At the Queen’s Hall with E.M. Forster and Jean Laplanche

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
Rosemary Rizq
Keyword(s):  
Human Origins ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Howards End ◽  
Jean Laplanche ◽  
Cultural Message ◽  
The Way

In E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End, we are introduced to the way in which the characters in the story listen to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. In this article, I draw on the work of the French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche to suggest that music constitutes an enigmatic cultural message that returns us to the ‘scene of primal seduction’; a myth of human origins that takes the encounter with an enigmatic other as constitutive of human subjectivity. Reading Howards End through the lens of Laplanche, I discuss how Forster’s characters respond to Beethoven’s message and conclude with a brief discussion about issues of inheritance and alterity.

Faecal microbiota transplants: towards a healthy disgust scepticism

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2020-012135
Author(s):  
Jessica Houf
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Human Microbiome ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Faecal Microbiota ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Way

This paper engages with the obstacle of disgust surrounding the use of faecal microbiota transplants (FMT). In discourse about the human microbiome and microbiota-based therapies (like FMT), disgust has become an unavoidable emotion for physicians, patients and caregivers interested in these therapies. Additionally, microbiota therapies and microbiomes are challenging our conception of an individual biological self. As these two discourses converge with FMT, it becomes necessary to understand how they are working together. To do this, this paper explores the way disgust functions in the formation of subjects. Scholarship about disgust can be categorised into two approaches: disgust as a deep wisdom or disgust scepticism. The former approach focuses on the physiological, embodied aspects of our disgust reactions as evidence of ‘truth’ in disgusting encounters, and the latter recognises the way disgust is culturally contingent and adapted for use in moral and social determinations of good and bad. However, both positions accept the use of disgust as a defence against ‘toxins and diseases’. Yet, as this paper argues, we should take the sceptical approach further. The disgust sceptical approach, particularly as developed by Sarah Ahmed, does more than just challenge disgust’s role in moral deliberations. It also demands sceptical reflection on disgust as a universal defence against ‘toxins and diseases’. Much as disgust can be co-opted to support oppression, it too can be co-opted to reconstitute a false vision of human subjectivity—the coherent, contained and exceptional human subject situated above the natural world. The human microbiome, faecal therapeutics and being disgusted give us an opportunity to recognise ourselves as more-than-human subjects.

scholarly journals JUDITH BUTLER E HANNAH ARENDT VÃO AO CINEMA: narrativa, psicanálise e subjetivação no filme “Eu, Mamãe e os Meninos”

Caderno CRH ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 020015
Author(s):  
Ingrid Cyfer
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Relational Perspective ◽  
Jean Laplanche ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Adriana Cavarero ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
Ethics And Politics

