scholarly journals Types of Catharsis in the Perception of Paintings

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
M.V. Yermolayeva ◽  
D.V. Lubovsky
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
The Moment

The article analyzes the functions and structure of psychological catharsis as a cultural means of meaning-making. Basing on eudemonistic understanding of catharsis, the authors show its meaning-making action. In the structure of catharsis, there are phases of excitement (pathos), concentration (‘merging’ with the main character), and transcendence (‘reaching beyond one’s limitations’) which, through personal reflection, concludes with the individual’s ‘return to oneself’, transformed through the encounter with the work of art. The authors consider catharsis as an event that encourages action and creates the space of opportunities for it; basing on the research of art historians, the authors describe two kinds of catharsis (in the perception of Caravaggio’s and Rembrandt’s works). The authors identify psychotechnical means of interrupting catharsis at the moment of emotional extremum (in the works of Caravaggio) and the conditions for completing the reflective catharsis with the ‘return to one’s transformed self’ (using the paintings of Rembrandt as an example). The paper concludes with an outline of further prospects of exploring catharsis as a cultural means of meaning-making.

Erfahrung ohne Erfahrenden

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Petr Kouba
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Individual Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
Individual Existence ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Intentional Structure

This article examines the limits of Heidegger’s ontological description of emotionality from the period of Sein und Zeit and Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik along the lines outlined by Lévinas in his early work De l’existence à l’existant. On the basis of the Lévinassian concept of “il y a”, we attempt to map the sphere of the impersonal existence situated out of the structured context of the world. However the worldless facticity without individuality marks the limits of the phenomenological approach to human existence and its emotionality, it also opens a new view on the beginning and ending of the individual existence. The whole structure of the individual existence in its contingency and finitude appears here in a new light, which applies also to the temporal conditions of existence. Yet, this is not to say that Heidegger should be simply replaced by Lévinas. As shows an examination of the work of art, to which brings us our reading of Moravia’s literary exposition of boredom (the phenomenon closely examined in Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik), the view on the work of art that is entirely based on the anonymous and worldless facticity of il y a must be extended and complemented by the moment in which a new world and a new individual structure of experience are being born. To comprehend the dynamism of the work of art in its fullness, it is necessary to see it not only as an ending of the world and the correlative intentional structure of the individual existence, but also as their new beginning.

Monkey on My Back. An Autoethnographic Narrative of a Therapeutic Experience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Wiesner
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Self ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Therapeutic Experience ◽  
Postmodern Philosophy ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Global Uncertainty

With a conscious attempt to contribute to contemporary discussions in mad/trans/queer/monster studies, the monograph approaches complex postmodern theories and contextualizes them from an autoethnographic methodological perspective. As the self-explanatory subtitle reads, the book introduces several topics as revelatory fields for the author’s self-exploration at the moment of an intense epistemological and ontological crisis. Reflexively written, it does not solely focus on a personal experience, as it also aims at bridging the gap between the individual and the collective in times of global uncertainty. There are no solid outcomes defined; nevertheless, the narrative points to a certain—more fluid—way out. Through introducing alternative ways of hermeneutics and meaning-making, the book offers a synthesis of postmodern philosophy and therapy, evolutionary astrology as a symbolic language, embodied inquiry, and Buddhist thought that together represent a critical attempt to challenge the pathologizing discursive practices of modern disciplines during the neoliberal capitalist era.

scholarly journals A Life on the Hyphen-Bicultural Identity in Virgil Suarez’s Going Under

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Renran Zhang ◽  
Guiyu Dai
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Cuban American ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Incompatible Elements ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
Virgil Suarez

This thesis is intended to delve into the one-and-a-half generation of Cuban-American’s bicultural identity in Virgil Suarez’s novel Going Under. Through an interpretation from the perspective of diaspora consciousness, this paper will identify how the main character constructs his individual identity through a network of usually competitive and incompatible elements like language, culture, religion, political ideologies and so on. Xavier Cuevas, the protagonist in this novel, maintains an unstable relationship with the American culture which he believes he has been wholly assimilated. The tension and anxiety lead him to “go under” and search for roots to return to the moment before exile.

