Author: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801480911
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time. Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich and incisive book that Euripides' plays support a structure of male dominance while simultaneously inscribing female strength.
Anxiety Veiled
Author: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801480911
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time. Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich and incisive book that Euripides' plays support a structure of male dominance while simultaneously inscribing female strength.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801480911
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time. Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich and incisive book that Euripides' plays support a structure of male dominance while simultaneously inscribing female strength.
Lifting the Veil of Mental Illness
Author: William Bento
Publisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 9780880105309
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Mental illnesses are too often seen only in abstract terms. In keeping with this, mainstream psychology, which seldom acknowledges the psyche or soul, relies increasingly on pharmaceutical treatment. In his unique approach to anthroposophical psychology (or "psychosophy"), William Bento views imbalances of the human soul in an experiential and human way. Basing his views on the work of Rudolf Steiner, Bento looks not only at the human body, soul, and spirit, but also at the way the whole environment of physical phenomena, life forces, and spirit beings affects us as individuals. Going well beyond our immediate, earthly surroundings, the author considers the cosmic effects of sun, planets and stars, offering a holistic view of the human soul. This book is a valuable and accessible addition to the field of anthroposophical psychology and to the study of Spiritual Science in general.
Publisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 9780880105309
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Mental illnesses are too often seen only in abstract terms. In keeping with this, mainstream psychology, which seldom acknowledges the psyche or soul, relies increasingly on pharmaceutical treatment. In his unique approach to anthroposophical psychology (or "psychosophy"), William Bento views imbalances of the human soul in an experiential and human way. Basing his views on the work of Rudolf Steiner, Bento looks not only at the human body, soul, and spirit, but also at the way the whole environment of physical phenomena, life forces, and spirit beings affects us as individuals. Going well beyond our immediate, earthly surroundings, the author considers the cosmic effects of sun, planets and stars, offering a holistic view of the human soul. This book is a valuable and accessible addition to the field of anthroposophical psychology and to the study of Spiritual Science in general.
The Political Psychology of the Veil
Author: Sahar Ghumkhor
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030320618
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Veiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil more than a woman? This book investigates the preoccupation with the veiled body through the imaging and imagining of Muslim women. It examines the relationship between the body and knowledge through the politics of freedom as grounded in a ‘natural’ body, in the index of flesh. The impulse to unveil is more than a desire to free the Muslim woman. What lies at the heart of the fantasy of saving the Muslim woman is the West’s desire to save itself. The preoccupation with the veiled woman is a defense that preserves neither the object of orientalism nor the difference embodied in women’s bodies, but inversely, insists on the corporeal boundaries of the West’s mode of knowing and truth-making. The book contends that the imagination of unveiling restores the West’s sense of its own power and enables it to intrude where it is ‘other’ – thus making it the centre and the agent by promising universal freedom, all the while stifling the question of what freedom is.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030320618
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Veiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil more than a woman? This book investigates the preoccupation with the veiled body through the imaging and imagining of Muslim women. It examines the relationship between the body and knowledge through the politics of freedom as grounded in a ‘natural’ body, in the index of flesh. The impulse to unveil is more than a desire to free the Muslim woman. What lies at the heart of the fantasy of saving the Muslim woman is the West’s desire to save itself. The preoccupation with the veiled woman is a defense that preserves neither the object of orientalism nor the difference embodied in women’s bodies, but inversely, insists on the corporeal boundaries of the West’s mode of knowing and truth-making. The book contends that the imagination of unveiling restores the West’s sense of its own power and enables it to intrude where it is ‘other’ – thus making it the centre and the agent by promising universal freedom, all the while stifling the question of what freedom is.
