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The review of: Jill Lepore, “On Evidence: Proving Frye as a Matter of Law, Science, and History”, The Yale Law Journal 2015, 124, 1092–1158; and Jill Lepore, “The Secret History of Wonder Woman”, Knopf, Borzoi NY 2014.
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In all Kongoli’s novels there’s the presence of absurd, in the shape of the absurd power of chance, of the written destiny. The absurd derives from the socio-political conditions where there are the characters that are acting. From the circumstance of living under dictatorship – that generates many absurd circumstances – to the circumstances of living in a society under transition. The trauma of characters comes from their confrontation with these circumstances of hypothetical realities.
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In Kongoli’s novels there is a main character at the center, around whom all the questions of the action revolve. But in addition to this main character, there are a number of other characters who act, speak, establish various connections and relationships, become actors in the events, and thus assume certain functions within the narrative. Kongoli’s characters become executioners of themselves, they can not see the beautiful face of the world, but only find it by going back in time, through childish retrospection.
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RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of the research analyses is to start a discussion on the importance of cognitive processes and neuroscientific theories in the aspect of Ignatian pedagogy and its assumptions regarding the sources of human cognition in his existence. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The main research problem is determined by the question of the “element of thinking” as a key task for the presentation of the subject and pedagogy understood as a form of commitment to the Other. In my reflections, I use the topological and at the same time triangulatory perspective of thinking about subjectivity, which is determined by the discourse of psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan. In this sense, I assume that triangulation determines the logic of the causality of pedagogical discourses. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The perspective of research embedded in a critical paradigm allowing for a triad of discourse grounded in a context of language games, neurosciences and Ignatian pedagogy will be presented. RESEARCH RESULTS: The analysis of the research field and the cognitive field indicate the need to maintain a balance between individual discourses in order not to lead to the objectification of the discourse about the subject. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: There is need to dynamize subjective actions in order to maintain a balance between the individual links of his existence.
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Starting from the thought of Jean-Luc Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe, this article aims to investigate the “political panic” that arises at the crossroads of identification and narcissism. These redefine the place of the Other in the formation of society, from the intersection between the individual psyche and collective life, where life appears to be committed to defending itself, in an auto-immunizing movement, which (to the extent that it defends itself) tends to reverse itself into its opposite. The radicalization of the self-preservation drives coincides in Freud works with the “death drive”, whose movement appears regressive, aimed at restoring the restlessness of life to its original state of rest. Instead of opening itself to the Other, life closes itself and chooses death. Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe were able to grasp in the “political panic” the fragile relationship between the “withdrawal of the politician” and the beginning of politics, and this particular aspect of life in common also concerns the play of Ionesco, Rhinocéros. The Romanian writer denounces in France the fascist ideological contagion of a whole generation of writers, between the two wars, highlighting the “death drive”, which moves the coryphes of political totalitarianism in Romania towards the spasmodic competition, fanaticism, cynicism, and, in some cases, towards crime. It is imaginatively cloaked in religious idealism understood as an all-encompassing “spiritual” knowledge, free of stretch marks.
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The military forces usually conjure up the image of soldiers who serve in a given country, or those who carry out their duties in peacekeeping missions. They are frequently in the spotlight during their stay in the area of their operations and the performance of their duties. The memories of them and of any of the possible problems that they may encounter usually fade away once they have gone back to their country, or once they have returned to their parent unit. Interestingly, this rule also applies to other members of the military personnel. Service in the army, which frequently implies exposure to atrocities and ongoing hostilities, undoubtedly leaves its mark on people’s physical and mental health, and it can also have a major impact on the lives of professional soldiers and their families. Paradoxically, the level of stress experienced increases as the sense of a real threat goes down. Being a soldier is one of those professions in which exposure to stress is high, and there is a major risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), especially in those members of the armed forces who have taken part in foreign missions. This paper looks at the historical background of the phenomenon, its symptoms, its methods of diagnosis, as well as the entire system of monitoring, supporting and treating post-traumatic stress in the Polish Armed Forces. Such a study has been possible thanks to a thorough analysis of the applicable pieces of legislation, backed by an insight into a series guidelines, orders and dispositions given at all levels of command and supervision in the army.
