Body and Soul: The Destruction of the Self

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 485-485
Author(s):  
Marshall L. Silverstein
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Body And Soul

Maurice

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-153
Author(s):  
Finn Fordham
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Homosexual Orientation ◽  
The World ◽  
Resonant Term ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Edward Carpenter

As a queer bildungsroman, Maurice has a particular way of managing the relation between the body and the soul. Forster's exploration of the queer relationship between body and soul took place at a time when there was a battle over the nature of the soul, often defensive against materialism: concepts of identity and selfhood were undergoing radical contestations and the word 'soul' is a resonant term in modernist novels. How did emerging discourses, such as those of Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, and many others, about homosexual orientation relate to these contemporary discourses around the self? The chapter focuses on two passages about body and soul, whose textual genesis reveals problems of phrasing, as Forster’s unprecedented investigation of sexuality takes him to the edge of identity. It then examines how certain spaces, such as windows and thresholds, become symbolic zones of transgressive encounters between inner and outer, soul and body. It concludes by showing how Forster avoids drawing up any consistent ‘doctrine’ of body and soul. As a work of fiction in which different visions of the world come into conflict with each other, Maurice is a unique and vital witness of transforming discourses about homosexuality in the early twentieth century.

Body and soul: a social history of the self

The Lancet ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 362 (9401) ◽  
pp. 2128
Author(s):  
Ross Kessel
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
The Self ◽  
History Of ◽  
Body And Soul

scholarly journals Plotinus on the Soul's Omnipresence in Body

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Gurtler, S.J.
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Unity Of The Self ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn examining Ennead VI 4[22], we find Plotinus in conflict with modern, i.e., Cartesian or Kantian, assumptions about the relation of soul and body and the identification of the self with the subject. Curiously, his images and exposition are more in tune with Twentieth Century notions such as wave and field. With these as keys, we are in a position to unlock the subtlety of Plotinus' analysis of the way soul and body are present together, with sensation structured through the body and judgment coming from the soul. The problem of the self concerns not only the unity of the self in terms of body and soul, but also how the self is constituted in relation to other selves, both keeping its individuality and sharing its experiences at the same time.

Self-Knowledge, Self-Perception, and Perception of One’s Body in Stoicism

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-209
Author(s):  
Jean-Baptiste Gourinat
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Self Knowledge

While self-knowledge is usually considered to be knowledge of our soul by our soul, this is not the case in Stoicism. There is hardly a debate on self-knowledge in Stoicism, because there is no perception of myself as something different from my own body. The Stoics tend to identify the self with the ruling part of the soul, but they have no certain knowledge about it. Self-perception is the perception of the whole body and soul as a unity and of the parts of the body and the soul, and this allows a human being to rule his/her own body, but it is neither perception nor knowledge of the ‘self’. Since a human being is a complete mixture of a body and soul, it knows itself as an animated body, and this kind of knowledge is quite different from the form of self-knowledge involved in most of ancient philosophies.

The Body as Teacher

1998 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Carol Collier
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Object Of Knowledge

I look at two ways of seeing the body during the Renaissance: the first, illustrated in the Essais of Montaigne, focuses on the body as a source of knowledge about the self; the second, illustrated in the developing science of anatomy, focuses on the body as an object of knowledge that is increasingly available only to specialists. In looking at the science of anatomy as it developed in the Renaissance, I show that the transformation of the body from a source of knowledge of both body and soul to an object of a mechanical science did not happen easily and reflects contradictory approaches to the self that continue to this day.

