article 040706 |
| The Psychological Role
of Expressive and Literary Writing - A Case Study on Kuwaiti Women |
by Haifa Al Sanousi |
Expressive and literary writing is a way of putting thoughts and feelings into words as a therapeutic tool. This technique is based on the belief that writing about memories, problems, feelings and concerns can help to relieve stress and heal psychological wounds. It also promotes health, well being and personal growth and restores psychological balance.
There are several different types of expressive and literary writing. A popular one is journal therapy, which focuses on expressing hidden emotions and exploring the self. Other examples are letter writing therapy, story writing and poetry therapy. The experience of expressive writing encourages people to put their emotions and memories into words, which in some way provides therapeutic release.
I became aware that expressive and literary writing as a way of healing was neglected in clinics in the Arabic world in general, and in Kuwait in particular. I began to think seriously about conducting a study of the attitudes of Kuwaiti woman towards writing therapy, with a focus on its therapeutic effects. This is the first study its kind in the Arabic world.
In this article I have tried to concentrate on the therapeutic effects of expressive and Literary writing through workshop and writing exercises for Kuwaiti women. I have also studied the role of creative writing in the life of a famous Kuwaiti story writer, who suffered from her society’s misunderstanding of her thoughts and beliefs. One of the difficulties with the research was that some women did not accept this type of therapy because they were used to talking about their feelings and problems. They wanted someone to listen to them and focus on their need. It was difficult to persuade them to let their pens go on paper.
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keywords: Writing, Therapy, Narrative, Creative, Expressive, Psycho-literary, Storytelling, Pennebaker,White, Epston , Progoff. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_sanousi01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Al Sanousi, Haifa. "The Psychological Role of Expressive and Literary Writing - A Case Study on Kuwaiti Women" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 040706. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2004_sanousi01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: May 5, 2004 || Published: May 28, 2004 || Copyright © 2004
Robert Silhol |
author info: |
| Haifa Al Sanousi, Ph.D. |
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Arabic Language and Literature Department
Faculty of Arts, Kuwait University |
P.O.Box 38276.
Abdullah AlSalem Area
Kuwait 72253 |
article 042805 |
A CONCORDANCE : LACAN’S FUNCTION AND FIELD OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AND T.S. ELIOT’S WASTE LAND
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by Robert Silhol |
This essay explores the convergence of Lacan and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Beginning with consideration of the discontinuous structure of the poem and a critique of formal analysis, the essay argues for the separation of reading and analytic interpretation. The structure of The Waste Land is that of the dream, and we must take unconscious desire into account to understand it. We can then move from the poem to a Lacanian model of literary representation that may be modified or criticized.
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keywords: T.S. Eliot, Lacan, The Waste Land , interpretation, dream structure,unconscious desire. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_silhol02.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Silhol, Robert "A CONCORDANCE : LACAN’S FUNCTION AND FIELD OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AND T.S.ELIOT’S WASTE LAND" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 042805. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2004_silhol02.shtml. Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: May 5, 2004 || Published: May 28, 2004 || Copyright © 2004
Robert Silhol |
author info: |
article 042205 |
| Psychoanalysis as Science |
by Norman N. Holland |
Current objections to psychoanalysis as untestable and unscientific ignore two facts. First, a large body of experimental evidence has tested psychoanalytic ideas, confirming some and not others. Second, psychoanalysis itself, while it does not usually use experimentation, does use holistic method. This is a procedure widely deployed in both the social sciences and the "hard" sciences. Recognizing the holistic nature of psychoanalytic ideas and therapy suggests some kinds of interpretation are more valid than others. It also shows that the debate whether psychoanalysis is a science or a hermeneutic, merely "literary," states the issue falsely. Recognizing the holistic nature of psychoanalytic ideas and therapy suggests some kinds of interpretation are more valid than others. It also shows that the debate whether psychoanalysis is a science or merely "literary," rests on a false dichotomy. |
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keywords: sychoanalysis; science; holistic method; Diesing; Masling; Westen; evolution; plate tectonics. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_holland08.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Holland, Norman. "Psychoanalysis as Science " PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 042205. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_holland08.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: May 10, 2004 || Published: May 22, 2004 || Copyright © 2004 Norman 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. |
article 041304 |
|
Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage”: The Evolution of a Theory |
by
Shuli Barzilai |
