By: Robert W. Rix Abstract: This article examines how Swedenborgianism linked the conscious and unconscious mind through the literary symbol. It has long warranted critical attention that Swedenborg, nearly two centuries before Jung, launched an exploration of archetypal images. What I will attempt below is a study of the reception history of Swedenborg, or, moreContinue reading “Emanuel Swedenborg, Transpersonal Psychology and the Literary Text”
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Pedro Almodovar’s La Piel que Habito: A Psychoanalytical Study
By: Robert Silhol Abstract: The first idea, the first words that occur to me when asked to express my appreciation for Almodovar’s movie is a plain exclamation about the beauty of the heroine : « Quelle est belle ! » And since one of the rules of psychoanalysis is to let one’s associations run freely,Continue reading “Pedro Almodovar’s La Piel que Habito: A Psychoanalytical Study”
A Freudian Reading of John Fowles’ “The Ebony Tower”
By: Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar Abstract: Drawing on Freud’s three aspects of the psyche, this paper explores the two character-triangles in John Fowles’s “The Ebony Tower.” Henry Breasley, Anne and Diana on one hand and David Williams, Beth and Diana on the other are respectively tied up to the Ego, Super ego and Id. The paperContinue reading “A Freudian Reading of John Fowles’ “The Ebony Tower””
Into the Zone of the Interior: A Novel View of Anti-Psychiatry
By: Adrian Chapman Abstract: Zone of the Interior is a satirical novel by an American, Clancy Sigal, about 1960s British anti-psychiatry, in particular, R. D. Laing, the radical Scottish psychiatrist and his idea (shared most notably by David Cooper, another existential therapist working in England) that schizophrenic breakdown might be a natural, healing process. Sigal’sContinue reading “Into the Zone of the Interior: A Novel View of Anti-Psychiatry”