Fixing Freud: The Oedipus Complex in Early Twenty-First Century US American Novels

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Deam Tobin
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
First Century ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
American Novels ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Twenty First Century

Representations of Sigmund Freud in early 21st century US American novels rely on and respond to the image of Freud that emerged from investigations by Paul Roazen (Brother Animal, 1969) and Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (The Assault on Truth, 1984), which cast doubt on the validity of the Oedipus complex. Relying on Roazen, Brenda Webster's Vienna Triangle ( 2009 ) links Freud's oedipal thinking to paranoia and male masochism. Working with Masson, Selden Edwards's The Little Book ( 2008 ) takes Freud to task for abandoning the seduction theory in favour of the Oedipus complex. Jed Rubenfeld's The Interpretation of Murder ( 2006 ) rethinks the Oedipus complex as a projection of adults onto their children. All three novels seek to celebrate Freud's understanding of the human psyche, while shifting the focus of the oedipal structure away from the murderous and lustful child toward the adult.

scholarly journals REFLECTION ON DIALOGIC FEATURES IN VIETNAMESE NOVELS OF THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY FROM BAKHTIN’S THEORY

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (Special) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Phan Vang Anh Thai
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Dialogue Theory ◽  
Narrative Language ◽  
The Early 21St Century

As a focus of introduction since the early 1990s of the twentieth century, Bakhtin’s theroy has significantly influenced the research, criticism and writing activities of the Vietnamese literary circle. Bakhtin’s foundational concepts, especially the dialogical principle, have urged Vietnamese writers to renovate their thinking for novels and their forms of creativity. This article is based on Bakhtin's dialogue theory to identify the movements and renovations of Vietnamese novels in the early twenty-first century. Accordingly, many novels that have gone from “multiphonics” to “polyphony” in the narrative language tone not only demonstrate the intersubjective dialogic feature but also bear the intertextuality dialogic sense. Particularly, novels have been transformed into a language play with endless dialogues between storytellers and characters, among characters as well as among writers, characters and readers, etc.

Freud, sex, and the soul: does Freud’s focus on sex obscure his relevance to the twenty-first century soul-searcher?

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Eliza Preston
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
First Century ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Modern Reader ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article explores what the work of Sigmund Freud has to offer those searching for a more spiritual and philosophical exploration of the human experience. At the early stages of my psychotherapy training, I shared with many peers an aversion to Freud’s work, driven by a perception of a mechanistic, clinical approach to the human psyche and of a persistent psychosexual focus. This article traces my own attempt to grapple with his work and to push through this resistance. Bettelheim’s (1991) treatise that Freud was searching for man’s soul provides a more sympathetic lens through which to explore Freud’s writing, one which enabled me to discover a rich depth which had not previously been obscured. This article is an account of my journey to a new appreciation of Freud’s work. It identifies a number of challenges to Bettelheim’s argument, whilst also indicating how his revised translation allowed a new understanding of the relevance of Freud’s work to the modern reader. This account may be of interest to those exploring classical psychotherapeutic literature as well as those guiding them through that process.

scholarly journals The Intelligence Accountability Framework in Canada

Federalism-E ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Review Process ◽  
First Century ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Legislative Oversight ◽  
Intelligence Operations ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Cold War

The recurrence of intelligence operations has grown significantly since the beginning of the twenty-first century. This growing popularity has increased the need for public and legislative oversight as well as intelligence parliamentary review. The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the intelligence accountability framework in Canada. This assessment will argue that the expansion of intelligence capabilities in the late 20th and early 21st century has not been followed by an adequate expansion of the oversight and review framework. In order to support this argument, the paper will conduct a comparative analysis of the Five Eyes (FVEY) members and examine the evolution of Canadian intelligence accountability structures from the Cold War until 2020. The paper will conclude by proposing literature-supported changes to improve the oversight and review process. 

scholarly journals Os desafios para a consolidação da inserção estratégica brasileira na África no século XXI

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Márcia Pagliarini ◽  
Eduardo Ernesto Filippi ◽  
Luana Margarete Geiger
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Twenty First Century

Brazil's strategic role in the early twenty-first century is focused on strengthening South-South relations and on reconnecting with Africa. The consolidation of this African policy, however, is susceptible to changes in the domestic and international scenario. This article aims, in this sense, to identify the challenges that such contexts can bring to the consolidation of Brazil’s strategic role in Africa in the 21st century.

The first failed empire of the 21st century

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mann
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
First Century ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Surface Phenomena ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Us ◽  
Twenty First Century

American foreign policy has been recently dominated by the venture into Iraq. This has not gone well. Most criticism has focused on ‘mistakes’ – there were not enough US troops, or they were of the wrong type, the Iraqi army was mistakenly disbanded after it surrendered, looting was not anticipated, oil expectations were unreal, the US depended too much on Iraqi exile claims, and so forth. Indeed, these were mistakes. 250,000 troops trained also in police roles would have made a difference. So might Iraqi army units converted into security police. So might better planning all round. But the mistakes were only the surface phenomena of a more profound American failure. The Iraq venture was doomed from the outset by the attempt to create what some neo-conservatives styled a ‘New American Empire’. This exaggerated American powers, made facile historical comparisons with previous Empires, mis-identified the enemy, and mis-identified the century we live in. This early twenty-first century attempt at Empire is failing. There will not be others.

Continuing Visions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Freedman
Keyword(s):  
Social Activism ◽  
William Blake ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ridley Scott ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Protest Group ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Dead Man

The questions that drove Blake’s American reception, from its earliest moments in the nineteenth century through to the explosion of Blakeanism in the mid-twentieth century, did not disappear. Visions of America continued to be part of Blake’s late twentieth- and early twenty-first century American legacy. This chapter begins with the 1982 film Blade Runner, which was directed by the British Ridley Scott but had an American-authored screenplay and was based on a 1968 American novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It moves to Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 film, Dead Man and Paul Chan’s twenty-first century social activism as part of a protest group called The Friends of William Blake, exploring common themes of democracy, freedom, limit, nationhood, and poetic shape.

Contrasting patterns of early twenty-first-century glacier mass change in the Himalayas

Nature ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 488 (7412) ◽  
pp. 495-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Kääb ◽  
Etienne Berthier ◽  
Christopher Nuth ◽  
Julie Gardelle ◽  
Yves Arnaud
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Mass Change ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century

scholarly journals Income inequality in the 21st century — A biased summary of Piketty’s capital in the twenty-first century

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (02) ◽  
pp. 1630001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietrich Stauffer
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
21St Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Income Distributions ◽  
Twenty First Century

Capital usually leads to income and income is more accurately and easily measured. Thus, we summarize income distributions in USA, Germany, etc.

scholarly journals A Twenty-First Century Guidebook for Applied Dynamical Systems

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Champneys
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Vector Fields ◽  
Nonlinear Oscillations ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Young Researchers

This paper represents the author’s view on the impact of the book Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations of Vector Fields by John Guckenheimer and Philip Holmes, first published in 1983 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin). In particular, the questions addressed are: if one were to write a similar book for the 21st century, which topics should be contained and what form should the book take in order to have a similar impact on the modern generation of young researchers in applied dynamical systems?

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