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La sfida della cogenitorialità
No full textL'Autrice ha curato - insieme ad Ortu e Simonelli- la Prefazione all'edizione italian
Sigmund Freud: i concetti fondamentali della psicoanalisi
No full textUna presentazione esaustiva dei modelli teorici della psicoanalisi classica e moderna, l’eredità dei padri fondatori e le trasformazioni della concezione della patologia mentale. La psicoanalisi delle origini; gli sviluppi della scuola britannica; la psicoanalisi statunitense; la ricerca empirica contemporanea: il testo prende in esame le linee di ricerca che hanno attraversato la psicologia dinamica dalle origini a oggi. Particolare attenzione viene riservata all’evoluzione delle categorie di ‘inconscio’, di ‘mondo interno’ e ‘rappresentazione’, al problema mente/corpo, al rapporto tra passato e presente nella psicopatologia. L’esposizione dei principali concetti della teoria, o del contributo specifico di un autore, parte da un ampio inquadramento del contesto storico e culturale in cui ciascun modello si è sviluppato e come esso abbia risolto i problemi via via indicati, discostandosi dalla tradizione precedente. Ogni capitolo del volume propone una sintetica introduzione storica alla nascita del modello o della teoria presentati, l’esposizione dei principali concetti che li contraddistinguono e una conclusione in cui si valutano le ricadute cliniche degli assiomi teorici
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Translations of empire and identity in De ortu Waluuanii : a commentary upon the text with a translation and substantial introduction
No full texttextDe ortu Waluuanii is a prose romance in Latin that recounts the birth and
early adventures of Gawain. Among the more vexing issues presented by this text,
its authorship is unsettled, and its historical context and literary affiliations remain
unclear. Hindering analysis, this level of uncertainty has obscured the text’s
sophistication and coherence. To establish a framework for addressing the
uncertainty, part of my dissertation provides a Commentary upon the text. A
repository of scholarship, this Commentary serves as a structure for displaying De
ortu’s rich intertextuality.
Producing the Commentary has generated a number of arguments. The
most substantial of these appear in the Introduction to the Commentary. “Sources
and Parallels: Gawain’s Enfances” establishes relations between four texts: the
legend of pope Gregory, and three rival versions of Gawain’s youth. Lexical and
thematic evidence indicates that both the legend of pope Gregory and Les
Enfances Gauvain directly influenced De ortu. The comparisons required to
establish these relations reveal patterns in De ortu’s alteration of sources. These
patterns, in turn, elucidate the text’s main themes.
In “Authorship and Date,” I suggest that Ranulph Higden, a Benedictine
monk and historian, wrote De ortu Waluuanii and a related romance, Historia
Meriadoci, in Chester during the first half of the fourteenth century. Though
speculative, this identification may illuminate the text. Positing a fourteenthcentury
context, for example, helps to reveal that De ortu, a work long considered
a collection of disparate parts, is thematically coherent. This coherence, I suggest,
issues from the cultural processes that formed the English nation. Through its use
of foundational myths and ethnographic discourse, in its systematic alteration of
sources, and especially in the body of its hero, whose composite identity—British,
Roman, and English—encompasses the contested ethnic character of AngloNorman
England, De ortu constitutes the discourse of an emerging nation.
In addition to the Commentary and Introduction, my dissertation provides
a new translation of the Latin text. Building upon two previous translations, my
effort attempts to reproduce the author’s sophisticated rhetorical usage.Englis
Class on board! Reflecting on the linguistic articulations of structural inequalities
No full textIl capitolo discute l'articolazione linguistica delle disuguaglianze strutturali, concentrandosi principalmente sulla classe sociale e la subalternità. A partire da una critica al discorso neoliberista e da una discussione della prospettiva Gramsciana, il capitolo invita a riprendere in considerazione il concetto di classe sociale. Questo necessità è particolarmente rilevante per le discipline che, negli ultimi decenni, si sono spostate verso studi centrati sull'identità. Il capitolo presenta la classe come un concetto relazionale, strettamente legato ai rapporti degli individui con i mezzi di produzione. Sottolinea, inoltre, l'espansione globale delle politiche neoliberali, che complicano ulteriormente le disuguaglianze di classe. Nonostante la sua marginalizzazione nel discorso dominante, la classe sociale persiste, si interseca con altre forme di oppressione (come razza e genere) e risulta fondamentale per comprendere le dinamiche sociali e le disuguaglianze in diversi contesti.The chapter discusses the linguistic articulation of structural inequalities, primarily focusing on social class and subaltern. Drawing with a critique of neoliberal discourse and a discussion on the Antonio Gramsci perspective, the chapter calls to re-engage with the concept of social class. This call is particularly relevant for disciplines that have shifted towards identity studies in recent decades. The chapter presents class as a relational concept intricately linked to individuals' relationships with the means of production. It also highlights the global expansion of neoliberal policies, which further complicates class inequalities. Despite its marginalization in mainstream discourse, class endures, intersects with other forms of oppression (such as race and gender), and is pivotal for understanding social dynamics and inequalities in various contexts
Las referencias recíprocas entre el Tribunal Europeo y la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos: ¿de la influencia al diálogo?
