Affiliation vs. Alienation Gerson, Sam
Psychoanalytic dialogues,
05/03/2024, Volume:
34, Issue:
3
Journal Article
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Contemporary psychoanalytic thinking has been marked by a "social turn" - a shift in emphasis from internal and endogenous process to those that prioritize the social and political context in which ...psychological life is shaped. In this discussion of Rozmarin's work, the concept of "belonging" is considered as a bridge between the individual and the community. The entities to which one belongs and the dynamics that underline the choices attendant to belonging are considered as constituents of both identity and unconscious processes. An individual's unconscious is viewed as nested within the broader historical and social configurations of life and structured by these forces. Reference is made to the work of Erich Fromm and Erik Erikson as aides in understanding the power of the social to shape both identity formation and social affiliation. The dynamics of conflict between affiliation and alienation are considered as a constituent of contemporary movement toward authoritarian political structures.
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Climate Crisis and Alienation Lowy, Michael
Capitalism, nature, socialism,
01/02/2024, Volume:
35, Issue:
1
Journal Article
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Expansion espacial en el Simal, Iratxe Hernández
Estúdio (Universidade de Lisboa. Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Belas-Artes),
10/2019
28
Journal Article
La instalación (Selfi) incluye algunas estrategias que Dayra von Berner emplea en orden a generar un extranamiento y expansion del espacio donde se despliegan. De una parte, las cintas de luz en el ...delineado de arquitecturas pre-connotadas inciden sobre la visualización inmaterial de éstas. De otra, reflexiona con respecto al uso y función actuales de la fotografia mediante la transformación del contenedor en cámara oscura, alentando a lxs asistentes a ampliar el espacio físico hacia las redes sociales mediante la puesta en circulación de fotografias conversacionales realizadas in situ. Palabras clave: Darya Von Berner / selfi / câmara oscura / postfotografía. (Selfi) Installation includes some strategies that Dayra von Berner uses in order to generate an estrangement and expansion of the space where displayed. On the one hand, the light tapes delineating pre-connoted architectures affects the immaterial visualization of these. On the other, she reflects on the current use and function ofphotography by transforming the container into a camera obscura, encouraging attendees to expand the physical space to social networks by uploading conversational photographs made in situ into circulation. Keywords: Darya Von Berner / selfie / camera obscura / postphotography.
Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans' trust in government
has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War
with Government , the political scientists Amy Fried and
Douglas B. ...Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although
distrust of authority is deeply rooted in American culture, it is
fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it. Since the
postwar era conservative leaders have deliberately and
strategically undermined faith in the political system for partisan
aims. Fried and Harris detail how conservatives have sown distrust
to build organizations, win elections, shift power toward
institutions that they control, and secure policy victories. They
trace this strategy from the Nixon and Reagan years through
Gingrich's Contract with America, the Tea Party, and Donald Trump's
rise and presidency. Conservatives have promoted a political
identity opposed to domestic state action, used racial messages to
undermine unity, and cultivated cynicism to build and bolster
coalitions. Once in power, they have defunded public services
unless they help their constituencies and rolled back regulations,
perversely proving the failure of government. Fried and Harris draw
on archival sources to document how conservative elites have
strategized behind the scenes. With a powerful diagnosis of our
polarized era, At War with Government also proposes how we
might rebuild trust in government by countering the strategies
conservatives have used to weaken it.
Recent developments in existential authenticity and psychoanalytic alienation have challenged the traditional account of tourism’s contribution to authenticity. To evaluate these distinct accounts ...and advance authenticity scholarship, we examined the changes in authenticity and alienation from tourism to routine life, using a longitudinal design. The results suggest that authenticity decreased, self-alienation increased, and acceptance of external influences declined after touring. This implies that the traditional account of existential authenticity still holds; yet, there is a need to recognize the importance of autonomous decisions to authenticity fulfilment, and the effect does not last long. Therefore, the latest developments in existential authenticity and psychoanalytic alienation complement and refine traditional accounts. Overall, this study offers a parsimonious and direct evidence of tourism’s contribution to authenticity. The theoretical implications to authenticity, transformation, and wellbeing scholarship are also discussed.
