A Jaundiced View of Authenticity (and Identity)

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
William Ian Miller
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Keynote Lecture ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Core ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Authentic Identity

This chapter is based on a keynote lecture the author gave at a conference on authenticity in Konstanz, Germany. The chapter takes a dubious view of the personal quests for “authenticity,” which generate little more than phoniness and hypocrisy in the pursuit of Polonius’s ‘this above all to thine own self be true,’ whatever that might mean. But the talk went south on the author, and that story makes up a good portion of the chapter. The author got caught out making an argument when discussing the anti-Semitism that is at the core of a supposed European authentic identity, relying on an English translation of a Freudian text that turned out, as the author was reminded by a German participant, misreading a joke in Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. So the discussion revisits humiliation, attempts at apology, and discusses shamefacedness and the sheer irony of being found out to be an utterly inauthentic scholar. Nonetheless the last third of the piece is sourly devoted to the fears in the Christian West of having a Jew at its core.

scholarly journals Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Treatment Overview and Empirical Basis

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Abbass ◽  
Joel M. Town ◽  
Ellen Driessen
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Dynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Character Structure ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Research Findings

Based on over forty years of videotaped case-based research, Habib Davanloo of McGill University, Canada, discovered some of the core ingredients that can enable direct and rapid access to the unconscious in resistant3 patients, patients with func-tional disorders, and patients with fragile character structure. We will describe here some of the main research findings that culminated in his description of a central therapeutic process involved in the intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) model. We will also describe the evolution of the technique over the past thirty years and summarize the empirical base for Davanloo’s ISTDP.

scholarly journals Trystes Cosmologiques: When Lévi-Strauss Met the Astrologers

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-167
Author(s):  
Graham Douglas
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Important Influence ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
First Time ◽  
Unconscious Mind

In October 1969 the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss gave an interview to the well-known French astrologers André Barbault and Dr JeanPaul Nicola for the astrology magazine L’Astrologue. To the author’s knowledge this interview has never been discussed in academic journals, and is here published for the first time in English translation. It is considered in the context of its time, and of the issues discussed: the Surrealist movement, which had an important influence on Lévi-Strauss’s early work; the structure of the unconscious mind; and the question of causation in astrology. At the end of the interview Lévi-Strauss suggested a joint project with his interviewers to study the interpretations of serious astrologers as a way of understanding how their minds work. According to Dr Nicola, the suggestion was never developed because in his opinion there was no chance of getting astrologers to agree on how to go about it. In the last 20 years however, several theses have been devoted to similar projects.

scholarly journals A Study of the Chinese-English Translation of Culture-specific Items in Publicity Texts of Guangzhou’s Intangible Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 749-755
Author(s):  
Shaohui Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Literal Translation ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
Pedagogical Application

Intangible cultural heritage is the core of Guangzhou’s cultural “soft power”. The Chinese-English translation of intangible cultural heritage is an important way to promote Guangzhou’s culture and to arouse the awareness of protecting intangible cultural heritage in the whole society. The culture-specific items in the publicity texts of intangible cultural heritage reflect the charm and heterogeneity of Guangzhou’s culture. This paper proposes that while translating cultural-specific items of Guangzhou’s intangible cultural heritage, in order to ensure that the translation can retain the cultural characteristics of the source language and be understood and accepted by the target language readers, translators should combine the translation strategies of Domestication and Foreignization and flexibly adopt seven methods, i.e., literal translation, literal translation plus transliteration, literal translation plus explanation, transliteration plus explanation, transliteration plus category words, transliteration plus intra-text explanation and transliteration plus free translation. Suggestions are also given aiming to provide reference for the researches and practice of the translation of intangible cultural heritage in Guangzhou and other cities. It is also hoped that this study can provide some implications for pedagogical application and be helpful for those who follow closely the translation of intangible cultural heritage.

“Democracy Is Not for Everyone”

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Piotr Żuk ◽  
Paweł Żuk
Keyword(s):  
Eastern European ◽  
The West ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Civic Organizations ◽  
The Core ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Cultural Minority ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Liberal Culture

The authors of the article show manifestations of homophobia in a range of Eastern European countries. They use the example of Poland to compare the current situation of LGBT people with that in the communist period. The article defends the thesis that homophobia, which goes hand in hand with Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and widespread dislike for any cultural minority, is a cultural compensation for economic disappointment and an expression of the Eastern European opposition to the economic and political expansion of the West. From this perspective, the dominant nationalist orientation requires treating not only LGBT communities, but also their defenders, supporters of a more liberal culture and civic organizations, as representatives of “foreign centers” who intend to meet “the interests of the core European Union (EU) countries.” Thus, messianic nationalism and homophobia are a compensation for economic marginalization and a form of defense moved from the sphere of economic problems to the sphere of identity.

