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The matter of death has been and is always one of the greatest and major questions of the man. “What is death and how we can escape from or even having philosopher's stone” have been always one of the important subjects in the literature. The matter of death had and has also certain position in philosophy. Hence, this philosophical issue has been emerged in different forms in literary and artistic works. Samuel Beckett as one of the founders of absurdism in theater literature has coped to this important philosophical matter in his works. This article tries to review Heidegger’s perusal of the death matter in the play of “Endgame” by Beckett. In this research, the content of anguish and its relation with the matter of death in the play of Endgame which is resulted to prolonged ennui and absurdity has been reviewed on the strength of Heidegger’s opinions. Whereas, in this article the point is Endgame play with the theme of death, we should say the Heidegger’s philosophy could make us clear the philosophical sights of Beckett about death in this play. This matter could not just help the audiences of Beckett theater to better understand his hidden philosophy in his theater works, but could be a clear practical example to understand the phenomenological meaning of death from the Heidegger’s opinion. This article has been written by citing to librarian resources and references.

Background: The design of the current research work was to formulate mouth-dissolving films (MDFs) of aceclofenac (ACF) to improve patient compliance and convenience for older and younger patients, ultimately leading to improved therapeutic outcomes. Method: Evaluations were conducted on film formers such as HPMC and MC and film modifiers such as PEG and starch acting as solubilizing agents. Results: The physicomechanical qualities, in vitro disintegration time, and in vitro dissolving characteristics of the produced MDFs were assessed. Good mechanical qualities, including as tensile strength, folding durability, and percentage elongation, were demonstrated by every created MDF. FTIR, SEM, and X-RD analyses were used to assess MDFs. In contrast to other formulations, MDFs containing F8 provided superior dissolving properties. Conclusion: When pitted against other mixtures, the MDFs with sodium alginate (5%), methylcellulose (5%), and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC)(5%) showed superior dissolving capabilities. In contrast to other mixtures, the F8 mixture, including HPMC, sodium alginate, and methylcellulose, demonstrated a complete and accelerated dissolution within 50 seconds. The mechanism behind this release is diffusion, as indicated by the release kinetics data.

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Freud wrote a short essay in 1919, Das Unheimliche, translate to Italian as "The Uncanny". According to Freud, the uncanny is an intense emotional experience that falls within the frightening, the terrifying. An emotional experience activated by the return of the repressed. That is, something once familiar and made foreign by removal suddenly returns to awareness generating uncertainty, confusion, bewilderment. The author proposes to consider death as the prototype of the uncanny. Death is in fact part of life, familiar to us, yet we try to disown it, deny it. Western society, steepe narcissism, pretends that we can live ignoring death. Existential skills become impoverished, thus making the confrontation with the end of life even more perturbing. Indeed, to ignore death is to empty life of meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to support the idea that art is an exploration of conflicts. To achieve this goal, at first it is necessary to understand that a key to interpretation is to assume that conflicts are constitutive of every social bond, and that a harmonious society is a contradiction in terms. In a second moment, we will understand that the conflict will be located in the novel as the fundamental setting where modernity occurs. In a third moment, the questioning of the crisis will take us to the psychoanalytic assumptions to understand the relationship between conflict, modernity and identity based on the concepts of sublimation, oblivion and mourning. Finally, we will try to determine how the three previous moments are synthesized in anthropological vulnerability as a point of contact in the relationship between literature and philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract: Distress is an important component that must be considered in students’ mental health. The general objective of this study was to propose the investigation of a model composed of items from different instruments that assess elements of distress and, from this, seek the structuring of a reduced model to evaluate the construct. The sample consisted of 515 students from the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grades of Paraná (Brazil) public schools. The Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents - ESAN-IJ, the Baptista Depression Scale (youth version) - EBADEP-IJ, and the Children and Adolescents Emotional Distress Scale were used. The data indicated that the best fit was demonstrated by the Bifactor model, corroborating the theoretical structure of distress. The results are discussed taking into account both the clinical and psychoeducational implications of the diagnosis of this construct.

