Fontane in the Twenty-First Century

This article explores what the work of Sigmund Freud has to offer those searching for a more spiritual and philosophical exploration of the human experience. At the early stages of my psychotherapy training, I shared with many peers an aversion to Freud’s work, driven by a perception of a mechanistic, clinical approach to the human psyche and of a persistent psychosexual focus. This article traces my own attempt to grapple with his work and to push through this resistance. Bettelheim’s (1991) treatise that Freud was searching for man’s soul provides a more sympathetic lens through which to explore Freud’s writing, one which enabled me to discover a rich depth which had not previously been obscured. This article is an account of my journey to a new appreciation of Freud’s work. It identifies a number of challenges to Bettelheim’s argument, whilst also indicating how his revised translation allowed a new understanding of the relevance of Freud’s work to the modern reader. This account may be of interest to those exploring classical psychotherapeutic literature as well as those guiding them through that process.

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Arthur MacGREGOR (editor). Naturalists in the Field: Collecting, Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2019.0596 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 362-363

Author(s):

John McAleer

Keyword(s):

Natural World ◽

First Century ◽

Twenty First Century

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Labels, Histories, Politics: Indian/South Asian Dance on the Global Stage

Dance Research ◽

10.3366/e0264287508000200 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 223-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

AVANTHI MEDURI

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

First Century ◽

Nation State ◽

The South ◽

Global Networks ◽

Indian Nation ◽

The 1950S ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The Uk

In this paper, I discuss issues revolving around history, historiography, alterity, difference and otherness concealed in the doubled Indian/South Asian label used to describe Indian/South Asian dance genres in the UK. The paper traces the historical genealogy of the South Asian label to US, Indian and British contexts and describes how the South Asian enunciation fed into Indian nation-state historiography and politics in the 1950s. I conclude by describing how Akademi: South Asian Dance, a leading London based arts organisation, explored the ambivalence in the doubled Indian/South Asian label by renaming itself in 1997, and forging new local/global networks of communication and artistic exchange between Indian and British based dancers and choreographers at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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