scholarly journals Pszichopatology or state of the world: A model of identity in Mihály Babits’s The Nightmare (1918)

KÜLÖNBSÉG ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Csönge
Keyword(s):  
Human Identity ◽  
Divided Self ◽  
Textual Representations ◽  
The World ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes

Is Babits’s novel The Nightmare an allegory of human identity? What philosophical (Freud) and psychological (Bergson) influences helped him create his protagonist? The paper sets out to investigate the representation of the protagonist who dreams his life and lives his dreams. The paper surveys the stylistic means, rhetorical tropes and features of prose poetics used in the representation of the double life of the protagonist. Also, the paper surveys the diverse terms available to convey the emergence of divided self in the text. Moreover, the analysis of narratorial positions in the text reveal possible interpretations that emerge from the polyphony of the narratorial and authorial voices: the ethical positions generated by these, and also how the readers’ responses are influenced by these ethical positions. Finally, close readings of textual representations of double identity are contrasted to Freudian and Bergsonian models of identity.

The Divided Self in the Fiction of Henry James

PMLA ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-460
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Free Spirit ◽  
Divided Self ◽  
Structural Consequence ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

AbstractThe divided self in James’s fiction may be regarded as an inevitable structural consequence of James’s desire to dramatize the problem of the free spirit in an enslaving world. But the divided self required by art is not essentially different from the divided self known to psychology, and an understanding of the anxieties of that self, particularly of the “obsessive imagery” James uses to depict those anxieties, enriches our understanding of James’s work. The fear of a world that threatens one’s being issues in an elaborate development of an escape motif; of imagery of seizure by the eye and by the world of appearances; and of imagery of petrification, reflecting a dread of being turned into a mere tool or machine. James’s vision of “the great trap of life” permits him to come to terms with his own limitations and culminates in a searching philosophic examination of the problem of free will and determinism.

scholarly journals Editorial Foreword

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Book Of Nature ◽  
Field Of Vision ◽  
The World ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
Radical Transformation ◽  
Editorial Foreword

VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS The first essay responds to our call for articles on deep histories of the present, wide-angle lenses “combining past and present as a unitary field of vision” (CSSH 2005: 233).Judith Adler shows the lineage connecting themes of current wilderness debates with fourth-century Christian ascetic movements. Such movements idealized empty spaces as the most fitting habitat for ascetics, by virtue of whose existence the world and human life was preserved, a revaluation of wilderness propagated more widely by the Christianization of Rome. The tradition of ascetic primitivism has its origins in practical forms of early philosophical anthropology and speculative psychology, and is perpetuated in tropes of wilderness as a book of nature, an educator superior to schools, a space whose purity is necessary for the survival of the world, and a wild space that humans are called upon to protect or transform. As millennial traditions of narrative continually offer themselves to our thoughts about the radical transformation of our planet, the author suggests, historians of late antiquity might find themselves “well situated to throw new light on deeply motivating rhetorical tropes of emerging bitter debates.”

scholarly journals Politics, sex, and spirit: the divided self in oscar wilde's salomé

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Min Pun
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Divided Self ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Autobiographical Work ◽  
One Act

The paper aims to examine the self in Oscar Wilde’s one-act play Salomé. In the play, there are three characters, namely, Herod, Salomé and Jokanaan who represent the three different worlds of expression. One represents the world of politics who is always in search of power, the second represents the world of sex who is in search of love and passion, and the third one represents the world of spirit who dedicates his life for God. These characters comprise of three different selves of Wilde and his writing, making his play as a fictionalized autobiographical work.

scholarly journals Correlation of “virtual identity” problems and issues of preserving traditional values in modern society

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
A. G. Klimashin
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Virtual Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Identity Problems ◽  
Different Parts

The emergence of social networks has joined people from different parts of the world which has brought unconditional benefit to humanity. At the same time, the possibility of communication between citizens of different countries using the same platforms, foreign hosting companies and providers has created a new form of human identity – virtual identity. In turn, this has contributed to a new phenomenon, such as digital socialization of the individual. This has created comfort and additional opportunities for integration into society, but at the same time, this form has led to the blurring of traditional values, national cultures and the fragmentation of political consciousness.

