Charles Asher on Myth, Ritual, and Psychic Process

Jung Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-68
Author(s):  
Charles Asher
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1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles F.A. Milders

The application of object-relations theory to the psychotherapy of severe personality disorders owes much to the writings of Otto Kernberg. According to Kernberg, object-relations theory facilitates analysis of the psychotherapeutic process and the clarification of personality pathology. It is a concept that integrates theories of psychic process in the individual, group process and the organization of the clinical setting, and has found general support among Dutch (group) psychotherapists treating patients with borderline and psychotic disorders. However, the scope of object-relations theory is seldom addressed. When object-relations theory is separated from clinical psychiatry it can be overvalued as a universal explanatory model.


2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Baxter

AbstractThe 1981 Dalit mass conversion to Islam at Meenakshipuram, Tamil Nadu, arguably began the Hindu Right's political rise. The conversion raises two different concepts for understanding mass conversion's relationship to democracy. Though it is commonly framed in terms of B. R. Ambedkar's thought, whereby conversion's core is an interior psychic process of changing principles to see the world differently, I suggest that Meenakshipuram's event may more appropriately be framed by E. V. Ramasami's [EVR] thought, whereby conversion's core is an exterior somatic process of changing appearances to be seen differently in the world. These concepts of conversion raise alternative engagements with issues of text, force, foreignness, time, and Marxism. The argument is prefaced by a discussion of freedom's typology (Berlin), subaltern representation (Spivak), and religious mass (Geertz/Asad), which I argue favors EVR's concept of conversion over Ambedkar's. Such issues are not unimportant in an age of rising right-wing populisms globally.


Jung Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
Cristina Spencer
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Jung Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-64
Author(s):  
Lily Iona Mackenzie
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Author(s):  
Geovana Da Silva Ferreira ◽  
Marcele Homrich Ravasio

This article focuses on adolescence as a central theme as a complex psychic moment, considering the importance of the psychic operations of that time as determinants of the position of the subject in relation to the social and his desire. We work the theme based on a bibliographical research, based on the psychoanalytical theory, with the objective of deepening the knowledge about the adolescent subject and the clinical listening of adolescence. The article makes a theoretical course, first approaching some aspects of the emergence of the concept of adolescence in our culture, and later develops the questions that unfold on adolescence, as well as the marks of this psychic process in the subjective constitution of the structural symptom.Considerações sobre a Adolescência a Partir da Psicanálise Freudo-LacanianaO presente artigo aborda como tema central a adolescência como um momento psíquico complexo, considerando a importância das operações psíquicas desse tempo como determinantes da posição do sujeito frente ao social e ao seu desejo. Trabalhamos o tema com base numa pesquisa bibliográfica, fundamentada pela teoria psicanalítica, com o objetivo de aprofundar os conhecimentos acerca do sujeito adolescente e da escuta clínica da adolescência. O artigo faz um percurso teórico abordando primeiramente alguns aspectos do surgimento do conceito da adolescência em nossa cultura, e posteriormente desenvolve as questões que se desdobram nesse tempo, bem como as marcas desse processo psíquico na constituição subjetiva do sintoma estrutural.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Šļahova ◽  
Ilze Volonte ◽  
Māris Čačka

AbstractCreative imagination is a psychic process of creating a new original image, idea or art work based on the acquired knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as on the experience of creative activity.The best of all primary school learners’ creative imagination develops at the lessons of visual art, aimed at teaching them to understand what is beautiful in art, as well as through their being involved in the creative process and creating art works themselves.This paper provides the characterization of the psychological process of imagination, and deals with the importance and dynamics of the development of primary school learners’ creative imagination in lessons of visual art when depicting a portrait, and it also looks at a visual art teacher’s role in organizing the educational process of developing learners’ creative imagination in a sustainable education process.


COMMODIFICATION ship. As a consequence of colonial occupation and the discourses and practices generated and maintained by colo-nisers, the idea of colonialism may also be said to designate the attributes of the specific political and epistemological discourses by which the colonising power defines those who are subjected to its rule. Postcolonialism refers in literary studies to literary texts produced in countries and cultures that have come under the control of European powers at some point in their history. Commodification—The process by which an object or a person becomes viewed primarily as an article for economic exchange - or a commodity. Also the translation of the aesthetic and cultural objects into principally economic terms. The com-modification of an object or the raw materials from which it is produced is a sign of the transformation from use-value to exchange-value. The term is used in feminist theory to describe the objectification of women by patriarchal cultures. Through the processes of commodification, the work of art lacks any significance unless it can be transformed by economic value into a mystified, desired form, the labour having gone into its production having been occluded. Commodity fetishism—Term used by marxist critics after Marx's discussion in Volume I of Capital to describe the ways in which products within capitalist economies become objects of veneration in their own right, and are valued way beyond what Marx called their 'use-value'. Commodity fetishism is understood as an example of the ways in which social relations are hidden within economic forms of capitalism. Condensation—A psychoanalytic, specifically Freudian, term referring to the psychic process whereby phantasmatic images assumed to have a common affect are condensed into a single image. Drawing on the linguistic work of Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan compares the Freudian notion of condensation to the work of metaphor. Connotation/denotation—A word's connotations are those feel-ings, undertones, associations, etc. that are not precisely what the word means, but are conventionally related to it, especially in poetic language such as metaphor. The word

2016 ◽  
pp. 34-47

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