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Myth Literature and the Unconscious

Myth Literature and the Unconscious

At a time when the place and significance of myth in society has come under renewed scrutiny Myth Literature and the Unconscious contributes to shaping the new interdisciplinary field of myth studies. The editors find in psychoanalysis a natural and necessary ally for investigations in myth and myth-informed literature and the arts. At the same time the collection re-values myths and myth-based cultural products as vital aids to the discipline and practice of psychoanalysis. The volume spans a vast geo-cultural range (including ancient Egypt India Japan nineteenth-century France and twentieth-century Germany) and investigates cultural products from the Mahabharata to J. W. Goethe's opus and eighteenth-century Japanese fiction and from William Blake's visionary poetry to contemporary blockbuster television series. It encompasses mythic topics and figures such as Oedipus Orpheus the Scapegoat and the Hero while mobilising Freudian Jungian object relations and Lacanian psychoanalytic approaches.

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The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence of these rationalising law-making and 'limiting' activities within the human brain has been recorded in the earliest Creation texts such as the Hebrew Bible Plato's Timaeus and the Norse sagas. Blake's prescient insight into the nature and origins of this dominant force within the brain allows him to radically reinterpret the psychological basis of the entity usually referred to in these texts as 'God'. The book draws in particular on the work of Bolte Taylor whose study in this area is having a profound impact on how we understand mental activity and processes. | The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

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Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

For well over half a century since the first credible warnings of petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s contemporary industrial civilization has been caught in a remarkable paradox: a culture more focused on problem solving than any other has repeatedly failed to deal with or even consider the problem most likely to bring its own history to a full stop. The coming of peak oil-the peaking and irreversible decline of world petroleum production-poses an existential threat to societies in which every sector of the economy depends on petroleum-based transport and no known energy source can scale up extensively or quickly enough to replace dwindling oil supplies. Not The Future We Ordered is the first study of the psychological dimensions of that decision and its consequences as a case study in the social psychology of collective failure and as an issue with which psychologists and therapists will be confronted repeatedly in the years ahead. | Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

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Screening The Sacred Religion Myth And Ideology In Popular American Film

Screening The Sacred Religion Myth And Ideology In Popular American Film

What are the religious impulses in the 1976 film Rocky and how can they work to shape one's social identity? Do the films Alien and Aliens signify the reemergence of the earth goddess as a vital cultural power? What female archetypes borne out of male desire inform the experience of women in Nine and a Half Weeks?These are among the several comp | Screening The Sacred Religion Myth And Ideology In Popular American Film

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Direct Democracy Or Representative Government? Dispelling The Populist Myth

Direct Democracy Or Representative Government? Dispelling The Populist Myth

In Direct Democracy or Representative Government? John Haskell develops a devastating critique of direct democracy by exposing the central flaw in populist thinking. Contrary to the beliefs of populist advocates of direct democracy the popular will cannot be interpreted from the results of the plebiscite. John Haskell presents a defense of representative institutions that brings to bear in an understandable way the findings of public choice scholars. Haskell covers the clash of ideas between populists and constitutionalists throughout American history. He follows the development of direct democracy during the twentieth century especially the dramatically increased use of initiatives and referenda in the last decade. As Americans become increasingly frustrated with the workings of the institutions of government at the state and national levels and as populist ideas gain greater currency new forms of direct and participatory democracy making use of the latest computer technology appeal to more people. Haskell speculates as to the likely future direction of direct democracy in the U. S. He describes in clear language the fundamental problem with the premise of populist thinking and explains why direct democracy presents a threat to minority rights and only promises irresponsible and unaccountable governance. | Direct Democracy Or Representative Government? Dispelling The Populist Myth

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Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions Low Expectations?

Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions Low Expectations?

Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions provides the first comprehensive analysis of stabilization which constitutes the new reference point for international intervention in unruly parts of the Global South. The notion of ‘stabilization’ and the practice of ‘stability operations’ experienced a revival over the last decade. The United Nations the European Union NATO as well as most member states of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development have embraced these terms in their foreign policy bureaucracies. The general disillusionment with the achievements of large-scale peacebuilding operations in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the failures of the so-called Arab Springs contributed to the success of this new discourse. Yet while widely mentioned and endorsed stabilization is rarely defined. This volume identifies common elements to stabilization doctrines and examines how they are applied in practice. It dissects how stabilization emerged and unfolds how different actors adopt it and for what purposes and how it is linked to the broader security and development discourses. Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions will be of great interest to scholars of Peacebuilding International Intervention and International Relations more generally. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics. | Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions Low Expectations?

