Mother-Infant Observations: A View into the Wordless Social Instincts that Form the Foundation of Human Psychodynamics

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Benveniste
Keyword(s):  
Animal Behavior ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Symbolic Function ◽  
Psychoanalytic Training ◽  
The World ◽  
Infant Observation

Mother-infant observations attune the psychotherapist to the nonverbal interactions that shape the child’s experience of the world. The origins of our interest in psychoanalytic mother-infant observations can be traced back to clinical work with adults, child analyses, ethology (the study of animal behavior), and theoretical questions about the development of the symbolic function in infancy. More recently, seminars and direct experience in mother-infant observation have been gaining popularity as components of psychoanalytic training. Indeed, mother-infant observations are a kind of human ethological investigation that offer a rare peek into the wordless social instincts that find their origins in the ancient evolution of our species.

L’essere grezzo della tecnica

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 249-264
Author(s):  
Andrea Zoppis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Behavior ◽  
The World

Through a reading of Merleau-Ponty’s late courses on Nature, this essay presents a new reflection on technique and makes explicit the ontological significance of a rethinking of technique in this period. After an analysis of the historical sense of the notion of Nature and of animal behavior, we turn to cybernetics. The need to rethink man on the basis of his contingency, that is, on the basis of his relationship with the world and with the technical objects through which this relationship is structured, arises in the essay. Merleau-Ponty’s course on Nature has thus allowed us to investigate the ontological significance of the notion of technique by considering technical objects that Merleau-Ponty himself references. Technique, by prolonging Nature, becomes the keystone to the contact between man and Being, thus illustrating the necessity, for philosophy and for culture, of a return to the contact with brute being that founds and inhabits it.

scholarly journals The Musical Offers of Children’s Programming on «Televisión Española» as its Hearing Universe

Comunicar ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (37) ◽  
pp. 177-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amparo Porta-Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Incidental Music ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Preliminary Study

The music that children are exposed to in their everyday lives plays an important role in shaping the way they interpret the world around them, and television soundtracks are, together with their direct experience of reality, one of the most significant sources of such input. This work is part of a broader research project that looks at what kind of music children listen to in a sample of Latin American and Spanish TV programmes. More specifically, this study focuses on children’s programmes in Spain, and was addressed using a semiotic theoretical framework with a quantitative and musical approach. The programme «Los Lunnis» was chosen as the subject of a preliminary study, which consisted in applying 90 templates and then analysing them in terms of the musical content. The results show that the programme uses music both as the leading figure and as a background element. The most common texture is the accompanied monody and the use of voice, and there is a predominance of electronic instrumental sounds, binary stress and major modes with modulations. Musical pieces are sometimes truncated and rhythmically the music is quite poor; the style used is predominantly that of foreign popular music, with a few allusions to the classical style and to incidental music. The data reveal the presence of music in cultural and patrimonial aspects, as well as in cognitive construction, which were not taken into account in studies on the influence of TV in Spain. Such aspects do emerge, however, when they are reviewed from the perspective of semiotics, musical representation, formal analysis and restructuring theories.La música de la vida cotidiana del niño tiene uno de sus referentes, junto a su experiencia real, en la banda sonora de la televisión, configurando una parte de su interpretación de la realidad. Este trabajo forma parte de una investigación más amplia sobre la escucha televisiva infantil en una muestra iberoamericana. El objetivo, conocer qué escuchan los niños en la programación infantil de «Televisión Española», ha sido estudiado desde un marco teórico semiótico con un enfoque cuantitativo y musical. El artículo presenta un resumen de los resultados obtenidos en un primer análisis del programa «Los Lunnis» mediante la aplicación de noventa plantillas y sus análisis musicales correspondientes. Estos resultados indican que el programa utiliza la música como fondo y figura, textura de monodía acompañada y utilización de la voz, predominio del sonido electrónico instrumental, acento binario y modo mayor con modulaciones. Aparecen piezas musicales cortadas y cierta pobreza rítmica, su opción estilística es la música popular no propia, con algunos guiños al estilo clásico y a la música incidental. Los datos muestran la presencia de la música en aspectos culturales, patrimoniales y de construcción cognitiva no considerados en los estudios sobre la influencia de la TV en España, pero que emergen cuando son revisados desde la semiótica, la representación musical, el análisis formal y las teorías de la reestructuración.

