A struggling songwriter named Dave Seville finds success when he comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainy Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore.

After India Stoker's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

Each person invests many of the objects in his life with his or her own unconscious meaning, each person subsequently voyages through an environment that constantly evokes the self's psychic history. Taking Freud's model of dreamwork as a model for all unconscious thinking, Christopher Bollas argues that we dreamwork ourselves into becoming who we are, and illustrates how the analyst and the patient use such unconscious processes to develop new psychic structures that the patient can use to alter his or her self experience. Building on this foundation, he goes on to describe some very special forms of self experience, including the tragic madness of women cutting themselves, the experience of a cruising homosexual in bars and bathes and the demented ferocity of the facist state of mind. An original interpreter of classical theory and clinical issues, in Being a Character Christopher Bollas takes the reader into the very texture of the psychoanalytic process.

Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation over the past fifty years. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make contemporary psychoanalytic thinking—the body of work that has been done since Freud—available for the first time. Richly illustrated with case examples, this lively, jargon-free introduction makes modern psychoanalytic thought accessible at last.

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.

This is a delightfully colourful introduction to classical music, aimed to fire the imagination of young children aged 5-7 years. Readers are asked to think about the different places in which we might hear music, whether it is in a concert hall, or just on television. They are then introduced to a selection of famous composers including Mozart and Beethoven, and learn about each of the musical instrument families, from woodwind to percussion. Throughout the book children are referred to the accompanying CD so that they can hear examples as they read. Music on the CD includes Mozart's "Magic Flute", Williams' "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals", Holst's "Planets", Stravinsky's "Petrushka" and Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".

Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve, and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her, "Hello Measles!" But in his dream, the girl's father makes Yalom understand that his daily greeting had hurt her. For Yalom, this was the birth of empathy; he would not forget the lesson. As Becoming Myself unfolds, we see the birth of the insightful thinker whose books have been a beacon to so many. This is not simply a man's life story, Yalom's reflections on his life and development are an invitation for us to reflect on the origins of our own selves and the meanings of our lives.

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment is a 2017 book by journalist and evolutionary psychologist Robert Wright. As of August 2017, the book had peaked at The New York Times No. 4 bestseller in hardcover nonfiction.
In Why Buddhism is True, Wright advocates a secular, Westernized form of Buddhism focusing on the practice of mindfulness meditation and stripped of supernatural beliefs such as reincarnation. He further argues that more widespread practice of meditation could lead to a more reflective and empathetic population and reduce political tribalism. In line with his background, Wright draws heavily on evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology to defend the correctness of Buddhism's diagnosis of the causes of human suffering. He argues the modern psychological idea of the modularity of mind resonates with the Buddhist teaching of no-self (anatman).

