article 020919 |
| The Willing Suspension of Disbelief: A Neuro-Psychoanalytic View |
by Norman N. Holland |
One can subdivide the phenomenon Coleridge described into three inhibitions: 1) no awareness of one's body; 2) no awareness of what surrounds the literary work; and 3) no reality testing, plus one disinhibition: we feel toward what is represented as though it were really happening. Ego-psychology explained the phenomenon as a regression to orality and mother-infant fusion (Holland 1968). We can now add a neurological explanation. Although more complicated, it may provide a clue to the nature of what psychoanalysis calls regression. |
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keywords: Coleridge; willing suspension of disbelief; Kant; interesselosigkeit; reality-testing; false belief; emotion; habituation. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_holland06.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Holland,Norman."The Willing Suspension of Disbelief:A Neuro-Psychoanalytic View" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 020919. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_holland06.shtml, Dec. 31, 2003 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: July 18, 2002 || Published: January 22, 2003 || Copyright © 2003 Norman Holland |
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| Norman N. Holland |
nholland@ufl.edu |
Deptartment of English
University of Florida |
P. O. Box 117310
Gainesville FL 32611-7310 U.S.A. |
article 030119 |
| The Incorporative Identifications of Mourning and Melancholia: A Textual Causerie |
by Paul Emmett |
The first section of my essay develops new theories concerning the role of eating in successful mourning. Since the loss of a loved one revivifies the original loss of symbiosis, eating with its incorporative identifications alleviates both loses. We incorporate the loved ones and with them inside of us we are "pregnant."
The final three sections all consider arenas where mourning fails. Section two explores anorexia and necrophilia, showing how boundary problems can lead to failed mourning and melancholia. Section three studies serial killers, showing how failed incorporations render them melancholic. Section four looks at fiction and film, where the failure to incorporate leads beyond melancholia to death.
Ultimately this essay demonstrates both that each of these "texts" informs the others, and that my new theories of mourning and melancholia give us an understanding of these texts which, in turn, expands our knowledge of our human problems with incorporative identifications. |
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keywords: incorporation, identification, cannibalism, anorexia, necrophilia, mourning, melancholia, Bartleby, Hamlet. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_emmett01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Emmett, Paul."The Incorporative Identifications of Mourning and Melancholia: A Textual Causerie" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 030119. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_emmett01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2003 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: January 18, 2003 || Published: January 29, 2003 || Copyright © 2003 by Paul Emmett |
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| Paul Emmett |
pemmett@uwc.edu |
Deptartment of English
University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc |
705 Viebahn
Manitowoc WI, 54220 |
article 030802 |
| On Rudyard Kipling's Loss of Ayah |
by Cora L. Díaz de Chumaceiro |
The life and works of Rudyard Kipling continue to be studied from different perspectives. In 1975, Leonard Shengold characterized as an attempt at soul murder the early trauma Rudyard and Trix Kipling experienced at Lorne Lodge, in Southsea, Sussex, when at barely five and-a-half and three years old, respectively, they were handed over by their parents to foster caregivers. The critical first five years of a child's life in the family system are indispensable for a deeper and expanded understanding of personality disturbances presented in adulthood, including lack of intimacy and limited capacity to love a partner. Taking into account childrearing practices of Anglo Indians during the British Raj, a vista of the overlooked trauma suffered as a result of the loss of Ayah as well as patterns of attachment in later life are presented and discussed. Kipling's short story, "His Majesty the King," is underscored. |
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keywords: British Raj, Anglo-Indian childrearing, developmental psychoanalysis, Hardin and Hardin, hired caregivers, early loss trauma, separation anxiety, intimacy problems. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_diaz_de_chumaceiro01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Díaz de Chumaceiro, Cora L. "On Rudyard Kipling's Loss of Ayah" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 030802. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_diaz_de_chumaceiro01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2003 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: February 4, 2003 || Published: February 10, 2003 || Copyright © 2003 by Cora L. Díaz de Chumaceiro |
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| Cora L. Díaz de Chumaceiro |
cldp@cantv.net |
Clinical Psychologist |
Apartado 88575 Módulo Cumbres de Curumo
Caracas 1081, Venezuela |
article 030902 |
| Coping with Holocaust Trauma in Zipi Reibenbach’s Choice and Destiny |
by Rina Dudai |
This essay analyzes three modes of coping with traumatic experience in Choice and Destiny, a documentary film, by Zipi Riebenbach. The director, Zipi Riebenbach, interviews her parents about their traumatic experience during the Holocaust. As the film unfolds, two distinct modes of confronting the extreme trauma are unveiled. In analyzing the parents' patterns of response to the trauma I explore both their psychological reactions and their rhetorical representations of the Holocaust experience. The essay uses two fragments of this film to illustrate modes of confronting an extreme traumatic experience. I also analyze the daughter's mode of coping with this trauma while containing, without any judgment, the way her parents deal with it. She gives voice to these two modes, one complementing the other. The effort to contain both these complementary patterns is the director's sincere attempt to touch the core of the experience and yet to do so from an outside position. |
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keywords: trauma; Holocaust; Holocaust documentary film; testimony; acting-out; working through in literature. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_dudai02.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry:Dudai,Rina. "Coping with Holocaust Trauma in Zipi Reibenbach’s Choice and Destiny" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 030902. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_dudai02.shtml, Dec. 31, 2003 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: January 18, 2003 || Published: January 29, 2003 || Copyright © 2003 by Rina Dudai |
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| Rina Dudai |
rina_dud@smkb.ac.il |
Comparative Literature Department |
149 Namir Road
