Heart to Heart: The Associative Pathway to Therapeutic Growth

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Korner
Keyword(s):  
Strong Influence ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Case Vignette ◽  
Secondary Process ◽  
Associational Life ◽  
Emotional Connection ◽  
The Way

Language is constitutive of who we are as people. Play between infant and carer has a strong influence on how language is acquired and the way it becomes generative of self. It is the communicative exchanges of life that create one’s sense of self and significance. When individuals enter into “free play” in therapy, they embark upon an associative pathway where distinct associations, emerging from what has been considered the “id”, form the basis of an emergent self, probably mediated by right-hemispherically determined communication. A case vignette illustrates a transition involving a moment of emotional connection, followed by a realization, at a later point in therapy, with discussion of both patient and therapist perceptions of these moments and an illustration of underlying physiology. The importance of right-hemispheric regulation in the psychotherapeutic setting calls for a revision of Freudian notions of primary and secondary process. The affective basis of associational life needs to be seen in a normative, integrative way rather than as an unruly process to be overcome by a rational ego.

An Analysis of Attitudes—Dynamics and Effects

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice A. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
The Way

Several cognitive factors are singled out because of their strong influence on the way in which the abilities of blind people are perceived, namely: the spread phenomenon, position of the observer, expectation discrepancy, restricting environmental opportunities in accord with expectations, attribution to person versus environment. In the affective area, negative emotional factors (pity, fear, uneasiness, guilt) and positive emotional factors (genuine sympathy, respect, appreciation, warm interpersonal relationships) are discussed. Ambivalence (the presence of both positive and negative components) is seen as contributing to the variability of behavior toward blind people. Finally, guidelines for the improvement of attitudes and environmental opportunities are outlined. Of special significance for the education of the public is the approach based on the coping framework as opposed to the succumbing framework. Integrating blind persons with sighted persons into as many activities as possible is supported. The vigorous engagement and leadership in programs for the blind by blind people working collaboratively with sighted people are also stressed.

Kierkegaard, Metaphysics, and Love

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Alternative Reading ◽  
The Way

AbstractNoting Heidegger’s critique of Kierkegaard’s way of relating time and eternity, the paper offers an alternative reading of Kierkegaard that suggests Heidegger has overlooked crucial elements in the Kierkegaardian account. Gabriel Marcel and Sharon Krishek are used to counter Heidegger’s minimizing of the deaths of others and to show how the deaths of others may become integral to our sense of self. This prepares the way for revisiting Kierkegaard’s discourse on the work of love in remembering the dead. Against the criticism that this reveals the absence of the other in Kierkegaardian love, the paper argues that, on the contrary, it shows how Kierkegaard conceives the self as inseparable from the core relationships of love that, despite of death, constitute it as the self that it is.

Where Do the Children Play? The Influence of Playground Equipment on Physical Activity of Children in Free Play

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Farley ◽  
Rebecca A. Meriwether ◽  
Erin T. Baker ◽  
Janet C. Rice ◽  
Larry S. Webber
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Open Field ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Play Area ◽  
Promotion Of Physical Activity

Background:Promotion of physical activity in children depends on an understanding of how children use play equipment.Methods:We conducted observations over 2 years of children in 2nd through 8th grades in a schoolyard with 5 distinct play areas with different amounts of play equipment.Results:Children were more likely to play in areas with more installed play equipment, with densities of children in equipped areas 3.3 to 12.6 times higher than in an open grassy field. There were no significant differences by play area in the percent of children who were physically active at all, but children were more likely to be very active in areas with basketball goals and an installed play structure than in an open field.Conclusions:Playground equipment appeared to have a strong influence on where children played and a moderate influence on levels of activity. To maximize physical activity in children, playgrounds should be designed with ample and diverse play equipment.

Paternity, Enframing, and a New Revealing: O'Brien's Philosophy of Reproduction and Heidegger's Critique of Technology

Hypatia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Markotic
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Reproductive Technology ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Metaphysics Of Presence ◽  
The Way

This article seeks to demonstrate the importance of the philosophical work of Mary O'Brien. It does so by showing how O'Brien's work counters Heidegger's strict differentiation between the ancient Greek metaphysics of presence and modern technological thinking. O'Brien's ideas indicate two critical lacunae in Heidegger's interpretation of the ancient Greeks: the latter's attempt to secure paternity and their overlooking of birth as a form of unconcealment. According to O'Brien, the way in which we understand and experience human reproduction influences both our sense of self and our sense of continuity. According to Heidegger, the way in which things are brought forth or unconcealed is fundamental to our being‐in‐the‐world. Neither O'Brien nor Heidegger lived to see the current advancements in reproductive technology, but both would consider them significant and meaningful beyond their social, political, and even ethical implications. Furthermore, recent reproductive technology draws attention to birth as revealing—although as increasingly Enframed. Rapid changes in reproduction may reveal Enframing as Enframing, and also show that technology is not something that we can simply master. But for this to occur, we must take into account the radical critique and rethinking of Heidegger's philosophy implied by O'Brien's thought.

scholarly journals The Subterranean Influence of Pragmatism on the Vienna Circle: Peirce, Ramsey, Wittgenstein

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Misak
Keyword(s):  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
History Of Analytic Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
The Way

<p>An underappreciated fact in the history of analytic philosophy is that American pragmatism had an early and strong influence on the Vienna Circle. The path of that influence goes from Charles Peirce to Frank Ramsey to Ludwig Wittgenstein to Moritz Schlick. That path is traced in this paper, and along the way some standard understandings of Ramsey and Wittgenstein, especially, are radically altered.</p>