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Religion of the Semites The Fundamental Institutions

Religion of the Semites The Fundamental Institutions

Scottish Semiticist and Arabist William Robertson Smith was a celebrated biblical critic theorist of religion and theorist of myth. His accomplishments were multiple. Smith's German mentors reconstructed the history of Israelite religion from the Bible itself; Smith ventured outside the Bible to Semitic religion and thereby pioneered the comparative study of religion. Where others viewed religion from the standpoint of the individual Smith approached religion-at least ancient religion-from the standpoint of the group. He asserted that ancient religion was centrally a matter of practice not creed and singlehandedly created the ritualist theory of myth. Since Smith's time the ritualist theory of myth has found adherents not only in biblical studies but in classics anthropology and literature as well. Smith's accomplishments are seen most fully in Religion of the Semites adapted from a number of public lectures he gave at Aberdeen and first published in 1889. Smith delivered three courses of lectures over three years. It is this set that is reprinted here. Only recently were the notes for the second and third courses of lectures discovered and published. Religion of the Semites combines extraordinary philological erudition with brilliant theorizing. Among the fundamental emphases of the book are the foci on sacrifice as the key ritual and non-ancient sacrifice as communion with God rather than as penance for sin. Most important is Smith's use of the comparative method: he uses cross-cultural examples from other primitive peoples to confirm his reconstruction from Semitic sources. Smith combines pioneering sociology and anthropology with a staunchly Christian faith. For him Christianity is an expression of divine revelation. For Smith only continuing revelation can account for the leap from the collective ritualistic and materialistic nature of ancient Semitic religion to the individualistic creedal and spiritualized nature of Christianity. Lectures on the Religion of the Semites manages to meld social science with theology and remains a classic work in the social scientific study of religion. | Religion of the Semites The Fundamental Institutions

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Class War or Race War The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

Class War or Race War The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

Class War or Race War is more than an anti-thesis of the master narrative regarding the Soviet state antisemitism. Kende not only refutes the originally anti-Communist myth of the systemic nature of (state) socialism but tries to re- and deconstruct the origins of this myth. With intensive use of historical documents memoirs and the related historiography the book attempts to make historical sense from the myth it intends to refute. Kende goes beyond the contemporary perceptions of the “Jewish question” and antisemitism and with close reading of original documents reconstructs the real frontlines of the Soviet society of the 1940s which were not constructed along identity-political lines. The book reinvests the long-forgotten understanding of social classes in an allegedly classless and monolithic society. The spontaneous formations of the actual frontlines in the hinterland or on the actual fronts (battlefields in the Red Army) lacked the participants’ class consciousness thus its occurrences in the form of conflict producing historical records were recorded as acts of antisemitism. As the book advocates Jews could have been found on both sides of the inner frontlines of Soviet society during and right after WWII. An insightful read for scholars of Soviet history that presents a bold and challenging interpretation of the regime and its flaws—both perceived and real. | Class War or Race War The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War

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Researching the ‘New Normal’ Social World Methodological Adaptations and Innovations Post-Pandemic

Researching the ‘New Normal’ Social World Methodological Adaptations and Innovations Post-Pandemic

This edited volume focuses on the changing research methodologies in social science research prompted by the new social world shaped by the pandemic. It explores adaptations and developments to meet the demands of transforming social circumstances and showcases innovative alternative approaches. Featuring a range of international and interdisciplinary contributors who discuss the context of social science research in the new normal the book sets out the need to redesign research to address present-day challenges for the post-pandemic. Chapters share methodological innovations and demonstrate how applicable these new and adapted methodologies are to a world post-pandemic discussing a wide range of innovative digital-first research methods with practical analysis. The role of technology and its application in social science research during this transition is explored in particular alongside new approaches to quantitative and qualitative research that feature innovations in ethnography online data collection and ethical protocols for research. Ultimately offering a comprehensive exploration of adaptive and innovative social science research methodologies suited to the current social context the book will be relevant to researchers academics and scholars in the fields of research methods research technologies and the sociology of education. | Researching the ‘New Normal’ Social World Methodological Adaptations and Innovations Post-Pandemic

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Aspects of Confused Speech A Study of Verbal Interaction Between Confused and Normal Speakers

