scholarly journals Fantasy, Mysticism, and Eroticism in Raja Alem’s Fatma

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Ghadir Zannoun K.
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
The Self ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Alternate Reality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Erotic

This paper is a close reading of Raja Alem’s 2005 novel, Fatma: A Novel of Arabia. I argue that Alem depicts the erotic in ways similar to Audre Lorde’s definition – as a doorway to self-fulfillment and in honor of the “fullness” of the erotic’s depth of feelings. The Saudi Arabian writer employs the fantastic, which has been used by writers to express feminist politics, to give textual embodiment to the relationship between the erotic, self-actualization, and women’s empowerment, central to which is self-knowledge and self-discovery. Alem suggests that a deeper knowledge of the self can open women to unlimited possibilities of being and perception, including a closer relationship to the natural and the supernatural worlds. Alem thus presents a female mythology that creates an alternate reality and undermines the binaries of patriarchal thinking, such as the corporeal/transcendent, the human/nonhuman, man/woman, and nature/culture.

scholarly journals The Madness of Jodh Singh: Patriotism and Paranoia in the Ghadar Archives

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Rohit Chopra
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
British Government ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Relationship

My paper focuses on Jodh Singh, a marginal figure in the archives of the Ghadar Party, who was arrested for High Treason against the United States for his role in the “Hindu Conspiracy” plots aimed at the British government of India. Incarcerated in a California prison, Singh was moved to a sanatarium on displaying symptoms of insanity. Through a close reading of a web of archival documents and scholarly reflections—at the center of which lies the report of a commission appointed to inquire into his mental condition—I examine the account of the madness of Jodh Singh as a statement about patriotism and paranoia. In engagement with the work of Foucault, Guha, and scholars of the Ghadar movement, I describe how the record of Singh’s experiences indicts the juridical-legal-medical framework of American society as operating on a distinction between legtimate and illegitimate madness. I also examine how Jodh Singh points to the glimmers of a critique of the self-image of the Ghadar Party as a revolutionary movement committed to egalitarian principles. I conclude with a reflection on what Jodh Singh might tell us about the relationship between madness, political aspiration, and the yearning for solidarity.

scholarly journals Análisis del impacto de un curso sobre autoconocimiento personal como medio de mejora profesional docente

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Morelia Valencia Medina ◽  
Gabriel Carmona Orantes
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The Self ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

Este estudio presenta los resultados de un curso acerca de las relaciones e implicación entre el desarrollo personal, la profesión docente, la educación y el autoconocimiento mediante prácticas de autobservación. Se centra en el análisis de una actividad educativa consistente en la observación sostenida desde la atención hacia la interioridad personal de los propios participantes, todos profesionales docentes. Se constata que dicha acción proporciona una nueva mirada o comprensión del “sí mismo” y de la relación educadora con el alumnado. Así mismo, se muestra como se alcanzan las finalidades del curso, consistentes en producir reflexión entre los participantes sobre la Educación y su finalidad, así como, poner en valor la necesidad del trabajo interior sobre de la emocionalidad propia de los/as educadores/as y de como su autoconocimiento produce indirectamente mejoras educativas en el alumnado. El estudio se ha realizado sobre una población de 37 participantes. Se ha usado una metodología cualitativa de carácter inductivo a partir de un instrumento, cuestionario, construido “ad hoc” y aplicado según modelo pretest-post test. Para el análisis de datos se utilizó el programa ATLAS.ti.  del que se desprenden resultados significativos centrados en el efecto de desarrollo personal que constatan los educadores y educadoras mediante la práctica de la auto observación y como esta predispone a una consideración en cuanto objetivo educacional, el desarrollo de prácticas de autoconocimiento del mundo emocional de su alumnado. Finalmente, se presentan los resultados más relevantes sobre conocimiento del “Si mismo” que mayor impacto han tenido en el desarrollo del sujeto profesional docente. Personal development is a sensitive matter for those who practice a profession interacting with people. Teaching allows, perhaps more than any other field, to be aware of the relationship between one's performance and its effects on students. Therefore, the interest in knowing its different factors and aspects is sustained over the years.This study proposes to learn about the perception of primary andsecondary education teachers about the relationship between self-knowledge, through self-observation practices, with personal development and, in turn, the incidence of the latter in professional improvement.The study is based on the content analysis of the thoughts manifested by the participants of a training-educational activity. This activity consisted of sustained observation from attention to personal interiority from all teaching professionals. The population of the study consists of 37 participants. An inductive qualitative methodology is used with an instrument, questionnaire, constructed “ad hoc” and it’s applied according to the pretest-posttest model.The data analysis was performed using the ATLAS Ti program. After the analysis, the following significant results emerged:71% of the teachers expressed interest in strengthening self-observation as a way of self-knowledge and as a goal for personal development and improvement of professional practice.It is found this action provides a new understanding of the "self" and the educational relationship teachers have with students.

