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Shabnam and Neelam Mishra. "Sexual obsession compulsive disorder: 11 case studies." International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences 11, no. 4 (September 30, 2020): 5907–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.26452/ijrps.v11i4.3248.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a long-lasting disorder characterized by cyclic feelings and compulsive behaviors which lead to momentary relief. One of the recognized feature in obsessive-compulsive disorder is sexual obsessions. Compulsive sexual behavior has not yet received wide consideration from researchers and clinicians. Till date, there have been dearth of formal studies of sexual behavior in OCD. In spite of the scarcity of research, many patients with sexual obsession do present for the treatment and mental health professionals in any setting are likely to come across patients with this disorder. The present study aims to affirm that sexual obsessions are prevalent clinical features in OCD that arise sex based symptoms. For that purpose, the data was composed from 11 patients, in which the symptoms were existent for more than 1 year. The data was collected in the form of history taking Structured Clinical Interview, that has been a part of case study method. It was found that the patients display an obsession with the sexual acts and feel discomfort if unable to control their urges which later affect their personal and social functioning. So this paper will focus and summarize sexual behavior in OCD with the help of case studies.
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Rachamallu, Vivekananda, Michael M. Song, Haiying Liu, Charles L. Giles, and Terry McMahon. "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with Suicide Obsessions in a First Responder without Previous Diagnosis of OCD or History of Suicide Attempts." Case Reports in Psychiatry 2017 (2017): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4808275.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a distressing and often debilitating disorder characterized by obsessions, compulsions, or both that are time-consuming and cause impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning. There are many published studies reporting higher risk of suicidality in OCD patients, as well as studies describing increased risk of suicidality in OCD patients with other comorbid psychiatric conditions such as major depressive disorder (MDD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Existing case reports on OCD with suicide as the obsessive component describe patients with long standing diagnosis of OCD with suicidal ideations or previous suicide attempts. This report describes the case of a 28-year-old male, who works as a first responder, who presented with new onset symptoms characteristic of MDD and PTSD, with no past history of OCD or suicidality who developed OCD with suicidal obsessions. Differentiating between suicidal ideation in the context of other psychiatric illnesses and suicidal obsessions in OCD is critical to ensuring accurate diagnosis and timely provision of most appropriate treatment. The combination of exposure and response prevention therapy and pharmacotherapy with sertraline and olanzapine was effective in helping the patient manage the anxiety and distress stemming from the patient’s OCD with suicidal obsession.
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Hewison, Robert. "The heritage obsession: the battle for England's past." Cultural Trends 18, no. 1 (February 25, 2009): 105–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09548960802651443.
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Baron, Samuel H., and Andrew Baruch Wachtel. "An Obsession with History: Russian Writers Confront the Past." American Historical Review 100, no. 2 (April 1995): 555. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2169115.
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Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., and Andrew Baruch Wachtel. "An Obsession with History: Russian Writers Confront the Past." Russian Review 54, no. 4 (October 1995): 622. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/131627.
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Purnama, Sutan Dassep, Mustafa M. Amin, and Elmeida Effendy. "Pandemic Coronavirus Disease-19-Induced Obsessive Compulsive Disorder on the Bank Employee." Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 9, T3 (May 16, 2021): 153–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2021.6284.
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BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious viral disease that affects respiratory system and other organs. It is transmitted through air or contact of contaminated surfaces. Thus, physical and social distancing, hand washing with soap, or hand sanitizer are greatly persuaded. Interestingly, this pandemic does not only affect physical health, but also mental disorder, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that is marked with the presence of either obsession or persistent compulsive behavior, or in the most common form, both are present. Obsession is thought, image or desire that preoccupies someone’s mind which commonly is related to anxiety. Compulsion, in the other hand, is repetitive behavior that strongly derives individual to do so to achieve fulfillment of one’s obsession that is not considered normal on the bases of daily norm. CASE REPORT: A 26-year-old woman as a bank employee admitted of doing repetitively unreasonable hand washing and shower within approximately the past 3 months. She even washes her hands more than 10 times in an hour and takes shower more than 5 times a day. She admitted that this is her very first experience and all were started at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 pandemic also causes serious mental disorders and has become such a nightmare or worst scenario for those experiencing OCD. Physical and social distancing, hand washing with soap, or hand sanitizer are greatly.
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Nowak-Baranowska, Dorota. "La visualité exacerbée chez Georges Bataille (et Luis Buñuel) : l’image de l’œuf et ses implications obsessionnelles dans Histoire de l’œil (1928) et Un Chien andalou (1929)." Quêtes littéraires, no. 5 (December 30, 2015): 119–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/ql.244.
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The aim of the study is to analyze Bataille’s Story of the Eye (1928) and Buñuel’s An Andalusian Dog (1929) as accurate examples of artworks that were broadly inspired by images from subconsciousness. Both authors are particularly fascinated by the ‘eye’ which becomes an object of obsession in their output. The ocular reference is however often replaced with the image of the egg, by the process of metonymy that has its origin in Bataille’s imagination and early compulsions. As such, both eye and egg, initially being almost divine, gradually become deformed, abject and, ultimately, annihilated. The image of eye and egg, symbolically the birth of universe, becomes paradoxal in the textual layer, as it’s constantly being deformed by obsessive thoughts from the past.
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Orwin, Donna Tussing. "An Obsession with History: Russian Writers Confront the past. Andrew Baruch Wachtel." Modern Philology 94, no. 2 (November 1996): 267–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/392397.
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Marion, Gregory. "Crossing the Rubicon: Debussy and the Eternal Present of the Past." Articles 27, no. 2 (September 13, 2012): 36–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1013112ar.
