C, F-sharp and E-flat: The tragic, the sublime and the oppressed (with C-sharp as Nemesis): Reflections on Eine kleine Trauermusik by Milan Mihajlović

In the present paper, I will discuss tonal centers and referential sonorities in the composition Eine kleine Trauermusik (1992) by one of the leading Serbian composers Milan Mihajlović. Even though its pitch structure may appear rather straightforward with its octatonic scale and the primary tonal center in C, and with referential (quasi-tonic) chords derived from the harmonic series, I intend to highlight intricate narrative trajectories and dramatic conflicts between various tonal centers (treated as actors/characters). These narratives can be related to certain archetypal plots, with the conclusion that there exists ambiguity between the tragic and the ironic archetype. On a higher plane, similar conflict/interplay/ambiguity exists between different principles of pitch organization, i.e. the octatonic and functionally tonal. The unresolved ambiguities and simultaneity of conflicting interpretations are examined from the psychoanalytic perspective, which postulates isomorphism between musical structures and processes and the processes unfolding in the unconscious mind. Finally, the effect of these narratives, especially the overwhelming impact induced by the excerpt from Mozart's piano concerto is linked with the idea of sublime as conceived by Kant, but also including other approaches (Burke, Lyotard etc.).

A Psychoanalytic Perspective of Internet Abuse

Information Security and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-937-3.ch225 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 3366-3374

Author(s):

Feng-Yang Kuo

Keyword(s):

Social Systems ◽

Past Research ◽

The Internet ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Computer Abuse ◽

Internet Abuse ◽

Modern Knowledge ◽

In this chapter I discuss Internet abuse from a psychoanalytic perspective. Internet abuse refers to the misuse of the Internet that leads to deterioration of both public and individual welfares. While past research has treated most computer abuse as the result of conscious decisions, the school of psychoanalysis provides insight into how the unconscious mind may influence one’s abusive conduct. Therefore, I argue that effective resolution of Internet abuse requires the knowledge of the unconscious mind. Although modern knowledge of this domain is still limited, I believe that this orientation is beneficiary to the construction of social systems embedding the Internet and their application to our work.

A Psychoanalytic Perspective of Internet Abuse

Personal Web Usage in the Workplace ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-148-3.ch011 ◽

2004 ◽

pp. 217-229

Author(s):

Feng-Yang Kuo

Keyword(s):

Social Systems ◽

Past Research ◽

The Internet ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Computer Abuse ◽

Internet Abuse ◽

Modern Knowledge ◽

Narrative, splintered temporalities and the unconscious in 20th century music

Musicae Scientiae ◽

10.1177/1029864908012001061 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 12 (1_suppl) ◽

pp. 129-146

Author(s):

Michel Imberty

Keyword(s):

Narrative Form ◽

Musical Form ◽

The Unconscious ◽

20Th Century Music ◽

Narrative Structures ◽

Experience Of Time ◽

Oriented Line ◽

Narrative Process ◽

Narrative structures the human experience of time, but does it also organise our musical experience? Behind this question lies another one, which concerns the narrative process itself: does it belong solely to the time of consciousness or does it manifest itself through other forms of temporal organisation in the unconscious mind? Psychologists have identified a structure of the experience of time that precedes narrative itself, which can be called “proto-narrative form” and which organises the coherence and unfolding of narrative, as it does perhaps the unfolding of musical form. It may be characterised by its linearity and a strong directionality, implying a clearly perceptible and temporally oriented line of dramatic tension. However, during the 20th century, directionality and linearity have progressively given way to a-directional or poly-directional fragmented forms, implying discontinuities of the temporal flux and the superimposition of multiple lines of dramatic tension that have neither the same progressions nor the same endings. What sense can we give to these new splintered forms of time? We attempt to answer this question from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Unconscious Processes of Identification in the Theatre. By Maria Grazia Turri. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 132. £110.00/$140.00 Hb.

Theatre Research International ◽

10.1017/s0307883318000366 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 228-229

Author(s):

R. Darren Gobert

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Unconscious Processes ◽

Psychoanalytic Perspective

Introduction: The Unconscious Mind

The Right Brain and the Unconscious ◽

10.1007/978-1-4899-5996-6_1 ◽

1992 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

R. Joseph

Keyword(s):

The Unconscious ◽

Observed Effects of the Unconscious Mind and the Unknown World. 4: Acoustic and Other Physical Effects

Why Are We Conscious? ◽

10.1201/9781315166889-11 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 135-152

Author(s):

David E. H. Jones

Keyword(s):

The Unconscious ◽

Physical Effects ◽

Dissociation and the Unconscious Mind: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on Mediumship

Journal of Scientific Exploration ◽

10.31275/20201735 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 537-596

Author(s):

Carlos S. Alvarado

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

William James ◽

General Interest ◽

The Unconscious ◽

History Of ◽

Memory States ◽

Hippolyte Taine ◽

There is a long history of discussions of mediumship as related to dissociation and the unconscious mind during the Nineteenth Century. After an overview of relevant ideas and observations from the mesmeric, hypnosis, and spiritualistic literatures, I focus on the writings of Jules Baillarger, Alfred Binet, Paul Blocq, Théodore Flournoy, Jules Héricourt, William James, Pierre Janet, Ambroise August Liébeault, Frederic W.H. Myers, Julian Ochorowicz, Charles Richet, Hippolyte Taine, Paul Tascher, and Edouard von Hartmann. While some of their ideas reduced mediumship solely to intra-psychic processes, others considered as well veridical phenomena. The speculations of these individuals, involving personation, and different memory states, were part of a general interest in the unconscious mind, and in automatisms, hysteria, and hypnosis during the period in question. Similar ideas continued into the Twentieth Century.

Social Constructionism and the Role of the Unconscious in Hypnotic Responding: A Single Case Experiment

Behaviour Change ◽

10.1375/bech.28.3.156 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 156-163

Author(s):

David P. Fourie

Keyword(s):

Social Constructionism ◽

Cognitive Process ◽

Single Case ◽

Alternative View ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Socially Constructed ◽

Wide Acceptance ◽

The Subject ◽

AbstractThere seems to be wide acceptance by both professionals and lay people that hypnotic and especially hypnotherapeutic responding is based on the long-standing but still hypothetical dichotomy between the conscious and unconscious minds. In this simplistic view, hypnotic suggestions are considered to bypass consciousness to reach the unconscious mind, there to have the intended effect. This article reports on a single-case experiment investigating the involvement of the unconscious in hypnotherapeutic responding. In this case the subject responded positively to suggestions that could not have reached the unconscious, indicating that the unconscious was not involved in such responding. An alternative view is proposed, namely that hypnotherapeutic responding involves a cognitive process in which a socially constructed new understanding of the problem behaviour and of hypnosis, based on the client's existing attribution of meaning, is followed by action considered appropriate to the new understanding and which then confirms this understanding, leading to behaviour change.