The essay traces the theoretical shifts in Lacan's thinking about the formation of the subject through reflexive recognition. It also examines the publication history of "The Mirror Stage" and the major resources - including experimental psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and theology - on which Lacan drew in developing his influential theory. In re-orienting the psychoanalytic focus toward the fraternal (specular) function, Lacan's writings not only displace the Freudian concept of Oedipal conflict with the father as the turning point in the constitution of human subjectivity but also challenge the inclination of other theorists such as Melanie Klein to place the mother at the center of the child's world. |
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keywords: Origins of the subject; specular other; identification/alienation; desire of the other; Narcissus and narcissism; maternal and paternal imagos; Lacan’s re-theorization of the Oedipal phase; deferred action (Nachträglichkeit); The Family Complexes; Psychomachia; Ferenczi as precursor-rival of Lacan; Kojève’s reading of Hegel; Wallon’s mirror experiments; Winnicott’s “Mirror-Role of Mother.” |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_barzilai01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Barzilai, Shuli. "Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage”: The Evolution of a Theory" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 041304. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_barzilai01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: June 4, 2004 || Published: November 1, 2004 || Copyright © 2004
Shuli Barzilai |
author info: |
article 040328 |
| The Man in Black |
by Dianne Hunter |
The male muse in the psychic territory Adrienne Rich called in 1971 "The Man" represents sexualized death and phallic mourning, a concept of masculinity marked by the legacy of the twentieth-century's two world wars. In the context of representations of "The Man" in North American white women writers coming of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s (Adrienne Rich, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood), Sylvia Plath's journal account of the Saint Botolph's Review party where she met her husband and its fictional transformation in her 1957 short story "Stone Boy with Dolphin" demonstrate Plath's examination of Bostonian Puritan heritage and the psychic aftermath of World War II. Plath's constructions of heterosexual romance as participating in the history of Fascism and her concept of writing as sexy violence coincide culturally with Lacan's theory of phallic signification. Plath racial imaginary is part of her poetics of heterosexual romance as a death trip. |
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keywords: Black, fantasy, masculinity, mourning, muse, phallus, romance, White, woman, writing |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_hunter02.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Hunter, Dianne. "The Man in Black " PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 040328. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_hunter02.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2004 || Published: March 28, 2004 || Copyright © 2004 by Dianne Hunter |
author info: |
article 040208 |
| A
Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare Containing I. Notes on As you like
it. II. An Attempt to explain and illustrate various passages on a new principle
of criticism derived from Mr. Locke's doctrine of The Association of Ideas.
1794 |
by Walter Whiter |
The PALMM collection the University of Florida library has put online
materials
associated with the literature-and-psychology group at the University
of
Florida. This collection provides a text of Whiter's 1794 book on
Shakespeare.
The first sixty pages present a series of emendations of the text of
As You
Like It, much in the manner of other eighteenth-century critics. It is
in the
second section that Whiter becomes psychological: "An Attempt to
Explain and
Illustrate Various Pssages of Shakespeare on a New Principle of
Criticism
Derived from Mr. Locke's Doctirne of the Association of Ideas." Whiter
is thus
the first psychological critic, that is, the first to apply a
"scientific"
psychology to the detailed study of a text. In the process, he
discovers what
critics today would call image-clusters such as dogs-candy-flattery or
books-binding-lovers. He attributes these to what critics today would
call
"unconscious" processes in Shakespeare's mind. |
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keywords: Walter Whiter; Shakespeare; Locke, John;
imagery;
PALMM; University of Florida; As You Like It; first psychological
critic |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_whiter01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Whiter, Walter."A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare
Containing I. Notes on As you like it. " PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 040208. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_whiter01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2004 || Published: February 10, 2004 || Copyright © ___Walt Whiter |
author info: |
| Walter Whiter |
(1758-1832) |
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article 040209 |
| The First Psychological Critic: Walter Whiter (1758-1832) |
by Norman N. Holland |
The first psychological critic, that is, the first literary person to
apply a
systematic, scientific psychology to the details of a literary text was
Walter
Whiter ((1758-1832). Whiter applied Locke's associationist psychology
to
explain some of Shakespeare's odder choices of imagery (or, in a later
term,
"image-clusters"). He related them to Shakespeare's psyche and to
associations
customary in ordinary life or theatrical practice in Elizabethan times.