Introduction

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Willis
Keyword(s):  
Direct Experience ◽  
The Real ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The World

This chapter explores how the two youth cultures under discussion — the motor-bike boys, sometimes known as ‘rockers’, and the hippies, sometimes known as ‘heads’ or ‘freaks’ — form a ‘dialectic relationship’ with cultural life. It argues that it is only in the factories, on the streets, in the bars, in the dance halls, in the tower flats, in the two-up-and-two-downs that contradictions and problems are lived through to particular outcomes. Furthermore, it is in these places where direct experience, ways of living, creative acts and penetrations — cultures — redefine problems, break the stasis of meaning, and reset the possibilities somewhat for all of us. And this material experience is embedded in the real engagement of experience with the world: in the dialectic of cultural life.

Multiculturalism, (Im)Migration, Theatre: The National Arts Centre, Ottawa, a Case of Staging Canadian Nationalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yana Meerzon
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Symbolic Function ◽  
Canadian Theatre ◽  
The World ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
Canadian Nationalism ◽  
Similarities And Differences

AbstractOn October 22, 2015, two days after the Liberal Party of Canada came to power, The Globe and Mail published an editorial entitled “Canada to the World: Xenophobia Doesn’t Play Here.” The article suggested that, in these times of migration crises, a rising xenophobic discourse and neo-nationalism, it is essential for the European countries to start taking lessons in navigating cultural diversity from Canada, the first country in the world that institutionalized principles of multiculturalism. This view is clearly reflected in the repertoire politics of Canadian theatre institutions, specifically the National Arts Centre (NAC) Ottawa, the only theatre company in Canada directly subsidized by its government. Mandated to support artistic excellence through arts, the NAC acts as a pulpit of official ideology. It presents diversity on stage as the leading Canadian value, and thus fulfills its symbolic function to serve as a mirror to its nation.However, this paper argues that, by offering an image of Canada, constructed by our government and tourist agencies, as an idyllic place to negotiate our similarities and differences, the NAC fosters what Loren Kruger calls a theatrical nationhood (4–16). A closer look at the 2014 NAC English theatre co-production of Kim’s Convenience will help illustrate how the politics of mimicry can become a leading device in the aesthetics of national mimesis – a cultural activity of “representing the nation as well as the result of it (an image of the nation)” (Hurley 24); and how the artistry of a multicultural kitchen-sink can turn a subject of diversity into that of affirmation and sentimentalism.

THE BOUNDED LIFE: ADORNO, DICKENS, AND METAPHYSICS

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 547-563
Author(s):  
Helen Small
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Empirical World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Aristotelian Metaphysics

THEODOR ADORNO'S LATE LECTURESonMetaphysicspropose a “shocking thesis”: “metaphysics began with Aristotle” (15). A “doubly shocking” thesis, Adorno tells his audience, because it gives credit where credit is not usually given, and declines to give it where most students of philosophy would understand that it belongs–with Plato (18). The Platonic doctrine of Ideas misses the essential criterion for metaphysics. Plato never fully accepted that the tension between the sphere of transcendence and the sphere of “direct experience” is not merely an adjunct of metaphysical inquiry but its defining subject matter (18). Aristotle understood this, and understood also that metaphysics has always a “twofold aim”; for, even as Aristotelian metaphysics criticizes Plato's attempt to define essence in opposition to the world of the senses, it tries to “extract an essential being from the sensible, empirical world, and thereby to save it.” True metaphysics, Adorno claims, is an effort to go beyond thought in the very act of defining the boundaries of thought. In his words, it is “the exertion of thought to save what at the same time it destroys” (20).