Religion and the Self as Text: Toward a Christian Translation of Self-Actualization

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Watson ◽  
J. Trevor Milliron ◽  
Ronald J. Morris ◽  
Ralph W. Hood
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
Psychology And Religion ◽  
Empirical Criterion ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Relationship

Difficulties in specifying the relationship between religious belief and self-actualization were presumed to reflect language differences in humanistic and religious articulations of selfhood. Christian versions of humanistic statements of self-actualization were administered to Christians, and a large number of successful translations were identified according to an empirical criterion. These items were combined into Christian self-actualization scales, and these scales displayed reliable and sometimes moderately strong correlations with religious orientation and healthy self-functioning. These data revealed how a Christian form of self-actualization might be articulated. More generally, they illustrated how empirical examinations of translation schemes might serve as a useful methodology for pursuing the goals of integration and for studying relationships between psychology and religion.

scholarly journals In Search for the Adaptive Self: A Model of Adaptive Self-Concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-328
Author(s):  
Tomasz Jankowski ◽  
Wacław Bąk
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Optimal Functioning ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Social Cognitive Model ◽  
The Relationship

The main aim of this article is to present a descriptive social-cognitive model of the adaptive self-concept (ASC) which integrates knowledge concerning the relationship between two aspects of the self—self-awareness and self-knowledge—and optimal functioning. We propose that adaptive self-awareness is moderately frequent, non-ruminative, focused on inner states, and motivated by curiosity. Adaptive self-knowledge is defined as accurate, complex, integrated and consisting of easily accessible self-beliefs, both abstract and concrete. The broader context for the ASC model is discussed, including its regulatory and interpersonal functions and factors which influence ASC development. The limitations of the model are discussed and suggestions are made for future investigations.

scholarly journals The relationship between script and image with specific reference to the work of Celeste van der Merwe, Willem Boshoff and Barbara Kruger

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Celeste Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Dysfunctional Family ◽  
Concrete Poetry ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
The Relationship

The crux of my thesis is the study of the relationship of script and image in the work of contemporary arts. I chose to focus on three selected artists, i.e. myself, Celeste van der Merwe, a local South African male artist named Willem Boshoff and an international female artist, Barbara Kruger. My intention was to write a readable self-study thesis that would be both informative and educational while simultaneously appealing to the heart of the reader. In order to realise this intention, I focussed on how the above-mentioned artists used script and image to address social issues prevalent in society today. I also made social statements through the medium of my art based on the familiar allegory, Little Red Riding Hood. My aim has been to address the breakdown of the family structure by focussing on the suffering of teenagers as a result of dysfunctional family structures and behaviours. I explored the powerful and provocative manner in which Barbara Kruger effectively wields the combination of script and image in her work. Boshoff on the other hand is a South African linguist who incorporates script in a variety of disciplines such as installations, visual poetry, concrete poetry, sculpture. In my own art I deconstructed and transformed materials and found that the process of breaking down and rebuilding reflected the breakdown and restoration in/of the lives of children. By consciously investigating my practice as a creative artist using script and image I have gained a better understanding of myself and I believe I am now able to improve my practise. Through this self-study research I have grown in self-discovery and self-actualization as an artist and have developed as a researcher. Finally, I concluded that the relationship between script and image is open-ended, not conclusive and differs in each work of art.

