The American Express.

by Gregory Corso.

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First edition

Paperback. Green cover with black title. We provide an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available No 85 of the Traveller's Companion Series First edition, first printing. The American Express was Corso's only novel, a wild, careening tale of a child born in the basement of an American Express branch, inspired by Corso's days in Europe anxiously waiting to cash royalty checks and advances. G. S. Fraser wrote that "full surrender" to Corso "would leave you flat on your back waiting for elephants to trample you" (rear flap). Kearney 160. Warning: This book was part of the erotic library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG, along with medical friends and family involved in Freudian research. Sexual instincts or drives have deeply hidden roots in the unconscious mind. Instincts act by giving vitality and enthusiasm to the mind through meaning and purpose. The range of instincts is in great numbers. Freud expressed them in two categories. One is Eros, the self-preserving life instinct containing all erotic pleasures. While Eros is used for basic survival, the living instinct alone cannot explain all behavior, according to Freud. In contrast, Thanatos is the death instinct. It is full of self-destruction of sexual energy and our unconscious desire to die. The main part of human behavior and actions is tied back to se

• Publisher: The Olympia Press.
• Year: 1961
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: paperback

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