Master plots: Psychoanalysis and Catholicism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Moran
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Psychoanalytic Treatment ◽  
Master Plots ◽  
Psychoanalytic History ◽  
The Face ◽  
Psychic Distress

This chapter explores the two main interpretative frameworks White adopted to conceptualise a sense of self in the face of her recurrent psychic distress and inexplicable behaviour. White’s entrance into psychoanalytic treatment coincided with a moment in psychoanalytic history in which the thinking about female sexuality centred upon the ‘female castration complex’. White’s diary provides unmistakeable evidence that she developed an explanation for her illness that was heavily influenced by the ideas of Karl Abraham, who initiated this line of psychoanalytic theorising and who profoundly shaped British psychoanalysis. The recurrence of symptoms following her supposed ‘cure’ impelled White to reconvert to Catholicism at the end of 1940. White’s letters and diary show how she superimposes Catholic doctrine on that of psychoanalysis. Together these interpretative frameworks worked to affirm the centrality of father-daughter eroticism in White’s identity narrative.

AFRICAN WOMEN AND FORBIDDEN GROUNDS: FEMALE SEXUALITY AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN AFRICAN LITERATURE

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Oyeh O. Otu
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
African Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
African Women ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Sexual Repression

This article examines how female conditioning and sexual repression affect the woman’s sense of self, womanhood, identity and her place in society. It argues that the woman’s body is at the core of the many sites of gender struggles/ politics. Accordingly, the woman’s body must be decolonised for her to attain true emancipation. On the one hand, this study identifies the grave consequences of sexual repression, how it robs women of their freedom to choose whom to love or marry, the freedom to seek legal redress against sexual abuse and terror, and how it hinders their quest for self-determination. On the other hand, it underscores the need to give women sexual freedom that must be respected and enforced by law for the overall good of society.

scholarly journals UNHU/UBUNTU ANACHRONISTIC? THE MANIFESTATION OF FEMALE AGENCY IN VIRGINIA PHIRI’S HIGHWAY QUEEN (2010)

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Barbra Manyarara
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Millennium

The contemporary relevance of female sexuality as discursive space in fiction is that it reflects current events as it criticises, exposes and illuminates lived reality, such as the HIV and AIDS epidemic, excruciating poverty, homelessness and a general economic meltdown as is the case in Zimbabwe in the first decade of the new millennium. However, the practice of female sexuality may still go against the principles of ubuntu. In Highway Queen Phiri gives agency to the female first person narrator, Sophie, and also sets out males and females who in their interaction with each other, may or may not promote ubuntu. An analysis of this novel shows that the writer challenges many unhelpful attitudes towards the HIV and AIDS pandemic by exploring the employment of travel and female sexuality as coping strategies for dealing with poverty, HIV and AIDS, and the economic downturn in the first decade of the new millennium in Zimbabwe. However, the well-intentioned female agency fails to hold up in the face of the dire circumstances of poverty and disease and Sophie’s urbanised family has to go back to the village for survival under the care of the patriarchal uncles; thus Phiri appears to give a flawed instrumentality to these women.

Myth and Myth-making

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Piccini
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Army Corps ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Terra Nullius ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
Land Mass ◽  
The Face ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Better Than

Modern societies function through a variety of interconnected myths. Stories of who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going next are necessitated by mass society. This chapter contends that Australia myth-making can be helpfully analysed by separately exploring its colonial, nationalist, and modern forms. The first section pieces together how perceptions of Terra Australis as a wild and uncivilized land mass and the myth of a peaceful conquest informed early mythologizing. The expansion of pastoralism in the face of wild nature also informed the birth of Australia’s first national ‘type’, the ‘bushman’. The chapter then turns to twentieth-century myth-making, exploring how the acronym for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps quickly became a noun after the landings at Gallipoli in 1915 were reinterpreted from bloody calamity into a story of national birth. The landings also inaugurated the masculinist mythology of the ‘digger’, which denied the significant role and achievements of women in pre-war politics and society. Egalitarianism, the concept that no man is better than his mate, also became central to Australia’s sense of self in the early twentieth century. The chapter concludes by considering how Australia’s myths have morphed or fossilized as the nation has been dragged into a globalized world and a deregulated economy. It considers Australia’s new-found status as a ‘multicultural success story’, asking just how dead and buried the White Australia policy is, whether concepts of egalitarianism, mateship, and the ‘fair go’ are truly universal, and what, if any, effects the extinguishment of terra nullius has had on the polity.

scholarly journals Applied art in the interaction with environmental architecture and urban environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 04019
Author(s):  
Do Lenh Hung Tu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Process Technology ◽  
Applied Art ◽  
The Face

Applied art is the synthesis of many science and technologies, production process technology, and it has strong development in many countries all over the world. Applied art products are always present in all shapes and sizes in every urban space and have a strong interaction with the architectural and environmental landscape. A modern civilized city always needs harmonious alignment in the planning of these elements. In many urban areas in Vietnam, the interaction between architectural landscapes, urban environments, and urban beauties was not really taken seriously. It is obvious that the weaknesses in management are directly affecting the urban beauty. The overall picture of the city was not beautiful due to the absence of a head of the urban management. Discussing some solutions to improve the face of urban in Vietnam, it is necessary to clearly define the important role of the urban management levels; enhance the role of architects, artists, designers; build a civilized lifestyle, educate the sense of self-awareness and proper behavior of each urban resident.