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This paper proposes that Mikhail Bakhtin's heteroglossia—the process of coming to know one's own language in the language of others—is evident in two of Debussy's compositions from Children's Corner, most directly in "Golliwogg's Cake-Walk" and more subtly in "Serenade for the Doll." In particular, "Serenade" collapses a number of historical horizons—some of these Wagnerian—as Debussy finds his own compositional path. Debussy's approach reflects the obsession La belle Époque had with the past, and moreover with its need to keep the past alive while fashioning a future through the blending of multiple voices.
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Dudareva, Marianna A., Tatiana V. Shvetsova, Natalia E. Chesnokova, Marina A. Shtanko, and Denis G. Bronnikov. "“Distant death” in Maxim Gorky's short story “Obsession”." Revista Amazonia Investiga 10, no. 42 (July 30, 2021): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.34069/ai/2021.42.06.1.
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The paper analyzes the short story “Obsession” written by Maxim Gorky in the Nizhny Novgorod period of his work, which has been given little attention in philological works. On the one hand, the author himself defined its genre as a Christmas tale; on the other hand, this work cannot be brought into line with Christmas tales and short novels by Gogol and Dostoyevsky, since in Gorky’s story, no miracle occurs. However, this small text still deserves literary scholars’ attention. The short story introduces an interesting paradox of artistic space and time: in outward appearance, the action takes place within one room, on the couch, but the hero’s internal experiences, his conflict with the alter ego carry the reader into the distant past, the Christmas days of the main character’s family, and then the imagination, vision that visited Foma Mironovich come to the fore and become a plot-forming feature. The form in which the story content is presented (obsession, dream, delusion) is typologically similar to the structure of Russian folklore tales telling about encountering the phenomena of the “other world”. The results of the study may be of interest to both literary and cultural scholars.
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Smyth, Barry. "Recommender Systems: A Healthy Obsession." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 33 (July 17, 2019): 9790–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019790.
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We propose endurance sports as a rich and novel domain for recommender systems and machine learning research. As sports like marathon running, triathlons, and mountain biking become more and more popular among recreational athletes, there exists a growing opportunity to develop solutions to a number of interesting prediction, classification, and recommendation challenges, to better support the complex training and competition needs of athletes. Such solutions have the potential to improve the health and well-being of large populations of users, by promoting and optimising exercise as part of a productive and healthy lifestyle.
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Samuels, Maurice. "Realizing the Past: History and Spectacle in Balzac's Adieu." Representations 79, no. 1 (2002): 82–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2002.79.1.82.
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IN BALZAC'S Adieu (1830), a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars attempts to cure his lover of the madness she suffered while accompanying his regiment on the Russian campaign by reconstructing, on his estate in France, an exact replica of the battlefield on which she lost her sanity. A river is dug, peasants are costumed as soldiers, bridges are built and burned. The ex-soldier's heroic effort at historical representation succeeds, but at a price: restored to ''reality'' when confronted with the scene, the woman drops dead a moment later. Itself something of a battlefield for critics, this text has provoked numerous reflections on the nature and politics of literary ''Realism,'' most of which ignore the ways in which the text intersects with its historical context. This article shows how Balzac's novella offers a critique of the way the past was being turned into a spectacle by the new Romantic literary and visual techniques of historical representation invented in the period following the French Revolution. In such contemporary forms of historical entertainment as the panorama and the historical melodrama, realistic representations of the past were offered up as the ground on which postrevolutionary subjectivities could be formed. Balzac's Adieu exposes the threats - to subjectivity, to the notion of political progress - of just such a spectacularly authentic representation of the past. In this founding work of ''Realism,'' the era's obsession with history is shown to have dangerous - and even deadly - consequences. Balzac's text thus foreshadows the analyses made by Marx and Tocqueville of the Revolution of 1848, which describe how the revolutionaries failed because they were fixated on the spectacle of prior revolutions. Unlike Lukáács, who argued that Realism can be understood as the application of the techniques of the Romantic historical novel to the events of the present, this article argues that many of the works we think of as ''Realist'' involve a rejection of Romantic modes of looking at the past. By depicting protagonists who are themselves Romantic historians and who inevitably come to bad ends as a result of their historical obsessions, Adieu and later Realist texts at once incorporate and mark their difference from the kinds of historical narratives produced by Romanticism and its spectacular incarnations.
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Franke, William. "A Negative Theological Critique of Postmodern Identity Politics." Religions 10, no. 8 (August 19, 2019): 488. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10080488.
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This paper leverages the Christian tradition of negative theology (Gregory of Nyssa, Dionysius the Areopagite, Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus) in order to think past the impasses of identitarian politics and culture. It essentially bears on Christianity and on literary imagination by valorizing their focus on the mystery of who we are beyond all divisive identities and on how an orientation to negative-theological transcendence can save us from a toxic obsession with identities in a postmodern, postcolonial, post-gender society.
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Bouvard, Martine, Jean Cottraux, Evelyne Mollard, Muriel Arthus, Stella Lachance, Jeanine Guerin, Alain Sauteraud, and Sai-Nan Yao. "Validity and Factor Structure of the Obsessive Compulsive Thoughts Checklist." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 25, no. 1 (January 1997): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1352465800015393.
