A Monster Will Help You: Childhood Grief, Healing Nightmares, and Monstrous Wish-Fulfillment in A Monster Calls and The Nest

Denne oppgaven tar for seg ulike debatterte tema innen barnelitteratur, slik som skumle bøker, monstre, sorg, død, traumer, med formålet om å vise hvorfor det er viktig å skape åpenhet rundt disse temaene. Basert på oppdatert teori innen felt som barnesorg, traumer, drømmer, følelser, og monsterteori, vil oppgaven vise eksempler fra litterære verk innen barnelitteratur, som er A Monster Calls skrevet av Patrick Ness og The Nest skrevet av Kenneth Oppel. Disse bøkene korresponderer med mye av teorien som oppgaven representerer, og slik kan disse bøkene brukes som verktøy for å skape mer åpenhet og kommunikasjon om de nevnte temaene. I denne oppgaven blir det argumentert for at monstrene i A Monster Calls og The Nest er til mer hjelp for hovedkarakterene enn hva deres egne foreldre er, og at monstrene dukker opp i drømmene deres med den hensikt at de skal hjelpe hovedkarakterene til å akseptere den vanskelige livssituasjonen de befinner seg i. Hovedkarakterene får lite hjelp og oppfølging fra foreldrene sine, og de er derfor alene med store følelser og kompliserte livssituasjoner hvor trusselen om død henger over dem. Ved å vise eksempler av hvor og hvordan monstrene hjelper, kan det medvirke til å øke kunnskapen rundt monsteret sin rolle i barnelitteratur og om hvordan denne rollen ikke nødvendigvis alltid må være for å skremme. Som denne oppgaven viser, er både barnelitteratur og monstre mye mer kompliserte enn de ofte blir framstilt.Engelsk mastergradsoppgaveENG350MAHF-ENGMAHF-LÆF

The Value of Friendship for Education

In lieu of an abstract, here is the article\u27s first paragraph: Western philosophers have enthusiastically praised friendship. A few intellectuals have raised doubts about it, such as Thomas Hobbes and Søren Kierkegaard, but friendship has inspired many others, including Aristotle, Francis Bacon, C.S. Lewis, and Mary E. Hunt, who have esteemed its benefits, especially the reciprocal commitment to nurture each friend\u27s \u27best self\u27

Converging theories on dreaming: Between Freud, predictive processing, and psychedelic research

Dreams are still an enigma of human cognition, studied extensively in psychoanalysis and neuroscience. According to the Freudian dream theory and Solms' modifications of the unconscious derived from it, the fundamental task of meeting our emotional needs is guided by the principle of homeostasis. Our innate value system generates conscious feelings of pleasure and unpleasure, resulting in the behavior of approaching or withdrawing from the world of objects. Based on these experiences, a hierarchical generative model of predictions (priors) about the world is constantly created and modified, with the aim to optimize the meeting of our needs by reducing prediction error, as described in the predictive processing model of cognition. Growing evidence from neuroimaging supports this theory. The same hierarchical functioning of the brain is in place during sleep and dreaming, with some important modifications like a lack of sensual and motor perception and action. Another characteristic of dreaming is the predominance of primary process thinking, an associative, non-rational cognitive style, which can be found in similar altered states of consciousness like the effect of psychedelics. Mental events that do not successfully fulfill an emotional need will cause a prediction error, leading to conscious attention and adaptation of the priors that incorrectly predicted the event. However, this is not the case for repressed priors (RPs), which are defined by the inability to become reconsolidated or removed, despite ongoing error signal production. We hypothesize that Solms' RPs correspond with the conflictual complexes, as described by Moser in his dream formation theory. Thus, in dreams and dream-like states, these unconscious RPs might become accessible in symbolic and non-declarative forms that the subject is able to feel and make sense of. Finally, we present the similarities between dreaming and the psychedelic state. Insights from psychedelic research could be used to inform dream research and related therapeutic interventions, and vice versa. We propose further empirical research questions and methods and finally present our ongoing trial "Biological Functions of Dreaming" to test the hypothesis that dreaming predicts intact sleep architecture and memory consolidation, via a lesion model with stroke patients who lost the ability to dream

Community Foundations: Growing Philanthropy Close to Home

Describes the rapid growth and appeal of community foundations, including how they provide mechanisms for effective giving and have become local and regional facilitators. Provides donor stories drawn from six community foundations in West Virginia

The Cowl - v.62 - n.6 - Oct 9, 1997

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 62, Number 6 - Oct 9, 1997. 24 pages

Spartan Daily, April 23, 1968

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The myth of upward mobility

The idea of upward mobility—that anyone who works hard, obeys the law, and saves his money can get ahead—is deeply engrained. From Horatio Alger stories to current Hollywood productions and TV programs, America pays homage to the tale of the hard working, upward striving youth who starts out poor but overcomes obstacles, opens a business, invents a machine, marries well, and ends up in a social class many stations higher than the one in which he or she began

She inches glass to break: conversations between friends

She inches glass to break: conversations between friends is a project that aims to manifest, through research and practice, my own feminist language within the videos I have produced in my final year of my Masters of Fine Arts. My feminist language is Australian and intersectional, invested in combating sexism, racism and in deepening language and representation around sexuality in relation to Asian women. This project discusses my video She inches glass to break (2018) in length, which created intersectional feminist dialogue in response to feminist filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s film Ticket of No Return (1979) and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961). Additionally, given this project’s investment in language, this body of work is influenced both by aspects of psychoanalysis – in which speech is central to a “therapeutic action” – and by feminist linguistics in which linguistic analysis reveals some of the mechanisms through which language constrains, coerces and represents women, men and non-binary people in oppressive ways