LT: Yes, I think so. You move between and among all those different states. In a way desire, libido, that sort of drive, that energy— without it you probably wouldn’t do anything. But when you have it, when you’re experiencing it very, very strongly, so that it’s pushing you in all sorts of ways, you’re also at its mercy. You can feel content, maybe, in the moment when you’re not feeling that, but you’re also in a static state. You may have a period of equilibrium but you’re always going to head toward a state of disequilibrium. PN: There are several moments in Cast in Doubt where Horace finds himself ‘without or separate from desire’; ‘Indeed I felt blank’, he says (C, 141). LT: Yes—a desire not to desire. I’m working on a story now in which a woman likes to watch pornography. But to say ‘I like this’, or to say ‘I want to see this’, means that those things are not in her life. That’s the implication. That’s why nobody wants to be caught wanting. We’re filled with desires, but you’re not supposed to say that you have them. Because if you have them, it means that you’re lacking. At the ICA panel on Straight Sex, Lynne Segal in November talked about female heterosexual agency in so-called straight sex that everybody agrees is not so straight. Later all I could think about was that implied in the term ‘I desire’ is its own negation, a negation of agency. If you desire then you have a problem. But you can always say, ‘I wanted him and I got him.’ PN: But he wasn’t good enough! LT: Then I wanted someone else! PN: Can we go back to your first book, Haunted Houses? I gather the title comes from a passage in H.D.’s Tribute to Freud where she says that ‘We are all haunted houses.’ At the end of the novel that haunting is described as ‘A bad feeling that someone or something is never going to let you alone’ (H, 206). What kind of someone or something were you trying to get at in this novel? LT: I guess it’s a question of personal history, psychological history, of one’s family, which never leaves you alone. The idea that you can be completely free of that is bogus. Moving from personal history into public history, your present is always inflected by your past. I believe one can move, with a lot of psychological work, further away from the neurosis of the family, but perhaps never completely. PN: There’s certainly a lot of interest in this first book in forms of recollection and repetition. The young women in the novel fear they will repeat the lives of their mothers, and it’s as if the

2005 ◽  
pp. 53-53
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Public History ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Static State ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Haunted Houses ◽  
As If

scholarly journals Framing of Identity and Personal History through Multiperspective Narratives in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Dev Mayurakshi
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shifting Identities

: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) is an engagement in layers of shifting identities and their eventual unravelling. The novel is dominated by the character and voice of Iris Chase, an octogenarian who slowly and fumblingly presents to the reader the fragmented and complex personal history of her family. The novel becomes an exercise in historiography through Iris’s visitations to her and her sister Laura’s youth in order to explain their tenuous relationship which is achieved through three parallel sources: Iris’s own attempts at a memoir, journalistic documents and letters from the past, and excerpts from an infamous novel published forty years previously. My paper will explore the three narrative structures present in the novel, and attempt to understand the questions of authorship and writing, and their importance in building a historiographic narrative. It will try to examine the ways in which retrospective interventions into public history helps to counter and create identities which were hitherto repressed under social decorum. This paper will borrow from Linda Hutcheon’s writings of the postmodern metanarratives in order to compose a lucid understanding of what alternative historiography in literature can achieve, keeping at the centre Atwood’s novel.

scholarly journals Delayed diagnosis of Peutz–Jeghers syndrome due to pathological information loss or mistake in family/personal history

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Liang Jiang ◽  
Xiao-Dong Xu ◽  
Bai-Rong Li ◽  
En-Da Yu ◽  
Zi-Ye Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Novel Mutation ◽  
Delayed Diagnosis ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Pathological Examination ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Novel Mutations ◽  
The Family ◽  
Genetic Level ◽  
Peutz Jeghers Syndrome

Abstract Objective To report Peutz–Jeghers syndrome (PJS) cases with non-definitive clues in the family or personal history and finally diagnosed through pathological examination and STK11 gene mutation test. Clinical presentation and intervention PJS was suspected in 3 families with tortuous medical courses. Two of them had relatives departed due to polyposis or colon cancer without pathological results, and the other one had been diagnosed as hyperplastic polyposis before. Diagnosis of PJS was confirmed by endoscopy and repeated pathological examinations, and the STK11 mutation test finally confirmed the diagnosis at genetic level, during which 3 novel mutation were detected (536C > A, 373_374insA, 454_455insGGAGAAGCGTTTCCCAGTGTGCC). Conclusion Early diagnosis of PJS is important and may be based on a family history with selective features among family members, and the pathological information is the key. The novel mutations also expand the STK11 variant spectrum.

scholarly journals A PRESENÇA DE ESCRAVOS EM ALGUNS CONTOS DE MACHADO DE ASSIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Antonio Marcos Sanseverino
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Machado De Assis ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
The Family ◽  
As If

