The Burdens Of Intimacy

Author : Christopher Lane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226468607

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The Burdens of Intimacy by Christopher Lane Pdf

Why does passion bewilder and torment so many Victorian protagonists? And why do so many literary characters experience moments of ecstasy before their deaths? In this original study, Christopher Lane shows why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy. Examining works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that were undermining the utilitarian ethos of the Victorian age. Lane discredits the conservative notion that Victorian literature expresses only a demand for repression and moral restraint. But he also refutes historicist and Foucauldian approaches, arguing that they dismiss the very idea of repression and end up denouncing psychoanalysis as complicit in various kinds of oppression. These approaches, Lane argues, reduce Victorian literature to a drama about politics, power, and the ego. Striving instead to reinvigorate discussions of fantasy and the unconscious, Lane offers a clear, often startling account of writers who grapple with the genuine complexities of love, desire, and friendship.

Author : Melissa M. Littlefield
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421424668

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Instrumental Intimacy by Melissa M. Littlefield Pdf

By contextualizing and analyzing EEG wearables, Instrumental Intimacy provides a crucial intervention in an emergent consumer market and in the scholarly fields of STS, critical neuroscience, and the history of technology.

Author : Allison Alexy,Emma E. Cook
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824882440

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Intimate Japan by Allison Alexy,Emma E. Cook Pdf

How do couples build intimacy in an era that valorizes independence and self-responsibility? How can a man be a good husband when full-time jobs are scarce? How can unmarried women find fulfillment and recognition outside of normative relationships? How can a person express their sexuality when there is no terminology that feels right? In contemporary Japan, broad social transformations are reflected and refracted in changing intimate relationships. As the Japanese population ages, the low birth rate shrinks the population, and decades of recession radically restructure labor markets, Japanese intimate relationships, norms, and ideals are concurrently shifting. This volume explores a broad range of intimate practices in Japan in the first decades of the 2000s to trace how social change is becoming manifest through deeply personal choices. From young people making decisions about birth control to spouses struggling to connect with each other, parents worrying about stigma faced by their adopted children, and queer people creating new terms to express their identifications, Japanese intimacies are commanding a surprising amount of attention, both within and beyond Japan. With ethnographic analysis focused on how intimacy is imagined, enacted, and discussed, the volume's chapters offer rich and complex portraits of how people balance personal desires with feasible possibilities and shifting social norms. Intimate Japan will appeal to scholars and students in anthropology and Japanese or Asian studies, particularly those focusing on gender, kinship, sexuality, and labor policy. The book will also be of interest to researchers across social science subject areas, including sociology, political science, and psychology.

Author : Rejoyce Zikpi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781669845386

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Intimacy With God by Rejoyce Zikpi Pdf

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Author : Mr Adam P Romero,Mr Jack E Jackson,Professor Martha Albertson Fineman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781409496861

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Feminist and Queer Legal Theory by Mr Adam P Romero,Mr Jack E Jackson,Professor Martha Albertson Fineman Pdf

This groundbreaking collection brings together leading contemporary legal theory scholars creating an interdisciplinary dialogue which explores, at times contentiously, convergences and departures among a variety of feminist and queer political projects. The richness and vitality of feminist and queer theories, as well as their relevance to matters central to the law and politics of our time, are on full display in this volume.

Author : Jon Carlson,Len Sperry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134870172

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Intimate Couple by Jon Carlson,Len Sperry Pdf

As important as intimacy is in our personal and professional lives, intimacy as a theoretical and clinical factor still remains a phenomenon. Contributors to this work examine the many definitions of intimacy, putting forth a provocative discussion of the multi-faceted topic and offering the best possible clinical methods of creating intimacy and addressing its challenges.

Author : Martha Albertson Fineman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136654909

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The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies by Martha Albertson Fineman Pdf

Calling for nothing less than a radical reform of family law and a reconception of intimacy, The Neutered Mother,The Sexual Family, and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies argues strongly against current legal and social policy discussions about the family because they do not have at their core the crucial concepts of caregiving and dependency, as well as the best interests of women and children. The Neutered Mother scrutinizes the definitions of family and mother throughout the volume while paying close attention to issues of race, class and sexuality. In addition, Fienman convincingly contests society's refusal to dignify, support and respond to the needs of caregivers and illustrates the burden they must bear due to this treatment. This book is a crucial step toward defining America's most pressing social policy problems having to do with women, motherhood and the family.

Author : Andrew H. Miller
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801461316

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The Burdens of Perfection by Andrew H. Miller Pdf

Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its costs, as we have lost the concepts needed to recognize and assess much of what distinguished nineteenth-century British literature. That literature was inescapably ethical in orientation, and to proceed as if it were not ignores a large part of what these texts have to offer, and to that degree makes less reasonable the desire to study them, rather than other documents from the period, or from other periods. Such are the intuitions that drive The Burdens of Perfection, a study of moral perfectionism in nineteenth-century British culture. Reading the period's essayists (Mill, Arnold, Carlyle), poets (Browning and Tennyson), and especially its novelists (Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and James), Andrew H. Miller provides an extensive response to Stanley Cavell's contribution to ethics and philosophy of mind. In the process, Miller offers a fresh way to perceive the Victorians and the lingering traces their quests for improvement have left on readers.