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder
Author: Sarah Kurchak
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 1771622474
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly, and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the Byzantine steps she took to become “an autistic success story,” how the process almost ruined her life and how she is now trying to recover. Growing up undiagnosed in small-town Ontario in the eighties and nineties, Kurchak realized early that she was somehow different from her peers. She discovered an effective strategy to fend off bullying: she consciously altered nearly everything about herself—from her personality to her body language. She forced herself to wear the denim jeans that felt like being enclosed in a sandpaper iron maiden. Every day, she dragged herself through the door with an elevated pulse and a churning stomach, nearly crumbling under the effort of the performance. By the time she was finally diagnosed with autism at twenty-seven, she struggled with depression and anxiety largely caused by the same strategy she had mastered precisely. She came to wonder, were all those years of intensely pretending to be someone else really worth it? Tackling everything from autism parenting culture to love, sex, alcohol, obsessions and professional pillow fighting, Kurchak’s enlightening memoir challenges stereotypes and preconceptions about autism and considers what might really make the lives of autistic people healthier, happier and more fulfilling.
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 1771622474
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly, and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the Byzantine steps she took to become “an autistic success story,” how the process almost ruined her life and how she is now trying to recover. Growing up undiagnosed in small-town Ontario in the eighties and nineties, Kurchak realized early that she was somehow different from her peers. She discovered an effective strategy to fend off bullying: she consciously altered nearly everything about herself—from her personality to her body language. She forced herself to wear the denim jeans that felt like being enclosed in a sandpaper iron maiden. Every day, she dragged herself through the door with an elevated pulse and a churning stomach, nearly crumbling under the effort of the performance. By the time she was finally diagnosed with autism at twenty-seven, she struggled with depression and anxiety largely caused by the same strategy she had mastered precisely. She came to wonder, were all those years of intensely pretending to be someone else really worth it? Tackling everything from autism parenting culture to love, sex, alcohol, obsessions and professional pillow fighting, Kurchak’s enlightening memoir challenges stereotypes and preconceptions about autism and considers what might really make the lives of autistic people healthier, happier and more fulfilling.
Tearing the Veil
Author: Susan Lipschitz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 041563704X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This a collection of essays about women, by women, which examine the production of femininity within a patriarchal society. The essays show that characteristics generally considered to be 'feminine' are in fact cultural constructions within a patriarchal order. The patriarchal culture is taken by us to be a system of meanings, as well as power relations, which pervades our view of women at both a conscious and an unconscious level. The symbolism of the rituals, myths, art works and polemics examined in the essays is related to the ways women are psychically constructed and constrained by the dominant heterosexual order. The Mother, the Witch, the Whore, the Pure Woman, the Amazon and the Free Woman are considered and the contributors make extensive use of original source material to give force to the argument that the stereotypic view of a feminine woman as naturally and inevitably weak, passive and powerless is one that can be seriously challenged.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 041563704X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This a collection of essays about women, by women, which examine the production of femininity within a patriarchal society. The essays show that characteristics generally considered to be 'feminine' are in fact cultural constructions within a patriarchal order. The patriarchal culture is taken by us to be a system of meanings, as well as power relations, which pervades our view of women at both a conscious and an unconscious level. The symbolism of the rituals, myths, art works and polemics examined in the essays is related to the ways women are psychically constructed and constrained by the dominant heterosexual order. The Mother, the Witch, the Whore, the Pure Woman, the Amazon and the Free Woman are considered and the contributors make extensive use of original source material to give force to the argument that the stereotypic view of a feminine woman as naturally and inevitably weak, passive and powerless is one that can be seriously challenged.
Beyond the Veil of Delusions, Understanding Relationships Through Homeopathy
Author: Mati H Fuller
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615171389
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In the second revised edition of Beyond the Veil of Delusions, both volumes from the first edition have been put into one, easy to read volume, and the homeopathic rubrics have been removed to make the text easier to read. This book describes the psychology of relationships from a homeopathic point of view. Here, you will find answers to questions like why people do the things they do, and feel the way they feel, why communication is so difficult, and why we attract the same type of mate over and over. As you delve deeply into this book, you'll see that the book is more than just a homeopathy or psychology book; it is also a tool for your own personal expansion since your newfound awareness can help you break your old patterns and transform your life. This book is the key to understanding homeopathy, your relationships, your problems and yourself.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615171389
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In the second revised edition of Beyond the Veil of Delusions, both volumes from the first edition have been put into one, easy to read volume, and the homeopathic rubrics have been removed to make the text easier to read. This book describes the psychology of relationships from a homeopathic point of view. Here, you will find answers to questions like why people do the things they do, and feel the way they feel, why communication is so difficult, and why we attract the same type of mate over and over. As you delve deeply into this book, you'll see that the book is more than just a homeopathy or psychology book; it is also a tool for your own personal expansion since your newfound awareness can help you break your old patterns and transform your life. This book is the key to understanding homeopathy, your relationships, your problems and yourself.
