The Sterilisation of the Insane

1911 ◽  
Vol 57 (236) ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Faulks
Keyword(s):  
Mental Life ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Open Debate ◽  
The Subject

Gentlemen,—The subject which I purpose bringing up for discussion to-day appears to be one which is well suited to debate by such a meeting as this. The various proposals are comparatively new in literature, and more so in open debate by learned societies. It is a matter which you, as mental experts, are eminently fitted to give valuable opinions upon, few other associations having any knowledge of, or interest in, the conditions of mental life and growth which are alone responsible for the origination of these proposals.

scholarly journals From de Clérambault's Theory of Mental Automatism to Lacan's Theory of the Psychotic Structure

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stijn Vanheule
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Clinical Issues ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lacanian Theory ◽  
Structural Perspective

In 1966, in a paper on those who have influenced his work, Jacques Lacan suggested that his concept of ‘paranoid knowledge’ and his structural approach to psychoanalysis were closely linked to the work of Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault. This article examines both of these points. Starting with an introduction to de Clérambault, focusing on his concept ‘mental automatism,’ the link between ‘mental automatism’ and ‘paranoid knowledge’ is discussed. Loyalty to Henri Claude and conflicts around theoretical and clinical issues seem to lie at the basis of Lacan's initial neglect of his conceptual indebtedness to de Clérambault. Second, the author discusses the presumed connection between mental automatism and Lacan's structural psychoanalytic theory, which Lacan did not elaborate. It is argued that from a structural perspective, mental automatism comes down to a rupture in the continuity of the signifying chain, which provokes the disappearance of the subject. Furthermore, Lacan's theory implies the hypothesis that manifestations of mental automatism are determined by a foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father, where questions related to existence cannot be addressed in a stable way. Lacanian theory thus retained de Clérambault's notion of a rupture in mental life that lies at the basis of psychosis, but replaced his biological framework with the dimension of the subject as produced through speech.

scholarly journals Objective psychology. Academician V. Bekhterev. Issue I. St. Petersburg. 1907 year

1907 ◽  
Vol XIV (3-4) ◽  
pp. 194-196
Author(s):  
V. Osipova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Life ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Control ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Living Creature

The author begins his work with the words that the psychology that he will expound bears little resemblance to the psychology that has been the subject of study until now. In objective psychology, there should be no place for questions about subjective processes or processes of consciousness, therefore there should be no place for introspection. Self-observation is not enough even to study one's own mental life. Objective psychology has in mind to study and explain only the relationship of a living creature to the surrounding conditions that affect it in one way or another, without aiming to find out those internal or subjective experiences, which are known as conscious phenomena and which are accessible only to self-observation. All mental items should only be subject to objective registration and control.

The Burlington House Case, 2004–5

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 390-401
Author(s):  
Bernard Nurse
Keyword(s):  
Legal Basis ◽  
High Court ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
The Subject

The legal basis by which the learned societies occupy Burlington House was the subject of a hearing before the High Court in 2004. No verdict was given because terms of occupation were eventually agreed by all parties in 2005. This paper contains transcriptions, with background notes, of some of the more important and previously unpublished documents presented in evidence on behalf of the societies as part of their case.

scholarly journals ACTIVITY OF A SUBJECT OF THE DAILY LIFE UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF A VITAL THREAT IN THE PROBLEM FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-229
Author(s):  
Ольга Валерьевна Никитина
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Vital Activity ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Individual Style

