scholarly journals When the Great Mother Met the Harlequin: Jung and Neumann on Art, Archetypes and The Spirit Of The Times

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Liebscher
Keyword(s):  
James Joyce ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Pablo Picasso ◽  
Great Mother ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Mother Archetype ◽  
The Times

Where Sigmund Freud famously failed to engage seriously and openly with Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra (1980 [1883-85]), C.G. Jung developed his psychological theory on the basis of a thorough critical engagement with the text and even dedicated a five-year long seminar series to its interpretation (1934-39). But similar to Freud before him he often developed a blind eye to his own contemporary literature and art. As Jung’s writings on Joyce’s Ulysses (Jung 1932) or Picasso’s paintings make (Jung 1932a) evident he tended to reject the symbolic dimension of modernist art and literature and regarded it as a sheer product of the spirit of the times. Again, it was a psychologist of the next generation, Erich Neumann, whose adaptation of Jung’s theory made it possible to apply archetypal theory to modernist art. This article will follow the key differences between Jung’s and Neumann’s understanding of art and literature by looking at their interpretations of main examples of modernism. KEYWORDS Erich Neumann, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, the Great Mother archetype.

Can a Theory of Suicide Predict All “Suicides” in the Elderly?

Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoon A. Leenaars
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
Suicide Notes ◽  
Psychiatric Study

Summary: Older adults consistently have the highest rates of suicide in most societies. Despite the paucity of studies until recently, research has shown that suicides in later life are best understood as a multidimensional event. An especially neglected area of research is the psychological/psychiatric study of personality factors in the event. This paper outlines one comprehensive model of suicide and then raises the question: Is such a psychiatric/psychological theory applicable to all suicides in the elderly? To address the question, I discuss the case of Sigmund Freud; raise the topic of suicide and/or dignified death in the terminally ill; and examine suicide notes of the both terminally ill and nonterminally ill elderly. I conclude that, indeed, greater study and theory building are needed into the “suicides” of the elderly, including those who are terminally ill.

scholarly journals Motywy sportowe w polskiej sztuce międzywojennej — rekonesans

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Michał Mazurkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Great Strength ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Polish Art ◽  
The Times

Sports Motifs in Interwar Polish Art — a ReconnaissanceSport is an important cultural phenomenon permeating many spheres of human activity. It has a great strength of influence and is constantly present in art and literature, also in Poland. Artists, especially the ones being lovers of sport, have always been fascinated with the potential existing in different kinds of games. After regaining independence in 1918, physical activity enjoyed great popularity in the awaken­ing Polish state. Sport was seen as achance of broadly understood renaissance of the nation; in addi­tion, its role in preparing the army to fight in the times of still real threats was appreciated. A positive influence of sport on youth was also seen. It also entered the world of art. The aim of this paper is to present Polish artists inspired by sport, also including laureates of the Art Competitions at the Summer Olympics, like for example poet Kazimierz Wierzyński, painter Władysław Skoczylas or sculptor Józef Klukowski. The author analyses both their motivations and the artistic output. The examination is preceded by an introduction showing the beginnings of Polish art inspired by sport and entertainment, whose elements one will find for example in the case of Leon Wyczółkowski or Wojciech Kossak, as well as the beginnings of sports literature. The history of the presence of sport in Polish art and literature is quite rich. The research enquired exploration of the history of Polish antebellum sport, looking over the works of artists interested in sport, as well as familiarising oneself with numerous publications devoted to this phenomenon.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE OF INDIVIDUALS IN SEEKING THE SELF: A CRITICAL STUDY OF 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr L Mayavan
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Contemporary Theory ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
21St Century Literature ◽  
Century Literature

In psychology, personality crisis is the inability in adolescents to establish ego identification. The psychologist Erikson coined the term. Identity unity vs. function ambiguity is the stage of psycho-social growth in which identity conflicts arise. Psychological literary criticism had its base in the psychoanalytical thoughts put forward by Sigmund Freud. After Freud, some theories by Neo-Freudians such as Jung and Adler also became a part of it. Critics, who choose Psychological literary criticism, champion one particular psychological theory and apply it to works of all the authors. Considering this, Fromm's Humanistic Psychoanalysis has a lot of scope to be used as a theory for Psychological literary criticism. The current study aims to fill this gap in the psychological literature, linking Maslow’s theory to contemporary theory and research on personality and well-being.

scholarly journals Modernism and Feminism Representations of Women in Modernist Art and Literature

wisdom ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Mane Khachibabyan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Pablo Picasso ◽  
Edouard Manet ◽  
Edgar Degas ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Representations Of Women

This article demonstrates the place and role of the image of women in modernist art and literature, mainly focusing on Impressionism and Post-impressionism. It discusses the unique works of modernist painters and writers (Marie Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso and Virginia Woolf) to explore how modernist art and literature both defined, reflected and shaped gender roles. The article discourses on the representations of feminist views and gender inequality in the works of some modernist artists.

scholarly journals Pierwiastki męskie i kobiece w filmie "Aleksandra" w reżyserii Aleksandra Sokurowa

Adeptus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Magdalena Korycka
Keyword(s):  
Great Mother ◽  
Morphological Method ◽  
Mother Archetype

The masculine and feminine elements in Aleksandr Sokurov’s film AlexandraThe aim of this article is to present the fundamentals of the Great Mother archetype in Aleksandr Sokurov’s film Alexandra using the anthropological-morphological method of analysis. The effect of meeting between the protagonists, Alexandra and Denis, and their interweaving, is a new person – a perfect being where the masculine and feminine is brought to a perfect harmony. Pierwiastki męskie i kobiece w filmie Aleksandra w reżyserii Aleksandra SokurowaArtykuł jest poświęcony przedstawieniu rudymentów archetypu Wielkiej Matki w filmie Aleksandra w reżyserii Aleksandra Sokurowa za pomocą metody analizy antropologiczno-morfologicznej dzieła filmowego. Efektem spotkania bohaterów i ich „czynności tkackich” jest nowa osoba – istota idealna, w której równowaga pierwiastków męskich i kobiecych osiągnęła stan pełnej harmonii.

scholarly journals Introduction: Communicating Science: National Approaches in Twentieth-Century Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arne Schirrmacher
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
First Century ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Public Science ◽  
Technological Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times

In a recent book on The Publics of Science; Experts and Laymen Through History, Agustí Nieto-Galan introduced his subject of a (mostly Western) history of public science, covering the times from the Scientific Revolution to the twenty-first century, with reference to Sigmund Freud. In one of his essays of cultural critique, Freud had, so to speak, put culture itself on his couch, and this session also featured talk about science and technological application. Civilization and Its Discontents identified a factor of disillusionment in the progress of science and technology, which gave rise to “The Uneasiness in Culture” (the literal translation of the title of Freud's German essay Das Unbehagen in der Kultur), and this uneasiness tainted a great deal of the happiness science and technology were intended to cultivate (Nieto-Galán 2011; Freud 1930). New technology and inventions like telephones, ocean liners, or drugs, Freud argued, were mostly remedies for negative developments technology had just created; for instance, without modern transportation people would stay close to each other and not need any telephone. (However, he did not address the issue of whether scientific knowledge itself may have provided some satisfaction.) The modern individual, as analyzed by Freud, was therefore constantly ill at ease with modern scientific and technological culture.

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