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H.D.'s Analysis with Freud |
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Norman N. Holland |
Freud analyzed the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) in the early-Nazi years 1933-1934. During the analysis, H.D. wrote letters daily and sometimes twice daily to her companion, Bryher, and to other friends describing what was going on. These letters plus her poems and book about her analysis give us the longest, most detailed account of an analysis by Freud. They give a picture of the intellectual and political setting. They show both how she learned (as demonstrated in her later poetry) and how he learned from her, in this analysis of someone he considered not a patient but a student. Her writings give an astonishing picture of Freud's remarkable intuitions and his totally unorthodox behavior in the analytic setting. Most importantly, they show how he listened, not to the "important details," the "content" of the language, but to the linguistic surface, the language as such.
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keywords: literature; literary process; psychoanalysis; psychology; cognitive science; H.D.; .language; identity; identity theme. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_holland05.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Holland, Norman . "H.D.'s Analysis with Freud," PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020101. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_holland05.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: January 1, 2002 || Published: April 26, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Norman N. Holland |
author info: |
| Norman N. Holland |
nholland@ufl.edu |
Deptartment of English
University of Florida |
P. O. Box 117310
Gainesville FL 32611-7310 U.S.A. |
article020127 |
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Primo Levi: Speaking From the Flames |
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Rina Dudai |
This paper argues that two opposite forces --the urge to cry out and the drive to rational construction -- act simultaneously to convert traumatic experience into a poetic text. I discuss Primo Levi's mode of coping with the Holocaust experience and establish which of the forces is dominant. Levi's main efforts were invested in constructing a rational, aloof representation of his traumatic experiences. I discuss what he avoided touching on and examine the consequences of his mode of coping with the trauma. In Levi's work, the scream is hardly heard, and he uses a series of poetic devices to enforce logic and order. Whether we hear him scream or whisper, his text never displays the poetic balance which could have enabled him to work through the trauma, rather than acting it out.
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keywords: holocaust; trauma; sublime; acting-out; working through; restraint mechanisms; poetic language; poetic defense mechanisms; Primo Levi; Dante; repression. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_dudai01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Dudai, Rina. "Primo Levi: Speaking From the Flames" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020127. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_dudai01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: January 27, 2002 || Published: May 4, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Rina Dudai |
author info: |
| Rina Dudai |
rina_dud@smkb.ac.il |
Comparative Literature Department |
149 Namir Road
Tel Aviv, Israel 62507
Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
article 011101 |
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Psychoanalytic Explanations for the Transition of Writers
from Poetry to Prose Writing |
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Sagit Blumrosen-Sela |
This paper sheds light on the prevalent phenomenon of the transition of writers from poetry to prose writing. It describes the characteristics of the 'poetic' (or 'lyric') versus the 'prosaic' mode of writing, and relates them to two early developmental positions. The 'lyric' position is related to the earlier psychological position, which is characterized by narcissism, the dominance of primary processes, looseness of ego boundaries, a lack of clear differentiation between the self and objects, and a high level of unity between symbol and symbolized. The 'prosaic' position is related to the later developmental position, which entails strengthening of ego functioning, strengthening of secondary processes, the presence of a narrating subject who is more separate and self-conscious and often has a more realistic and integrative regard for himself and for objects around him. In this position, symbolization is more differentiated and there is a syntactical and lexical fullness.
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keywords: poets, prose-writers, the lyrical mode, the prosaic mode, the poetic position, the prosaic position, creative development, creativity, adolescence, mid-life |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_blumrosen01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Blumrosen-Sela, Sagit. "Psychoanalytic Explanations for the Transition of Writers from Poetry to Prose Writing " PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 011101. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_blumrosen01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2002 || Published: 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Sagit Blumrosen-Sela |
author info: |
| Sagit Blumrosen-Sela |
sagitsela@hotmail.com |
Dept. of General and Comparative Literature
Hebrew University
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Pinchas Rosen 7/42
Jerusalem, Israel |
article 020207 |
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Whose Neighborhood is This?: Intersubjective Moments in Psychoanalytic Education |
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Dawn Skorczewski |
Critics of psychoanalytic education have argued that despite challenges to positivist versions of authority and knowledge in psychoanalytic theory in recent decades, psychoanalytic educators continue to assume positions of absolute authority in their classrooms. Drawing from a series of interactions in a technique course at a psychoanalytic institute, this author argues that teachers inevitably assume authoritative positions in any classroom. The real work of teaching in a post-positivist world begins when teachers recognize that they have assumed the position of the arbiter of truth in the classroom and figure out (with and in front of their students) what to do next.
