PERSPECTIVES ON HAPPINESS ACCORDING TO ORTEGA Y GASSET

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.31108/7.2021.60 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Marco VISCOMI ◽

Keyword(s):

Jose Ortega Y Gasset ◽

Human Essence ◽

Philosophical Contribution ◽

Short Essay

The content of this short essay aims to collect some insights provided by José Ortega y Gasset on happiness. The Spanish thinker does not dedicate a systematic work to the deepening of this important issue, but nevertheless he provides some interesting considerations for a more detailed and meticulous study on this subject. In fact, there are not many points in Ortega’s work in which he directly provides his own considerations on happiness, but the observations granted by the philosopher are interesting for our contemporary meditation. The thoughts here reconstructed in expressive unity converge starting from some specific points of Ortega’s opera omnia. This work of reconstruction and essential synthesis is intended to offer a philosophical contribution to the most comprehensive and organic reflection on happiness. The implicit hope contained in this text would like to leave available this questioning both for its existentialist dimensions and for its anthropological and sociological openings, which constitutively belong to the discussion of happiness. Keywords: Ortega y Gasset, happiness, human essence, personalism, vitalism

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Maclaurin on Occasionalism: A Reply to Ablondi

Journal of Scottish Philosophy ◽

10.3366/jsp.2016.0117 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 125-135

Author(s):

Patrick J. Connolly

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

‘Family Romance’ and the Oedipalization of Freudian Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis and History ◽

10.3366/pah.2020.0336 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 175-187

Author(s):

Herman Westerink ◽

Philippe Van Haute

Keyword(s):

Object Relations ◽

Sexual Difference ◽

Oedipus Complex ◽

Difference Family ◽

Radical Theory ◽

Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽

Secondary Literature ◽

Family Romance ◽

Short Essay ◽

Informative Text

Although Freud's ‘Family Romances’ from 1909 is hardly ever discussed at length in secondary literature, this article highlights this short essay as an important and informative text about Freud's changing perspectives on sexuality in the period in which the text was written. Given the fact that Freud, in his 1905 Three Essays, develops a radical theory of infantile sexuality as polymorphously perverse and as autoerotic pleasure, we argue that ‘Family Romances’, together with the closely related essay on infantile sexual theories (1908), paves the way for new theories of sexuality defined in terms of object relations informed by knowledge of sexual difference. ‘Family Romances’, in other words, preludes the introduction of the Oedipus complex, but also – interestingly – gives room for a Jungian view of sexuality and sexual phantasy. ‘Family Romances’ is thus a good illustration of the complex way in which Freud's theories of sexuality developed through time.

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Anita Maris Boggs

Feminist Media Histories ◽

10.1525/fmh.2015.1.2.135 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 135-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laura Isabel Serna

Keyword(s):

Film Industry ◽

Women's Work ◽

Educational Film ◽

Charitable Organization ◽

Women’S Work ◽

Short Essay

This short essay sketches the career of Anita Uada Maris Boggs, cofounder of the Bureau of Commercial Education, a charitable organization that from the 1910s through the 1930s circulated a library of sponsored films. I argue that Boggs's absence from film historiography has been doubly determined: first by the relative invisibility of educational film, and second by ideologies of gender that obscured women's work in the film industry, broadly construed, behind that of their male collaborators.

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Editor’s Corner: Critics or Caretakers?

Bulletin for the Study of Religion ◽

10.1558/bsor.v44i3.26866 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 38-39

Author(s):

Philip Tite

Keyword(s):

Religious Studies ◽

Religious Traditions ◽

Short Piece ◽

Short Essay ◽

Academic Study

A short essay, in responding to an online roundtable (the Religious Studies Project), explores the role of progressive ideology in the academic study of religion, specifically with a focus on debates over Russell McCutcheon's distinction between scholars functioning as cultural critics or caretakers of religious traditions. This short piece is part of the "Editor's Corner" (an occasional section of the Bulletin where the editors offer provocative musings on theoretical challenges facing the discipline).

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