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The Alchemical Oedipus: Re‐Visioning the Myth
Abstract The Oedipus myth is foundational to depth psychology due to Freud’s use of Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex in the creation of psychoanalysis. But analytical psychology’s engagement with the myth has been limited despite the importance Jung also places upon it.
Reginald Ajuonuma
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Being Zen: Pelevin, Buddha, and the Void
Abstract Victor Pelevin, whose rise to popularity coincided with the fall of the Soviet Union, critiques the notion of national identity via the prism of Zen Buddhism. Pelevin embraces the religion’s idea of the volatile self and undertakes the project of spiritually empowering the Russians, by exposing the futility of constructing any national ...
Daniel Taehun Lee
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L’image de la Chinoise « désexuée » sous le regard de Beauvoir : De la critique à l’idéalisation
Résumé Dans La longue marche, essai sur la Chine (Gallimard, 1957), malgré son admiration pour le pays maoïste, Beauvoir aborde un phénomène social controversé qui est la « désexualisation » de la femme chinoise. La réception beauvoirienne, en cette matière, est assez particulière, car elle témoigne d’une rupture entre l’horizon d’attente et le présent.
Yangyang Liu
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THE (QUEER) AESTHETICS OF JEAN PAUL'S SIEBENKÄS
ABSTRACT This article proposes that the eighteenth‐century novel Siebenkäs contains the formulation of an aesthetic theory that embraces same‐sex desire. The novel's author, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, still relatively unknown among literary scholars today, uses the myth of Narcissus as an aesthetic blueprint for the novel.
Anchit Sathi
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A Flight Back to Ground: Jung’s Recalcitrant Fourth as Rape into Consciousness. Symbolic Rape and Literal Rape in Persephone’s Myth [PDF]
Abstract Patricia Berry’s interpretation of the Demeter/Persephone myth, and her concept of rape into consciousness, illuminate intrapsychic dynamics. However, this symbolic lens may inadvertently distance us from the devastating nature of literal rape—a reality the Homeric Hymn encapsulates.
Barbara Cerminara
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Dark feet and dark wings: penetrating the depths of the Earth
Abstract The author, although an analyst, is an initiate into the topic of environmental destruction. Following Wendell Berry, she enters the dark and begins a journey of dream‐like reflection, weaving images from her own dream and drawing on the work of Vaughan, Bernstein, Soloveitchik and Sacks.
Robin B. Zeiger
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Abstract Objective Nowadays, the use of silicones in cosmetic formulation is still controversial, given that “natural” or “biodegradable” components are preferred. Often, the exclusion and/or the discrimination of these excipients from cosmetic field are unmotivated because all things cannot be painted with the same brush.
Antonia Mancuso +6 more
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Should Europe disturb historians? On the importance of methodology and interdisciplinarity
Abstract Does the emergence of the European Union (EU) disrupt the frames of reference of the contemporary history of Europe to such an extent that historians distrust it? It would seem that methodological Euroscepticism exists. European integration arouses scepticism among some in the community of historians of contemporary Europe, since the ...
Sylvain Kahn
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La Méduse de Vinicio Capossela, ou la parodie du mythe
L’album Ovunque proteggi de Vinicio Capossela est très riche en allusions littéraires, parmi lesquelles nous rencontrons une référence au mythe de Méduse, explicite dès le titre, dans la chanson Medusa cha cha cha. Il s’agit d’une réécriture parodique du
Stefania Bernardini
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MYTHE ET COMÉDIE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE FRANCAISE, DE DIANA-ADRIANA LEFTER - COMPTE-RENDU [PDF]
Ce n’est pas un ouvrage des plus récents, mais c’est une très intéressante découverte pour tous les passionnés du mythe et de la relation entre le mythe et la littérature.
Juliette ARMAND
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