scholarly journals „Tilfinningar eru eldsneyti fyrir hugmyndir“. Um skáldskaparheim Elísabetar Kristínar Jökulsdóttur

Ritið ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-254
Author(s):  
Soffía Auður Birgisdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Personal Mythology ◽  
Sexual Drive ◽  
Kate Millett ◽  
The Right ◽  
Self Examination

This article deals with the authorship of Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir, with special emphasis on the autofictional novel Heilræði lásasmiðsins (The locksmith’s advice), as well as other works that are based on autobiographical material. Elísabet writes a lot about the female body, its desires and erotic longings, as well as how helpless and weak it can be in particular situations. Her writing on the self, body and sexuality centres on the opposition between love and rejection. The desire for love is the driving force behind her writing and a deep and ruthless self-examination is at work in her fictional world. This desire is closely connected to the female body and sexual drive and Elísabet scrutinizes the nature of ‚femininity‘ and asks what it means to be ,a woman‘. Elísabet describes the female body in all its nakedness and vulnerability and shows how the body is the battleground where the main conflicts between self and others take place. Elísabet frequently describes two oppositional worlds in her works. There are conflicts between the magical world and reality, the father and the mother, the child and the grown-up, psychological difficulties and ‚sanity‘. a divided self is a persistent theme in her writings, as well as the struggle to remain on the right side of the „borders“, which are frequently mentioned. Elísabet’s writings reveal a struggle for marking a place for oneself in the world, to be heard and seen, to be able to createand recreate the self and through her writing, she copes with existence and difficulties that are rooted in childhood. Through writing, she finds a way out and the writing process serves as self-analysis and therapy. In her works Elísabet also creates her own personal mythology, which she connects with women’s struggle for self-realization, freedom and social space. The analysis of Elísabet’s works is inspired by the writings of feminist scholars, such as Simone de Beauvoir, Kate millett and Hélène Cixous.

scholarly journals A FEMININE OF NO ONE’S OWN IN CHARLOTTE TÁBUA RASA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 0137-0147
Author(s):  
Eider Madeiros ◽  
Letícia Simões Velloso Schuler ◽  
Mariana Pinheiro Ramalho ◽  
Hermano de França Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Inductive Approach ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Brazilian Politics

This paper aims to essay an open and constructive dialogue between the very rupture that the trans female body evokes and the recent concept of “feminine of no one”, through an inductive approach that the latter could make it possible to be kept in a state of infiniteness, of openness, of incompleteness, of non-wholeness, the aspect that characterizes the surrounding and expressive territories of each one of the specific bodies that allow themselves to be situated more leaned onto the feminine. Based on the contributions of Bento (2008), Jorge and Travassos (2018), from the brief precepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and on an interview with Leonardo Valente, the author of Charlotte Tábua Rasa (2016), we intend to discuss insofar how the body of a trans woman in a Brazilian politics fictional scenario would be able to draw the difficult boundaries on the discourses, possessions and the domains of language between the self and the other towards the trans-sexualities which dedicate their efforts to reinscriptions and the fissures that are celebrated through the transgressive resilience of the feminine.

Are “Presences” Preferentially Felt along the Left Side of One's Body?

1994 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 1200-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brugger
Keyword(s):  
Left Hemisphere ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Hemispheric Specialization ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Brain Pathology ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
The Right

The “feeling of a presence” is the distinct awareness of the physical presence of somebody in the near extracorporeal space. Although fairly frequently confined to one side of the body, systematic documentation of the lateralization of the phenomenon has not yet been attempted. A brief tabular summary of 11 cases of the unilateral feeling of a presence in association with focal brain pathology (seven left-hemisphere lesions, four right-hemisphere lesions) shows lateralization to the left in five, to the right in six cases. The data, together with the scattered reports of unilaterally felt presences in patients with nonfocal brain pathology and in healthy individuals, do not support claims that the left hemispace is the preferred location. Any models of hemispheric specialization in the sense of self which are derived from observations of felt presences remain speculative. Nevertheless, clinicians are encouraged to document carefully all the unilateral aspects of the feeling of a presence as well as of other reduplicative phenomena involving the self.

Self-Contact and Gesturing in Different Stimulus Situations: Relationship with Cerebral Dominance

1982 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 1003-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vezio Ruggieri ◽  
Carlotta Celli ◽  
Antonella Crescenzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Cerebral Dominance ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Female Undergraduate ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
The Right

The relationships among self-contact and gesturing scores of 27 female undergraduate psychology students in 2 neutral and 2 emotional stimulus situations have been examined. To study the role of cerebral dominance, the self-contact and gesturing behaviors produced by the left and right halves of the body have been separately analyzed. In the emotional situations there was enhancement of the self-contact score on the left side of the body, but in one of the two, self-contact scores on the left were associated with high free-gesturing scores on the right side of the body. The self-contact score increases on the right side of the body in the situation of a first social interaction. The role of the self-contact as an anxiety-reducing system is discussed.

scholarly journals SHAVASANA: HARMONI DAN PENYEMBUHAN PENYAKIT TUBUH DAN PIKIRAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
I Made Adi Surya Pradnya
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotion ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychosomatic Illness ◽  
Psychosomatic Disorder ◽  
High Tension ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right

