Negative Capability: Identity and Truth in Keats

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-179
Author(s):  
William A. Ulmer
Keyword(s):  
Negative Capability

Keats is often approached as a radical ironist whose poetry, in accordance with his theory of Negative Capability, undermines conventional notions of identity and truth. But if Keats's accounts of Negative Capability are returned to their context in the correspondence, and analyzed carefully, their validation of identity and truth clearly emerges. Representations of Keats as a skeptical ironist, whatever their justifications and advantages, acquire no real support from the poet's letters.

Negative Capability as a Factor of Problem-Solving within the Psychotherapeutic Process

1979 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Eisen
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Negative Capability

It is proposed that negative capability, that is, the capacity for tolerating uncertainty, doubt and not-knowing, is a factor that contributes to a problem-solving approach utilizable in some aspects of the psychotherapeutic process. Negative capability can be demonstrated both in therapists and patients. An analysis of the functions of negative capability within the psychotherapeutic process shows five stages in its utilization. These are the activation of therapist's negative capability; which is followed by observations about the patient's response to his perception of the therapist's negative capability; then the therapist's clarification of the patient's problems contained within the patient's response; followed by a working-through by the patient and therapist of the problems which are demonstrated and clarified; and lastly, a transier to or enhancement of the patient's use of negative capability as a continuing behavioural mode. Some theoretical bases for the concept of negative capability and its application as a factor of problem-solving within the psychotherapeutic process, are proposed. Clinical excerpts from psychotherapeutic work are given to exemplify the stages as defined above.

scholarly journals Managerial learning challenges in a complex world

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Gerardo David Abreu Pederzini
Keyword(s):  
Learning Style ◽  
Complex World ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Learning Challenges ◽  
Negative Capability ◽  
Conceptual Paper

Purpose Managers’ work is surrounded by complex environments, from which they need to learn, in order to understand them. However, complexity poses several challenges to managerial learning, for which usually management educational programs have not prepared managers. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to explore such challenges and possible ways to overcome them. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper that explores in depth the issue of managerial learning challenges in a complex world. Managers face these challenges during their practice, yet sometimes management education has not prepared them for this. Findings Three managerial learning challenges due to complexity are identified. First, through cognition and cognitive structures, managers simplify the world around them. Nevertheless, biases, inertia and inaccuracy emerge, as managers’ mental models are not truly capable of capturing complexity. Second, managers look for information to aid them in their learning processes, but the information they gather is sometimes bogus, invalid or unfounded. Third, managers could seek for support from management research to improve their learning. However, given management research intricacies, limitations and particularities, a learning challenge emerges as well, as management research has been rarely capable to capture complexity. Originality/value Having explored these managerial learning challenges due to complexity, this paper discusses a carefulness-based management learning ideal, which by being underpinned by the quality of carefulness and the related concepts of critical thinking, negative capability and a deep learning style, suggests a potential new way to approach management learning in light of complexity.

Negative Capability and Wise Passiveness

PMLA ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob D. Wigod
Keyword(s):  
Negative Capability

The principles of feminist dramaturgical thinking in dance and performance

Maska ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (203-204) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Ana Dubljević
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Negative Capability ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Way

This text is offering an overview of principles of feminist dramaturgical thinking, that have been identified and used in research on feminist dramaturgy through theoretical and practical work on the performance Still to Come, a Feminist Pornscape. Some of the principles are: the principle of bell hooks, the principle of relationality, the principle of significant otherness, the principle of negative capability, the principle of critters, and they can be related to a variety of aspects of politics and ethics in artistic practice. The text is an ending chapter of The Feminist Pornscapes, on Feminist Dramaturgical Thinking in Dance and Performance Practice book and is intentionally only sketching the current reach of the proposed principles with the wish to welcome the reader into a conversation, to pave the way for more thorough elaborations that are still to come.

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