《普宁》是纳博科夫继《洛丽塔》之后的第二部以美国为背景的小说。小说起始于在美国大学教书的俄国老教授普宁的一次出门旅行，他乘错了车，不得已在中途换车。在颠簸之中，疲劳“像一股浪潮那样突然淹没了他头重脚轻的身体，把他同现实隔离开来”。 （注：Vladimir Nabokov,Pnin,in The Portable Nabokov,Page Stegner ed.(London:Penguin Books Ltd.,1982),p.372.）这是普宁特有的一种怪异感觉，他曾经感受过多次，而且每当这种感觉来临，普宁的眼前都会栩栩如生地出现他过去生活中的一些情形。事实上，不难看出，当这种现象产生时，普宁正处于一种幻觉之中。常人的幻觉应该是这样的：在一种混乱无序的心理状态中，不在眼前的事物出现在眼前。普宁的幻觉与常人的幻觉稍有不同，他幻觉中的事物都来自于他过去的生活，或者与他过去的生活紧密相关。
普宁的幻觉中常出现他在圣·彼得堡度过的早年生活。他出身于名医之家，父亲母亲都疼爱他。他有很多好朋友，后来他们有些人在革命中被杀害了。米拉在普宁的早年生活中占据了重要一席，她是他父亲最好的朋友的女儿，是普宁的初恋对象，他们从小在一起长大、相亲相爱。很多年以后，普宁“在鲜明的幻觉中”，“重新又成了当年那个笨拙、羞怯而又固执的18岁男孩，在黑暗中等待米拉……（他）觉得米拉正偷偷从那里溜到花园向他走来，在高高的烟草丛里，她白色的上衣和烟草暗白的花混杂在一起。”（注：Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin, in ThePortable Nabokov, Page Stegner ed.(London:Penguin Books Ltd.,1982),p.464.）普宁在幻觉中感受到的不仅有往事的甜蜜， 也有往事的忧伤。米拉后来被德国人杀害于大爱特斯堡，因为她是犹太人。
普宁的幻觉中还有他过去的婚姻生活。那时普宁在巴黎，是个年轻有为的学者，他爱上了同是俄国流亡者的丽莎。丽莎自私、浅薄、好卖弄，但普宁偏偏爱上了她，而且非常珍惜自己的感情，后来他们结了婚。他们的婚姻未能维持长久，丽莎很快就移情别恋，喜欢上一个叫埃里克·温德的大夫。普宁很爽快地与丽莎离了婚。然而，在普宁准备移民美国之前，丽莎带着七个月的身孕回到了普宁身边。事实上，丽莎并非真地想回到普宁身边，她不过是想借助普宁前往美国。这一切在驶往美国的轮船上得到了公开，普宁知道了丽莎的“阴谋”。尽管如此，普宁并没有产生对丽莎的恨意，在洞察她的那些行为动因之时，普宁仍对丽莎怀有某种说不清楚的感情。
普宁的幻觉中还有那些他一日活着就一日割舍不开的事物，其中对他影响最深的是俄罗斯语言和文化。对于他来说，“如果说他的俄语是音乐，他的英语就是谋杀。”（注：Vladimir Nabokov,Pnin, in ThePortable Nabokov,Page Stegner ed.(London: Penguin Books Ltd.,1982),pp.409—410. ）普宁在给美国学生讲授俄罗斯文学的时候，往往忘了他授课的对象——那些既不熟悉俄罗斯方言土语，也不具备丰富的文学见识的年轻人，自己陶醉在他曾经体验过的美妙境地里。普宁的一个美国女学生喜欢他，但他对她的感情很特别，他似乎并不喜欢她本人，只是因为她喜欢俄罗斯语言文学，普宁才有点喜欢她。普宁对俄罗斯语言文化的深入了解也促成了原先看不起他的克里门茨教授与他的友谊。
普宁自己并不是很清楚为什么总出现那些幻觉，但读者却并不难发现普宁潜意识里的那些想法。尽管已经在美国生活了很多年，普宁却未能真正适应美国的生活，他始终留恋着过去的日子。过去并不完全美好，但在那种生活里普宁是“主角”之一，他有自己的痛苦和欢愉。然而，在美国背景下，普宁是一个外来者，只有少数人对他友善，大多数人都看不起他，他的情感是虚茫的，他宁可溜进那保留着过去影踪的幻觉，而不愿意直面现实。他根本的目的还在于通过幻觉来战胜时间，以便超越现在、回归过去的世界。
普宁当然不能成功，因为时间之狱不可突破，美国背景下的现实生活在按照它自身的逻辑向前发展。米拉不可能重现，现在的丽莎比过去的丽莎更自私，很少有人能体会到他对俄罗斯语言文化的热爱。更重要的是，普宁沉缅于幻想、不去面对现实的做法危及到了他在温代尔的生存，最终他不得不卷铺盖走人。从根本上说，他不可能冲破现在的重围、实现他的梦想，因为他脚下还是现实的土壤，他受到了时间的束缚。
——王卫东【论纳博科夫的时间观】

1995 film by Carma Hinton

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

2019 documentary film directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

2012 documentary film directed by Alison Klayman

Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.

MEMORY'S EYES is a contemporary New York Oedipus novel. It is written for readers who enjoy playing with concepts and storylines, here namely the classical Oedipus myth, Sophocles' three Theban plays, the psychoanalytical concept of the Oedipus complex, and its pop-cultural adaptations in cartoons and jokes. Tragic and funny, playful, but also challenging, readers will find themselves simultaneously knowing and not knowing, anticipating and surprised by how the truth slowly emerges.

Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.