scholarly journals Hypnotism and Suggestion

Philosophy ◽  
1931 ◽  
Vol 6 (22) ◽  
pp. 212-220
Author(s):  
William Brown
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Satisfactory Theory

In any consideration of the nature of suggestion we cannot omit reference to the extraordinary and startling phenomena which may sometimes be observed in hypnotized subjects. But it would be a mistake to look upon hypnosis as something uncanny, mysterious, and occult. Although we have even yet no thoroughly satisfactory theory of hypnosis, we understand it in general terms, and can bring it into line with other facts and phenomena of psychology known in everyday life. The hypnotic subject, and the phenomena of hypnosis, can be explained firstly in terms of mental dissociation, of the tendency for certain forms of psychical activity to occur independently of the rest of the mind, independently of other considerations; and, secondly, in terms of suggestion, of increased suggestibility. And these two, the phenomenon of dissociation and the phenomenon of suggestibility, are not unrelated to one another. They are related, but not to the extent of being identical with one another. It was the Nancy School of Hypnotism, led by Bernheim, who considered that hypnosis could be explained in terms of suggestibility.

scholarly journals The Religious Roots of Linguistic Nationalism

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Yannis Kakridis
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Object Language ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Mind

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This paper consists of two parts. In the first part, nationalism is analysed as a kind of gnostic religion (in the sense given to this term by E. Voegelin). In the mind of their adherents, nations are ultimate realities in which the objective (fatalistic) and the subjective (voluntaristic) side of the historical process coincide. In the second part, it is argued that language, by its dialectical character, appears as the very incarnation of the nationalist ideal. The ensuing paradoxes of nationalist language policy are listed and briefly analysed: the equation of the language of culture with the language of everyday life; the equation of norm with use; the equation of object language with metalanguage; the equation of modernity with authenticity; and the equation of the national with the universal.</span></span></p>

Is There Such a Thing as a Psychical Accident?

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Rottenberg
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Random Event ◽  
Slips Of The Tongue ◽  
The Mind

This chapter addresses the question of psychical determinism in the work of Sigmund Freud. As Freud tells us in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life and The Introductory Lectures, nothing in the mind is arbitrary or undetermined. As Freud demonstrates again and again in hundreds of examples of parapraxes (slips of the tongue, slips of the pen, misreadings, mishearings, bungled actions, etc.), the accident (Unfall) is no accident for the analyst who is able to recognize and interpret an unconscious purpose behind an apparently random event. So how does chance (Zufall, Zufälligkeit) operate in an economy of psychical determinism? How are we to think chance together with analysis’s hermeneutic drive—that is to say, together with its compulsion to make the accident unhappen?

Berkeley’s Theory of Meaning

1975 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Land
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Theory Of Meaning ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Contextual Meaning

Summary Recent scholars disagree over whether Berkeley’s theory of meaning constitutes a radical departure from Locke in the direction of current philosophy of language or offers no real alternative to the semantics of Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding. Berkeley agrees with Locke that linguistic meaning consists in the transmission of ideas from speaker to hearer by means of words, but he does not accept the Lockean account of this transmission. Specifically he departs from Locke at two fundamental points: he insists that ideas themselves have meanings and stand in need of interpretation, and he holds that the meanings of ideas may vary with the contexts in which they occur. To accommodate Berkeley’s principle of contextual meaning the account of communication must relate not individual ideas to individual words but strings of ideas to strings of words. Words and ideas, moreover, are not isomorphic as Locke implies they are: Berkeley indicates in particular the cases of general terms and names for spiritual substances, for neither of which Corresponding ideas can be discovered. To accommodate such cases within the general theory that meaning depends upon corresponding ideas an encoding process must be introduced into the account of the verbal transmission of ideas, a process whereby verbal structures including such terms as universals and names for spirits can be related to different ideational structures in which no such terms appear. The conclusion is that Berkeley accepts from Locke the fundamental principle that meaning depends upon corresponding ideas in the mind but that he holds this relation of correspondence to be much more complex than Locke allowed: in particular Berkeley introduces structural considerations by abandoning the traditional view that words and ideas correspond on a one-to-one basis, and he requires the mind to perform certain interpretative encoding procedures in translating between verbal and ideational structures.

scholarly journals A double face view on mind-brain relationship: the problem of mental causation

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-220
Author(s):  
Jonas Gonçalves Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Brain Structure ◽  
Mental Causation ◽  
Physical Property ◽  
Essential Property ◽  
Conscious Mind ◽  
Sociocultural Environment ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Face View ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