Проблема активности является одной из ключевых проблем человекознания, уделяется внимание теоретическим аспектам изучения активности в отечественной психологической науке, обозначены подходы к активности субъекта жизнедеятельности. Анализируется вклад психологов Пермской психологической школы в развитие представлений об активности. Исследование активности человека осуществляется во взаимосвязи с проблематикой интегральной индивидуальности и индивидуального стиля. Представителями Пермской психологической школы проведены теоретико-эмпирические исследования разных видов и стилей активности человека в условиях повседневной деятельности и в экстремальных условиях жизни: учебной, волевой, коммуника тивной, религиозной, информационно-манипулятивной, смыслообразующей, профессиональной. Научным продуктом сложившегося направления исследований в психологии активности Б. А. Вяткин называет представление о существовании в социальном мире Homo activus – человека активного. Обозначена актуальность изучения активности субъекта жизнедеятельности в условиях пандемии коронавируса (COVID-19), т. е. ситуации витальной угрозы. Данный цивилизационный феномен и обусловленная им эпидемиологическая обстановка внесли глобальные коррективы во все сферы жизнедеятельности человека, что обусловило необходимость адаптации к трансформирующимся условиям среды и пролонгированной ситуации неопределенности. Психологи отмечают не только негативные аспекты в сложившейся ситуации, но и позитивные, которые связывают с необходимостью активации всей психической жизни для преодоления пандемокризиса. В Пермской психологической школе для изучения активности субъекта жизнедеятельности в условиях витальной угрозы созданы теоретические предпосылки в виде концепции интегральной индивидуальности (В. С. Мерлин), теории метаиндивидуального мира (Л. Я. Дорфман), концептуальной динамической модели активности субъекта жизнедеятельности (А. А. Волочков), интегративного подхода к изучению коммуникативной активности (С. А. Васюра), разработан соответствующий диагностический инструментарий. The article notes that the problem of activity is one of the key problems of human knowledge, attention is paid to the theoretical aspects of the study of activity in domestic psychological science, approaches to the activity of a subject of vital activity are outlined. The contribution of psychologists of the Perm psychological school to the development of ideas about activity is analyzed. The study of activity is carried out in conjunction with the problems of integral individuality and individual style. Representatives of the Perm psychological school carried out theoretical and empirical studies of various types and styles of human activity in the conditions of daily activity and in extreme conditions of life: educational, volitional, communicative, religious, information-manipulative, meaningforming, professional. The scientific product of the current direction of research in the psychology of activity B. A. Vyatkin calls the idea of the existence in the social world of Homo activus – an active person. The article outlines the relevance of studying the activity of the subject of vital activity in the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), i.e., a situation accompanied by a vital threat, is indicated. This civilizational phenomenon and the resulting epidemiological situation have made global adjustments to all spheres of human life, which necessitated adaptation to the transforming environmental conditions and prolonged situation of uncertainty. Psychologists note not only negative aspects in the current situation, but also positive ones, which are associated with the need to activate all mental life to overcome the pandemocrisis. In the Perm psychological school for the study of the activity of the subject of vital activity in conditions of a vital threat, theoretical prerequisites have been created in the form of the concept of integral individuality (V.S. Merlin), the theory of the meta-individual world (L. Ya. Dorfman), a conceptual dynamic model of the activity of the subject of vital activity (A. A. Volochkov), an integrative approach to the study of communicative activity (S. A. Vasyura), a corresponding diagnostic toolkit has been developed.

scholarly journals Inequality, Economic Growth, and Redistribution; Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hidayat ◽  
Syafruddin Karimi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Open Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Relationship

Economists have long believed that economic growth will solve the problem of inequality and poverty. For decades, the question of whether and how inequality affects growth has been the subject of open debate in the academic world. In the same section, the redistribution which is considered part of the equalization step also has positive and negative impacts on economic growth. This paper presents a literature review consisting of several sections including: 1) literature review on the relationship between inequality and growth; 2) the relationship between redistribution and growth; 3) even distribution of infrastructure is part of the form of redistribution.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowland Stout
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Practical Rationality ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Metaphysical Question ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

We can think of occurrences as completed events or as ongoing processes, a distinction that corresponds linguistically with the use of perfective and progressive aspects. The philosophy of mind has tended towards an ‘event’ conception of experience and action, but this has both distorted the conception of the causal roles of these aspects of mental life and misplaced the subjectivity of action and experience. Only processes can be present to the subject in the way required for conscious experience and for the practical self-awareness Anscombe describes. Also it has been argued by Michael Thompson that practical rationality must present actions in a processive way. This leaves open the metaphysical question of how to understand process and processes, a question engaged with by several authors in this book.