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The Obsessive Compulsive Thoughts Checklist (OCTC; Bouvard, Mollard, Cottraux, & Guerin 1989) is a 28 item questionnaire. Patients rate their degree of disturbance of the past week on a 5-point scale. The validation study and factor analysis of the OCTC is presented. Three groups were compared: patients suffering from obsessive compulsive disorders (n = 122), patients suffering from panic disorder with agoraphobia (n = 61) and a control group (n = 80). The three groups were comparable in age and sex. Obsessive compulsive patients scored significantly higher than both agoraphobic patients and control subjects. Spearman rank correlations were used to compute convergent validity in a sub-group of obsessive compulsive patients (n = 96). The Obsessive Compulsive Thoughts Checklist correlated positively with the Compulsive Activity Checklist (rho =. 62; p <. 0001). The total score was also positively correlated with the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS total scale: rho =. 42; p <. 0001; YBOCS obsession scale: rho =. 40; p <. 0001; YBOCS compulsion scale: rho. 37; p =. 0002). The factor structure was studied both on the sample which included agoraphobic patients and controls (n = 141) and on the obsessive compulsive patients only (n = 122). In both analyses, three identical factors were found: – factor 1: checking/perfectionism-orderliness – factor 2: responsibility/dread of harming others – factor 3: washing/contamination. Results support the validity and the internal consistency of the Obsessive Compulsive Thoughts Checklist. The factor analysis indicates that the OCTC is a three dimensional scale, reflecting a pathological need to check, a pathological sense of responsibility and a pathological need to wash, probably due to distorted thoughts about perfectionism and orderliness, an excessive need for control and fear of contamination.
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Gürcan, G., Ş. Hun Şenol, A. E. Anıl Yağcıoğlu, and A. Ertuğrul. "Effect of Clozapine on Psychiatric Comorbidities in Patients with Schizophrenia." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.2140.
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IntroductionClozapine has superior efficacy in treatment-resistant schizophrenia, and has various effects on psychiatric comorbidities, which may affect the illness course.AimsWe aimed to assess the past and current psychiatric comorbidities in schizophrenia patients treated with clozapine, and study their relationship with clinical variables.MethodsConsecutive 122 outpatients who met DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia receiving clozapine were included. Information about past and current clinical status were gathered through a clinical interview and review of the medical records, along with laboratory test results. Patients were assessed with structured clinical interview for Axis-I Disorders for DSM-IV, Clinical Global Impression Scale, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), Calgary Depression Scale, Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), Panic and Agoraphobia Scale (PAS), WHO-Disability Assessment Schedule-II.ResultsThere was a significant decrease in the diagnosis of depression, alcohol and substance use disorder, number of suicide attempts, and an increase in the diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) after clozapine initiation. Clozapine related de novo OCD appeared in 48.4% of the patients, and there was a positive correlation between Y-BOCS total scores and clozapine dose and plasma levels. In the de novo OCD group, compulsion scores were higher than obsession scores with checking most prevalent among compulsions. Total PANSS, Y-BOCS, PASscores were positively correlated withtotal disability score.ConclusionsClozapine seems to decrease comorbid depression, alcohol and substance use and number of suicide attempts and increase OCD. Assessment and treatment of psychiatric comorbidities in clozapine using schizophrenia patients is vital to decrease disability.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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Miroiu, Mihai. "Changing Attitudes Towards the Ottomans in Romanian Historiography." New Perspectives on Turkey 12 (1995): 119–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600001175.
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Students of Eastern European affairs have pointed out that this part of the world shares in considerable measure the historical mode of thinking about itself; its self-perception is, in part at least, provided by its historical awareness and a tradition of historiography, that is, the past as organized and interpreted by the historian (Roberts, 1970). Unlike other societies, in which the historical component of self-identification is not at all prominent, its place being taken either by a set mythology or by all-embracing religious or legal norms, Eastern European societies have developed a historiographical tradition. It can truly be said that they have been obsessively preoccupied by history and the main reason for this obsession is that for over four hundred years these societies were an integral part of the Ottoman empire.
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Markowitz, Lee J., and Christine Purdon. "Predictors and Consequences of Suppressing Obsessional Thoughts." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 36, no. 2 (October 31, 2007): 179–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1352465807003992.
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AbstractCognitive-behavioral models of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) assert that negative appraisals of obsessional thoughts lead to distress over the thoughts and drive ameliorative actions such as thought suppression and compulsions. These responses in turn play a role in the persistence of the disorder. However, past research has not examined (a) what factors lead individuals to suppress obsessional thoughts; (b) whether certain predictors and consequences relate to suppression uniquely or can be explained by general factors such as negative mood and neuroticism; or (c) individuals' natural active suppression of obsessions. The current study addresses these limitations by examining the roles of natural suppression and distress over thought intrusions in the thought-appraisal/OC symptoms relationship while controlling for general factors. Ninety-one nonclinical participants completed a variety of measures assessing theoretically relevant constructs. After their obsessional thought was primed, they recorded their thoughts for 6 minutes and then rated their suppression effort. Four hours later, longer-term outcomes were assessed. Path analyses supported most components of cognitive-behavioral models.
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Crew, David F. "Sleeping with the Enemy? A Fiction Film for German Television about the Bombing of Dresden." Central European History 40, no. 1 (February 27, 2007): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938907000301.
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Dealing with the Nazi past has become a permanent component (some would say obsession) of contemporary German national identity. Almost every day, the German print and visual media carry stories related to Hitler, World War II, and the Holocaust. Each new major anniversary sets in motion another round of discussion, argument, and controversy. Each new autobiography and each new film on Nazism generates extensive media commentary. Among the most interesting aspects of recent discussions of the Nazi past is the new prominence afforded to depictions of Germans as victims of “Hitler's War.” Nowhere has this predilection for presenting Germans as victims been more apparent and pronounced than in the flood of recent popular books and made-for-TV documentaries about the bombing war.
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Bélanger, Jocelyn J. "The sociocognitive processes of ideological obsession: review and policy implications." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376, no. 1822 (February 22, 2021): 20200144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0144.