This study aimed to investigate the anthropological-existential dilemmas and conflicts faced by Covid-19 survivors who were in Intensive Care Units (ICU) in a public hospital in the north of Rio Grande do Sul. This is a qualitative research with patients from a Public Hospital in the North of Rio Grande do Sul, who survived Covid-19 after having gone through the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This fact resulted in human suffering, emergence of awareness of finitude, occurrence of anguish and existential crisis after hospitalization and going through the illness. Six individuals, who attended the pulmonary rehabilitation center of a University in the North of RS, were volunteers in the study. We made interviews to collect the data and used the content analysis. The studies from Barros, Marini e Reali (2022), Becker (2022), D'Assumpção (2011), Franco (2021), Gawande (2015), Gadamer (2006), Santos (2021), Santos (2009), Nuland (1995), among others, gave support to our theoretical framework. The results showed that there was intense human suffering. The participants of the study faced an existential crisis during the evolution of the disease, the helplessness of their families and the fear of death. They expressed that they gave great importance to every little improvement they had. They experienced loneliness and they became more interested in spirituality to keep their hope alive. They also said that they began to see life in a different way and to value more the people who are part of their families. This study showed that we need to increase and expand care to relieve the suffering of people who were affected by Covid-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper started from the premise that emotions occupy an important place in one's life, giving meaning to human existence, and it was shaped by the need to understand human behaviour and the essence of society as a whole. The approach of understanding led us to an analysis of emotions that goes beyond a single subject and up to a broader one, the sociology of emotions. The contemporary society is marked by perpetual change and is disturbed by the uncertainty that affects both the psyche of individuals and the structures of the society. Today, negative emotions, and implicitly fear, easily propagate between individuals and take on a strong social character, and the perception of individual and collective threats is often the result of distorting the real picture of threats, which profoundly affects how fears can be managed. The present study focuses on the theoretical analysis of the evolution of human perception of emotion in general and on the manifestation forms of fears. It also aims to expose an overview of fears, trying to capture their dynamic, oscillating and easily influenced character, from a sociological perspective, focusing on the specific characteristics of the Romanian people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The lockdown was a strategy to stop the spread of COVID-19; however, it was an important generator of peritraumatic distress, the objective of the research was: identify the level of peritraumatic distress from COVID-19 in nursing students. Correlational study, convenience sampling, 104 students from the 7O and 8O semesters, variables: sociodemographic and peritraumatic distress due to COVID-19. In Google Forms, the COVID-19 peritraumatic distress index instrument, Cronbach´s Alpha .703, 24 items in four dimensions: negative mood, behavioral changes, and cognitive abilities. Tiredness and hyperreactivity and somatization, was applied with prior informed consent, absence if distress was considered score equal to or less than 28, mild to moderate 29 to 51 and severe, equal to or greater than 53, database SPSS-V25, descriptive statistics and X² were applied. An average age of 23 years was obtained, 70.2% female, 85% presented absence of distress, 13.5% mild to moderate and 1.0% severe, when associating X² level of distress with sex and semester, independence of the variables was shown. Even though the level of mild to moderate and severe distress occurs in one seventh of the students, it is necessary to implement actions to improve physical and mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aimed to investigate differences between patients with and without anxiety in terms of symptomatology and comorbidities and to find out whether patients with depression and with anxiety have more anxiety than patients who do not have depression and anxiety. For this purpose, a statistical analysis was carried out, which included a descriptive analysis that followed the verification of the distributions of the variables of the questionnaires in the groups, and an inferential analysis in which it was The dimension of some questionnaires was reduced and latent variables were constructed, possibly more discriminative in relation to the groups, and the variables with the greatest predictive power for anxiety were identified. According to the results, the variables that most showed relationships with anxiety were the following: Gender, Reduced Hamilton Score, BSI Somatization, Age and MINI Depression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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At the end of the 14th century Lisbon experienced days of great anxiety and suffering, due to the wars in which Portugal was involved with Castile, exacerbated by the fact that its already preeminent place in the realm. Convinced that the misfortunes that befell them were divine punishment for the sins committed, the "honourable" citizens of Lisbon listed the most nefarious of those sins, proscribed and punished with pecuniary penalties and a great series of religious ceremonies was planned in their favour. The outcome of the battle of Aljubarrota, proving that God had heard their prayers, led them, as sign of gratitude, to increased the actions of praise previously determined with promises of amendment.