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This article looks at several ways in which personal trauma is the source of pathos in the etymological sense of suffering and affliction, engendering social failure in Winston Graham’s novel Marnie. Likewise, the study strives to demonstrate that both the literary original and its cinematic and operatic remediations are sparked into emotional cohesion by the narrative glue of pathos. From the perspective of both psychoanalysis and adaptation studies, this article reaches the conclusion that the open ending of the three versions also involves the reader/spectator in the process of narration – as Aristotle discovered in anticipation of Jauss’s reception theory – and thus leaves it to them to decide whether healing from pathos can ever be reached by the protagonist.
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Teletechnologies are changing the way we cope with loss and grief. Apart from their romanticized relationship with death in the history of literature, teletechnologies also figure prominently as productive metaphors in critical theories. Psychoanalysis and deconstruction view telecommunication in its various forms as intricately connected to notions of telepathy and the unconscious, a point shared by Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist and Nicholas Royle’s Quilt. Both novels attach great importance to how the process of individual mourning, in the presence of different forms of technologies, is inscribed with a distinctive telepathic effect. Specifically, DeLillo’s text portrays the radio as an uncanny harbinger of death, and Quilt forges a link between the faltered telephone communication and the spectral moments when the dead is calling. The article proposes to conceive, from a psychoanalytical perspective, the subject of teletechnologies as a critical starting point to address related issues of telepathy and telecommunication and to understand death as loss in the contemporary age.
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This article explores the interplay between autobiography and psychoanalysis through the writings and personal experiences of Yakov Vladimirovich Veynshal, a prominent Zionist Revisionist journalist and Hebrew writer in Mandate Palestine. Veynshal’s memoirs and journalistic work provide insights into the connection between these two fields by using personal experiences, literary analysis, creative expression, and cultural and political commentaries. They also demonstrate how literature and psychoanalysis intersect through creative and symbolic expression. The article explores first Veynshal’s journey, from a non-traditional ‘bar mitzvah’ trip to Palestine to his experiences in Russia and his complex relationship with Russian culture. Secondly, it demonstrates how his writings reflect the formation of his Zionist sentiments and unique identity. Additionally, Veynshal’s experiences in Palestine during the 1920s are analysed, highlighting the historical and political context of British Mandate Palestine and the development of Jewish and Arab relations.
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Documentary filmmaking as a social work tool can lead to great benefits for its protagonists, by triggering them a relief similar to the one experienced in psychotherapy. Moreover, their social case is able to reach a wide audience, contributing to raising public awareness that can improve the situation presented both for the main characters and their community. But the fact that a film will always have an audience that will transform it into a public spectacle could bring with it in some cases a set of dangers for its protagonists.
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Between 1920 and 1921, expressionist Ernst Barlach, who had settled in Mecklenburg, designed a grave monument for Ernst Biesel, a timber merchant. The sculpture, entitled Mother Earth, stood in the Main Cemetery in Stettin, newly designed by Georg Hannig. The theme referred to the chthonic deity spread in primitive, ancient cultures and folk rituals, known among the Celts by the Phrygian name Kybele and among the Germans as Nerthus. The modern German state and nation-building mythology referred to these two ethnic groups. Mother Earth was the subject of a treatise by Albert Dietrich in 1905. Barlach modelled his work on vernacular post-classical sculptures, but his most important source of inspiration was the reception of the Kuma statues, the so-called stone women (11th–13th century), which he had viewed on the Ukrainian steppe in 1906. The crude, blocky sculp- tures, attributed to Celts, Scythians, Huns, Goths or Mongols, for Barlach were the ‘milestone of the initial limit of time’ (Markstein der unteren Grenze einer Zeit), the ‘stone miscarriage’ (steinerne Mißgeburt) and the ‘crystallisation of earthiness’ (Christallisierung des Irdischen). This eastern ‘primitive’ inspiration proved to be a ground-breaking experience for the ‘North-German artist,’ referring to the Migration Period and the formation of post-antique Europe. While at the begin- ning of the 20th century France (additionally burdened with the criticised slogan l’art pour l’art) was regarded as the main heir to classical antiquity, Germany was to restore barbarian mys- ticism (inherited from the Celts) and a sense of practicality (typical of the Germans) to art, which were rooted in a particular love of nature. Barlach’s Mother Earth became a prototypical work for interwar Pomeranian art, representing the supposedly coarse temperament of farmers and fishermen.
