Confronting Images: Questioning The Ends Of A Certain History Of Art

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When the French edition of Confronting Images appeared in 1990, it won immediate acclaim because of its far-reaching arguments about the structure of images and the histories ascribed to them by scholars and critics working in the tradition of Vasari and Panofsky. According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which seemingly intelligible forms lose their clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he goes on to contend, have failed to engage this underside, where images harbor limits and contradictions, because their discipline is based upon the assumption that visual representation is made up of legible signs and lends itself to rational scholarly cognition epitomized in the "science of iconology."

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Bringing together perspectives from psychology, sociology, women's studies and media studies, Sarah Grogan assesses what we know about the social construction of body image at the end of the twentieth century. She compares the effects of gender, sexuality, social class, age and ethnicity on satisfaction with the way we look and suggests how these differences arise. Why, for instance, are heterosexual men much happier with their body images than women or gay men? And is it true that older women are less satisfied with their bodies than younger women?

Body Image presents original data from interviews with men, women and children to complement existing research, and provides a comprehensive investigation of cultural influence on body image.

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Should be titled Body Shape not Body Image.......2007-03-04

While I really enjoyed the book, I felt it concetrated may too much on issues of thinness and weight. I think the author did a good job of looking at a variety of studies and including both psychological and sociological studies; however, I feel that body image satisfaction and dissatisfaction goes way beyond just looking at body shape. If you're looking to read about body image outside of the 'weight debate' look elsewhere.

Responsible and Fascinating Research Review.......2005-04-11

I am a lay reader. I read few research reviews, but I found this book to be clear and insightful.

The body of studies reviewed seems comprehensive, and the author strikes me as being very fair and responsible in the way she reviews the research. She points out particularly interesting findings as well as places where more research would be helpful. From page 111: "An interesting difference between interviews with men and with women is that adult men tended to see media images as realistic goals. There was a general feeling that they could look like the media images if they wanted to, but that they did not care enough about the way they looked to spend time weight training." Her own voice in the book is not overbearing, and when she does provide her opinion, it is very insightful. She also does a nice job of reporting on literature (not only on studies). The author's own research and interviews are helpful and fill in areas where information may have otherwise gone missing. She provides helpful information about men and body image. She discusses solutions for body dissatisfaction, though not in the same depth as other subjects. I found this book left me with a different and less biased view about bodies and body satisfaction-an impact I wasn't expecting.

Images of Freud: Cultural Responses to Psychoanalysis

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Images of Freud: Cultural Responses to Psychoanalysis
Barry Richards
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Disappearing Persons: Shame and Appearance (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)

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About much more than shame
The Mutifarious Mind
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Disappearing Persons: Shame and Appearance (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)
Benjamin Kilborne
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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ASIN: 079145200X

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Investigates the psychocultural crisis confronting our increasingly appearance oriented, shame-driven society.

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About much more than shame.......2006-01-17

In addition to persons interested in shame for personal or professional reasons, this book is excellent for sociologists, other social scientists, and artists interested in how negotiations between individuals and their social surroundings influence the meanings of self and community. Kilborne's observations are precise and the significance of the themes that emerge from many observations is acute. Best of all his writing is direct, clear, and suitable for sophisticated professional and intelligent layperson alike.

The Mutifarious Mind.......2002-04-21

Kilborne's book achieves itself quietly and with a tremendous and subtle power. Interweaving a vast knowledge of literature with a keen understanding of the vissisitudes of language and pychoanalytic practice, Kilborne explores the nature of grief and loss. This book is extraordinary in its capacity to articulate clearly and concisely the private phemonenon by which people come to lose themselves, only to spend their lives attempting to reconstruct that central loss.

Review of Disappearing Persons.......2002-03-15

This is a wonderful book, filled with psychoanalytic wisdom on an often neglected topic, that of shame and its contribution to character development. Kilborne writes with grace and wit, interweaving analytic concepts and case studies with a rich collection of references from literature, philosophy, anthropology, history and even politics. The book covers lots of territory, but not at the expense of depth. It never loses its focus on the concept of shame, and never descends into the byzantine psychoanalytic jargonizing one encounters so often in books of this type. It also contains abundant references and end notes. I highly recommend it for psychoanalysts, other psychotherapists and anyone else with a humanistic interest.

Working with Images: The Theoretical Base of Archetypal Psychology (Classics in Archetypal Psychology, 4) (Classics in Archetypal Psychology, 4)

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Working with Images: The Theoretical Base of Archetypal Psychology (Classics in Archetypal Psychology, 4) (Classics in Archetypal Psychology, 4)

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Release Date: 2000-05-01

The New God-Image: A Study of Jung's Key Letters Concerning the Evolution of the Western God-Image

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clearly written and informative....
Genius Level Follow-up To Jung

The New God-Image: A Study of Jung's Key Letters Concerning the Evolution of the Western God-Image
Edward F. Edinger , Dianne D. Cordic , and Charles Yates
Manufacturer: Chiron Publications
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ASIN: 0933029985

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clearly written and informative...........2001-12-27

....as all Edinger's books are, but this one contains more of his less useful Jungian prejudices in one place than most of his other books, with the possible exception of ARCHETYPE OF THE APOCALYPSE.

