Lacan’s Anamorphic Object

Janus Head ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Athena V. Colman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Efficient Technology ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Century Thought

Much of the current research on the constitution of subjectivity has been grounded on attempts to conceptualize the body without collapsing into reductive materialism or, to the contrary, theorizing a completely historical subject in the hope of doing ontological and ethical justice to formative specificity. With the rationalism-empiricism struggle put to bed by Kant’s transcendental turn and tucked in tightly by Hegel’s dialectic, the twentieth century was greeted with a maelstrom of world wars and efficient technology which produced the greatest number of corpses in the shortest time in world history; and still, to use Hegel’s famous saying, thought stood “at the crossroads of materialism and idealism.” Wrestling with articulating the interpenetrating quagmire of consciousness and body marked the beginning of twentieth century thought. For instance, Freud’s science of childhood development aligned emerging aspects of subjectivity with the very development of the body itself. In another effort, Husserl identified eidetic constructs which structured experience and, most importantly for our purposes, he distinguished between the phenomenal lived-body of the Lebenswelt known as Leib, and the anonymous thing-like quality of the body known as Körper. In this context, the corpse is the very opposite of the body insofar as the body is the site of the unfolding of subjectivity whereas the corpse seems to be the limit of subjectivity: a spatial-temporal marker of a subject which was. For instance, although it has been suggested that the corpse has somehow been emptied of subjectivity, is it not just as likely that it is we who are emptied before it? What is it about the corpse that disgusts us, intrigues us, fascinates us and reveals us to ourselves? The notion of the ‘uncanny’ is frequently invoked as a placeholder for the specific and irreducible character of such threshold experiences (such as encountering a corpse). But what is the structure of the uncanny? Moreover, what are the broader considerations regarding limit experiences as integral to the constituting of the subject?

scholarly journals Pleasure and Duty

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-282
Author(s):  
JEFFREY WEEKS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Body ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Temporal Unity ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
The Subject

Three obvious, superficially simple but actually intensely complex questions embodied in the title immediately confront the reader of Dagmar Herzog's important new book. First, what do we mean by the ‘sexuality’ that constitutes the subject matter? Second, what is demarcated by the Europe that provides the geo-political boundaries of this study? Third, does the ‘twentieth century’ provide a useful temporal unity for the narrative and analysis that is at the heart of the book? Such questions are not mere scholarly nit-picking or academic point scoring, but a tribute to the problematising of the body in space and time that has been a hallmark of the deconstructive and reconstructive energy of recent scholarship on the sexual, and that is now making a welcome entry into mainstream history.

scholarly journals Aesthetic resources applied to burns: literature review.

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Érica Pierini ◽  
Flávia Fernanda de Oliveira Assunção
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Body ◽  
Burn Injuries ◽  
Cellular Injury ◽  
Local Response ◽  
Vasoactive Agents ◽  
Complete Destruction ◽  
The Subject

Introduction: Burns are injuries to the tissue lining of the body, caused by thermal, chemical, electrical or radioactive agents, which may totally or partially destroying the skin and its annexes, and to reach deeper layers as muscles, tendons and bones. The local response to cellular injury include the release of vasoactive agents (histamine, serotonin, bradykinin, prostaglandins, leukotrienes, platelet activating factors) and an immediate increase in osmolarity of the interstitial being classified into first, second, third and fourth grade (electrical burn ) which involves the complete destruction of all tissues, the specific injury takes varying proportions, depending on the exposure time and the type of the causative agent, the extent and depth of the damaged area. Objective: To investigate and gather through literature Bibliographic aesthetic features that help in the prevention and improvement of sequelae caused by burn injuries. Method: This is a search for bibliographic and descriptive review, consisting of scientific articles and books on the subject aesthetic resources for ‘‘burn injuries’’. The realization of this research was carried out by consulting the papers, looking for topics as ''burn'' and ''aesthetic resources for burn injuries''. To survey the material searches were conducted through the portals: SCIELO; UNIFIA; HSVP; FACISA; ASSETS and PORTALBIOCURSOS and with cross between the words:Burns, injuries and aesthetic resources. Results: eight articles and fifteen books including twenty-three references in this research, published between 1967-2010 found. Ultrasound, manual therapies, Electro resources (Microcurrent, Transcutaneous electrical nerve termination, excitomotor current) and laser therapy: Among the four studies aesthetic features which have good results when applied to burn injuries, they being found. Conclusions: The findings contribute to the understanding and application of aesthetic resources in burn injuries, in order to improve the quality of scars, skin suppleness, increasing self-esteem and quality of life.

scholarly journals ARAH PENGEMBANGAN SUMBERDAYA MANUSIA DALAM DIMENSI PENDIDIKAN ISLAM

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Warul Walidin
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
The Body ◽  
Psychomotor Skills ◽  
Affective Attitude ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Basic Quality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cognitive Knowledge ◽  
Spiritual Body

This paper offers a solution to improve the quality of human resources through education Islam. Humans are the central points that are the subject and development engineers as well as objects that are engineered and enjoy the fruits of development. In addition, humans are also the only creatures that have the potential to develop themselves through their knowledge. Efforts to develop and improve the quality of human resources can be done through various means, including through education. This education is the path of improving the quality of human resources is more emphasis on the establishment of basic quality, such as faith and piety, personality, intelligence, discipline, creativity and so on. In Islam the human figure composed of two potential to be built, which is outwardly as the body itself and the spiritual body as the controller. Some aspects of the dimensions that must be considered in the development of human resources, among others, cognitive (knowledge), affective (attitude), and psychomotor (skills) greatly influence the process of formation of one's personality.