scholarly journals AKSIOLOGI NILAI PENDEKATAN DAN STRATEGI PENANAMAN NILAI

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-165
Author(s):  
Zuhri Zuhri
Keyword(s):  
Animal Behavior ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Heavy Duty ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Human Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Successful Education

The writing of this paper, aimed at knowing the meaning of the axiology of value, and the educational approach, as well as any strategy used in the planting of values in Islamic education institutions, the results became a refencing for us as development In supporting tasks according to their respective professions.  Efforts towards good character is not easy, education that is pursued in school and in the household and education experience gained in society is still very far from expectations, until now various issues Nations Ignorance, poverty and retardation, allegedly as a result of the lack of successful education. For that it takes earnest effort and involves the various parties in order to be healed from multidimensional diseases. Education is the process of humanization, which is the effort to cultivate the potential, as an accepted from God, if not developed, the whole potential to be stagnant, and sluggish development, through the various Pemibingan , direction, to be made, to grow and develop positive potential beneficial for himself and his fellow, while the behavior of the potential negative (Akhlak Madzmumah) as much as possible not to pack, so that people do not have animal behavior. For that Islamic blowing is a media place to galvanize the spiritual spirit of the human being Kamil, based on the Qur'an and the Assunah in ren get happiness in the world and in Akherat.  Creating human value is a heavy duty from the beginning to the elderly, carried out continuously, sustainably, and istiqomah, with various approaches and strategies used and involve Steakholher that exist, so that the science is easily digested and accepted by reason, and heart, internalize in the students, so that the speech of the beam of divine value. This paper is qualitative, that is to understand, analyze various sources of reading relevant to the theme then made generalization.

Threats

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Barash
Keyword(s):  
Animal Behavior ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The World ◽  
Book Studies ◽  
Gun Culture ◽  
Insight Into

This book studies situations in which individuals threaten each other or feel threatened by society, and often respond in ways that threaten social stability in turn. Animals also engage in all sorts of threats, an understanding of which opens one's eyes to the world of animal behavior otherwise hidden, while also revealing the strange and important question of honest versus dishonest communication. The dynamic of threat-and-response gives insight into such human dilemmas as the fear of death and how this has been manipulated by many organized religions; how fear of strangers and supposed enemies has given rise to an American gun culture that in turn threatens those seeking to avoid such threats; how nativist fears of “the other” has promoted right-wing nationalist populism, which has been making things worse not only for democracy itself, but also for those who feel threatened in the first place; and how capital punishment—intended to contain the threat of murderous criminals—has made this problem worse. Most important and worrisome is how countries convey the ultimate threat against each other: deterrence. Brandishing the threat of mutual annihilation in the expectation that this will keep a country safe is, paradoxically, the ultimate example of a posture that endangers threatener and threatened alike.

Framing Materiality: Relic Discourse and Medieval English Anchoritism

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Michelle M. Sauer
Keyword(s):  
Direct Experience ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Devotional Writings ◽  
Medieval Christianity

Relics carried great significance in medieval Christianity. Generally these relics, or at least first-class relics, were fragmented bodies, literal pieces of saints, where a part or parts represented the whole. This idea reverberates with what Robyn Malo has called “relic discourse.” She argues that as saints’ bodies became more and more elaborately enshrined in fancy reliquaries, they became less accessible to the people; similarly, the language of hagiographies and other devotional writings, with their characteristic rhetoric of treasure and brightness, provided a substitute for direct experience of the relic. Extending Malo’s idea to anchoritic literature, Sauer argues that anchorites, who are alive yet dead to the world, can themselves be read as living relics; therefore, anchoritic literature uses vocabulary and rhetoric that calls to mind relics and reliquaries. In this way, the position of the anchorite as a living relic, and thus a mediator among the living and the dead and the divine, is manifest.

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