A DREAM OF THE SELF: IDENTITY IN THE “INNER CHAPTERS” OF THE ZHUANGZI

Early China ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 29-60
Author(s):  
Matthew James Hamm
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Normative Order ◽  
Previous Scholarship ◽  
Specific Identity ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article examines self and identity in the “Inner Chapters” (neipian 內篇) of the Zhuangzi 莊子. Previous scholarship on this topic has tended to support its arguments by defining the “Way” (dao 道) as either a normative order or an objective reality. By contrast, this article argues that the Way is a neutral designation for the composite, ever-changing patterns of the cosmos that does not provide normative guidance.Within this cosmos, the human “self” (shen 身) is likewise defined as a composite, mutable entity that displays “tendencies” (qing 情) of behavior and thought. Two of these tendencies include the positing of unitary agents and the creation of “identities” (ming 名)—imaginative constructs used for self-definition. As a result of combining and reifying the two tendencies, most humans conflate their identities with their larger selves. The result is a simplified vision of an essential self that gives rise to normative judgements, blinds humans to the changing cosmos, and creates problematic social structures.The text advocates that one should retrain the tendency toward identity by cultivating an inviolate “sense of self” or “virtue” (de 德) that is empty of specific identity. Virtue acts as an emotionally safe space in which the mirror-like mind can temporarily take on the identities of other creatures. This practice increases practitioners’ empathetic understanding of the world, detaches them from destructive social structures, and has the potential to generate new versions of human society.

Significance and Purpose of the “Anti-Cult Movement” in Facilitating Disaffiliation From a New Religious Movement

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-244
Author(s):  
Dominiek Coates
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Self ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Symbolic Interactionist ◽  
Identity Function ◽  
Study Report ◽  
The Way

The current study investigates the experiences of 23 former members of New Religious Movements (NRMs) or cults with anti-cult practices and discourses in Australia. All the participants in this study report some involvement with anti-cult practices and/or engagement with brainwashing explanations of NRM affiliations; however, they describe the significance of these anti-cult resources for their sense of self in different ways. The findings suggests that for some former members anti-cult resources, in particular the brainwashing discourses, merely served as a convenient account through which to explain or justify their former NRM affiliation and manage embarrassment or possible stigmatisation, while for others these resources served an important identity function at a time of loss and uncertainty. These participants describe their involvement with anti-cult practices as a much needed identity resource in which they could anchor their sense of self following the dramatic loss of identity associated with NRM disaffiliation. To make sense of the variations in the way in which anti-cult practices and discourses informed the participants” sense of self Symbolic Interactionist understandings of the self are applied.

scholarly journals 'A white fly on the sombre window pane': The construction of Africa and identity in Breyten Breytenbach’s poetry

Literator ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
L. Viljoen
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Breyten Breytenbach ◽  
The One ◽  
Window Pane ◽  
The Way

This article explores the way in which the construction of Africa interacts with the construction of identity in the poetry written by Breyten Breytenbach. On the one hand, Breytenbach’s use of the name Jan Afrika, his attempts to emphasise the African-ness of the language Afrikaans as well as the construct Afrikaner indicate a desire to locate his origins in Africa and fix his identity in relation to Africa; on the other hand, it is clear that he constantly problematises the idea of a stable identity. Imposing a narrative on Breytenbach’s poetic oeuvre, it becomes clear that the ‘story’ of his poetry coincides with the order of events in his personal life and that his construction of Africa interacts with and determines the construction of his own identity. In conclusion it becomes clear that Breytenbach locates himself against the background of Africa from which he derives his sense of self, but at the same time takes the position of the nomad, exile, migrant or outsider because it provides him with a unique perspective and the possibilities of transgression and renewal.

Sensory Branding

2017 ◽  
pp. 1533-1563
Author(s):  
Surabhi Mukherjee Chakravarty
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Brand Loyalty ◽  
Core Competence ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Emotional Connection ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents sensorial branding approaches in practice and theory. Senses play a vital role in human life. We understand almost everything in life through senses. Sensory branding is an approach through which marketers create better experience of brands. Our senses are our link to memory, which can tap right into emotion. Using senses and their effect on understanding the consumer paves the way for an enriching experience of brand, discriminating their personality, creating a core competence, more interest, preference, and customer loyalty. Sensory branding is the marketing strategy that is investigating the emotional relationships between consumer and the brand through senses. Two cases presented in the chapter are on Starbucks and Apple Inc., which highlight their sensorial strategies for stimulating consumers' relationships and fostering a lasting emotional connection that retains brand loyalty.

scholarly journals Scent Marketing – Harnessing the Power of Scents in stimulating senses of Organized Retail Consumers and Employees

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 575-584
Author(s):  
K. RAMA MOHANA RAO ◽  
EDUKONDALA RAO JETTI
Keyword(s):  
Retail Stores ◽  
Emotional Connection ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Ambient Scent ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

‘Scent’ has a tremendous influence on the way people shop and relate to brands. Branding has always been about establishing emotional ties between the brand and the customer. By influencing the senses, brands can establish a stronger and longer lasting emotional connection with the customer and finally be memorable. While research doesn't clearly point to pleasant smells boosting sales, stores are embracing scent marketing as a way to create exciting store ambience. The present study is an attempt to examine the impact of ambient Scent on the customers’ and employees’ of organized retail stores.

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