This book examines online dating from the "inside," using in-depth interviews with dating website members to reveal—and keenly analyze—what relationships and romance in the 21st century are really like.
Author: John C. Bridges
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 9780313399510
Category: Computers
Page: 154
View: 472
This book examines online dating from the "inside," using in-depth interviews with dating website members to reveal—and keenly analyze—what relationships and romance in the 21st century are really like.
The Illusion of Intimacy: Discovering John Ashbery — in honor of Ashbery's 80th
Birthday Seven years ago, I grew obsessed with “Errors”—the poem, that is, in
Ashbery's first book, Some Trees. In particular, the first line fascinated me: ...
Author: Randall Mann
Publisher: Diode Editions
ISBN: 9781939728302
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 156
View: 247
The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry brings Randall Mann’s characteristic wit, fearlessness, and attention to language, to twenty years of critical works, including reviews of early books by Laura Kasischke and Vijay Seshadri; essays on Shame, Money, and Forgetting; appreciations of Thom Gunn and John Ashbery; and two interviews. This incisive collection—a combination of criticism, close reading, autobiography, exuberance, and occasional irritation—offers a look into the mind of one of America’s finest formalists, revealing how the compression and vulnerability of the lyric draws us closer to, while asking us to resist, the limitations, freedoms, and intimacies of poetry.
Through her riveting account of four central relationships, Driskell-Griffie reveals the very nature of true intimacy and illustrates the distinct differences between the illusion of intimacy and the real thing.
Author: Brenda Griffie
Publisher:
ISBN: 0984292306
Category: Interpersonal relations
Page: 120
View: 232
Through her riveting account of four central relationships, Driskell-Griffie reveals the very nature of true intimacy and illustrates the distinct differences between the illusion of intimacy and the real thing.
However , the excessive need to keep a secret may also reflect difficulties in
relating and maintaining intimacy with ... and unsuccessful search for intimacy
which is the basis for such gossiping , and that only an illusion of intimacy is
achieved .
With this book, the spiritual insights of indigenous Africa take their place alongside those of native America, ancient Europe, and Asia as important influences on Western readers.
Author: Sobonfu Some
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780688175795
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 160
View: 354
A renowned, respected teacher and mentor to thousands, Sobonfu Somi is one of the first and foremost voices of African spirituality to come to the West. Somi was born in Dano, Burkina Faso, a remote West African village with a population of about two hundred people. Dano has preserved the old ways of African village life, with family structures, spiritual practices, and methods of living that have been in place for more than ten thousand years. In The Spirit of Intimacy, Somi distills the ancient teachings and wisdom of her native village to give insight into the nature of intimate relationships. Somi generously applies the subtle knowledge from her West African culture to this one. Simply and beautifully, she reveals the role of spirit in every marriage, friendship, relationship, and community. She shares ancient ways to make our intimate lives more fulfilling and secure and offers powerful insights into the "illusion of romance," divorce, and loss. Her important and fascinating lessons from the heart include the sacred meaning of pleasure, preparing a ritual space for intimacy, and the connection between sex and spirituality. Her ideas are intuitively persuasive, provocative, and healing--and supported by sound practical advice, along with specific rituals and ceremonies based on those used for thousands of years. With this book, the spiritual insights of indigenous Africa take their place alongside those of native America, ancient Europe, and Asia as important influences on Western readers.A renowned, respected teacher and mentor to thousands, Sobonfu Somi is one of the first and foremost voices of African spirituality to come to the West. Somi was born in Dano, Burkina Faso, a remote West African village with a population of about two hundred people. Dano has preserved the old ways of African village life, with family structures, spiritual practices, and methods of living that have been in place for more than ten thousand years. In The Spirit of Intimacy, Somi distills the ancient teachings and wisdom of her native village to give insight into the nature of intimate relationships. A renowned, respected teacher and mentor to thousands, Sobonfu Somi is one of the first and foremost voices of African spirituality to come to the West. Somi was born in Dano, Burkina Faso, a remote West African village with a population of about two hundred people. Dano has preserved the old ways of African village life, with family structures, spiritual practices, and methods of living that have been in place for more than ten thousand years. In The Spirit of Intimacy, Somi distills the ancient teachings and wisdom of her native village to give insight into the nature of intimate relationships. Somi generously applies the subtle knowledge from her West African culture to this one. Simply and beautifully, she reveals the role of spirit in every marriage, friendship, relationship, and community. She shares ancient ways to make our intimate lives more fulfilling and secure and offers powerful insights into the "illusion of romance," divorce, and loss. Her important and fascinating lessons from the heart include the sacred meaning of pleasure, preparing a ritual space for intimacy, and the connection between sex and spirituality. Her ideas are intuitively persuasive, provocative, and healing--and supported by sound practical advice, along with specific rituals and ceremonies based on those used for thousands of years. With this book, the spiritual insights of indigenous Africa take their place alongside those of native America, ancient Europe, and Asia as important influences on Western readers.
The recording of a singer ' s voice can still produce the illusion of intimacy ;
indeed , the illusion may be all the stronger in a private setting than in a public
one . But recording also underlines the structure of absence ; recording always
carries ...
Author: Stephen Scobie
Publisher: Calgary : Red Deer Press
ISBN: UOM:39015046298652
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 350
View: 324
Bob Dylan is still singing the songs which, for more than forty years, have made him one of the most artistic voices of our time. In this revised and expanded edition of Stephen Scobie's Alias Bob Dylan, the author covers all the stages of a remarkable career: not only the incandescent impact on the mid-1960s, when Dylan revolutionized folk and popular music, but also his later reinvention of himself as a traveling performer--the old blues musician whose work may no longer be fashionable but is still intensely relevant and rewarding.