No full textEl artículo ententa aclarar los resultados de una investigación empírica sobre las referencias o citas recíprocas entre el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos (TEDH) y la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH), reconocibles en la motivación de sus resoluciones.
Muchos estudios han destacado que el uso de precedentes extranjeros (o “extrasistemicos”) no se limita a los Tribunales nacionales, sino afecta también a los Tribunales internacionales. Todavìa, es frecuente un abuso de la appelaciòn de “dialogo judicial” para estas practicas: ademàs, faltan datos empiricos completos y normalmente se encuentran algunos ejemplos bastante casuales.
El artìculo presenta los resultados de una investigaciòn extensiva y completa sobre las decisiones de los dos Tribunales en los años 1987-2012, para verificar si verdaderamente hay algùn dialogo entre los dos sistemas. La investigaciòn sigue el metodo yà experimentado en estudios empiricos sobre el uso de precedentes extranjeros para los tribunales constitucionales, que està integrado al mismo tiempo para un analisis cantitativo y calitativo.
La investigaciòn no muestra evidencias de un verdadero dialogo entre las dos instituciones, sino de una convergencia jurisprudencial en varias materias.
The article aims to analyze the mutual references made in their judgments by the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-american Court of Human Rights.
Previous studies on circulation of foreign precedents have been showing that the use of foreign or “extra-systemic” precedents is not a phenomenon limited to national courts, but does also affect international courts. Nontheless, the notion of “judicial dialogue” is often abused, and the interactions between courts are hardly proved through empirical data but rather through seldom examples.
The article presents the results of a general and systemic research on the case-law of the two courts in the period between 1987 and 2012, to verify if there is some kind of “judicial dialogue” or “cross-fertilization” between the two systems. The research follows the methodology previously applied in empirical studies on the use of foreign precedents by constitutional courts, which consists of both a quantitative and a qualitative analysis.
The research did not show any evidence of the existence of a real “dialogue” between the two courts, but rather of a “convergence” among their jurisprudence in several fields
Multivariate Wold decompositions: a Hilbert A-module approach
No full textOrthogonal decompositions are essential tools for the study of weakly stationary time series. Some examples are given by the classical Wold decomposition of Wold (A study in the analysis of stationary time series, Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, Uppsala, 1938) and the extended Wold decomposition of Ortu et al. (Quant Econ 11(1):203–230, 2020), which permits to disentangle shocks with heterogeneous degrees of persistence from a given weakly stationary process. The analysis becomes more involved when dealing with vector processes because of the presence of different simultaneous shocks. In this paper, we recast the standard treatment of multivariate time series in terms of Hilbert A-modules (where matrices replace the field of scalars) and we prove the abstract Wold theorem for self-dual pre-Hilbert A-modules with an isometric operator. This theorem allows us to easily retrieve the multivariate classical Wold decomposition and the multivariate version of the extended Wold decomposition. The theory helps in handling matrix coefficients and computing orthogonal projections on closed submodules. The orthogonality notion is key to decompose the given vector process into uncorrelated subseries, and it implies a variance decomposition
Organising in the Industry 4.0: the rise of the "Empathetic Union"
No full textThe technological changes in the sphere of production that we have witnessed in the last 10 years have been of such significance as to be called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (Industry 4.0), thus an important step beyond the “Digital Revolution” of the late 20th century. Innovations such as robotics, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and the development of algorithms, all point in the same direction: that of reducing human intervention in the production process to a minimum.
