Is Compassion an Oceanic Feeling?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
Steve Mentz
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Allan Sekula

Abstract The emotional connections that humans feel with other humans seem quite distinct from the ‘oceanic feeling’ that confronts us when solitary mortals face the great waters. Uniting these discourses requires drawing together the myriad resources of sea poetry, canonical novels, and multiple theoretical traditions from Freudian psychoanalysis to the ‘blue’ (or oceanic) humanities and contemporary environmental studies. Shifting from narrowly human to post-human ways of understanding our human and nonhuman surroundings enables the novels of Austen and Cervantes to speak to the theoretical perspectives of Luce Irigaray, Sigmund Freud and John Dewey, as well as contemporary figures such as Allan Sekula, Karin Animoto Ingersoll and Christopher Connery. Principles of connection and ‘experience’ unearth new ways of imagining the relationships among humans and between humans and the nonhuman environment that seem particularly valuable in our own moment of ecological crisis and catastrophe.

scholarly journals Feminist Responses to Freud Through the “Equality vs. Difference” Debate

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Feyda Sayan Cengiz
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Biological Determinism ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
The Difference

Freudian psychoanalysis has long been a matter of debate among feminists, and usually criticized for biological determinism. While discussing the Freudian framework, feminists have also been discussing how to define a female subject and the age old “equality vs. difference” discussion. This study discusses critical feminist responses to Freud which demonstrate the intricacies of the “equality vs. difference” debate amongst different strands of feminist theory. This article analyses three diverse lines of argumentation regarding psychoanalysis and the equality vs. difference debate by focusing on the works of Luce Irigaray, Simone de Beauvoir and Juliet Mitchell. Beauvoir and Irigaray both criticize the Freudian approach for taking “the male” as the real, essential subject. However, whereas Beauvoir sides with an egalitarian feminism, Irigaray defends underlining the difference of female sexuality. Juliet Mitchell, on the other hand, defends Freudian psychoanalysis through the argument that psychoanalysis actually offers a way to understand how the unconscious carries the heritage of historical and social reality. Accordingly, what Freudian psychoanalysis does is to analyze, rather than to legitimize, the basis of the patriarchal order in the unconscious.

A Dark Trace

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Westerink
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Carl Gustav Jung

Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of “reading a dark trace”, thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The sense of guilt is indeed a trace that leads deep into the individual’s mental life, into his childhood life, and into the prehistory of culture and religion. In this book this trace is followed and thus Freud’s thought on the sense of guilt as a central issue in his work is analyzed, from the earliest studies on the moral and “guilty” characters of the hysterics, via the later complex differentiations in the concept of the sense of guilt, unto the analyses of civilization’s discontents and Jewish sense of guilt. The sense of guilt is a key issue in Freudian psychoanalysis, not only in relation to other key concepts in psychoanalytic theory, but also in relation to debates with others, such as Carl Gustav Jung or Melanie Klein, Freud was engaged in.

Games Online dan Katarsis Virtual

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Keken Frita Vanri ◽  
Benni Yusriza Hasbiyalloh
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Real World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Media Dependency ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Internet Shop

Interactivity, digitality, and virtuality are three important aspects of Internet technology, among others. Thanks to its break-through characteristics, internet brings many changes into the lives of people. Due to its accessible features and loads of information, many people’s needs on information, entertainment and social interaction are necessarily answered. One of the most interesting and widely developed features on internet is online game. Online game promises its users the ability to connect with other fellow users in real time. This paper intends to view online game as a second reality, different with the real world we live in. By employing psychoanalysis theory initiated and developed by Sigmund Freud, this paper sees online game as a playing field for human Id (Freudian biological desire), constantly repressed in real world due to its persisting conflict with ego and super ego. Online game commonly perceived as “unreal virtual sphere” facilitates its users to freely conduct certain actions which, in normal and real life, are forbidden, such as killing and raping. Therefore, online game could be perceived as catharsis, or outlet for bestial desire of human being. The hypotheses needs to be proven in this paper is whether sexual and violent character of online game really possess catharsis function to release the biological desire of the users, or, the other way around, namely, repressing the Id. The methodology used in this paper is case study with both observation as well as literature study relevant with online game in question. The authors attempt to observe directly and also conduct interview with ten children in five different internet shop (warnet). The theoretical paradigm used is twofold, namely, catharsis theory and Freudian psychoanalysis. To support the main paradigm used, the authors also use media dependency theory proposed by DeFleur, including, but not limited to, arousal and aggressive cues. Kata Kunci : Game online, katarsis, psikoanalisis

scholarly journals Women with Split Identity; A Literary Analysis based on the selected Female Portrayals in Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
D. N. P. Amarasooriya
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Bertolt Brecht ◽  
The Self ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Madame Bovary ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Mill On The Floss

