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Imprint and trace
Today, writing by hand seems a nearly archaic process. Nearly all of our written communication is digital—our letters are via email or text message, our manuscripts are composed using word processors, our journals are blogs, and we sign checks to pay bills with the push of a button. Sonja Neef believes that what we have lost in our modern technological conversation is the ductus —the physical and material act of handwriting.
In Imprint and Trace Neef argues, however, that handwriting throughout its history has always been threatened with erasure. It exists in a dual state: able to be standardized, repeated, copied—much like an imprint—and yet persistently singular, original, and authentic as a trace or line. Throughout its history, from the first prehistoric handprint, through the innovations of stylus, quill, and printing press, handwriting has revealed an interweaving, ever-changing relationship between imprint and trace. Even today, in the age of the digital revolution, the trace of handwriting is still an integral part of communication, whether etched, photographed, pixelated, or scanned.
Imprint and Trace presents an essential re-evaluation of the relationships between handwriting and technology, and between the various imprints and traces that define communication.
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Robert Saudek’s graphology in the light of Fritz Mauthner’s critique of language
Robert Saudek, a Czech graphologist, journalist, diplomat, playwright, and novelist, was heavily influenced in his youth by Fritz Mauthner’s critique of language. Saudek later became a pioneer in the field of psychological graphology. In this article, I examine the impact of Mauthner’s critique on Saudek’s work and evaluate whether Saudek’s approach to graphology aligns with Mauthner’s ideas. I argue that, although Saudek’s graphology is rooted in Mauthner’s critique of experimental psychology, there remains room for further development in the field of psychological graphology, centering on the analysis of language. With this in mind, I compare Saudek’s method and contemporary conceptual metaphor theory. I further suggest that Saudek’s extensive use of the autographs of well-known figures follows a method of working from examples, or specimens, which is not uncommon in the philosophy of science. Based on these findings, I propose a way of understanding Saudek’s graphology that challenges its characterization as a pseudoscience.
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Handschrift, Minderwertigkeit und Rasse
Towards the end of the nineteenth century handwritings became a new epistemic object of medicine. First within the psychiatry and then within the forensic and general medicine there have been various attempts to establish the graphology as a credible diagnostic method. Finally, during the years of National Socialism attempts were made, to use handwritings for the purposes of racial hygienic selection. By using various sources, the paper explores specific interrelationships between medical and graphological discourse, showing how handwritings were instrumentalized for political purposes.
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Handschrift, Minderwertigkeit und Rasse
Towards the end of the nineteenth century handwritings became a new epistemic object of medicine. First within the psychiatry and then within the forensic and general medicine there have been various attempts to establish the graphology as a credible diagnostic method. Finally, during the years of National Socialism attempts were made, to use handwritings for the purposes of racial hygienic selection. By using various sources, the paper explores specific interrelationships between medical and graphological discourse, showing how handwritings were instrumentalized for political purposes.
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Grafología de Leonardo Da Vinci: el desafío del Genio
Ningún grafólogo se ha atrevido a enfrentarse al análisis de la escritura de Leonardo Da Vinci. Su originalidad, su misterio, su enigma, se revela también en su peculiar forma de escribir, que no es sino el retrato más sincero de su excéntrica y singular personalidad. ¿Seremos capaces de descubrir los secretos de su enigmática psicología a través de su reflejo en su escritura? Este es, sin duda, el desafío de este trabajo, realizado cuando se cumplen 500 años del fallecimiento del Genio del Renacimiento.Este artículo propone un recorrido por las características esenciales del modelo caligráfico humanista, así como por la singular grafía —especular y derecha— de Leonardo. Se abordarán las posibles causas de la escritura especular del artista. Y nos adentraremos en la profundidad de su alma, en los secretos más rebuscados y profundos de su personalidad, a través del análisis de sus cartas y sus famosos códices, con un completo estudio grafológico.
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Divining Benjamin: Reading Fate, Graphology, Gambling
Here, Benjamin unequivocally attacks what he calls the \"stupidity, low cunning, and coarseness\" of the contemporary modes of magical divination, \"the last pitiful by-product of more significant traditions,\" and he seems explicitly to include in his critique of magic and fortune- or future-telling the misguided \"hunger of broad sections of the people for happiness\" (Glückshunger).4 The resistance to magical thinking is obviously of a piece with his principled distaste for the tenets of \"Lebensphilosophien\"; for the phantasmagoria of commodity culture; the emergence of fascism with its \"magic of blood and glitter\"; and eventually, too, for that form of Marxism that divined future happiness in the fated progress of social history.5 In all this, Benjamin could be said to share (along with Freud, Mann, and others) in the skeptical, disenchanted enlightenment stance that gained such increased urgency amid the resurgent \"barbarism\" of the early- to mid-twentieth century.6 And added to this secular tradition, there was also a religious ground supporting Benjamin's suspicions of divination as well.
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TRUE CRIME STORIES: Scientific Methods of Criminal Investigation, Criminology and Historiography
How can we catch the criminal? The history of criminology has had little to say about the place of scientific methods of criminal investigation in the discipline of criminology and in the redistribution of the power to punish that took place with the withdrawal of public execution. Thinking about this omission can act as a critical and reflexive exercise: why have we made a riddle of criminality? Perhaps it is exactly the contours of this problem that mean that we consistently fail to catch the criminal. Perhaps there was never any mystery to be solved.
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Using Oral History about Freud: A Case in His \Secret Essay\
Roazen draws on his interviews with Helene Deutsch to illuminate the shadowy biographical contexts of Freud's \"Psychoanalysis and Telepathy,\" as well as of the chapter on \"Dreams and Occultism,\" where the same material is retold in a slightly different form.
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