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Tarantino's Round Flat Characters: A (Mainly) Verbal Study of Reservoir Dogs (1992).
2012
International audience; This article revisits E.M. Forster's distinction between round and flat characters in order to study the balancing between genre characters and realistic characters Tarantino's first film effects. It starts by examining the relationship between the fictional director of the heist (Joe Cabot), the other characters and the real director in a scene where Tarantino's cameo as a minor character endows the fictional director with authority and consequently emphasizes the shared dimension of filmmaking. The author then argues that the characters' capacity to identify and articulate flatness and rotundity in themselves and each other makes them appear round as it implies tha…
Donald Winnicott luovuudesta
2019
Psykoanalyytikko Donald Winnicott ajattelee luovuutta koko elämää läpäisevänä olemisen tapana. Lastenlääkärinäkin työskennelleen Winnicottin mukaan luovuuden perusta on vauvan kyvyssä luoda oma maailmansa. Aikuisen ihmisen luovuus on tämän kyvyn säilyttämistä, kehittämistä ja kultivoimista läpi elämän. peerReviewed
Social mirrors. Tove Jansson’sInvisibleChildand the importance of being seen
2016
ABSTRACTThis article examines the experience of being seen and analyzes its central role in the formation of a coherent sense of self. Tove Jansson’s short story from 1962, ‘The Invisible Child’, serves as the red thread of the article, and the story is analyzed in the light of Donald Winnicott’s work on social mirroring. The analysis is enriched by the psychoanalytic insights of Veikko Tahka and Heinz Kohut, and complemented by Axel Honneth’s philosophical elaborations as well as by recent developmental findings as presented by Vasudevi Reddy. The article is divided into an introduction and three sections. After summarizing Jansson’s story in the introduction, the first section elaborates …