The Waters of the Mind:
Rhetorical Patterns of Fluidity in Woolf, William James, Bergson and Freud
(abstract)
María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno
On the Aesthetic Structure of Sublimation: Re-reading Marcuse v. Brown through The Birth of Tragedy
(abstract)
Christopher Holman
Arabic Poet Al-Mutanabbi:
A Maslovian Humanistic Approach
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Ratna Roshida Abd Razak
Caravaggio and the Physiology of Schizophrenia
(abstract)
Ronnie Mather
Resituating Freud's Hamlet
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David J. Gordon
Literature and Happiness
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Norman N. Holland
"This Petty Reasoning Mind": Pauli, Jung, and Psychic Fission in The Physicists
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Ian F. Roberts
Holden Caulfield as Castrated Hero
(abstract)
Glorianne E. Scott
Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Creative Art—The Case of Paul Gauguin
(abstract)
Ronnie Mather
Poetry as Right-Hemispheric Language
(abstract)
Julie Kane
article 071119 |
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The Waters of the Mind:
Rhetorical Patterns of Fluidity in Woolf, William James, Bergson and Freud |
by
María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno |
At the beginning of the 20th century, writers such as Virginia
Woolf and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, William James and
Henri Bergson were trying to give a novel account of our inner
and psychological life. The aim of this article is to compare
Woolf's metaphorical recreation of the workings of the human
mind by means of a rhetorical pattern articulated around the
notions of container and content, surface and depth, fluidity
and unboundedness with Freud's dynamic and topographical
representation of psychological life, where streams of thought
flow across the superficial and the deep layers with James's
definition of consciousness as a 'stream of thought' and with
Bergson's conception of psychological time as 'durée', an
endlessly flowing process, apprehended by 'l'intuition'.
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keywords:MWoolf, James, Bergson, Freud, modernism, fluidity, topography, surface-depth, durée, intuition |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_lopez01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Sánchez-Vizcaíno, María Jesús López. "The Waters of the Mind: Rhetorical Patterns of Fluidity in Woolf, William James, Bergson and Freud" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 071119. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_lopez01.shtml, Jan 12, 2008 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2007 || Published: January 12, 2008 || Copyright © 2008
María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno |
author info: |
| María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno |
ff2losam@uco.es |
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English Department
University of Córdoba
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Plaza Cardenal Salazar 3
14071 Córdoba (Spain) |
article 071212 |
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On the Aesthetic Structure of Sublimation: Re-reading Marcuse v. Brown through The Birth of Tragedy |
by
Christopher Holman |
This essay will reread the debate between Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown in terms of each author’s conceptualization of the aesthetic structure of the psychoanalytic process of sublimation, using as a starting point Brown's association of sublimation with the figure of Apollo and his consequent embrace of Nietzsche's Dionysus. Brown will criticize the theory of sublimation for separating the individual’s mind from her body through the transformation of sexual into soulful energy. As a consequence of the creation of this repressive boundary between soul and body Brown will associate sublimation with Apollo. In contrast to Brown, Marcuse sees in the reactivation of narcissistic libido in sublimation the potential for a new and liberatory mode of activity in which sexual energy is neither deflected nor blocked from its objective: not Apollo, but a dialectical fusion of Apollo and Dionysus.
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keywords:Marcuse, Nietzsche, Norman Brown, aesthetics, sublimation |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_holman01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Holman, Christopher. "On the Aesthetic Structure of Sublimation: Re-reading Marcuse v. Brown through The Birth of Tragedy" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 071212. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_holman01.shtml, Jan 12, 2008 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2007 || Published: January 12, 2008 || Copyright © 2008
Christopher Holman |
author info: |
| Christopher Holman |
cholman@yorku.ca |
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Department of Political Science
York University
672 Ross Building
4700 Keele Street
TO ON M3J1P3 Canada
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article 071105 |
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Arabic Poet Al-Mutanabbi:
A Maslovian Humanistic Approach |
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Ratna Roshida Abd Razak |
This paper is concerned with the Maslovian “real self” of al-Mutanabbi, a great poet of the Abbasid period (750-1258 AD). I have made an effort to discover the deeper aspects of al-Mutanabbi’s personality, which constitute an important aspect of his artistic expression. The study I’ve undertaken here -- a humanistic psychological approach to Arabic poetry -- will deal with some general ideas about humanistic psychology and al-Mutanabbi’s poetry. I will employ Maslovian theory to consider al-Mutanabbi as a self-actualizing person. This attempt is made to see how humanistic psychology can open the door to a new world in the study of Arabic poetry and help us to understand the greatness and insight of the works of al-Mutanabbi. In spite of his great poetic achievement, particularly during the Abbasid period, Maslovian theory reveals the poet to us as a complex and fascinating human being.