In discussing the transformation of the Western God-image, Edinger implies that "animism"--experiencing the divinity of nature--is a less advanced psychological stage than realizing that a God-image organizes the psyche. The animism argument is an outdated one and has been pummeled both by ecopsychology and by the aboriginal feeling for the sacredness of place. Edinger was an excellent Jungian analyst, but he was obviously no ecologist. Nor do his descriptions of traditional spirituality as less developed than, say, individuative methods do him or Jung much credit. Why do Jungians so often forget that Jung was a theist?

Given this, his dream (p. 74) is informative: finding himself in an alien-feeling world, he sees that the people listening to him are afraid of catching an infection from him--upon which he dances a jig, no longer afraid of them, and says, "Jumping Jehosephat"--an able description of the missionary enthusiasm with which a former Jehovah's (Jehosephat) Witness goes about acting his part in a kind of exteriorized play in which the world's a dangerous stage of "conflict and intrigue."

A plus is that this book is free of all the alchemical, etc. imagery originally reproduced to good expository purpose by Jung but wearyingly repeated by so many of his followers in their explanations of his thought; even the mandatory photo of Jung is absent. Another plus is that the selections from Jung's letters were well thought out and provide fascinating insights to readers who haven't read what's been published and translated so far of Jung's voluminous correspondence.

Genius Level Follow-up To Jung.......2001-08-25

This book is an expansion and follow-up to Jung's equally wonderful book "Answer to Job." Edinger talks extensively about the evolution of Western man's idea of God. His "God-Image" (not God literately), but rather man's perception of God and how that has changed through-out the centuries. Edinger continues to strike a wonderful balance between scholarship and accessablity. Although, this book is by no means "lite-reading", it is a thoughtful book that the educated lay-person would find helpful, particluarly for those on a spiritual path.

A Violent God-image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann

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Continuum Publications dares to permit an unorthodox approach to the Christian message.
How my cat started to love Eugen Drewerman ...
Drewermann shows the emperor is naked
A fascinating read!

A Violent God-image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann
Matthias Beier
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
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Theologian and psychotherapist Eugen Drewermann has been the most significant, prolific and bestselling theological writer in the German language over the past quarter century. Drewermann shows that religion, including Christianity, turns violent mentally, spiritually, and even physically if it uses fear as a motive for faith- fear of exclusion from the group, fear of hell and fear of God. This is the first full-length introduction to Drewermann in English.

'Powerful... a profoundly more human cast to otherwise abstract theological propositions... almost revolutionary in its apertura to new and refreshing vistas in thinking about basic theological issues.' W. W. Meissner, S.J., M.D. in Horizons

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Continuum Publications dares to permit an unorthodox approach to the Christian message........2007-02-20

A welcomed translation and interpretation of timely research on war and violence by an eminent scholar. It ought to be read by just war theorists, political hawks and doves, and opinionated religious dogamitists.

How my cat started to love Eugen Drewerman ..........2005-12-16

Our cat always sits attentively next to me and my notebook computer when I am writing reviews. Today, however, she sits on the CD player, because from this the voice of Eugen Drewermann (*1940, a Mahatma Ghandi type from the small German town Paderborn) sounds strangely instead of blues. I explain to my cat, which through and through doubtingly stares at me with her yellow owl eyes, that Drewermann also has written a book "about the immortality of the animals" and that he makes well in this a bit again of that one which has done the church to particularly black cats in the Middle Ages: these were crucified namely instead, if enough witches did not queue to the burning. My cat starts increasingly more interested and benevolently to listen to the warm reading voice of Eugen Drewermann. Under the protection of a jumper always like a Prince Eisenherz (a famous European Cartoon-Hero) Drewerman rides against Rome - courageous in the case of doubt he prefers against the church the Freudian psychoanalysis. He has written about the fairytale Andersens of the sea virgin very profoundly and also very much touching about love and eroticism. And since we look just to Scandinavia (because that sea virgin-sculpture sits in the port of Copenhagen): The Danish Bishop Lise Lotte Rebel has just suspended the priest Thorkild Grosboll from the service in Lyngby-Taarbaek at Copenhagen, because he does not want to imagine God like an old man with a white beard any more. This also could have happened to Drewermann in Germany, oh no, it already has happened to him long ago: In 1991 he got sermon ban and was suspended from the priesthood. There are always troublemakers like Drewermann or Thorkild Grosboll or still famous: Luther. Of course Drewermann also has written over Giordano Bruno which was brought from the pope to the stakes. And of course also against the mischief of making wars. Actually Eugen Drewermann would be the best conceivable pope. But this will never happen. Therefore he has fulfilled a wish, cherished for a long time, on the occasion of his 65th birthday himself: He has withdrawn from the Roman Catholic church. This is very easy: In the corridor of the most nearest district court you have to find the room with the application forms. After all: his voice on CD and his thinking about the useable contents of the Christianity, indiscriminately all institutional rough mistakes: this voice declaring patiently, whispering along like a gutter monotonously can be bought (for Germans - in the USA you shoud read this book "Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann"). Our cat on the CD player has begun in the meantime to purr comfortably. Drewermann has reached at least this now, such a kind of Robin Hood in the Bible woods, a Wilhelm Tell who does not want to greet ever a pope, a type Asterix with a small horde of church critical harvest funny in the background which are always happy when they rediscover him in any TV talkshow. Where he gave his church leaving having been carried out in that last one of Sandra Maischberger, German television. Of course Drewermann has constant opponents and the new German Pope Joseph Ratzinger is not one of his friends. Pope Benedikt the XVI. (the English church critical bishop John Shelby Spong wrote mockingly "the Pit Bull of orthodoxy ") surely has something else on the day schedule than to read a Drewermann-introduction. But you should do so ...