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Understanding what motivates people to join violent ideological groups and engage in acts of cruelty against others is of great social and societal importance. In this paper, I posit that one necessary element is ‘ideological obsession’—an ideological commitment fuelled by unmet psychological needs and regulated by inhibitory and ego-defensive mechanisms. Drawing from evidence collected across cultures and ideologies, I describe four processes through which ideological obsession puts individuals on a path towards violence. First, ideological obsession deactivates moral self-regulatory processes, allowing unethical behaviours to be carried out without self-recrimination. Second, ideologically obsessed individuals are easily threatened by information that criticises their ideology, which in turn leads to hatred and violent retaliation. Third, ideological obsession changes people's social interactions by making them gravitate towards like-minded individuals who support ideological violence. As these social networks become more interconnected, they amplify one's adherence to violent extremism. Finally, ideologically obsessed individuals are prone to psychological reactance, making them immune to communication strategies intended to dissuade them from using violence. In fact, messages espousing non-violence can have the opposite effect by reinforcing their violence-supporting ideology. I conclude by presenting evidence-based strategies to prevent radicalisation leading to violence for individuals in pre-criminal spaces. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The political brain: neurocognitive and computational mechanisms’.
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Larcher-Goscha, Agathe. "Ambushed by History: Paul Mus and Colonial France's "Forced Re-entry" into Vietnam (1945––1954)." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 4, no. 1 (2009): 206–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/vs.2009.4.1.206.
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An engaged intellectual, Paul Mus drew upon his affective memory, his lived experiences, and his colonial past to provide a lucid explanation of the most inexplicable. His most famous work on Vietnam, Vietnam: A Sociology of War, coincided with the debut of the war of decolonization in Indochina. It reflected his obsession with understanding why and how this divisive conflict between the French and the Vietnamese was not only a political and international one, but also a social, cultural and human one. In this essay, I attempt to cast new light on his exceptional lucidity during the Franco-Vietnamese War.
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Mathews, Timothy. "An Avant-garde for Today: ‘the Ally of its Own Gravediggers’? Some Thoughts on Apollinaire and Kundera." European Review 19, no. 2 (April 14, 2011): 321–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106279871000058x.
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This essay is concerned with the power of art to effect change, but also to show attachments to existing ways of understanding. Avant-garde art from Cubism to Surrealism seeks to transform the shapes in which we see the world. But change may simply create blindness to the past, and to what is, and to the way our chains are yanked by the lures of domination whether economic, social or emotional. Kundera's novelistic meditation on the canonical and radical poets Rimbaud and Éluard encourages us to wonder whether the obsession with change is an investment in the powers of oblivion and ignorance.
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Pocklington, Tom. "The Place of Political Science in Canadian Universities." Canadian Journal of Political Science 31, no. 4 (December 1998): 643–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900009586.
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AbstractThis article addresses the proper role of political science in Canadian universities. The thesis is twofold: first, the main tasks of political scientists are first-rate teaching and reflective inquiry about citizenship: second, in the past few years we have been moving away from this understanding, and remedial action is required. Our delinquency stems mainly from our obsession with “frontier research,” the main result of which is the widespread decline of attentive teaching, which we rationalize with a number of implausible myths. We are primarily responsible for the current state of political science, and only we can remedy it.
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statton, liza. "Bittersweet Obsession: Ed Ruscha's Chocolate Room." Gastronomica 6, no. 1 (2006): 7–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2006.6.1.7.
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This article considers the singular installation work, Chocolate Room (1970), by the American conceptual artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937), who is based in Los Angeles. Although Ruscha is best-known for his coolly composed paintings and photographs, Chocolate Room, explores the artist's use of unconventional materials to create works of art that confront viewers with the unexpected. The author discusses the creation of this site-specific work for the 35th Venice Biennale during tumultuous year of 1970 when many American artists boycotted the event due to the Vietnam War. Chocolate Room was installed in one part of the American Pavilion, where the interior walls of the room were covered with 360 screen prints made from Nestléé's chocolate. The author assesses the physical and psychological properties of chocolate and how Ruscha's installation manipulates these qualities as a deliberate act of provocation. Stains (1969), a seventy-five page, unbound book is also discussed in relation to Chocolate Room, highlighting Ruscha's interest in and experimentation with organic substances. The author situates these projects between the overlapping developments of Pop and Conceptual Art in America during the 1960s and 70s –– both of which are indebted to the 'anti-art' ideologies of Duchamp and the Dadaists. The author concludes with the unexpected demise of the installation and alludes to the ways in which the substance of a medium can transform the meaning of an image.
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McMullen, Tracy. "Approaching the Jazz Past: MOPDTK’s Blue and Jason Moran’s “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959”." Journal of Jazz Studies 11, no. 2 (March 29, 2018): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/jjs.v11i2.112.
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This article analyzes two approaches to the jazz past undertaken recently under the aegis of “jazz reenactment”: Mostly Other People Do the Killing’s 2014 release of Blue (a note-for-note re-performance of the Miles Davis Sextet’s 1959 album, Kind of Blue) and Jason Moran’s multi-media re-visiting of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall Concert, “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959.” I contend that rather than an ironic critique of the canonization of jazz, Blue is a direct product of the same tradition of understanding the past that informs such canonization. This tradition is based in an epistemology that privileges objectivity, logic, boundaries, and an obsession with naming while suspecting the subjective and what cannot be named. Jason Moran’s “In My Mind,” however, offers a different understanding of the past, one rooted in ambiguity and connection rather than delineation and separation. I argue that this latter understanding offers a necessary critique of conceptions of the past and of self and other found in the dominant Western worldview.
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Fejer, Assist Prof Dr Azhar Noori. "Witchcraft and Women’s Spaces; A cultural Materialism Study of John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 215, no. 1 (November 11, 2018): 133–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v0i215.611.
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Witch stories are part of American popular culture, and this culture is extremely influenced by a continuing reliance on its past. The modern obsession of Americans with witches, whether real or metaphorical, is related to politics especially when it came to issues of gender politics. This article exposes a modern image of the female character seen from a male author point of view. John Updike, influenced by the changes that happened to women within second wave of feminism, attempted to write The Witches of Eastwick (1984). Actually, he presented women who did have a sort of careers. His witches are professional active and dynamic. What do witches stand for in American Culture? Why did Updike choose to write about women? Why were these females witches and not ordinary women? This is the core discussion of the present study.
