scholarly journals Identity Construction: Narrative Tension in Saul Bellow’s Herzog

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Zhengcai Li ◽  
Mingying Xu
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Narrative Ethics ◽  
Saul Bellow ◽  
Ideal Self ◽  
Identity Reconstruction ◽  
Hermeneutic Ethics ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Real Self

This paper takes narrative ethics as the approach to analyze ethical dimensions of the tensions between self-narrative and other-narrative in Saul Bellow’s Herzog, and indicates that self-narrative represents the protagonist’s appeal of identity construction, other-narrative symbolizes external forces deconstructing his identity, and narrative reconciliation between self-narrative and other-narrative represents possibilities of his identity construction. Representational ethics shows that Herzog’s self-narrative attempts to construct identity through fictionalizing ideal self at the expense of real self, then to consolidate new identities by assimilating the absolute other. However, narrational ethics suggests that other-narrative represents the absolute other’s deconstruction of new identities constructed by Herzog’s subjective intention, and puts all new constructed identities into suspension. Identity reconstruction can be possible only when Herzog faces the gap between real self and ideal self, confronts existence of the absolute other, responds to its ethical call, and actualizes reconciliation between self-narrative and other narrative. Besides, hermeneutic ethics indicates that the reader also has a role to play in Herzog’s process of identity construction due to tensions between self-narrative and other-narrative, which bestows the reader with constantly switched ethical positions and distances from the text, thus makes the reader’s responsibility towards the text an infinite movement.

scholarly journals Connection Between the Subjective Assessment of Women’s Self-Realization and Attitudes to Different Sides of Reality in the Period of Parental Leave

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-168
Author(s):  
G.I. Moreva ◽  
A.V. Sanochkina
Keyword(s):  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Sign Test ◽  
Ideal Self ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Internal Condition ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Real Self

The article presents the studies of the influence of self-realization on her attitude to different sides of reality (to her husband, to her child, ideal self, real self to her work, to the education, to her mother, etc.). The study involved 110 mothers. In this study, we have used combination of three methods: essay, questioning, method of color metaphors. The results were processed by sign test, cluster and content analyses. Based on these results we made a conclusion that mothers during maternity leave understand the phenomena of selfrealization differently. Consequently, they differently define the essence of self-realization and define different types of self-realization. Content analysis showed that women who value self-realization are focused primarily on the internal condition and being in harmony and not on external factors. Unrealized women are influenced by external factors: lack of work or conflicts with her husband.

The Self and the Ideal Self: Methodological Study of Pedophiles

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 699-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise V. Frisbie ◽  
Frank J. Vanasek ◽  
Harvey F. Dingman
Keyword(s):  
Child Molesters ◽  
The Self ◽  
Methodological Study ◽  
Ideal Self ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Self ◽  
The Ideal

Ratings of the self and of the ideal self were obtained from 215 institutionalized child molesters and 143 child molesters who were living in the community. The discrepancy between the two ratings of the self is seen to be related to the descriptive terms used to depict the self Words that are clearly evaluative in nature did not lead to discrepancies in the two ratings. Words that were descriptive but nonevaluative gave rise to large differences between ratings of the ideal self and the real self. There were few apparent differences between the child molesters in the community and those in the institution.

Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of a Belt-Drive Using the Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Garci´a-Vallejo ◽  
Kimmo S. Kerkka¨nen ◽  
Aki M. Mikkola
Keyword(s):  
Rigid Body ◽  
Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
Belt Drive ◽  
Absolute Nodal Coordinate ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Drive Systems ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Two Parameters

In this paper, the applicability of the absolute nodal coordinate formulation for the modeling of belt-drive systems is studied. A successful and effective analyzing method for belt-drive systems requires the exact modeling of the rigid body inertia during an arbitrary rigid body motion, accounting of shear deformation, description of nonlinear deformations and a simple as well as realistic description of the contact. The absolute nodal coordinate formulation meets the challenge and is a promising approach for the modeling of belt-drive systems. In this study, a recently proposed two-dimensional shear deformable beam element based on the absolute nodal coordinate formulation has been modified to obtain a belt-like element. The belt-like element allows the user to control the axial and bending stiffness through the use of two parameters. In this study, the interaction between the belt and the pulleys is modeled using an elastic approach in which the contact is accounted for by the inclusion of a set of external forces that depend on the penetration between the belt and pulley.

