A Study on Transitional Space and Representational Space in the Gospel of Mark: The Way and Galilee

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-718
Author(s):  
Roh Sik Park
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Transitional Space ◽  
Representational Space ◽  
The Way

Tolerance: Circles of Inclusion and Exclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasse Thomassen
Keyword(s):  
Representational Space ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
Religious Clothing ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
State Schools ◽  
The Way

This chapter on the concept and practice of tolerance makes use of the legal case Begum together with three other cases from the same period: X v Y, Playfoot and Watkins-Singh. The chapter analyses the debates about the cases in two broadsheets: The Guardian and The Telegraph. The cases all concerned the rights of schoolgirls in state schools to wear particular kinds of religious clothing and symbols: two different versions of the hijab, a Christian purity ring, and a Sikh bangle. Examining the way tolerance and difference and identity are articulated across the debates about the four cases, I show how lines of inclusion and exclusion are articulated, existing side by side and competing within the same representational space of British multiculturalism.

Twin phenomena during a transformation process

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-490
Author(s):  
Anneli Bittner
Keyword(s):  
Transformation Process ◽  
Object Representations ◽  
Transitional Space ◽  
Psychotic Experience ◽  
Analytic Group ◽  
Dynamic Matrix ◽  
Transference And Countertransference ◽  
Psychic Disorders ◽  
Beneficial Outcome ◽  
The Way

This article presents the development of a clinical outpatient analytic group and advances a view on twin phenomena in dreams. The influence of real and transferential twin experiences on the dynamic matrix is also shown. The way diffuse ego-boundaries and narcissistic injuries in the group lead to self-exclusion is discussed. The group’s struggle with autonomy–dependency conflicts is reflected upon with reference to lack of differentiation between self- and object-representations as they are also known in twin psychodynamics. It is demonstrated how the group intersubjectively connects with the psychotic experience of one participant. This leads to the group eventually being able to serve as a transitional space and deal with deep issues by managing projective and splitting mechanisms in both psychotic and non-psychotic transference and countertransference. Foulkes’ concept of the transpersonal is used to define how these intense occurrences lead to a beneficial outcome in the treatment of severe psychic disorders.

scholarly journals Mark, the Gospel of the suffering Son of Man: An encouragement directed to a despondent religious minority in the city of Rome

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
F.P. Viljoen
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Good News ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
Great Leader ◽  
The Way

In his narrative the author of this Gospel starkly emphasizes the humiliation and suffering of Jesus as the Son of Man (i.a. 10:45). In doing so, Mark emphasizes that Jesus’ way to be the Christ is the way of suffering. In several instances Mark describes Jesus’ disciples’ ignorance of this fact. Special focus is placed on the ignorance of Peter when confessing Jesus as the Christ. The point of departure for this article is that the Gospel of Mark was written to a specific believing community. It is argued that Rome, rather than Syria or Galilee, most probably was the Sitz im Leben and reason for the second Gospel. Furthermore it is reasoned that the context of Rome provides a relevant hermeneutical key to the understanding of the text of this Gospel. Seen from this perspective, Mark purposefully emphasized the humiliation and suffering of Jesus on his way to glory in order to encourage his despondent readers during or directly after the persecution in the days of Nero 64 CE. Evidence from tradition has indicated that Peter, the great leader of the Christian community in Rome, died as a martyr. This left the Christians in Rome without a leader, fearful and discouraged. The Gospel displays evidence of a Petrine eyewitness account that implies a close link between this apostle and Mark. Although at first Peter did not realize the necessity for Jesus to suffer, the Gospel of Mark clearly explains it with its focus on the passion narrative. Jesus had to walk the way of suffering. In Mark the word “way” is used in a significant manner to indicate that Jesus’ via dolorosa had implications for Peter and still has implications for all those who follow Him by confessing Him as the Christ. Christians are called to follow in his footsteps with suffering and endurance. Accordingly, Mark adds a paradoxical connotation to the term “Gospel”. “Gospel” is the good news of the salvation in Jesus. This message, however, is also concomitant with suffering and even the loss of life.

Eudocia’s Homeric Cento and the Woman Anointing Jesus

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-227
Author(s):  
Karl Olav Sandnes
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Female Authority ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

This chapter moves forward in time to look at the way precedents of women’s leadership could be used later, here in the work of the estranged wife of the emperor Theodosius II, Eudocia. In ‘Eudocia’s Homeric Cento and the Woman Anointing Jesus—An Example of Female Authority’, the author identifies how the woman of Bethany in the Gospel of Mark is praised in words taken from Achilles, a most prominent figure of manly honour in the Iliad. However, the honour for which she is praised remains within the boundaries of a proper, submissive woman. This duality corresponds to how Eudocia portrays herself in her preface to the Homeric Cento. On the one hand, she improved upon Patricius’ poem, presenting a better poem in style as well as content. She demonstrated her superiority. Her superiority was, however, coupled with restrictions implied in her being a woman. It seems, therefore, that Eudocia has inscribed her own dual authority of both superior and woman into her interpretation of the woman of Bethany.

Reading laïcité

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 330-339
Author(s):  
Leon Sachs
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Transitional Space ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Literary Education ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
Literary Experience ◽  
The Way

Beginning with the observation that in recent years laïcité has taken on connotations that its nineteenth-century republican proponents would not have foreseen, this article reflects on the way laïcité’s evolving meaning bears on questions of literary experience and literary education. It argues that there are important structural similarities between recent theories of laïcité and theories of literary reading, both of which rely on similar conceptions of intellectual and cultural space and the kinds of identity formation that occur there. The first half of the article builds on arguments by political philosophers Marcel Gauchet and Catherine Kintzler, who assert that aesthetic and cultural experiences enact the psychic phenomena of self-distancing inherent in laïcité. From there, the article goes on to suggest linkages between this view of laical distanciation and the process of individuation outlined in D. W. Winnicott’s concept of transitional space, an influential concept for reader-oriented critics seeking to explain literary experience as an act of ‘getting out of the self’.

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