Freud Upside Down

Freud Upside Down
Title Freud Upside Down PDF eBook
Author Badia Sahar Ahad
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 218
Release 2010-10-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0252090004

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This thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American literary figures. Badia Sahar Ahad details how Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, Adrienne Kennedy, and Danzy Senna employed psychoanalytic terms and conceptual models to challenge notions of race and racism in twentieth-century America. Freud Upside Down explores the relationship between these authors and intellectuals and the psychoanalytic movement emerging in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Examining how psychoanalysis has functioned as a cultural phenomenon within African American literary intellectual communities since the 1920s, Ahad lays out the historiography of the intersections between African American literature and psychoanalysis and considers the creative approaches of African American writers to psychological thought in their work and their personal lives.

Upside-Down Gods

Upside-Down Gods
Title Upside-Down Gods PDF eBook
Author Peter Harries-Jones
Publisher Fordham Univ Press
Pages 261
Release 2016-05-02
Genre Science
ISBN 082327036X

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This intellectual biography covers the trajectory of Bateson’s career, from his anthropological work in Bali alongside his wife, Margaret Mead, to his contributions to family therapy in the United States, and to studies of recursion as a feature of communication patterns in both the human and in the animal world. Layers of feedback with their many differing contexts, highlight the presence of meaning in social relations in contrast to that absence of meaning, purposefully proposed, within information theory. Throughout the human and in the animal world, recursion of feedback accounts for grasp of patterns, their difference, and with ability to communicate, enable transduction of perceptions of difference. Bateson’s insistence on feedback and communication re-frames many aspects of culture, psychology, biology, and evolution. His legacy is recognized as an important precursor to the formation of a new science called Biosemiotics. Harries-Jones argues that Bateson turns conventional causality upside down through showing how humanity’s perceptions, as with perceptions of all sentient beings, are anticipative. All sentient beings abduct from recursive patterns, rather than relying on linear evidence gathered about time/space movements of objects. Thus circular pattering provides clearer perceptions of the difference between sustainable creativity and current biocide, between our appreciation of nature’s aesthetics and time/space ‘games of power’ which underlie so many social and biological theories.

Turning Freud Upside Down

Turning Freud Upside Down
Title Turning Freud Upside Down PDF eBook
Author Aaron P. Jackson
Publisher Brigham Young University Press
Pages 256
Release 2005-01
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 9780842525947

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This book reviews and rejects fundamental assumptions made by traditional psychotherapists concerning the nature of law, suffering, agency, truth, the human being, and change. The book then begins to provide alternative foundations, drawn from the gospel of Jesus Chrsit, that will guide explanations of how counseling works.

Afro-Nostalgia

Afro-Nostalgia
Title Afro-Nostalgia PDF eBook
Author Badia Ahad-Legardy
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 299
Release 2021-04-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0252052552

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As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories. Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, she reveals nostalgia’s capacity to produce positive emotions. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments. Original and provocative, Afro-Nostalgia offers black historical pleasure as a remedy to contend with the disillusionment of the present and the traumas of the past.

Eyes Upside Down

Eyes Upside Down
Title Eyes Upside Down PDF eBook
Author P. Adams Sitney
Publisher OUP USA
Pages 432
Release 2008-04-17
Genre History
ISBN 0195331141

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P. Adams Sitney, the leading critic of personal and experimental cinema in America, picks up where he left off in his landmark book, Visionary Film. This all new work offers in-depth analysis of eleven central filmmakers of the American avant-garde cinema, drawing on the aesthetic articulated by Emerson and theorized by John Cage, Charles Olson, and Gertrude Stein.

The Freud Scenario

The Freud Scenario
Title The Freud Scenario PDF eBook
Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher Verso Books
Pages 577
Release 2013-03-12
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1844677729

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In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate on the conflict-ridden period of Freud’s life when he abandoned hypnosis and invented psychoanalysis. The Freud Scenario, discovered in Sartre’s papers after his death, is the result—a deft portrait of a man engaged in a personal and intellectual struggle that would prove a turning point in twentieth-century thought. Sartre did not regard this script as a diversion from his larger intellectual project. Freud’s preoccupations with female hysteria and the father relationship touched on major themes in his own work, and Loser Wins, The Family Idiot and Words, some of Sartre’s most celebrated publications, are all in some way derived from his work for Huston. Written for a Hollywood audience, The Freud Scenario demonstrates that, in addition to a towering intellect, Sartre enjoyed a genuine popular touch. Already widely acclaimed in France, The Freud Scenario stands as a valuable testament to two of the most influential minds in modern history.

Freud Revisited

Freud Revisited
Title Freud Revisited PDF eBook
Author R. Horrocks
Publisher Springer
Pages 207
Release 2001-02-13
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0333985443

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Freud Revisited sees Freud as one of the last great exponents of Enlightenment rationalism; yet he also forms part of modernism - which shattered traditional forms in art - and he leads forward to certain postmodern ideas. The book examines some of Freud's themes which remain challenging and relevant today - for example, psychoanalysis as a form of narrative-construction, the creative nature of memory, the revolutionary nature of the knowledge gained through psychotherapy, and the unconscious, which subverts any notion of stable human identity.