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Mountjoy, M., and H. P. Dijkstra. "Swimming in H2O: two parts heart + one part obsession." British Journal of Sports Medicine 50, no. 10 (April 28, 2016): 568–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2015-095681.
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Mahendran, Rathi. "Obsessional Symptoms Associated with Risperidone Treatment." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 32, no. 2 (April 1998): 299–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679809062744.
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Objective: The aim of this paper is to report the occurrence of obsessional symptoms with risperidone treatment in a patient with no past history of obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Clinical picture: A 26–year-old, single, Chinese lady with a chronic untreated schizophrenic illness was prescribed risperidone after she experienced side effects with other antipsychotic medication. After the second week on risperidone, she developed obsessional symptoms. Treatment and Outcome: The obsessional symptoms responded to treatment with low dose clomipramine. Conclusion: The potential for the newer antipsychotic medication to precipitate or exacerbate obsessive-compulsive symptoms during treatment for schizophrenia must be borne in mind.
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Lin, Wei-Hsin. "Chasing After Nothingness—Reading Zhang Ailing Through Žižek’s Interpretation of Lacan." Janus Head 16, no. 1 (2018): 7–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jh20181611.
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This article provides a Lacanian reading of one of the short stories of Zhang Ailing, a Chinese writer. It is intended to explore the possibility of employing Lacan’s theory of the symbolic order to the interpretation of a Chinese text, as well as to broaden our understanding of Zhang’s work and to unlock the potential of the applicability of Lacan’s ideas. The final part of the article will draw on Žižek’s interpretation of Lacan to illustrate how Zhang, unlike most of her contemporaries, is exempted from the obsession with China and how this obsession can lead us to the conclusion that whatever we chase obsessively in life is nothing but nothingness.
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Rath, Pragyan. "Empowerment through Communication in Shakespeare’s Lucrece: Transitioning from Economic to Artistic Transactions." Journal of Human Values 24, no. 3 (May 23, 2018): 223–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971685818774115.
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It is the metaphoric doubling of past into present that gave Renaissance ekphrastic representations its techniques of self-understanding. In effect, in the ekphrastic doubling of the past in the present, we notice that historicity becomes an inalienable part of its contemporary credibility. The reduction of distance between life and art, as evident in contemporary obsession with selfies and photographs, thus begins to become the central project of early modern ekphrasis, enhanced in the Renaissance. In sum, art becomes equivalent to legal tender, and ekphrasis, a principle of exchange and substitution, through which objects and artefacts seem to be in danger of losing their particularities and gaining new generic human values. When Shakespeare wrote The Rape of Lucrece (1593–1594), it was ekphrasis that allowed Shakespeare to speak about the ills of his own times through a Greco-Roman subject. The metaphorical implications that his story has for the issues of good government and private and public security embedded in colonial mercantilism are implicit in his tropological practice. And in doing so, Shakespeare conducts an ekphrastic economy of exchange, which is in this sense the intransitive art of shielding life.
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RENIHAN, COLLEEN. "‘History As it Should Have Been’: Haunts of the Historical Sublime in John Corigliano's and William Hoffman'sThe Ghosts of Versailles." Twentieth-Century Music 10, no. 2 (August 12, 2013): 249–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478572213000042.
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AbstractIn John Corigliano's and William Hoffman's operaThe Ghosts of Versailles(1991), generic, musical, and temporal boundaries are dissolved, and historical processes revealed, resulting in a work that performs an operatic rendering of what philosopher Frank Ankersmit has referred to as sublime historical experience. As Marie Antoinette's ghost resolves her trauma by narrativising it in performance, and as music extends and dramatises the experience of the sublime, the audience experiences profoundly the liminal realm that historically-based operas inhabit in their movement between past and present. Indeed, the temporal suspension that is so central to theories of the sublime finds parallels in opera's historical obsession with death, and in music's ability to momentarily blur the boundaries between life and death, and past and present.The Ghosts of Versaillesallows for the audience's relationship to history to be revisited, reconfigured, and in many cases, reconciled, through a haunting of the present in operatic performance.
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Fais, Oxana D. "ON OBSESSION AND TRANCE IN THE TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF SARDINIA IN PAST AND PRESENT (THE CASE OF BARBAGIA)." Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion, no. 3 (2019): 29–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2019-3-29-49.
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Marak, Katarzyna. "Walking through the Past: The Mechanics and Player Experience of Haunting, Obsession and Trauma in Layers of Fear." Theoria et Historia Scientiarum 14 (December 21, 2017): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/ths.2017.004.
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Dubnick, Melvin J. "Demons, Spirits, and Elephants: Reflections on the Failure of Public Administration Theory." Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs 4, no. 1 (April 1, 2018): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.20899/jpna.4.1.59-115.
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For the past half-century, those defining the field of Public Administration in their role as its leading “theorists” have been preoccupied with defending the enterprise against the evils of value-neutral logical positivism. This polemical review of that period focuses on the Simon-Waldo debate that ultimately leads the field to adopt a “professional” identity rather than seek disciplinary status among the social sciences. A survey of recent works by the field’s intellectual leaders and “gatekeepers” demonstrates that the anti-positivist obsession continues, oblivious to significant developments in the social sciences. The paper ends with a call for Public Administrationists to engage in the political and paradigmatic upheavals required to shift the field toward a disciplinary stance.
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Monasterio, Erik, Roger T. Mulder, and Thomas D. Marshall. "Obsessive—Compulsive Disorder in Post-Streptococcal Infection." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 32, no. 4 (August 1998): 579–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679809068334.