Drewermann shows the emperor is naked.......2005-03-26

As an European reader of books of Eugen Drewermann, and as a christian believer, I'm delighted that there is an english introduction of his work for the U.S.market. Drewermann shows a remarkable analysis of the Christian belief, shows why it can be lifesaving. With a lot of psychological insights.
But he teaches not the same as orthodox christians do. Their belief is often a belief of fear, Drewermann argues. He advocates a belief of trust.
I think, the U.S. (especially the Christians in this country) needs this kind of counterbalance. Nowadays it seems that this country is in the grip of fear. But fear is no option, for Christians.

A fascinating read!.......2004-07-07

This is tough but what a rewarding read.
Finally a book that not only touches on so many existential questions but offers an explanation and a road map to how can humans through psychoanalysis free themselves of anxieties and existential fears through understanding how they first fell under the bondage of fear. The fascinating analysis of a violent God image is a must read for any serious thinker.

The Emptiness of the Image: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Differences

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The Emptiness of the Image: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Differences
Parveen Adams
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ASIN: 041504622X

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There has long been a politics around the way in which women are represented, with objection not so much to specific images as to a regime of looking which places the represented woman in a particular relationship to the spectator's gaze. Artists have sometimes avoided the representation of women altogether, but they are now producing images which challenge the regime.

The Emptiness of the Image offers a psychoanalytic answer. Parveen Adams argues that, despite flaws in some of the details of the arguments, psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. She goes on to show how the issue of desire changes the way we can think of images and their effects. Throughout, she discusses the work of theorists, artists and filmmakers such as Helene Deutsch, Catherine MacKinnon, Mary Kelly, Francis Bacon, Michael Powell and Della Grace.

The Emptiness of the Image shows how the very space of representation can change to provide a new way of thinking the relation between the text and the spectator. It shows how psychoanalytic theory is supple enough to slide into and transform the most unexpected situations.

Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women, and Children

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Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women, and Children
Sarah Grogan
Manufacturer: Psychology Press
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Sarah Grogan provides a comprehensive overview of the subject of body image, pulling together diverse research from the fields of psychology, sociology, media, and gender studies in men, women, and children.

This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the significant increase in research on body image since the first edition was published, including new empirical data collected specifically for this text. In addition to examining evidence for sociocultural influences on body image, the book also reviews recent literature and includes new findings on body modification practices (cosmetic surgery, piercing, tattooing, and bodybuilding). It takes a critical look at interventions designed to promote positive body image and also attempts to link body image to physical health, looking in particular at motivations for potentially health-damaging practices such as anabolic steroid use and cosmetic surgery.

The only text to date that examines the issue of body image,focusing on men and children as well as women, Body Image will be invaluable to students and researchers in the area as well as those with an interest in how to promote positive body image.

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Body Image presents original data from interviews with men, women and children to complement existing research, and provides a comprehenisve investigation of cultural influences on body and image.

Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy

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Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy
Richard G. Druss
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Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Technique
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ASIN: 0195135938

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In this gem of a book, master teacher and psychiatrist Richard G. Druss stresses a flexible and humane approach to psychotherapy. Using clinical anecdotes as a method of teaching, Druss presents some of his own early cases--failures as well as successes-and through these moving vignettes gives us fresh insights into both the therapeutic process and the healing relationship between therapist and patient. As he has to generations of supervisees, Druss describes the value and beauty of learning how to listen to patients. The chapters in this volume follow a logical and chronological sequence--from the initial establishment of rapport with a new patient to the realization of goals at the end of therapy. Along the way, Druss examines such topics as "Conflict, Personality, and Culture in Psychotherapy," "The Spiritual Life of Patients," and Patients Who Return to Psychotherapy After Termination." This book is written for psychiatry residents, medical students, and practitioners of clinical psychology, social work, nursing, and primary care medicine. This beautifully written volume, totally free of jargon and arcane terminology, would be of equal interest to any educated person who wishes to know more about modern dynamic psychotherapy.

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Great book.......2004-05-19

As a beginning clinician, I found this incredibly helpful. It is very well written and humane in outlook. Highly recommend it!

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