Aspects of Confused Speech A Study of Verbal Interaction Between Confused and Normal Speakers

Based on research focusing on the experience of having confused speech and being with confused speakers this book begins with everyday commonly understood ideas such as talking too much and examines how confused speech is brought off as a collaborative activity by the people involved. The author became involved in this project because she was interested in how confusion seemed to be something that everyone is not only involved in but also recognizes as part of ordinary life. At the same time confusion is a word that is used somewhat as a blanket category for some people considered permanently incompetent and set apart from ordinary members of society. Her study analyzes how talk between confused and normal speakers throws light on this tension. | Aspects of Confused Speech A Study of Verbal Interaction Between Confused and Normal Speakers

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On Being Normal and Other Disorders A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics

On Being Normal and Other Disorders A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics

The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships. Thus the diagnosis of potential pathologies must also be founded on this relation. Given that the efficacy of all forms of treatment depends upon the therapeutic relation a diagnostic of | On Being Normal and Other Disorders A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics

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The Ideal of the University

The Ideal of the University

The Ideal of the University is a lucid comprehensive analysis of the rationale principles and presuppositions that make contemporary universities what they are. The book begins with four sharp carefully delineated models of a university. After analyzing such controversial issues as the role of grading in the university and the myth of value neutrality. Wolff turns to the crucial question of how the university should be governed. He argues for a radical reconstruction based on a social contract that would place ultimate authority in the hands of the faculty and students. The book concludes with a series of practical proposals for Utopian reform including such provocative recommendations as a variable-length ungraded undergraduate program and elimination of the Ph. D. degree. In his introduction to this new edition Wolff expands upon his original speculations to argue in substantive detail for the liberating potential of the liberal arts. Drawing upon Freud and Marcuse Wolff proposes that literature art and philosophy embody a promise of gratification that engenders a negative critique of the social and cultural status quo. The rationale for the liberal arts university is society's need for a reservoir of critical thinking that is the motor of social economic and political progress. Elegantly written and passionately argued; The Ideal of the University is essential reading for educators and sociologists.

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The 'Empty' Church Revisited

The 'Empty' Church Revisited

When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The 'Empty' Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today Gill points to physical factors economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work The Myth of the Empty Church presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches changes in patterns of worship and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade.

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The 'Empty' Church Revisited

The 'Empty' Church Revisited

This title was first published in 2003. When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The Empty Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today Gill points to physical factors economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work The Myth of the Empty Church presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches changes in patterns of worship and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade. | The 'Empty' Church Revisited

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Children's Phantasies The Shaping of Relationships

Children's Phantasies The Shaping of Relationships

Otto Weininger illustrates the manifestations of unconscious phantasy in children - normal neurotic or psychotic - in various settings such as playgroups ordinary schools or special schools for disturbed children the family milieu or play therapy. He uses Melanie Klein's developmental theory and shows the evolutions of phantasies in their content in the way they are symbolizes and their functioning in terms of the child's evolution from the paranoid-schizoid position to the depressive position and Oedipus complex. | Children's Phantasies The Shaping of Relationships

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Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change Rural and Resource Contexts of the Global North

Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change Rural and Resource Contexts of the Global North

Dispelling the myth that people in the Global North share similar experiences of climate change this book reveals how intersecting social dimensions of climate change—people processes and institutions—give rise to different experiences of loss adaptation and resilience among those living in rural and resource contexts of the Global North. Bringing together leading feminist researchers and practitioners from three countries—Australia Canada and Spain—this collection documents gender relations in fossil fuel mining and extractive industries in land-based livelihoods in approaches for inclusive environmental policy and in the lived experience of climate hazards. Uniquely the book brings together the voices expertise and experiences of both academic researchers and women whose views have not been prioritized in formal policies—for example women in agriculture Indigenous women immigrant women and women in male-dominated professions. Their contributions are insightful and compelling highlighting the significance of gaining diverse perspectives for a fuller understanding of climate change impacts more equitable processes and strategies for climate change adaptation and a more welcoming climate future. This book will be vital reading for students and scholars of gender studies environmental studies environmental sociology geography and sustainability science. It will provide important insights for planners decision makers and community advocates to strengthen their understanding of social dimensions of climate change and to develop more inclusive and equitable adaptation policies plans and practices. | Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change Rural and Resource Contexts of the Global North

