Author: John Bond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781539573418
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
An Essay on the Incubus, Or Nightmare
Author: John Bond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781539573418
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781539573418
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
An Essay on the Incubus, or Night-mare
Author: John M.D. Bond
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This work helps to understand nightmares scientifically and learn about the psychology of people who suffer from its extreme cases. The author attempts to provide the readers with answers to several important questions related to the problem. He discusses the history and the various views regarding the cause of nightmares, the real cause of the problem, its symptoms, and most importantly, its treatment. He includes some case studies in this hypothesis that prove essential in making the topic clear to the reader. The author successfully explained his thoughts and opinions in this well-written text.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This work helps to understand nightmares scientifically and learn about the psychology of people who suffer from its extreme cases. The author attempts to provide the readers with answers to several important questions related to the problem. He discusses the history and the various views regarding the cause of nightmares, the real cause of the problem, its symptoms, and most importantly, its treatment. He includes some case studies in this hypothesis that prove essential in making the topic clear to the reader. The author successfully explained his thoughts and opinions in this well-written text.
An Essay on the Incubus, Or Night-mare
Author: John Bond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contentment
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contentment
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
An Essay on the Incubus, Or Night-mare. By John Bond, M.D.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Spirit Possession
Author: Éva Pócs
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633864143
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Possession, a seemingly irrational phenomenon, has posed challenges to generations of scholars rooted in Western notions of body-soul dualism, self and personhood, and a whole set of presuppositions inherited from Christian models of possession that was “good” or “bad.” The authors of the essays in this book present a new and more promising approach. They conceive spirit possession as a form of communication, of expressivity, of culturally defined behavior that should be understood in the context of local, vernacular theories and empiric reflections. With the aim of reformulating the comparative anthropology of spirit possession, the editors have opened corridors between previously separate areas of research. Together, anthropologists and historians working on several historical periods and in different European, African, South American, and Asian cultural areas attempt to redefine the very concept of possession, freeing it from the Western notion of the self and more clearly delineating it from related matters such as witchcraft, devotion, or mysticism. The book also provides an overview of new research directions, including novel methods of participant observation and approaches to spirit possession as indigenous historiography
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633864143
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Possession, a seemingly irrational phenomenon, has posed challenges to generations of scholars rooted in Western notions of body-soul dualism, self and personhood, and a whole set of presuppositions inherited from Christian models of possession that was “good” or “bad.” The authors of the essays in this book present a new and more promising approach. They conceive spirit possession as a form of communication, of expressivity, of culturally defined behavior that should be understood in the context of local, vernacular theories and empiric reflections. With the aim of reformulating the comparative anthropology of spirit possession, the editors have opened corridors between previously separate areas of research. Together, anthropologists and historians working on several historical periods and in different European, African, South American, and Asian cultural areas attempt to redefine the very concept of possession, freeing it from the Western notion of the self and more clearly delineating it from related matters such as witchcraft, devotion, or mysticism. The book also provides an overview of new research directions, including novel methods of participant observation and approaches to spirit possession as indigenous historiography
A New Companion to The Gothic
Author: David Punter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119062500
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119062500
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic
Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale
Author: Patrick Bridgwater
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490213
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale is an original comparative study of the novels and some of the related shorter punishment fantasies in terms of their relationship to the Gothic and fairytale conventions. It is an absorbing subject and one which, while keeping to the basic facts of his life, mind-set and literary method, shows Kafka’s work in a genuinely new light. The contradiction between his persona with its love of fairytale and his shadow with its affinity with Gothic is reflected in his work, which is both Gothic and other than Gothic, both fairytale-like and the every denial of fairytale. Important subtexts of the book are the close connexion between Gothic and fairytale and between both of these and the dream. German text is quoted in translation unless the emphasis is on the meaning of individual words or phrases, in which case the words in question are quoted and their English meanings discussed. This means that readers without German can, for the first time, begin to understand the underlying ambiguity of Kafka’s major fictions. The book is addressed to all who are interested in the meaning of his work and its place in literary history, but also to the many readers in the English and German-speaking worlds who share the author’s enthusiasm for Gothic and fairytale.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490213
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale is an original comparative study of the novels and some of the related shorter punishment fantasies in terms of their relationship to the Gothic and fairytale conventions. It is an absorbing subject and one which, while keeping to the basic facts of his life, mind-set and literary method, shows Kafka’s work in a genuinely new light. The contradiction between his persona with its love of fairytale and his shadow with its affinity with Gothic is reflected in his work, which is both Gothic and other than Gothic, both fairytale-like and the every denial of fairytale. Important subtexts of the book are the close connexion between Gothic and fairytale and between both of these and the dream. German text is quoted in translation unless the emphasis is on the meaning of individual words or phrases, in which case the words in question are quoted and their English meanings discussed. This means that readers without German can, for the first time, begin to understand the underlying ambiguity of Kafka’s major fictions. The book is addressed to all who are interested in the meaning of his work and its place in literary history, but also to the many readers in the English and German-speaking worlds who share the author’s enthusiasm for Gothic and fairytale.
Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh
Author: Patrick Fuery
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501376349
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In a "return" to Edmund Husserl and Sigmund Freud, Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh explores how we can engage these foundational thinkers of phenomenology and psychoanalysis in an original approach to film. The idea of the intimate spectator caught up in anxiety is developed to investigate a range of topics central to these critical approaches and cinema, including: flesh as a disruptive state formed in the relationships of intimacy and anxiety; time and the formation of cinema's enduring objects; space and things; the sensual, the "real" and the unconscious; wildness, disruption, and resistance; and the nightmare, reading "phantasy" across the critical fields. Along with Husserl and Freud, other key thinkers discussed include Edith Stein, Roman Ingarden, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mikel Dufrenne in phenomenology; Melanie Klein, Ernest Jones, Julia Kristeva, and Rosine Lefort in psychoanalysis. Framing these issues and critical approaches is the question: how might Husserlian phenomenology and Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, so often seen as contradistinctive, be explored through their potential commonalities rather than differences? In addressing such a question, this book postulates a new approach to film through this phenomenological/psychoanalytic reconceptualization. A wide range of films are examined not simply as exemplars, but to test the idea that cinema itself can be a version of critical thinking.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501376349
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In a "return" to Edmund Husserl and Sigmund Freud, Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh explores how we can engage these foundational thinkers of phenomenology and psychoanalysis in an original approach to film. The idea of the intimate spectator caught up in anxiety is developed to investigate a range of topics central to these critical approaches and cinema, including: flesh as a disruptive state formed in the relationships of intimacy and anxiety; time and the formation of cinema's enduring objects; space and things; the sensual, the "real" and the unconscious; wildness, disruption, and resistance; and the nightmare, reading "phantasy" across the critical fields. Along with Husserl and Freud, other key thinkers discussed include Edith Stein, Roman Ingarden, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mikel Dufrenne in phenomenology; Melanie Klein, Ernest Jones, Julia Kristeva, and Rosine Lefort in psychoanalysis. Framing these issues and critical approaches is the question: how might Husserlian phenomenology and Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, so often seen as contradistinctive, be explored through their potential commonalities rather than differences? In addressing such a question, this book postulates a new approach to film through this phenomenological/psychoanalytic reconceptualization. A wide range of films are examined not simply as exemplars, but to test the idea that cinema itself can be a version of critical thinking.
Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness
Author: Susan Matthews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052151357X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Examines Blake's place within a bourgeois culture in the process of redefining the role and meaning of sexuality.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052151357X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Examines Blake's place within a bourgeois culture in the process of redefining the role and meaning of sexuality.
The American Journal of Insanity
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".