The Mask Avatars in the Works of Mishima Yukio and Role Played by the Subject-Object Relation

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Florina Ilis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Object Relation ◽  
Mishima Yukio ◽  
The Subject

scholarly journals The Law Challenged and the Critique of Identity with Emmanuel Levinas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Petrilli
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Object Relation ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Orientation ◽  
New Humanism ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject

AbstractIdentity as traditionally conceived in mainstream Western thought is focused on theory, representation, knowledge, subjectivity and is centrally important in the works of Emmanuel Levinas. His critique of Western culture and corresponding notion of identity at its foundations typically raises the question of the other. Alterity in Levinas indicates existence of something on its own account, in itself independently of the subject’s will or consciousness. The objectivity of alterity tells of the impossible evasion of signs from their destiny, which is the other. The implications involved in reading the signs of the other have contributed to reorienting semiotics in the direction of semioethics. In Levinas, the I-other relation is not reducible to abstract cognitive terms, to intellectual synthesis, to the subject-object relation, but rather tells of involvement among singularities whose distinctive feature is alterity, absolute alterity. Humanism of the other is a pivotal concept in Levinas overturning the sense of Western reason. It asserts human duties over human rights. Humanism of alterity privileges encounter with the other, responsibility for the other, over tendencies of the centripetal and egocentric orders that instead exclude the other. Responsibility allows for neither rest nor peace. The “properly human” is given in the capacity for absolute otherness, unlimited responsibility, dialogical intercorporeity among differences non-indifferent to each other, it tells of the condition of vulnerability before the other, exposition to the other. The State and its laws limit responsibility for the other. Levinas signals an essential contradiction between the primordial ethical orientation and the legal order. Justice involves comparing incomparables, comparison among singularities outside identity. Consequently, justice places limitations on responsibility, on unlimited responsibility which at the same time it presupposes as its very condition of possibility. The present essay is structured around the following themes: (1) Premiss; (2) Justice, uniqueness, and love; (3) Sign and language; (4) Dialogue and alterity; (5) Semiotic materiality; (6) Globalization and the trap of identity; (7) Human rights and rights of the other: for a new humanism; (8) Ethics; (9) The World; (10) Outside the subject; (11) Responsibility and Substitution; (12) The face; (13) Fear of the other; (14) Alterity and justice; (15) Justice and proximity; (16) Literary writing; (17) Unjust justice; (18) Caring for the other.

Beyond the subject–object binary: Towards cosmopolitan knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-454
Author(s):  
David Neilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Object Relation ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Intersectionality Theory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemological Violence ◽  
Everyday Knowledge ◽  
Counter Argument ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Rather than distinguishing, as Held’s (2020) article does, between “subjective” and “objective” forms of knowledge, this commentary makes the counter argument that the subject–object relation is an integral feature of all forms of knowledge, which can be more usefully distinguished according to differences in the form of the subject–object relation. I specifically differentiate the subject–object relation of Western social science from those of everyday knowledge and non-Western forms of knowledge. Western social science’s epistemological violence to other(ed) forms of knowledge is enabled, this commentary argues, by the false assumption that it is a subject-less objectivity while other forms of knowledge are subjective. The alternative epistemological subject position introduced here contrasts the epistemic imperialism of Western social science with a cosmopolitan vision of a dynamic global knowledge driven by the constructive articulation of differently limited knowledge forms. I then discuss this paper’s epistemological subject position in relation to class and intersectionality theory.

