Israel's Baby: The Horror of Childbirth in the Biblical Prophets

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Kalmanofsky
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Gender Identification ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Emotional Vulnerability ◽  
Graphic Images ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractUsing verbal threats and graphic images of destruction, the biblical prophets employed a rhetoric of horror to terrify their audience. Modern theories about the genre of horror provide insight into the prophets' rhetoric. They elucidate the nature of biblical horror and the objects that provoke horror, as well as the ways texts work to elicit horror from their audience. This paper examines the image of the laboring woman within the context of the prophets' horror rhetoric. This image captures the physical and emotional experience of Israel awaiting Babylonian conquest and conveys the irony and futility of Israel's situation. The image also serves as a strategy of cross-gender identification, common in the horror genre, which asks a predominantly male audience to identify with a female character. This strategy reveals the essential elements of biblical horror—fear and shame—and uses these elements to motivate wayward Israel to repent. By identifying with the birthing woman, Israel will come to recognize its physical and emotional vulnerability, the futility and disgrace of its situation, and strive to reform.

Pandemic and resilience: A qualitative analysis of the emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer patients in active treatment

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-259
Author(s):  
Silvia Nicolescu ◽  
Adriana Băban
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Active Treatment ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Emotional Resilience ◽  
Insight Into

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unequivocal disruptive impact on all walks of life. Cancer care and the patients involved have been especially affected due to disruptions in treatment scheduling and enhanced vulnerability to COVID-19 infection. The present study undertook an exploratory qualitative analysis to investigate the emotional impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on breast cancer patients undergoing active treatment. Ten breast cancer patients were interviewed concerning their illness and pandemic perception. To supplement their perspective, we also interviewed six psycho-oncologists on the emotional impact the pandemic has had on the patients they provide care to. The data collected during the interviews was inductively analysed using thematic analysis. The resulting themes showed patients to have experienced increased emotional distress symptoms, while prioritising the cancer treatment over the threat of infection. Those that had developed emotional regulation skills prior to the pandemic, along their cancer journey, made good use of them, providing proofs of emotional resilience. More vulnerable patient groups have also been highlighted, such as those that did not previously develop such healthy emotional regulation skills, newly diagnosed cancer patients and those lacking social support. Our study provides a useful insight into the emotional experience of the assessed oncology patients during the Covid-19 pandemic, and useful insight into the mechanisms that build resilience and flexibility for this population.

Diamond-Bead Wire Classification and Spectrum with POS Part I: Classification with Process and Object

2014 ◽  
Vol 620 ◽  
pp. 269-274
Author(s):  
Li Zhi Gu ◽  
Sheng Jun Wei
Keyword(s):  
Essential Elements ◽  
Wire Rope ◽  
Other Substances ◽  
Grinding Tool ◽  
Spectrum Characteristics ◽  
Manufacturing Methods ◽  
The Wire ◽  
Systematic Understanding ◽  
Shape Characteristics ◽  
Insight Into

As a new kind of cutting and grinding tool, diamond-bead wire has gained multi-patterns and many applications. It is commonly comprised of six elements pertaining to corresponding roles for the capacity of the wire: wire rope, diamond bead, clip, spacer, joint, spring or plastic/rubber. For further systematic understanding of diamond-bead wires, researching and developing new bead wires,and making full use of bead wires, it is desperately needed to properly classify diamond-bead wires available and those that may exist in theory. The current study collected and analyzed systematically a hundred of patterns of diamond-bead wires from the diamond-bead wire manufacturers throughout the globe went insight into the essential elements of the wire, including the overall layout, shape characteristics, technological processes, cutting and grinding object, and studied in classification for the spectrum characteristics. And the structural feature covers skeleton package, spacing washer, and special structure; manufacturing process contains bead manufacturing methods and the wire producing processes; and sawing object includes the soft stone, hard stone, and other substances. A trial spectrum has been drawn on the POS classification. All the subjects were discussed and presented in two parts, and here is the first part for classification with processes and objects.

Beautiful, Horrible Desolation: Landscape in Post-Horror Cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 142-180
Author(s):  
David Church
Keyword(s):  
Horror Films ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Patriarchal Power

This chapter examines how post-horror films often use sublime wilderness settings to emphasize a sparseness that operates in conjunction with the films’ own stylistic minimalism. Calling these films “spaced out” describes not only their literal locations, but also the films’ generic distance from the larger horror genre and the contemplative mood that each one encourages. Whereas Under the Skin uses landscape to chart the evolution of a predatory female character, witchcraft-themed films like The Witch, Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse, and Gretel & Hansel depict forests as spaces where young women’s reproductive generativity threatens patriarchal power. Meanwhile, It Comes at Night and A Quiet Place depict men’s paranoid “bunker mentality” against perceived or actual threats, and The Lighthouse uses repressed queer desire to explore post-horror’s larger relationship to non-reproductive realms of nature.

scholarly journals An exploration of the emotional impact of organisational ethnography

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Stephanie Mazzetti
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Emotional Challenges ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the diverse and strong emotions experienced by the researcher when conducting an ethnographic study in an organisational setting. Design/methodology/approach In this paper extracts from research diaries written over a three-year organisational ethnography study period are presented to the reader. Findings This paper provides an insight into the range of emotions that are experienced throughout the various stages of the research process from securing access, to conducting fieldwork and writing up research for publication. Research limitations/implications Although this paper focusses on organisational ethnography, comparisons are drawn with related disciplines and as such, this paper may also be of interest to those conducting ethnographic studies in other fields. Practical implications It is hoped that the sharing of emotional experiences will better prepare new organisational researchers for the emotions they may experience in the field. Originality/value There is a recognised need for more sharing of emotional experience in organisational studies. It is hoped that this paper goes some way to highlighting these emotional challenges and providing a catalyst for other researchers to do the same.

