Symbols of the unconscious in George MacDonald’s “The Light Princess”

Pavel Petkov;

doi:10.54664/txgz6465

Symbols of the unconscious in George MacDonald’s “The Light Princess”

Proglas ◽

10.54664/txgz6465 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Pavel Petkov ◽

Keyword(s):

Fairy Tale ◽

The Unconscious

The article explores some of the aspects of George MacDonald’s fairy tale “The Light Princess”, related to the sphere of the unconscious. Using Freudian psychoanalytical theory as a basis, I demonstrate that the author’s words tell us more than they were meant to and that some of them are symbols which, more than thirty years after the publication of the fairy tale, Freud recognised as messengers of the repressed. I first give a brief outline of Freud’s ideas concerning the unconscious; then I discuss in detail the implications of the symbol of falling in “The Light Princess”; lastly, I give several examples of repression as they appear in the fairy tale.

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Motivation problems of corrective motor-play activity of children with psychomotor disorders and possible ways of their solution

EUREKA Social and Humanities ◽

10.21303/2504-5571.2021.001836 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 65-71

Author(s):

Volodymyr Biesieda

Keyword(s):

Fairy Tale ◽

Physical Culture ◽

Powerful Method ◽

Emotional Experiences ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Play Activity ◽

Psychomotor Disorders ◽

Motivational Support ◽

Definition Of ◽

Sphere Formation

The article analyzes one of the main problems of physical rehabilitation of children with psychomotor disorders – the problem of motivation in corrective motor activity. This determined the aim – to determine the main directions of the motivational sphere formation in the process of correctional play activity of children with psychomotor disorders. The following research methods were used: the method of analysis, which made it possible to identify the main characteristics and types of motivational support of children for various types of activity; the method of pedagogical observations and the method of synthesis revealed the powerful method of motivating – theatricalization of the correctional process using physical education. The research results were expressed in the definition of the concepts: motive, motivational field, motivational impulse, which are the components of the concept of motivation, the variety of which is defined in four types. There were made following conclusions: The motivation of corrective motor-play activity is based on the unconscious influences of the unconscious, caused by the external use by the teacher of the corresponding children's fairy-tale archetypes and the emotional experiences, caused by them. One of the main methods of increasing motivation is the use of the possibilities of pedagogical "drama" in the form of a method of dosed dramatization of the motor-game plot of a remedial lesson, which should be considered as a physical culture fairy tale. For the implementation of effective dramatic motivation, it is necessary to provide points of dramatization of different influence strength.

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Physicality and The Body

Studying Talk to Her ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781906733438.003.0006 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 49-58

Author(s):

Emily Hughes

Keyword(s):

Fairy Tale ◽

The Body ◽

Male Body ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Male And Female ◽

Different Types ◽

Female Bodies

This chapter focuses on the significance of male physicality in Pedro Almodóvar's films. Whilst Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002) does not celebrate or objectify the bodies of its central male protagonists so brazenly, before the guitar sequence there is a seemingly out of place shot of a beautiful male body. Cynthia Freeland suggests that the purpose of the shot is 'to conjure up emotions of sensuous pleasure and exploration of bodily rhythms'. The physicality of female actors is also important within Talk to Her. Both Alicia and Lydia use their bodies for professions which require skill and athleticism. The film explores different types of male and female bodies. As such, the body is seen as an important motif within the film. The unconscious body is represented in different ways: as a landscape, as a doll, as a corpse, as a fairy tale princess.

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THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CONCEPTUAL SPACE OF THE ENGLISH FOLK FAIRY TALE BY MEANS OF THE CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS

English and American Studies ◽

10.15421/382004 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (17) ◽

pp. 23-28

Author(s):

Natalia Yeremeieva

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Model ◽

Fairy Tales ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Conceptual Analysis ◽

Model Space ◽

Systematic Investigation ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Conceptual Space ◽

Symbolic Images

This article is devoted to the systematic investigation of the conceptual space of the English folk fairy tales. This space was considered as a holistic prototypical entity made by theconceptual fields of the English folk fairy tale characters. The latter has been analyzed with regard to their general types and their typical encarnations in the English folk fairy tale. The conceptual field of a character was structured as a frame including attributive, functional, causative and resultative zones. It was established that each zone is represented by a number of definite concepts which can be regarded as more or less typical for the English folk fairy tales. Within the general conceptual model of the English folk fairy tale we identified the central schema and its transformations. Special attention was paid to the conceptual model space-andtime, to the role of sacred numbers in English folk fairy-tale semantics and to the description symbolic images which can be related to the archetypes of the unconscious investigated by K. Yung. The archetypes are considered to be the basis of the conceptual model of the English folk fairy tales.