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Objective: We describe the sudden onset of obsessive—compulsive symptoms fol lowing a peritoneal infection with α-haemolytic streptococci. Clinical picture: A 35–year-old woman with no past history or family history of obsessions or compulsions developed these symptoms 2 weeks after a peritoneal infection. Treatment: The patient received 80 mg fluoxetine daily. Outcome: She responded to treatment with a progressive reduction in symptoms. Conclusions: It is suggested that these obsessions and compulsions may be related to an autoimmune response to the streptococcal infection.
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Habibi, Reza. "Samuel Beckett's ‘Psychology Notes’ and The Unnamable." Journal of Beckett Studies 27, no. 2 (September 2018): 211–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2018.0237.
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This essay reexamines Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable by treating his ‘Psychology Notes’ as part of the genetic dossier for this text. By developing a parallel between The Unnamable and ‘textbook’ psychoanalysis in terms of a shared obsession with abjection, the essay will demonstrate that some of the symptoms and obsessions suffered by the unnamable voice (‘prison psychosis’, ‘coprosymbolism’ and ‘genital discharge’) are traceable to the Notes. At the same time, the commitment to cure, control and explanation in psychoanalysis is resisted, and Beckett's text ultimately stages a failed talking cure. The genetic identification of these intertextual connections is enhanced by the availability of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP). Using the same scholarly tool, the essay also examines some of the variations between the English and the French versions of the text, in order to shed further light on the significance of the Notes to the manuscript corpus of L'Innommable/The Unnamable.
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Ting, Carol. "ICT4D in China and the Capability Approach." International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development 7, no. 1 (January 2015): 58–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijicthd.2015010104.
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For more than a decade, the Chinese government has poured copious resources into rural informatization as a means to increase agricultural productivity and rural economic growth. Such efforts so far have not produced definite results in rural areas, but increasing economic inequality and rising environmental threats have already forced the government to rethink its growth-centered development policy. Indeed, recent government releases clearly state the resolve to departure from the “GDP obsession” of the past. Meanwhile, the past three decades saw the rise of a powerful alternative development approach—the Capability Approach (CA), which focuses on empowering individuals and sees economic growth as one element of well-being. Given that the CA can potentially help devising a more coherent and holistic framework for Information and communications technologies for development (ICT4D), this paper examines the compatibility between the Capability Approach and the top-down socialist approach towards rural informatization in China. Built on two case studies of rural informatization in rural China, the present paper identifies potential obstacles to the adoption of the Capability Approach and discusses policy implications and suggestions.
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Holm, Helge Vidar. "Voyance, chronotopie et intertextualité dans Dora Bruder de Patrick Modiano." Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 10, no. 1 (November 6, 2019): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.15845/bells.v10i1.1358.
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In Dora Bruder, Patrick Modiano gives the following comment on his own novelistic writing: “Like many writers before me, I believe in coincidence, and, sometimes, in the novelist’s gift for clairvoyance - the word ‘gift’ not being the right one, for it implies a kind of superiority. Clairvoyance is simply part of the profession: the essential leaps of imagination, the need to fix one’s mind on detail - to the point of obsession, in fact - so as not to lose the thread and give in to one’s natural laziness. All this tension, this cerebral exercise, may well lead in the long run to ‘flashes of intuition concerning events past and future’, as defined by Larousse dictionary under ’clairvoyance’.” (Dora Bruder (Paris 1997), English edition: The Search Warrant, Harvill Secker, London 2014, p. 47-48).
By analyzing some selected passages from this novel, I study some relations between M. Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope and the effects of the novelist Modiano’s “gift for clairvoyance” as presented in the quotation above. I also comment on some representations of intertextuality and intratextuality in Dora Bruder.
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Wang, Adrienne, and David A. Clark. "Haunting Thoughts: The Problem of Obsessive Mental Intrusions." Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy 16, no. 2 (June 2002): 193–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/jcop.16.2.193.63990.
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Unwanted, ego-alien distressing intrusive thoughts, images, or impulses (i.e., obsessions) are a hallmark of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Until recently the psychological processes involved in the origin, persistence, and treatment of these perplexing intrusive mental repetitions have not been well understood. Over the past decade, a new cognitive perspective on OCD has emerged that has provided new insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of obsessions. In this article we briefly consider recent findings on normal and abnormal obsessions, their relationship to mood disturbance, and the status of key cognitive processes implicated in the pathogenesis of obsessions as discussed in publications by Salkovskis, Rachman, Freeston, Clark, Purdon, and others. We conclude with a discussion of treatment implications and whether the inclusion of cognitive strategies that directly targets change in dysfunctional beliefs and appraisals will enhance standard behavioral treatment of OCD.
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Aghacy, Samira. "CONTEMPORARY LEBANESE FICTION: MODERNIZATION WITHOUT MODERNITY." International Journal of Middle East Studies 38, no. 4 (October 25, 2006): 561–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743806412472.
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This study focuses on the nature of the Lebanese encounter with modernity in Lebanese fiction over the past forty years or so, a time of great ideological, political, and cultural upheavals. The first part traces the effect of modernity on works by Lebanese writers since the 1950s, a period of “revolutionary political and social change,” and of learning and cultural and social ferment. The second part of the study focuses on Rashid al-Daif's novel עAzizi al-Sayyed Kawabata. My choice of this particular novel is related to the fact that it is a representative work that underlines the impact of modernity on Lebanese individuals and society during and in the wake of the civil war. The novel raises questions about rationality, ideology, the individual self, and the relevance of these Western constructs to the local situation in Lebanon. The structure of the novel itself and the use of the epistolary and autobiographical modes of writing underscore the novel's obsession with modernity. Within this context, one could say that al-Daif's novel can be viewed as a complex work of fiction that encompasses different forms of modernity, the tensions between these modernities, and between modernity and authenticity.
