The Father and the Bride in Shakespeare

PMLA ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda E. Boose
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Marriage Ceremony ◽  
The Family ◽  
Rival Male ◽  
Original Family ◽  
The Individual

Although sixteenth-century daughters were evidently an economic burden on their fathers, Shakespeare consistently depicts fathers whose love for their daughters is so possessive that it endangers the family unit. To delineate the tensions of this bond at its liminal moment, Shakespeare evokes the altar tableau of the marriage service. This paradigmatic substructure illuminates the central conflict in the father-daughter relationship: the father who resists the ritual's demands to give his daughter to a rival male destroys both his paternal authority and his family's generative future; yet the daughter who escapes without undergoing ritual severance violates the family structure and thus becomes both guiltlessly agentive in ruining her original family and tragically incapable of creating a new one. The marriage ceremony is designed to resolve this paradox. In Shakespeare's dramas, submission to this rite ensures the only possibility of freedom for the individual and of continuity for the family.

scholarly journals Death following accidental compression of neck by safety harness: A case of fall from height

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 258-261
Author(s):  
Bedanta Sarma ◽  
Shreemanta Kumar Dash ◽  
Pankaj Suresh Ghormade
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Cervical Spine ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Family ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Proper Training ◽  
Fall From Height ◽  
The Individual

Work related fall from height many a times causes fatal injuries and death amongst working in various construction sites. It leads to different types of fatal bodily injuries including spinal injuries causing economic burden to the family. Although, they have been provided with protective gears and proper training for its use; it has been observed that workers are not using these in a proper ways. They eventually met with accidents which can easily be prevented. Accidental compression of neck by safety harness following fall from height has rarely been described leading to death of the individual. A case was brought for autopsy following accidental compression of neck structure causing fracture of cervical spine and transaction of spinal cord. In this paper, the case has been described with its autopsy findings.

scholarly journals The Integrated Use of Individual and Family Psychotherapy

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.D. Steinhauer ◽  
G.W. Tisdall
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Individual Therapy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Concurrent Use ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Clinician

For almost thirty years after the development of family therapy, the concurrent use of family and individual psychotherapy was seen as incompatible by leading proponents of each modality. Although recently the literature has revealed an increased willingness to utilize family and individual therapies concurrently, the decision for or against any such combination has been left largely to the intuition or bias of the individual clinician. This paper suggests the concurrent use of family and individual psychotherapies when disturbances of family structure and interaction co-exist with, reinforce, and are maintained by largely ego-syntonic internalized psychopathology (that is, the character defences of individual family members). It provides a rationale for integrating the concurrent therapies, and uses clinical examples to illustrate how each can potentiate the other. There is a discussion of indications and contraindications for the integrated use of concurrent family and individual therapy. From their attempts to apply these principles, the authors conclude that the experience for the family, the individual and the therapists is that the selective and integrated use of concurrent family and individual therapies can achieve more than can either therapy alone — the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Assessing Families (Not Just Individuals) for Missionary Service

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred C. Gingrich
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Assessment ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
Mission Service ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

The assessment of missionaries tends to focus on the adult members of the family unit being approved for service. Yet, the family is the one consistent relational network that missionaries are connected to throughout the pre-field, on the field, and post-field phases of mission service. In addition, throughout the history of missions sending bodies have struggled to balance the needs of the missions context, the ministry gifts that the adult members of the family bring to the field, and the dynamics of their marital and family relationships. While the literature on missionary children has grown significantly, adopting a perspective that prioritizes the family unit as the unit being “sent” may result in helpful information regarding missionary attrition and longevity. Therefore, assessing missionary families, not only the individual members of the family, at the various stages of missionary service is warranted. Using concepts and techniques from systems theory, a model and logistical factors for assessing missionary families are presented, along with suggestions for whom to assess, what to assess, and how to conduct family assessment. Resources and possible assessment techniques are also provided.

Back to the Cave

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-88
Author(s):  
David L. Pike
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Lone Wolf ◽  
The Family ◽  
Dominant Individual ◽  
New Space ◽  
The Individual ◽  
A New Species

While the individual fallout shelter provided a new space for imagining the family unit in the context of broader social forces, the cave shelter stressed the animal nature of modern man. Whether fighting for survival in a savage postnuclear world, evolving into a new species, or devolving into animal behavior, the inhabitants of cave shelters display a feral identity. The cave has long carried this resonance regardless of whether composed of natural formations, human or machine-excavated tunnels and mines, or some combination of the two. As a postwar bunker space, the cave’s particular affordances are non-technologized shelter, an exposed passage to the outside world, and the animal survival of the dominant individual. Sometimes, we find a reduced and childless family unit, generally the male and his mate or mates; at others a lone wolf hidden from and pitted against a hostile world. In the cave, any remaining social structure is troped as animalistic or otherwise non-human and often a threat to the surviving individuals. The cave-space presumes not the home shelter’s projection of a strong and paternalistic government but the Hobbesian specter of the loss of any kind of humane community, homo homini lupus, the bunkered mentality that would eventually emerge in the 1980s as survivalism.