John Law, the South Sea Bubble, and Dutch Satire

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
Helen J. Paul
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Financial History ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The World ◽  
South Sea

This chapter examines the financial history behind the Bubbles of 1720, with a special focus on their effects in the Netherlands, by offering a number of observations and speculations concerning two economic comedies penned by Pieter Langendijk in 1720, collected in Het groote Tafereel der dwaasheid [The Great Mirror of Folly], and now published in this volume in English translation. As well as examining what the plays can tell us about the financial knowledge of Langendijk’s audiences, this essay explores how literary critic and historian C.F.P. Meijer attempted to explain economic history to a new readership in his 1892 edition of the plays. Dutch familiarity with finance and share trading is evidenced in Langendijk’s use of sophisticated financial language, indicating that his audience understood the world he was satirising. That Langendijk could, or thought he could count on a certain familiarity with finance on the part of his Dutch viewers stands in contrast, for example, to what we may extrapolate from English plays of the same period, which merely caricature stock market activity, likening it to gambling. This chapter shows that Langendijk painted a more nuanced view of finance than his English contemporaries, and argues that, while Quincampoix and Harlequin Stock-Jobber share some common themes with English plays (such as anti-Semitism and the humbling of the nouveau riche), Langendijk, like many in his Dutch audience, was no financial neophyte.

Viewing the Absence of Sex from Couple Relationships Through the "Core Complex" Lens

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amita Sehgal
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Couple Relationships ◽  
Core Complex ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Principal Problem ◽  
The Core ◽  
Assessment Interview ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Clinical Cases

This paper attempts to understand the absence of sex in intimate couple relationships from a pre-oedipal perspective, using Glasser's (1979) concept of the "core complex". It draws on two clinical cases, one where the couple named lack of sex as the principal problem during their assessment interview, and another where the partners' sex was absent from their long-standing relationship once therapy was well underway. These two clinical cases are thought about using a contemporary Freudian perspective, where the anxieties that arise in the earliest relationship between infant and mother are believed to contribute to the claustro-agoraphobic anxieties in adult relating. Additionally, the unconscious dynamics that may be operating in couple relationships in which sex is absent is explored in the context of the relationship where partners seem intently caught up in the struggle of balancing their need for intimacy alongside preserving their sense of self.

The Contribution of Creative Responses to the Experience of Shame in Couple Psychotherapy

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amita Sehgal
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Core ◽  
Developmental Significance ◽  
The Relationship

This paper describes how the emotional states of shame and humiliation are interconnected. Recent neurophysiological findings are drawn on together with an appreciation of the developmental significance of shame in mother–infant interactions in the first two years of life to explain the importance of the application of these concepts to couple therapy. Object relations theory is also cited to explore some of the unconscious dynamics that might be operating in couples where shame and humiliation form the core of their relational dynamic. This is followed by the description of how partners can be helped to manage the other's shame effectively and, in so doing, give rise to a novel and much longed-for experience within the relationship. Finally, the clinical challenges of working with shame and humiliation in couple psychotherapy are considered.

ʿAli al-Wardi and the Miracles of the Unconscious

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-351
Author(s):  
Sara Pursley
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Core ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Mind

In the 1950s, the Iraqi sociologist ʿAli al-Wardi attempted to work through, for a popular Iraqi readership, various theories of unconscious forces that shape human conduct, from Sufi conceptions of the hidden dimensions of the mind, to Freudian theories of the id and the super-ego, to insights into extrasensory psychic forces emerging from what al-Wardi considered to be the cutting-edge science of parapsychology. While earlier Iraqi intellectuals had engaged with Freudian terms in order to appropriate a reasoning ego worthy of sovereignty, al-Wardi was more interested in appropriating an unconscious, albeit one not entirely aligned with the Freudian understanding. According to al-Wardi, that understanding was too focused on the negative effects of the unconscious and neglected the miraculous or supernatural dimensions of the psyche. This project took on explicitly political and anticolonial implications in some of his works, which envisioned an Islamic revolutionary tradition that repeatedly disrupted the abstract reason of the state by drawing on the irrational but politically effective powers at the core of the human.

The Baby and the Bathwater: Some Thoughts on Freud as a Postmodernist

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 455-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Freud
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Brain Research ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Core ◽  
Psychoanalytic Treatment ◽  
Human Tendency ◽  
Human Need

Although many specific psychoanalytic ideas are tied to outdated energy concepts, the core of Freud's thinking reflects in many ways pioneering postmodern insights compatible with current cognitive and constructivist ideas and neurophysiological brain research. This paper shows how some psychoanalytic concepts such as the unconscious, the human need for meaning making, a divided rather than unitary self, the human tendency to self-deception and the importance of early life experiences have all acquired increasing importance, albeit sometimes in a modified form, in our current understanding of human behavior and human development. Traditional psychoanalytic therapy is questioned, but it is pointed out that the humanistic values and attitudes underlying psychoanalytic treatment continue to be honored in most non-biological therapeutic approaches.

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