691 research outputs found
I&I - Cryptocurrency with Gian Volpicelli
No full textThis week is our April edition of Incentives and Instincts, a monthly series in which I speak with economist and friend, Bryce Ward, about some of the broader issues facing our society.
In this conversation we cover cryptocurrency: what is it and what do you need to know about it? To help answer these questions, we are joined by Gian Volpicelli, senior writer at WIRED and author of Cryptocurrency: How Digital Money Could Transform Finance.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/anewangle_podcasts/1240/thumbnail.jp
The hidden author: an interpretation of Petronius' Satyricon
No full textThe Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written in the first century A.D., is famous today primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." But this episode is only one part of the larger picture of life during Nero's rule presented in the work. In this accessible discussion of Petronius's masterful use of parody, Gian Biagio Conte offers an interpretation of the Satyricon as a whole. He combines the scholarly precision of close reading with a significant, original theoretical model.At the heart of his interpretation, Conte reveals the technique of the "hidden author" that Petronius employs at the expense of his characters, in particular the teller of the story, Enclopius. By remaining hidden outside the narrative, Petronius invites the reader to smile at the folies de grandeur that occur in a culture of scholars and declaimers. Yet as Conte shows, behind the parody and inexhaustible humor of the Satyricon lies an unexpectedly serious lament. For those familiar with the Satyricon, as well as for new readers, Conte's book will be a reliable, enjoyable guide to the wonders the Satyricon contains
Luciano Floridi, Gian Paolo Terravecchia, Le parole della filosofia contemporanea, Carocci Editore, Collana Quality Paperbacks, Roma, 2009, pp. 230
No full textThe text offers a Critical Review of "Le parole della filosofia contemporanea" by Luciano Floridi and Gian Paolo Terravecchia. The author critically reflects on the book by considering its methodologies, its arguments, and its relation with other books of the same type and on the same subject.Il testo propone una Lettura Critica del libro "Le parole della filosofia contemporanea" di Luciano Floridi e Gian Paolo Terravecchia. L'autore riflette criticamente sul libro considerandone le metodologie, gli argomenti e il nesso con altri libri dello stesso tipo e sullo stesso argomento
Il caso clinico e le operazioni di sicurezza dell'analista
No full textThe aim of this text is to make an analysis of the clinical case. It is focused not on the content, but on the form, and in particular on the “form of content”, that includes the narrative structure, the role of the narrator and the focalization. If we observe not only what, but also how the author narrates, we can have interesting information about the thought of the psychoanalyst, his process of mentalization, his defense mechanisms and his resistances. We use Bion’s theory of thinking, integrated by the concept of “beta remains” theorised by the author. The observations focuses on Freud’s four most important clinical cases
Intrecciare storie, costruire menti. Le dinamiche psichiche dei personaggi nel laboratorio letterario.
No full textThe author analizes some novels in order to observe how the characters activate psychic dynamics based on recognition, mentalization, narcissism and mirroring. These mechanisms shape their identity and structure the relations with the other characters. The literary space is a kind of laboratory where are staged, in a nearly experimental way, emotions, thoughts, defences, and interpersonal relations that reproduce the same daily-life phenomenons. It’s a mirror in which the author and the reader reflect themselves in an empathetic way and realize the process of meta-mentalization
Realtà e finzione in autobiografia
No full text[Reality and fiction in the autobiography] How does the autobiography reproduce
its author’s life? What kind of reality and truth does the author investigate?
Does his reconstruction accept imagination? And where does the
narrative of fiction find its contents? Is the author’s biography part of the fictional
plot? Quoting Sigmund Freud, Groucho Marx, David Metzinger, David
Foster Wallace, Wilfred Bion and Albert Camus among the others, in this article,
we have underlined how reality and fiction can meet in both the types of
narrative. We have also studied the trans-autobiographical narrative in which
the autobiography intentionally encounters the fiction, and have analysed its
reparative effects
Il pensiero e lo spazio estetico. Osservazioni sull’opera pittorica del caregiver di una persona affetta dal morbo di Alzheimer
No full textThe Author studies, through a psychoanalytic perspective, the psychological dynamics started by the painting activity of the caregiver of a person suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. In particular the Author analises the ways in which the creation of an aesthetic space allows the painter to elaborate the trauma and the mourning produced by the disease on his wife’s mind. He also investigates the potentialities of artistic activity to defend the caregiver from a potential symmetrical atrophy of patient’s mind.Nel contributo vengono studiate, attraverso una prospettiva psicoanalitica, le dinamiche psichiche attivate dalla produzione pittorica del caregiver di un paziente colpito da morbo di Alzheimer. In particolare si indagano i modi in cui la creazione di uno spazio estetico ha reso possibile al pittore elaborare il trauma e il lutto connessi alla ricaduta della malattia sulla mente della moglie e si osservano le potenzialità insite nell’attività artistica di costituire una protezione per il caregiver nei confronti di una potenziale simmetrica atrofizzazione mentale
Tales of fiction in narrative medicine
No full textIntroduction
The research concerns tales of fiction created by the patients of the Children’s Hospital of Parma. The goals are: 1) observing the thematic and structural elements of the texts and the modalities of projection, identification and symbolisation; 2) examining the defensive and reparative strategies; 3) finding hints to improve the subjective experience of the hospital stay.
Method
The study has been divided into two sections. In the first section each child produced two oral stories starting from stimulus pictures, some of which related to the cure, whilst the others were neutral. The author used random images in the first of the two stories and selected images in the other one. In the second section the child created his oral story freely and without any stimulus. All the tales have been recorded and transcribed.
The analysis of texts, qualitative and inspired to semiotic and psychodynamic perspectives, referred to superficial aspects (thematic and formal-structural) and deeper aspects (projection, identification, symbolisation, defences, activation of thinking, reparation).
Outcomes and conclusions
The outcomes gathered from observing the performances of the children and their stories have demonstrated that fantasy and creativity help the subjects to express their emotions and pains in a projective way. They also have proved that identification, symbolisation and defences work differently, according to the type of story. The results are independent from the ages of the patients, their pathologies and the duration of the recovery. In order to help the children with elaboration of their emotions in a gradual way, the narrative activity is now organised to achieve successful results starting with a free tale followed by one with stimulus pictures chosen by the child
Introduction: From assistance to social security, and back?
No full textThe author sketches briefly one of the most recent trends in social security: the cut of benefits by Governments and Parliaments under the pressure of the financial crisis as interpreted and contrasted by the s.c. troika (IMF, ECB,EU Commission), and frames this trend in a more general uncertainty, which afflicts the European citizens as regards their social rights
Identità, alterità, narrazione. Un approccio psicodinamico
No full textIdentity, Alterity, Narrative. A Psychodynamic Approach - This article explores the development of personal identity - construed as a sense of self underpinned by a theory of self - in five steps: the “core self”; mirror self-recognition; the use of the pronoun “I”; alternating use of the pronouns “I” and “you” in dialogue; children’s capacity to connect their bodily and psychological sense of self to their self-image and to report this connection through the sentence “That’s me”. Moreover, the importance of interpersonal relationships in the construction of personal identity through mirroring, mentalization, and mutual identification is emphasized. Identity is conceived as a complex system with a “self pole”, involving the dynamics of introjection, and an “I-other pole”, involving the dynamics of projection. Finally, the author analyses how narrative and paradigmatic thinking (both conscious) join with unconscious and preconscious thinking in the definition of one’s own identity
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