The Medusa Complex: The head separated from the body in the psychopathology of negative affects

This text deals with the issue and the image of Medusa as a polyvalent symbol. Its power has been  analyzed from different sides, such as myth, symbol of dreams, attractive image and cultural ritual, symbol of possession of a complex for the psyche in the cleft between the head and the body. The relevant aspects of this reflection find their foundation in the psychological clinic, in the psychopathology of affections and emotions, petrified expression of anger that has not been processed, in defense mechanisms of isolation of affect

MJCP and Clinical Psychology

The seat of our Journal is representative of a legend, the myth of Scylla and Charybdis that as it is known were Sirens. We take this cue to indicate the difficulty of men in oscillating between two tendencies, both fascinating and dangerous. The first reference is to privilege articles widely citable in the statistical sense of trend: the utility is obvious, the highest classifications, those that will make the difference

Near-field imaging of surface-plasmon vortex-modes around a single elliptical nanohole in a gold film

We present scanning near-field images of surface plasmon modes around a single elliptical nanohole in 88 nm thick Au film. We find that rotating surface plasmon vortex modes carrying extrinsic orbital angular momentum can be induced under linearly polarized illumination. The vortex modes are obtained only when the incident polarization direction differs from one of the ellipse axes. Such a direct observation of the vortex modes is possible thanks to the ability of the SNOM technique to obtain information on both the amplitude and the phase of the near field. The presence of the vortex mode is determined by the rotational symmetry breaking of the system and it can be considered the counterpart of the photonic spin Hall effect. Finite element method calculations show that such a vorticity originates from the presence of nodal points where the phase of the field is undefined, leading to a circulation of the energy flow. The configuration producing vortex modes corresponds to a nonzero total topological charge (+1)