker
- 'the psychology of intelligence' jean piaget

humanist/existential psych
- 'the anatomy of human destructiveness' erich fromm
- 'man's search for meaning' victor frankl
for somethiing more literary, read anything by dostoevsky

neuropsych
i have a kindle so ebooks like these are convenient as fuck instead of lugging an enormous textbook everywhere http://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Neuropsychology-Neuropsychiatry-Brain-ebook/dp/B005O6581G/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369290342&sr=1-2&keywords=neuropsychology
i think there's an series in this vein. be warned, it can be a bit dry at times but makes up for it with the sheer amount of info

also b.f skinner's 'beyond freedom and dignity' and 'walden two' are worth reading

read as much as you can, from both ends of the spectrum. as a third year neuropsych undergrad, i hear people shit all over poor fellas like freud or jung on a regular basis, unfairly i might add. im currently going through jung's work and a lot of it anticipates evolutionary/sociobiological theory, particularly his emphasis on archetypes. you get a great deal of crap as well, granted, but it doesn;t detract from what he gets right

what are majoring in, out of interest?

I'll give it a shot...

(1/2)

The Man in the Store

It rained steadily outside. Thick, vertical drops plummeted down and collided against the asphalt. Running for shelter, I ducked beneath the grey tarpaulin canvas that hovered over the door to my neighborhood grocery, and made my way through the small crowd of umbrella-less shoppers waiting for the rain to subside.

Before leaving my flat, I had scribbled down a list of essentials I needed to pick up, but in my haste I left the list at home. Bread, yogurt, and some other stuff that did not interest me were certainly not the reason I was there this morning. In fact, I probably wouldn’t even be bothered to get these things if I had no other food at home. For that matter, I hadn’t checked, but I was pretty sure that I indeed did not have any other food at home. No, I had run out of scotch, and last night my guests—who were still asleep in the living room—had drunk the case of beer I had stored. However, it was barely past nine o’clock, and I usually don’t lay into the beer till late in the afternoon; the primary reason for this visit is the scotch which I like to have before my morning coffee, and which is also the only thing as of late that picks me up after vomiting. I also needed cigarettes and peanuts.

>>3539209
It never ceases to amaze me just how childish the people on this board really are. It's like 70% of the people have this warped view of social structure before the 1990's. Why do you assume that art in those days was this great happening? Do you think the average Italian during the renascence plowed their fields in anticipation of Michelangelo's new sculpture? Or that every family in the 1920's had a copy of Ulysses on their bookshelf?
The fact is that the average person just wasn't all that smart. Ever. If anything, we are smarter today than ever before. The questions we should be raising are not 'why are we dumb?' rather, 'how to deal with the quick shifting tides of our complex social structure?'
'Boo hoo, writers don't make any money.' I'm sorry, since when was being an artist a profession? You don't write to make a quick buck or to consider yourself a 'writer', you write because you are a fucking human being. Because you are driven to create. Now grow a pair, and act like it.

>>3203188
that is literally costanza

apology for poor english

when were you when gregor turn into bug

i was sat at home drinking finnegans wake fluid when fred ring

'gregor is bug'

'no'

and you?????????????

>>3195024
>people over 20 not being pretentious
>you not being an idiot
pick zero

>>3184036
>Tripfag tells anons on /lit/ that characters are ambulatory cardboard.

I thought I'd seen it all.

On another note, plot isn't inherently bad. A great plot bring forth momentum and excitement in a story, but it can't be the only or main focus on what makes constitutes good literature.

Bullet-biting utilitarian obsessed with social issues, sound thinker, ok author, has a good will for solving world hunger but lacks the balls to cultivate political influence.

Expect shoe-horned minorities just so the nignogs don't get mad like they did with the original trilogy.

>my face when there will be a black dwarf with a giant gold chain somewhere in this movie

Smart people are usually good at creating great wordplay and being very clever. Some people who aren't necessarily book-smart might be good at this also, but these people might be "smart" in other ways.

This whole thing is a clusterfuck of definitions and cluttered understanding. OP is a faggot.

>reading self-insert fanfiction

You guys do know that pointing out very real disadvantages that men suffer is not an affront against women or feminism, right? The whole LOL MEN ARE NEVER DISCRIMINATED AGAINST STOP WHINING FUCKERS LOL response just reeks of chivalrous men and feminists who are afraid that women won't win in the oppression olympics.

>>2560456
>Money does not represent resources.
This may just be the dumbest thing I've ever read on 4chan. Congratulations.

>>2555312
>huntingtonian 'clash of civilizations' nonsense
>2013

i seriously h-... just get the fuck out of here.

>I've always called myself a Christian
I think I just found your problem, OP.

>>2507547
>mfw /lit/ is the most anti-intellectual board on 4chan.

>>2501261
There's nothing noble or moral about not making money. Art has long been a tool of the powerful to impress a narrative on the world, and in fact it was little else up until about 200 years ago, but now that it's relatively harmless and insulated (as if that itself was so great anyway), it's suddenly the apex of human dignity? Fucking please.

No one brought up money but you, idiot.

What's the name of /lit/'s magazine again? ZNT? Zinc? I know the old one was called the Zine but that one's been discontinued.

>>2326023
Could you provide a link to some of those ancient african "scripts" so we can end this thread once and for all.

>Women's studies
>Gender studies
>considered a serious field

I mean sure feminist criticism in literature or sociology or something I understand, but how can you base a whole field on this? It's retarded.

>>2058569
Ha ha! I assume you meant "Your way"?

Wonderful try, but a futile one at best.

>>2048394
Off-topic now?