/lit/ - Literature

>>19935573
>>19935677
Apparently... work. Also sports of any kind. Wow, who knew engaging in the two activities I denounce the most would prove to be beneficial? I guess it's true but I have a long way to go since anything physical and slaving away isn't of much interest to me and I'd prefer to stay in my room wasting time looking at a monitor.

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'In general, the man who is identified with the archetype of the puer aeternus
remains too long in adolescent psychology; that is, all those characteristics that
are normal in a youth of seventeen or eighteen are continued into later life,
coupled in most cases with too great a dependence on the mother. The two
typical disturbances of a man who has an outstanding mother complex are, as
Jung points out, homosexuality and Don Juanism. In the case of the former, the
heterosexual libido is still tied up with the mother, who is really the only beloved
object, with the result that sex cannot be experienced with another woman. That
would make her a rival of the mother, and therefore sexual needs are satisfied
only with a member of the same sex. Generally such men lack masculinity and
seek that in the partner.
In Don Juanism there is another typical form of this same disturbance. In this
case, the image of the mother-the image of the perfect woman who will give
everything to a man and who is without any shortcomings is sought in every
woman. He is looking for a mother goddess, so that each time he is fascinated by
a woman he has later to discover that she is an ordinary human being. Once he
has been intimate with her the whole fascination vanishes and he turns away
disappointed, only to project the image anew onto one woman after another. He
eternally longs for the maternal woman who will enfold him in her arms and
satisfy his every need. This is often accompanied by the romantic attitude of the
adolescent. Generally great difficulty is experienced in adaptation to the social
situation and, in some cases, there is a kind of false individualism, namely that,
being something special, one has no need to adapt, for that would be impossible
for such a hidden genius, and so on. In addition there is an arrogant attitude
toward other people due to both an inferiority complex and false feelings of
superiority. Such people also usually have great difficulty in finding the right
kind of job, for whatever they find is never quite right or quite what they wanted.
There is always "a hair in the soup." The woman also is never quite the right
woman: she is nice as a girlfriend, but. There is always a "but" which prevents
marriage or any kind of definite commitment.'

>>5427687
It happens.

have you published a book?

how many copies have do you estimate it has sold?

did you have an idea or an estimate of what sales numbers would be like before it was published?