Author : Toni Herbine-Blank,Donna M. Kerpelman,Martha Sweezy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134613571

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Intimacy from the Inside Out by Toni Herbine-Blank,Donna M. Kerpelman,Martha Sweezy Pdf

Couples in distress enter therapy holding two goals that they now experience as mutually exclusive: to feel loved and to feel understood. Toni Herbine-Blank’s powerful new brand of couple therapy, Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO), offers a comprehensive conceptual map for achieving both goals. In a tour de force of elegant case illustrations wrapped around clear instruction, this book shows the IFIO therapist working with the natural subdivisions – or parts – of the human mind in a dyad, guiding and supporting couples to understand how they project childhood injury into current relationships and then, feeling threatened, frustrated and angry, lose track of their underlying needs to feel safe, connected and loved. With a focus on generating internal attachment stability to sustain each partner through the moments when the other is unavailable, couples in IFIO therapy reconnect with their essential needs, change their conversations and learn to make requests that invite rather than threaten in order to get those needs met.

Author : Frans Jozef van Beeck
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Catholic Church
ISBN : 0814658776

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God Encountered by Frans Jozef van Beeck Pdf

"A Michael Glazier book"--Vol. 2, pt. 2, t.p. Vol. 2 published by the Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. v. 1. Understanding the Christian faith -- v. 2. The revelation of the glory. pt. 1. Introduction and fundamental theology. pt. 2. One God, creator of all that is. pt. 3. Finitude and fall. pt. 4A. The genealogy of depravity: morality and immorality.

Author : Fil Anderson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781458732118

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Breaking the Rules by Fil Anderson Pdf

After years of living with a set of religious demands that he could never live up to, Fil Anderson found himself spiritually bankrupt and emotionally drained. Following a crash-and-burn in professional ministry, he experienced relief in learning to be with God rather than doing for God. Instead of desperation, he found healing, and a rich new life with God.In Breaking the Rules, Fil invites us to explore what happens when good religion turns bad. At such times we are weighed down with expectations of what it takes to be "right with God"--whether it is the expectations of others, holding up under pressure, fixing what's wrong or accomplishing big things for God.When we set aside this false agenda, we find the courage to confess our fears and insecurities. We taste the depths of God's love for us. Here is an opportunity to quit trusting in your own ability to live for God, and simply trust in God instead.

Author : Joseph Bensman,Robert Lilienfeld
Publisher : New York : Free Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035569503

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Between Public and Private by Joseph Bensman,Robert Lilienfeld Pdf

Author : Michael J. Hartwig
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : 1433107813

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The Poetics of Intimacy and the Problem of Sexual Abstinence by Michael J. Hartwig Pdf

This bold work asks whether traditional Christian sexual morality, with its emphasis on sexual abstinence outside of heterosexual marriage, is harmful. Appealing to sociological studies, anthropological theories, and contemporary theological ethics, Hartwig develops a model of sexual virtue around the concept of a poetics of intimacy and applies this model to particular challenges faced by the divorced, married couples, gay men and lesbians, single adults, and people with mental and developmental disabilities. He concludes that mandated long-term and lifelong sexual abstinence for those outside heterosexual marriage is not only harmful, but compromises many features of Christian morality.

Author : Allison Alexy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226701004

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Intimate Disconnections by Allison Alexy Pdf

In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision—the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of breaking up, from intense shame and societal criticism to friends’ and relatives’ unsolicited advice. In Intimate Disconnections, Allison Alexy tells the fascinating story of the changing norms surrounding divorce in Japan in the early 2000s, when sudden demographic and social changes made it a newly visible and viable option. Not only will one of three Japanese marriages today end in divorce, but divorces are suddenly much more likely to be initiated by women who cite new standards for intimacy as their motivation. As people across Japan now consider divorcing their spouses, or work to avoid separation, they face complicated questions about the risks and possibilities marriage brings: How can couples be intimate without becoming suffocatingly close? How should they build loving relationships when older models are no longer feasible? What do you do, both legally and socially, when you just can’t take it anymore? Relating the intensely personal stories from people experiencing different stages of divorce, Alexy provides a rich ethnography of Japan while also speaking more broadly to contemporary visions of love and marriage during an era in which neoliberal values are prompting wide-ranging transformations in homes across the globe.

Author : Richard Schwartz
Publisher : Vermilion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Families
ISBN : 1785045121

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You Are the One You've Been Waiting For by Richard Schwartz Pdf

'A must read' - Esther Perel 'My relationship bible' - Gabby Bernstein 'Releases our capacity to be fully alive in relationships' - Bessel van der Kolk Most loving relationships fail, not because of communication or empathy breakdown, but because we unknowingly burden our partner with the task of caring for disowned and unloved parts of ourselves, our 'internal family'. Building on the revolutionary Internal Family Systems model of therapy, Dr Richard Schwartz reveals how to reconnect and foster a healthy dialogue with your wise and compassionate 'Self' and your partner. You Are the One You've Been Waiting For will equip you with the essential tools needed to build trust and connection with the one you love.