<div class="trans-abstract"><p class="sec">Neste artigo, proponho uma análise do filme Eu, Mamãe e os Meninos (Les garçons et Guillaume, à table! Direção: Guillaume Gallienne. França, 2013) tendo-se em vista uma perspectiva política e relacional das conexões entre psicanálise, narrativa e processo de subjetivação. Minha inspiração para isso está no modo como Judith Butler articula essas dimensões em seu livro Relatar a Si Mesmo: Crítica da Violência Ética ([2005], 2015), no qual a autora propõe uma teoria da formação do sujeito em que a concepção de narrativa de Hannah Arendt cumpre um papel fundamental, depois de ser reformulada pela concepção de self narrável de Adriana Cavarero e combinada à metapsicologia relacional de Jean Laplanche. Desse modo, meu objetivo é convidar Butler e Arendt ao cinema para depois discutir a relação entre narrativa, psicanálise e subjetivação tendo em vista o vínculo entre ética e política que a estória que o personagem Guillaume nos conta sobre quem é pode inspirar.</p><p><strong>Palavras-Chave: </strong>Hannah Arendt; Judith Butler; Subjetivação; Psicanálise; Narrativa</p></div><div class="trans-abstract"><p class="sec"><span>JUDITH BUTLER AND HANNAH ARENDT GO TO THE MOVIES: narrative, psychoanalysis and subjectification in the film Me, Myself and Mum</span></p><p class="sec">ABSTRACT</p><p>In this article, I propose an analysis of the film Me, Myself and Mum (Les garçons et Guillaume, à table! Directed by Guillaume Gallienne. France 2013) with a view to a political and relational perspective of the connections between psychoanalysis, narrative and subjectivation process. My inspiration for this is in the way Judith Butler articulates these dimensions in her book Giving an Account of Oneself (2005). In this work, Butler proposes a theory of the formation of the subject in which Hannah Arendt’s conception of narrative plays a fundamental role, after being reformulated by Adriana Cavarero’s conception of narrable self and combined with Jean Laplanche’s relational metapsychology. In this text, my goal is to invite Butler and Arendt to the movies to later discuss the relationship between narrative, psychoanalysis and subjectivity in view of the link between ethics and politics that the story in which Guillaume tells us about who he is can inspire.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Hannah Arendt; Judith Butler; Subjectivation; Psychoanalysis; Narrative</p></div><div class="trans-abstract"><p class="sec"><span>JUDITH BUTLER ET HANNAH ARENDT VONT AU CINÉMA: narration, psychanalyse et subjectivation dan le film Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!</span></p><p class="sec">ABSTRACT</p><p>Dans cet article, je propose une analyse du film Les Garçons et Guillaume, à la Table (Realisation Guillaume Galliene, France, 2013) en vue d’une perspective politique et relationnelle des liens entre psychanalyse, narration et processus de subjectivation. Mon inspiration pour cela réside dans la façon dont Judith Butler articule ces dimensions dans son livre Le Récit de Soi (2005). Dans ce travail, Butler propose une théorie de la formation du sujet dans laquelle la conception de la narration d’Hannah Arendt joue un rôle fondamental, après avoir été reformulée par la conception d’Adriana Cavarero du soi narrable et combinée avec la métapsychologie relationnelle de Jean Laplanche. Dans ce texte, mon objectif est d’inviter Butler et Arendt au cinéma pour discuter plus tard de la relation entre narration, psychanalyse et subjectivité au vu du lien entre éthique et politique que l’histoire dans laquelle Guillaume nous raconte qui il est peut inspirer.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Hannah Arendt; Judith Butler; Subjectivation; Psychanalyse; Narrative</p></div>

scholarly journals Subjectivity or?

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Dreier
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Psychology ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The aim of the paper is to give a brief presentation of an approach to developing the conception of subjectivity in psychology. This conception is developed on the background of the science of the subject of critical psychology as founded by Holzkamp (1983) which considers subjectivity as a core concept in human psychology. In the conception presented in this paper, it is argued that human subjectivity must be grasped as grounded in a subject’s ongoing situated participation and conduct of everyday life in and across various, structurally arranged social practices. It is argued why such a conception of subjectivity is necessary and its main concepts are briefly presented. A critical identification of methodological and conceptual inadequacies in narrower notions of the psyche and subjectivity paves the way for the line of arguments leading to this broader conception of subjectivity.

Origins of a Menschendarstellerin: Characterization and Operatic Performance in Fin-de-siècle Vienna

2019 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-82
Author(s):  
Melanie Gudesblatt
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Dramatic Performance ◽  
Acting Technique ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn fin-de-siècle Vienna frustrations with ‘lifelessness’ began to boil over. Unlike previous generations of opera-goers, however, the Viennese did not so much fear singers becoming automata as desire dramatic performance that foregrounded humanness and subjectivity. Critics increasingly fetishized vitality – manifested in characters with dramatic integrity and singers capable of nestling themselves in their roles – and by 1910 wanted singers to communicate their own interiority and ‘wilfulness’ as well. This article uses the reception of the soprano Marie Gutheil-Schoder (1874–1935) to demonstrate the growing currency of these imperatives. A controversial hire for the Hofoper, she was initially disparaged by critics as vocally ‘weak’, but the Viennese gradually ‘learnt to love this voice’ for the way in which it could be pressed into the service of the drama and her will. I explain her changing fortunes, arguing that opera-goers valued certain voices in accordance with evolving conceptions of characterization, acting technique and human subjectivity.

scholarly journals Equity, Property, and the Ethical Subject

Pólemos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Stone
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
Ethical Subject ◽  
Equity Property ◽  
Private Domain ◽  
The Way

