Lord of the flies: a psychoanalytic view of the gang and its processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Mark Stein
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Projective Identification ◽  
Psychoanalytic Study ◽  
Street Corner ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
Groups And Teams

Gangs are usually seen to exist on the edge of society, in the Mafia, on the street corner, or among those engaged in people- or drug-trafficking. In this article I take a different approach and argue that, especially in response to trauma, gang functioning may be present at the very centre of our society, and is sometimes to be found in governmental, business, public and voluntary sector organisations, as well as the groups and teams within them. Using Nobel-prize winner William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies to give shape to my ideas, I develop a psychoanalytic theory of gang functioning. I draw in particular on Kleinian psychoanalytic ideas as well as concepts from the psychoanalytic study of groups and organisations. I argue that the establishment of the gang involves primitive splitting and projective identification and the perversion of adult authority. I suggest further that gang functioning involves the destruction of the sensory and communicative apparatuses that alert the gang to reality, coupled with the creation of a substitute, false "reality". These features enable the avoidance of painful truths and experiences and facilitate the enactment of hatred that is so characteristic of ganging behaviour.

The Legacy of the Outstanding Economist (The Centenary of Maurice Allais)

2011 ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
A. Belyanin ◽  
I. Egorov
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Contemporary Science

The paper is devoted to Maurice Allais, the Nobel prize winner and one of the most original and deep-thinking economist whose centenary is celebrated this year. The authors describe his contributions to economics, and his place in contemporary science - economics and physics, as well as his personality and philosophy. Scientific works by Allais, albeit translated into Russian, still remain little known. The present article aims to fill this gap and to pay tribute to this outstanding intellectual and academic, who deceased last year, aged 99.

Galilean Reflections on Milton Friedman’s "Methodology of Positive Economics", with Thoughts on Vernon Smith’s "Economics in the Laboratory"

2007 ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Schliesser
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Experimental Economics ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Free Fall ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Positive Economics

The article examines in detail the argument of M. Friedman as expressed in his famous article "Methodology of Positive Economics". In considering the problem of interconnection of theoretical hypotheses with experimental evidence the author illustrates his thesis using the history of the Galilean law of free fall and its role in the development of theoretical physics. He also draws upon methodological ideas of the founder of experimental economics and Nobel prize winner V. Smith.

Inherent tensions in chemistry

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Joachim Schummer
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Philosophy Of Chemistry

<span>If you expect a Nobel prize winner being a crank who can think of nothing but his subject, then read Roald Hoffmann's The Sume and Not the Sameand test your hypothesis. This book is about chemistry, to be sure-but in the broadest scope including sociology, psychology, ethics and philosophy of chemistry.</span>

Roger Sperry—1981 Nobel Prize Winner

1995 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 349
Author(s):  
Marc A. Shampo ◽  
Robert A. Kyle
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner

scholarly journals To Re-present a Nobel Prize Winner. Interpreting a Public Literary Conversation

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Geiger Poignant ◽  
Cecilia Wadensjö
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Necessary Evil

AbstractThis article examines the unfolding of interaction in a growing and, so far, scarcely examined social and cultural practice – interpreter-mediated public literary conversations. In this context, the activity of interpreters, although indispensable when authors and audiences do not share a common language, is sometimes regarded as a “necessary evil” that allegedly causes delays and information loss. Exploring an interpreter-mediated public literary conversation with Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich as a case in point, the focus of this article is rather on what the presence of an interpreter might add to the shared performance on stage. Attention is drawn to the temporal evolvement of the interlocutor’s communicative resources, evident within narrative sequences, drawing on prosody research and research on gestures. The study suggests that, apart from keeping the non-Russian speaking audience updated on content, the interpreter’s rhythmically calibrated performance adds an energizing asset to the event as a whole. The notion of the “coupled turn”, internally hosting gestural and prosodic coherence across topical boundaries and language frame shifts, emerges as a usable unit for the analysis.

Werner Forssmann: surgeon, urologist, and Nobel Prize winner

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Truss ◽  
Christian G. Stief ◽  
Udo Jonas
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner

Interview with 2012 Nobel Prize Winner Serge Haroche

2013 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 51-53
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
National University ◽  
Nobel Prize In Physics

Serge Haroche, Chair in Quantum Physics at the College de France, won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2012. Before the prize was announced, the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore had invited him to contribute to its 2012 annual report. This was after he delivered his prestigious College de France lecture series in Singapore in 2012. The Q&A was published in full on CQT's website and is reproduced here with permission. Serge Haroche was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."

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