scholarly journals House of Cards

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Joli Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Depth Psychological ◽  
American Television ◽  
House Of Cards ◽  
The Sacrifice

This essay turns a depth-psychological lens upon the drug abuse, sexual manipulation, and murder scenes in the American television rendition of House of Cards. The Underwoods, who are obsessed with power, yet strangely enticing, invite the viewer to upend their moralistic perspective challenging notions of innocence and evil. By applying post-Freudian Lacan’s Phallus theory, the unconscious and persistent desire for power in some individuals is explored. Then, in a move toward understanding why audiences flock to such grotesque imagery, post-Jungian Moore’s notion of dark eros is extended to argue for the necessity of accepting the sadistic aspect of psyche. The notion of libertine consciousness is used to illuminate why the darkness draws us in even as it is repulsive and suggest the cautious, reflective digestion of these grotesque images as a creative action for those challenged by current political darkness. Bringing Lacan and Moore into dialogue, it is suggested that sexually toned darkness may necessarily balance the pull toward light aspects of psyche. Through close reading, intense scenes are reimagined as more than just Jungian shadow material. They also illustrate the sacrifice of innocence required as one attempts to increase consciousness.

The Principle of Division in Roger Caillois’s Man, Play and Games

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 855-873
Author(s):  
Peter D. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Simple Relation ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Unconscious

Caillois’s classic text Man, Play and Games leaves open a basic question: Why focus on four specific kinds of play? Subsequent authors have offered their own rationalizations and expanded upon his game categories but have not explained Caillois’s approach. This essay performs a close reading of Man, Play and Games in order to evince his methodology. I argue that Caillois holds to the idea that play reproduces uncertainty in a safe and confined way but that a paradox troubles this vision and pushes him into a baroque formalism. Instead of a simple relation between model and copy, Caillois develops another, stranger concept of mimesis that continues and extends his Surrealist writing about insects and the unconscious. My reading builds on previous analyses of Caillois within game studies, sociology, and media theory to revise the methodological presuppositions built into the categorization of games.

scholarly journals Viability of Visibility of Translator: Looking back and beyond Venuti

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Sajjad Ahmad ◽  
Sana Aziz ◽  
Umar Sajjad
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Popular Method ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Aesthetic Pleasure ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Sacrifice ◽  
Looking Back

In translation and cultural studies, the issue of (in) visibility of translator has taken its firm grounds especially after the publication of Venuti’s (1995) The Invisibility of Translator and its subsequent row of arguments and counter-arguments for and against the theoretical perspective as given in the book. The current research paper is an attempt to have an overview of Venuti’s and his critics’ arguments and add to the existing discussion of (in) visibility of translator, foreignization, and domestication of translation and projection and preservation of source culture during the act of translation by resisting the linguistic and cultural hegemony of English. This paper has, broadly, three main divisions of ideas: a firstly brief overview of Venuti’s arguments; secondly, a brief overview of Venuti’s most recent critics’ arguments like Pym, Tymoczko, Baker, Cronin, and Shamma; and thirdly the researchers own arguments about the issue based on the detailed analysis of previous literature. Conducting a close reading, as a popular method of analysis in qualitative research methodology, of the literature related to the issue of visibility of translator, the researcher has tried to suggest that the act of translation, during the voluntary act of foreignization, adds a concocted essence to the real spirit of the literary piece of work which neither remains beneficial for the assertion of the individuality of the source culture nor it helps very much in the resistance of the dominating language and culture. At the cost of aesthetic pleasure, the foreignization method also entails the sacrifice of literary meanings and effects.

The known unknown: Revelation and the unconscious

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Special Form ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Mental Images ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Depth Psychological ◽  
The Bible ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Generic Term ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemic Function

With this essay, the author attempts a depth-psychological interpretation of knowledge of religious revelation by examining two narrative parables (amṯāl) from the Koran on the ›subject level‹, which in Sura 36 and Sura 18 belong to the oldest Koranic examples listed under the generic term maṯal. Following in the footsteps of Eugen Drewermann, who with his work Tiefenpsychologie und Exegese opened the doors wide for a depth-psychological interpretation of the Bible and at the same time rejected the promise of salvation of historical-critical interpretations, the author also goes into the wide field of the unconscious to uncover mental images of individuation processes hidden behind the often allegorical Koranic ›experiences of revelation‹. In the context of psychoanalysis and with a view to the genre of the maṯal, she discusses the epistemic function of parables, as they also appear in the Old and New Testaments, and describes them as a special form of teaching that, due to its pictorial nature, always reveal an »abyss to not-knowing«. The aim of the parable is therefore not to convey a predetermined and teachable knowledge; rather the intended act of understanding lies in not knowing or the unconscious, so that psychological developments can be set in motion on the basis of subjective human experiences and inner processes can be made recognizable. Using the example of the parable from Sura 36, she also shows that a depth-psychological interpretation is likewise a part of the Islamic exegesis tradition, especially if one takes into account the Sufi commentaries, which also contain interpretations on the subject level, as can be seen in the Tafsīr of Pseudo-Ibn ʿArabī from the 12th century.

scholarly journals Religious, ethical and existential categories in the unconscious area of psychic reality of modern Russian youth: an attempt of comparative analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Aleksei Mikhailovich Bogachev ◽  
Aleksandra Olegovna Blinkova ◽  
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prilutskii ◽  
Samuil Markovich Shurukht ◽  
Aleksei Viktorovich Gaidukov
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Entire Sample ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Depth Psychological ◽  
Emotional Perception ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
Made In ◽  
Modern Russian ◽  
Psychic Reality

This article presents the results of a preliminary multidisciplinary research of the specificities of youth’s response to various descriptors. Using the semiotic, in-depth psychological, theological and mathematical analysis of the collected associative chains, the author compares the responses of youth representatives to religious and ethical terms with colloquial lexemes, as well as determines sensitivity to these terms and proclivity for their logical and sensory-emotional perception. Particularly, method of semantic multiplication allows identifying strong and weak descriptors of semiosis under consideration. The author determines the trends that outline a number of structural and psychodynamic characteristics of psychic reality of modern Russian youth. The following conclusions were made in the course of this research: 1. Sensitivity (and corresponding awareness) to religious descriptors was demonstrated by less than half of the respondents, and a fifth of the entire sample of terms appeared to be unfamiliar to the respondents; 2. The analysis of ethical associative chains at the level of interpretation, indicated the existence of such a phenomenon as “indeterminate religiosity”, which implies a certain spiritual pursuit, which at the moment does not comply with the familiar to a respondent religions traditions; 3. The acquired data, on the one hand, correspond to the classic “Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs”, while on the other hand, spiritual pursuit of respondents and simultaneously scarce character of “existential” associations may testify in favor of the dominance of “ethical-spiritual” paradigm in psychic reality of respondents (which also complies with the Maslow’s research of later period in the area of “existential needs” and “peak experiences”; 4. All of the aforementioned means that the key to interaction with modern youth (including didactical and educational) is the paradigm of ethical values, which can also be connected with a latent spiritual pursuit.

Drug Abuse Down in U.S. Kids, Federal Study Says

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
JOHN R. BELL
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse

New CPT Codes Promote Drug Abuse Screening

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (22) ◽  
pp. 22-23
Author(s):  
SHARON WORCESTER
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse
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