Little Madnesses

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857724571

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Little Madnesses by Annette Kuhn Pdf

'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture. The term was coined by the child psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, whose work on transitional phenomena grew out of his naming of the transitional object, and extended into preliminary explorations of the crucial role played by cultural experience in a life that feels satisfying. In our socially and culturally sanctioned little madnesses, everyone can find relief from the burden of having to maintain a clear boundary between inner and outer worlds, fantasy and reality, because it is in the space between them that we can find the enthusiasms and passions that excite our creative imaginations. This idea offers intriguing pathways towards understanding how we can engage effectively with the world at a public, social level without setting aside our inner lives, our emotions and our most deeply felt attachments. In Little Madnesses, writers, artists, scholars and experts in a range of fields and disciplines explore the idea of transitional phenomena and consider its potential to extend and deepen our understanding of cultural experience in mental and social life, focusing on the importance of space, place and boundaries in cultural experience; on how we can negotiate media use and cultural identity; and on the aesthetic and creative aspects of cultural experience. Topics covered include cult films, computer use, installation art, trips to the cinema, museums and galleries, the agony and ecstasy of making art and the significance of life stage in cultural experience.

Author : Kelly Paul
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781646548965

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A Little Madness- Beyond Imagination by Kelly Paul Pdf

This book explores the possible relationship between mental illness and spirituality. As a mental consumer myself, I recount my experiences from the onset of my mental illness to the present time, including my hallucinations and delusions, fantasy stories, and ultimately, contacts with I believe to be the spiritual world. I bring a new perspective to this age-old study of a higher power and universal love. This book raises both old and new questions about faith and mental illness. I lay forth my experiences, and you, the reader, need to draw your own conclusions while trying to keep an open mind. This controversial book is sure to inspire animated discussion.

Author : J. Navarro
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462092109

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A Little Bit of Madness by J. Navarro Pdf

It's 1983 and Max Romero, social worker, is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. The job is getting to him. It's time for a change. He quits his job only to find that he's trapped by circumstances he has no control over. The existential quality of his life leads him from one misadventure to another until he reaches the point of complete insanity. In the end, life throws him a curve that no one saw coming.

Author : Ellen Olney Kirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2IMQ

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A Midsummer Madness by Ellen Olney Kirk Pdf

Author : Dianne Touchell
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554988396

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A Small Madness by Dianne Touchell Pdf

Rose and Michael are good students with bright futures. They are also in love. But when Rose gets pregnant, her behavior becomes increasingly strange as she pulls away from her best friend, and from Michael, while she struggles to cope with her predicament. Rose cannot admit that she is pregnant (“If I say it, it will come to be true.”). She moves from denial to ineptly trying to terminate her pregnancy, to believing that she has miscarried, while deep inside, she is on a mental and emotional downward spiral. Meanwhile, Michael, in his confusion, desperation to help and fear of the wrath of his controlling father, sinks into his own kind of small madness. Inspired by the story of two teens in the US who were arrested for hiding the girl’s pregnancy and later disposing of the baby, Touchell says, “When I saw them on TV I was amazed to see they looked like normal kids. They were from good families; they just looked destroyed... . I thought, there’s more than one victim here; what went on with these kids and why did they think they had no one to go to?” This is a moving and powerfully written novel told from the alternating viewpoints of Rose and Michael with compassion and a gentle touch. It is an honest, unflinching look at the complex world of young readers.

Author : Daniel Berthold-Bond
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791425053

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Hegel's Theory of Madness by Daniel Berthold-Bond Pdf

This book shows how an understanding of the nature and role of insanity in Hegel's writing provides intriguing new points of access to many of the central themes of his larger philosophic project. Berthold-Bond situates Hegel's theory of madness within the history of psychiatric practice during the great reform period at the turn of the eighteenth century, and shows how Hegel developed a middle path between the stridently opposed camps of "empirical" and "romantic" medicine, and of "somatic" and "psychical" practitioners. A key point of the book is to show that Hegel does not conceive of madness and health as strictly opposing states, but as kindred phenomena sharing many of the same underlying mental structures and strategies, so that the ontologies of insanity and rationality involve a mutually illuminating, mirroring relation. Hegel's theory is tested against the critiques of the institution of psychiatry and the very concept of madness by such influential twentieth-century authors as Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, and defended as offering a genuinely reconciling position in the contemporary debate between the "social labeling" and "medical" models of mental illness.

Author : Joe Abercrombie
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316341868

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A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie Pdf

The New York Times bestselling first book in Joe Abercrombie's The Age of Madness Trilogy where the age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever. On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a man who specializes in disappointments. Savine dan Glokta -- socialite, investor, and daughter of the most feared man in the Union -- plans to claw her way to the top of the slag-heap of society by any means necessary. But the slums boil over with a rage that all the money in the world cannot control. The age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. With the help of the mad hillwoman Isern-i-Phail, Rikke struggles to control the blessing, or the curse, of the Long Eye. Glimpsing the future is one thing, but with the guiding hand of the First of the Magi still pulling the strings, changing it will be quite another . . . For more from Joe Abercrombie, check out: The First Law SeriesThe Blade ItselfBefore They Are HangedLast Argument of Kings Best Served ColdThe HeroesRed Country The Shattered Sea TrilogyHalf a KingHalf a WorldHalf a War

Author : Albert Rothenberg
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0801840112

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Creativity and Madness by Albert Rothenberg Pdf

Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses,"Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions—outstanding creativity and psychosis—could coexist in the same individual. Rothenberg concludes that high-level creativity transcends the usual modes of logical thought—and may even superficially resemble psychosis. But he also discovers that all types of creative thinking generally occur in a rational and conscious frame of mind, not in a mystically altered or transformed state. Far from being the source—or the price—of creativity, Rothenberg discovers, psychosis and other forms of mental illness are actually hindrances to creative work. Disturbed writers and absent-minded professors make great characters in fiction, but Rothenberg has uncovered an even better story—the virtually infinite creative potential of healthy human beings.