This study is based on psychoanalytic theory, and the concepts of uncanny, anguish and helplessness are points of convergence between psychoanalysis and Clarice Lispector's literary production, more specifically A Hora da Estrela, 1977. Starting from the failures of a society that does not fulfills the promise of protecting citizens from the malaise generated by it, literature and psychoanalysis are added together. For this, the work approaches the process of literary writing as a result of the subject's restlessness, anguish and helplessness; a creative process glimpsed in Clarice Lispector. In an attempt to better understand the concepts already described, a theoretical study was carried out, as well as the author's work. Theoretically, the research is based on Freud, Kehl, Dunker, Birman, among others. As a final result, it is possible to say that, in A Hora da Estrela, the character Rodrigo S. M., illustrates well the type of psychological helplessness proposed to be studied. Through Rodrigo S. M., artistic production supports psychic helplessness, when the other supports created by man fail, leaving the subject to the condition to build them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper taps the agency of the imaginary interlocutor in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā of Nāgārjuna to delineate existential anguish in the Madhyamaka. The paper asks whether the protestations of the imaginary interlocutor cannot be recast as anguished. It claims that an objection to emptiness (śūnyatā) can be voiced even after the metaphysical commitment to intrinsic existence (svabhāva) has been relinquished. By interpolating anguish into the Madhyamaka, the paper posits an unorthodox phenomenological objection to śūnyatā. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to overcome the prevailing philosophical views that understand evil from an ontological or metaphysical perspective through the reconciliation of being or God with the presence of evil in the world. In this sense, the phenomenological approach offers an adequate and renewed process to rethink the phenomenon of evil. To this end, I will show how the ontological treatment of evil as a deprivation of good corresponds neither to the way evil appears in experience nor to the recognition of the evidence of evil as a positive and effective reality that empirically rules and distorts relations within the world. This ontological consideration also fails to account for the transcendence of evil in its excessive condition, since this excess constitutes it as a phenomenon of radical exteriority to consciousness. Moreover, the overbearing and surprising presence of evil in the world demands from conscience a special spiritual penetration that does not justify evil, but rather exposes and condemns it. This can only be carried out in the disposition of the living to resist evil and to remain in the sphere of ethical difference, which consists of living in the good and for the good through the eradication of evil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Miguel de Unamuno's religiosity consists of the struggle to believe, represented in one of his famous characters: San Manuel Bueno, martyr, a priest who cannot believe, although he would like to. We need to believe, and so we believe in God, but reason contradicts our belief in faith. Thus, we find a certain agony and anguish in this struggle to believe, which is nothing more than the attempt to reconcile faith and reason, idea very present and which breaks through in the work of our thinker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Guided by the first psychoanalytical postulates, when Sigmund Freud (1900) attested to the nebulous origins of dreaming, we are authorized to affirm that the first sensation experienced by the small offspring, when it breaks out of its maternal envelope, is anguish. In further studies, in an evolutionary chain, the mother will be the primordial object that will allow the survival, physical and psychic, of the incipient being, which, in reality, is anchored in the mother's body, electing it as its own extension. Meanwhile, traversing the multiple symbologies that add to the scope of sexuality, in particular, the auguries that overflow the anguish of castration, we come across the sibilant prose of Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), and her short story The message (1964). In this narrative, we immerse ourselves in the existential drama lived by two young people, unsuspected of their intimacies and dissimilarities, who experience a horrifying encounter with their own psychic idiosyncrasies. Thus, in Lispector's carnivorous words, the feminine will modulate itself from the (un)familiar symbology of an anguished house. Therefore, this work, of psychoanalytical veins, proposes to analyze the anguish that intertwines the auspicious diegesis of the characters in the plot. To do so, we will use the psychoanalytic postulates developed by Sigmund Freud (1926) and his descendants, namely, Melanie Klein (1945) and Wilfred Bion (1897-1979). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author describes aspects inherent to the moment in life of the elderly. Effects in relation to psychic, physical and organic processes impacting them are discussed. Clinical comments are presented on the inner world of some long-lived elderly people upon revealing their anguish at approaching finitude. The article addresses how anguish and depression are present in this stage of life, seeking in poetry verses that engage with her arguments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our analysis starts from the premise that anxiety is a philosophical concept, not merely a research topic for psychology, not being reducible only to anxiety neurosis. Thus, we propose the philosophical research of this particularly deep concept requiring a complex approach due to its metaphysical origin and its link to the spirit, to the human being's basic structure. It is also the reason why we appreciate that the solution to the problem of anxiety is eminently spiritual, more specifically, it resides in the 'awakening of the spirit'. A truly free spirit, even if dominated by metaphysical anxieties, cannot lock itself into destructive anxiety. In my opinion, metaphysical anxiety cannot be confused with depression, it cannot be treated with anti-depressants. Did man not have turmoil, metaphysical anxieties, he could not claim to participate in culture. Only the one who goes through metaphysical anxiety can attain the state of ataraxia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to comment on the importance of World War One in the advent of the medicalization of certain emotions such as anguish and, more generally speaking, anxiety. They had already been identified by physicians coming from the fields of different medical specialties. The paper tries to show that these emotions had been well established in the medical and pharmaceutical landscapes well before the advent of antidepressants. The paper tries, in particular, to shift the viewpoint from the soldiers to the civilians.

Among the many biblical texts, the second chapter of Jonah stands out as one of the most human, sensitive and impressive. In it, all the fragility of a human being is exposed, who, like any other, makes choices based on his selfishness, his pain, his lack of sensitivity and compassion. In this analysis with exegetical highlights, there was emphasis on the gratitude of the prophet weakened by pain, by the feelings of anguish and despair that in many moments of life invades the being, hurting deeply by existence. Several verses were discussed, especially in chapter two. It was evident that Jonah's experience was profound and the pain, fear and suffering made him understand the greatness of God. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction The concept of trema refers to an initial phase in the psychotic process that is characterized by intense anguish, an experience of hostility and a feeling of imminent catastrophe. This situation engenders in the patient a sensation of being in a tunnel than can only lead to something terrible but ineffable. Objectives To illustrate the incipient phase of psychotic disorder though the presentation of a case. Methods A presentation of a clinical case. Results A 29-year-old man attends the emergency department due to anxiety of one moth of evolution, that had debuted after a stressful event in the patient’s life such as loss of employment. He suffered from intense morning-predominance anguish, depersonalization episodes, insomnia, hallucinosis, cognitive blocks that occasioned him great anxiety and apragmatic behaviors. Besides, he had language alteration and autolytic ideation with previous autolytic gestures. After evaluation, he was diagnosed with psychotic episode. He was hospitalized, and treatment with olanzapine and lorazepam was started. Conclusions With the exhibition of this case, we intended to point up the importance of a differential diagnosis with different disorders marked by anxiety as the main symptom. In our case, panic disorder should be taken in account as a differential diagnosis. Furthermore, as the evidence shows, the identification of prodromic phases in schizophrenia allows an early diagnosis and early intervention, improving the prognosis. Disclosure No significant relationships.

