scholarly journals The Art of Hunger: Autodestruction and resistance in Paul Auster’s Moon Palace

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Laura Arce Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Paul Auster ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
La Luna

ABSTRACT: In his novel Moon Palace (1989) Paul Auster depicts the urban experience of a character who, under the pressure of his urban and social environment, starts a process of autodestruction of his body and identity as a metaphor of the relationship between the individual and the America of the 1960s. In this article, my intention is to show how Auster uses hunger and autodestruction to create a space of resistance against American society and the American dream and thus imagine a new identity of the American individual by creating a new existential space. Título en español: “El arte del hambre: autodestrucción y resistencia en El palacio de la luna de Paul Auster”RESUMEN: En su novela El palacio de la luna (1989) Paul Auster describe la experiencia de un personaje que, bajo la presión urbana y social de su entorno, comienza un proceso de autodestrucción de su cuerpo y su identidad como metáfora de la relación entre el individuo y la América de los años sesenta. En este artículo, mi intención es mostrar como Auster utiliza el hambre y la autodestrucción para crear un espacio de resistencia contra la sociedad americana y el sueño americano y así imaginar una nueva identidad del individuo americano creando un nuevo espacio existencial.

Model Minority

2015 ◽  
pp. 259-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Sy de Jesus
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Paradoxical Effect ◽  
Exceptional Group ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Societal Relations

Since the 1960s, Asian Americans have been hailed as the model minority of American society. Seen as the exceptional group of immigrants and the example of successful assimilation, they are presumed to have achieved the American Dream and to be free from racialization. This chapter disrupts the idealization of the myth by analyzing the ways it contributes to maintaining social injustice. Grounded in Michel Foucault's (1977) notion of the norm, this analysis demonstrates how an affirmative stereotype that reflects exceptionality and exemplariness fosters and reproduces relations of discrimination and alienation. Butler's (2004) work on vulnerability is used to illuminate how this paradoxical effect of the norm takes place through the structuring of relations between Asian Americans and White mainstream Americans, between Asian Americans and other minorities, as well as among Asian Americans. This chapter challenges the reader to re-examine the myth and to explore ways to transform societal relations.

INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF MOTHERS ' PERSONALITY THAT DETERMINE THE STYLE OF CHILD'S UPBRINGING

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
И.И. Пацакула ◽  
Т.В. Белинская
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Psychological Features ◽  
The Relationship

Семья рассматривается как часть социальной среды, институт психологической поддержки ребенка, осуществляющий воссоздание определенного образа жизни, образа мыслей и отношений. Исследование посвящено изучению связи между индивидуально-психологическими особенностями личности матерей и стилем семейного воспитания. Результаты описывают стилевые особенности применительно к конкретным индивидуально-психологическим особенностям. The family is considered as a part of the social environment, an institution of psychological support for the child, which recreates a certain way of life, way of thinking and relationships. The study is devoted to the study of the relationship between the individual psychological characteristics of the personality of mothers and the style of family education. The results describe stylistic features in relation to specific individual psychological characteristics

School Desegregation

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Hochschild ◽  
Nathan Scovronick
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
School Desegregation ◽  
White Children ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Racial Domination ◽  
To Come ◽  
Private Effort ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Individual

RACIAL DOMINATION WAS, FROM THE OUTSET, the most glaring flaw in the ideology of the American dream. It began when the dream began, with Captain John Smith’s move to the “New World” in 1607. In his comments are all the elements of the American dream: equal opportunity for all, a chance of success for each, control over our nation’s political and economic future, and virtue, since America was “as God made it when hee created the world.” But enslaved Africans, who arrived in Virginia soon after Smith did, were not “borne to a new life”—or at least not one that allowed participation in the American dream. They were brought into, not out of, “every extremity.” And that terrible irony, the simultaneous invention of American slavery and American freedom, has shaped American society ever since. It has shaped its public schools as well. Desegregation has been our nation’s most direct effort since Reconstruction to come to grips with the evils of racial domination in public schooling. Beginning in the mid-1960s, it was the first as well as one of the largest postwar efforts to make America’s schooling practices fit its ideals. Many of the issues that we discuss in later chapters, such as funding equalization, school reform, the separation of children, and distinctive group treatment, are in part extensions of the successes of school desegregation or reactions to its perceived failures. Controversy over desegregation showed the difficulty in trying to satisfy both the individual and collective goals of the American dream; the experience demonstrated both the power of the ideology and the intractability of its internal conflicts. It continues to reverberate throughout American schooling and society. School desegregation was, on balance, an educational success. Its accomplishments were smaller than its advocates promised and less than they hoped for, but except when done irresponsibly or very unwisely, it improved the chances for black children to attain their dreams and did not diminish the chances for white children. Members of both races usually gained socially from the interaction. If it were politically feasible, a continued effort along these lines would be educationally beneficial. Ending legal segregation in schools and other public facilities, fostering real, not just legal, desegregation, did more to move the American dream from ideology to practice than has any other public policy or private effort.

