Category Archives: Volume 28 (2024)

By: Walter Schönau Professor Emeritus, German Literary HistoryUniversity of Groningen AbstractSigmund Freud held an ambivalent stance toward philosophy. While as a young man he briefly aspired to become a philosopher himself, his later views were marked by skepticism and even disdain. As a medical doctor and a child of the Enlightenment, he sought to operateContinue reading “Freud, Reluctant Philosopher”

By: Mark C. Gridley Professor of Psychology-RetiredHeidelberg CollegeTiffin, Ohio AbstractPerceptions of emotion in the faces of subjects painted by Thomas Eakins were collected from three groups of laymen and several art historians. Speculations are offered about the origins of the sad and weary expressions on faces that predominate in his late-period paintings and the artist’sContinue reading “Why So Sad, Weary and Unflattering? Speculations on Late-Period Portraits by Thomas Eakins”

By: Michael Croft, Collaborative Researcheri2ADS Institute of Research in Art, Design & SocietyPorto University, Portugal. AbstractThe article presents an argument towards the adaptation and mapping of two tables by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a context of consideration of oneself as subject within the activity of artistic research. The author argues the possibility from theContinue reading “Diagrammatic Formatting of the Human Subject in and as Artistic Research: Lacan’s Logical Square and Hysteric’s Discourse”

By: Marcia A. Newton University at Albany AbstractBritish writer Antonia White sought to find a balance between writing a personal testimony of traumatic experiences she had suffered in her life and appealing to literary aesthetic values. From a literary scholar’s perspective, this is a challenging undertaking. How much stock can readers place in autobiographical novelsContinue reading “Blurring the Lines of Reality and Fiction: A Crisis of Authenticity, Memory, and Identity in Antonia White’s Autobiographical Fiction”