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Shame and masochism in Women : A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Japanese & Indian Psyche
No full textThis paper attempts to examine the psychological, psychoanalysis and socio-cultural construct of masochism in society exemplifying the various perspectives of psychoanalysis across the world over the years. Whereas, shame has been a recent exploration in western psychoanalytic literature possibly due to its experiential lack of it, as opposed to the eastern counterpart. In the study of both shame and masochism, Japan has undertaken a pioneering journey resulting from her own psychological formations of these qualities in her women. A closer look at Japan\u27s folk-tales and myths narrating the story of the \u27devoted\u27 and the \u27wounded\u27 mother/wife clearly unfolds these psychological mechanisms of shame and masochism in women. A prolonged study is conducted of the shame in author context, in Indian cultural and clinical situations. And in both the countries and its women, one takes a critical view of the \u27Prohibition of Don\u27t Look\u27 that affects society and the individual by taking a deeper look at the \u27wound\u27 inflicted upon the devoted mother (through cultural and clinical intervention)
Shame and masochism in Women : A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Japanese & Indian Psyche
No full textThis paper attempts to examine the psychological, psychoanalysis and socio-cultural construct of masochism in society exemplifying the various perspectives of psychoanalysis across the world over the years. Whereas, shame has been a recent exploration in western psychoanalytic literature possibly due to its experiential lack of it, as opposed to the eastern counterpart. In the study of both shame and masochism, Japan has undertaken a pioneering journey resulting from her own psychological formations of these qualities in her women. A closer look at Japan's folk-tales and myths narrating the story of the 'devoted' and the 'wounded' mother/wife clearly unfolds these psychological mechanisms of shame and masochism in women. A prolonged study is conducted of the shame in author context, in Indian cultural and clinical situations. And in both the countries and its women, one takes a critical view of the 'Prohibition of Don't Look' that affects society and the individual by taking a deeper look at the 'wound' inflicted upon the devoted mother (through cultural and clinical intervention)
インドから見た日本の精神分析の展望
No full textThe Japanese theoretical contributions in Psychoanalysis and its cultural practice have taken a significant role in the history of Psychoanalysis and its development since the 1950s. Perhaps it was for the first time in the genesis of psychoanalytic practice that a consistent combined clinical and cultural perspective was brought about from one single country with one common goal, that is to understand the Japanese mind, in the works of Keigo Okonogi, Takeo Doi and Osamu Kitayama. The three theoretical positions- (i)the Ajase Complex; (ii) Concept of Amae; and (iii)the Prohibition of Don\u27t Look, conceived by the above mentioned three theoreticians/psycho-analysts respectively, brought about a deep change in approach to Psychoanalysis in Japan. This paper attempts to draw upon these theoretical aspects in elaboration through exposition into both cultural and clinical contexts/material from Japan, and exploring its implementation in the Indian clinical and cultural contexts-exploring their many similarities and differences
Japanese Psychoanalysis from an Indian Perspective
No full textThe Japanese theoretical contributions in Psychoanalysis and its cultural practice have taken a significant role in the history of Psychoanalysis and its development since the 1950s. Perhaps it was for the first time in the genesis of psychoanalytic practice that a consistent combined clinical and cultural perspective was brought about from one single country with one common goal, that is to understand the Japanese mind, in the works of Keigo Okonogi, Takeo Doi and Osamu Kitayama. The three theoretical positions- (i)the Ajase Complex; (ii) Concept of Amae; and (iii)the Prohibition of Don't Look, conceived by the above mentioned three theoreticians/psycho-analysts respectively, brought about a deep change in approach to Psychoanalysis in Japan. This paper attempts to draw upon these theoretical aspects in elaboration through exposition into both cultural and clinical contexts/material from Japan, and exploring its implementation in the Indian clinical and cultural contexts-exploring their many similarities and differences
A multiphase phase-field study of three-dimensional martensitic twinned microstructures at large strains
No full textA thermodynamically consistent multiphase phase-field approach for stress and temperature-induced martensitic phase transformation at the nanoscale and under large strains is developed. A total of N independent order parameters are considered for materials with N variants, where one of the order parameters describes A M transformations and the remaining N-1 independent order parameters describe the transformations between the variants. A non-contradictory gradient energy is used within the free energy of the system to account for the energies of the interfaces. In addition, a non-contradictory kinetic relationships for the rate of the order parameters versus thermodynamic driving forces is suggested. As a result, a system of consistent coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations for the order parameters are derived. The crystallographic solution for twins within twins is presented for the cubic to tetragonal transformations. A 3D complex twins within twins microstructure is simulated using the developed phase-field approach and a large-strain-based nonlinear finite element method. A comparative study between the crystallographic solution and the simulation result is presented.This is a pre-print of the article Basak, Anup, and Valery I. Levitas. "A multiphase phase-field study of three-dimensional martensitic twinned microstructures at large strains." arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.12576 (2022).
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2206.12576.
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Failure mechanisms in lithium silicon batteries
No full textLithium silicon (Li-Si) batteries offer more than ten times the theoretical specific capacity compared to current lithium ion battery technologies, by using a silicon anode. In practice however, the cycle life of Li-Si batteries is very limited. The large volume change of the silicon anode is known to be the main reason for this. Research on the volume changes during varying cell cycles and voltages is presented in this thesis and an experimental set up for a quasi in situ study of the SEI layer is suggested. Cycling tests with an amorphous silicon thin film of 220 nm deposited using magnetron sputtering on a copper foil current collector confirmed that the major cause of capacity loss is swelling of the silicon during lithiation, causing the silicon to detach from the current collector and resulting in significant capacity loss. Increasing the lower cut off voltage from 0 V to 0.2 V resulted in a slight improvement of cycle life. Silicon detachment also decreased as determined by SEM images. EFTEM and EDX mapping showed a clear split between a partially lithiated silicon layer on the surface and a pure silicon layer on the current collector side. It can be concluded that discharging Li-Si batteries to 0.2 V instead of 0 V is a promising method to reduce the swelling of silicon during lithiation.HREMQuantum NanoscienceApplied Science
Making Better Batteries: Following Electrochemistry at the Nano Scale with Electron Microscopy
No full textWith the focus in automobile industry to switch from petroleum-based vehicles to all electric vehicles, the increasing demand on harvesting energy from renewable sources for a safer and greener future and the ever-increasing demand of the portable electronics systems, the need for better batteries is eminent. The ultimate aim of battery research is to develop a low cost, light and small battery that can deliver high-capacity and/or high power. Lithium and sodium batteries are the frontrunners in achieving this ultimate battery. A macro battery is composed of thousands of millions of nanoparticles. Thus, to prepare a better battery we must determine the respective effects of electrode nanoparticle size, shape, structure, grain–grain boundary, defects and doping on the battery performance. To do so electrode nanoparticles need to be probed at the nano-scale to find out the correlation between their morphology, structure and chemical properties and their evolution due to the battery charging-discharging with battery performance. In this thesis we have utilized the unique capability of electron microscope to resolve the microstructural and chemical information at the (sub)nanometer scale to probe the electrode nanoparticles for making better batteries
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