Part II

Good Lives ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 125-224
Author(s):  
Samuel Clark
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Interesting Part ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Good For ◽  
Self Discovery

Part II works from the point of view of the reader of autobiography, and asks: what should we learn from autobiography? It argues for a lesson about selfhood and the good life, and specifically about the roles of narrative and of self-realization in those targets of human self-knowledge. This investigation addresses four questions: given that autobiographies are narratives, should we learn something from them about the importance of narrative in human life? Could our narration of our lives explain how their parts relate to them as wholes? Could it retrospectively unify them and thereby make them good for us? Could it create self-knowledge by interpretatively making the self? In each case it answers: no. The lesson we should learn here is instead about the centrality of self-realization to selfhood and the good life. To make that case, this part argues for pluralist realism about self-knowledge: autobiographies of self-discovery, martial life, and solitude show that the ‘self’ which is created and known by self-interpretation is, at best, one part of what we can know about ourselves, and not the most interesting part. These modes of self-discovery reveal a self that is unchosen, initially opaque to itself, and seedlike, which could not be a self-interpretation, and whose good is its realization.

The Self-Knowledge That Externalists Leave Out

1998 ◽  
pp. 112-118
Author(s):  
Lisa L. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Intentional Action ◽  
The Self ◽  
Know How ◽  
Theories Of Mind ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

This paper addresses the relationship between self-knowledge, practical reason and Externalist theories of mind. Specifically, I argue that the kind of self-knowledge defended by Externalists is insufficient for intentional action. I claim that we know how to act only if we have access to beliefs about how our circumstances are related to our intended actions. I then go on to argue that the kind of mental content we need to characterize these beliefs is incompatible with the Externalist’s assumptions.

scholarly journals Against Nietzsche's ‘Theory’ of the Drives

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOM STERN
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
The Self ◽  
Rational Reconstruction ◽  
Philosophical Psychology ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT:Nietzsche, we are often told, had an account of ‘self’ or ‘mind’ or a ‘philosophical psychology’, in which what he calls our ‘drives’ play a highly significant role. This underpins not merely his understanding of mind—in particular, of consciousness and action—but also his positive ethics, be they understood as authenticity, freedom, (self-)knowledge, autonomy, self-creation, or power. But Nietzsche did not have anything like a coherent account of ‘the drives’ according to which the self, the relationship between thought and action, or consciousness could be explained; consequently, he did not have a stable account of drives on which his positive ethics could rest. By this, I do not mean that his account is incomplete or that it is philosophically indefensible: both would leave open, misleadingly, the possibility of a rational reconstruction of Nietzsche's views; both would already assume more unity and coherence than we find in his texts. Specifically, as I show through detailed analysis, Nietzsche provides varied and inconsistent accounts of (1) what a ‘drive’ is, (2) how much we can know about drives, and (3) the relationship between drives and conscious deliberations about action. I conclude by questioning the hunt for a Nietzschean theory: is this the best way to be reading him?

Subjective Biological Self and Self-Actualization

1994 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 1327-1337 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Sumerlin ◽  
Gayle Privette ◽  
S. A. Berretta ◽  
Charles M. Bundrick
Keyword(s):  
Racial Differences ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Physical Ability ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Relationship

Ginsburg, Rogers, and Maslow, humanistic theorists, have maintained that the self is an emergent characteristic of one's biological makeup. The relationship between physical self-efficacy as an appraisal of subjective biology and self-actualization was examined in a sample of 160 black and white participants. An r of .46 supports the association of subjective biology and self-actualization. Whereas there were no gender or racial differences in scores on self-actualization, men scored higher on physical self-efficacy and subscales of perceived physical ability and perceived self-presentation confidence.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Peter Fifield
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Physical Illness ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
The Relationship

This introduction argues that physical illness is an important category for literary modernism. Through a close reading of Virginia Woolf’s ‘On Being Ill’ (1926), the author argues that the altered, often intensified forms of embodied experience in illness, constitute an important subject, method, and manner of writing. Self-consciously ‘new’, Woolf’s proposal for a canon of illness writing resembles a voyage of self-discovery, a linguistic experiment, and a phenomenological study. Requiring innovative stylistic effects, physical illness reveals a world at once strange and familiar, in a manner central to modernism’s own distinctiveness. The emphasis on physical illness is clarified with regard to current and historical categorization, as is the relationship between illness, disability, and their attendant terminology. It also explains the predominant focus on textual rather than authorial illness, and on illness rather than medicine.

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