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A timely and provocative discussion of alienation as an
intersectional category of life under racial capitalism and white
supremacy
From the divisiveness of the Trump era to the Covid-19 pandemic,
...alienation has become an all-too-familiar contemporary concept. In
this groundbreaking book, James A. Tyner offers a novel framework
for understanding the alienated subject, situating it within racial
capitalism and white supremacy. Directly addressing current
economic trends and their rhetoric of xenophobia, discrimination,
and violence, The Alienated Subject exposes the universal
whitewashing of alienation.
Drawing insight from a variety of sources, including Marxism,
feminism, existentialism, and critical race theory, Tyner develops
a critique of both the liberal subject and the alienated subject.
Through an engagement with the recent pandemic and the Black Lives
Matter movement, he demonstrates how the alienated subject is
capable of both compassion and cruelty; it is a sadomasochist.
Tyner goes on to emphasize the importance of the particular places
we find the alienated subject and how the revolutionary
transformation of alienation is inherently a spatial struggle.
Returning to key interlocutors from Sartre to Fromm, he examines
political notions of distance and the spatial practices of everyday
life as well as the capitalist conditions that give rise to the
alienated subject.
For Tyner, the alienated subject is not the iconic, romanticized
image of Marx's proletariat. Here he calls for an affirmation of
love as a revolutionary concept, necessary for the transformation
of a society marred by capitalism into an emancipated, caring
society conditioned by socially just relations.
The strategy of designing the covers of international magazines emerges as one of the expressive means that reflect the emotional and expressive aspects and employ them according to the spatial ...transformations and the struggles of globalization to usurp the intellectual, cultural, value and civilizational essence of man, which makes him vulnerable to psychological and spiritual alienation and becomes the abstract meaning of identity and culture, and the empowerment of cultural invasion and the control of consumer thought The contemporary globalist on the largest area and the globalization of the peoples of the world, and the study came in the first chapter: the general framework that includes the problem of the research to raise in our mind the following question: (What is the alienation of the visual in the design of the covers of international magazines?), The importance of the research lies in the study of the features of cultural, religious, political and social expression In the covers of contemporary international magazines and making their global covers a visual message related to cultures and values of authenticity and civilizational race at the global level. The aim of the study was to identify visual usurpation in the covers of international magazines. Alienation through the design idea) with indicators, and the third chapter included procedures The research and how to choose the research community and analyze sample forms, and the most important conclusions:
1- International magazines raise topics that raise controversy towards political, cultural, religious, moral and aesthetic alienation, through design elements as visual alienation that raises ideas and questions in the imagination of the recipient and the reader.2- The covers of international magazines seek to be a means of visually alienating their design content by supporting different aspects that contribute to strengthening the material presented towards a self-visual culture that competes with globalized perspectives.
Rebels Medovoi, Leerom; Pease, Donald E
2005, 2005-11-02, 20050101
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Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean—these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were ...often embraced and hotly debated at the dawn of the Cold War era because they stood for dissent and defiance at a time when the ideological production of the United States as leader of the "free world" required emancipatory figures who could represent America's geopolitical claims. Medovoi argues that the "bad boy" became a guarantor of the country's anti-authoritarian, democratic self-image: a kindred spirit to the freedom-seeking nations of the rapidly decolonizing third world and a counterpoint to the repressive conformity attributed to both the Soviet Union abroad and America's burgeoning suburbs at home. Alongside the young rebel, the contemporary concept of identity emerged in the 1950s. It was in that decade that "identity" was first used to define collective selves in the politicized manner that is recognizable today: in terms such as "national identity" and "racial identity." Medovoi traces the rapid absorption of identity themes across many facets of postwar American culture, including beat literature, the young adult novel, the Hollywood teen film, early rock 'n' roll, black drama, and "bad girl" narratives. He demonstrates that youth culture especially began to exhibit telltale motifs of teen, racial, sexual, gender, and generational revolt that would burst into political prominence during the ensuing decades, bequeathing to the progressive wing of contemporary American political culture a potent but ambiguous legacy of identity politics.
Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety and Accountability focuses on the complexity of the challenges facing judges, lawyers, legislators, and mental health professionals in ...developing safe and effective strategies for resolving custody disputes. Jaffe, Lemon, and Poisson integrate the most recent clinical and legal issues in the field in considering the prevalence of divorce and domestic violence as well as the relevance of domestic violence in custody disputes. The authors outline the essential differences between custody disputes with and without allegations and findings of domestic violence, and the different analysis and distinct interventions by judges, policymakers, and mental health professionals necessary in domestic violence cases.