As
such, Whiter is the forerunner (mostly unacknowledged) of several
schools of
Shakespearean criticism and the criticism of literature generally:
image
critics, the early psychoanalytic critics, literary computer programs
for
studying texts, and even the neuropsychological theorists of language. |
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keywords: Walter Whiter; Shakespeare; Locke, John; imagery; PALMM; University of Florida; As You Like It; first psychological critic |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_holland07.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Holland, Norman. "The First Psychological Critic: Walter Whiter (1758-1832)" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 040209. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_holland07.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: February 29, 2004 || Published: March 15, 2004 || Copyright © 2004 Norman 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. |
article 040217 |
|
Locating Trauma: A Critique of Ruth Leys's Trauma: A Genealogy |
by Murray Schwartz
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Using Ruth Leys's Trauma: A Genealogy as a vehicle, this essay examines the nature of traumatic experience. I critique the polarizations entailed in Leys's use of "mimetic theory," as developed by Rene Girard and Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen in order to show that the history of trauma theory developed by Leys is so structured as to miss the movement from early psychoanalytic formulations to the development of object-relational theories that can overcome the dualities Leys both reveals and accepts. Using Ferenczi, van der Kolk and Carruth as examples, I clarify the distinctions between traumatic experience, which resists narrative coherence, and traumatic events, which entail a conception of context and open the possibility of narration in historical time.
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keywords: Trauma, Psychoanalytic History, Mimetic Theory, Ferenczi, van der Kolk, Carruth, Genealogy, Experience, Historical Narrative |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_schwartz01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Schwartz, Murray M. "Locating Trauma: A Critique of Ruth Leys's Trauma: A Genealogy " PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 040217. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_schwartz01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: December 29, 2003 || Published: February 17, 2004 || Copyright © 2003 Murray Schwartz |
author info: |
article 040216 |
| Remembering, Acting-out, Working-through: The Case of Sarah Kofman |
by Dr. Solange Leibovici |
This article concentrates on the writing of a literary text which finds his origins in a traumatic experience and the role played by sublimation, repetition, acting out and working through. Comparing the autobiographical work of Primo Levi and that of the French philosopher Sarah Koffman, I come to a different conclusion than Rina Dudai did in her article "Primo Levi: Speaking from the Flames" (Psyart Journal 2002). In Primo Levi's case, the traumatic experience is repeated as a narrative and translated into the symbolic order, which causes a form of working through, while in the case of Sarah Kofman, the author doesn't succeed in leaving the illusionary order of the autobiographical mirror stage. What we discover in her book Rue Ordener Rue Labat is a repetition and acting out of the events she experienced as a child during World War II in Paris, and behind that, the reenactment of very early repressed conflicts with her mother. Ý
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keywords: acting-out, working-through, trauma, sublimation, creativity, autobiography, Primo Levi, Sarah Kofman. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_leibovici01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Leibovici, Solange. "Remembering, Acting-out, Working-through: The Case of Sarah Kofman" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 040216. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_leibovici01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: December 28, 2003 || Published: February 16, 2004 || Copyright © 2003 Solange Leibovici |
author info: |
| Dr. Solange Leibovici |
s.leibovici@chello.nl |
University of Amsterdam
Literary Studies |
Spuistraat 210
1012 VT Amsterdam
Netherlands |
article 042606 |
| Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical Desire |
by
Ruth Stein |
This essay suggests that the binary oppositions (e.g., black/white; pure/impure) characteristic of fundamentalism pivot on their axis to become a vertical structure that expresses oppressive inequalities between man and woman, God and man, at the same time as it reveals a structure of mystical desire toward God.
Patriarchal monotheism has characteristic aspects, such as oneness, absolute (vertical) difference, invisibility (e.g., the taboo on making images of God). These aspects represent the contradictions of fatherhood in patriarchal culture: while the father engenders his son, the father’s status and his love, are problematic, since his bodily tie to his son is invisible. The destructive consequences of this invisibility and absence are explored.
A clinical case is presented, where the analysand vociferously fights a personal God, who has been erected as protection against annihilation anxieties that plagued this aggrieved and bereaved person. The patient’s relationship to his God and his dead father is compared to the terrorists’ relation to God.