Psyche's Veil
Author: Terry Marks-Tarlow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317723643
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Historically, the language and concepts within clinical theory have been steeped in linear assumptions and reductionist thinking. Because the essence of psychotherapy involves change, Psyche’s Veil suggests that clinical practice is inherently a nonlinear affair. In this book Terry Marks-Tarlow provides therapists with new language, models and metaphors to narrow the divide between theory and practice, while bridging the gap between psychology and the sciences. By applying contemporary perspectives of chaos theory, complexity theory and fractal geometry to clinical practice, the author discards traditional conceptions of health based on ideals of regularity, set points and normative statistics in favour of models that emphasize unique moments, variability, and irregularity. Psyche’s Veil further explores philosophical and spiritual implications of contemporary science for psychotherapy. Written at the interface between artistic, scientific and spiritual aspects of therapy, Psyche’s Veil is a case-based book that aspires to a paradigm shift in how practitioners conceptualize critical ingredients for internal healing. Novel treatment of sophisticated psychoanalytical issues and tie-ins to interpersonal neurobiology make this book appeal to both the specialist practitioner, as well as the generalist reader. .
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317723643
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Historically, the language and concepts within clinical theory have been steeped in linear assumptions and reductionist thinking. Because the essence of psychotherapy involves change, Psyche’s Veil suggests that clinical practice is inherently a nonlinear affair. In this book Terry Marks-Tarlow provides therapists with new language, models and metaphors to narrow the divide between theory and practice, while bridging the gap between psychology and the sciences. By applying contemporary perspectives of chaos theory, complexity theory and fractal geometry to clinical practice, the author discards traditional conceptions of health based on ideals of regularity, set points and normative statistics in favour of models that emphasize unique moments, variability, and irregularity. Psyche’s Veil further explores philosophical and spiritual implications of contemporary science for psychotherapy. Written at the interface between artistic, scientific and spiritual aspects of therapy, Psyche’s Veil is a case-based book that aspires to a paradigm shift in how practitioners conceptualize critical ingredients for internal healing. Novel treatment of sophisticated psychoanalytical issues and tie-ins to interpersonal neurobiology make this book appeal to both the specialist practitioner, as well as the generalist reader. .
Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia
Author: Gary S. Meltzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139458590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Branded by critics from Aristophanes to Nietzsche as sophistic, iconoclastic, and sensationalistic, Euripides has long been held responsible for the demise of Greek tragedy. Despite this reputation, his drama has a fundamentally conservative character. It conveys nostalgia for an idealized age that still respected the gods and traditional codes of conduct. Using deconstructionist and feminist theory, this book investigates the theme of the lost voice of truth and justice in four Euripidean tragedies. The plays' unstable mix of longing for a transcendent voice of truth and skeptical analysis not only epitomizes the discursive practice of Euripides' era but also speaks to our postmodern condition. The book sheds light on the source of the playwright's tragic power and enduring appeal, revealing the surprising relevance of his works for our own day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139458590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Branded by critics from Aristophanes to Nietzsche as sophistic, iconoclastic, and sensationalistic, Euripides has long been held responsible for the demise of Greek tragedy. Despite this reputation, his drama has a fundamentally conservative character. It conveys nostalgia for an idealized age that still respected the gods and traditional codes of conduct. Using deconstructionist and feminist theory, this book investigates the theme of the lost voice of truth and justice in four Euripidean tragedies. The plays' unstable mix of longing for a transcendent voice of truth and skeptical analysis not only epitomizes the discursive practice of Euripides' era but also speaks to our postmodern condition. The book sheds light on the source of the playwright's tragic power and enduring appeal, revealing the surprising relevance of his works for our own day.