DISCREPANCY BETWEEN REAL-SELF AND IDEAL-SELF AS AN INDEX OF SOCIAL CHANGE

1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-107
Author(s):  
H. D. Kimmel
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Ideal Self ◽  
The Real ◽  
Sensitive Index ◽  
Ideal Discrepancy ◽  
Real Self

Discrepancies between real-self and ideal-self performances on a personality inventory, the Pensacola Z-Survey, were compared in two groups of high school seniors who were born and raised in one community (either Dayton, Ohio or The Plains, Ohio) and a group who had moved from an Appalachian environment to Dayton. The shifted subjects were different from the unshifted ones only in idealizing greater dependency, rather than the expected opposite. Earlier interpretation of reduced real-ideal discrepancy with social change was not supported but the real-ideal discrepancy does provide a sensitive index of psychological effects of social cultural change.

Dynamic Analysis of Offshore Oil Pipe Installation Using the Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimmy D. Nielsen ◽  
Søren B. Madsen ◽  
Per Hyldahl ◽  
Ole Balling
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Large Deformation ◽  
Dynamic Behavior ◽  
Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation ◽  
Mass Matrix ◽  
Absolute Nodal Coordinate ◽  
Beam Elements ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Offshore Oil

The Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation (ANCF) has shown promising results in dynamic analysis of structures that undergo large deformation. The method relaxes the assumption of infinitesimal rotations. Being based in a fixed inertial reference frame leads to a constant mass matrix and zero centrifugal and Coriolis forces [12]. This makes the method attractive for multibody dynamics implementation. The focus in this paper is the application of ANCF beam elements and their performance on large deformation dynamic analysis. Large dynamic deformation is characteristic for the installation process of offshore submerged oil pipes using oceangoing vessels. In this investigation such an oil pipe is modeled using ANCF beam elements to simulate the dynamic behavior of the pipe during the installation process. Multiple physical effects such as gravity, buoyancy, seabed contact, and fluid damping, are included to mimic the external forces acting on the pipe during installation. The scope of this investigation is to demonstrate the ability using the ANCF to analyze the dynamic behavior of an offshore oil pipe during installation.

Congruence Relationships between Self Images and Product Brands

1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ira J. Dolich
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Self ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Real Self

Similarities of brand images with self images were tested to determine differences between (a) most preferred and least preferred brands, (b) socially consumed and privately consumed products, and (c) real-self and ideal-self image relationships.

A Space for Mothers: Grief as Identity Construction on Memorial Websites Created by Sids Parents

2011 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Finlay ◽  
Guenther Krueger
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
Sudden Infant ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Identity Reconstruction ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
The Way

In this article we conduct a textual analysis of memorial websites created by mothers who have experienced a loss due to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Using an online Internet ethnographic approach, we reviewed a series of 20 sites in an attempt to analyze the motivations of the site creators as manifested in their online projects. We spent time on the sites, moving through all facets of them, following links, and experiencing them the way a visitor would encounter them. In this virtual exploration we uncovered personal narratives, community building, religious imagery, and numerous examples of social networking. We also analyzed guest books in order to understand who visits these sites and their reasons for doing so. We conclude that development of these sites are a process that helps some mothers in their grief and gives them a focus and activity that is helpful and perhaps healing. More importantly perhaps is the potential for community building and networking that this type of activity allows. As an extension of a real-world memorial such as a gravesite, a virtual mourning space provides more in the way of these types of communications. Our work suggests that memorial websites constructed by SIDS parents help in meaning and identity reconstruction after loss.

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