Tel Aviv, Israel 62507
Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
article 030805 |
| Shame and the Tragic Situation |
by Benjamin Kilborne |
This paper probes the differences between the Oedipus of Sophocles and the Oedipus of Freud, together with their implications both for the social sciences and for a theory of tragedy. Such an inquiry, although obvious, has not to my knowledge been pursued. It leads to the provisional conclusion that by emphasizing guilt and aggression Freud avoided aspects of human conflict and tragedy associated with shame and helplessness, and with cracking ego ideals. |
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keywords: tragedy, shame, fate, hubris, Oedipal conflict, Oedipal shame, Oedipal guilt, superego conflicts and shame, seeing and knowing, blindness and rage, shame and rage, guilt and aggression as defenses against helplessness, social sciences, identity. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_kilborne01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Kilborne, Benjamin. "Shame and the Tragic Situation" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 030805. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_kilborne01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2003 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: May 31, 2003 || Published: June 3, 2003 || Copyright © 2003 by Benjamin Kilborne |
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| Benjamin Kilborne |
bkilborne@aol.com |
Psychoanalyst / Psychotherapist |
West Stockbridge, MA |
article 030910 |
| Cultural Politics of Fantasy in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream |
by Dianne Hunter |
A Midsummer Night's Dream contrasts and joins two realms: the Athenian/Elizabethan world of hierarchy and sharp law vs. the Minoan/Celtic world of shapeshifting and fusion. The play represents an English state of mind in which a Celtic imaginary functions as creative repository of occulted power and the infantile unconscious. The play's focus on ocularity revisions the patriarchal primal scene though the use of the Celtic, wherein the yoking of disparate elements proves productive and transformative. The fairies as unseen watchers and unrecognized agents in the Athenian social world are analogous to the unconscious in psychoanalytic theory, and can be identified as Celtic, occulted, creative forces in English culture. Latent oral/primal scene fusion fantasies at the heart of the drama and their transformations provide developmental analogues for the Celtic world absorbed into English national character to manifest creative effects. |
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keywords: Celtic, Elizabethan, England, Minoan, ocularity, oedipal, national character, preoedipal, primal scene. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_hunter01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Hunter, Dianne. "Cultural Politics of Fantasy in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 030910. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_hunter01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2003 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: September 5, 2003 || Published: September 10, 2003 || Copyright © 2003 by Dianne Hunter |
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article 030914 |
| Winnicott And The Capacity to Believe |
by Brooke Hopkins |
Like Freud's, Winnicott's writing displays an enormous interest in words, in their histories as well as their current usage. This paper discusses Winnicott's use of two words, "capacity" and "belief," combined in the phrase "capacity to believe." The paper's argument has two strands that are woven together throughout. The first is Winnicott's concern for words and how a knowledge of their etymology can enrich their current meaning. The second is his concern for the nature of belief, "the capacity to believe," and his conviction that in exploring this capacity psychoanalysis might have something to say about culture, including religion and the arts. These concerns are interrelated in a number of ways in Winnicott's writing and are ultimately connected to his notion of a "cultural field," a place to grow, where "inventiveness," even verbal inventiveness, is "just one more example...of the interplay between separateness and union," that is, the separateness of individual language users but also their union through the language they share. |
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keywords: capacity, belief, etymology, culture, psychoanalysis, religion, illusion, faith, Winnicott, Freud |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_hopkins01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Hopkins, Brooke. "Winnicott And The Capacity to Believe" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 030914.
Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_hopkins01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2003 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: November 9, 2003 || Published: November 14, 2003 || Copyright © 2003 by Brooke Hopkins |
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| Brooke Hopkins, Ph.D. |
brooke.hopkins@mail.hum.utah.edu |
University of Utah
Department of English |
255 S Central Campus Dr.
Rm 3500
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0494 |
article 030915 |
| "Kubla Khan" and the Embodied Mind |
by William L. Benzon |
Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" has a very coherent structure. Two movements of the poem are each divided into three sections; in both cases the middle of those three in turn has three subsections and again, the middle of the middle has three subsections. The first movement ends with "A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice," a line which is then repeated at the structural midpoint of the second movement. This structure encompasses both semantics and sound, uniting both in a single coherent mental act. The semantics of the poem's first movement involves a series of cognitive blends in which the neural self provides one input while Xanadu imagery provides the other. The semantics of the second movement involves manipulating the reality status of successive mental spaces. Underlying the entire poem is a "walk" by core brain mechanisms tracing territorial, sexual, and attachment patterns through the poem's semantics. Coleridge's 1816 preface embodies an abstract pattern that paradoxically asserts and denies the poem's validity. On the internal evidence, the poem is whole and complete. |
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keywords: Coleridge, structuralism, cognition, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, mental space, conceptual blend, form, poetics, Jakobson, abstraction, neural self |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_benzon02.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Benzon, William L. "“Kubla Khan” and the Embodied Mind" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 030915.
Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2003_benzon02.shtml, Dec. 31, 2003 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: November 10, 2003 || Published: November 14, 2003 || Copyright © 2003 by William L. Benzon |
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