The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life

The baseball cap completes the T-shirt, blue jeans, and sneakers as the common kit of late modern life, the recent decades when consumption, as acquisition, display, and deployment, has become preeminent in asserting self-identity and negotiating social placement. This essay traces the codification and commercialization of the baseball cap within that sport and its adoption by other sports and spectators. It argues that for fans the cap within the stadium is more than passive allegiance but rather a material performative. The essay then follows the cap into everyday life, where it has become the dominant headwear because its material qualities can enable affiliation, fashion, and comfort. Although the baseball cap is ubiquitous at the present moment, its frequency is variable, as evidenced by timed counts in public spaces in the three baseball nations of United States, Japan, and Cuba. The article concludes by suggesting some factors that may explain the cap’s transgressive motility across sport, work and everyday life, across fashion codes, and across gender and class divides.

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Book Review: THE PRESENT MOMENT IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND EVERYDAY LIFE. By Daniel N. Stern. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004, xxi + 283 pp., $29.95

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association ◽

10.1177/00030651050530040101 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

pp. 1396-1400 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard Almond

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Present Moment

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Futuros presentes: a ficção distópica como reflexo do cotidiano

Rizoma ◽

10.17058/rzm.v6i1.9791 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 136

Author(s):

Juliana Souza ◽

Fernanda Costantino ◽

Emmanoel Ferreira

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Literary Genre ◽

Present Moment ◽

Hunger Games ◽

Michel De Certeau

Resumo: O artigo apresenta a distopia enquanto gênero literário como reflexo do cotidiano, em narrativas que, em um primeiro momento, abordam um futuro imaginado. Nas distopias, esse futuro é encarado sempre como pior que o presente, porém, o que esse trabalho busca tencionar é o quanto tais narrativas já apresentam uma descrença com o próprio cotidiano do momento presente de escrita e apresentação da obra. Para tal, buscamos em um primeiro momento conceituar o gênero distópico e, após, trabalhar a noção de cotidiano, a partir dos autores Agnes Heller e Michel de Certeau, relacionando tais conceitos com as obras distópicas Nós, 1984 e Jogos Vorazes. Abstract: The article presents dystopia as a literary genre and a reflection of everyday life in narratives that, at first, approach an imagined future. In dystopias, this future is always faced as worse than present, but what this study seeks to demonstrate is how these narratives already present a disbelief with everyday life of the present moment of writing and presentation of the story. To achieve this, we first sought to conceptualize the dystopic genre and, afterwards, to work on the notion of everyday life, from the authors Agnes Heller and Michel de Certeau, relating such concepts to the dystopic narratives We, 1984 and Hunger Games. Resumen: El artículo presenta el género literario de la distopía como reflejo de lo cotidiano, a partir de narrativas que, en un primer momento, abordan un futuro imaginado. En las distopías, ese futuro es encarado siempre como peor que el presente, pero, lo que ese trabajo busca pretender, es mostrar cuanto tales narrativas ya presentan una incredulidad con el propio cotidiano del momento presente de escritura y presentación de la obra. Buscamos, en un primer momento, conceptuar el género distópico y, después, trabajar la noción de cotidiano, a partir de los autores Agnes Heller y Michel de Certeau, relacionando tales conceptos con las obras distópicas Nosotros, 1984 y Los Juegos del Hambre.

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