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keywords: al-Mutanabbi, Abbasid, Maslow |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_razak01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Razak, Ratna Roshida Abd. "Arabic Poet Al-Mutanabbi:
A Maslovian Humanistic Approach" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 071105. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_razak01.shtml, Dec. 22, 2007 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2007 || Published: December 14, 2007 || Copyright © 2007
Ratna Roshida Abd Razak |
author info: |
| Ratna Roshida Abd Razak |
ratna@usm.my |
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School of Humanities
Universiti Sains Malaysia
11800 Penang,
Malaysia |
article 071024 |
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Caravaggio and the Physiology of Schizophrenia |
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Ronnie Mather |
Caravaggio has long enjoyed a reputation as an anti-social and
tempestuous individual. The following argues that Caravaggio was
in fact suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. Following Wilhelm
Reich’s argument that schizophrenic symptoms and delusions are
the result of the projection of objective physiological
processes occurring in discrete organs of the body, or at least
body-systems, it interprets the changing nature of Caravaggio’s
paintings as reflecting his own suffering in the eyes and
throat. The latter’s predilection toward violence, and the
portrayal of violence, is also interpreted in this light. It is
argued that this accounts for his obsession with decapitation
and raises the question about whether the revolution he
initiated in painting around 1600 was itself the result of his
coping with the illness.
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keywords: Caravaggio, schizophrenia, violence, decapitation |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_mather02.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Mather, Ronnie. "Caravaggio and the Physiology of Schizophrenia" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 071024. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_mather02.shtml, Dec. 20, 2007 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2007 || Published: December 5, 2007 || Copyright © 2007
Ronnie Mather |
author info: |
| Ronnie Mather |
Ronnie.Mather@esc.edu |
Dept. Psychology and Social Sciences
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Empire State College
Saratoga Springs, NY
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article 071016 |
| Resituating Freud’s Hamlet |
by David J. Gordon |
Hamlet’s inner conflict, though rich in oedipal imagery, is dramatized as the product of his immediate situation rather than of childhood trauma. It revolves around the old chivalric code of blood revenge and honor-at-all costs, and is implicit in the text, hence not “repressed” by the protagonist. Hamlet’s prolonged wrestling with this conflict climaxes in a soliloquy that scathingly attacks the code’s exemplification in Fortinbras, leaving the issue of revenge at an impasse. To prepare his hero for the act of killing Claudius, Shakespeare deleted and altered some crucial passes (as we see by assessing the differences between the Second Quarto and Folio texts). The effect of these changes is to diminish Hamlet’s turmoil by introducing evidence of his psychological growth, evidence that Freud and Ernest Jones ignored and might well have considered.
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keywords: Hamlet, honor, Freud, Jones |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_gordon01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Gordon, David J.. "Resituating Freud's Hamlet" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 071016. Dec. 4, 2007. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2007_gordon01.shtml. Dec. 14, 2007 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2007 || Published: December 4, 2007 || Copyright © 2007 David J. Gordon |
author info: |
| David J. Gordon |
Gordondj@aol.com |
Department of English
Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center |
Room 1212W
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021 |
article 071015 |
| Literature and Happiness |
by Norman N. Holland |
It has become a commonplace to insist that literature has an evolutionary value in allowing us to try out solutions to life situations. Or that literature allows us to empathize with other humans. Or that literature makes us better morally. Or wiser. I maintain that we do literature because it is fun, because it makes us happy. And it makes us happy because the act of experiencing literature mimics the brain processes of successful living. |
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keywords: evolutionary psychology; dopamine; Panksepp; SEEKING; self-stimulation system; criticism; Bernard Paris; Walter Jackson Bate; Leslie Fiedler |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_holland01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Holland, Norman N. "Literature and Happiness." PSYART: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, Article 071015. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_holland01.shtml, Dec. 12, 2007 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2007 || Published: December 4, 2007 || Copyright © 2007 by 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. |
article 061307 |
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"This Petty Reasoning Mind": Pauli, Jung, and Psychic Fission in The Physicists |
by
Ian F. Roberts |
While set in a sanatorium and figuring a psychologist who
corresponds with Jung as a major character, Dürrenmatt's The
Physicists has surprisingly never been methodically examined
from a Jungian perspective. This paper explores the previously
unrecognized significance of Gustav Jung's analysis of physicist
Wolfgang Pauli to the play.