Art and Society in England and France in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Two Paintings before the Public

1972 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 119-139
Author(s):  
Alan Bowness
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Source Material ◽  
The State ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Art And Society ◽  
The Moment ◽  
State Of Art

The primary source material for the art historian is of course the work of art, and this in itself places him in a fortunate position because the permanent relevance of the work of art is, I take it, self-evident. For the art historian, the work of art is an historical fact, pre-selected for generally accepted aesthetic reasons. But the work of art has no absolute meaning: it does not exist in a vacuum. It has both what we might call a history and a geography—the history being that record of interpretation and evaluation which accrues to the work of art from the moment of its creation down to the present day; and the geography being the particular artistic and social context of its original creation. The history can at times be very misleading: it is obvious that each generation is going to interpret the past as it wishes, and no judgment can be objective. So it is the geography that is more important, and this is extremely difficult to define. But if we are to understand the work of art, we need to enquire into the circumstances of its creation: we must ask, what did this painting or sculpture or building signify when it first appeared? Only from such specific investigations can one proceed to general propositions about the state of art at any particular moment, and perhaps also about the state of society which produced the art.

scholarly journals The Conference Reimagined. Postcards, Letters, and Camping Together in Undressed Places

Digithum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soile Veijola ◽  
Emily Höckert ◽  
David Carlin ◽  
Ann Light ◽  
Janne Säynäjäkangas
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social World ◽  
Meeting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Moment

In this paper, five authors account for the rethinking of a conference as a series of postcards, letters, rules and silent moments so that traditional hierarchies of knowledge could be overturned or, at least, sidelined. We recount how the place we convened was enlisted as an actor and the dramas and devices we applied to encounter it. We use this accounting to problematize the conventional practices of goal-oriented meetings and co-authored papers as forms of academic meaning-making. In finding a meeting point where expertise was disorientated and status undressed, we were able to investigate the idea of co-being between human and nonhuman realities as the step social theory needs to take to become a point of connection with the social world, instead of an escape from it. We conclude that this involved silence and necessary fictions as a means to consider the future and past in the moment of meeting.

scholarly journals ANEKDOT TENTANG KEKUASAAN DAN MENTALITAS DALAM CERKAK “KURSI” DAN “LEDHEK” KARYA KRISHNA MIHARJA (ANECDOTE ABOUT AUTHORITY AND MENTALITY IN CERKAK “KURSI” AND “LEDHEK” BY KRISHNA MIHARJA)

Widyaparwa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-262
Author(s):  
Yohanes Adhi Satiyoko
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Cultural World