The Last Laugh

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 953-953
Author(s):  
Michael Trimble
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Arthur Koestler ◽  
The World ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Set Up

Freud writes in his startlingly innovative book, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, that “…our philosophical inquiries have not awarded to wit the important role that it plays in our mental life.” He pointed out the difficulties of studying the phenomenon scientifically, and went on to analyze the meanings of jokes and why we laugh. He emphasized the “pleasure in economy” that the central nervous system derives from the pithy nature of the witty synthesis. Since then, several authors have brought forward their own theories, Arthur Koestler among them. However, neuroscientists have shown little interest in the subject.This needs urgent attention. It is therefore welcome that at least one group of scientists is taking jokes seriously. They set up a “Laugh Lab” Web site to investigate humor, and respondents from all over the world were asked to vote for the “best” of several jokes displayed on the site. Their responses will be analyzed and hypotheses tested.

Fantasies of Childhood and Adolescence as a Source of Delusions

1922 ◽  
Vol 68 (280) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Mapother ◽  
J. E. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Adult Life ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Rudyard Kipling ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
George Du Maurier ◽  
The Subject

The subject of the relation of recurring dreams of adult life to that almost inseparable mixture of real experience and fantasy which forms the mental life of the child was dealt with by Rudyard Kipling in The Brushswood Boy, and by George du Maurier in Peter Ibbetson, after a fashion not given to psycho-pathologists. The psycho-analytic school has of late years endeavoured to trace the genesis of the psycho neuroses to aspects of the same period generally considered less attractive. There has, I think, been less effort to establish such a connection in the major psychoses.

The American Scholar and His Books

PMLA ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Holly Hanford
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
American Scholar ◽  
The Social ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Younger Men ◽  
The Subject

A year ago last summer, when I was privately digesting the fact that I had been nominated to the presidency of the Modern Language Association of America, I happened to be sitting at the daily luncheon table with a group of teachers, some of whom were just returning from a meeting of one of the learned societies in the social sciences. The subject turned on presidential addresses and some excellent wit was broken on their demerits. For understandable reasons I kept silence while the conclusion was being arrived at that presidents were elected too late in life. There was bound to be disappointment on the part of younger men when some veteran of the profession of whom they had heard much delivered himself of commonplaces entirely unworthy of his position and of his better self. At this point one member of the group, whose own lectures are a theme of admiration, made the suggestion laughingly that every scholar who gave any promise of being ultimately chosen by his colleagues to such an office be required to write a presidential address in his younger years against the day when his talent might be required of him on an occasion like the present.

XV. Observations upon luminous animals

1810 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 258-293 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interesting Part ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Original Drawings

The property which certain animals possess of emitting light, is so curious and interesting, that it has attracted the attention of naturalists in all ages. It was particularly noticed by Aristotle and Pliny amongst the ancients, and the publications of the different learned societies in Europe, contain numerous memoirs upon the subject. Notwithstanding the degree of regard bestowed upon the history of luminous animals, it is still very imperfect; the power of producing light appears to have been attributed to several creatures which do not possess it; some species which enjoy it in an eminent degree, have been imperfectly described or entirely unobserved; the organs which afford the light in certain animals have not been examined by dissection; and lastly, the explanations that have been given of the phenomena of animal light, are unsatisfactory, and in some instances palpably erroneous. As this subject forms an interesting part of the history of organized beings, I have for some years availed myself of such opportunities as occurred for its investigation. Having communicated the result of some of my researches to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, he immediately offered me his assistance with that liberality, which so eminently distinguishes him as a real lover of science. I am indebted to him for an inspection of the valuable journal he kept during his voyage with Captain Cook; for permission to copy the original drawings in his possession, of those luminous animals discovered in both the voyages of Cook; and for some notes upon the luminous appearance of the sea, that were presented to him by Captain Horsburg, whose accuracy of observation is already known to this learned Society.

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