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A walk through time: What you should have read by now or will read soon about psychotherapy
1996
In this paper a five years analysis of psychotherapy is done. The sample, taken from the PsycLIT was composed of 2694 books and book's chapters which deal with psychotherapy from many perspectives. Results are offered about first author's sex, institutional affiliation and country. Besides, the content of each book and chapter is analyzed in terms of the therapeutic approach followed, the pathology and sample treated, and the specific theme or author's work reviewed. The paper ends with a thorough discussion of the most relevant results found and brief comments about the future of psychotherapy.
The Peter Pan syndrome: Was James M. Barrie anorexic?
1989
Recently, anorexia nervosa has been referred to as the “Peter Pan syndrome,” a metaphor based on the theme of not growing up. Beside the fact that Peter Pan was a “boy who would not grow up,” another parallelism with anorexia nervosa may lie within the creator himself. We discuss the possibility that James M. Barrie, author of “Peter Pan,” might have been himself anorexic in childhood and adolescence.
The Makings of Mother in Diary Narratives
2004
This article ponders the special character of “confessional” texts, especially the diary-form text both for its keeper and for its researcher. Diaries written by ordinary people certainly give us knowledge about psychic, cultural, and social realities, but what kind of knowledge, and how could it be interpreted? This article uses a toolbox of narrative discourse analysis critically applied to diary texts written by three mothers during the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s. Theoretically, feminist ideas of the desire to mother and Foucauldian thought of the arts of existence are made use of in the article.
The Body as the Union of the Psychic and the Physical in Bergson and Merleau-Ponty
1991
Within the framework of the theme of the First World Congress of Phenomenology “Fifty Years after Husserl: the Legacy of Husserl and Contemporary Phenomenology,” I wish to set forth in this brief article some reflections on the phenomenology of the body in Bergson and Merleau-Ponty. This analysis is not aimed directly at possible similarities and divergences between Bergson and Husserl.1 I have concentrated upon one of their heirs, Merleau-Ponty. I consider that the phenomenological method can throw light on the perennial problem of anthropology: the relationships between the psychic and the physical. On the other hand, as a student of Bergsonian thought, I would like to point out the simil…
“How Did Child of Light Save Me?” Engagement with a Children’s Multimodal Game Narrative as Adult Play and Self-Therapy
2021
This chapter investigates the online reception of the Canadian video game Child of Light (Ubisoft, Child of Light. Montreal: Ubisoft Studios. Video Game, 2014) as a space of encounter between imaginary childhoods and experienced adulthoods. Child of Light is a well-selling video game involving a conventional fairy-tale narrative about a young princess Aurora battling against darkness with a party of companions. The game contains narrative elements typical of children’s stories but has been popular among adult players. The focus of this chapter is on a specific case study: an adult male professional game reviewer and his publicly shared online life narrative, in which he discusses his real-l…
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…
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…
Nota editorial. Introducción al tema monográfico “Cerebro y conducta: un enfoque neurocientífico/psicofisiológico”, en honor y recuerdo del Prof. Jes…
2021
Nota editorial en la que se presenta el monográfico y se hace un breve comentario de los artículos que lo componen Editorial note in which the special theme is presented and a brief comment is made on the articles that compose it.
Resentimiento y verdad. Sobre la réplica de Améry a Nietzsche
2004
En su Genealogía de la moral, Nietzsche situó el resentimiento del débil en la base de la moralización de los valores originales del fuerte -entre ellos, la crueldad inherente a la afirmación de la vidaque transformó éstos en negativos. A esta idea del resentimiento como un mecanismo esencialmentedistorsionador se opone Jean Améry, víctima de la violencia nazi, en Más alZa de la culpa y la expiación (1966), donde reivindica su resentimiento hacia los verdugos y sus cómplices como un instrumento de verdad para exigirles el reconocimiento de su crimen y la negación de su condición de verdugos. El objetivo del artículo es reconstruir la trama conceptual en que se articula la divergencia entre …
On Long-Lasting Humanimal Friendships: Gayness, Aging, and Disease in Lily and the Octopus
2021
This paper analyzes the significance and structural development of the theme of aging in Steven Rowley’s debut novel, the bestselling Lily and the Octopus (2016), a narrative that extends and reinvents the literary approach to manhood through alternate forms of humanimal relations. The novel intersects postmodern conceptions of madness, grief, loneliness, intimacy, and death through a tragicomic exploration of the symmetry between an unlikely (insofar as literary tradition goes) couple: Ted, a gay white male in his early forties, and his senior female dachshund, Lily. As signs of the end of Lily’s life are fleshed out by the cancerous “octopus” that chokes her brain, Ted inadvertently paral…