Lifting the Veil of Menopause
Author: Nadu A. Tuakli MD MPH
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503568857
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Are you ready to feel better? This book is for you if you are going through PMS, perimenopause, or menopause. Here you will read about the myths of menopause and why this transition does not need to signal a decrease in the quality of life. No woman needs to have unpleasant symptoms unless she chooses to do so. Its all here discover how Lifting the Veil of Menopause can change your life, and help you realize that the change is just part of another phase to be embraced in your vibrant, energized, and healthy life.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503568857
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Are you ready to feel better? This book is for you if you are going through PMS, perimenopause, or menopause. Here you will read about the myths of menopause and why this transition does not need to signal a decrease in the quality of life. No woman needs to have unpleasant symptoms unless she chooses to do so. Its all here discover how Lifting the Veil of Menopause can change your life, and help you realize that the change is just part of another phase to be embraced in your vibrant, energized, and healthy life.
Behind the Veil
Author: Jwanna Savoie-Powell
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456644351
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Step Beyond the Surface to a Profound Astrological Journey Embark on a mesmerizing quest into the most enigmatic corner of the celestial chart in "Behind the Veil: The Light and Shadow of the 12th House." This insightful tome is not just a book; it's a gateway to understanding the deepest parts of the self, the untapped spiritual potential, and the complex interplay between cosmic influences and our everyday lives. Whether you're a seasoned astrologer or a curious newcomer, this book will illuminate the path to comprehending the historical significance and modern interpretations that make the 12th House a source of endless fascination. Dive into the heart of spiritual growth and karmic gifts, as well as the sanctuary it provides for artistic and creative expression. As you peel back the layers, you'll also uncover the more elusive aspects--the shadows cast by hidden enemies and the struggle with mental health and isolation. With detailed chapters on planetary influences, such as benefics and malefics, along with analyses on how personal planets and transits manifest within the 12th House, this gripping narrative reveals the cosmic mechanics behind fate and free will. You'll also encounter real-life case studies of influential figures, which serve as compelling examples of its power and influence in action. What sets "Behind the Veil" apart is not just its exploration of what lies within the 12th House, but its compassionate guidance on how to harmonize the dichotomy of light and shadow. Through therapeutic practices and healing, learn how to integrate these energies for a more balanced and fulfilling life. As you approach the final pages, look forward to transcending the veil and aligning yourself with the universe's profound rhythm. Filled with wisdom and practical tools like a chart interpretation guide and a glossary of astrological terms, this book is your compass to navigating the complex waters of the 12th House. Don't just read--experience transformation and enlightenment, page by captivating page.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456644351
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Step Beyond the Surface to a Profound Astrological Journey Embark on a mesmerizing quest into the most enigmatic corner of the celestial chart in "Behind the Veil: The Light and Shadow of the 12th House." This insightful tome is not just a book; it's a gateway to understanding the deepest parts of the self, the untapped spiritual potential, and the complex interplay between cosmic influences and our everyday lives. Whether you're a seasoned astrologer or a curious newcomer, this book will illuminate the path to comprehending the historical significance and modern interpretations that make the 12th House a source of endless fascination. Dive into the heart of spiritual growth and karmic gifts, as well as the sanctuary it provides for artistic and creative expression. As you peel back the layers, you'll also uncover the more elusive aspects--the shadows cast by hidden enemies and the struggle with mental health and isolation. With detailed chapters on planetary influences, such as benefics and malefics, along with analyses on how personal planets and transits manifest within the 12th House, this gripping narrative reveals the cosmic mechanics behind fate and free will. You'll also encounter real-life case studies of influential figures, which serve as compelling examples of its power and influence in action. What sets "Behind the Veil" apart is not just its exploration of what lies within the 12th House, but its compassionate guidance on how to harmonize the dichotomy of light and shadow. Through therapeutic practices and healing, learn how to integrate these energies for a more balanced and fulfilling life. As you approach the final pages, look forward to transcending the veil and aligning yourself with the universe's profound rhythm. Filled with wisdom and practical tools like a chart interpretation guide and a glossary of astrological terms, this book is your compass to navigating the complex waters of the 12th House. Don't just read--experience transformation and enlightenment, page by captivating page.