Family structure and educational achievement

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (S3) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Oldman ◽  
Bill Bytheway ◽  
Gordon Horobin
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Ordinal Position ◽  
Family Composition ◽  
Sex Composition ◽  
Occupational Success ◽  
The Family ◽  
Large Families ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Do So

This paper attempts a new look at an old problem. Throughout this century there have been many reports showing that certain characteristics of family structure are associated with the individual's performance in evaluative situations, be these IQ tests, tests of achievement, school and university examinations and even occupational success (for an excellent summary, see Anastasi, 1956). It is well known, for example, that children from large families tend not to do so well in such situations as children from small families, and that this phenomenon appears to be, in some degree, independent of socio-economic differences. This we can illustrate with our own data (Text-fig. 1) in which we see a steady decline in score on a nonverbal group test of intelligence as the size of the family increases. Less clear is whether other features of family composition, such as the spacing between siblings, the sex composition of the sibship and the ordinal position of the individual within the sibship, also affect achievement. (There is no lack of reports but, as we shall show, the evidence they provide is conflicting.)

Module 1—Family Collectivism (Sessions 1–3)

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Amy Weisman de Mamani ◽  
Merranda McLaughlin ◽  
Olivia Altamirano ◽  
Daisy Lopez ◽  
Salman Shaheen Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Early Termination ◽  
American Family ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual

The focus on the individual, typical of mainstream U.S. therapies, is alien to other cultures and can cause discomfort that leads to ineffective treatment and early termination. The aim of this chapter is to describe minorities collectivistic beliefs and introduce a rationale for incorporating them into family therapy in a way that creates a cohesive family environment. Skills from this chapter will aid families in emphasizing commonalities while de-emphasizing differences between family members. Therapists are provided suggestions for how to approach any differences that arise in how family members contribute to the family unit. The chapter provides notes on how to encourage family members to practice cultural traditions and destigmatize views of their ill family member. Examples of relevant homework exercises are provided. A case study of a Korean American family is used to illustrate the process.

“The House of the Seven Women”: the Fading of Generational Boundaries in the Family

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Seixas Magalhães ◽  
Terezinha Féres-Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Applied Psychology ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Memories ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Successive Generations

Underlying the constitution of the “family body” we find the generational past, transmitted and appropriated by successive generations. The family psyche, like the individual psyche, needs to be embedded in a body, which can be thought of as a family habitat, topically represented by the family's house or home. The house operates as a container for intersubjective contents of the family structure, in which family memories, affects, and ideals are deposited. The sense of belonging is constructed through what is lived, shared, and narrated within the family group. In this home environment, generational boundaries can be understood as walls of transmission; these allow the psychic support of the “family body”, operate as a symbolic filter, and therefore enable the individuation processes of family members. In this study, we discuss a family psychotherapy case, in which seven women—members of four cohabiting generations—were treated. This “house of the seven women” suffered from the fading of generational boundaries, evidenced by the women's difficult coexistence in a home marked by non-elaborated or unexpressed traumatic memories. This case was treated by the family psychotherapy unit of the Service of Applied Psychology (SPA) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Mothers and Sons: Two Paintings for San Bonaventura in Early Modern Rome

2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Valone
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
Fathers And Sons ◽  
Early Modern Rome

Portia dell'Anguillara Cesi and Margherita della Somaglia Peretti were both wealthy heiresses in late sixteenth-century Rome, and each was the patron of a fine altarpiece for the Capuchin church of San Bonaventura. Although women were widely recognized as patrons in the period, the patronage of these two paintings, which show the Virgin, saints, and the portrait of a young boy, has always been assigned to their husbands, Paolo Emilio Cesi and Michele Peretti, because the works have been related to the patrilinear, agnatic image of the early modern family, i.e., fathers and sons. Instead, the works express a bilinear, cognatic image of the family, indicating legal, economic, and affective ties between mothers and sons. Portia dell'Anguillara's will of 1587 further elucidates aspects of the bilinear family structure.

Preparing for Dying: Meaningful Practices in Palliative Care

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Bourgeois ◽  
Amanda Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

This article describes three exemplars that depict the meaningful practices associated with caring for the dying. The exemplars are illustrative of the way culture shapes our attitudes toward dying and the practices adopted by groups that assist them to make sense of their world. Acknowledging these practices enables health professionals to provide interventions that support the dying and their family within their own cultural network. Acceptance of the cultural practices displayed by the family unit allows for the expression of grieving behaviors and has the potential to contribute to the peaceful death of the individual. The provision of quality palliative care is enhanced when health professionals acknowledge the significance that culture plays in the meaningful practices associated with the dying process.

scholarly journals Pattern of interaction and relationships between family members

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Manar Alazzam ◽  
Mohammed Albashtawy ◽  
Maen Aljezawi ◽  
Abdul-Monim Batiha ◽  
Mazen Freij ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Global Understanding ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Primary Unit ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Significant Data

Studying a family as a unit to describe the relationships in will allow the researcher to investigate the family as the primary unit and as a whole, which means that the family, the individuals as family members and their relationship is in the foreground. The data derived using this approach comes from the family unit functioning as a whole and does not reflect the individual members’ contributions “solely” or in a combined way. Such an approach allows for more global understanding of the issues surrounding family relationships as health and social data can be collected from different aspects and dimensions within the family as a unit and it will add more significant data. Even though studying a family as a unit eliminates the non-independence issue it does raise concerns about ignoring many potentially important details of intra-family relationships. In conclusion, the premise of studying the family as a unit (family as the unit of analysis) is that the researcher can gain greater insight into families in general and a family’s relationships in particular.

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