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The Scream of an Artist´s Naked Soul. The Novel Krik/ The Scream in the Context of Przybyszewski´s ideological and aesthetical Conception
The paper is an interpretation of the novel Krik (Krzyk/The Scream, 1917) by Polish modernist writer Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868 – 1927) within the context of Przybyszewski´s ideological and aesthetical conception including notions such as the naked soul, sexual instinct (chuć), metaword and androgyny. The hallucinatory and dreamy fictitious world of the novel, built up using the literary method of discontinuity of chronotopes, is related to Przybyszewski´s view of reality as the reality of the naked soul. The literary production is a scream of a naked soul which is linked to the forces of the unconscious mind including subconscious impulses and instincts. They control the conscious self, who thus becomes unautonomous, and they split it up (the motif of a double in the novel). The narrative structure of the novel is based on the principle of repetition with a difference: the main hero, artist Gaštovt, wants the impossible: he wants to hear again the scream of the prostitute jumping off the bridge. The repetition is, however, – in Nietzsche´s words – the return of the different: Gaštovt first saves the female suicide, but then longing for the repetition of the scream he kills her. The structure of the repetition joins several motifs in the text: the individual characters reappear as different ones in the feverish maze of Gaštovt´s wandering: the jarvey later as the violinist, the female suicide later as the hypnotized actress, the stranger later as Weryho, and eventually Weryho as Gaštovt himself (in the final motif of a double).
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The World of Perversion
In The World of Perversion, James Penney argues that antihomophobic criticism has nothing to lose—and indeed everything to gain—by reclaiming the psychoanalytic concept of perversion as psychic structure. Analyzing the antagonism between psychoanalytic approaches to perversion and those inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, Penney explores how different assumptions about sexuality have determined the development of contemporary queer theory, and how the universalizing approach to homosexuality in psychoanalysis actually leads to more useful political strategies for nonheterosexual subjects. Having established this theoretical context, Penney focuses on works by Georges Bataille, Blaise Pascal, Denis Diderot, and Jacques Lacan, tracing the implications of various sexual and moral understandings of the term perversion, and illustrating how a psychoanalytic approach to the question of perversion enables politicized readings that are foreclosed by a Foucauldian methodology.
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The life instinct
In psychoanalytic writing an oversimplified interpretation of Freud's concept of the life and death instincts sometimes colours the presentation. Roughly, there is an implication that the life instinct is 'good' and the death instinct 'bad'. Freud however is clear that: \"Neither of these instincts is any less essential than the other; the phenomena of life arise from the concurrent or mutually opposing action of both\"(1933b, p. 209). In this paper I look in detail at the characteristics of the life instinct as conceptualized by Freud, and draw on Bion's work 'on linking' to elaborate Freud's view that binding is the life instinct's key characteristic. I suggest that there are pathological forms of both the life and death instinct if defused (separated off) from the other, and I explore a pathological variation of the life instinct in which binding is without the negation, rest, limit or end provided by the 'opposing action' of the death instinct. I consider an instance of the kind that any analyst might meet clinically, in which an inhibited patient experiences severe anxiety that life-giving connections threaten to proliferate indiscriminately and to an overwhelming intensity and size.
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La higiene intelectual infantil o los comienzos de la psiquiatrización de la infancia en Colombia, 1888-1920
A partir de algunos escritos médicos colombianos sobre higiene escolar de finales del siglo XIX y las dos primeras décadas del siglo XX, se estudia la \"higiene intelectual\" como condición de posibilidad para la definición de la anormalidad infantil y la psiquiatrización de la infancia. La fatiga intelectual o surmenage y el instinto sexual son dos elementos importantes para comprender de qué manera en el ámbito más general de la higiene escolar, los médicos higienistas explican las relaciones entre lo mental y lo físico. Los estudios sobre higiene intelectual inauguran un nuevo campo de intervención médica, el espacio escolar, así como un nuevo objeto de análisis: el niño en edad escolar.
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The sadomasochistic perversion
In this book the author examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism and surveys in detail the theories of other psychoanalysts. He explores the relationship between sadomasochism and other conditions, such as depression, psychosis and borderline states, and discusses the nature of evil in the broadest way possible.
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Breastfeeding and postpartum maternal sexual functioning: a review
In this paper we review the existing literature on the relationship between breastfeeding and postpartum maternal sexuality. Latency to resumption of sexual activity and frequency of sexual activity, sexual desire, dyspareunia, fatigue, mood and depression are used as discrete categories for discussion. The research literature indicates that women who breastfeed, as compared to those who bottle-feed, are more likely to experience decreases in sexual functioning, especially desire. Research increasingly suggests that various factors modulate the influence of breastfeeding on sexual functioning, including psychosocial and hormonal variables. Of particular interest is the potential association between hyperprolactinemia in breastfeeding women and sexual functioning, as mediated by its effects on both androgen and estrogen secretion. The limitations and deficits of past research, practical implications of these findings, and future directions for research are discussed. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT] Key words: Breastfeeding Sexual functioning Sexual desire Prolactin Androgens
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Chapter 8: End of My Oxford Life. Wanderings in Switzerland. Rosa Engel and Catherine North. Italy
Such was my state of mind and feeling toward the end of my Oxford career. An unhealthy, painful state enough. And yet I was continually striving to repress instinct, and to put aside the tyrannous appeals of sense.I took a first class in Literae Humaniores during the summer of 1862. Immediately after this, my father, my sister Charlotte and I travelled through Munich and Innsbruck and the Finstermünz to Venice. For the first time I touched the city of the lagoons. We occupied the first floor of the Hotel d’Europa. The days spent there were enchantment. The magic of the place enthralled me; and it has never wholly lost that early fascination, although now I have lived into it.
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