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Following the recent spatial turn in literary criticism and the shift of focus on place, the present paper examines the special significance of place in Henry James’s novel The Ambassadors (1903) and explores the relationship between geography and psychology through the main character, Lambert Strether. Analysing the latter’s outer and inner observations draws on a close reading of the novel and the instrumentation of such theories as psychogeography and psychoanalytical criticism. Strether’s trip is an introspective voyage as much as an exploratory expedition, allowing insight into his subconsciousness through the tropes of the places he traverses. His mental visions of spaces in the novel can be surmised in terms of a psychogeography of his movements, a sort of landscape of the mind which is a reflection of the Freudian perception of the human psyche.
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Russian Formalism’s suggestion that artistic literature makes the familiar strange finds echoes in today’s theories of “unnatural narrative.” “Naturalization” of seemingly strange texts understands uncanny literary effects as based on qualities of “natural” spoken language. Sifting through structuralist, pre-structuralist, and psychoanalytic musings on second-person fiction or similar effects in interpersonal relations, all largely neglected as studies of second-person narrative were popularized among theorists and critics over the past thirty years, this article theorizes readers’ ‘realization’ or ‘virtualization’ of second-person address, narratorial apostrophe, and second-person protagonists. One reason we have no agreed-upon, comprehensive chart explaining second-person address’s variable effects on various readers (with an appreciative nod to Sandrine Sorlin), is not that no such chart is impossible — but simply that any such chart would be complex. Such projects might be nuanced by earlier thoughts focused on more general theories of psychology, phenomonology, and human exchanges. This requires more reflection on the fuctions, formulations, and effects of second-person narrative, but also more thinking about its affects.
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This paper illustrates the difference between falsificationistic and verificationistic principles of demarcation. Popper claimed that the falsificationistic criterion of demarcation is better than the verificationistic one. Therefore, he believed that his criterion should be more relevant when distinguishing scientific from nonscientific theories. Popper gave Freudian psychoanalysis as an example of a doctrine that would satisfy verificationistic, but not the falsificationistic criterion of demarcation. The aim of this paper is to thoroughly examine in which way both of demarcation criteria would treat psychoanalysis and to check if Popper’s criterion of demarcation is truly better than the verificationistic one.
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The common denominator in the careers of two contemporaries and great men, citizens of Austria-Hungary – Leoš Janáček and Sigmund Freud – was that, in spite of their status as outsiders, they managed to achieve well-deserved recognition. Both non-Germans, they had to surmount a number of obstacles in order to attain their professional goals. The Slavophile Janáček dreamed for a long time of success in Prague, which came at last in 1916, two years before a triumph in Vienna. Freud had serious difficulties in his academic career because of the strengthening of racial prejudices and national hatred which were especially marked at the end of the 19th century. After the dissolution of the Empire things changed for the better for the composer, whose works got an excellent reception in Austria and Germany, whereas the psychiatrist had to leave Vienna after the Anschluss.
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This article explores the artistic relationship between Jerzy Ficowski and Bruno Schulz. For the first time Ficowski came across Schulz’s The Cinnamon Shops in 1942, as a 17 year old adolescent. He remembered that first reading as a moment of epiphany which occurred to be crucial to the whole further Ficowski’s literary biography. The young poet hailed the author of The Cinnamon Shops as his great master, the only one who dared to express the true importance of myth to the artistic imagination in such an unique way. The influence of Schulz’s prose on Ficowski’s poetry was unquestionable. However, this does not mean that Ficowski’s work was secondary to Schulz’s or less original. Jerzy Ficowski, like Schulz, emphasized the importance of childhood and myth in a poet’s imagination. On the other hand, both writers found themselves different ways to express those ideas in artistic way. To analyze the unique nature of artistic relationship between Bruno Schulz and Jerzy Ficowski, I refer to the famous Harold Bloom’s work The Anxiety of Influence. A theory of Poetry.
