Exploring the Applicability of Lacan’s The Other and Death Drive to Art Therapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 477-491
Author(s):  
Philip Gong ◽  
◽  
Eunjin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Art Therapy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Death Drive

scholarly journals Art, Mysticism, and the Other: Kristeva’s Adel and Teresa

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Elaine P. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Outer Edge ◽  
Muslim Woman ◽  
The Other ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Suicide Bomber ◽  
The Veil

Kristeva's Teresa My Love concerns the life and thought of a 16th century Spanish mystic, written in the form of a novel.  Yet the theme of another kind of foreigner, equally exotic but this time threatening, pops up unexpectedly and disappears several times during the course of the novel.  At the very beginning of the story, the 21st century narrator, psychoanalyst Sylvia Leclerque, encounters a young woman in a headscarf, whom Kristeva describes as an IT engineer, who speaks out, explaining that "she and her God were one and that the veil was the immovable sign of this 'union,' which she wished to publicize in order to definitively 'fix it' in herself and in the eyes of others." In this paper I ask what difference Kristeva discerns between these two women, a distinction that apparently makes Teresa's immanence simultaneously a transcendence, but transforms a Muslim woman in a headscarf immediately into an imagined suicide bomber.  Despite the problematic aspects of this comparison, we can learn something from them about Kristeva's ideas on mysticism and on art.  Both mysticism and art are products of the death drive, but whereas the suicide bomber and the animal directly and purely pursue death (again, on Kristeva's view) Teresa and Adel remain on its outer edge and merely play with mortality.  

scholarly journals Two aspects of art: Suicide mental illness and therapy

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Hakkı Engin Giderer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Art Therapy ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Commit Suicide

Examining the life stories of some productive artists; it is seen that they struggle with mental illnesses, intensely deal with the thought of death and they even commit suicide. On the other hand, we believe that art has a curative power. Art therapy is known by physicians, therapists and trainers. Art is also used in various ways for treatment. If the process of creation pulls an artist into a mental illness and thoughts about death, then how does it possibly cure? This text tries to explain the dilemma in question.   Keywords: art, mental illness, therapy, suicide, madness.  

Imagine the Other: Drawing on Art Therapy to Reduce Hate and Violence

Art Therapy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Kapitan
Keyword(s):  
Art Therapy ◽  
The Other

All Ears

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Szendy
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Intelligence Gathering ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The world of international politics has been recently rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals that are all tied to various practices of auditory surveillance: the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping, Edward Snowden’s revelations, and the “News of the World” scandal are just the most sensational examples of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this unceasing battle of different forms of listening? Whence this generalized principle of eavesdropping? Peter Szendy’s All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage answers these questions by tracing the long history of moles from the Bible, through Jeremy Bentham’s “panacoustic” project, all the way to the intelligence gathering network called “Echelon.” This archeology of auditory surveillance runs parallel with the analysis of its representations in literature (Sophocles, Shakespeare, Joyce, Kafka, Borges), opera (Monteverdi, Mozart, Berg), and film (Lang, Hitchcock, Coppola, De Palma). Following in the footsteps of Orpheus, the book proposes a new concept of “overhearing” that connects the act of spying to an excessive intensification of listening. Relying on the works of Freud, Deleuze, Foucault, Adorno, and Derrida, Szendy’s work attempts to locate at the heart of listening the ear of the Other that manifests itself as the originary division of a “split-hearing” that turns the drive for mastery and surveillance into the death drive.

scholarly journals Lacanian Reading of Marsha Norman's Night, Mother

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Khadijeh Taherifard ◽  
Razieh Eslamieh
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
The Relationship

This paper offers a Lacanian/feminist reading of Night, Mother by the American playwright Marsha Norman. The play Night, Mother will be read according to Lacan’s point of view and the concepts of identity and identity formation are studied in this paper. The play will be analyzed based on the Lacanian concepts of the contrast between the Imaginary Order and the Symbolic Order, and the notion of Death Drive, suggesting that in the play Jessie represents the Symbolic Order and her mother, Thelma, represents the Imaginary Order. The notion of Death Drive and its omnipresence in Jessie’s psyche is discussed and emphasized. Thelma functions as the Other for Jessie, while her father functions as the Mother, a reversal of gender roles in the Lacanian reading. Moreover, the relationship between some of the concepts are explained. It will be explicated how the play can be brought in line with a feminist reading of Lacan by reversing the stereotypical gender roles and subsequently getting close to post-feminist authors.

scholarly journals The Uncanny and the Unspoken Element of Speech in Kazantzakis and Terzakis

2020 ◽  
pp. 70-87
Author(s):  
A. Alexopoulou
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Common Component ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Erotic

This study investigates the theme of Uncanny in the Modern Greek roman of the 20th century and in particular in Terzakis’ Secret life and Kazantzakis’ Christ Recrucifi ed. The unspoken element of speech is a common component of the romans and a structural element of their poetics to the extent that it refl ects the divided consciousness of the characters. The encounter with the erotic Other becomes the occasion for the subjective division to emerge, to the point where the only escape is death drive. The cancellation of the love aff air brings the characters in confrontation with the diametrically opposed poles of their own subjectivity, the impulse of death on the one hand and life on the other. The depersonalisation of speech and the phenomena of xenopathy appear as a consequence of the extinction of the subject. Their doppelgängers emerge as a response to their desperate desire, up to the point where they eventually crush their living existence.

