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Heward Wilkinson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an inspired resurrection of freudian drive theory but does nick totton s reichian bodymind concept supersede Cartesian Dualism
International Journal of Psychotherapy, 2000Co-Authors: Heward WilkinsonAbstract:This review article looks at Nick Totton's book The Water in the Glass as an exceptionally clear and important expression of a Reichian view of Freud and his legacy, which lays serious claim to off...
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an inspired resurrection of freudian drive theory but does nick totton s reichian bodymind concept supersede Cartesian Dualism review article on nick totton s the water in the glass body and mind in psychoanalysis london rebus press 1998 266 pp isbn l 900877 l2 0
2000Co-Authors: Heward WilkinsonAbstract:This review article looks at Nick Totton's book The Water in the Glass as an exceptionally clear and important expression of a Reichian view of Freud and his legacy, which lays serious claim to offer a view ofbodymind' that overcomes Cartesian Dualism. It also validates as psychoanalytic work with the body and touch, which was embargoed in orthodox psychoanalysis after Reich's expulsion. Totton draws out Reich's linkage to the hidden (unpublished until 1950) visionary Freud of theProject for a scienti® c psychology' of 1895 (Freud, 1950), and offers a renewal of the vision of theProject', but one in which neurological forms of self-representation are replaced by embodied-physiological forms. These, however, serve in the same way as symbolic media for representations of the self in awareness. The review article argues that, despite the breakthrough quality of this, it yet misses another pathway from Freud'sProject', that of meaning instead of energy, represented by Derrida. This polarisation between energy and meaning is only resolved when the dimension of support (or relation, e.g. attachment theory) and social identi® cation is acknowl- edged as the vehicle of meaning. This is Freud's third- not fully explicit- phase, where the vision becomes simultaneously incurably social and yet shot through with all-pervasive and self-transforming meaning at every level. This is not incompatible with Totton's body-based vision, but transcends its sole limits. Yet Totton's is a magni® cently clear Freudian statement that forces us all to clarify our own positions. Introductory
Carla Willig - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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women s collective constructions of embodied practices through memory work Cartesian Dualism in memories of sweating and pain
British Journal of Social Psychology, 2004Co-Authors: Val Gillies, Angela Harden, Katherine Johnson, Paula Reavey, Vicki Strange, Carla WilligAbstract:The research presented in this paper uses memory work as a method to explore six women's collective constructions of two embodied practices, sweating and pain. The paper identifies limitations in the ways in which social constructionist research has theorized the relationship between discourse and materiality, and it proposes an approach to the study of embodiment which enjoins, rather than bridges, the discursive and the non-discursive. The paper presents an analysis of 25 memories of sweating and pain which suggests that Cartesian Dualism is central to the women's accounts of their experiences. However, such Dualism does not operate as a stable organizing principle. Rather, it offers two strategies for the performance of a split between mind and body. The paper traces the ways in which Dualism can be both functional and restrictive, and explores the tensions between these two forms. The paper concludes by identifiying opportunities and limitations associated with memory work as a method for studying embodiment.
Gare Arran - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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HENRI BERGSON AND THE MIND BODY PROBLEM: OVERCOMING Cartesian Dualism
2020Co-Authors: Gare ArranAbstract:There are few philosophers who have been so influential in their own lifetimes and had so much influence, only to be subsequently ignored, as Henri Bergson (1859-1941). When in April 1922, Bergson debated Einstein on the nature of time, it was Bergson who was far better known and respected. Now Einstein’s achievements are known to everyone, but very few people outside philosophy departments have even heard of Bergson. Following Friedrich Schelling and those he influenced, Bergson targeted the Cartesian Dualism that permeates the culture of modernity. In doing so, he challenged deep assumptions rooted in and cemented in place by Descartes’ philosophy. It this article I will argue that Bergson made considerable progress in this attack on Cartesian Dualism, and diverse philosophers subsequently built on his ideas. However, failure to appreciate the source of these ideas has weakened their impact, being scattered among different disciplines by diverse philosophers and scientists who drew upon Bergson’s work while forgetting details of his philosophy. This article is an effort to rectify this situation
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Report on the 19th annual Gathering in Biosemiotics in Moscow
2019Co-Authors: Gare ArranAbstract:The Nineteenth Annual Biosemotics Gathering was hosted by the Philosophy Faculty of Lomonsov Moscow State University. That it was hosted by a philosophy faculty rather than a science faculty, and that it was hosted in Russia, are both significant. Biosemiotics is a challenge to mainstream biology, still struggling to gain acceptance despite the work of a great many researchers and a great many publications, along with nineteen annual biosemiotics gatherings. But it is much more than this, and this accounts for why gaining acceptance is so difficult. In Thomas Kuhn’s terminology, it is revolutionary science, not normal science. It has not yet achieved a consensus on philosophical issues, basic concepts and methods that allows its practitioners to get on with the business of puzzle solving and forget about philosophy. More importantly, it is a challenge not only to mainstream assumptions in biology but also a challenge to deeper assumptions about what counts as science, what is science, and what is the relationship between science and other cultural fields. It is also a challenge to the broader culture of modernity with its tacit acceptance of Cartesian Dualism, manifest in the division between the sciences and the humanities
Val Gillies - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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women s collective constructions of embodied practices through memory work Cartesian Dualism in memories of sweating and pain
British Journal of Social Psychology, 2004Co-Authors: Val Gillies, Angela Harden, Katherine Johnson, Paula Reavey, Vicki Strange, Carla WilligAbstract:The research presented in this paper uses memory work as a method to explore six women's collective constructions of two embodied practices, sweating and pain. The paper identifies limitations in the ways in which social constructionist research has theorized the relationship between discourse and materiality, and it proposes an approach to the study of embodiment which enjoins, rather than bridges, the discursive and the non-discursive. The paper presents an analysis of 25 memories of sweating and pain which suggests that Cartesian Dualism is central to the women's accounts of their experiences. However, such Dualism does not operate as a stable organizing principle. Rather, it offers two strategies for the performance of a split between mind and body. The paper traces the ways in which Dualism can be both functional and restrictive, and explores the tensions between these two forms. The paper concludes by identifiying opportunities and limitations associated with memory work as a method for studying embodiment.
Florence Thibaut - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the mind body Cartesian Dualism and psychiatry
Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 2018Co-Authors: Florence ThibautAbstract:The French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) argued that the natures of mind and body are completely different from one another and that each could exist by itself. How can these two structures with different natures causally interact in order to give rise to a human being with voluntary bodily motions and sensations? Even today, the problem of mind-body causal interaction remains a matter of debate.