Abstract: Interpreting results of contemporary neuroscientif studies, I present a non-reductive physicalist account of mind-brain relationship from which the criticism of unintelligibility ascribed to the notion of mental causation is considered. Assuming that a paradigmatic criticism addressed to the notion of mental causation is that presented by Jaegwon Kim’s analysis on the theory of mind-body supervenience, I present his argument arguing that it encompasses a formulation of the problem of mental causation, which leads to difficulties by him pointed. To ask "how mental events, being a non-physical property of the brain, could act causally on brain structure and functioning?", is not to treat the mind as a property of the brain, but as a Cartesian substance. I argue that, rather than asking "how does mind could act causally on the brain?", as if the mind were something apart and independent of the brain, it would be more in line with a non-reductive physicalist view to ask "how the brain, guided by its mind, could act causally on itself?". To justify this last formulation of the problem of mental causation, I propose a "double face view", which consists in considering the consciousness as the essential property of the mind, and mind and brain as inseparable, dependent and irreducible faces. It means, in general terms, that the conscious mind is the result of brain structure and activity - "conscious mind as brain" - and that the brain, using its conscious mind as a guide to its actions, interacts with its body, and with the physical and sociocultural environment, constructing and being constructed by both - "brain as conscious mind".

scholarly journals Transformasi Nilai-Nilai Sufistik Tuanku Buya Sayyidi Maliki dalam Majelis Taklim Miftahul Istiqomah

ESOTERIK ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Ali Ridho
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Mind

<p class="07KatakunciKeywords">A formalistic religious lifestyle is often the cause of the spiritual emptiness of society. This is due to Islamic learning which only considers the outward aspects and overrides its inner aspects as a result of which life balance is not achieved. Sufism as an inner side of Islam offers a solution to how to enrich the mind without leaving the business of being born. This article aims to make a reading on the transformation of sufistic values by Tuanku Buya Sayyidi Maliki in the Taklim Miftahul Istiqomah Assembly. The results of this study indicate that in order to enrich the inner side of religious life, methods are used to transform concepts from Sufism (Sufistic values) into teachings manifested in everyday life, namely the concept of human nature with brotherhood, the concept of the existence of teachers with Bai'at, the concept of science with the existence of the Istiqomah taklim assembly, and the mujahadah concept by fighting lust.</p>

scholarly journals СЕМАНТИКА І ПОЕТИКА СЛОВА-ОБРАЗУ ГЛЕЧИК У ВІРШОВІЙ МОВІ В. ГОЛОБОРОДЬКА

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-157
Author(s):  
Т. П. Беценко
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Artistic Image

The artistic-pictorial system of V. Holoborodko’s poetic works is based on his own – nationally marked words in every way. Each element of the linguistic-visionary poetic paradigm of the artist is imbued with national colour, national-linguistic art, related to ancient folklore sources. The poetic picture of ethnic existence in the vision of the artist – originally simple and understandable; Its cores are known, known to all realities. Attention is drawn to redefined in the artistic name of the dishes. In V. Holoborodko’s poetic universe the jug appears as an element (component) of the macrocosm. Therefore, the philosophy of the poetic thought of the artist is based on the notion that the designated object – the most ancient and universal in everyday use – contains the world and eternity in itself. The article analyzes the semantics and emotionally expressive colouring of the image word jug in the poetic speech of V. Holoborodko. The substantive significance of the pitcher lexeme in the artist’s poetic usage of the word is substantiated. It has been found that the connotative shades of the considered image word are connected with the traditional culture of everyday life of the Ukrainians. In the poet’s figuratively-associative linguistic map, the jug appears as an attribute of harmony of feelings, coherence, understanding, sympathy, as a symbol of the love of young hearts. The linguistic sign of the jug can be considered a poetic universality of Vasyl Holoborodko. This is the favorite artistic image of the writer. Consequently, the word-image of the jug in the poetic language of the writer is a significant and artistically significant reality. In the mind of the artist, he combines the seven «symbol of national existence», «the attribute of rural life», «the original remarkable decoration of the kitchen utensils of our ancestors», «the contents of the past and future, coming»; «Macrocosm and matter of eternity of ethnic existence». So the jug with milk is a symbol of femininity and motherhood, a jug for two is a «symbol of love». The linguistic and aesthetic poetic sign of the jug is marked by emotions of exaltation, solemnity, majesty. This is a symbol of Ukrainian rural life.