I show that Pauli's experience as a patient of Jung served as a
major inspiration for the play, and that a Jungian
interpretation of the work makes the most sense of its symbolism
and themes. Not only is the figure of Mobius shown to be modeled
after Wolfgang Pauli, but the character's visions of King
Solomon represent his repressed shadow. Moreover, musical and
historical references are shown to symbolize Mobius' psychic
imbalance and his need for integration of the shadow archetype.
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keywords: Jungian interpretation, archetypes, shadow, unconscious, physics, literature and science. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_roberts01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Roberts, Ian F. ""This Petty Reasoning Mind": Pauli, Jung, and Psychic Fission in The Physicists" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 070613. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_roberts01.shtml, Sep 20, 2007 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: June 13, 2007 || Published: September 15, 2007 || Copyright © 2007
Ian F. Roberts |
author info: |
| Ian F. Roberts |
robertsi@missouriwestern.edu |
English, Foreign Languages, and Journalism
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Missouri Western State University
4525 Downs Drive
St. Joseph, MO 64507
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article 070205 |
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Holden Caulfield as Castrated Hero |
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Glorianne E. Scott |
TThis essay discusses Catcher in the Rye as a vehicle for Holden
Caulfield's psychological session with the reader, as well as the
latent signs this analysis reveals. Using Freud's own
interpretations of dream objects, the reader can unveil the
psychological basis of Holden's obsessions. Holden is
symbolically castrated early on in the novel as he is expelled
from school ("I got the ax"), and again when he loses his fencing
foils on the subway. As a result, Holden fetishizes his phallic
replacement: the red hunting cap that will become his focus for
the entirety of the novel.
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keywords: Catcher in the Rye, Salinger, Freud, Castration, Phallic |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_scott01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Scott, Glorianne E.. "Holden Caulfield as Castrated Hero " PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 070517. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_scott01.shtml, Apr 5, 2007 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: May 17, 2007 || Published: July 18, 2007 || Copyright © 2007
Glorianne E. Scott |
author info: |
article 070131 |
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Creative Art—The Case of Paul Gauguin |
by
Ronnie Mather |
The personal excesses of Paul Gauguin are relatively well-known.
This paper argues that Gauguin was suffering from a disorder
known as Narcissistic Personality Disorder and that this
directly impacted his creative work, particularly in the later
years. Gauguin's narcissism is readily apparent from both
published biographies and from his own writings. But the nature
and structure of his own narcissistic fantasies are also apparent
in his art. These manifest themselves in some of his
most famous works and constitute a defence against both anxiety
and depression. Themes such as birth, death, the nature of the
self are dealt with in a fashion typical of a narcissist prone
to grandiose fantasies.
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keywords: Gauguin, personality disorder, narcissism, narcissistic
personality disorder |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_mather01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Mather, Ronnie. "Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Creative Art—The Case of Paul Gauguin" PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 070131. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_mather01.shtml, May 20, 2007 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: January 31, 2007 || Published: May 20, 2007 || Copyright © 2007
Ronnie Mather |
author info: |
| Ronnie Mather |
Ronnie.Mather@esc.edu |
Dept. Psychology and Social Sciences
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Empire State College
Saratoga Springs, NY
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article 070205 |
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Poetry as Right-Hemispheric Language |
by
Julie Kane |
Though the brain's left hemisphere is commonly believed to be
the "seat of language," the right hemisphere processes a number
of subtle linguistic functions. This paper will argue that the
degree of right-hemispheric involvement in language is what
differentiates "poetic" or "literary" from "referential"
or "technical" speech. It will suggest that the absence of left-
hemispheric dominance for language in the brains of preliterate
and illiterate persons may explain why those populations exhibit
so-called "magical" thinking rich in right-hemispheric
features. Finally, it will link studies demonstrating high
rates of mania and hypomania among poets (but not other types of
writers or creative artists) to other studies observing a
temporary shift from left- to right-hemispheric dominance for
language during the manic phase, suggesting that overactivation
of these brain regions may underlie the compulsion to write
poetry.
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keywords: poetry, poets, right hemisphere, brain, language, mania,
hypomania, affective disorders, laterality, literacy |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_kane01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Kane, Julie. "Poetry as Right-Hemispheric Language " PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 070205. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2007_kane01.shtml, Apr 5, 2007 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: February 5, 2007 || Published: April 3, 2007 || Copyright © 2007
Julie Kane |
author info: |
| Julie Kane |
kanej@nsula.edu |
Language and Communication Department
318 Kyser Hall
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Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
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