Self-Worth and Moral Knowledge

1998 ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Gowans
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Moral Knowledge ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Moral Skepticism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
The Face

I argue that persons are unlikely to have moral knowledge insofar as they lack certain moral virtues; that persons are commonly deficient in these virtues, and hence that they are regularly unlikely to have adequate moral knowledge. I propose a version of this argument that employs a broad conception of self-worth, a virtue found in a wide range of moral traditions that suppose a person would have an appropriate sense of self-worth in the face of tendencies both to overestimate and underestimate the value of one’s self. I begin by noting some distinctive features of this argument that distinguish it from more common arguments for moral skepticism. This is followed by an elucidation of the virtue of self-worth. I then consider some connections between self-worth and moral knowledge and, more briefly, the extent of self-worth among persons. Finally, I respond to the objection that the argument is incoherent because it presupposes moral knowledge that it later undermines.

scholarly journals A critical analysis of ‘face’-managing factors in isiZulu idioms

Literator ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.R. Masubelele
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Communicative Function ◽  
Human Speech ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Face

People have an inherent need to communicate. They communicate out of need as well as for leisure. Human speech abounds with unpleasant and undesirable statements that could embarrass and even humiliate those spoken to or oneself. Brown and Levinson assert that unpleasant and undesirable statements have the potential to threaten the ‘face’ or self-esteem of the other person or persons. They define ‘face’ as the public self-image that every member of society wants to claim for themself. Simply put, ‘facework’ refers to ways people cooperatively attempt to promote both the other’s and their own sense of self-esteem in a conversation. As linguistic speech forms, idioms perform a variety of functions in a language. Not only do they make speech more colourful, but they also perform a communicative function in that they tend to soften the embarrassment and humiliation that often accompanies unpleasant and undesirable statements in speech. IsiZulu idioms will be examined in this article to establish to what extent they could contribute to managing ‘face’ issues. Examples of idioms will be drawn from C.L.S. Nyembezi and O.E.H. Nxumalo’s work Inqolobane Yesizwe. The facework theory as espoused by Brown and Levinson will underpin this discussion on isiZulu idioms.

scholarly journals Lady Parachutists and the End of Civilisation in Queensland

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Bill Metcalf
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
New South ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Face ◽  
Year 2000

Brisbane was wiped off the face of the Earth and Queensland ceased to exist as a political entity under the combined military forces of Victoria and New South Wales during violent conflict at the end of the twentieth century. Brisbane was annihilated because of the un-Christian sins of its people, and the moral corruption of its leaders. The Queensland Defence Force was incapable of defending even itself, let alone defeating the invading troops. The pivotal event in this collapse concerned the alluring performances by a group of ‘lady parachutists’ who entertained the Queensland military forces, thereby distracting them and allowing the opposing forces to easily defeat them at the Battle of Fort Lytton.That, at least, is the key to the plot of Dr Thomas Pennington Lucas's 1894 dystopian novel The Ruins of Brisbane in the Year 2000. The origin of this ‘lady parachutists’ myth, and the connections between this myth and the end of Queensland civilisation, led me to research a fascinating episode in Queensland's cultural history, and in particular Victorian notions of sexual propriety, ‘true manhood’ and the combined — albeit veiled — threats posed by unfettered female sexuality and male masturbation.

The Multiple Dimensions of the Acceptance of Mental Illness

2016 ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Lauren Mizock ◽  
Zlatka Russinova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Cognitive Dimension ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Multidimensional Construct ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Emotional Dimension ◽  
Clinical Strategies ◽  
Positive Sense ◽  
The Face

This chapter explains the multidimensional construct of acceptance, including the five dimensions of this process. Interview excerpts are provided as evidence of each of these five dimensions. The five dimensions include (1) identity dimension (developing a positive sense of self in the face of mental illness); (2) cognitive dimension (developing thoughts, beliefs, and awareness around accepting one’s mental illness); (3) behavioral dimension (engaging in actions and behaviors that signify acceptance of one’s mental illness); (4) emotional dimension (experiencing emotions that signify acceptance of one’s mental illness); and (5) relational dimension (engaging in relationships and interacting with others in a manner that promotes acceptance of the illness). A clinical strategies list, discussion questions, activities, the “Dimensions of Acceptance Worksheet,” and diagrams are also included.

Responsibility in the Face of Adversity

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-307
Author(s):  
Natasha Arndt ◽  
Luzelle Naudé
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
South African ◽  
Peer Relations ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Black African ◽  
Black South African ◽  
The Face ◽  
Responsibility Education

The aim of this study was to explore Black South African adolescents’ sense of self as it emerges through their direct and indirect environments. Black African adolescents ( N = 57; 52.63% male; 47.37% female) participated in eight focus groups, which were analyzed thematically. The emphasis fell on the interconnectedness and interdependency between individuals and social systems. The importance of family and peer relations, as well as the juxtaposed needs of belonging and separation, was also reiterated. This research highlighted adolescents’ awareness regarding the importance of reciprocity and interdependence in relationships. Not only was the need for having role models articulated, but also for being role models. They were acutely aware of the sacrifices made (especially by their parents) investing in their development, and were feeling responsible for “paying back” (to their family and community). Due to bearing this responsibility, education and scholarship were viewed as essential aspects of adolescents’ sense of self.

Valuing out of Context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megs S. Gendreau
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
The Face ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change ◽  
Do So

While many aspects of human life are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, values related to selfhood and community are among the most challenging to preserve. In what follows, I focus on the importance of values and valuing in climate change adaptation. To do so, I will first discuss two alternate approaches to valuing, both of which fail to recognise the loss of valued objects and practices that both of which help to generate a sense of self and deserve to be respected and mourned. Ultimately, I argue that an approach to valuing that is responsive to change and open to loss will enable humans to be more resilient in the face of anthropogenic climate change, in order that we may move forward and construct selves that fit the context in which we live.

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