Eros Ex Machina
Author | : M. Christian |
Publisher | : Rhinoceros |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Erotic literature |
ISBN | : 9781563335938 |
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Author | : M. Christian |
Publisher | : Rhinoceros |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Erotic literature |
ISBN | : 9781563335938 |
Author | : David B. Morris |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0674977939 |
Susan Sontag once described illness as “the night-side of life.” When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into darkness and disarray, our routines are interrupted, our deepest beliefs shaken. The modern regime of hyper-logical biomedicine offers little solace when it comes to the effects of ill health on our inner lives. By exploring the role of desire in illness, Eros and Illness offers an alternative: an unconventional, deeply human exploration of what it means to live with, and live through, disease. When we face down illness, something beyond biomedicine’s extremely valuable advances in treatment and prevention is sorely needed. Desire in its many guises plays a crucial part in illness, David Morris shows. Emotions, dreams, and stories—even romance and eroticism—shape our experiences as patients and as caregivers. Our perception of the world we enter through illness—including too often a world of pain—is shaped by desire. Writing from his own heartbreaking experience as a caretaker for his wife, Morris relates how desire can worsen or, with care, mitigate the heavy weight of disease. He looks to myths, memoirs, paintings, performances, and narratives to understand how illness is intertwined with the things we value most dearly. Drawing on cultural resources from many centuries and media, Eros and Illness reaches out a hand to guide us through the long night of illness, showing us how to find productive desire where we expected only despair and defeat.
Author | : M. Couturier |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137404590 |
Nabokov gained international fame with Lolita, a highly erotic and morally disturbing novel. Through its comprehensive study of the amorous and sexual behaviors of Nabokov's characters this book shows how Eros, both as a clown or a pervert, contributes to the poetic excellence of his novels and accounts for the unfolding of the plots.
Author | : Silvia Montiglio |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199916047 |
Love and Providence provides the first study of the recognition scene in Greek "romantic" novels and its significance in the ancient literary tradition.
Author | : Richard H. Armstrong |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 150172066X |
"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearing the telltale traces of the ancient archive, then would not our growing distance from the archive of antiquity also imply that we are in the process of losing our grip on psychoanalysis itself, as Freud conceived it?"—from Chapter 1As he developed his striking new science of the mind, Sigmund Freud had frequent recourse to ancient culture and the historical disciplines that draw on it. A Compulsion for Antiquity fully explores how Freud appropriated figures and themes from classical mythology and how the theory and practice of psychoanalysis paralleled contemporary developments in historiography, archaeology, philology, and the history of religions. Drawing extensively from Freud's private correspondence and other notes and documents, Richard H. Armstrong touches on Freud's indebtedness to Sophocles and the Oedipus complex, his interest in Moses and the Jewish religion, and his travels to Athens and Rome.Armstrong shows how Freud turned to the ancient world to deal with the challenges posed by his own scientific ambitions and how these lessons influenced the way he handled psychic "evidence" and formulated the universal application of what were initially isolated clinical truths. Freud's narrative reconstructions of the past also related to his sense of Jewishness, linking the historical trajectory of psychoanalysis with contemporary central European Jewish culture. Ranging across the breadth of Freud's work, A Compulsion for Antiquity offers fresh insights into the roots of psychoanalysis and fin de siècle European culture, and makes an important contribution to the burgeoning discipline of mnemohistory.
Author | : Barbara Fuchs |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 041521260X |
"Often derided as an inferior form of literature, "romance" as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike." "Romance is a clear and wide-ranging introduction for students of literary history, comparative literature and modern literary forms. It is also a convincing case for a literary concept too often set to one side."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Anna Esposito |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2020-07-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 981155093X |
This book provides an overview of the current advances in artificial intelligence and neural nets. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have shown great capabilities in modelling, prediction and recognition tasks supporting human–machine interaction. At the same time, the issue of emotion has gained increasing attention due to its relevance in achieving human-like interaction with machines. The real challenge is taking advantage of the emotional characterization of humans’ interactions to make computers interfacing with them emotionally and socially credible. The book assesses how and to what extent current sophisticated computational intelligence tools might support the multidisciplinary research on the characterization of appropriate system reactions to human emotions and expressions in interactive scenarios. Discussing the latest recent research trends, innovative approaches and future challenges in AI from interdisciplinary perspectives, it is a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry.
Author | : Marcella Althaus-Reid |
Publisher | : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0334041570 |
Examines some of the most extreme approaches to the body that our society engages with. This book embraces the difficult and challenging areas of the body and society, as an embodied resource for the ever-expanding task of considering the nature of incarnation through the lens of body theology.
Author | : Gretchen Reydams-Schils |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2005-02-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226308375 |
Roman Stoic thinkers in the imperial period adapted Greek doctrine to create a model of the self that served to connect philosophical ideals with traditional societal values. The Roman Stoics-the most prominent being Marcus Aurelius-engaged in rigorous self-examination that enabled them to integrate philosophy into the practice of living. Gretchen Reydams-Schils's innovative new book shows how these Romans applied their distinct brand of social ethics to everyday relations and responsibilities. The Roman Stoics reexamines the philosophical basis that instructed social practice in friendship, marriage, parenting, and community. From this analysis emerge Stoics who were neither cold nor detached, as the stereotype has it, but all too aware of their human weaknesses. In a valuable contribution to current discussions in the humanities on identity, autonomy, and altruism, Reydams-Schils ultimately conveys the wisdom of Stoics to the citizens of modern society.
Author | : Peter Schulman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art and popular culture |
ISBN | : |