What are psychological and psychoanalytic explanations like? (And how that should change the way we see psychoanalytic theories)

2018 ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Vesa Talvitie
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Theories ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals An advertiser's dream

2013 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Ciara Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories ◽  
World Records ◽  
The Way

Mercedes Gleitze was a British endurance swimmer who garnered huge public interest in the 1920s and 1930s. Celebrated for her athletic endeavours and philanthropic work, she was one of the first sportswomen to endorse a range of products, and most famously became a “poster girl” for Rolex. At a time when Edward Bernays was developing the psychoanalytic theories of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, to expand the fields of advertising and public relations, the media became increasingly interested in celebrities and the products they promoted. This article will examine the way the media covered Gleitze’s attempts to break world records and how coverage of her in the press and newsreels expanded beyond her athletic prowess to delve into her personal life and financial affairs. It will also consider how Gleitze became a symbol of expanding consumerism and explore how the tensions between her “new woman” status and her commodified persona were framed in the cinema. The article will also offer a consideration of how newsreels, a resource that has been underutilised by film scholars and historians, can help to inflect debates about contemporary popular culture, shifting female identities and burgeoning consumerism.

Marvell’s Unfortunate Lovers

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-179
Author(s):  
Lynn Enterline
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories ◽  
The Way

This chapter situates Marvell’s lyric interrogations of gender and desire within the discursive and historical parameters of his classicism, paying particular attention to the rhetorical practices of the pedagogical institution in which he first learned to play Latin language games. It demonstrates that the way Marvell repurposes ancient precursors requires us to think rigorously about the terrain his explorations of desire share with non-normative psychoanalytic theory. Like Freud in his most radical moments, Marvell represents ‘love’ as an enigmatic phenomenon requiring further interrogation. The institutional language games at issue in the first half are ekphrasis, exempla, and sententiae—‘unfortunate’ figures for love that anticipate psychoanalytic theories of narcissism and primary masochism. The second half follows Marvell’s talent for prosopopoeia, the Roman practice of inventing voices for ancient characters, as he reimagines inherited narratives about gender and desire in the voice of a pubescent nymph as yet unfamiliar with adult sexual meanings.

scholarly journals texto al contra-texto

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 325-352
Author(s):  
Nicolas Esteban Garayalde
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Nous Allons ◽  
Mobile Object ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Theories Of Reading ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories ◽  
The Way

¿Qué es un texto? ¿Se pueden conocer los textos? ¿Existen? ¿Cuáles son sus límites? En los últimos veinticinco años, los estudios literarios franceses parecen estar sufriendo una transformación paradigmática que implica una reconceptualización de la noción de texto (antiguamente pensado como una unidad orgánica), cuyo estallido se produjo en gran parte tras el surgimiento de las teorías de la recepción y de la deconstrucción. Este nuevo paradigma considera el texto como un objeto móvil cuyos límites (externos e internos) son difíciles de precisar. En este artículo, nos concentraremos en el impacto que ciertas teorías psicoanalíticas de la lectura han tenido sobre el modo de pensar el texto, su espacio y sus límites externos, y las consecuencias que esto ha tenido para la crítica literaria. Para ello, nos focalizaremos especialmente en la noción de contra-texto. What is a text? Can we know texts? Do texts exist? What are the limits of texts? In the last twenty-five years, French literary studies seem to be undergoing a paradigmatic transformation that implies a reconceptualization of the notion of text (formerly thought of as an organic unit), whose outbreak occurred largely after the emergence of reception theories and deconstruction. This new paradigm conceives text as a mobile object whose limits (external and internal) are difficult to specify. In this article, we will focus on the impact that certain psychoanalytic theories of reading have had on the way of thinking the concept of text, its space and its external limits, and the consequences this has had for literary criticism. For this, we will focus especially on the notion of counter-text. Qu'est-ce qu'un texte? Peut-on les connaître ? Existent-ils ? Quelles sont ses limites? Au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années, les études littéraires françaises semblent avoir subi une transformation paradigmatique qui implique une reconceptualisation de la notion de texte (autrefois considéré comme une unité organique), dont l'éclosion s'est produite en grande partie après l'apparition des théories de la réception et de la déconstruction. Ce nouveau paradigme, pensons-nous, considère le texte comme un objet mobile dont les limites (externes et internes) sont difficiles à définir. Dans cet article, nous nous concentrerons sur l'impact de certaines théories psychanalytiques de la lecture sur la façon de penser le texte, son espace et ses limites externes, ainsi que sur les conséquences en résultant pour la critique littéraire. Pour cela, nous allons nous intéresser plus particulièrement à la notion de contre-texte.

scholarly journals The Thinking Fetus: Descartes at the Brink of Psychoanalysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-258
Author(s):  
Cecilia Sjöholm
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Maternal Body ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories ◽  
The Way