The aim is to question the emergency in the city for the subject of the unconscious, and the relationship that the latter has with time in moments of subjective emergency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of the Second World War, Lacan delivers a reflection on an unprecedented subjective logic where time takes a preponderant place, in a very precise form, haste. Its modulation effects nothing less than the “psychological birth” of the “I” and accounts for the “ontological form” of anxiety. Despite his theoretical changes, Lacan will not cease to refer to this text which makes speaking a matter of urgency, whether he ignores it or not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While anxiety as a category is often used to designate a bodily sensation of discomfort peculiar to the individual, this issue of Tracés proposes to look at anxiety as a regime of experience in the face of uncertainty, no longer using the tools of psychoanalysis but those of the human and social sciences. The articles in the issue thus address the logics underlying the modes of manifestation of anxiety, taking into account their dimensions, which are at once corporeal, discursive and aesthetic, in original articles, an interview and a graphic work. The editorial returns in particular to the question of the socially situated nature of the expression of anguish, depending both on an institutional context and individual dispositions, but also their gendered aspect. However, analysing the manifestations of anxiety implies first of all questioning the conditions of its objectivation in medical discourse but also by the human and social sciences in all their diversity. If psychoanalytical discourse has imposed itself throughout the 20th century as the main vector for thinking of anguish as ontological and in this respect fundamentally different from fear (which is always linked to an object), the contribution of existentialist philosophy (Kierkegaard, in particular) allows us to think of anguish as man’s experimentation with the infinity of possibilities. As a learned category, anguish is also an ordinary category designating an emotion that can be considered as founding as much of a social group as of political modes of action. While anguish tends to be reduced to a process specific to the subject, the bias of our issue has therefore been to rethink this emotion in the light of the collective, that is to say, to make it the sign of a shared emotional regime in a given space and at a given time. If “experiencing anguish” comes out more from the body and the incorporated, to call oneself anguished would be to benefit from categories of understanding of the social world, notably those coming from psychoanalysis, which contribute not only to qualify its relationship to the world as pathological, but rather to affirm in the public space (after the private space) the legitimacy of the tortuous and painful singularity of this relationship.

How do psychoanalysis and psychiatry define anxiety and support patients and those close to them? Based on the case of the transition paths of transgender minors and their parents, the interview with Dr. Agnès Condat sheds light on the ways in which hospital services assist individuals in their transition process, but also support the institutions that socialize them – such as schools. Beyond that, the interview focuses on the work of identifying and assisting with the manifestations of anxiety in families and caregivers. Finally, the article underlines how psychoanalytical work can make headway in the social sciences, particularly on the question of gender.

The anxiety of novice schoolteachers is expressed in the tension between aspirations to be and a position experienced as untenable. Drawing on a sociology of socialization and a sociology of institutions, and based on an ethnographic study, this article shows that anxiety is an unhappy relationship that is located in a social position. It can be linked to social foundations and in particular to social arrangements more or less propitious to the expression of anxiety attacks. It also comes from an institutional mode of functioning whose form is imposed on bodies and shapes these arrangements. This article also shows the importance of the body in these tensions. Unable to stay or to get out, novices express an impossible disengagement through the body.