Montaigne on Aging

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Skenazi
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Investigation ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
The World

Scholars have long seen in Montaigne’s turn inward, toward a psychological and philosophical investigation of human identity a mark of the modernity of the Essays, but they have focused on a static conception of the self, without taking into account Montaigne’s emphasis on his decline. This article discusses the essayist’s pervasive references to his old age as a way to relate to oneself, the other, the world, and to his literary endeavor. The portrait of the writer as a man growing old is embedded in the systems of knowledge of the day, yet Montaigne’s pragmatic reflections on how to adjust to the damages of time on his physical and cognitive capacities still speak to us.

Confluences, Divergences and Future Directions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Textual Representations ◽  
The World ◽  
Mode Of Being

This chapter explores the confluences and divergences in the approaches of Woolf and Heidegger to the notion of Being-in-the-world. Throughout this study, textual representations of the connections between self, world and the Other are afforded a perspective that has been largely unexamined in previous Woolfian studies. In Woolf and Heidegger’s textual representations of Being-in-the-world, the central concern for both is the question of how each of us responds to those influences and forces that direct members of a society to order their lives in a particular manner. The question for each of us is not how we might permanently evade these forces; rather, as Woolf and Heidegger both attest, each individual’s mode of Being-in-the-world is ultimately measured by the balance that he or she finds between the inevitable sway of societal requirements and restrictions, and the pursuit of his or her personal aspirations and convictions.

The Rhetoric of New Atheism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Glausser
Keyword(s):  
Causal Reasoning ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Infinite Regress ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Terms ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
New Atheism

New atheists face an old problem that entangles them with their theist opponents. The fundamental cosmological question—why does the world exist?—cannot be answered in scientific terms. As questions of cause slip into infinite regress, new atheists, like the theists they resist, must posit that something simply exists: something must be granted exemption from causal reasoning. This chapter first examines new atheists’ responses to the aporia described above, then analyzes several rhetorical tropes they deploy to supplement science proper. These tropes include paralepsis, a sarcasm cluster (apodioxis, tapinosis, diasyrmus), pathopoeia, and the linked tropes of catachresis and metalepsis. Especially with the last three tropes, new atheists find themselves entangled with the religious discourse they mean to supplant.

Cultivating the “unquiet heart”: Ecology, education, and Christian faith

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Ayres
Keyword(s):  
Practical Theology ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Educational Theory ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Ecological Context ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Ecology Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Language

In his 2015 encyclical, Pope Francis argued that Christianity stands in need of an “ecological conversion.” Conversion is an urgent kind of theological language, urging a resilient and ecologically grounded faith, a faith that turns on the capacities necessary to inhabit God’s world well. Drawing on the eschatological tension described by Jürgen Moltmann as the “unquiet heart,” this essay builds a practical theology for nurturing Christian faith in our vulnerable and changing ecological context. Engaging generative questions from the fields of theological anthropology, educational theory, and practical theology, it reframes the work of human life as becoming good inhabitants in God’s household. As such, it reexamines the shape of human identity and vocation in relationship to the world and to God’s promised future. It concludes with modest proposals for practices and educational approaches that might cultivate what Larry Rasmussen has called an “earth-honoring faith.”

scholarly journals Fingerprint: A Unique and Reliable Method for Identification

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Palash Kumar Bose ◽  
Mohammad Jubaidul Kabir
Keyword(s):  
Gold Standard ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Personal Identification ◽  
Dna Fingerprint ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Biometric Security ◽  
Business Transactions ◽  
Core Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Use

Fingerprints have been the gold standard for personal identification within the forensic community for more than one hundred years. It is still universal in spite of discovery of DNA fingerprint. The science of fingerprint identification has evolved over time from the early use of finger prints to mark business transactions in ancient Babylonia to their use today as core technology in biometric security devices and as scientific evidence in courts of law throughout the world. The science of fingerprints, dactylography or dermatoglyphics, had long been widely accepted, and well acclaimed and reputed as panacea for individualization, particularly in forensic investigations. Human fingerprints are detailed, unique, difficult to alter, and durable over the life of an individual, making them suitable as lifelong markers of human identity. Fingerprints can be readily used by police or other authorities to identify individuals who wish to conceal their identity, or to identify people who are incapacitated or deceased, as in the aftermath of a natural disasterJ Enam Med Col 2017; 7(1): 29-34

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