본 연구는 대중 친화적인 미야자키 하야오(宮崎駿)의 〈이웃집 토토로〉(1988)의 분석을 통해 주인공 토토로 캐릭터의 정체성에 새로운 시각을 제시하는 연구다. 이것은 기존의 정령인 오바케로서 토토로의 정체성에 대한 다양한 의심에서 출발하였고 본고는 이를 바탕으로 논의를 이끌게 되었다. 첫 번째 의심은 정령으로서 토토로의 능력에 대한 의심이며 두 번째 의심은 마을의 수호 정령으로서 토토로의 행위-태도에 대한 의심이고 마지막은 오바케 토토로와 작품의 특성과 수용 관계 안에서 일반적으로 통용되는 방식에 대한 문제를 제기하면서 본논의를 진행 시켰다.BR 위의 연구를 위해 작중 토토로의 샤먼적 행위가 중심이 되는 이야기 전개와 이미지를 주요 근거로 삼고 위에서 제기된 의심들과 문제의 답을 일본의 샤먼적 특징...
Synthetic cathinone derivatives are a new class of psychoactive substances (NPS), also known as “bath salts”, designed to exert psychostimulant effects resembling those of well-known psychostimulants, such as cocaine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, “ecstasy”). As major constituents of bath salts, the cathinone derivatives 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and...
Life SciencesSeptember 15, 2018Mohammed Majrashi, Mohammed Almaghrabi, Maali Fadan et al.
Designer drugs are synthetically formulated to mimic the psychostimulatory effects of an original controlled/illegal drug of abuse. Designer drugs have similar chemical structure or functional analog as compared to existing controlled psychostimulatory drugs. There is a substantial rise in the production and use of designer drugs globally. Piperazine designer drugs were synthesized as an...
The West African iboga plant has been used for centuries by the Bwiti and Mbiri tribes to induce hallucinations during religious ceremonies. Ibogaine, the principal alkaloid responsible for iboga's psychedelic properties, was isolated and sold as an antidepressant in France for decades before its adverse effects precipitated its removal from the market. An ibogaine resurgence in the 1960s was...
White ecstasy and the writing of history on Michel de CerteauResumenEste artículo se propone ilustrar algunos paradigmas compartidos entre la experiencia mística y la escritura de la historia a la luz del pensamiento y la obra de Michel de Certeau. El curso de la exposición nos arroja a la posibilidad de que subsista no sólo una experiencia de la escritura asociada a la alteridad desde el siglo...
Abstract The serotonin (5-HT) system plays an important role in the pathophysiology and treatment of several major psychiatric disorders. Currently, no suitable positron emission tomography (PET) imaging paradigm is available to assess 5-HT release in the living human brain. [11C]AZ10419369 binds to 5-HT1Breceptors and is one of the most 5-HT-sensitive radioligands available. This study applied...
The nineteenth-century medicalization of religious excess was given its greatest impetus by Jean-Martin Charcot and Paul Richer in their iconographic and clinical studies of hysteria.In Charcot's /conographie photographique de la Salpetriere (1876), Les Demoniaques dans l'art ( i 886), and La Foi qui guerit ( 1897) and in Richer's Etudes cliniques sur la grande hysterie (1881/85), they examined...
Mental disorders are rising while development of novel psychiatric medications is declining. This stall in innovation has also been linked with intense debates on the current diagnostics and explanations for mental disorders, together constituting a paradigmatic crisis. A radical innovation is psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP): professionally supervised use of ketamine, MDMA, psilocybin,...
This chapter explores how the different expectations for men and women might be seen to constitute an affective inequality , and the repercussions of this for heterosexual couples who take MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or ‘ecstasy’). Qualitative data from ten couple interviews conducted as part of a doctoral thesis are drawn on. The chapter begins with a literature review exploring...
RATIONALE: Mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone; 4-MMC) is a novel recreational drug similar to methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and amphetamine. Several adverse effects have been reported, but little is known about its sub-acute effects. OBJECTIVES: To study sub-acute effects of mephedrone over a period of 9 days. METHODS: Recreational mephedrone users were recruited and followed over a time...