Penelitian “Anekdot tentang Kekuasaan dan Mentalitas dalam Cerkak ““Kursi”” dan ““Ledhek”” karya Krishna Miharja” berusaha melihat bagaimana dialektika individu dengan dunia sosial budaya mereka melalui tokoh utama  Den Lurah dan Ledhek Kuning dalam memperoleh dan menjalankan fungsi sosial mereka. Tujuan penelitian ini ialah menjelaskan dialektika antara tokoh-tokoh cerita tersebut dan dunia sosial budaya mereka melalui tiga momen simultan, yaitu eksternalisasi, objektivasi, dan internalisasi dalam kerangka sosiologi pengetahuan Peter Berger. Pembahasan dilakukan dengan pembacaan terhadap kedua cerkak tersebut melalui perwatakan tokoh, latar, dan alur, kemudian menemukan tipifikasi atau perlambangan fungsional yang dapat ditafsirkan menjadi sebuah simpulan yang dapat dipaparkan menjadi sebuah ekspresi dialektis dalam momen eksternalisasi, objektivasi, dan internalisasi tokoh utama dengan dunia sosial budayanya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kedua tokoh utama tersebut tidak melakukan interaksi yang benar dalam momen eksternalisasi, objektivasi, dan internalisasi dengan dunia sosial budaya mereka sehingga perjalanan karir mereka berakhir tragis.Research about “Anecdote about Authority and Mentality in Cerkak “Kursi” and “Ledhek” by Krishna Miharja” tries to reveal the dialectic between individuals and their social cultural world through the main character, Den Lurah and Ledhek Kuning in obtaining and running their social functions. The research aims to explain dialectic between those main caharacters and their social cultural through three simultant moments, externalization, objectivation, and internalization in the frame of sociology of knowledge by Peter Berger. The discussuin is conducted by reading to those two cerkaks (Javanese short stories) through characterization, setting, and plot, then by finding functional typifications to be expressed as dialectic expression in moments of externalization, objectivation, and internalization between the main characters and their social cultural worlds. The result shows that those two main characters do not interact properly in the moment of externalization, objectivation, and internalization with their social cultural worlds. It then impacts their carreer to tragic ending.

scholarly journals YITNA YUWANA LENA KENA IN GOGROKE RERONCEN KEMBANG GARING’S NOVEL BY TULUS SETIYADI

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arauni Mayanfauli ◽  
Darmoko Darmoko
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Word Structure ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Moment

Language expressions in Javanese culture that contain a warning to someone at the moment and will do an activity or work are often formulated with the word structure: yitna yuwana lena kena. The idea in the phrase is usually related to ethical values (moral philosophy) how one must be careful in speaking, behaving, and acting so that someone gets the safety of life in the world. Conversely, if someone is not careful in speaking, acting, and acting undoubtedly will get problems in his life. Ethical values in this novel relate to moral teachings to a woman so that she always has virtues, such as carrying herself well, must be able to hold back the passions, predict and consider things that are and will be faced, which are good and not good, and not permitted excessive behavior. Objective approach, qualitative descriptive research method and Javanese ethical theoretical conceptual framework from Franz Magnis Suseno is used to examine the text in the yitna yuwana lena kena language expression in the Gogroke Reroncen Kembang Garing’s novel. An ethical conceptual framework is used to assess the karma experienced by the main character. The assumption in this study says that the words, attitudes, and actions of someone who is careless and despicable will have an impact on suffering and misery.

scholarly journals Fake or Fortune? Alexander Dorner and the Weimar Reproductions Debate

Venezia Arti ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Balbi
Keyword(s):  
Art Museums ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Art Historians

Between 1929 and 1930 the Der Kreis journal hosted a debate among art historians and museum directors on how art copies were changing the museum landscape. The so-called Hamburger Faksimile-Streit constitutes a crucial moment in the Weimarian theoretical debate on the categories of copy and original, culminating a few years later in Benjamin’s well-known essay on the work of art. After examining the theses of the main participants in the debate, this article focus on the position of curator and museum director Alexander Dorner – the only one advocating for the non-superiority of originals over copies in art museums – and on his relationship with Walter Benjamin’s later theories.

Turning to Narrative

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Schiff
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
The Self ◽  
Narrative Psychology ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Insight Into

Chapter 3 of A New Narrative for Psychology introduces a theoretical framework for a narrative perspective that inspires creative approaches to studying psychological problems. It begins with a history of the “narrative turn” in psychology and outlines the current divisions. Since the 1980s, psychological research calling itself “narrative” has blossomed. However, at the moment, narrative psychology is fragmented, with no clear definition of what narrative is or does. This chapter addresses the definitional problems posed by the current use of the narrative concept in psychology, arguing that narrative psychology is not just a theory or a method but, rather, must encompass both. It reorients narrative psychology to meaning making, the study of how and why persons enact aspects of their lives in time and space. Narrative offers researchers insight into the fundamental psychological problems of how persons interpret the self and experience.

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