Body-Mind Dissociation, Altered States, and Alter Worlds

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 769-806
Author(s):  
Peter Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
Altered States ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Life Of The Mind ◽  
The Mind

A psychosomatic model of dissociation is proposed that addresses the ever adjusting mind-body relation—the constant titration of the quality and degree of the psyche’s embeddedness in the sensorial and temporal life of the body. The model highlights the function of hypnoid mechanisms (autohypnosis, distraction, somatic autostimulation) and of altered states of consciousness in facilitating and masking the work of mind-body dissociation. Transient altered states, which enable new and creative forms of mind-body experience in everyday life and in the therapy situation, are contrasted with pathological forms of retreat into alter worlds—rigidly organized, timeless, often inescapable trancelike states of mind-body dislocation. These pathological dissociative structures reshape the life of the mind and of the body, requiring new clinical approaches to these phenomena.

”EU MORO COM MEUS PAIS”: as representações da famá­lia realizadas pela juventude roqueira da década de 1980

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
GUSTAVO DOS SANTOS PRADO
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Rock Bands ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Los Grupos

O movimento juvenil roqueiro da década de 1980 emerge no cenário acadêmico brasileiro como um campo profá­cuo para o fazer histórico. As canções que ecoaram por várias partes do paá­s, via de regra, elencaram os dilemas dos jovens urbanos, inseridos nas transformações impostas pela modernidade na esfera do cotidiano. Com isso, os grupos de rock desse momento ratificaram ou negaram determinadas circunstá¢ncias do cotidiano que fora experienciado. Com foco em tais circunstá¢ncias, o artigo procura analisar como tais agentes históricos abordaram a relação com a famá­lia, em especial, o envolvimento entre pais e filhos reproduzido nas poéticas musicais.Palavras-chave: Rock. Juventude. Famá­lia.  ”I LIVE WITH MY PARENTS”: Family representations made by 1980”™s rocker youth  Abstract: The 1980”™s rock and roll youth movement emerges in Brazilian academic scene as a useful field for the research in history. The songs that echoed through various parts of the country, in general terms brought the dilemmas of urban youth, facing the transformations imposed by modernity in everyday life. With this, the rock bands from that moment ratified or denied certain circumstances of everyday life that had been experienced. Emphasizing these circumstances, the article analyzes how such historical agents approached the relationship with the family, in particular, the involvement of parents and children who have been reproduced in poetic musical. Keywords: Rock. Youth. Family.   ”YO VIVO CON MIS PADRES”: La familia de las representaciones hechas por los jóvenes rockeros de la década de 1980. Resumen: El movimiento juvenil rockero de la década de 1980 surge en la escena académica brasileña como un campo fértil para hacer historia. Las canciones que resonaron en todo el paá­s, por regla general, mencionaron los dilemas de la juventud urbana, entraron en las transformaciones impuestas por la modernidad en el ámbito cotidiano. Por lo tanto, los grupos de rock de ese momento   ratificaron o   rechazaron determinadas circunstancias de la vida cotidiana que habá­an sido experimentadas. Centrándose en   estas circunstancias, el artá­culo analiza como agentes históricos se acercaron a la relación con la familia, en especial la participación de los padres y los niños cómo son reproducidos en las poéticas musicales.   Palabras clave: Rock. La Juventud. La Familia.  

scholarly journals Gobernanza, empatía y cuidado ambiental

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
M. A. Nieves-Chávez ◽  
C. C., Hernández-Loredo
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
The Other ◽  
Life Care ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Model ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Didactic Strategies ◽  
The Mind

Background. Today's society is dissociated from its relationship with the world and nature. Individuals feel oblivious to their care, leading to the fragmentation of themselves and the reproduction of carelessness practices. Educationally it is necessary to contribute to the formation of conscious and committed individuals, able to engage with the other and the world around them, in a loving and empathetic way. Objective. For students to raise awareness of their involvement with the world, in order to promote recognition of their interconnection, and the need to become aware of themselves and their daily practices. Method. This work shows the results of a socio-educational intervention project. The didactic strategies were based on a critical model that divided the thoughtful and recreational process into four aspects: life-coexistence, empathy in everyday life, care marks and spiritual governance. Results. It was recognized the need to free up time to look at oneself, to be able to feel the world and to enjoy the moment, an aspect that required efforts to allay the mind. Participants referred that recognizing one's existence and inhabiting the moment required silence, to feel, and to be sensitive for the care. Conclusion. To achieve spiritual governance it’s seen the need to arouse involvement with the other, the sensitivity to see and hear the world and thus make decisions in interdependence.

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