scholarly journals Products of Counterfactual Imagination:The Healing Life of Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Adriana-Carolina Bulz
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Fantasy World ◽  
Central Piece ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Political Persecution ◽  
Literary Experience

My papers investigates two of the latter volumes by Romanian author Monica Pillat, Invitație la vis (An Invitation to Dream, 2014), and Croitorul de cărți (The Book Tailor, 2019), in which the literary experience elevates and transcends life itself, as a form of rewriting/healing the past and, maybe, of projecting one’s dreams into the future. It relies on criticism of two stories from the respective volumes, which investigates the sites of memory, such as the family mansion, which is the central piece around which the fantasy world woven by the author gravitates. Since Monica Pillat descends from a whole line of literary masters, her gift for writing is in fact a form of recuperating and also compensating for the family past, in which especially her father (Dinu Pillat) was very much afflicted by political persecution during Communist times. In my paper, I will dwell upon the less factual connection between life and literature – that of a mutual mirroring and influencing – in the attempt to prove that the experience of writing can make up for the losses encountered in reality. In this sense, being a literary author may offer one the chance of re-inventing one’s self (or imaginatively amending the life of your loved ones) and – for Monica Pillat – it certainly offers the greatest reward of all: a continual dwelling inside the family lineage, in the company of the kindred spirits that have guided and protected her since she was born.

Legacy

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-190
Author(s):  
Rachel Chrastil
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Necessary Connections

What happens to our stuff when we die? How might we reimagine the family tree? Childlessness raises, among others, questions about legacy, inheritance, our relationship with future generations, our ability to shape the future, and the narratives we tell about the past and the future. The author examines several life stories to help readers begin to envision childlessness within a new paradigm of meaning. This chapter encourages readers to consider new metaphors for how they think about childlessness. It ends with considerations about the deep and necessary connections between the childless and the childful within the quest for human flourishing.

Instrumentation for the search for habitable ecosystems in the future exploration of Europa and Ganymede

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Chela-Flores
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Reduction ◽  
Absorption Bands ◽  
Evolutionary Pathway ◽  
Water Ice ◽  
Jovian Magnetosphere ◽  
Central Piece ◽  
The Future ◽  
Thermochemical Processes ◽  
Solar System Bodies ◽  
Life Itself

AbstractThe extensive evidence of an ocean over a silicate nucleus makes Europa a candidate for the emergence of a second evolutionary pathway of autochthonous life. We argue that the most urgent question in astrobiology is the origin of habitable ecosystems (a question in geochemistry), rather than the alternative search for the origin of life itself (a question in chemical evolution). Since certain Solar System bodies may share a similar geophysical past with Earth, our more modest approach forces upon us the question: Can available instrumentation be the ‘pioneer’ in the discovery of habitable ecosystems in geophysical environments similar to the early Earth? It will be shown that a central piece in this dilemma is the chemical element sulphur (S). The Europan non-ice surficial elements that distort the water–ice absorption bands were found to be widespread, patchy and, most likely, endogenous. The Galileo Mission discovered these patches, which were subsequently confirmed by the 2007 flyby of New Horizons. We argue that penetrators should be inserted into orbital probes in the future exploration of Jupiter's System. Penetrators provide what could be a key instrument in the exploration of Europa, given the adverse space weather in its environment due to the Jovian magnetosphere and radiation. Indeed, there are alternative views on the radiation-induced S-cycles produced on the surficial molecules that are present on the icy surface; however, S is common to both interpretations. Hence, mass spectrometry should be an essential part of any future payload. The largest S-fractionations are due to microbial reduction and not to thermochemical processes, allowing a test of the hypothesis for the origin of habitable ecosystems. The microbial fractionation of stable S-isotopes argue in favour of penetrators for the survey of the surfaces of both Europa and Ganymede.

scholarly journals Material Geographies of House Societies: Reconsidering Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Kuijt
Keyword(s):  
Single Family ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Family Household ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
House Societies ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Family House

This paper explores how people within Neolithic villages were connected to co-resident multi-family households, and considers the potential material footprint of multi-family households within Neolithic villages. Drawing upon data from Çatalhöyük, I suggest that Neolithic communities were organized around multiple competing and cooperating Houses, similar to House Societies, where house members resided in clusters of abutting buildings, all largely the same size and with similar internal organization. These space were deeply connected to telling the generative narratives of the House as a historical and genealogical social unit, including the lives and actions of the ancestors, and in some cases embedding them physically within the fabric of the building. Çatalhöyük multi-family House members decorated some important rooms with display elaboration that focused on the past, the future and the family, while the dead from the households, who in many ways were still alive and part of the ancestral House, lived beneath the floor. This study underlines that researchers need to consider social scales beyond the single-family household and consider how the multi-family House existed as an organizational foundation within Neolithic villages.

Supercausalitŕ, ipnosi e decision making

IPNOSI ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Antonella Vannini ◽  
Ulisse di Corpo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Negative Solution ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Past ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Unconscious Mind

In 1942 the mathematician Luigi Fantappič formulated the theory of syntropy starting from the negative solution of the equation linking relativity and quantum mechanics. The negative solution had been rejected by physicists as it describes energy and matter moving backwards in time. However, Fantappič noticed that this solution is characterized by the properties of concentration of energy and matter, differentiation, complexity, formation of structures and evolution towards order. Since these properties coincide with the typical properties of living systems, Fantappič came to the conclusion that life demonstrates the actual existence in nature of the negative solution and that life itself is a result of causes located in the future. This innovative model offers an explanation of the fundamental distinction between "problem solving" and "decision making", according to which problem solving is based on information and knowledge acquired in the past, whereas decision-making is based on intuitions and emotional signals from the future. Ericksonian Hypnosis, together with the syntropy model of Luigi Fantappič, offers a way to bring the insight and resources of the unconscious mind into decision making.