The Effects of the Balint Group on its Members and Leader

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Konrad Knoepfel
Keyword(s):  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Family Doctor ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Considerable Saving ◽  
The Family ◽  
Heavy Burden ◽  
Balint Group ◽  
Group Experience

Balint's work promotes better psychological and medical treatment of many so-called “problem patients.” With understanding, these patients often lose the characteristic of being a heavy burden and even become interesting and gratifying. Time invested at the beginning phase of treatment often brings considerable saving of time over extended periods. The doctor's need for intensive involvement diminishes and psychological emergencies become less frequent. Balint helped to make these goals possible by teaching psychoanalytic principles in a simple way, talking in clear, comprehensible language and creating for physicians the possibility for emotional experience and growth through group work. Such experience is indispensable for the training of the family doctor. This paper summarizes essential elements of the group work, in which the leader profits as well as the family doctor. The leader has to learn to formulate clinical experience in clear, non-technical language which describes how patients are treated in the practice of hospital and office medicine. The group experience, furthermore, helps the physician to develop his capacity for empathy by better understanding himself.

“I am not that I play” – The use of hypercorrection in the performance of gender by Shakespeare’s ‘breeches’ parts

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-59
Author(s):  
Alexandra Birchfield ◽  
Rolando Coto-Solano
Keyword(s):  
Young Male ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Sociolinguistic Variation ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Historical Sociolinguistics ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This study uses variationist sociolinguistic methodology to explore the construction of gender in four of Shakespeare’s comedies. Gender performance is at issue in these plays specifically, not only because, in Shakespeare’s time at least, young male actors play the female roles, but also because each play contains a female character in male disguise. By analysing and comparing the patterns of variation used by Shakespeare’s female, male and “female as male” characters, this study provides further insight into Shakespeare’s construction and conceptualisation of gender. Further, by comparing the patterns of gender variation found in these plays with non-fiction data on the gendered variation of the period (Nevalainen, Terttu & Helena Raumolin-Brunberg. 2003. Historical sociolinguistics. Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd.), it is possible to investigate how accurately Shakespeare captures the sociolinguistic variation present in his society. This study hopes to provide support both for the validity of using sociolinguistic methods to study literature but also for using data from literature in studies of historical sociolinguistic variation and change.

scholarly journals Caring Economics, Cooperation, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Silvia Hedenigg
Keyword(s):  
Profit Maximization ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Wealth Of Nations ◽  
Evolutionary Point ◽  
Insight Into

For centuries, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations shaped profit maximization as the standard of economic action. The concept of caring economics published by the feminist law and systems scientist Riane Eisler under the title The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (2007) contrasts this neoliberal, dominance-oriented model of society with the idea of partnership-oriented societies. The concept of caring economics was widely influenced by the social, economic, and welfare systems of the Nordic countries. In 2015-2016, the author of this article conducted a pilot study interviewing scientists from different disciplines with the aim of investigating whether the conditions in these countries reflect Eisler’s theoretical model (Hedenigg, 2019). While Eisler emphasized empathy and care as essential orientations of partnership societies, several of the interviewed scholars, in contrast, stressed cooperation, trust, solidarity, and functioning institutions as essential elements in addition to Eisler’s concept. This article hypothesizes that Eisler’s conception of caring economics should be supplemented by the elements mentioned above, in particular, cooperation. The aim is to identify, in a theory-guided manner, the elements that constitute the central operative mechanisms of the extended conception of caring economics. Resulting conclusions are discussed in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Norway and Finland are among the 10 most successful nations in epidemic containment. This article assumes that the extended conceptualization of caring economics does not only allow us to gain insight into the complexity of the pandemic, but also to identify various successful containment mechanisms. In particular, cooperation appears to play a major role in this context. From an evolutionary point of view, multilevel selection can be regarded as an essential tool to cope with global problems and threats like the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, trust and solidarity as well as gender aspects in the context of political leadership and welfare regimes have been identified as successful pandemic containment mechanisms. In summary, the Covid-19 pandemic lends strong plausibility to the extended conception of caring economics.

Emotion and the growth of consciousness

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-241
Author(s):  
John Cogan
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Expression Of Emotion ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Gaining Insight

Some attempts to understand emotion have failed to account for important features of our emotional experience — notably, the experience of gaining insight when we express our emotions. In this essay I will hold that if we properly understand emotions, then we see that the expression of emotion contributes to the growth of consciousness by providing a process wherein consciousness can recognize and reclaim its inherent wholeness, and thereby overcome fragmentation. Hence, in this essay I will strive to: (1) demonstrate that we do get insight when we express our emotions, (2) offer a suggestion as to why this feature is often overlooked, (3) propose a model for understanding the emotions that helps to explain this holistic feature of emotion, and (4) show how this insight into the nature of emotion contributes to our understanding of the growth of consciousness.

scholarly journals Exploring the Emotions of Single International Students in Hong Kong Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (S3) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Suprihatin (Kehok) ◽  
Lilik Istiqomah ◽  
Rini Intansari Meilani ◽  
Khoiriyah
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
International Students ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Public University ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Emotional Geography ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Insight Into

This narrative study aims to explore the emotional experiences of international students in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data in this study were garnered from the results of interviews with two single female students who were completing their doctoral studies at a public university in Hong Kong. We analyzed the interview data thematically with the Hargreaves’s emotional geography framework (2001a, 2001b). Findings showed that the COVID-19 pandemic affected the emotional experience of international students in terms of the dissertation guidance process, psychological mental state, relationships with family, finance, and spirituality. This empirical evidence may provide new insight into the role of emotionality in the completion of postgraduate studies during the uncertain and worrying pandemic.

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