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2016
Jung Eun Jang
Kohut’s concept of selfobject is illuminated in terms of the concept of sublimation. Freud’s interpretation and positive comment on mystic practices was complemented and developed by Kohut’s concept of selfobject that paved the way for religious sublimation. Religious experiences function as sublimation by performing their selfobject roles. Psychohistorical analysis of the 1907 Revival Movement...
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2015
Shira Chess, Eric Newsom
Previous chapters discussed Slender Man prototypes, the original telling, the propagation of the story to new spaces, and second-level stories in the form of fan fiction; this chapter begins by following that trajectory to its next destination: the mainstream. The Slender Man is presented both literally and figuratively as a form of a “tulpa,” a creature brought to life by collective thought....
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2013
Veronica Davidov
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Some months into my fieldwork, my colleague and friend carne to visit me. Anya, a fellow anthropologist, was (and is) an ethnographic filmmaker and a scholar of shainanism (although her fieldsite lay far away from mine—she studied shamanic revival in post-Soviet Buryatia). Naturally, her professional curiosity was piqued by my tales of shamanic tourism. She was quite interested in ayahuasca...
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2013
Gaetana Marrone
F ilm is a medium that invites the spectator to imagine altered states: we sit in the dark and see shadows move across a screen, flesh and blood actors altered into phantoms. Sometimes this is thematized, as in Hitchcock’s Vertigo , where Kim Novak first alters herself, then is altered to look like and then become Judy. Cross-dressing comedies like Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot and Sydney...
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2011
Louis Komjathy
4 citations
Specific Daoist adherents and communities emphasize the importance of corporeality and physicality, specifically one’s body as the Dao as sacred locale. But the “Daoist body,” as those who are familiar with the work of such influential scholars as Kristofer Schipper, Livia Kohn, and Catherine Despeux know, is multidimensional. It is not simply the anatomical and physiological given of...
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2011
Laura E. Weed
Given the contentiousness of the hermeneutics debate among sinologists, I will begin my analysis of Daoist embodied mysticism with a brief discussion of methodology. As J. J. Clarke has pointed out, the traditional interpretation of Daoism for the West was established by scholars who stressed a false dichotomy between philosophical and religious Daoism.
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2011
Jeannette Marie Mageo
Contemporary psychologists investigate the dream’s role in memory. 1 Yet, our existential experience of the dream is one of forgetting— of being immersed in a reality that seems to stretch back in time to an origin beyond remembrance. At the next moment, we wake and the dream vanishes from the horizon of consciousness, sometimes completely but even when we retain it, our reports to a friend or...
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2005
Stanley Krippner
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For several years, I have been interested in the Brazilian churches that use a particular mind-altering brew as a sacrament. This brew is referred to as "ayahuasca,""yage,""hoasca," etc., depending on the part of the country in which one encounters it. I am often invited to participate in evening ceremonies by the church elders, and one visit was especially memorable.
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2004
Ronna C. Johnson
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The Beat and San Francisco Renaissance literary movements emerged simultaneously at the legendary 1955 Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco. Allen Ginsberg, who read for the first time the new, as yet unpublished Howl, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Philip Lamantia, and Kenneth Rexroth, the elder statesman of the San Francisco bohemian scene, made "six poets at Six Gallery"...