Through the Past to the Future of Naples

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Ana Lóio
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Baby Girl ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Personal A ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
The City

This chapter re-examines a neglected textual conjecture in Silv. 4.8 (semina for lumina in line 15) and offers a further conjecture (pectora for lumina in 17). This poem is presented as both civic and personal, a celebration of the birth of Pollius Felix’ grandson which simultaneously applauds the generosity of an illustrious family in contributing descendants to grace the Neapolitan citizen community. The intimacy of Statius’ poem for his patron is illustrated by the citing of a possible Propertian intertext, which enhances the lustre of Menecrates’ two boys and the charm of his baby girl through their resemblance to the Dioscuri and their little sister, Helen. The civic resonance of the poem is resumed in Statius’ closural prayer addressed to the guardian gods of the city for the well-being of the family.

Reflections on the Family Business Literature: Pioneers Look to the Past and the Future

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelin E. Gersick
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future

In keeping with the review format of this handbook, this interview feature asks three of the founders of the field to reflect on their entry into this area of work and their impressions of its development.

On the Way to a Post-Familial Family

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Preindustrial Society ◽  
The Way

Whereas, in preindustrial society, the family was mainly a community of need held together by an obligation of solidarity, the logic of individually designed lives has come increasingly to the fore in the contemporary world. The family is becoming more of an elective relationship, an association of individuals who each brings to it their own interests, experiences and plans, and who are each subjected to different controls, risks and constraints. It is therefore necessary to devote much more effort than in the past to the holding together of these different biographies. Whereas people could once fall back on rules and rituals, the prospect now is of a staging of everyday life, an acrobatics of balancing and coordinating. This does not mean that the traditional family is simply disappearing. But it is losing the monopoly it had for so long. Its quantitative significance is declining as new lifestyles appear and spread. These in all their intermediary and secondary forms represent the future of families, or what I call the contours of the `post-familial family'.

scholarly journals RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN FINLAND: HOUSE AS A SYMBOL OF HOME

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
E.Yu. Protassova ◽  
◽  
K.L. Reznik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Host Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Complete Rejection ◽  
Former Ussr ◽  
Previous Existence

Russian-speaking people in Finland make up less than two percent of the population, but are quite visible in its composition. Among them are descendants of so-called “old Russians” who lived here before the revolution, Finnish returnees and Ingermanland Finns, spouses of Finnish citizens, persons who came to work or study. Although the acquisition of housing is usually not the purpose, but the consequence of moving abroad, for refugees it can also be a consolation, a shelter, and for emigrants, it is a stage of getting used to unfamiliar conditions that should be adapted for themselves. The new environment should gradually be put under control in what concerns their habits, desires, ideals. The memorable things prove to be an important bridge between the past and the future, restoring the connection of times. A complete rejection of the previous existence, of the earlier established identity is impossible. The article explores symbolic attachment to the material side of the home, preservation of identity, and integration into the host society, drawing on the method of thematic analysis of discourse. Participants of focus groups, interviewees, and authors of essays are Russian-speaking residents of Finland of different ethnic backgrounds, mainly at the age of about 20 (and not more than 30). They are still young enough and cannot have accumulated lots of things, they are not able to remember well enough the life in Russian-speaking surroundings (they came from different places of the former USSR). Nevertheless, they care about photos of ancestors, objects obtained from friends and family jewelry, souvenirs and items, which they have inherited. It is noticeable that they are still influenced by the traditions of the family, but begin to build their micro-space, which carries some signs of Russianness. As they grow older, it will be saturated with meanings that speak of the increasingly complex personality of their owners.

scholarly journals Procrastination as A Factor of Subjective Perception of Time

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
D. Yevdokymova ◽  
V. Kacharova
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Poor Concentration ◽  
Healthy Personality

In order to form a successful healthy personality, modern society requires from it more and more advanced, developed psychological qualities: to be focused, persistent, confident, organized, competitive and so on. In contrast, there is always a phenomenon such as procrastination, which can be directly negatively related to the emotional-volitional and motivational spheres, and thus be a barrier to the formation of a successful personality. This article discusses the causes and prerequisites of the phenomenon of procrastination, such as a propensity for impulsivity, orientation to search for emotions and feelings, difficulty in bridging the gap between intention and action, poor concentration. Different types of procrastination are also considered: household, decision-making, compulsive, neurotic, and academic. Features of subjective perception of time are revealed, such as age, conditioned reflexes, occupation of a person and evaluation of the past. The concept of the culture of a deadline is considered, as a phenomenon when all actions, desires and responsibilities of a person have their own end time after which, everything becomes no longer relevant. Here we will show that people tend to procrastinate when their subjective perception of time is higher. This is well manifested in the phenomenon of "delayed life syndrome". People live as if they have another life ahead of them, which is just preparation. This state is inherent in more or less everyone when some plans or dreams are postponed for later. The theoretical analysis of the concept of "delayed life syndrome" is carried out, describing the phenomenon when a person cannot live today, to enjoy what he has because he continually postpones subjectively crucial decisions for the future. Life itself is considered only as a preparation for the life of the future, the "present". The leading causes of "delayed life syndrome" are found, such as the mismatch of life expectancies that a person has formed in childhood, with real events, and the excessive desire to obtain results while ignoring the process of obtaining these same results.

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