Browse works related to the mind, behaviour, emotion, cognition, and the study of human experience. This collection currently contains 9 titles in Literra’s catalogue.
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Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century gathers short literary portraits and “character” sketches that describe recognizable human types through their habits, manners, weaknesses, virtues, and social roles. The genre became popular because it offered a compact way to comment on society
Dead Souls follows Chichikov, a charming and mysterious schemer traveling through provincial Russia with an unusual plan: he wants to purchase the names of deceased serfs who still appear on official records. Because landowners are taxed according to census lists rather than current reality
A compact presentation of psychoanalytic ideas about dreams, wish-fulfillment and the relation between conscious and unconscious mental life. It is most useful when read historically, as an example of Freud’s method rather than as a contemporary scientific account of sleep
Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs is a practical horticultural guide focused on plant varieties that can survive ordinary outdoor conditions while providing attractive flowers or foliage. The book explains selection, cultivation, placement, and care, helping gardeners think of
Russell investigates mental phenomena through a philosophy of mind shaped by his broader analytic method. Questions about perception, belief, sensation and the relation between mind and the world make this a useful bridge between psychology, epistemology and philosophy
Freud uses dreams as a route into unconscious wishes and conflicts, developing ideas about dream-work, symbolism, repression, and the role of dreams in mental life
Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism is less a technical economic program than a radical argument about individual freedom. Wilde begins from a simple conviction: a society that leaves people trapped by poverty and economic dependence cannot genuinely produce independent human beings
This volume brings together three very different pieces by Gustave Flaubert: The Dance of Death, The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, and A Simple Soul. Together they reveal the range of Flaubert’s imagination far better than any single novel could
Freud applies psychoanalytic ideas to anthropology, religion, taboo and social life. Some of its historical arguments have not held up to modern anthropology, but the work is important for seeing how broadly psychoanalytic explanation was once extended
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