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Freudian Slip? The Changing Cultural Fortunes of Psychoanalytic Concepts. [PDF]
It is often argued that psychoanalysis has declined in prominence since its ascendance in the mid-20th century. To assess this claim we examined the trajectory of psychoanalytic concepts from 1900 to 2008 in the massive Google Books database. The changing relative frequency of a sample of English-language psychoanalytic terms was explored and compared ...
Haslam N, Ye L.
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Abstract This article explores male popular culture in Australia in the mid‐1940s, particularly men's magazines of the period, to illuminate aspects of the psycho‐sexual dimensions of Australian veterans returning to civil society. The sexual landscape of Australian society had undergone considerable transformation, especially through an increasing ...
Stephen Garton
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Torus, Demand and Desire: Towards a Psychosomatic Structure of Lung Transplantation
An organ transplant involves complex psychodynamic processing that has been explored particularly in terms of object relationship theory. In the present study, we develop a model of transplantation based primarily on Lacan's explanations of the torus. In a prospective study, we examined 40 patients, 2 weeks, 3 months and 6 months post‐transplant. Based
Lutz Goetzmann+10 more
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Abstract This article examines the interplay between psychodynamic psychotherapy and other approaches to psychotherapy in mental health services in Israel, describing the history of psychotherapy approaches, education and training, current dilemmas and service examples.
Elana Lakh
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Abstract Studying atrocities poses many challenges for ethnographers, not least of which is how to represent violent experiences, which often exceed articulation. The atrocities perpetrated during the military dictatorship in Argentina are no exception.
Eva van Roekel
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Harold Pinter's Old Times and the play of indistinction
Abstract This article analyses the fluid frontiers of imagination, memory and the real in Harold Pinter’s Old Times. While the latter notions of memory and the real in Pinter’s works have been extensively explored, the concept of imagination has not. In this article I argue that the concept of imagination as it has been interpreted since the mid‐1900s ...
Ulla Kallenbach
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Computer crime motives: Do we have it right?
Abstract Academic, legal and practitioner responses to cyber threats have been predominantly reactive, punitive, and deterrence‐based, with limited attention given to the motives underlying computer criminals' behaviors. This paper reasons that new and better theoretical perspectives are needed to explain computer criminals' motives. Following a review
Derrick Neufeld
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A More Miserable Life than Living in the Jungle: A Japanese ‘Comfort Woman’ Story
ABSTRACT This article analyses the recollection of a Japanese ‘comfort women’ survivor published in 1975. By applying the analytical concept of gender and trauma, this study draws on the ‘politics of integrity’ theorised by Aurora Levins Morales (1998) as well as the theory of ‘coherence of the self’ proposed by Charlotte Linde (1993).
Sachiyo Tsukamoto
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Fantasies of home: “Heimat” in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Haimatochare
Abstract E. T. A. Hoffmann's Haimatochare, an epistolary fiction set in Hawaii, defamiliarizes the narrative of an erotic colonial fantasy by coaxing the reader into the assumption that its alluring central figure is an Indigenous woman and then revealing her to be an insect.
Polly Dickson
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Who Is Afraid of Love? Adam Smith and the Rational Analysis of Bonding
ABSTRACT For Smith, love inextricably involves negative feelings, what this paper calls “bonding cost”. The bonding cost can be moderate. However, it can easily become excessive, taking the form of turbulent emotions, obsessions, vulnerabilities, and ego‐centrism. Hence, it is no wonder that Smith is highly critical of love.
Elias L. Khalil
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