The Anamorphosis of Struggle, Confrontation, and Ideological Imagination in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (1966)

The transmedia narrative of the scope of Season of Migration to The North, emphasizes substantial composite creations where specific characters and idiosyncratic plot lines imply a neo-perception method and a post-conception model within the dimensionality of understanding becomes a generative system and a transformative experience. In this run, the anamorphic format of imagination and intellection inside the indigenized process of encoding, designs a new method of normative functionalism, an original attitude of discernments and a prima materia empirical perceptive consignment. Therefore, through a relational value of model and an aesthetic realism, Salih defines an innovative interactive and immersive reality within an analytic functionalism and a psycho-functionalist view in the perspective to transcend the Islamist conservative approach of formal concept analysis and then to deconstruct the Western absorption of temporal concept analysis. It is within this respect, the principle of this paper appears to be a social deconstructionism, a modality and property differentiation concerning the status quo of the Be-ing, and a transformative reform about anthropological prerequisites and requests. In this respect, the realm of functionalism, functional linguistic and aesthetic realism involve this Salih’s object argument in a transgressive object relation.

Embedding from Language Models (ELMos)- based Dependency Parser for Indonesian Language

The goal of dependency parsing is to seek a functional relationship among words. For instance, it tells the subject-object relation in a sentence. Parsing the Indonesian language requires information about the morphology of a word. Indonesian grammar relies heavily on affixation to combine root words with affixes to form another word. Thus, morphology information should be incorporated. Fortunately, it can be encoded implicitly by word representation. Embeddings from Language Models (ELMo) is a word representation which be able to capture morphology information. Unlike most widely used word representations such as word2vec or Global Vectors (GloVe), ELMo utilizes a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) over characters. With it, the affixation process could ideally encoded in a word representation. We did an analysis using nearest neighbor words and T-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) word visualization to compare word2vec and ELMo. Our result showed that ELMo representation is richer in encoding the morphology information than it's counterpart. We trained our parser using word2vec and ELMo. To no surprise, the parser which uses ELMo gets a higher accuracy than word2vec. We obtain Unlabeled Attachment Score (UAS) at 83.08 for ELMo and 81.35 for word2vec. Hence, we confirmed that morphology information is necessary, especially in a morphologically rich language like Indonesian. Keywords: ELMo, Dependency Parser, Natural Language Processing, word2vec

Abject Object Relations and Epistemic Engagement in Clinical Practice

The article engages with medical practice to develop a philosophically informed understanding of epistemic engagement in medicine, and epistemic object relations more broadly. I take point of departure in the clinal encounter and draw on French psychoanalytical theory to develop and expand a taxonomy already proposed by Karin Knorr-Cetina. Doing so, I argue for the addition of an abject type object relation, that is, the encounter with objects that transgress frameworks and disrupt further investigation, hence preventing dynamic engagement and negatively shaping our epistemic pathways. The article is primarily theoretical although partly grounded in qualitative fieldwork.

Psychometric Properties of Object Relation Scale: Factor Structure and Relationship to Mental Health

Background: Object Relations Scale (ORS: Iume, Hirai, Aoki & Baba, 2006) was developed for accessing an individual’s object relation pattern. It consists of five domains: Insufficiency of Intimacy, Superficiality in Interpersonal Relations, Egoistic Manipulation, Excessive Need for Identification, and Abandonment Anxiety. However, its factor structure using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is still undetermined. Purpose: This study aims at evaluating the psychometric properties of ORS, in particular, confirming its factor structure using CFA, and examining the relationship of object relation maturity, to mental health as well as to psychological distress. Methods: The subjects of this study were 547 medical college students in Japan. CFA were conducted in order to determine the best fit model. The relationships of maturity level of one’s object relation pattern to his/her mental health as well as psychological distresses were examined by t-tests. Results: A four-factor model, a modified version of the original five-factor model showed the best fit. Among the four factors, three were those included in the original model. They were Insufficiency of Intimacy, Superficiality in Interpersonal Relations, and Abandonment Anxiety. The last factor consisted of items originally included in the remaining two factors, Egotistic Manipulation and Excessive Need for Identification. Each ORS subscale score positively correlated with that of mental health problems as well as those of psychological distresses of one or more domains at significant levels. Conclusion: The four-factor model, which does not necessarily negate the original five-factor model proposed by Iume et al., showed the best fit. Immaturity and instability in object relation relationship contributed to a variety of distresses as well as poor mental health.