scholarly journals Experience of Loneliness and Subjective Well-Being of a Person

2019 ◽  
pp. 8-10
Author(s):  
Patimat Gasanovna Gasanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Family Experience ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
The Relationship

The primary purpose of this article is to study the relationship between the individual components of the complex experience of loneliness and the indicators of subjective well-being of a senior individual. According to the obtained data, an overall view of oneself as a lonely person is accompanied by low levels of subjective well-being, changes in the mood and the significance of one’s social environment. People who do not have a family experience more negative feelings associated with being alone than those who have a family.

Our family walks

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nick R. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Full Circle ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Institutional Relationships

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Our Family Walks is a coming-of-age narrative that explores what it means to be an African American/multiracial boy growing into manhood during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in a city that is the seat of America's political power, Washington D.C. In the tradition of Tobias Woolf's This Boy's Life and Ta-Nahisi Coates's Between the World and Me, the memoir examines familial and institutional relationships as well as the relationship between the individual and society at moments of great sociocultural and political shifts. Two-thirds through, at Chapter 7, the narrative morphs from being about a boy surviving his hardscrabble childhood and life at the orphanage, to a story of victim turned victimizer, and an author considering what this turn meant then, and what it means today. The story comes full circle by concluding in Obama's America amidst a 21st century resurgence of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Subjective Nature of Time and the Individual’s (In)Ability to Inflict Social Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Molly Cobb
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social History ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Alfred Bester

This chapter explores the individual microhistory by looking at works by Alfred Bester which consider the subjective nature of time and the privatisation of temporal experience. Bester’s works often demonstrate the lack of a universal continuum and the isolated nature of an individual’s timeline, which can be seen as a representation of the individual’s (in)ability to exhibit agency over their social environment. This chapter proposes that Bester is utilising an otherwise standard SF trope to invite his readers to re-examine the way in which individuals are made to conform to a society which is given priority over the individual self. This chapter delineates the relationship between the self’s subjective experience of the world, in terms of psychology and personal identity, and the objective assumptions of that world in regards to the individual, thus demonstrating the self’s seemingly unalterable place in social history.

Accent Policy and Accent Modification Enterprises as Potential Indicators of Intercultural Power Relations: A Call for an Updated Research Agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.

Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Stigma Among Young Adults With History of Suicide Attempts

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meshan Lehmann ◽  
Matthew R. Hilimire ◽  
Lawrence H. Yang ◽  
Bruce G. Link ◽  
Jordan E. DeVylder
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
High Risk Population ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Background: Self-esteem is a major contributor to risk for repeated suicide attempts. Prior research has shown that awareness of stigma is associated with reduced self-esteem among people with mental illness. No prior studies have examined the association between self-esteem and stereotype awareness among individuals with past suicide attempts. Aims: To understand the relationship between stereotype awareness and self-esteem among young adults who have and have not attempted suicide. Method: Computerized surveys were administered to college students (N = 637). Linear regression analyses were used to test associations between self-esteem and stereotype awareness, attempt history, and their interaction. Results: There was a significant stereotype awareness by attempt interaction (β = –.74, p = .006) in the regression analysis. The interaction was explained by a stronger negative association between stereotype awareness and self-esteem among individuals with past suicide attempts (β = –.50, p = .013) compared with those without attempts (β = –.09, p = .037). Conclusion: Stigma is associated with lower self-esteem within this high-functioning sample of young adults with histories of suicide attempts. Alleviating the impact of stigma at the individual (clinical) or community (public health) levels may improve self-esteem among this high-risk population, which could potentially influence subsequent suicide risk.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Perspective

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.

Klein with Lacan: A Study on the Reception of Lacanian Ideas in Uruguay and Its Effects on Clinical Practices (1955–82)

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-361
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Grau-Pérez ◽  
J. Guillermo Milán
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Material ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Discursive Approach ◽  
The Way ◽  
Clinical Cases

In Uruguay, Lacanian ideas arrived in the 1960s, into a context of Kleinian hegemony. Adopting a discursive approach, this study researched the initial reception of these ideas and its effects on clinical practices. We gathered a corpus of discursive data from clinical cases and theoretical-doctrinal articles (from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s). In order to examine the effects of Lacanian ideas, we analysed the difference in the way of interpreting the clinical material before and after Lacan's reception. The results of this research illuminate some epistemological problems of psychoanalysis, especially the relationship between theory and clinical practice.

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