Abstract Descartes’s philosophy of the passions is central for an understanding of seventeenth-century ideas of affects and emotions and for the history of emotions overall. But does it have bearing today? In this article, I argue that Descartes raises the question of how the infantile relation to the maternal body influences the emotional life of the adult, a question that is still relevant for psychoanalysis and neuropsychology. In the philosophical scholarship on Descartes, the passages which pertain to the infant, or the fetus, and its alleged ‘confused thought’, are often quoted to demonstrate the challenges to dualism that are inherent in his own writings. However, I argue that these discussions point also to the complexity of the development of affects and emotions. In my reading, I show that Descartes’s ideas of the passions can be seen as precursory to psychoanalytic theories of object relations. This opens the way for a new trajectory of research involving fantasy, instincts and repression in the Cartesian analysis of emotions and affects.

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

What is the purpose of cognition?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aba Szollosi ◽  
Ben R. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of ways. The way in which the function of cognition develops needs to be central to our theories.

Peculiarity Parameters

1976 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 233-254
Author(s):  
H. M. Maitzen
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Observational Evidence ◽  
Rotator Model ◽  
Peculiar Behaviour ◽  
Field Spectrum ◽  
Oblique Rotator ◽  
Ap Stars ◽  
The Way

Ap stars are peculiar in many aspects. During this century astronomers have been trying to collect data about these and have found a confusing variety of peculiar behaviour even from star to star that Struve stated in 1942 that at least we know that these phenomena are not supernatural. A real push to start deeper theoretical work on Ap stars was given by an additional observational evidence, namely the discovery of magnetic fields on these stars by Babcock (1947). This originated the concept that magnetic fields are the cause for spectroscopic and photometric peculiarities. Great leaps for the astronomical mankind were the Oblique Rotator model by Stibbs (1950) and Deutsch (1954), which by the way provided mathematical tools for the later handling pulsar geometries, anti the discovery of phase coincidence of the extrema of magnetic field, spectrum and photometric variations (e.g. Jarzebowski, 1960).

The mensuration of interfaces

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-217
Author(s):  
W.M. Stobbs
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Dynamical Theory ◽  
Large Strains ◽  
Reasonable Approach ◽  
Lattice Resolution ◽  
Analogue To Digital ◽  
The Way

I do not have access to the abstracts of the first meeting of EMSA but at this, the 50th Anniversary meeting of the Electron Microscopy Society of America, I have an excuse to consider the historical origins of the approaches we take to the use of electron microscopy for the characterisation of materials. I have myself been actively involved in the use of TEM for the characterisation of heterogeneities for little more than half of that period. My own view is that it was between the 3rd International Meeting at London, and the 1956 Stockholm meeting, the first of the European series , that the foundations of the approaches we now take to the characterisation of a material using the TEM were laid down. (This was 10 years before I took dynamical theory to be etched in stone.) It was at the 1956 meeting that Menter showed lattice resolution images of sodium faujasite and Hirsch, Home and Whelan showed images of dislocations in the XlVth session on “metallography and other industrial applications”. I have always incidentally been delighted by the way the latter authors misinterpreted astonishingly clear thickness fringes in a beaten (”) foil of Al as being contrast due to “large strains”, an error which they corrected with admirable rapidity as the theory developed. At the London meeting the research described covered a broad range of approaches, including many that are only now being rediscovered as worth further effort: however such is the power of “the image” to persuade that the above two papers set trends which influence, perhaps too strongly, the approaches we take now. Menter was clear that the way the planes in his image tended to be curved was associated with the imaging conditions rather than with lattice strains, and yet it now seems to be common practice to assume that the dots in an “atomic resolution image” can faithfully represent the variations in atomic spacing at a localised defect. Even when the more reasonable approach is taken of matching the image details with a computed simulation for an assumed model, the non-uniqueness of the interpreted fit seems to be rather rarely appreciated. Hirsch et al., on the other hand, made a point of using their images to get numerical data on characteristics of the specimen they examined, such as its dislocation density, which would not be expected to be influenced by uncertainties in the contrast. Nonetheless the trends were set with microscope manufacturers producing higher and higher resolution microscopes, while the blind faith of the users in the image produced as being a near directly interpretable representation of reality seems to have increased rather than been generally questioned. But if we want to test structural models we need numbers and it is the analogue to digital conversion of the information in the image which is required.

Process \'prǎ|,ses\n: The Action of Moving Forward Progressively from One Point to Another on the Way to Completion

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Pruning
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Communicative Behaviors ◽  
Adult Level ◽  
Remedial Programs ◽  
Stage Process ◽  
The Way

A rationale for the application of a stage process model for the language-disordered child is presented. The major behaviors of the communicative system (pragmatic-semantic-syntactic-phonological) are summarized and organized in stages from pre-linguistic to the adult level. The article provides clinicians with guidelines, based on complexity, for the content and sequencing of communicative behaviors to be used in planning remedial programs.

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