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Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, and Martine Beugnet. "Vertiginous Hauntings: The Ghosts of Vertigo." Film-Philosophy 23, no. 3 (October 2019): 227–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/film.2019.0114.
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While the initial reception of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) was unspectacular, it made its presence felt in a host of other films – from Chris Marker's Sans Soleil (1983), to Brian De Palma's Obsession (1976), and David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. (1999). What seemed to have eluded the critics at the time is that Vertigo is a film about being haunted: by illusive images, turbulent emotions, motion and memory, the sound and feeling of falling into the past, into a nightmare. But it is also a shrewdly reflexive film that haunts filmmakers, critics, and artists alike, raising fundamental questions about the ontology of moving images and the regime of fascination (exemplified by Hollywood) that churns them out. Douglas Gordon's Feature Film (1999), D.N. Rodowick's The Wanderers (2016), and Lynn Hershman's VertiGhost (2017) are contemporary examples of how the appropriation and contemplation of some the film's most iconic motifs (the figures of Madeleine, the spiral, the copy or fake, and the fetish), themes (liebestod, obsession, the uncanny) and strategies (mirroring, duplicity, and disorientation) ask us to rethink the relation of fetishism to fabulation, and supplementarity to dissimulation and social engineering. Feature Film, The Wanderers, and VertiGhost are supplementary works, but like the original film they are about duplicity, doppelgänger, and dissimulation. What interests us is how they challenge the authority over, or even proximity to, that which returns in the form of the supplement. And ultimately, attaching themselves to the chain of forgers and forgeries, these supplementary works take their place in the vertiginous sequence of substitutions the film established: a neat allegory for a reign of the digital ghosting that Hitchcock could never have anticipated.
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Kopper, John M. "Andrew Baruch Wachtel. An Obsession with History: Russian Writers Confront the Past. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. viii, 276 pp. $35.00." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 31, no. 1 (1997): 75–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221023997x00104.
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Bala, Asma. "Imperialist Wars and Liberal Peace." American Journal of Islam and Society 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 153–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v26i1.1429.
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TheAssociation ofMuslim Social Scientists of NorthAmerica (AMSS) heldits fourth annual Canadian Regional Conference in Toronto at the OntarioInstitute for Studies in Education (OISE) on 1 November 2008. This event,whichwas cosponsored by the Department ofAdult Education and CounselingPsychology (OISE) and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at theUniversity of Toronto, was coordinated by Jasmin Zine (Wilfrid Laurier)and Maliha Chishti (OISE). The keynote address was presented by AnnRusso (DePaul University).The theme of this year’s conference, “Imperialist Wars and LiberalPeace,” brought together a group of scholars to critically engage the natureof the new imperialist wars that are being waged on a smaller scale. Fromthe “war on terror” to the various forms of intra-state warfare, participantssought to address how a viable peace and prosperity can be achieved for amajority of the world’s people, rather than just for an elite minority.During the morning plenary session, “Imperialist ‘Obsession’ withHate: A Critique of the Film ‘Obsession: Radical Islam’s War against theWest,’” conference chair Shahrzad Mojab (OISE) questioned the means bywhich social institutions contribute to violence in our society. Shirley Steinberg(McGill) recalled receiving the film in her issue of the Chronicle ofHigher Learning. For her and other scholars on the panel, the ClarionFund’s distribution abroad in the film was a clear example of the rampantIslamophobia of the post-9/11 world. Referring to this as an “exoticizingand terrorizing” of the Islamic andArab peoples, she proposed a letter writingcampaign to mobilize against Islamophobia. Amir Hassanpour(Toronto) warned against the ideology of hate prominently displayedthroughout the film, highlighting the similarities with historic fascism.Jasmin Zine problemitized the discursive tropes employed by the film’screators, which served to “close minds, not open them.” To move past this“pedagogy of fear,” she called for a shift toward a pedagogy of hope rootedin anti-imperialist thought ...
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Heinzen, James W. "“Alien” Personnel in the Soviet State: The People’s Commissariat of Agriculture under Proletarian Dictatorship, 1918-1929." Slavic Review 56, no. 1 (1997): 73–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2500656.
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Land policy must be carried out by an apparatus that has not grasped the tasks and ideas of Soviet construction in the countryside and that is riddled with elements that are alien and even hostile to Soviet power.—N. M. Shvernik, section chief, People’s Commissariat of Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, 1924“Anyone who reads the letters that passed between the Intendants and their superiors or subordinates,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, “cannot fail to be struck by the family likeness between the government officials of the past and those of modern France.” He added that not only the personnel and institutions but even the internal bureaucratic terminology of the old regime was similar to that of postrevolutionary, republican France. Despite their obsession with the French Revolution, Russia’s revolutionary rulers had probably not read Tocqueville’s cautionary tale about the persistence of the old-regime state. If they had, they might have learned quite a bit.
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Ansori, Afnan. "KEBIJAKAN POLITIK KERUKUNAN ANTARAGAMADI INDONESIA PADA MASA ORDE BARU." Al-Riwayah: Jurnal Kependidikan 9, no. 2 (September 30, 2017): 471–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.32489/al-riwayah.150.
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New Order has given the character and style of interreligious relations up to now. But the basic framework of the religious policy of the colonial era, both the Dutch and Japanese, still must be borne in succession to carve his footsteps. This has very important implications in the management of pluralistic society, because with this paradigm also strengthened the notion that ethnic diversity, traditions, culture and beliefs of various community groups must be eliminated so that the unity imaginable can be realized. There, assimilation and harmony so basic spirit which is then translated into policies, not least the policy of interreligious harmony. Indeed, interreligious harmony has long been an obsession of the New Order regime. In fact, if you want to be tracked, the discourse about harmony emerged and strengthened with the rise and strengthening of the regime led by Suharto at that time. This article talks about the various policy New Order related to inter-religious relations in Indonesia in the past..