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The aim of the article is to provide a summary of the analysis of files from Polish criminal proceedings concerning the fidelity of reflecting the accounts of interrogated individuals within the interrogation protocols. The research sample encompasses protocols documenting both pre-trial and court proceedings. Additionally, in accordance with Article 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, service notes from police officers were subject to analysis. The content of this article encompasses a description of protocol practices, including the identification of observed errors. The analysis covers two distinct types of cases, specifically those related to charges under Article 207 of the Criminal Code (pertaining to the crime of abuse) and Article 197 of the Criminal Code (pertaining to the crime of rape). These cases align with the research objectives outlined by the author. This article primarily serves a descriptive and summarizing role, focusing on the practice of legal proceedings. In a subsequent section, guidelines will be proposed for creating effective protocols in criminal cases. Notably, this article does not delve into the impact on the course of criminal proceedings concerning the reflection or lack thereof of emotional states, primarily in terms of the principles of free evaluation of evidence and immediacy. References to the principles of the criminal process will be explored in the following section.
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Ade Zeno's novel L'incanto del pesce luna (The Enchantment of the Sunfish) reinvents the characteristics of traditional Gothic fiction within a contemporary context. Zeno adopts the well-known literary trope of a damsel in distress and reworks it by introducing the figure of the (female) vampire as a menacing element. Thus, he creates a narrative that blends supernatural elements with a disquieting yet recognisable reality. This article will analyse how Ade Zeno employs certain traditional Gothic elements within a contemporary setting while simultaneously exploring the concept of the monstrous. A general introduction to Gothic literature is provided, followed by a summary of the novel, and then a comparison of the Gothic elements with their traditional origins is conducted. Zeno's work offers a profound reflection on the delicate boundary between humanity and monstrosity, challenging conventional concepts of morality and identity. In addition to the Gothic elements, the narrative exposes the hypocrisy and immorality of human beings, suggesting that the distinction between humanity and monstrosity is not as clear-cut as commonly believed. Through a skilful manipulation of Gothic elements, Ade Zeno prompts critical reflection on the complex nature of humanity and the ambiguous moral dimensions that characterise its existence. L'incanto del pesce luna emerges not only as a contemporary Gothic novel but also as a challenge to the conventional perception of what constitutes true monstrosity, delving into the depths of the human psyche.
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The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between perceived maternal narcissism traits, borderline personality traits and Orthorexia Nervosa. The study was carried out with a total of 418 people, aged between 18-45, living in Istanbul, 223 (%53,3) female and 195 (%46,7) male. The Socio-Demographic Data Form, The Perceived Maternal Narcissism Scale (PMNS), Borderline Personality Questionary (BPQ) and Orthorexia Nervosa Inventory (ONI) were applied to the participants. The data obtained in the study were analyzed using the Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS 25.0) and the PROCESS macro program for SPSS (PROCESS 4.0). Normal Distribution Analysis, Pearson Correlation Analysis, Linear and Hierarchic Regression Analysis, Independent Samples T-Test were used from statistical analysis methods. The results of the study showed that there was a positive significant relationship between perceived maternal narcissism with borderline personality traits and orthorexia nervosa. Borderline personality traits had partially mediated the relation between the perceived maternal narcissizm and orthorexia nervosa. Multiple linear regression analysis revealed the perceived maternal narcissizm and borderline personality traits explained 13% of the variance in orthorexia nervosa. There is a positive relationship between the age variable and the narcissistic characteristics perceived from the mother; a significant negative relationship was found with the borderline personality variable and the orthorexia nervosa variable. When orthorexia nervosa tendency is examined according to gender variable, it is seen that male participants (M=1.66) receive higher scores than female participants (M=1.56)
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It is estimated that one in four families in India is likely to have at least one member with a behavioral or mental disorder. Many of the 3rd world countries do not have a well aligned mental health policy as well as legislative protection for their rights.
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