Female characters in Literature are portrayed through diverse dimensions such as heroic figures, objects of desire, rebellious individuals, icons of female liberation and individuals with fragmented identities. Those potrayals reflect the the feminine self which is surrounded by the awareness of her negated existence, stereotyped images of womanhood, the sense of lack of belonging, and repressed individuality. Thus the study focuses on analyzing the female literary portrayals like ‘Nora Helmer’in ‘The Dolls House’ by Henric Ibsen, ‘Adela’ in ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’ by Federico Garcia Lorca and ‘Emma Bovary’ in ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert, ‘Maggie Tulliver’ in The Mill On the Floss by George Eliot and ‘Kattrin’ in Mother courage and Her children by Bertolt Brecht with the objective of bringing to the surface the socially determined fatal end and the symbolic disappearance of the feminine figure. In analyzing and elaborating the perspectives which are discussed within the research paper the theoretical perspectives of Simon de Beauvoir (‘The second sex’), Sigmund Freud, (‘Civilization and its Discontents’,)and Slavoj Zizek, (‘Looking Awry’) are referred with a thorough consideration. Consequently the woman figure whose identity is negated and given less vitality is identified as an inferior and vulnerable social figure within the existing social order and thus the literary characters like Adela, Nora, Emma, and Maggie Tulliver portray the antagonism between the social principle of ‘Repression’ and the feminine ‘ Liberation’. In contrast to the characters such as Adela, Emma and Nora who negate the social other in pursuing their determined routes towards the self-satisfaction, the feminine portrayals like Kattrin and Maggie Tulliver adopt the self-denial and renunciation of desires for the betterment of the social other. Thus the characters like Nora, Emma and Adela become capable of gratifying their intense abomination towards the social order while Kattrin and Maggie Tulliver with their self-sacrifice and altruistic motives achieve a serene satisfaction. In that sense it can be identified that their self-annihilation leaves behind a symbol of identity rather than nihilistic reality implying a more psychological vitality without being just a physical deterioration.

scholarly journals La Voix lactée de Geneviève Cadieux. Une voix féministe de l'intime

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
Julie Lavigne
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Luce Irigaray

L’artiste québécoise Geneviève Cadieux propose avec l’oeuvre La Voie lactée une vision de l’intime tout à fait singulière en mettant en représentation son propre regard sur les lèvres maternelles. Analysant la portée féministe de cette vision de l’intime à l’oeuvre dans l’installation de Cadieux, l’auteure soulève dans le cadre de cet article plusieurs thématiques : la déconstruction de l’image traditionnelle et masculine de la femme, l’identification de la fille à la mère, la construction d’une identité de genre et l’érotisme. L’article révèle donc l’extrême richesse de La Voie lactée, et ce, en dépit d’une grande économie de moyen artistique : soit un gros plan photographique des lèvres fardées d’une femme sur le toit du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. En prenant assise sur des textes, entre autres, de Sigmund Freud, de René Payant, de Luce Irigaray et de Judith Butler, l’auteure analyse l’oeuvre afin d’en proposer une lecture qui définit l’intime comme stratégie féministe actuelle. C’est ainsi que La Voie lactée permet, selon l’auteure, une révision actualisée de la maxime féministe des année soixante-dix « le privé est politique ».

scholarly journals Environmental Studies of English School: Case Study of Forest Fires in Indonesia and Transboundary Haze in Southeast Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Yanyan Mochamad Yani ◽  
Verdinand Robertua
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
English School ◽  
School Communities ◽  
Haze Pollution

Despite of its advantages in social dimension, English School still has limited articles on environmental issues. Many global ecological crisis has been dealt with constructivism and green theory because the failure of English Scholars to adopt new norms such as climate responsibility, sustainable development and environmental justice. This article would like to highlight the synthesis of the normative tensions and the regional studies within the environmental studies of English School using the case study of Indonesia ratification to ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution. Pluralism and solidarism will be the conceptual instruments in criticizing the blindness of environmental analysis in the English School communities and also constructing the environmental-friendly English School theory. There are two main conclusions in this article. Firstly, Indonesia ratification of ASEAN Agreement of Transboundary Haze Pollution, the emergence of domestic environmental legislation and the adoption of environmental responsibility marked the end of pluralist hegemony in environmental studies. Secondly, Indonesia ratification of AATHP is one of the foundations of regional environmental governance in Southeast Asia.