The power derives from television ' s ability to create the illusion of intimacy that
we have been discussing here . It is the primary force in breaking down the
barriers that formerly existed between the well - known and the unknown . This ,
of ...
Author: Richard Schickel
Publisher: Fromm International
ISBN: 0880640553
Category: Social Science
Page: 404
View: 654
This book ranges through our culture for examples of how celebrity shapes our world and bends out minds.
The main ingredient is the illusion of intimacy created by the media personality
through imitation of the gestures , conversational style , and the informal milieu of
the face to face interaction . The audience members know the performer in the ...
Author: Gary Gumpert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: UOM:39015010927104
Category: Communication interpersonnelle
Page: 666
View: 339
This updated and revised edition of a popular text focuses on the symbiotic connection between the media and interpersonal relations. Inter/Media brings together over forty essays, many of them commissioned for this volume, aimed at unravelling the intricate entanglements of media, society, and the individual. The broad range of contributors includes Anthony Smith, Sari Thomas, Michael Arlen, Susan Sontag, James Lull, and Gaye Tuchman. Emphasizing education, business, and telecommunications, this edition provides eighteen new essays on timely subjects such as how and what children learn from television, the impact and role of computers on the home, the school, and the workplace, and the meaning and use of the family snapshot. Divided into four topical sections, "The Media and Interpersonal Connection," "Media, Intimacy and Interpersonal Networks," "Mediated Reality," and "Media Values," the book's organization provides a structure for reading and discussion.
This timely, intelligent book will alter not only the way we seek intimate relationships, but the way we live them.
Author: Stan Katz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547630670
Category: Self-Help
Page: 344
View: 413
The quest for true love appeals to us all — and yet the real thing is painfully elusive. According to Dr. Stan Katz, men and women today don't really know what to look for in a mate, or even how to love once we find one. No one teaches us. What's more, the images of love we absorb from society, the media, and popular culture are superficial and misleading. The result is false love — relationships based on illusions of what we think love should be rather than an appreciation of what it is. False Love and Other Romantic Illusions is about the mistakes we all make in love, why we make them, and how we can correct them. Using in-depth case histories, Dr. Katz traces the course of false love from early childhood conditioning to adolescent crushes to adult relationships. He shows how our first misconceptions about love lead to mistakes, and how mistakes become patterns. But the patterns of false love can be broken, and Dr. Katz points the way, with a practical, far-reaching program for achieving and sustaining true love. This timely, intelligent book will alter not only the way we seek intimate relationships, but the way we live them.
increasing chaos of family life , relationship difficulties , and problems with
closeness and intimacy ( Bellah , 1987 ) . Psychotherapists are noticing ... Thus ,
there is the illusion of intimacy without any real intimacy at all . At no time do
guests talk ...
Author: Stephen DeBerry
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: UOM:39015021474708
Category: Psychology
Page: 202
View: 732
DeBerry presents a new model of human consciousness and takes a penetrating look at the relationship of consciousness and technology. Suggesting that we reintegrate the concept of consciousness into mainstream psychology, he uses his model to explore the deleterious effects of the "accelerated television video universe" on the quality of our lives. What role has technology played in the shifting of human consciousness to a predominantly impersonal dimension where only the material world matters? Intended for courses in graduate psychology, this volume's interdisciplinary perspective makes it equally relevant for courses in all social sciences.
We use the phrase “ true intimacy ” because a down - low man will try to give the illusion of intimacy . For example , he will share all of his childhood
disappointments and triumphs . He'll tell you all about when , where , and how he
grew up ...
Author: Joy Marie
Publisher:
ISBN: NWU:35556039770763
Category: Bisexuality in marriage
Page: 157
View: 413
Imagine...You Have Finally Met Mr. Right, He's everything you dreamed of: handsome, sexy, charming, intelligent, articulate, and financially successful. He even portrays the role of an excellent father. He does not smoke, drink, or use drugs and he has a decent credit history. You marry him and buy your dream house in the suburbs. Your children attend the best schools and you live in a wonderful neighborhood. You're finally living the American dream-the perfect family-But One Day You Wake Up and Realize That Your Prince Charming is Really a lying Queen.
We confuse intimacy with its counterfeit , familiarity . Intimacy is what we want but
familiarity is all we achieve . Intimacy is dangerous , a knowing and a being
known deeply and profoundly . Casual familiarity may create the illusion of intimacy ...
Author: John White
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
ISBN: 0830813144
Category: Religion
Page: 252
View: 287
Selected from the best of John White's writings, this collection of 180 daily devotional readings offers insights on prayer, forgiveness, holiness, Christian commitment and the lordship of Christ. 180 pages, paper
12 Para - social interaction is the sense of intimacy of friendship with a media
personality , a person whom people “ meet " only via a mass communication
medium . The term was coined to articulate the illusion of face - to - face
interaction with ...
marriage , I often experienced genuine intimacy as we talked through issues of
profound consequence that touched my own ... loneliness can be the force that
drives us to seek release by substituting the illusion of intimacy for the real thing .
I always imagined intimacy as having a partner who would love me
unconditionally and talk endlessly with me about the questions of life , someone
to ... Maria Finding God is moving past the illusion that intimacy is only a physical
thing .
Author: Christopher Pramuk
Publisher: Living the Good News Incorporated
ISBN: 188910826X
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 80
View: 382
A Christian vision can help inform the choices of young adults about dating, marriage, and relationships. Filled with personal stories, this book is timelhy, affirming, upbeat and sophisticated. It can be used individually or in a group setting.
These betrayals portray situations closely akin to those described in Desmond
Morris ' book , Intimate Behavior * Business strives to create the illusion of intimacy and personal care , with respect to its customers , in television
commercials ...