A escravidão é o nexo fundamental para pensar a literatura brasileira do século XIX. Na prosa machadiana, esse nexo histórico foi evidenciado por diferentes críticos (CHALHOUB, 2003, 2012; GLEDSON, 2006; SCHWARZ, 2000). Na leitura dos jornais, desde os anos de 1870, através da leitura de anúncios, vemos o quanto a presença do escravo doméstico era fato naturalizado no cotidiano do Rio de Janeiro (FREYRE, 2012; SCHWARCZ, 1987). Amas, copeiros, cozinheiros, moleques eram anunciados como objeto de venda ou de aluguel. Não apenas o trabalho era vendido ou alugado, mas o próprio trabalhar-escravo. Essa presença cotidiana de escravos é necessária (ou não) para a compreensão dos enredos? Alguns contos machadianos que trazem à primeiro plano do conflito a presença da escravidão: “Mariana” (1871), “O caso da vara” (1899) e “Pai contra mãe” (1906). Entretanto, há um apagamento da história pessoal do escravo enquanto personagem. A expressão “cria da casa” usada para caracterizar Mariana, uma mulata que vive como fosse da família, mostra o quanto a genealogia da personagem se apaga, diluída no pertencimento à casa do dono. Palavras-chave: Machado de Assis. Escravidão. Conto. Cria da casa.ABSTRACTSlavery is the fundamental link to think of nineteenth-century Brazilian literature. In Machado’s prose, this historical nexus was evidenced by different critics (CHALHOUB, 2003, 2012, GLEDSON, 2006, SCHWARZ, 2000). In the reading of the newspapers, from the 1870s, through the reading of advertisements, we see how the presence of the domestic slave was a naturalized fact in the daily life of Rio de Janeiro (FREYRE, 2012; SCHWARCZ, 1987). Mothers, cupbearers, cooks, brats were advertised as objects for sale or rent. Not only was work sold or rented, but the work-slave itself. Is this daily presence of slaves necessary (or not) for the understanding of entanglements? Some Machado tales that bring to the forefront of the conflict the presence of slavery: “Mariana” (1871), “The case of the stick” (1899) and “Father against mother” (1906). However, there is an erasure of the slave’s personal history as a character. The expression “housekeeper” used to characterize Mariana, a mulatta who lives as if she were one of the family, shows how much the character’s genealogy is extinguished, diluted in belonging to the owner’s house.Keywords: Machado de Assis. Slavery. Tale. Of the house.

The Pre-Psychotic Schizoid: A Character Study

1931 ◽  
Vol 77 (319) ◽  
pp. 804-818
Author(s):  
Stanley M. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Personal History ◽  
Character Study ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

This paper is an attempt to study the family and personal history of a schizoid individual, J. M—, who developed schizophrenia (dementia paranoides) at the age of 22.

scholarly journals Giant juvenile papillomatosis of the breast in a Nigerian girl

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. e225993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sefiya Adebanke Olarinoye-Akorede ◽  
Bilkisu Farouk ◽  
Almustapha Aliyu Liman ◽  
Gbenga Abimbola Kajogbola
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Preoperative Diagnosis ◽  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Breast Disease ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Breast Mass ◽  
Imaging Features ◽  
Breast Clinic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Microscopic Findings

Juvenile papillomatosis is a benign epithelial proliferative tumour of young women. It was recognised as a distinct clinicopathological entity with defining criteria by Rosen et al since 1980. However, giant juvenile papillomatosis is rare. We report a case of a 14-year-old girl who presented to our institution’s breast clinic with a huge right breast mass measuring 20 cm × 15 cm. She had no personal history of previous breast disease and there was no family history of breast cancer. Our initial preoperative diagnosis was of a phylloides tumour. The patient had a total excision of her breast mass which revealed florid juvenile papillomatosis at histology. This presentation highlights the clinical presentation and imaging features of juvenile papillomatosis. The classical histopathological characteristics, unusual microscopic findings and management of a huge-sized tumour in an adolescent Nigerian patient are also presented.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY SUPPORT AND THE READINESS OF THE MENARCHE IN YOUNG WOMEN

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-151
Author(s):  
Etika Purnama Sari
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Statistical Test ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Sexual maturity in young women is characterized by menarche. The changes occurring at the moment of the menarche cause teenagers to become awkward. Therefore, teenagers need to organize behavioural adjustments that require family support, especially parental support.Objectives: The purpose of this research is to analyse the family support relationship with the readiness of menarche in young women.Design: The design of this research is non-experimental with correlation methods and cross sectional approaches.Methods: The population of this study is all students of 5th and 6th grade Elementary School, Taman Belajar Surabaya who have not had a menstrual period of 40 students. Sampling techniques use simple random sampling. Large sample of 36 respondents. Collection of data using a family support questionnaire and a target readiness questionnaire.Results: A statistical test is conducted using SPSS, the FisherExact test, which shows that P = 0.001 < α = 0.05, where the hypothesis is accepted which means there is a significant link between family support and the readiness of the menarche in the young womenConclusion: There is a relationship between family support and readiness to target because of the provision of good family support so that the young women have a mental knowledge and strengthening to confront the menarche. It is hoped that the family will pay more attention to the children when they begin to step up, especially when the young women are ready to face the menarche. Keywords: Family support, menarche readiness, young women

scholarly journals Revisiting Official History in Evangel Athial’s Hitler and the Decline of Shah Dynasty

