Creating Oneself as a Mother: Dreams, Reality and Identity in Doris Lessing’s the Fifth Child (1988)

"With a few symbols a dream can define the whole of one's life, and warn us of the future, too" (Schlueter 71).In this extract from an interview by Jonah Raskin in 1969, Doris Lessing explained the importance of dreams in her major work, The Golden Notebook; but it could just as easily be applied to a large part of her extensive novelistic corpus. Throughout her diverse literary output, Lessing uses traditional narrative methods such as tales and fables "as a creative vehicle to examine the states of consciousness of the human soul" (Galin 23). Through use of all these fantastic elements, she endows several of her novels, such as The Fifth Child (1988), with a dreamlike atmosphere in which reality and imagination merge. If dreams can define one's entire life, they will also provide the clues to one's own identity, illuminating areas that we do not have access to in conscious life. Identity is a major issue in the novels of Doris Lessing, especially those dealing with female protagonists trying to define their own selves amongst the different roles they perform in life. The subconscious, through dreams and imagination, plays an important part in this quest, since a person's identity is built up by both conscious factors and subconscious forces.The aim of this paper is to show how Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child can be read as a valid representation of a failure in the construction of identity; the novel dramatises the way in which the dreams and fantasies of the subconscious can destroy or fatally interrupt the identity-building process. The Fifth Child, which is described by Jones in the New York Review of Books as "a horror story of maternity and the nightmare of social collapse" (30-31), combines dreaming, imagination and a sense of female identity which is endangered and comes close to disappearing. A closer look into The Fifth Child and its multi-layered treatment of identity as a form of troubled self-creation will help us to appreciate its integral role in the Lessing canon

La transformació del paisatge del delta de la Tordera en els darrers cent cinquanta anys. Una anàlisi per mitjà dels canvis en els usos i les cobertes del sòl

L'article presenta una comparació del paisatge del delta de la Tordera entre mitjan segle XIX i l'actualitat, basat sobretot en els canvis succeïts en els usos i les cobertes del sòl. El paisatge de mitjan segle XIX s'ha reconstruït bàsicament a partir de les dades obtingudes en els amillaraments. Els usos i les cobertes del sòl del paisatge actual s'han establert a partir de la fotointerpretació i el treball de camp. Els canvis més destacats fan referència a la pràctica desaparició d'alguns conreus com ara la vinya, molt important al segle XIX, a l'expansió del bosc en detriment dels conreus abandonats i a l'augment de l'espai construït, la qual cosa ha donat lloc a una configuració del mosaic paisatgístic altament fragmentada.Se presenta una comparación del paisaje del delta del Tordera entre mediados del siglo XIX y la actualidad, basada sobre todo en los cambios sucedidos en los usos y las cubiertas del suelo. El paisaje de mediados del siglo XIX se ha reconstruido básicamente a partir de los datos extraídos de los amillaramientos. Los usos y las cubiertas del suelo actuales se han establecido a partir de la fotointerpretación auxiliada por el trabajo de campo. Los cambios más destacables se refieren a la desaparición de algunos cultivos que en el pasado fueron muy importantes, como los viñedos, a la expansión del bosque en detrimento de los cultivos abandonados y al aumento del espacio construido, lo que, en conjunto, ha dado lugar a una configuración del mosaico paisajístico con un alto grado de fragmentación.Cet article présente une comparaison entre le paysage du delta de la Tordera de la moitié du XIXe siècle et du paysage actuel en se basant principalement sur les changements intervenus sur l'utilisation et la couverture du sol. Le paysage des années 1850 a pu être reconstitué basiquement grâce à des données obtenues dans les amillaraments (cadastres). L'utilisation et la couverture du sol du paysage actuel ont été établies à partir de la photo-interprétation et du travail réalisé sur le terrain. Il fait mention des changements les plus remarquables tels que la quasi-disparition de certaines cultures comme la vigne, très importante au XIXe siècle, l'expansion du bois au détriment des cultures abandonnées et le développement de l'espace construit, donnant lieu à une mosaïque du paysage extrêmement fragmentée.This article compares the mid-nineteenth century landscape of the River Tordera delta with the present day landscape, based, above all, on the changes that have occurred in land use and land cover. The mid 19th century landscape was reconstructed using data obtained from the amillaraments (land inventories) and other historical documents. Present-day land use and cover was established through photo interpretation and field work. The most important changes detected concern the almost complete disappearance of certain crops, such as vineyards, which were very important in the 19th century; the expansion of forest in place of abandoned tilled land and the increase in built up areas, which, taken together, produce a highly fragmented landscape pattern

Mapping the incidence of rape reported to law enforcement in New Mexico and the availability of services to survivors.

Presented at: 2016 Annual Conference of the New Mexico Public Health Association; April 12-13, 2016; Las Cruces, NM.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/prc-posters-presentations/1023/thumbnail.jp

Engaging men for a sexual violence-free nation: a cross-sectional study of U.S.-based organizations.

Presented at: American Public Health Association 2016 Annual Meeting & Expo; October 29-November 2, 2016; Denver, CO.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/prc-posters-presentations/1024/thumbnail.jp

Remark on charge conjugation in the non relativistic limit

We study the non relativistic limit of the charge conjugation operation $\cal C$ in the context of the Dirac equation coupled to an electromagnetic field. The limit is well defined and, as in the relativistic case, $\cal C$, $\cal P$ (parity) and $\cal T$ (time reversal) are the generators of a matrix group isomorphic to a semidirect sum of the dihedral group of eight elements and $\Z_2$. The existence of the limit is supported by an argument based in quantum field theory. Also, and most important, the limit exists in the context of galilean relativity. Finally, if one complexifies the Lorentz group and therefore the galilean spacetime $x_\mu$, then the explicit form of the matrix for $\cal C$ allows to interpret it, in this context, as the complex conjugation of the spatial coordinates: $\vec{x} \to \vec{x}^*$. This result is natural in a fiber bundle description.Comment: 8 page

Towards a user network profiling for internal security using top-K rankings similarity measures

A major goal of current computer network security systems is to protect the network from outside attackers; however, protecting the network from its own users is still an unattended problem. In campus area networks, the risk of having internal attacks is high because of their topologies and the amount of users. This work proposes a new approach to identify whether a network user is having or not a normal behavior, by analyzing host traffic using top-k ranking similarity measures. The result of this analysis could be an input of intrusion detection systems. The document presents an experiment where real-time traffic of different users in a campus area network is compared to a reference traffic that corresponds to one of them