Indeed, fears have emerged that artificial intelligence will create a huge reserve army of labour. The working and middle classes worry that computers and machines will end up taking their jobs and this will leave individuals and families with no possibilities of earning a leaving for themselves. These fears are very real and create growing anxiety among workers.
Nonetheless, human labour is still needed in many different moments in the process of production and distribution of the goods that we consume. Thus, we are now in a situation in which human and artificial intelligence interact, with the latter taking up the role that once was of the line manager in the Fordist factory – dictating the speed and quality of work required – in many “traditional” industries, or directly as a substitute for the employers, as it is the case in the uberised ones, such as food delivery. This situation has serious implications for workers’ rights as well as for the construal of their identity as workers. Indeed, “workers governed by AI [...] often fall through the cracks of employment legislation both with respect to their employment status as well as protections from discrimination and unfair dismissal.” (Walker et al., 2021, p. 29).
The issues of identity referred to above constitute a major problem for organising resistance to unfair practices in the “workplace”, but recently some new forms of organisation have started to emerge.
A case in point is the attempt at organising the workforce of one of the most famous and powerful tech giants, Alphabet, which is the corporation that owns Google, among many other enterprises. Indeed, on January 4th, 2021 the new Alphabet Workers Union was launched to combine “the struggle for the soul of Alphabet with the broader working-class struggle in America and around the world” as the organisation states in its website (Alphabet Workers Union, 2021, p. Section Meet CWA). Issues of identity are addressed in the homepage of the union, with relational clauses (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004) such as “we are empathetic workers”, and “we are technologists who trust each other” (Alphabet Workers Union, 2021, sec. Home), that attach emotions and feelings to the members of the Union.
Using language that does not shy away from feelings is something unusual in the history of organised labour, so we could say that innovation in the production process has finally produced innovation in the language of union mobilisation and its communicative techniques.
This paper aims at describing this new, emotional language of the Alphabet Workers Union as a form of resistance to the dehumanising rule of the algorithm. It is expected that, in the process, the anxieties and fears of the workforce will be highlighted and defined. At the same time, positive feelings and emotions attached to the re-humanising experience of pursuing a shared and collective goal are also bound to emerge.
The corpus analysed in the paper is made up of texts belonging to different genres so as to fully represent the social practice of union organising in all its semiotic aspects, from the most public to the ones used for internal communication (Askehave & Swales, 2001; Bhatia, 2008, 2015; Martin, 2014; Swales, 1990). The ideational and textual aspects of individual texts are analysed in depth through Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004), while the analysis of the interpersonal aspect, i.e. the way in which social relationships are enacted through linguistic choices, is undertaken through the ‘appraisal’ paradigm developed by Martin and White (2005) as a system that accounts for the use of “semantic resources used to negotiate emotions, judgements, and valuations” (Martin, 2000, p. 145)
La lingua bugiarda
No full textWeinrich’s influential essay Linguistik der Lüge was published in Germany in 1966. It was considered the “manifesto” for text linguistics. In Italy it was published forty years ago for a miscellany. This new editing, enriched by notes and an afterword of the author, gives to Italy an essay that in Germany
is almost a classic
Introduzione al volume: Psicologia dinamica. I modelli teorici a confronto
No full textIl volume raccoglie saggi scritti da diversi Autori, incluse le curatrici, sui diversi modelli teorici della psicoanalisi, dalle origini ai nostri giorni. Ciascun modello viene illustrato rispetto all'uso dei concetti fondamentali, alle esperienze cliniche da cui è nato il modello ed alle implicazioni per il lavoro clinico. Alcuni capitoli sono dedicati allo sviluppo di fecondi intrecci fra psicoanalisi e ricerca empirica,sia nell'area dello sviluppo infantile, sia nell'area della diagnosi e della clinica psicoanalitica
S: La "scoperta dell'inconscio" e la fondazione della teoria psicoanaliticaigmund Freud
No full textviene contestualizzata la nascita della teoria psicoanalitica. viene discusso il debito di s. freud nei confronti del mondo scientifico tedesco e della scuola psicodinamica francese. particolare attenzione viene riservata ad analizzare i passi che hanno portato alla costruzione di una serie di ipotesi innovative sul funzionamento della mente e alla messa a punto di un nuovo dispositivo terapeutico per il trattamento dei disturbi nevrotic
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