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"Enter Ghost" by Isabella Hammad is a novel that explores the future of Palestine through the lens of its theater scene in the 2010s. The story follows a diverse troupe of actors attempting to stage Hamlet in the West Bank, challenging stale narratives about Palestinian fragmentation and government corruption. The characters in the novel, each with their own complicated pasts, seek to reconcile interrupted narratives and find fulfillment in a reimagined national family. The play within the novel serves as a device to take ownership of the past and create a new vision of Palestine. [Extracted from the article]

The affective life of the transference modality is also explicated; as is Webster's proto-feminist approach to psychoanalysis, female sexuality and desire, and the cultural history of hysteria. This essay provides a review of the book I Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis i (2019), written by psychoanalyst and professor Dr Jamieson Webster. [Extracted from the article]

Swales and Owens begin by expounding upon Freud's notion that one can be of two minds about something, and proceed to elaborate on the place of this ambivalence in contemporary culture. Stephanie Swales and Carol Owens' I Psychoanalyzing Ambivalence With Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch i suggests that human beings are constituted by an unconscious fundamental ambivalence. [Extracted from the article]

Yet the literature on Internet addiction fails to establish the agent of this presumptive malady, Friedman points out, as well as what it is that users are actually doing or desiring that constitutes an addiction. In her new book, I Internet Addiction: A Critical Psychology of Users i (Routledge, 2021), Emaline Friedman takes on an enormous and weighty task. [Extracted from the article]

Interactivity as performance allows Nash to draw attention to affect and emotion, considering the different forms that interactive documentary engages with embodied performances such as augmented and virtual reality documentary and gaming. Nash acknowledges the fragility of the interactive documentary because of its experimental approach adopting software platforms that are still in development limiting the audience reach, but she remains hopeful throughout the book that the future for the interactive documentary lies ahead, and we have perhaps only scratched the surface. This book shows how interactive documentary appropriates digital technologies in order to find new methods of engaging with realities that often confront contemporary social concerns and the intricacies of truth. [Extracted from the article]

The authors of I Convict Criminology for the Future i have built and expanded on work begun in I Convict Criminology i (Ross and Richards, 2003).[1] The book results from the increased international interest in convict criminology, greater acceptance, and acknowledgment of the need for the discipline, and, finally, a Convict Criminology for the Future conference held in Padua, Italy (May 31, to 1 June 2019), which brought convict criminologists together from around the world. Conclusion Convict criminology appears to have settled into a more pronounced status in criminology, especially since achieving status as a Division of the American Society of Criminology. Convict criminology for the future: by Ross, Jeffrey Ian, and Vianello, Francesca, New York, Routledge, 202, 226 pp., $39.99 (Kindle); $139.31 (Hardcover); $52.95 (Paper), ISBN 978-0-367-86015-8. [Extracted from the article]

Regardless, Martin-Jones' approach allows a formally and thematically diverse range of films to be discussed together. To describe this capacity for ethical encounters Martin-Jones turns to Gilles Deleuze's distinction between movement-image and time-image. To stabilize itself, Martin-Jones argues, the ruling world system needs to write its history in a manner that suppresses the memory of those people and cultures it destroys on its way to power. [Extracted from the article]

On 20 January 2019, late in the 35-day federal government shutdown by President Donald Trump, Sara Nelson, president of the International Association of Flight Attendants, drew national attention when she called on her fellow labor leaders to 'talk with your local and international unions about all workers joining together to end this shutdown with a general strike! But for Cal Winslow, the Seattle General Strike of 1919 was 'the only true general strike in US history, and the only time when workers in this country really ran a city ... ' Aptly named I Radical Seattle i , and devoting only one chapter to the actual strike, this study is not primarily about the strike and the "five-days that matter". While only mentioned in passing, the Winnipeg General Strike broke out in May 1919, a mere three months after the Seattle General Strike and lasted a remarkable six weeks and impressively inspired solidarity strikes in thirty additional Canadian cities. [Extracted from the article]

By drawing New Zealand and Western Australia into the analysis, the collection provides an insightful overview that moves beyond the usual single-colony-centred histories. This edited collection, based on a workshop at the Australian National University held in April 2017, explores what "Aboriginal protection" meant in the Australian colonies and New Zealand in the nineteenth century. Marjan Lousberg's excellent chapter on Edward Shortland in New Zealand is a case in point. [Extracted from the article]

Many of the entries are autobiographical, especially in the first five chapters (quotes 1-64), and the remaining twenty-two chapters (quotes 65-365) focus primarily on his writings, published and unpublished, as well as on commentaries by various analysts, Bion himself and Abel-Hirsch. The writings of Wilfred Bion have been studied since his early papers on group process in the mid-1940s through the early1950s, and were followed by his investigation of psychotic processes in the mid-1950s. Abel-Hirsch is a noted authority on the works of Melanie Klein, Hannah Segal and Bion and is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society. [Extracted from the article]

The editors, both prominent research psychoanalysts have assembled papers delivered at a 2014 conference in Mexico City that brought together neuroscientists and psychoanalysts for an exchange of ideas about the two fields. Psychoanalysis as conceived by its founder, Sigmund Freud, was both a study of how the mind evolved and functioned and a therapy for those who suffered from some interference in comfortable and presumably healthy functioning. In adopting this belief, they are following the lead of Levine et al. ([4]) who believe that trauma in the pre-verbal period of life registers and is maintained in the body of the traumatized patient and can only be treated successfully if the analyst reconstructs for the patient the unknown (by the patient) traumatic event. [Extracted from the article]