In order to separate from an excessively idealistic reading of Husserl's phenomenology, Sartre turned to Heidegger's ontology. His main goal was then to establish a phenomenological ontology. However, the author argues that all the main concepts that Sartre found in Heidegger, that is, nothingness, anguish, death and finitude, are constantly redefined into the French philosopher's philosophy. This gesture explains the rupture according to which when Heidegger's philosophy is a philosophy of finitude and death, that of Sartre is a philosophy and life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Russians are a very particular kind in cinematography. The way they express themselves will never resemble the West and it has a lot to do with visual choices. The way our souls perceive their work will always be related to the way our eyes register colours and textures, and those colours will be a second character to the story. There are many studies that believe that colours and emotions are directly linked, yet we need to face the fact that many of these correlations happen due to the hundreds of years of associations between a certain colour and a certain emotion. However uncertain this link may be, what remains a fact is that Russian and former USSR countries give birth to an expressionism of colour in their movies that is undisputable. In fact, in their films in many ways storytelling is so related to colours that sometimes we forget that other methods exist, and we let ourselves completely submerged in their Blue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The inflow of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar experiencing trauma and torture is a major global issue. This article explores relationships with local communities as they are represented in the multi-vocal voices of Rohingya refugees. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with a group of Rohingya refugees based in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh along with observations of camp life. Twenty participants were interviewed. The observations provide insights into the feelings of anxiety among the Rohingya refugees. Yet, the findings also suggest that the refugees hold out hope that in Bangladesh they will find a sense of belonging. The study draws on Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia as positioned through sociological discourse, to reflect the social experiences of refugee young people and their families. The intent of the article is to open up, rather than to close off engagement with the issue – furthering awareness and possible actions to be taken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this piece, I respond to Sarah Cervenak and Molly Farneth's generous readings of Hope Draped in Black. Regarding Cervenak's moving piece, "High Under The Pew," I focus on the apposition of apparent oppositions—such as elevation and being underneath, or social life and black death. I also draw attention to the relationship between style of writing and ethics that Cervenak enacts in her comments. I then engage Farneth's reflections on the ritualization of melancholy. While melancholy is expressed and performed in aesthetic and political practices (song, dance, vigil), we must be alert to the ways that civic rituals convert loss and anguish into opportunities to affirm and bolster imperial projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes the outline of a unified theory of anguish in Seminar 10, aiming to provide a reading key that allows to connect the different formulations in the works of Freud and Lacan. The idea of unity must be understood in the structuralist sense. This means privileging relationships and not terms, that is, finding the rule of composition of the set of concepts. Starting from the pair of opposites anguish as lack of lack x anguish as a sign of desire, it's shown that the affections that make up the terms of the pair have a relationship: while the first would be a condition for the possibility of desire, the second supposes a constituted desire. The existence of anguish related to jouissance and anguish related to desire is discussed, demonstrating that the unfolding of the anguish formula finds support in the Freudian text. It's argued that the Lacanian pair of opposites corresponds to the Freudian pair automatic anguish x sign of anguish. It's concluded that, despite the plurality of definitions, it's possible to find a logic that crosses them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Early Buddhist discourse recognizes the problem of dukkha (suffering) and argues that the cause of dukkha can be removed. This paper attempts to demonstrate how Buddhist claim that dukkha can be removed fails as it creates epistemological complications within the Buddhist discourse, and attempts to show how substituting Heidegger’s concept of Angst for Buddhist concept of dukkha could solve this problem. It is argued that the solution proposed by the four noble truths of early Buddhist tradition contradicts with the ontological and epistemological properties and implications of the concept of dukkha, and, accordingly, these properties of dukkha ought to be revised. As a solution to this problem, it is proposed that Angst addresses the problem of suffering more efficiently by not engendering such epistemological complications while also retaining the philosophy and worldview created by the Buddhist discourse as it accurately facilitates the Buddhist perspective.

A poem by Shelley gives the title to William Somerset Maugham’s novel The Painted Veil, published in 1925. The moral of the poem is very pessimistic: the veil of life should not be lifted, because underneath there is no truth. As this article proves, this negative vision coincides only partially with the novel. In fact, Kitty Garstin, the heroine, raises the veil over her life and discovers the true face of it: something deceptive and superficial. In other words, Kitty realizes that until then she had not made any decision on her own. On the other hand, by discovering her false life, Kitty is able to first glimpse a new existence. In this sense we can consider this novel as a descent into the depths of the human heart, crushed under layers of social stereotypes, personal prejudices and, in general, hypocrisy. Therefore, the structure of this essay follows a triple hermeneutic operation: showing the veil; unveiling the hidden reality; and revealing the possibility of a new feminine existence which does not try to imitate male values but to discover those that are truly women's.