Video Object Detection Using Event-Aware Convolutional Lstm and Object Relation Networks

Common video-based object detectors exploit temporal contextual information to improve the performance of object detection. However, detecting objects under challenging conditions has not been thoroughly studied yet. In this paper, we focus on improving the detection performance for challenging events such as aspect ratio change, occlusion, or large motion. To this end, we propose a video object detection network using event-aware ConvLSTM and object relation networks. Our proposed event-aware ConvLSTM is able to highlight the area where those challenging events take place. Compared with traditional ConvLSTM, with the proposed method it is easier to exploit temporal contextual information to support video-based object detectors under challenging events. To further improve the detection performance, an object relation module using supporting frame selection is applied to enhance the pooled features for target ROI. It effectively selects the features of the same object from one of the reference frames rather than all of them. Experimental results on ImageNet VID dataset show that the proposed method achieves mAP of 81.0% without any post processing and can handle challenging events efficiently in video object detection.

Chuang Tzu’s selflessness: mind-state and the cultural semiotics of jingshen

The cognitive paradigm of symbols in ancient Chinese philosophy is quite distinct from that of Western semiotic circles. Chuang Tzu, one of the most influential ancient Chinese philosophers, concentrates his study on exploring the state of the subject’s selflessness and establishes his own cognitive paradigm of jingshen. This paper uses his statements of “I lost myself” and “The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror” in The adjustment of controversies of The Chuang Tzu, to investigate the ideal selfless mind-state and selflessness. It attempts to transfer the relationship between subject and object in symbolic cognition into the connection of intersubjectivity to construct jingshen’s cognitive paradigm of releasing symbolic meaning. The task of this research is to overcome the limitation created by the subject–object relation and finally to be “the Perfect Man” who can know the Dao.

Objects Reconfiguring the Present and the Presence. Routes of Displacement for Humans: Yoko Ogawa, Han Kang, Olga Tokarczuk

The materiality of the human body is to be understood in a complementary relation with the objects that produce an extension of life and the privation of it. The Memory Police (Yoko Ogawa) and Human Acts (Han Kang) reassemble the past through the instrumentalization of objects, thus creating life in the present. The question that arises is whether this certain present can preserve the integrity of the human. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk suggests the body as a locus of conversion and tackles contemporary interests regarding plastic, for instance. These texts authored by Ogawa, Kang and Tokarczuk allow for a repositioning of the standpoint from which the consequences of subject-object relation are approached in literature, because they tap into human experience by addressing the essentiality of objects as repositories of memories. The essay attempts to analyse how objects having either a beneficial or a lethal meaning can be seen as deeply encapsulated in human existence.

A Bridge between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: An Overview of the Neurobiological Effects of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy

This study sets out to investigate the mechanisms by which psychoanalytical psychotherapy can induce neurobiological changes. From Neuroscience which, in accordance with his thinking at the time, Freud never disregarded, the concepts of neuronal plasticity, enriched environment and the neurobiological aspects of the attachment process. From Psychoanalysis, the theory of transference, M. Mahler’s psychological evolution model, the concept of the regulating function of the self-objects and Winnicott’s holding environment concept. Together these provide a useful bridge toward the understanding of the neurobiological changes resulting from psychoanalytical psychotherapy. One concludes that psychoanalytical psychotherapy, through transference, acts as a new model of object relation and learning which furthers the development of certain brain areas, specifically, the right hemisphere, and the prefrontal and limbic cortices, which have a regulating function on affects.