Increasing religious purging may parallel escalating destructiveness; this is the basic explanation of the deterioration of religious experience into fundamentalism and violent fundamentalism. The believer displays a “loving paranoia” a blend of ‘love’ and destructiveness, toward his paternal God. |
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keywords: verticality; desire; monotheism; father; sacrifice; patriarchy; God;
secularization; death; femininity |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_stein01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Stein, Ruth. "Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical Desire" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 042606. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_stein01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: June 24, 2004 || Published: June 26, 2004 || Copyright © 2004 Ruth Stein
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author info: |
article 042706 |
| Evil as Love and as Liberation: The Mind of a Suicidal Religious Terrorist |
by
Ruth Stein |
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The letter to the September 11 terrorists is analyzed in an effort to understand the state of mind of a religious suicide-killer. The letter has a solemn, serene, even joyful tone that is infused with love of God and a strong desire to please Him. The author suggests that incessant incantation of prayers and religious sayings while focusing attention on God led to a depersonalized, trancelike state of mind that enabled the terrorists to function competently, while dwelling in a euphoric state. On a psychodynamic level, the theme of father son love is used to explain the ecstatic willingness of the terrorists to do what they saw as God’s will and to follow transformations from (self) hate to love (of God), and from anxiety and discontent to the narrowly –focused fear of God. Homoerotic bonding and longing, coupled with repudiation of “femininity”, explain an inability to “kill” the primal murderous father, as the mythological Primal Horde did. Freud’s description of the sons’ (the group members’) hypnotic love for their father-leader, which, when not reciprocated into masochistic submission, seems pertinent for the understanding of the sons’ “return” to an archaic, cruel father imago. “Regression” to the father is compared with classical maternal regression. |
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keywords: Atta's letter; evil; love; religion; death; prayer; regression;
father; God; terrorist mind; death. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_stein02.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Stein, Ruth. "Evil as Love and as Liberation: The Mind of a Suicidal Religious Terrorist" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 042706. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_stein02.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: June 24, 2004 || Published: June 27, 2004 || Copyright © 2004 Ruth Stein
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author info: |
article 041510 |
| Look the Doll in the Eyes: the Uncanny in Contemporary Art
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by Ruth Ronen |
This paper contributes to a formulation of an
aesthetics of psychoanalysis by juxtaposing the fundamental
concepts of philosophical aesthetics (like pleasure, beauty,
sublime, etc.) to the psychoanalytic thought about art. This
paper looks into the place of pleasure in philosophical
aesthetics and its relation to the notion of anxiety within the
psychoanalytic conception of art. To investigate this question
it concentrates on the use of doll-images in art, as this image,
that suggests on face value the pleasing beauty and innocence of
childhood, carries with it effects of displeasing anxiety. The
anxiety associated with dolls is both exemplified in 20th
century art (from surrealism to postmodernism) and fully
explored theoretically in the writings of Freud and of Lacan.
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keywords: uncanny, anxiety, aesthetic pleasure, aesthetic beauty, representation. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_ronen01.shtml
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Citations of print publication: None
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Ronen, Ruth. "Look the Doll in the Eyes: the Uncanny in Contemporary Art" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 041510. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2004_ronen01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2004 || Published: 2004 || Copyright © 2004 Ruth Ronen |
author info: |
article 041610 |
| Jean Harris’ Obsessive Film Song Recall |
by Cora L. Díaz de Chumaceiro |
The murder of Dr. Herman Tarnower, a wealthy cardiologist and author of the popular Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, obtained international news coverage in early spring of 1980. Jean Struven Harris, headmistress of Madeira School and his lover of 14 years, was tried, convicted, and sentenced for 15 years-to-life without parole. Her sentence was commuted in December 1992. This article calls attention to overlooked public data on Jean Harris’ attraction to the 1946 film Gilda, and to her repetitive and continuous mental recall of the hit film song interpreted by Rita Hayworth for over 33 years. The film and song material are viewed from a psychodynamic perspective, underscoring parallels with this case. |
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keywords: Tarnower; induced song recall; applied psychoanalysis; criminal case; psychopathology. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_diaz_de_chumaceiro02.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Díaz de Chumaceiro, Cora L. "Jean Harris’ Obsessive Film Song Recall" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 041610 . Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_diaz_de_chumaceiro02.shtml, Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: September 20, 2004 || Published: October 16, 2004 || Copyright © 2004 by Cora L. Díaz de Chumaceiro |
author info: |
| Cora L. Díaz de Chumaceiro |
cldp@cantv.net |
Clinical Psychologist |
Apartado 88575 Módulo Cumbres de Curumo
Caracas 1081, Venezuela |
article 042610 |
| WORDSWORTH, WINNICOTT, AND THE CLAIMS OF THE "REAL"
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by Brooke Hopkins |
This essay makes use of a number of D.W. Winnicott's papers, "Mind and Its Relation to Psyche-Soma," "The Capacity to be Alone," "Aggression in Relation to Emotional Development," among others, to offer a "reading" of Wordsworth's Prelude, particularly the famous "spots of time." Wordsworth's childhood experiences, the sources of his later poetic creativity, are essentially corporeal in nature, grounded in bodily experience. Winnicott's concept of the "Psyche-Soma" helps to clarify this and opens the way to a better understanding of the central philosophical issue Wordsworth uses his poem to confront, the perennial question of what makes life worth living and how the conditions that make life worth living could be more generally available. Not surprisingly, this is one of Winnicott's chief concerns as well, what it is that makes a person "feel real," alive in the fullest sense of that word.
