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...Peter E. Gordon The landmark 1950 study in social psychology The Authoritarian Personality represents a significant attempt to correlate right-wing political orientation with psychological or characterological dispositions. As a collaborator and coauthor of the study, Theodor W. Adorno brought...

..., the essay analyzes fantasy’s place in global violence and in the psychology of impunity. How does The Act of Killing signal a crisis in the global distribution of affect and accountability? How do bodily symptoms crystallize the negativity that underwrites social relations? The essay deploys psychoanalysis...

... of the psychological romance, the modern psychomachia, of narration amid the personae of character, narrator (and what kind of narrator), implicated author, and a newly activated and yet indulgently consuming reader, participates in a widespread game of aesthetic interpellation that leads to what contemporary...

... the stylistics of Sebald’s text, Gee’s work echoes polyvocality and renders the influences and psychological associations of Sebald’s text into externalized fragments that convey the interwoven processes of memory, perception, and spatialization. Neumann reproduces Austerlitz’s observations more faithfully...

...Joseph Massad This article examines the Palestinians' psychological and cultural response to the loss of Palestine and their plan of recovering it. By examining Freud's psychoanalytic understanding of how people cope with loss, especially Freud's work on mourning and melancholia, the author...

... coding, compression, and format in an attempt to place them in a broader cultural and psychological context. By doing so, I hope to provide a clearer picture of who we are as musical beings and offer an alternate view of how musical formats serve us. I refine Sterne's format theory to include the idea...

..., or revolts, uprisings, and insurrections, are being born, not only in the contemporary Arab and Muslim world but also anywhere else in the world today. The answer is not to be found in the geography of Tunisia. The roots must be sought in the history, the culture, and the deep psychology of individuals...

.... In this chapter, Ngai uses Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) to mount a critique of the feminist commentators on the film and the feminist combatants in a . Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, in The Standard Edi- tion of the Complete Psychological...

... that of a reactionary crowd? Following Adorno in his calculated reading of Sigmund Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, it is not the quality of the bond (Bindung) itself that characterizes the political character of a group but the intentionality preceding that bond’s having been convened...

... terms with neither sociological nor psychological verification or confirmation. Moreover, in rereading the essay, I can only conclude that Locke's setting out of the traits that best characterize the new Negro is, to a significant extent, a projection of what he takes to be—perhaps, what he wished...

... devised for the purpose of testing rules. By “more complex” we usually mean either that they better reflect the real social and psychological conditions under which we make moral decisions or could plausibly imagine making them, or that—even if the literary scenario is implausible under current...

... of politics.” With The Man Who Lived Underground , Wright ([ 1945 ] 1993: 56) claimed to have “devised a ‘new language.’ ” Much the same can be said about “Memories of My Grandmother,” where Wright's terminology of “enforced severance” and “psychological distance” inflects surrealism and yields something new...

... on the hope that the patient is capable of psychic change and can respond dynamically to their interventions. And here is where the analogy with reading again runs into trouble, for the text is arguably not quite as much of a live, mutable entity—a psychological subject, if we want to call...

... a meaningful fusion of Marx and Freud, and I had been asking myself how the insights of the two could be put together I began to grasp how language operates, both in literature and as an agency of oral communication. In college and on my own, I had studied a little psychology...

... terror had under- gone a rapid evolution in the French language throughout the eighteenth century. Initially, terror was defined as a passion, a subjective feeling. Its specificity as a psychological state lay in the fact that it was accompanied by physiological reactions. It was observed...

... is this: If there are no external reasons, if all we have are reasons and arguments internal to the moral psychologies of agents, are we theoretically 2. To mention just two, ‘‘Rushdie and the Reform of Islam Grand Street 8, no. 4 (Spring 1989): 170–84; and ‘‘What Is a Muslim? Fundamental Commitment and Cultural Identity...

... of German anti-Semitism exposed the limitations of Marx- ian analyses, which had explained Nazism in strictly economic terms. Ellison found the Marxian theory of class exploitation especially defi- cient for its failure to explain the surplus psychological benefits that eco- nomically deprived...

... for metaphysical psychologism, he is generally received as having advocated the preeminence of the individual over society and of sci- ence over religion. Ed. 40 boundary 2 / Fall 2000 came to the rescue. Yet here they lovingly lingered, changing and arrang- ing, expressing old thoughts anew, invent[ing...

..., the revel, the rebel crowd psychology, mass psychology, is Dionysian psychology Canetti says: Suddenly it is as though everything were happening       in one and the same body. (89) In the collective body, everything is a symptom of something else. It's all symptoms, metaphors, poetry. After...

... of sociology and psychology signi- fied a new awareness and appreciation of what the Frankfurt school could bring to bear on questions of historical periodization; it also signaled the advent of what we call “interdisciplinary” genres of history. As he noted in Fritz Stern’s collection, The Varieties...