Paul as Predecessor to Psychoanalysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-139
Author(s):  
Ole Jakob Løland
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis

Jacob Taubes is a Jewish rabbi who proclaims to have discerned the fundamentally Jewish aspects of Paul’s thought. In that way Taubes reads against the whole tradition that sees Paul as the first Christian who definitely broke with Judaism. Nonetheless, Taubes deconstructs this Christian image of Paul partly through a comparison of Paul and Sigmund Freud that also relies significantly on earlier Christian layers of this reception of Paul. Moreover, Taubes claims that Paul is a predecessor of Freud, leading Taubes to read Paul as an introspective Jewish apostle, primarily based on Romans. This unique interpretative strategy with regard to Paul is made by the Jewish rabbi within a post-Holocaust world where biblical scholars have attempted to liberate Paul from Protestant readings of him as the introspective figure par excellance. Taubes, however, establishes Paul’s Jewishness by other means and comes close to considering Freudian psychoanalysis as a Pauline science. These idiosyncratic readings of Paul results in an intriguing deconstruction of what is “Jewish” and what is “Christian,” categories that are destabilized by Taubes’s provoking interpretations of Paul.

Allen, Barney (1902–1967)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Betts
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Medical Discourse ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Physical Body ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The City ◽  
Literary Radicalism ◽  
Sex Positive

Barney Allen was the pseudonym of Solomon Allen, a Jewish-Canadian novelist from Toronto, Ontario. His writing combined influences from James Joyce and Sigmund Freud. His 1929 novel They Have Bodies was especially influenced by avant-garde experimentation. The book provoked a sensation in Toronto for its unflattering and hyper-sexualized depiction of the local moneyed class, and the local constabulary seized copies in the city. The book effectively disappeared from public attention. Subsequent titles by Allen, as a result, backed away from such literary radicalism in favour of increasingly populist prose and medical discourse. Allen remained deeply interested in both Freudian psychoanalysis, with its sexual preoccupation, and the physical body. His five novels — which all feature a gynaecologist as protagonist or main character — each advance a central thesis about the importance of directly and forthrightly acknowledging the naturalness of both sexual desires and the physical body. Towards this end, he also organized a ‘couples retreat’ north of Toronto to study psychoanalysis together in a sex-positive environment.

Games Online dan Katarsis Virtual (Studi Kasus dengan Analisis Psikoanalisis Freud pada Kecenderungan Permainan Game Interaktif Point Blank dan Second Life)

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Keken Frita Vanri ◽  
Benni Yusriza Hasbiyalloh
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Real World ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Internet Shop

Interactivity, digitality, and virtuality are three important aspects of Internet technology, among others. Thanks to its break-through characteristics, internet brings many changes into the lives of people. Due to its accessible features and loads of information, many people’s needs on information, entertainment and social interaction are necessarily answered. One of the most interesting and widely developed features on internet is online game. Online game promises its users the ability to connect with other fellow users in real time. This paper intends to view online game as a second reality, different with the real world we live in. By employing psychoanalysis theory initiated and developed by Sigmund Freud, this paper sees online game as a playing field for human Id (Freudian biological desire), constantly repressed in real world due to its persisting conflict with ego and super ego. Online game commonly perceived as “unreal virtual sphere” facilitates its users to freely conduct certain actions which, in normal and real life, are forbidden, such as killing and raping. Therefore, online game could be perceived as catharsis, or outlet for bestial desire of human being. The hypotheses needs to be proven in this paper is whether sexual and violent character of online game really possess catharsis function to release the biological desire of the users, or, the other way around, namely, repressing the Id. The methodology used in this paper is case study with both observation as well as literature study relevant with online game in question. The authors attempt to observe directly and also conduct interview with ten children in five different internet shop (warnet). The theoretical paradigm used is twofold, namely, catharsis theory and Freudian psychoanalysis. To support the main paradigm used, the authors also use media dependency theory proposed by DeFleur, including, but not limited to, arousal and aggressive cues. Keywords : Game online, katarsis, psikoanalisis

scholarly journals Concordâncias e discordâncias de Dewey com Freud

2012 ◽  
pp. 275-291
Author(s):  
Erika Natacha Fernandes de Andrade ◽  
Marcus Vinicius da Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Chaim Perelman

Este artigo expõe ideias de Sigmund Freud sobre temas que são fundamentais para compreender o homem contemporâneo: a constituição do psiquismo; a formação e a resolução das patologias mentais; a cultura em sentido amplo e a educação como elemento mediador entre o indivíduo e a sociedade. O objetivo é apresentar e comparar as análises feitas por John Dewey sobre esses mesmos temas, tomando por base o livro Human nature and conduct. As comparações entre os discursos freudiano e deweyano são feitas por meio da metodologia proposta por Chaïm Perelman no livro Tratado da argumentação (elaborado em coautoria com Olbrechts-Tyteca), que busca esclarecer as estratégias argumentativas usadas por um autor para obter ou aumentar a adesão às teses propostas e, com isso, despertar ações concretas. As conclusões sugerem que, embora Dewey discorde de Freud, existem pontos de concordância entre ambos, especialmente no que diz respeito ao significado dos impulsos e da sublimação e à concepção de que o conhecimento é mutável e impreciso, o que rejeita a crença em certezas absolutas e insere as decisões e ações humanas no âmbito da probabilidade.

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