scholarly journals Bierce, Bioy Casares, and Borges: The Mirrors and Labyrinths of Intertextuality

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-26
Author(s):  
William Deaver
Keyword(s):  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
External Reality ◽  
Internal Reality ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Adolfo Bioy Casares ◽  
Ambrose Bierce ◽  
The Mind

This article analyzes the intersection of works by Ambrose Bierce, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Jorge Luis Borges as mirror images of themes and descriptions in describing a miraculous occurrence, albeit only in the labyrinthine mind of the protagonist, often categorized within the genre of the fantastic. The article’s intertextual approach focuses on sensorial perceptions that only grant validity to an internal reality (what the mind interprets) rather than to an external reality (what the eyes see). All three works in this study are concerned with a criminal condemned to death who seeks to prolong his life. The protagonists have similar responses, although their motivations are different.

Etymology and Semantic Spectrum of adhimukti and Related Terms in Buddhist Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Giacomo Benedetti
Keyword(s):  
External Reality ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Meditative Practice ◽  
Stable Representation ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Mental Objects

The action noun adhimukti derives from the verb adhi-muc, not attested in Classical Sanskrit but in P?li. It is regularly used in the passive, with the original meaning ‘to be fastened to’, and then ‘to adhere’. This meaning is not used in a concrete sense, but in a metaphorical one, referred to mind and mental objects, so that adhimukti can be used to express inclination, faith in a doctrine, and also intentional and stable representation of an image or an idea in meditative practice, sometimes with the effect of transformation of external reality. The common feature appears to be adherence or the fixing of the mind on its object.

scholarly journals El microrrelato en Hispanoamérica: dos hitos para una historiografía / nuevas prácticas de escritura y de lectura

2015 ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
José Luis Fernández Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Juan Jose Arreola ◽  
Adolfo Bioy Casares

ResumenEl presente trabajo intenta establecer algunos puntos de inflexión en el desarrollo del microrrelato en nuestro continente, considerando el aporte de productores y antologadores como agentes de mediación cultural. Para ello, el artículo se detiene a examinar el trabajo antológico de 1953 de Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares, Cuentos brevesy extraordinarios, así como una producción autorial de Juan José Arreola –la serie textual “Prosodia”, integrada en Confabulario total (1941-1961)– como hitos decisivos en la construcción genérica del microcuento, cuya impronta ha marcado de manera decisiva a este formato narrativo como modelo de escritura y de recepción.Palabras clave: Microrrelato (microcuento), Construcción genérica, escritura fragmentaria,rol de antologador, intertextualidad, pragmática literaria

On the Veiling and Unveiling of Experience: A Comparison Between the Micro-Phenomenological Method and the Practice of Meditation

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-77
Author(s):  
Claire Petitmengin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
External Reality ◽  
Buddhist Meditation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

Abstract Both Buddhist meditation and micro-phenomenology start from the observation that our experience escapes us, we don’t see it as it is. Both offer devices that allow us to become aware of it. But, surprisingly, the two approaches offer few precise descriptions of the processes which veil experience, and of those which make it possible to dissipate these veils. This article is an attempt to put in parentheses declarative writings on the veiling and unveiling processes and their epistemological background and to collect procedural descriptions of this veiling and unveiling processes. From written and oral meditation teachings on the one hand, micro-phenomenological interviews applied to meditative experience and to themselves on the other hand, we identified four types of veiling processes which contribute to screen what is there, and ultimately to generate the naïve belief in the existence of an external reality independent of the mind: attentional, emotional, intentional and cognitive veils. The first part of the article describes these veiling processes and the processes through which they dissipate. It leads to the identification of several “gestures” conducive to this unveiling. The second part describes the devices used by meditation and by micro-phenomenology to elicit these gestures.

Buddhist Psychology

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Nicolas Bommarito
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Psychology ◽  
External Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind

This chapter studies the importance of examining the nature of mental habits—the normal ways of perceiving, thinking, and feeling. The source of the problem is a mismatch between the usual way of relating to the world and how it really is, so it is important to closely examine mental habits and understand how exactly they obscure reality. Some Buddhists take this even further: It is not that one's mental projections do not match reality, they will say, but it is that there is no reality aside from an individual’s projections. For them, the problem is not a mismatch. The projections themselves are defective, obscuring not an external reality but the nature of the mind itself. The mental habits that distort reality are often called hindrances or poisons. These are things that the mind does that prevent an individual from seeing reality clearly.

scholarly journals Symmetrization, Mirroring and External Reality: An ‘Inner’ Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Rosapia Lauro Grotto
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Clinical Evidence ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
External Reality ◽  
Psychoanalytic Literature ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Neuro Imaging ◽  
The Mind