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-124
Author(s):  
Raj Kishor Singh
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historiographic Metafiction ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Writings ◽  
Historical Accounts

This article aims to analyze Athial’s Hitler and the Decline of Shah Dynasty to prove that the author reimagines and rewrites official history in his novel with combination and blurring of fact and fiction. It is studied from theoretical parameters of historiographic metafiction. Through an amalgamation of fact and fiction, the novel challenges the traditional version of the official history of Nepal and Germany. The subjectivity inherent in historiographic narratives is further explored through Athial’s representation of historical character Hitler in the novel. The presence of major characters creates confusion about the nature of the novel as a work of fiction or as historiographic account. Through the use of irony and supernatural elements, Hitler and the Decline of Shah Dynasty becomes a parody of historiographic narratives which claim to be objective. The blurring of the boundaries between fiction and history and constructedness of history through discourse is the main idea in this paper. The writer imitates the genre of the historical novel but reveals its limitations and corresponds to what Linda Hutcheon calls historiographic metafiction. The novel mines the elements of the then history of Hitler, Germany, and Nepalese Shah Dynasty with the personal history of the author to revise and redefine the official version of history. This revisiting of mainstream history helps to establish the notion of plurality of historical accounts and a rejection of objectivity in historical writings. This novel has metafictional mode of writing, and the author represents metafictional parody in which historical incidents are repeated with a difference to show that history is discourse and is always open to interpretation.

scholarly journals The Reception of Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent in the Studies of Russian Authors in 1900s-1940s: Religious and Philosophical Understanding, Biography, Psychoanalysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-195
Author(s):  
Olga A. Bogdanova
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

The history of the perception of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent in the first half of the 20th century is divided into two large, qualitatively different periods: the Silver Age and the 1920s–1940s. The peculiarity of the first one is the discovery of Dostoevsky as a philosopher and religious thinker, while the second the awareness of him as an original artist. Therefore, in the first period, “ideological” and “spiritual” interpretations of The Adolescent prevailed, in the second – scientific studies of his poetics and especially of the manuscript corpus. The main areas of study of The Adolescent in the 1920s and 1940s were biography, psychoanalysis, and poetics, together with a continuous religious and philosophical understanding of the novel. The reviewed material is considered in chronological order. There is no clear distinction between Soviet and emigrant researchers, although there is a difference in the conditions in which they worked. Among the authors who wrote about The Adolescent in the 1900s and 1910s, symbolist and religious-philosophical interpretations predominate (D.S. Merezhkovsky, A.A. Blok, V.V. Rozanov, A.S. Glinka-Volzhsky, N.A. Berdyaev), judgments from the positions of naturalism, positivism, and Marxism are less common (A.I. Vvedensky, V.V. Veresaev, V.F. Pereverzev). If in the USSR of the 1920s–1940s references to The Adolescent in a religious and philosophical way are rare (N.O. Lossky), then in emigration they are quite numerous (metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky, N.A. Berdyaev, A.Z. Steinberg, E.Yu. Kuzmina-Karavaeva, N.O. Lossky). In Dostoevsky’s biographies of the 1920s–1940s, the myth of the writer’s gloomy childhood prevails, as if depicted in the plot of Arkady Dolgoruky, the hero of The Adolescent (L.P. Grossman, I.D. Ermakov, K.V. Mochulsky), but in the same years, there is confidence in the evidence of Dostoevsky’s happy childhood (O. von Schultz, G.I. Chulkov). Psychoanalysis, authoritative in the 1920s, considered the family conflict of The Adolescent in the light of the Oedipus complex and the teachings of Z. Freud on the structure of the human personality (A.A. Kashina-Evreinova, B.A. Griftsov, I.D. Ermakov, P.S. Popov).

Family and Medical Leave Legislation: Organizational Policies & Strategies

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne M. Crampton ◽  
Jitendra M. Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Early Growth ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Medical Leave ◽  
The Family ◽  
Unpaid Leave ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
The U.S

Problems have resulted from the novel situation in the U.S. society where more and more parents are working, leaving them with less time and energy during the period surrounding the birth and early growth of a new infant. This issue has received considerable attention from both the private and public sectors. An increasing number of progressive companies have been proactive in offering paid and unpaid family leaves as part of their employees’ benefit package. On February 5, 1993, President Clinton signed a bill into law granting up to a total of 12 weeks of unpaid leave during any 12 month period to cope with a family sickness, childbirth or adoption. This paper discusses the history of family leaves and the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) along with its provisions and implications. The FMLA is just a first step for the U.S. as other countries provide paid family leave with varying percentages of pay compared to the U.S. Examples of leave policies around the world are examined.

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