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keywords: composition, education, pedagogy, psychoanalysis, implicit relational knowledge, intersubjectivity. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_skorczewski01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Skorczewski, Dawn . "Whose Neighborhood is This?: Intersubjective Moments in Psychoanalytic Education" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020207. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_skorczewski01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: January 9, 2002 || Published: February 2, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Dawn Skorczewski |
author info: |
| Dawn Skorczewski |
Dawn_Skorczewski @emerson.edu |
Director of Composition, Dept. of
Writing, Literature, and Publishing
Emerson College
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120 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116-4624 |
article 020320 |
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Hearing Voices in Dreams: Freud's Tossing and Turning with Speech and Writing |
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Mikko Keskinen |
In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud repeatedly claims that there is no original speech in dreams. All dreamed speech is lifted from waking life and used as mutable raw material, whereas thought and writing can occur independently of the dream-work. This article examines Freud's insistence of the unoriginality and mutability of speech, which ostensibly reverses the supposed phonocentric tradition of Western metaphysics. Freud's interpretations, the article suggests, point to the importance of a general linguistic system in the production of meaning in dreams. This system includes non-phonetic writing and the concretization of abstract dream-thoughts into visual images. This concretization or materialization also applies to phonetic writing, which allows for a number of articulations. Utilizing literary phonemic reading theorized by Garrett Stewart, the article proposes a new interpretation of "Philippe's dream." The speech/writing dichotomy does not fully hold in Freud's argumentative rhetoric, nor is it unequivocally functional in interpreting dreams -- or literature.
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keywords: Freud, dreams, symbols, speech, writing, phonemic reading, Stewart, Derrida. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_keskinen01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Keskinen, Mikko. "Hearing Voices in Dreams: Freud's Tossing and Turning with Speech and Writing," PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020320. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_keskinen01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: March 20, 2002 || Published: May 29, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Mikko Keskinen |
author info: |
| Mikko Keskinen |
keskinen@cc.jyu.fi |
Dept. of Comparative Literature
University of Jyvaskyla
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P.O. Box 35(A)
FIN-40351 Jyvaskyla, FINLAND |
article 000904 |
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The Rock Still Rolls: Personal Reflections on Camus's Myth of Sisyphus |
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Bruce Sarbit |
The personal reflections of this essay, raised by my repeated reading and translation of Camus's mini-essay on Sisyphus, are embedded in attempts to answer the following questions: Of what use is this ancient myth in today's world? Does Sisyphus's story hold any significance for us? What might we learn from this man, from the enormous rock, from "stone itself," from Sisyphus's futile labors? Can I make the myth relevant to my own life, and might I, like Sisyphus, be able to foster my own "higher devotion"? How was Camus able to imagine Sisyphus, in the midst of his hellish labours, happy? My response to Camus's thoughts, particularly his notions of "The Absurd," the "path of sympathy" and exile, are explored in relation to the mini-essay.
