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"Anything of Note": Recovering "Lost Life" in the Psychoanalytic Archive "任何值得注意的东西":在精神分析档案中找回 "失去的生活
IF 0.8 4区 社会学
AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1353/aim.2024.a932376
Vanessa Smith
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis ed. by Vera J. Camden (review) Vera J. Camden 编著的《剑桥文学与精神分析指南》(评论)
IF 0.8 4区 社会学
AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1353/aim.2024.a932382
Murray M. Schwartz
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Nietzsche, Roquentin, and Suicide 尼采、罗昆汀与自杀
IF 0.8 4区 社会学
AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1353/aim.2024.a932379
Eric v.d. Luft
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The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies by Judith Harris (review) 失去的诗歌:朱迪斯-哈里斯(Judith Harris)的《浪漫与当代哀歌》(评论
IF 0.8 4区 社会学
AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1353/aim.2024.a932383
Dawn Skorczewski
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Understanding the Phenomenon of Negative Myths 了解消极神话现象
IF 0.8 4区 社会学
AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1353/aim.2024.a932380
Agnes Szajcz
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Psychoanalysis and Poetry: A Dialogue about Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" 精神分析与诗歌:关于艾米莉-狄金森"'希望'是有羽毛的东西 "的对话
IF 0.8 4区 社会学
AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1353/aim.2024.a932381
Dawn Skorczewski, Andrea Celenza
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Nabokov and Freud: Solus Rex vs Oedipus Rex 纳博科夫与弗洛伊德索罗斯与俄狄浦斯王
IF 0.8 4区 社会学
AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1353/aim.2024.a932378
Igor Kolmakov
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Freud's Aphasia Book and Spielrein's Destruction Paper: A Shared Fate, To Be Ignored and Restored 弗洛伊德的《失语书》和斯皮尔林的《毁灭论文》:被忽视和被修复的共同命运
IF 0.8 4区 社会学
AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1353/aim.2024.a923506
Frank Marchese
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Prejudice: Complicit and Implicit 偏见:显性和隐性
IF 0.8 4区 社会学
AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1353/aim.2024.a923503
Eugene J. Mahon
{"title":"Prejudice: Complicit and Implicit","authors":"Eugene J. Mahon","doi":"10.1353/aim.2024.a923503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2024.a923503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Prejudice could be defined as an irrational sense of superiority, an ironic expression of an unconscious feeling of inferiority that claims paradoxically that one human identity is worthier than another. <i>Implicit</i> prejudice would suggest the unconscious nature of a bias within an individual, whereas complicit prejudice would suggest a shared bias within a family, or group, or even a whole society. The two (implicit and complicit) are intimately connected, of course, and how they influence each other can be explored. The cultural disease called prejudice has been with us forever and there is no cure in sight. Psychoanalysis itself is not immune to it, and “physician heal thyself” must be considered, even as the psychoanalyst puts pen to paper. Prejudice is an expression of hatred that the science of psychoanalysis tries to study on the most granular level, so that each individual human ego can understand, possess, and embrace its barbaric animal nature without disowning, and attacking in the other, what it dares not see in itself and call its own.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44377,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN IMAGO","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140322484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Purity and Unity: Narcissism and Destructiveness in Nationalistic and Fundamentalistic Ideologies 纯洁与统一:民族主义和原教旨主义意识形态中的自恋和破坏性
IF 0.8 4区 社会学
AMERICAN IMAGO Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1353/aim.2024.a923502
Werner Bohleber
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