Search results for "Psychoanalysis"

Enfermedad y caída en Albert Camus

2016

Este artículo está centrado en el tema de la enfermedad en Albert Camus. Se hace especial hincapié en su última novela publicada, La Chute. El tema de la enfermedad es usualmente enfocado en relación con la muerte y la finitud en la literatura y la filosofía. En este artículo se enfoca en relación con la experiencia existencial de la enfermedad como decaimiento de la plenitud vital. El caso de Albert Camus es especialmente significativo por su condición de enfermo crónico y porque la enfermedad ocupa un lugar destacado en sus obras literarias. Aquí se ha escogido La Chute porque ofrece una riqueza de niveles interpretativos sin parangón en la obra camusiana. Se propondrá dos niveles distint…

Seeing and Touching: The Optic and the Haptic in Merleau-Ponty’s Thought

2020

It is well known that Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy developed remarkably between the Structure of Behaviour, which appeared in 1942, and the later working notes of The Visible and the Invisible, written in 1960–1961. More precisely, through a self-criticism that started immediately after the publication of the Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy progressed from a meditation on embodied consciousness – which was still anchored to the ontological dualism that it tried to overcome – to a radically different reflection on the status of flesh as the “element” of Being, and on Being itself as “true negative,” or as “Being of deflection” and as Wesen, in the verbal sense of this t…

Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov (1920-2008).

2008

Interpretations of Suffering in Phenomenology of Life and Today’s Life-World

2012

Philosophers make difference between pain and suffering. Pain can be characterized as phenomenon of internal experience of sentient beings, mainly based on psycho-physical experience. Suffering from the phenomenologican point of view is reflected painful feeling with meaning constituted in intentional act. Suffering manifest Mensch-Schmerz (F. Nietzsche), painful creative affects of the life process. Attitude to suffering shows human positioning in the Universe. It have been described at the philosophy of Stoics, B. Pascal, A. Schopenhauer, F. Nietzsche, M. Scheler, V. Frankl, S. Weil, Z. Maurina, A.-T. Tymieniecka and others. Phenomenology of life sees birth, death and suffering as a drama…

Human Nature and Economic Institutions: Instinct Psychology, Behaviorism, and the Development of American Institutionalism

2004

Recent articles have explored from different perspectives the psychological foundations of American institutionalism from its beginning to the interwar years (Hodgson 1999; Lewin 1996; Rutherford 2000a, 2000b; Asso and Fiorito 2003). Other authors had previously dwelled upon the same topic in their writings on the originsand development of the social sciences in the United States (Curti 1980; Degler 1991; Ross 1991). All have a common starting point: the emergence during the second half of the nineteenth century of instinct-based theories of human agency. Although various thinkers had already acknowledged the role of impulses and proclivities, it was not until Darwin's introduction of biolo…

Bemerkungen zu K.-D. Thomann: „100 Jahre Zeitschrift für Orthopädie“

2008

The historical review of 100 years of the Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie could create the impression that the Nazi era did not have any significant impact on orthopedics in Germany. In this commentary it is shown that the Prevention of Heredopathic Offspring Act of 1933 resulted in an uncritical overemphasis on hereditary factors. This decisively influenced concepts of, research into and therapy for hip dislocation, both in Germany and other countries.

Le jeu du meme et de l'autre : "Le Horla" de Guy de Maupassant, un récit "dédoublé" en deux versions

2015

The Horla , written twice, is considered as a masterpiece of a short horror story. Its two versions are still objects of critics’ arguments : some of them see in the second text an amplified and revised version of the first one, whereas others consider the two texts as two separate stories. The paper tries to consider the two Horlas as two complementary parts of the same story ; the first is told by a completely ‘normal’ person who has asked to live in a lunatic asylum, and the second, full of striking, strong emotions, is given by someone who gives up more and more to mental troubles caused by his fear of the unknown, the unnamed, the invisible. Considered in this way, the texts of the two…

Psychosis, symbol, affectivity 1: etiopathogenesis and treatment through analytical psychology

2021

This is the first of two papers concerning our study into an integrated approach to psychotic disorders, conducted at the University of Palermo's Psychiatry Unit Polyclinic over approximately 15 years. Here we will explore and reflect upon the acute psychotic condition mainly from a theoretical and conceptual perspective, while in the second paper we will explore the clinical perspective. From the point of view of psychopathology, and in the light of C.G. Jung's conceptualization of analytical psychology, as well as calling on contributions from other authors from the systemic-relational and post-psychoanalytic field, we will clarify the ideas developed over these last few years by our team…

Der Spannungsbogen von Autonomie und Verletzlichkeit. Eine phänomenologisch-anthropologische Reflexion / The Unsolved Tension between Autonomy and Vu…

2017

Summary A phenomenological approach to anthropology should not propose a static definition of man, but inquire into specific human motivations, which never occur isolated. Therefore, the autonomy-dependency connection is presented as a possible human motivational ground. The notion of autonomy, presented with reference to the Kantian idea of the self-determining reason and to the Husserlian account of self-constitution, reveals in itself elements of dependency. On the other side, the notion of vulnerability and reliance is displayed through different approaches of Gehlen, MacIntyre and Toombs in order to illustrate dependency not as a mere capitulation of the subject, but as one of its intr…

Jacqueline Woodson’s narrative style in The Other Side: An African American picture book for children

2012

The Other Side (2001) is a children’s story with multicultural characters and themes that can be regarded as an aesthetic exploration of the human experience in the process of the acquisition of knowledge. Following the Black Arts Movement, Jacqueline Woodson’s work portrays many of the issues that are present in the real world but seldom appear in children’s literature, such as racial division or interracial relationships. Using the metaphor of a fence, this African American author reveals issues of loneliness and friendship, inclusion and exclusion, and the overcoming of prejudice and segregation through the wisdom of Clover and Annie, an African American and a white girl, who become frie…