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Mullins, Diane. "Morbid jealousy: The green-eyed monster." Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 27, no. 2 (June 2010): i—vii. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0790966700001221.
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Jealousy is a commonly experienced emotion which has been observed in infants as young as 5-6 months of age and across the lifespan of an individual. In its extreme form jealousy can be pathological, when the belief which may be a delusion, obsession or an overvalued idea, is held on inadequate grounds and is unaffected by rational discussion.Morbid jealousy differs from normal jealousy in its intensity or rationality. It can be thought of as hypersensitive jealousy since jealous reactions are experienced at a much lower threshold than in average individuals. Morbid jealousy is a disorder in which an individual believes that their partner is, or will be, sexually unfaithful.Morbid jealousy can occur when a partner is in fact being unfaithful, provided that the evidence for the infidelity is incorrect and there is an excessive or irrational response to such evidence. The preoccupation with the partner's infidelity is often triggered by vivid mental images of their partner's past or present relationships.
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Umar, Lubna, Umaima Kamran, and Zubair Khan. "Direction Metaphors in Political Discourse: Imran Khan and the Rhetoric of Change." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. III (September 30, 2019): 56–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-iii).08.
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Journey Metaphors are among the most pervasive source domains used both in daily life and in political discourse as they follow a clearcut source-path-goal schema where the direction is a fundamental element. The crossdomain mapping between source and target domains is a means of gaining insight into the cognitive activity of the speaker. Metaphors of the journey are widely used in the political discourse generated by Imran Khan with special emphasis upon direction. Metaphorical expressions identified from speeches of Imran in both English and Urdu language have been analyzed using the Critical Metaphor Analysis approach given by Charteris-Black (2005) where linguistic metaphors have been interpreted semantically, pragmatically and in cognition to generate conceptual metaphors. Khan’s obsession with direction activates the PAKISTAN IS OFF TRACK conceptual metaphor necessitating a journey of change under his leadership. He highlights the failures of others to evoke images of a destructive past from which freedom becomes essential.
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Hromulak, Virginia. "Counter-Turning The Turn of the Screw." Janus Head 15, no. 1 (2016): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jh201615115.
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For over a century, critics have typically approached Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw from the perspective of its young governess, whose obsession with her charges and the spectral figures that allegedly haunt them ultimately leads to disaster, the death of Miles. This article, however, offers a reading atypical of those previously accomplished. Analyzing the novella from a psychoanalytic and narratological perspective, it argues for a shift in point of view, contending that the locus of the novel, the manuscript ostensibly documenting the harrowing experiences of the young governess, is not penned by a woman but rather by a man, the principle reader of the thing itself, Douglas. Given the shift in point of view, it becomes wholly evident that it is Douglas’s wildly erotic fantasy that becomes the substance of the manuscript, one culminating not in the death of a child but, rather, in the petite mort or the “little death” of sexual orgasm, the equivalent of a masturbatory episode on the child’s part while in the passionate embrace of his governess. Read in this manner, the narrative coheres as a young man’s romantic retrospective of desire, obsession and sexual initiation.
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Bohatyrets, Valentyna, and Liubov Melnychuk. "Cultural Memory and Urban Space in Shaping Cultural Identity." Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, no. 40 (December 15, 2019): 160–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/mhpi2019.40.160-183.
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Nowadays, in the age of massive spatial transformations in the built environment, cities witness a new type of development, different in size, scale and momentum that has been thriving since late 20th century. Diverse transformation of historic cities under modernisation has led to concerns in terms of the space and time continuity disintegration and the preservation of historic cities. In a similar approach, we can state that city and city space do not only consist of present, they also consist of the past; they include the transformations, relations, values, struggles and tensions of the past. As it could be defined, space is the history itself. Currently, we would like to display how Chernivtsi cultural and architectural heritage is perceived and maintained in the course of its evolution. Noteworthy, Chernivtsi city is speculated a condensed human existence and vibes, with public urban space and its ascriptions are its historical archives and sacred memory. Throughout the history, CHERNIVTSI’s urban landscape has changed, while preserving its unique and distinctive spirit of diversity, multifacetedness and tolerance. The city squares of the Austrian, Romanian and Soviet epochs were crammed with statuary of royal elites and air of aristocracy, soviet leaders and a shade of patriotic obsession, symbolic animals and sacred piety – that eventually shaped its unique “Bukovynian supranational identity”.
Keywords: Chernivtsi, cultural memory, memory studies, monuments, squares, identity.
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Jordan, Bradley. "An Obsession With History: Russian Writers Confront the Past. By Andrew Baruch Wachtel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. 276 pp. Index. Hard Bound." Slavic Review 53, no. 4 (1994): 1188–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2500907.
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Careless, Eleanor. "Muriel Rukeyser and the Security of the Imagination: Poetry and Propaganda in 1940s America." Modernist Cultures 14, no. 4 (November 2019): 421–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2019.0266.
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This article begins by situating Muriel Rukeyser's call for ‘the security of the imagination’ within the highly charged historical contexts of the 1940s, a decade bracketed not only by war but by America's growing obsession with security – from President Roosevelt's ‘Four Freedoms’ speech of 1941 to the rise of McCarthyism at the end of the forties. It then examines how Rukeyser's work as a propagandist, a poet and an essayist in the 1940s was deeply shaped by her involvement with the American security services. It further shows how Rukeyser sought to combine words and images in both her war posters and her poems in an attempt to forge an expansive, inclusive and antifascist mode of representation. In a significant departure from other studies of this period, this article brings original archival sources into contact with Rukeyser's poetry, and reads these literary and archival documents through the theoretical lens of security studies. In the face of an increasingly paranoid, repressive political climate, Rukeyser's wartime propaganda work and poetry offers ways of thinking past dominant assumptions structuring the discourse of security.