Knot of the Soul
Knot of the Soul

Author: Stefania Pandolfo

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-05-09

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 022646511X

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Through a dual engagement with the unconscious in psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, Stefania Pandolfo’s unsettling and innovative book reflects on the maladies of the soul at a time of tremendous global upheaval. Drawing on in-depth historical research and testimonies of contemporary patients and therapists in Morocco, Knot of the Soul offers both an ethnographic journey through madness and contemporary formations of despair and a philosophical and theological exploration of the vicissitudes of the soul. Knot of the Soul moves from the experience of psychosis in psychiatric hospitals, to the visionary torments of the soul in poor urban neighborhoods, to the melancholy and religious imaginary of undocumented migration, culminating in the liturgical stage of the Qur’anic cure. Demonstrating how contemporary Islamic cures for madness address some of the core preoccupations of the psychoanalytic approach, she reveals how a religious and ethical relation to the “ordeal” of madness might actually allow for spiritual transformation. This sophisticated and evocative work illuminates new dimensions of psychoanalysis and the ethical imagination while also sensitively examining the collective psychic strife that so many communities endure today.

Postcolonial Disorders
Postcolonial Disorders

Author: Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-02-04

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 0520252241

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The contributors explore modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programmes in China and Zaire, and psychiatrists and their patients in Morocco and Ireland.

Lucretius I
Lucretius I

Author: Thomas Nail

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1474434681

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Thomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive foundations of modern scientific materialism, whose philosophical origins lie in the atomic reading of Lucretius' immensely influential book De Rerum Natura. This means that Lucretius was not the revolutionary harbinger of modern science as Greenblatt and others have argued; he was its greatest victim. Nail re-reads De Rerum Natura to offer us a new Lucretius--a Lucretius for today.

The Subtle Knot
The Subtle Knot

Author: Lianne Habinek

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2018-06-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0773554300

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In the early modern period, poetic form underpinned and influenced scientific progress. The language and imagery of seventeenth-century writers and natural philosophers reveal how the age-old struggle between body and soul led to the brain’s emergence as a curiosity in its own right. Investigating the intersection of the humanities and sciences in the works of authors ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to William Harvey, Margaret Cavendish, and Johann Remmelin, Lianne Habinek tells how early modernity came to view the brain not simply as grey matter but as a wealth of other wondrous possibilities – a book in which to read the soul’s writing, a black box to be violently unlocked, a womb to nourish intellectual conception, a creative engine, a subtle knot that traps the soul and thereby makes us human. For seventeenth-century thinkers, she argues, these comparisons were not simply casual metaphors but integral to early ideas about brain function. Demonstrating how the disparate fields of neuroscientific history and literary studies converged, The Subtle Knot tells the story of how the mind came to be identified with the brain.

The Two-Soul'd Animal
The Two-Soul'd Animal

Author: James Jaehoon Lee

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0810139286

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The Two-Soul’d Animal illuminates an early modern debate that recognized the troubling extent to which Christian thought had defined the human in terms of two incompatible models of soul. As the sixteenth century progressed, Christian and humanist thinkers began to realize that these two souls fundamentally contradicted each other. On the one hand, Christian theology had a great debt to Aristotle’s tripartite model of the soul based on three organic faculties: intellection, sensation, and nutrition. On the other, the Christian soul was defined by its immortal, immaterial, and transcendental substance. The sixteenth-century acknowledgement of the two souls provoked a great deal of anxiety, leading Christian thinkers to ask: How can we, as God’s perfect design, have two redundant and yet contradictory souls? And how could the core of the religious subject possibly be defined by a psychological paradox? As a result, the “soul” was an intrinsically unstable term being renegotiated in Renaissance culture. The English writers studied in The Two-Soul’d Animal place two prevailing interpretations of the soul’s faculties—one rhetorical on the plane of aesthetics, the other theological on the plane of ethics—into contact as a way to construct a new mode of Christian agency.

Rāmacharitmānasa
Rāmacharitmānasa

Author: Krishna Prakash Bahadur

Publisher: Delhi : Ess Ess Publications

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Analytical and interpretive study of the Rāmacaritamānasa of Tulasīdāsa, 1532-1623, Awadhi saintpoet.

Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies
Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies

Author: Juliana Dresvina

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2020-11-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1786836769

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This study brings together medieval studies and cognitive methodologies in a study specifically aimed at medievalists. It presents a longer history of certain mental health conditions and locates contemporary debates about the mind in a broader historical framework. It considers both the benefits of incorporating insights from contemporary neuroscientific and cognitive studies into the exploration of the past, and the benefits of employing historical models and case studies in order to reflect on modern methods.

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Author: Thomas Adams (D.D., Preacher at Willington, Bedfordshire, afterwards at St. Gregory's, London.)

Publisher:

Published: 1861

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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