In the last two decades, mirroring systems have been detected in the monkey and in the human brain. The mirroring mechanisms have been considered as the neural basis for social cognition and interpersonal reactivity, and they have been assumed to support imitation, sharing of emotional states and empathy. Here I would like to compare ‘mirroring phenomena’ to ‘symmetrization phenomena’. In psychoanalytic literature, the construct of symmetrization has been proposed in the context of the Bi-Logic theory by Matte Blanco in 1975, on the basis of clinical evidence obtained in the psychoanalytical setting and following a theoretical analysis derived from the Freudian distinction between Primary and Secondary Processes. I will consider two different types of behaviours, empathic social interactions and the creation of transitional objects and spaces as defined by Winnicott in order to argue that symmetrization, in Matte Blanco’s terms, cannot be reduced to mirroring. I will then sketch a hypothesis on the interplay between the symmetric aspects of the mind and external reality in the development of higher relational functions of humans, also taking playing, arts and creativity into account. Finally I will describe the paradigmatic shift in neuro-imaging studies that was introduced with the discovery of the ‘Default Mode Network’ and its potential relevance in the research on the symmetric and asymmetric aspects of the human mind.

scholarly journals Vlady Kociancich y la imaginación fantástica

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Aída Nadi ◽  
Gambetta Chuk
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Adolfo Bioy Casares ◽  
Sobre Todo

La obra literaria de Vlady Kociancich (Buenos Aires, 1941) entronca con la literatura fantástica argentina y, muy especialmente, con la dirección rectora de la literatura fantástica de Adolfo Bioy Casares y, de algún modo, también con la de Jorge Luis Borges, con un aire personalísimo, es decir, como un conjunto de aventuras fantásticas basadas en construcciones lógicas y en una prodigiosa imaginación fantástica que deambula, sobre todo, en metaficciones que engarzan la propia e inmediata realidad representada con las representaciones literarias de textos fantásticos de otros autores – los autores preferidos de Kociancich: Dostowiesky, Chéjov, Poe, Conrad, James, Borges, Svevo, Sciascia– sin solución de continuidad, bajo el lema de la doble identidad de vida y literatura, tanto en el caso de las representaciones propias como las ajenas, también convertidas en propias, en una suerte de espejo identitario del que pueden, consecuentemente, apropiarse los lectores. De la totalidad de las narraciones fantásticas de Kociancich1  este artículo reflexio- nará, principalmente, sobre La octava maravilla, Amores sicilianos y La ronda de los jinetes muertos.

scholarly journals Mime Language. From Singularity To Community

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-175
Author(s):  
Ioan Mateiciuc
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Empathy ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
External Reality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Stage Performance ◽  
Social Mind ◽  
The Mind

AbstractThis article approaches the subject of theatrical language in mime, aiming to identify the mechanisms and resources of stage performance, referring itself to the silence/speech binomial. Can mime impose a valid theatrical language? Will a type of structuralism, through a reduction of complexities, manage to encompass the essence of the implications of stage acting within social structures? We will see the extent to which theater can trace a pattern of collective mime language socially and the extent to which such an approach will manage to encompass the interaction of the mind with an external reality, while also analysing the ability of the performer – when the latter understands their own mind or creates maps of their own mind or of the community – to create a sort of cognitive empathy, resulting in an extraction of a theory of collectivity, which is, most often, ignored in such a cultural performance as mime, and its protagonists may or may not find a place in a social mind.

scholarly journals Traducción y formación de géneros: la antología de la literatura fantástica de Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares y Silvina Ocampo

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
Walter Carlos Costa
Keyword(s):  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Rio De La Plata ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Silvina Ocampo ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
Adolfo Bioy Casares ◽  
Sobre Todo

Resumen: La Antología de la literatura fantástica es una antología singular en la historia de las literaturas hispánicas. Compilada por Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares y Silvina Ocampo, se ha transformado en un clásico del idioma aunque la mayoría de sus textos provenga de varias literaturas del Ocidente y del Oriente, sobre todo de las literaturas de lengua inglesa. La antología ha servido para firmar un género literario, que ya tenía sus raíces en el Río de la Plata del siglo XIX, en la dirección estética que defendían los tres escritores y que se oponía a la estética realista entonces dominante. Aquí se examina cómo surgió la antología, la parte que ha jugado cada uno de los antólogos y las diferencias de criterio de selección de autores extranjeros y nacionales entre sus dos ediciones: la primera de 1941 y la segunda de 1965. Palabras-clave: antologia; Jorge Luis Borges; Adolfo Bioy Casares; Silvina Ocampo; traducción. Resumo: A Antología de la literatura fantástica é uma antologia singular na história das literaturas hispânicas. Compilada por Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares y Silvina Ocampo, tornou-se um clássico da língua, embora a maioria de seus textos provenha de diferentes literaturas do Ocidente e do Oriente, sobretudo das literaturas de língua inglesa. A antologia serviu para consolidar um gênero literário, que já tinha suas raízes no Rio da Prata do século XIX, na direção estética defendida pelos três escritores e que se opunha à estética realista então dominante. Aqui se examina como surgiu a antologia, a parte desempenhada por cada um dos antologistas e as diferenças de critério de seleção de autores estrangeiros e nacionais entre suas duas edições: a primeira de 1941 e a segunda de 1965. Palavras-chave: antologia; Jorge Luis Borges; Adolfo Bioy Casares; Silvina Ocampo; tradução.

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