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keywords: Albert Camus; Sisyphus; Myth of Sisyphus; "The Absurd"; "path of sympathy"; subjectivity; exile; translation. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_sarbit04.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Sarbit, Bruce. "The Rock Still Rolls: Personal Reflections on Camus's Myth of Sisyphus" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 000904. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_sarbit04.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2002 || Published: 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Bruce Sarbit |
author info: |
| Bruce Sarbit |
Sarbitb@mb.sympatico.ca |
Counselor, Faculty of Human Services
Brandon University
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526-16th Street
Brandon, MB
R7A 4Y3 CANADA |
article 020908 |
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Disruptions of Identity: Points of Intersection between Blake's Urizen Books and Cognitive Science |
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Matthew Green |
One of the primary features of the prototypical self is the ability to produce and identify with a reasonably complete personal narrative. The findings of cognitive science, and particularly research into Dissociative Identity Disorder, challenge the claims to universality of this prototype. While cognitive science presents memory as the often unstable product of multiple sub-systems, DID raises the possibility of the presence of multiple biographies, and even multiple selves, within the same brain. Similar possibilities are explored, both verbally and visually, in Blake's Book of Urizen, which challenges dominant Lockean models of the self. Reading Blake alongside recent research into memory and identity yields insight into the continued influence of eighteenth-century ideas about identity, explores the wider moral dimensions of such psychological models and suggests alternate ways of interpreting a variety of psychological phenomena.
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keywords: Blake, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Eighteenth-Century Psychology, Locke, Empiricism, Narrative |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_green01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Green, Matthew. "Disruptions of Identity: Points of Intersection between Blake's Urizen Books and Cognitive Science" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020908. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_green01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: May 14, 2002 || Published: September 8, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Matthew Green |
author info: |
| Matthew Green |
mjagreen@hotmail.com |
School of English
University of Nottinham
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University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
United Kingdom |
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The Mandala Experience : Visions of the Center in Schizophrenic and Fictional Accounts of Disintegration |
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Leslie Trueman |
Schizophrenia is commonly viewed as a paradigm of disintegration, but C.G. Jung and J. Weir Perry were among those who noticed that schizophrenics often have visions of the mandala, a symbol of the center. These visions, or "mandala experiences" are in Jung's words, "an attempt at self-healing" through "the construction of a central point to which everything is related." Two schizophrenic experiences of mandalas are given to illustrate. One experience is Jung's who arguably had a breakdown of schizophrenic proportions. The other can be found in the life of John Nash, a schizophrenic made famous by the recent film biography, "A Beautiful Mind." The presence of such hitherto undetected moments of constructiveness during psychic distintegration prompts a reevaluation of writers such as Kafka, who are commonly viewed as poets of disintegration. His "Description of a Struggle" is a search for, and temporary attainment of the healing center amidst such psychic disintegration.
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keywords: C.G. Jung, J. Weir Perry, John Nash, Kafka, Description of a Struggle, schizophrenia, mandala, A Beautiful Mind, psychosis |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_trueman01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Trueman, Leslie. "The Mandala Experience : Visions of the Center in Schizophrenic and Fictional Accounts of Disintegration" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020422. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_trueman01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: April 22, 2002 || Published: September 8, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Leslie Trueman |
author info: |
| Leslie Trueman |
lesliet@eden.rutgers.edu |
Comparative Literature
Rutgers University
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205 Ruth Adams Building,
Douglass Campus
New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903 |
article 020709 |
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The Unfinished Self: Richard’s Gender, Deformity, and Personhood in 3 Henry VI and Richard III |
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Julio C. Avalos, Jr. |
This paper examines the relationship between physical deformity and sexual identity in Richard III and III Henry VI. When discussing Richard's deformities, critics have typically focused upon the metaphysical issues that they raise, first and foremost wondering whether they are tangible manifestations of an inner evil or whether they themselves are the root of his wickedness. This question presupposes the centrality of the moral implications that his deformities have, ignoring altogether the sexual connotations that a deformed body carried for a Renaissance audience. In this work, I discuss what exactly is meant when Shakespeare describes Richard as "unfinished," ultimately concluding that Richard represents a figure that transgresses the margins of sexual polarities, making him a threat to the very essence of Renaissance gender identity. I also conclude that -- beyond a manifestation of a simple "will to power" -- Richard's thirst for the throne is a sublimation of his wish to return to the womb.