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The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis

The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis

The normal approach to the study of the foundations of psychoanalysis is to focus on Sigmund Freud's classical texts. In this book however the author approaches the issue from the perspective of the foundations of behavioural sciences in general. He studies the nature of psychological terms and explanations and the relation between neuroscien | The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis

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Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

Everyone knows about the Battle of Waterloo – or do they?This book presents the battle as never before: through the personal stories of over 150 people present at the battle or its immediate aftermath. A reference book a biographical dictionary and a myth-busting expose Who was Who at Waterloo is an indispensable guide to history's most famous battle. Arranged in alphabetical order and with entries highlighted throughout the text like links in a website the book boasts a colourful cast of soldiers politicians peasants surgeons artists novelists poets scientists entrepreneurs and more. It provides many sorties into nineteenth century culture politics medicine and science. It also provides a thorough look at the sources identifying myths irregularities and cover-ups. The book demonstrates how little we can really know about Waterloo. And yet it also demonstrates just how much can be said about the battle's participants. | Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

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The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Three Volume Set

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Three Volume Set

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy the philosophy of science intellectual history aesthetics epistemology the study of language and myth and more. Cassirer’s thought also anticipates the renewed interest in the origins of analytic and continental philosophy in the Twentieth Century and the divergent paths taken by the 'logicist' and existential traditions epitomised by his now legendary debate in 1929 with the philosopher Martin Heidegger over the question What is the Human Being? The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. It was first published in German in 1923 the third and final volume appearing in 1929. In it Cassirer presents a radical new philosophical worldview - at once rich creative and controversial - of human beings as fundamentally symbolic animals placing signs and systems of expression between themselves and the world. This major new translation of all three volumes the first for over fifty years brings Cassirer's magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Taken together the three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms are a vital treatise on human beings as symbolic animals and a monumental expression of neo-Kantian thought. Correcting important errors in previous English editions this translation reflects the contributions of significant advances in Cassirer scholarship over the last twenty to thirty years. Each volume includes a new introduction and translator's notes by Steve G. Lofts a foreword by Peter E. Gordon a glossary of key terms and a thorough index. | The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Three Volume Set

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Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

As it entered the 1960s American institutional psychiatry was thriving with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961 The Myth of Mental Illness the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos. Szasz enlightened the world about what he called the “myth of mental illness. ” His point was not that no one is mentally ill or that people labeled as mentally ill do not exist. Instead he believed that diagnosing people as mentally ill was inconsistent with the rules governing pathology and the classification of disease. He asserted that the diagnosis of mental illness is a type of social control not medical science. The editors were uniquely close to Szasz and here they gather for the first time a group of their peers—experts on psychiatry psychology rhetoric and semiotics—to elucidate Szasz’s body of work. Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas examines his work and legacy including new material on the man himself and the seeds he planted. They discuss Szasz’s impact on their thinking about the distinction between physical and mental illness addiction the insanity plea schizophrenia and implications for individual freedom and responsibility. This important volume offers insight into and understanding of a man whose ideas were far beyond his time. | Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

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The “Socialist Transformation” of Memory Reversing Chinese History through “Pernicious-Vestiges” Media Discourse

The “Socialist Transformation” of Memory Reversing Chinese History through “Pernicious-Vestiges” Media Discourse

Through discourse analysis and a historical comparison of “Pernicious-Vestiges” narratives in the news text of People’s Daily this book is devoted to revealing primary metaphors of “Pernicious-Vestiges” and political functions in China. “Pernicious-Vestiges” (Yí Dú 遗毒) is one of the most frequently used words in contemporary Chinese historical narration as well as a constantly changing rhetorical direction in New China’s media discourse whose function is to remold memory. Over the past 76 years the “Pernicious-Vestiges” narrative continuously constructed by People’s Daily the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party have reflected the views of China’s political elite and represented the ruling party’s evaluation and reevaluation of historical events. The findings of this book challenge the myth that memory is naturally superior to forgetting reflect on the ethics of memory in “Pernicious-Vestiges” narratives and the erasure of their own justice and suggest that the critical space compressed by “Pernicious-Vestiges” narratives should be returned to restore the order of memory and historical reflection. This book will be an excellent read for students and scholars of Chinese studies media studies and those who are interested in political communication and collective memory in general. | The “Socialist Transformation” of Memory Reversing Chinese History through “Pernicious-Vestiges” Media Discourse

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