Present era, people are faced with competition of various aspects, resulting in a culture of high tension. The tension that occurs causes the anatomy of the body is disturbed, even the damage that causes the balance of the body and mind problems. This disharmony becomes a common illness, stress, a psychosomatic disorder that can only be healed through inward healing or relaxation. Yoga is one method to overcome the problem and restore harmony between body and mind, so it can be felt directly on health. Asana is part of yoga. Asana has many postures. For deep relaxation can be done with shavasana. Through the shavasana the body and mind enter into relaxation and release the tension from the whole anatomy of the body. Similarly, shavasana can cure stress because replacing the negative emotional sediment in the self into a positive emotion. Stress occurs when a person can not solve the problem that comes due to the difference between the desire with reality. Therefore, shavasana through proper relaxation and breathing and done at the right time, psychosomatic illness can be cured.<br /><br />

scholarly journals Two new genera and species of sepioline squids (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) from Australia

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Chung Cheng Lu ◽  
Takashi Okutani
Keyword(s):  
New Taxa ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Bursa Copulatrix ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right

Two new genera and species of sepioline squid (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) are described from Australian waters. Dextrasepiola taenia is characterised by having copulatory organs (i.e. the hectocotylised arm in the males and the bursa copulatrix in the females) in the right side of the body. All other known sepiolinids have copulatory organs in the left side of the body. Amutatiola macroventosa is characterised by the absence of a hectcotylised arm in mature males; instead, it possesses many enormously enlarged suckers on some of the arms of the males. The bursa copulatrix is in the left side of the female body, as in other known sepioline squids. The discovery of these two new taxa indicates that the present definition of Sepiolinae needs to be broadened to accommodate these two new genera.

Men’s Hunger, Food Consumption, and Preferences for Female Body Types

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 495-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Guéguen
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Slender Body ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Body Type ◽  
Experimental Conditions

Nelson and Morrison (2005 , study 3) reported that men who feel hungry preferred heavier women. The present study replicates these results by using real photographs of women and examines the mediation effect of hunger scores. Men were solicited while entering or leaving a restaurant and asked to report their hunger on a 10-point scale. Afterwards, they were presented with three photographs of a woman in a bikini: One with a slim body type, one with a slender body type, and one with a slightly chubby body. The participants were asked to indicate their preference. Results showed that the participants entering the restaurant preferred the chubby body type more while satiated men preferred the thinner or slender body types. It was also found that the relation between experimental conditions and the choices of the body type was mediated by men’s hunger scores.

Where Are the History Books for Palestinian Children?

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Sayigh
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
The Self ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Culturally Relevant Education ◽  
Palestinian Children ◽  
The Right ◽  
Authentic Curriculum ◽  
History Books ◽  
Relevant Education

Colonialism deprives colonised peoples of the self-determined histories needed for continued struggle. Scattered since 1948 across diverse educational systems, Palestinians have been unable to control their education or construct an authentic curriculum. This paper covers varied schooling in the Palestinian diaspora. I set this state of ‘splitting through education’ as contradictory to international declarations of the right of colonised peoples to culturally relevant education. Such education would include histories that explain their situation, and depict past resistances. I argue for the production of histories of Palestine for Palestinian children, especially those in refugee camps as well as in Israel and Jerusalem, where curricula are controlled by the settler-coloniser. Black and Native Americans have dealt with exclusion from history in ways that offer models for Palestinians.

‘Good enough for a spot of lippy anyway’: Rape and the Body Politic in My Brother Tom

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-373
Author(s):  
Louise Wilks
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Violation ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
Contemporary Cinema ◽  
Rape Narratives

The representation of rape continues to be one of the most highly charged issues in contemporary cinema, and whilst many discussions of this topic focus on Hollywood movies, sexual violation is also a pervasive topic in British cinema. This article examines the portrayal of a female's rape in the British feature My Brother Tom (2001), a powerful and often troubling text in which the sexual violation of the teenage female protagonist functions as a catalyst for the events that comprise the plot, as is often the case in rape narratives. The article provides an overview of some of the key feminist academic discussions and debates that cinematic depictions of rape have prompted, before closely analysing My Brother Tom's rape scene in relation to such discourses. The article argues that the rape scene is neither explicit nor sensationalised, and that by having the camera focus on Jessica's bewildered reactions, it positions the audience with her, and powerfully but discreetly portrays the grave nature of sexual abuse. The article then moves on to examine the portrayal of sexual violation in My Brother Tom as a whole, considering the cultural inscriptions etched on the female body within its account of rape, before concluding with a discussion of the film's depiction of Jessica's ensuing methods of bodily self-inscription as she attempts to disassociate her body from its sexual violation.

‘A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust’: The World and Self in Thomas Hardy's Poems

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Monika Szuba
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Recurrent Theme ◽  
Body Subject

The essay discusses selected poems from Thomas Hardy's vast body of poetry, focusing on representations of the self and the world. Employing Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concepts such as the body-subject, wild being, flesh, and reversibility, the essay offers an analysis of Hardy's poems in the light of phenomenological philosophy. It argues that far from demonstrating ‘cosmic indifference’, Hardy's poetry offers a sympathetic vision of interrelations governing the universe. The attunement with voices of the Earth foregrounded in the poems enables the self's entanglement in the flesh of the world, a chiasmatic intertwining of beings inserted between the leaves of the world. The relation of the self with the world is established through the act of perception, mainly visual and aural, when the body becomes intertwined with the world, thus resulting in a powerful welding. Such moments of vision are brief and elusive, which enhances a sense of transitoriness, and, yet, they are also timeless as the self becomes immersed in the experience. As time is a recurrent theme in Hardy's poetry, this essay discusses it in the context of dwelling, the provisionality of which is demonstrated in the prevalent sense of temporality, marked by seasons and birdsong, which underline the rhythms of the world.

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