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keywords: Shakespeare, Freud, gender identity, psychoanalysis, Renaissance, sexuality, Derrida. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_avalos01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Avalos Jr., Julio C. "The Unfinished Self: Richard’s Gender, Deformity, and Personhood in 3 Henry VI and Richard III" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020709. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_avalos01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: September 9, 2002 || Published: September 14, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Julio C. Avalos, Jr. |
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article 020529 |
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Ego Dissolution and Recuperation in William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" |
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Diane Simmons |
This paper interrogates the psychological underpinnings of the drive to "imperial" power, and the satisfactions of power that go beyond the material. To examine this question, I offer a case study of the life and works of Rudyard Kipling, who has been widely credited with creating the "defining images" of British Empire. I will read Kipling through such theorists asW.R.D. Fairbairn, D.W. Winnocott and particularly Heinz Kohut, who has developed a modern theory of narcissism, as well as through the work of Erik Erikson, who has theorized a link between personal psychology and social and historical events and attitudes. Not only does an examination of Kipling's work allow us to gain an understanding of the man who was in his later life Britain's arch-imperialist, but it allows us insight into the public for whom his works so resonated.
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keywords: Rudyard Kipling, British Imperialism, Heinz Kohut, literature of empire, narcissism |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_simmons01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Simmons, Diane. "Black Sheep: Rudyard Kipling’s Narcissistic Imperialism" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020529.Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_simmons01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: May 29, 2002 || Published: September 24, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Diane Simmons |
author info: |
| Diane Simmons |
dianesimmons@erols.com |
Department of English
Borough of Manhattan
Community College NEWLINE City
University of New York |
199 Chambers St. NEWLINE
New York, New York 10007 |
article 092108 |
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Phonetic Cues and Dramatic Function Artistic Recitation of Metered Speech |
by
Reuven Tsur |
This article attempts a brief synthesis of two of my research areas: expressive sound patterns and the performance of poetic rhythm, focussed on Simon Russel Beale's performance of Gloucester's first soliloquy in Richard III. It explores three structural relationships between phonetic cues and their effects: redundancy (when several phonetic cues combine to the same effect); conflicting cues (which serve to convey conflicting prosodic effects by the same stretch of speech); and overdetermination (when one phonetic cue serves to convey a variety of unrelated -- e.g., phonological, rhythmical and expressive -- effects). Iv·n FÛnagy speaks of dual coding of phonetic cues; the same cues convey phonological and emotive information. This article proposes "triple coding": the same cues convey phonological, emotive and rhythmic information.
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keywords: Richard III, expressive function of vocal style, poetic rhythm, performance, Simon Russel Beale, Iván Fónagy, Stress maxima in weak poxition. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_tsur05.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Tsur, Reuven . "Phonetic Cues and Dramatic Function; Artistic Recitation of Metered Speech" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020722. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_tsur05.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: July 22, 2002 || Published: September 25, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Reuven Tsur |
author info: |
| Reuven Tsur |
tsurxx@post.tau.ac.il |
Hebrew Literature
Tel Aviv University |
Ramat Aviv 69978
Tel Aviv P.O.B. 39040 ISRAEL |
article 020604 |
| E-Motion: Being Moved by Fiction and Media? Notes on Fictional Worlds, Virtual Contacts and the Reality of Emotions |
by
Katja Mellmann |
Our response to fictional cues is often as emotional as to real life occurrences. Such emotional responses do not mean that we mistake fiction for reality; rather they are affected by our innate social behaviors and by complex neural structures. Some responses, as for instance fright or pity, take place spontaneously, like a reflex act. Also, emotions can be evoked by means of thoughts. Some texts rouse the reader's ability to share the emotional experiences of a fictional character. Other emotions refer to a work of art as a whole or to some implicit components of meaning or allusions to facts external to the text. Further modes of emotional engagement are pleasure and suspense (tension), the affective bases for the reception of art or any media. This essay undertakes to give, to a general audience, a short survey on a subject which is not yet much investigated within literary studies, and, by this, to point to further readings.