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Russian constructivism and formalism: on approaches of post-modernism

Philological Sciences Scientific Essays of Higher Education ◽

10.20339/phs.5-20.096 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 96-110

Author(s):

Mziya J. Kuparashvili ◽

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Main Idea ◽

Ontological Status ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Post Modernism ◽

The Masses

Examined is the theme of Russian constructivism and formalism. The main idea of the article is, that ideas of such were felt, expressed and formulated at the dawn of the 20th century, formed the entire content and foundation of post-modernism. Having become the worldview of the masses, post-modernism does not leave themes and clichés that were set at the beginning of the century. As always and everywhere, the main trends arise immediately and entirely. So, at the beginning of the 20th century the problem field of the epoch was outlined, i.e. the foundation of phonology was formed, interest in the “fairy tale” was set, the role of the unconscious was actualized, the meaning of time was revealed, language received an ontological status, and the concept of “game” post-modern reflection. The article attempts to update Russian constructivism and formalism to demonstrate foundations of post-modernism.

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Behavior in the Brain

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803/a000016 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 76-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Martin M. Monti ◽

Adrian M. Owen

Keyword(s):

Motor Behavior ◽

Functional Neuroimaging ◽

Brain Activity ◽

Motor Output ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Ethical Implications ◽

Brain Responses ◽

Minimally Conscious ◽

Brain Insults ◽

Brain Behavior

Recent evidence has suggested that functional neuroimaging may play a crucial role in assessing residual cognition and awareness in brain injury survivors. In particular, brain insults that compromise the patient’s ability to produce motor output may render standard clinical testing ineffective. Indeed, if patients were aware but unable to signal so via motor behavior, they would be impossible to distinguish, at the bedside, from vegetative patients. Considering the alarming rate with which minimally conscious patients are misdiagnosed as vegetative, and the severe medical, legal, and ethical implications of such decisions, novel tools are urgently required to complement current clinical-assessment protocols. Functional neuroimaging may be particularly suited to this aim by providing a window on brain function without requiring patients to produce any motor output. Specifically, the possibility of detecting signs of willful behavior by directly observing brain activity (i.e., “brain behavior”), rather than motoric output, allows this approach to reach beyond what is observable at the bedside with standard clinical assessments. In addition, several neuroimaging studies have already highlighted neuroimaging protocols that can distinguish automatic brain responses from willful brain activity, making it possible to employ willful brain activations as an index of awareness. Certainly, neuroimaging in patient populations faces some theoretical and experimental difficulties, but willful, task-dependent, brain activation may be the only way to discriminate the conscious, but immobile, patient from the unconscious one.

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“The Unconscious” in Current Psychology

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000017 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 193-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Elisabeth Norman

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Psychology ◽

Verbal Report ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Operational Definition ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Apparent Lack ◽

Unconscious Processing ◽

Unconscious Processes ◽

Intermediate States ◽

Definition Of

A series of vignette examples taken from psychological research on motivation, emotion, decision making, and attitudes illustrates how the influence of unconscious processes is often measured in a range of different behaviors. However, the selected studies share an apparent lack of explicit operational definition of what is meant by consciousness, and there seems to be substantial disagreement about the properties of conscious versus unconscious processing: Consciousness is sometimes equated with attention, sometimes with verbal report ability, and sometimes operationalized in terms of behavioral dissociations between different performance measures. Moreover, the examples all seem to share a dichotomous view of conscious and unconscious processes as being qualitatively different. It is suggested that cognitive research on consciousness can help resolve the apparent disagreement about how to define and measure unconscious processing, as is illustrated by a selection of operational definitions and empirical findings from modern cognitive psychology. These empirical findings also point to the existence of intermediate states of conscious awareness, not easily classifiable as either purely conscious or purely unconscious. Recent hypotheses from cognitive psychology, supplemented with models from social, developmental, and clinical psychology, are then presented all of which are compatible with the view of consciousness as a graded rather than an all-or-none phenomenon. Such a view of consciousness would open up for explorations of intermediate states of awareness in addition to more purely conscious or purely unconscious states and thereby increase our understanding of the seemingly “unconscious” aspects of mental life.

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