Spread the Hem of Your Cloak over Me (Ruth 3:9)

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-46
Author(s):  
Laura Quick
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Physical Body ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
The World ◽  
Complex Boundary ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Relationship

In the world of the biblical authors, there was no semiotic distinction between body and soul according to Western philosophical conceptions. Instead, the body was thought to index personhood. The physical body, encompassing skin, nails, and hair, functioned as a complex boundary of the self. Since clothing was worn directly upon the physical body, it was understood as a manifestation of that boundary, and as such it was thought to take on or encode the personhood of the wearer. Clothing’s potential to index personhood meant that it could be utilized in order to transfer ethnicity or royal status from one individual to another, or even to sever the relationship between an individual from his or her family group. After exploring clothing and the body in ancient Near Eastern literature, I turn to the Hebrew Bible, where we will see that these insights are essential in order to properly comprehend and unpack the function of clothing in certain biblical texts. Clothing’s potential to index abstract conceptions of the self animates and informs these texts, with implications for understanding the complex relationship between the body and the self in the biblical world.

scholarly journals Good self, bad self: The Struggle in Shelley

2008 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Ann Wroe
Keyword(s):  
Percy Bysshe Shelley ◽  
The Self ◽  
Material World ◽  
Body And Soul

Abstract Although he sometimes decried the notion of a duality of body and soul, few poets were more conscious than Percy Bysshe Shelley of the soul’s imprisonment in the illusory material world. In considering Shelley’s notion of the self, this essay will track his constant search to discover and unlock his own inner powers of empathy, imagination and liberation.

Der Mensch im Tod nach der Apokalypse des Mose Eine frühjüdische Anthropologie in der Zeit des Paulus

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Stefan Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Early Judaism ◽  
The Face ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Literary Setting ◽  
Key Terms

AbstractIn the Apocalypse of Moses the themes of the protoplasts' death and of God's mercy with Adam are dominant. The anthropological views, however, are ambivalent: man as a unity, or a dichotomy of body and soul. In the literary setting of the document as a whole, traditio-historical solutions are not satisfying. On the background of the use of the key terms σ μα, πνε μα and ψυχ in the Septuagint, the author of the Apocalypse does not provide a clear anthropological system, but articulates the "self," the "life" of man as owed to God. Avoiding the dualistic picture of man common in Greek philosophy, he is guided by the biblical view of man as a unity in order to strengthen the reader's hope in a life after death in the face of negative earthly conditions. This has consequences, for example, for the theological diversity in Early Judaism, or for the dilemma of the empty tomb of Jesus.

Problem behavior in autism spectrum disorders: A paradigmatic self-organized perspective of network structures

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Tonello ◽  
Luca Giacobbi ◽  
Alberto Pettenon ◽  
Alessandro Scuotto ◽  
Massimo Cocchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
The Self ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Critical Equilibrium ◽  
Self Organized Criticality ◽  
Acute Agitation ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

AbstractAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) subjects can present temporary behaviors of acute agitation and aggressiveness, named problem behaviors. They have been shown to be consistent with the self-organized criticality (SOC), a model wherein occasionally occurring “catastrophic events” are necessary in order to maintain a self-organized “critical equilibrium.” The SOC can represent the psychopathology network structures and additionally suggests that they can be considered as self-organized systems.

The Nature of Rapidly Extracted Phycocyanin from the Blue-Green Alga Plectonema Boryanum

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
M. Kessel ◽  
R. MacColl
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Analytical Ultracentrifugation ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Protein ◽  
Subunit Structure ◽  
Blue Green Alga ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Blue Green Algae ◽  
Cacodylate Buffer

The major protein of the blue-green algae is the biliprotein, C-phycocyanin (Amax = 620 nm), which is presumed to exist in the cell in the form of distinct aggregates called phycobilisomes. The self-assembly of C-phycocyanin from monomer to hexamer has been extensively studied, but the proposed next step in the assembly of a phycobilisome, the formation of 19s subunits, is completely unknown. We have used electron microscopy and analytical ultracentrifugation in combination with a method for rapid and gentle extraction of phycocyanin to study its subunit structure and assembly.To establish the existence of phycobilisomes, cells of P. boryanum in the log phase of growth, growing at a light intensity of 200 foot candles, were fixed in 2% glutaraldehyde in 0.1M cacodylate buffer, pH 7.0, for 3 hours at 4°C. The cells were post-fixed in 1% OsO4 in the same buffer overnight. Material was stained for 1 hour in uranyl acetate (1%), dehydrated and embedded in araldite and examined in thin sections.

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