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keywords: emotion; film studies; German literature; fiction; reader response; suspense; evolutionary psychology; aesthetics; identification |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_mellmann01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Katja, Mellmann . "E-Motion: Being Moved by Fiction and Media: Notes on Fictional Worlds, Virtual Contacts and the Reality of Emotions" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020604. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_mellmann01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: September 18, 2002 || Published: October 29, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Katja Mellmann |
author info: |
article 020918 |
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Ego Dissolution and Recuperation in William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" |
by
Robert J. Walz |
Shakespeare represents Prince Hal as a rebellious but charming adolescent who finally turns away from his defiance of authority, undergoes a reformation, and goes on to become England's venerated warrior-king, Henry V. In this essay, I argue that Hal's rebelliousness also is a form of creative play that facilitates his adolescent development by helping him working through family and intrapsychic conflicts. This working-through process then enables him to mature, consolidating both his masculinity and his identification with his father, Henry IV. However, in contrast to the usual benign and, in my opinion, rather indulgent reading of the Prince's adolescent development, I conclude that his final identification with his cruel and ruthless father merely amplifies violent traits already apparent in Hal's adolescence. Thus, Hal's "reformation" from playful prince to predatory monarch is more apparent than real.
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keywords: William Wordsworth, the sublime, object relations analysis, W.R.D. Fairbairn, engulfment, incorporation, identity, identification, introjection |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_walz01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Walz, Robert J. "Ego Dissolution and Recuperation in William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020918. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_walz01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: June 4, 2002 || Published: November 1, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Robert J. Walz |
author info: |
| Robert J. Walz |
walz@mail.ptd.net |
Department of English
Lock Haven University |
Lock Haven University
Lock Haven, PA 17745 |
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article 021118 |
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"We are all murderers and prostitutes:" R.D. Laing and the work of Alasdair Gray.
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by
Susan Hathaway Boydston
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In the film One True Thing (and Anna Quindlen's novel on which it is based), we see a powerful example of Freud's "return of the repressed" in the way the subplot contradicts (and deconstructs) the main plot. The story is primarily about New York journalist Ellen Gulden's dawning awareness of her stay-at-home mother's strong role in the family, which leads to a reconciliation between the two before Kate dies of cancer. The secondary story is a murder mystery of a sort, in which Ellen stands accused of overdosing Kate with morphine. On its most salient level the subplot seems implausible, but if we look deeper, we can see how it completely undermines the main plot to reveal unconscious Oedipal conflict, forcing One True Thing, in spite of itself, to speak truer than it knows.
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keywords: Film, novel, plot, subplot, One True Thing, Freud, unconscious, return of the repressed, Oedipal conflict, Wylie Sypher, Anna Quindlen, Karen Croner |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_boydston01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Boydston, Susan Hathaway. "One True Thing: Speaking Truer Than It Knows" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 021118. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_boydston01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: November 18, 2002 || Published: November 20, 2002 || Copyright © 2002
Susan Hathaway Boydston
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author info: |
| Susan Hathaway Boydston |
boydstsh@email.uc.edu |
Department of English
University of Cincinnati |
P.O. Box 210069
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069 |
article 021122 |
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"We are all murderers and prostitutes:" R.D. Laing and the work of Alasdair Gray.
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by Gavin Miller
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The work of the contemporary Scottish author Alasdair Gray is particularly amenable to psychoanalytic interpretation. However, the Reichean reading which Gray's texts explicitly invite is too narrow. The ideas of Gray's fellow countryman, R.D. Laing, provide a fuller interpretation. In particular, Laing's theories clarify Gray's favoured character type. Divided selves such as the protagonists of Lanark and 1982 Janine project imaginary others in a futile inner existence, leaving behind only their bodies to transact with everyday life. Laing's writings also explain Gray's use of fantasy. In Gray's work, fantasy does not merely represent desired (but forbidden) states of affairs. Rather, like those neurotic and psychotic fantasies analysed by Laing, Gray's bizarre inner and outer worlds convey also, in a distorted form, existential realities overlooked by everyday conceptions of human life.
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keywords: Wilhelm Reich, schizoid, fantasy, Scottish literature, Lanark, 1982 Janine, existential psychiatry. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_miller01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Miller, Gavin. "We are all murderers and prostitutes:" R.D. Laing and the work of Alasdair Gray. " PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 021122. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_miller01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: November 22, 2002 || Published: November 25, 2002 || Copyright © 2002 Gavin Miller |
author info: |
| Gavin Miller |
Gavin.Miller@ed.ac.uk |
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh |
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9JX
United Kingdom |
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