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... that, in concert, these two movements contributed to the erosion of the New Deal regulatory state by elevating psychological—rather than structural or socioeconomic—explanatory templates for social phenomena. In contrast to the literature of the long Progressive Era, in 1950s works the ego and its vicissitudes...

... to read ‘‘The Jolly Corner’’ as a Jamesian drama of consciousness, a conflict between the uneasily repatriated Spencer Brydon and his archaic other self in a house that functions metaphori- cally as a single mind. When commerce figures at all, it is exclusively allied with Brydon’s ‘‘alter ego’’ (what...

..., that is, his complex chrono- tope of dreaming. While the most obvious, and most easily justified, approach to his dream theory would be a psychoanalytic one, I track the knotty dynamics of dreaming in Native Son via Edmund Husserl’s theory of the eidetic consciousness of the waking ego. Not only...

... from Micheaux’s own experience, they make black success in the West seem like an entertaining mirage. As Micheaux’s alter egos grow more heroic in stature, they become less representative of historic black pioneers.8...

... and Williams’s use of the individual ego to order experience. Besides providing philosophical and cultural background for the Ameri- can lyric, New uses a number of poems to discuss poetic experience. Frost...

..., and his acceptance of inevitable contingency are narrated with compelling conci- sion. Quinney writes from a profound immersion in modern and postmodern ego psychology, with a sensitive, subtle grasp of poetic texture...

..., and his acceptance of inevitable contingency are narrated with compelling conci- sion. Quinney writes from a profound immersion in modern and postmodern ego psychology, with a sensitive, subtle grasp of poetic texture...

...).InThe Names, Momaday fan- tasizes that his great-grandfather Pohd-lok assigned his name Tsoai- talee (rock-tree boy), the appellation of the bear-boy in the Kiowa myth of Tsoai (N, 55–57). Momaday’s bear alter-ego appears to be a conduit to the Kiowa past and to creative power. What is curious...

... and Williams’s use of the individual ego to order experience. Besides providing philosophical and cultural background for the Ameri- can lyric, New uses a number of poems to discuss poetic experience. Frost...

...-justifications as ‘‘My identification with Charmian appeared as a counter- ego or Jungian shadow ‘‘It seemed prudent to pass beyond midlife myself before trying to appreciate fully the four decades of life Charmian experienced...

... ecological awareness both by reflecting upon our mor- tal participation in animal life (birth and death, sexuality, violence and suffer- ing, sensuous experience) and by creating a space in which the ‘‘enunciative rational ego’’ is ‘‘dissolved into the act of speech’’ and re-formed as a more depersonalized...

... echo of Jameson’s own mournful announcement of the troubling “waning of affect in postmodern culture” that marked “the end of the autonomous bourgeois monad or ego or individual” ( 1993 , 10, 15). Recently, affect theorists have queried Jameson’s thesis by arguing for a distinction between emotion...

... part of the character’s iconic design. Isolated from physical affection lest she be brought into ego-destroying intimacy with others, in the 1980s and 1990s Uncanny X-Men comics, Rogue cuts something of a tragic sentimental figure. As a brash, beautiful Southern belle who yearns on multiple...

... much feared [the ship’s crew] would kill and eat me” (IN, 59, 60, 61). In Kleinian terms, we could say that Equiano experiences a paranoid response to his situation. For Klein, the word paranoid describes a set of ego defenses. (Klein’s definition should not be confused with the word’s common...

... their “true identity.”9 Recogni- tion that there is a close connection between one’s sense of self and the private image of one’s body goes back at least as far as Sigmund Freud’s famous assertion, in The Ego and the Id (1923), that “the ego is first and foremost a bodily ego.”10 In the course...

... practices of self-reflection” on and through “the lived experience of a racialized double consciousness”; (4) a “method of self-reflection . . . [that] requires the aid of ego de-centering techniques that allow us to suspend or ‘bracket’ our onto-epistemic commitments to the everyday world in which [Black...

...” and pointing out an intellectual movement away from these ideas, Fuchs pro- vides a study of the modernists’ cultural attack on Freud’s notion of the super- ego and “humanistic sense of limits” that may be of interest to students of modernism and psychoanalysis alike. From Modernist Entombment...

... in the Era of Misery Lit 623 the diminishment of self-­concern as the first steps toward cultivating cross-­cultural tolerance. As Hassan explains it, “the basis for a global civility, a civitas without borders, may be self-­forgetfulness, self-­ emptying.” The erasure of ego has long provided...

... chiefly in “its attempt to account for our inability to love others, and ourselves” (60). From these premises Bersani constructs a disquisition on the difficulty of loving without violence, on surrendering the limited and limiting pleasures of selfhood, and on the ego’s passion even...

... chiefly in “its attempt to account for our inability to love others, and ourselves” (60). From these premises Bersani constructs a disquisition on the difficulty of loving without violence, on surrendering the limited and limiting pleasures of selfhood, and on the ego’s passion even...