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Creativity and destructiveness in art and psychoanalysis
This paper focuses on the creativity of the patient in analysis and compares it to that of the artist. Taking artists’ descriptions of their practices as its starting point, the paper suggests that the relationship between patient and analyst parallels that between artist and medium. Psychoanalysis and artistic process can both be seen in terms of a complex interplay between oneness and separateness in which aggression and destructiveness play an essential part. The paper includes a discussion of different forms of aggression and destructiveness within the creative process with particular reference to Winnicott’s paper ‘The Use of an Object’ and Rozsika Parker’s ‘The Angel in the House’. It suggests that a consideration of artists’ creative processes can shed light both on the experience of the patient in analysis and on the role of the analyst in facilitating the development of the patient’s creativity
Определение методом индентирования пригодности известняков для изготовления контейнеров аппаратов высокого давления
The indentation method to test the mechanical properties of the material of the container for
high pressure apparatus has been described. The proposed method allows to determine in situ the
destructiveness of the container under synthesis conditions. The complex characteristic of the elastic
and plastic properties of the material has been proposed and relation between the proposed
characteristic and the destructiveness of the container’s material has been found
The relational ethics of conflict and identity
The contemporary psychoanalytically inflected vocabulary of relational ethics centres on acknowledgement, witnessing and responsibility. It has become an important code for efforts to connect with otherness across fractures of hurt, oppression and suffering. One can see the deployment of this vocabulary to challenge patterns of exclusion and dehumanisation in zones of intense political conflict in many situations in which destructive hatred reigns. This paper traces some of the use of and disputes over this ‘acknowledgement-based’ relational ethics in the recent work of Jessica Benjamin and Judith Butler. The field of application is their response to Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, given their position as Jews. The challenge of the acknowledgement agenda leads back to an issue of general concern – the degree to which relational ethics can prise open apparently closed and defensive psychosocial identities
Rebellion, repression and welfare
I develop a dynamic model of social conflict whereby manifest grievances of the poor generate the incentive of taking over political power violently. Rebellion can be an equilibrium outcome depending on the level of preexisting inequality between the poor and the ruling elite, the relative military capabilities of the two groups and the destructiveness of conflict. Once a technology of repression is introduced, widespread fear reduces the parameter space for which rebellion is an equilibrium outcome. However, I show that repression{driven peace comes at a cost as it produces a welfare loss to society.Rebellion, Repression, Inequality, Markov Perfect Equilibrium
Criticality, experimentation and compciity in the LA Review of Books' Digital Humanities controversy
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On the changes in number and intensity of North Atlantic tropical cyclones
Bayesian statistical models were developed for the number of tropical
cyclones and the rate at which these cyclones became hurricanes in the North
Atlantic. We find that, controlling for the cold tongue index and the North
Atlantic oscillation index, there is high probability that the number of
cyclones has increased in the past thirty years; but the rate at which these
storms become hurricanes appears to be constant. We also investigate storm
intensity by measuring the distribution of individual storm lifetime in days,
storm track length, and Emanuel's power dissiptation index. We find little
evidence that the distribution of individual storm intensity is changing
through time. Any increase in cumulative yearly storm intensity and potential
destructiveness, therefore, is due to the increasing number of storms and not
due to any increase in the intensity of individual storms.Comment: 24 pages, 9 figure
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