Author : Colleen Kennedy-Karpat,Eric Sandberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319528540

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Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige by Colleen Kennedy-Karpat,Eric Sandberg Pdf

This book explores the intersection between adaptation studies and what James F. English has called the “economy of prestige,” which includes formal prize culture as well as less tangible expressions such as canon formation, fandom, authorship, and performance. The chapters explore how prestige can affect many facets of the adaptation process, including selection, approach, and reception. The first section of this volume deals directly with cycles of influence involving prizes such as the Pulitzer, the Man Booker, and other major awards. The second section focuses on the juncture where adaptation, the canon, and awards culture meet, while the third considers alternative modes of locating and expressing prestige through adapted and adaptive intertexts. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of adaptation, cultural sociology, film, and literature.

Author : Brady Wagoner,Tania Zittoun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030831714

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Experience on the Edge: Theorizing Liminality by Brady Wagoner,Tania Zittoun Pdf

Liminality has become a key concept within the social sciences, with a growing number of publications devoted to it in recent years. The concept is needed to address those aspects of human experience and social life that fall outside of ordered structures. In contrast to the clearly defined roles and routines that define so much of industrial work and economic life, it highlights spaces of transition, indefiniteness, ambiguity, play and creativity. Thus, it is an indispensable concept and a necessary counterweight to the overemphasis on structural influences on human behavior. This book aims to use the concept of liminality to develop a culturally and experientially sensitive psychology. This is accomplished by first setting out an original theoretical framework focused on understanding the ‘liminal sources of cultural experience,’ and second an application of concept to a number of different domains, such as tourism, pilgrimage, aesthetics, children’s play, art therapy, and medical diagnosis. Finally, all these domains are then brought together in a concluding commentary chapter that puts them in relation to an overarching theoretical framework. This book will be useful for graduate students and researchers in cultural psychology, critical psychology, psychosocial psychology, developmental psychology, health psychology, anthropology and the social sciences, cultural studies among others.

Author : Carla Ambrósio Garcia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317274520

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Bion in Film Theory and Analysis by Carla Ambrósio Garcia Pdf

In Bion in Film Theory and Analysis: The Retreat in Film, Carla Ambrósio Garcia introduces the rich potential of the thinking of British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion for film theory. By so doing, she rethinks the space of the cinema as a space of retreat, and brings new insights into the representation of retreat in film. Presented in two parts, the book seeks to deepen our understanding of the film experience and psychical growth. Part I places Bion’s view on the importance of the epistemophilic instinct at the heart of a critique of the pleasure-centred theories of the cinematic apparatus of Jean-Louis Baudry, Christian Metz and Gaylyn Studlar, proposing an idea of cinema as ‘thoughts in search of a thinker’. Garcia then moves from Bion’s epistemological period to his later work, which draws on mysticism, in order to posit an emotional experience in the cinema through which the subject can be or become real (or at one with ‘O’). Part II examines representations of retreat in four European films, directed by Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne, and Manoel de Oliveira, showing them to articulate a gesture of retreat as an emotionally turbulent transitional stage in the development of the psyche – what Bion conceptualizes as caesura. Through its investigation of the retreat in cinema, the book challenges common understandings of retreat as a regressive movement by presenting it as a gesture and space that can also be future-oriented. Bion in Film Theory and Analysis will be of significant interest to academics and students of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and film and media studies, as well as psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Author : Mark Holmwood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000775587

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Traumatic Loss and Recovery in Jungian Studies and Cinema by Mark Holmwood Pdf

This book explores traumatic loss, grief, and recovery through the thoughtful combination of Abraham & Torok’s ‘crypt’ theory, Jungian thought, and film theory to guide readers through the darkest places of the human psyche. Focusing on both the destructive and reconstructive choices people can make, the book explores prolonged grief disorder, complicated mourning, post-traumatic stress disorder, embitterment, disenfranchised grief, trauma-related rumination as well as mental, emotional and physical pain. Presented with real life examples and fictional ones, the book connects the psychoanalytic concepts of intrapsychic tomb and theoretra with Jungian concepts such as teleological model of the psyche, dreams, alchemical operations, shadow, archetypes, enantiodromia, symbols, and compensation on the canvas of modern grief theory. Traumatic Loss and Recovery in Jungian Studies and Cinema is important reading for psychoanalysts, Jungian analysts, and psychotherapists with an interest in popular culture, as well as cinema students, scholars, and general readers interested in psychology, counselling, mental health and media studies.

Author : Florence Marryat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600064465

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A moment of madness, and other stories [repr. from various magazines]. by Florence Marryat Pdf

Author : James Whitehead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191081897

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Madness and the Romantic Poet by James Whitehead Pdf

Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?

Author : Florence Marryat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : English fiction
ISBN : BSB:BSB11664627

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A Moment of Madness and Other Stories by Florence Marryat Pdf