The Psychology of Individuation as Epistemology

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-672
Author(s):  
Lina Marcela Gil Congote ◽  
Germán Vargas Guillén ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Object Relation ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Gilbert Simondon ◽  
The Way

This article explores the indissoluble connection between the order of being and knowing in the allagmatic epistemology proposed by Gilbert Simondon based on the following thesis: the knowledge of psychic individuation is the condition for the possibility of knowing different modes of individuation. This statement requires the passage through logic, according to the author’s conception of ontogenesis, for describing the analogy and the subject that knows analogically and individuates itself as he knows. Thus, the psychology of individuation is established as a scientific field of work opened up by Simondon and its epistemological implications in the way of conceiving the subject-object relation.

scholarly journals Refocusing the Gendered Gaze

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Object Relation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Economic Individualism ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Moll Flanders ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Gendered Gaze

Daniel Defoe makes use of subject-object patterns within his novel Moll Flanders in order to produce ruptures within eighteenth-century gender ideology and to reconstitute the subject-object relation between masculine and feminine within the novel. Even as Defoe affirms the dominance of gender ideology by positioning his readers as objects of the novel, Defoe uses his character of Moll Flanders to suggest the potential for transforming ideology through the performative act of gender. As Moll struggles to link fragments of her past, she explores the boundaries of gender identity and transgresses their limits in order to achieve movement within eighteenth century society. How Moll negotiates her conceptions and interpretations of her relation to her natural, cultural, and psychological landscapes suggests her success in tracing the presence of an identity that would inform and sustain the self by allowing her to assert a sense of economic individualism, which might release her from any moral obligation to the pervasive and dominant ideologies affecting gender in the eighteenth century.

Chuang Tzu’s selflessness: mind-state and the cultural semiotics of jingshen

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-399
Author(s):  
Zhong Chen ◽  
Tingting Yao
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Object Relation ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Chuang Tzu ◽  
Symbolic Cognition ◽  
Mind State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chinese Philosophers ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract The cognitive paradigm of symbols in ancient Chinese philosophy is quite distinct from that of Western semiotic circles. Chuang Tzu, one of the most influential ancient Chinese philosophers, concentrates his study on exploring the state of the subject’s selflessness and establishes his own cognitive paradigm of jingshen. This paper uses his statements of “I lost myself” and “The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror” in The adjustment of controversies of The Chuang Tzu, to investigate the ideal selfless mind-state and selflessness. It attempts to transfer the relationship between subject and object in symbolic cognition into the connection of intersubjectivity to construct jingshen’s cognitive paradigm of releasing symbolic meaning. The task of this research is to overcome the limitation created by the subject–object relation and finally to be “the Perfect Man” who can know the Dao.

ON THE SUBJECT-OBJECT RELATION

Mind ◽  
1932 ◽  
Vol XLI (164) ◽  
pp. 476-480
Author(s):  
C. A. STRONG
Keyword(s):  
Object Relation ◽  
The Subject

The Subject-Object Relation

1917 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry E. Bliss
Keyword(s):  
Object Relation ◽  
The Subject

scholarly journals System of relations of drug-dependent personality

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Object Relation ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Dependent Personality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Drug Dependent ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The paper discusses the basic psychological directions of the system of attitudes of drug addiction’s study. The analysis of the problem of the system of attitudes of drug addiction persons made it possible to consider the relationship of drug addicts as a triad of subject-subject attitude to the drug, subject-object attitude to other people and subject-object arritude to himself. Thus, the drug "humanizes", endowed with attributes of a person's mental life. Emotional attachment to the drug is "personalized," and its loss is experienced as the loss of some part of itself. Behavior in relation to the drug is manifested in his persistent search. While, another person is treated by drug addicts in terms of utility, acceptability, need, importance, importance for them. The result of the analysis of different points of view about the peculiarities of the system of attitudes among drug addicts was the construction of a model for studying the relationship of persons with drug addiction in the triad: the subject is a subjective attitude to the drug, the subject is the object relation to other people, and the subject is an objective relation to himself. Drug addicts, animate and personalize the drug, refer to it as a person. At the same time, their relation to other people and to themselves is reified, and others are perceived as objects for manipulation. The findings suggest that formation of subject-subject emotional stereotypes towards close women: mother and wife/girl who are based on the depreciation mother’s social status and further in exaggerating the negative qualities of a partner.

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