The New Aspect of Psychotherapy in our Clinical Psychiatric Unit: The Effort it Took to Make it work; and the First Results

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s776-s776
Author(s):  
D. Goujon ◽  
L. Berenguer ◽  
F. Romann
Keyword(s):  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Art Therapy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychiatric Unit ◽  
First Results ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Space Art ◽  
Art Therapist ◽  
Clinical Psychiatrist

IntroductionOur two units take care of a rather big number of people (about 170 000). Various activities are proposed for outpatients and the idea was expressed to initiate art therapy.ObjectivesWe first analysed the possibility of starting this new mediation equally in the two units. A team was formed: a clinical psychiatrist and two registered nurses, one being an art therapist as well. We started this activity with a small group of out patients in April 2016.AimsThe registered nurse – art therapist was provided with appropriate space, art material and furniture by hospital sources. The other unit will send the nurse for training in art – therapy: leave and grant are provided by the hospital. Her project is different and yet complementary.MethodsThe group was validated and evaluated by the art therapist and the psychiatrist. The organization of the activity is left to the art therapist. A questionnaire was filled out by art therapist before beginning the art therapy and at regular intervals.ResultsPatients are engaged by this therapy and come on regular basis. They chose painting to express themselves and leave their productions in the room after they are finished.ConclusionsThe newly opened psychotherapy – art therapy has brought many positive changes in our hospital for working staff as well as for the patients.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.AcknowledgementsWe want to thank the Chiefs of our Department of Psychiatry, Grandin Pascal, MD and Benzaken-Charlier Catherine MD for their acceptance and support of this project.

Reproduction and Queer Theory: Between Lee Edelman's No Future and J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anca Parvulescu
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Migrant Woman ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Narrow Concept ◽  
Heterosexual Sex ◽  
Materialist Feminist

In a queer-theory reading of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol in the 2004 polemic No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, Lee Edelman relied on a narrow concept of reproduction as procreative heteronormativity anchored in heterosexual sex. He left untold the other story of reproduction: our daily reproduction in the service of capitalism. Marxist and materialist feminist theories of reproduction remind us that we all engage in reproductive work and that women have traditionally been considered natural providers of this work. A reading of J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man, in which a male protagonist depends on the domestic labor of a migrant woman, provides a counterpoint to No Future.

scholarly journals A batalha de Eros no sertão de Rosa

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-228
Author(s):  
Claudicélio Rodrigues da Silva
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
The Erotic

Resumo: O artigo se propõe a discutir a natureza erótica em Grande Sertão: Veredas estabelecendo como ponto de partida as noções de Eros apresentadas n’O banquete, de Platão. Sabendo-se que o discurso erótico no diálogo platônico é múltiplo, buscou-se neste estudo demonstrar que a natureza indômita de Eros agencia a narrativa de Rosa fundindo o plano da guerra exterior, as batalhas pelo poder no sertão, com o plano da guerra interior, o embate entre aquilo que a tradição expõe como interdito e o desejo que quer transgredir. Se Diadorim nutre o Eros que o impulsiona à guerra, Riobaldo é alimentado por um Eros que só pode consumar o desejado à luz da imaginação ou da pulsão de ver. O conceito freudiano de pulsão, ou impulso erótico, sustenta a tese de que a saga rosiana assume um caráter de prosa moderna justamente porque aciona categorias psicológicas no monólogo-diálogo de Riobaldo que permitem ao leitor confrontar o dentro e o fora, o eu e o outro, o narrado e o narrável. De natureza interdisciplinar, o estudo parte da filosofia de Platão e aproxima-se da psicanálise, com as categorias desenvolvidas por Freud (2010, 2013), tais como pulsão de vida e de morte e pulsão de olhar.Palavras-chave: Guimarães Rosa; erotismo; pulsão; desejo.Abstract: We propose a discussion about the erotic nature in Grande Sertão: Veredas (The Devil To Pay in the Backlands), establishing the Eros’ concept shown in Plato’s Συμπόσιον (Symposium) as the starting point. It is acknowledged that there’s a multiple erotic discourse in platonic dialogues, hence its study aims to show the Eros’ indomitable nature informs Rosa’s narrative. His narrative mixes the exterior war plan (the battles for power in northeast backlands) with the interior war plan (the clash between what the traditional society claim as a taboo and the desire to break free). If Diadorim nurtures the Eros connected to war impulses, Riobaldo is fed by an Eros that can only be consumed in the light of imagination or the drive to see. The Freudian concept of drive, or erotic impulse, sustains the thesis that Rosa’s journey emerges as a modern prose mostly because it fires psychological categories on Riobaldo’s monologue-dialogue, allowing the reader to confront the character’s inside out, the “me” and the “other,” the narrated and the tellable. This study develops its interdisciplinary nature as it starts from Plato’s philosophy and gets closer to psychoanalysis, with categories developed by Freud (2010, 2013), such as life drive versus death drive and sight drive.Keywords: Guimarães Rosa; erotism; drive; desire.

Stromatoporoids from the Famennian (Devonian) Wabamun Formation, Normandville oilfield, north–central Alberta, Canada

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (03) ◽  
pp. 411-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin W. Stearn
Keyword(s):  
Patch Reef ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
North Central ◽  
Biotic Crisis

Stromatoporoids are the principal framebuilding organisms in the patch reef that is part of the reservoir of the Normandville field. The reef is 10 m thick and 1.5 km2in area and demonstrates that stromatoporoids retained their ability to build reefal edifices into Famennian time despite the biotic crisis at the close of Frasnian time. The fauna is dominated by labechiids but includes three non-labechiid species. The most abundant species isStylostroma sinense(Dong) butLabechia palliseriStearn is also common. Both these species are highly variable and are described in terms of multiple phases that occur in a single skeleton. The other species described areClathrostromacf.C. jukkenseYavorsky,Gerronostromasp. (a columnar species), andStromatoporasp. The fauna belongs in Famennian/Strunian assemblage 2 as defined by Stearn et al. (1988).

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