Chopin Dreams: The Mazurka in C# Minor, Op. 30, No. 4

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-260
Author(s):  
Michael Klein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The Subject

Abstract This article views Chopin's Mazurka in C# Minor, op. 30, no. 4, as akin to a dream that is open to analysis from a Lacanian perspective. After a discussion of Jacques Lacan's famous orders of subjectivity (the imaginary, the symbolic order, and the Real), the article turns to his idea that a symptom is a message from the Real that demands interpretation. As such, strange moments in Chopin's Mazurka are like symptoms that require multiple interpretations in order to approach their hidden and overlapping meanings. The article proceeds to view Chopin's Mazurka through nineteenth-century notions of Orientalism (alterity), nationalism (nostalgia), coming to life (the automaton), tuberculosis (the boundary of life and death), and the uncanny (fragmentation of the body/mind). But just as Lacan argued that we can never reach a final meaning for a symptom, the article concludes that there can be no transcendental signified for the various symptomatic moments in Chopin's Mazurka. In the end, the Mazurka becomes what Lacan calls a sinthome, a form of subjectivity that is made up of the very symptoms that the subject strives to understand.

Edusemiotics and Karl-Otto Apel’s transcendental semiotics

Semiotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (212) ◽  
pp. 179-198
Author(s):  
Marianna Papastephanou
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mind

AbstractThe semiotic turn and the twentieth century critique of the philosophy of consciousness presented a unique challenge and stressed the problematic status of old binary oppositions such as the subject versus the object, the mind versus the body, and the private versus the public. Karl-Otto Apel has responded to this philosophical occurrence with a theory of transcendental semiotics, a highly original endeavor to avoid mere reversals of older binary oppositions and pernicious consolidations of new hierarchies. This article aims to unravel Apel’s semiotics and to make it relevant to the philosophical-educational themes that preoccupy edusemiotics. After a brief overview of how Apel reworks the theories that influenced him into his own transcendental-semiotic account, the article focuses on some specific points adding more depth to the venture of associating Apel’s theory and edusemiotics.

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.

scholarly journals CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDING OF SHADCHAKRA: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 57-59
Author(s):  
Akanksha Sharma ◽  
Pooja Sabharwal
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
Physiological Mechanism ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Anatomical Correlation ◽  
The Subject

Contemporary science is a bridge between Ayurveda and modern science that enlightened the old concepts and familiar to the scientific community. It has been broadly accepted in the scientific community that the physiological functions of the body is influenced by Shatchakra. The literature review of this article explain that Intercellular gap junction or nexuses regulate physiological mechanism underlying subtle energy systems. Furthermore, electrical conduction associated with gap junctions could generate phenomena which, have the radiant qualities attributed to Chakra. This study aims to critically analyze and explore the concept of Shadchakras anatomy with its radiological evidence to prove and understand its therapeutic potential in light of contemporary science language. For this review, we had collected information from Ayurveda and modern literature on the subject of Shadchakras. Scientific pieces of evidence provide prove about Shadchakras existence with anatomical correlation and physiologically as a part of Sukshma Sharir which can affect our body and mind as well and maintain quality of life.

scholarly journals SEMIOTICA DEGLI AFFETTI E MANIFESTAZIONI FISICHE NEI TESTI MEDICO-FILOSOFICI DI HALLE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica La Manna
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Scientific Rigour ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literary Quality

In the mid-eighteenth century in Halle the so-called doctors-philosophers tried to develop a scientifically-based map of emotions, which included their causes and their manifestations on the body. Thanks to their scientific rigour, to the literary quality of those studies and to the growing circulation of the journals of the time – above all Unzer’s famous Der Arzt – the subject was so popular that it became central in the debate on physiognomy and pathognomics which was so vivid in the second half of the century. These theories had a powerful import on literature, contributing to the birth of the new ‘character’ in novels as different from the traditional and stereotypical sense of the term as ‘temper’ or ‘nature’. In the field of aesthetics, the effect of these studies had important repercussions on Winckelmann’s revolutionary theories related to the representation and interpretation of emotions in art.

Telling Tales with the Body

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-81
Author(s):  
Fiona Macintosh ◽  
Justine McConnell
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classical Ballet

Telling tales with the body was generally despised as a ‘lowbrow’ art form in the ballet world of the twentieth century—and there are still many practitioners and dance scholars who share this view. For most of the twentieth century, storytelling was not deemed to be something to which classical ballet should aspire. From the perspective of the new millennium, however, things look rather different. Stories are no longer eschewed by choreographers; indeed, it may well be possible to detect what one might term a ‘narrative’ turn in the classical ballet repertoire, where the ancient Greek and Roman epics are often providing the subject matter for these works. Chapter 4 explores the reasons behind twentieth-century ballet’s resistance to narrative and seeks to offer some thoughts on this early twenty-first-century narrative re-turn. This narrative eschewal in ballet matters because it has had profound repercussions beyond the world of dance, not least in the world of theatrical performance, where plotless dance is regularly invoked as a model for postdramatic theatre.

Humor and Comedy

2021 ◽  
pp. 437-461
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Computer Scientists ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Computational Humor ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Through most of the twentieth century, psychologists were the preeminent theorists of humor. Since the late twentieth century, linguists, neuroscientists, and computer scientists have also addressed the subject. This chapter presents classic theories of humor—relief/arousal, superiority/disparagement, and incongruity theories, including recent neuroimaging research—followed by an overview of linguistic and semantic theories. The field of computational humor is described, including humor during human–artificial intelligence interaction. The uses and effects of humor are summarized in the areas of education, advertising, and health. Although humor and laughter may not always improve learning, persuasion, or physical health they can enhance the credibility of the communicator and improve the quality of life.

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