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keywords: Wordsworth, Winnicott, creativity, the Prelude, "spots of time," "psyche-soma," corporeality, "true self," aliveness. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_hopkins02.shtml
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Citations of print publication: None
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Hopkins, Brooke. WORDSWORTH, WINNICOTT, AND THE CLAIMS OF THE "REAL" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 042610. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2004_hopkins02.shtml. Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2004 || Published: 2004 || Copyright © 2004 Brooke Hopkins |
author info: |
| 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 042710 |
| On Traumatic Knowledge and Literary Studies |
by Geoffrey Hartman |
This essay explores the intricate relations between traumatic knowledge and literature. Drawing on psychoanalytic theories and many literary practices, I meditate on the splits and fissures between language and experience that both expose and partially heal traumatic wounds. From Blake’s hyperbolic visions to Freud and Lacan, from Marvell to the “post-traumatic” story of the Ancient Mariner, from the fictions and poetry of the twentieth century to the films of recent traumatic experience, our art struggles to master the pressures of violence. |
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keywords: Trauma theory, psychoanalysis, literary practice, symbolic language, Freud, Lacan, Blake, Coleridge, interpretive communities, violence. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_hartman01.shtml
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Citations of print publication: None
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Hartman, Geoffrey. "On Traumatic Knowledge and Literary Studies" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 042710. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2004_hartman01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2004 || Published: 2004 || Copyright © 2004 Geoffery Hartman |
author info: |
| Geoffrey Hartman |
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article 040911 |
| Psychoanalysis and War: The Superego and Projective Identification. |
by Joanna Montgomery Byles |
The problem of warfare which includes genocide, and its most recent manifestation, international terrorism, brings into focus the need to understand how the individual is placed in the social and the social in the individual. Psychoanalytic theories of group psychology, superego aggression, splitting and projective identification, may be useful in helping us to understand the psychic links involved in this kind of violence. It seems vital to me writing from the Middle East in September 2004 that we examine our understanding of what it is we understand about war, including genocide and terrorism. The knowledge now most worth having is an authentic method of internalizing what it is we understand about war and terrorism that will liberate us from the history of our collective traumatic past and the imperatives it has imposed upon us. As a transformative power to combat both group and individual violence, the inner
psychic world of the individual has an enormously importan adaptive role to play here. |
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keywords:Group violence, International terrorism, genocide, "the enemy", war neurosis, war poetry, Freud, Melanie Klein, Bion, Volkan, peace |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_byles01.shtml
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Citations of print publication: None
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Byles, Joanna Montgomery. "Psychoanalysis and War: The Superego and Projective Identification. " PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 040911. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2004_byles01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2004 || Published: 2004 || Copyright © 2004 Joanna Montgomery Byles |
author info: |
| Joanna Montgomery Byles |
joanna@ucy.ac.cy |
English Dept.