Abstract Orthodox ideas of ownership tend to depict property as a private domain that expresses the owner’s formal rights. Yet equity does much to resist this outlook, deploying ethically-loaded ideas such as conscience and articulating an interpersonal and distinctly duty-driven character to property relations. Focusing on English case law, this article suggests that we can gather various strands of equitable property norms, particularly those derived from the constructive trust, around relationships of responsibility and vulnerability. Furthermore, the article asks what such equitable ideas about property might therefore tell us about the purportedly (self-)possessive character of human subjectivity. Rather than constructing people as sovereign, autonomous proprietors, we might read equity as tracing an ethical quality to the way we perceive ourselves and others through property-related ideas.

Politics of Manufacturing Consent in a Post-Truth Society

2022 ◽  
pp. 0169796X2110684
Author(s):  
Biswajit Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
False Consciousness ◽  
Life World ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Way

This article critically examines how human life today is faced with issues of dishonesty and deception. Using the concept of post-truth in analyzing and understanding the context of change in a global society under neo-liberalism, it focuses on the way powerful people, groups, political parties, and media now take recourse to strategies such as falsification, manipulation, or deception to influence and control the human mind. Those involved in doing this use nostalgic narratives, idealize a fictional past and generate conspiracy theories to create false consciousness and thereby colonize the life world. Such colonization not only promotes social pathologies but also limits the democratic, secular, and plural spirits of multicultural nations like India. The article ends by arguing that there are limits to such politics and the best alternative to the conundrum is the assertion of human subjectivity and agency, and alternative media can play a major role in this endeavor.

scholarly journals To be or not to be human: Resolving the paradox of dehumanisation

2021 ◽  
pp. 147488512098460
Author(s):  
Adrienne de Ruiter
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Moral Sense ◽  
Rwandan Genocide ◽  
Human Essence ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Straightforward Solution ◽  
The Way

Dehumanisation is a puzzling phenomenon. Nazi propaganda likened the Jews to rats, but also portrayed them as ‘poisoners of culture’. In the Soviet Union, the Stalinist regime called opponents vermin, yet put them on show trials. During the Rwandan genocide, the Hutus identified the Tutsis with cockroaches, but nonetheless raped Tutsi women. These examples reveal tensions in the way in which dehumanisers perceive, portray and treat victims. Dehumanisation seems to require that perpetrators both deny and acknowledge the humanity of their victims in certain ways. Several scholars have proposed solutions to this so-called ‘paradox of dehumanisation’ that question the usefulness of dehumanisation as a concept to explain genocidal violence, claim that dehumanisation is characterised by an unstable belief in the non-human essence of the dehumanised, or contend that dehumanisation revolves around a denial of metaphysical human status. The main aim of this article is to present a novel framework for theorising dehumanisation that offers a more straightforward solution to this paradox based on the idea that perpetrators deny their victims’ human standing in a moral sense without necessarily negating their biological human status or human subjectivity. The article illustrates this framework through examples drawn from Primo Levi’s memoirs of Auschwitz.

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

What is the purpose of cognition?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aba Szollosi ◽  
Ben R. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of ways. The way in which the function of cognition develops needs to be central to our theories.

Peculiarity Parameters

1976 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 233-254
Author(s):  
H. M. Maitzen
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Observational Evidence ◽  
Rotator Model ◽  
Peculiar Behaviour ◽  
Field Spectrum ◽  
Oblique Rotator ◽  
Ap Stars ◽  
The Way

Ap stars are peculiar in many aspects. During this century astronomers have been trying to collect data about these and have found a confusing variety of peculiar behaviour even from star to star that Struve stated in 1942 that at least we know that these phenomena are not supernatural. A real push to start deeper theoretical work on Ap stars was given by an additional observational evidence, namely the discovery of magnetic fields on these stars by Babcock (1947). This originated the concept that magnetic fields are the cause for spectroscopic and photometric peculiarities. Great leaps for the astronomical mankind were the Oblique Rotator model by Stibbs (1950) and Deutsch (1954), which by the way provided mathematical tools for the later handling pulsar geometries, anti the discovery of phase coincidence of the extrema of magnetic field, spectrum and photometric variations (e.g. Jarzebowski, 1960).

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