University of Cyprus |
P.O.Box 20537 Nicosia, Cyprus 1678, Eastern Mediterranean |
article 042011 |
| Talking with Nature in "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" |
by William Benzon |
By recasting Vygotsky’s account of language acquisition in neural terms we see that language itself functions as a transitional object in Winnicott’s sense. This allows us to extend the Schwartz-Holland account of literature as existing in Winnicottian potential space and provides a context in which to analyze Coleridge’s "This Lime-Three Bower." The attachment relationship (between Caretaker and Child) provides the poem’s foundation. The poet plays the Child role with respect to Nature and the Caretaker role with respect to his friends. The friends, Charles in particular, play the mediating the role of transitional object in the first movement while Nature becomes a mediator between one person and another in the second movement. The first movement starts with the poet being differentiated and estranged from Nature and concludes in an almost delusional fusion of poet, friends, and Nature. The second movement starts with the poet secure in Nature’s presence and moves to an adult differentiation between poet, friends, and Nature. |
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keywords: Coleridge, psychoanalysis, cognition, neuroscience, form, poetics, attachment, Winnicott, Bowlby, Holland, Schwartz, Vygotsky, transitional object, Tom Sawyer. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_benzon03.shtml
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Citations of print publication: None
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Benzon, William. Talking with Nature in "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 042011. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2004_benzon03.shtml. Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2004 || Published: 2004 || Copyright © 2004 William Benzon |
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article 042311 |
| Walter Pater: Origins and Issues |
by William F. Shuter |
Pater’s turning to fiction in his 38th year represented an important moment in both his mental life and his literary activity. “The Child in the House,” the first of Pater’s indirect self-portraits, attempted to gain access to “early experiences of feeling and thought,” and initiated an activity that resembles a self-analysis. The two impulses that characterize the story’s protagonist are the impulse to journey from home and the impulse to look. Both impulses provoke conflicts that can be traced as psychological motives through Pater’s work. Since home is repeatedly associated with maternity, I consider Pater’s varied maternal representations (mythical and fictional), including the description of the Mona Lisa admired by Freud. Ambivalence about the “lust of the eye” is often provoked by some sadistic spectacle, suggesting a primal scene experience. Tracing these motives clarifies the relation between Pater’s literary work and his own mental history. |
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keywords: Walter Pater,inhibition, retrospection, self-analysis, "The
Child in the House," maternity, Freud, GREEK STUDIES, sadistic
spectacle, pity, MARIUS THE EPICUREAN. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_shuter01.shtml
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Citations of print publication: None
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Shuter, William. Talking with Nature in "Walter Pater: Origins and Issues" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 042311. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2004_shuter01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2004 || Published: 2004 || Copyright © 2004 William Benzon |
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| William F. Shuter |
wshuter@emich.edu |
Psychoanalytic Institute
Eastern Michigan University |
1721 Cliffs Landing
Ypsilanti, MI 48198 |
article 040112 |
| Mind the Gap |
by Robert Silhol |
Nobel-winning neuroscientist Erik Kandel, in two influential
articles (1998, 1999) called for a scientific basis for
psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis, he said, is an attractive
hypothesis but empty discourse unless verified. Despite the
"reasonableness" of this request, one must recall the nature of
Freud's original discovery. Positivism does not help in the
"human sciences" where the relative and the paradoxical are the
rule. The "bar" of psychoanalysis, representing what separates
"Cs" from "Ucs," requires that we distinguish truth from
knowledge. The Ucs points not only to what can only be
reconstructed afterwards, but also to something we do not desire
to know. One must therefore distinguish causes from effects.
The history of the subject was first inscribed in the brain, it
is but no longer the only cause. Recognizing this opens a
debate on "representation"and metaphor and to questions
psychoanalysis can ask the neuro-sciences. |
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keywords: Freud; Lacan; Kandel; conscious; unconscious; science; the bar; |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_silhol03.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Silhol, Robert "Mind the Gap" PSYART: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 040112. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2004_silhol03.shtml. Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2004 || Published: 2004 || Copyright © 2004 Robert Silhol |
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article 040212 |
| Does the emotional context influence the
recollection of color ? |
by Stephane Rusinek |
Does the emotional context influence the recollection of color
? To answer this question, in an abstract painting with 12
colors, area was the same size, also there were four texts,
each
of wich concerned different emotional connotations (fear,
anger,
joy, and sadness) and was related to the life of an imaginary
painter. Items were show each of 142 children age 12 and up,
one
painting associated with one of four stories. Then, they
organized the colors according to the subjective place that
they
thought there occupied on the painting they had just seen (the
paintings were removed before the question). Our results
demonstrate that the emotional context does influence the
recollection of color. |
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keywords: Memory, Emotions, Colors |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2004_rusinek01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Rusinek, Stephane "Does the emotional context influence the
recollection of color ?" PSYART: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 040212. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2004_rusinek01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2004 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2004 || Published: 2004 || Copyright © 2004 Stephane Rusinek |
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| Stephane Rusinek |
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