VOLUME 10(4) • 2022
From Trauma to Crisis. A Psychological Approach to Disaster
ABSTRACT. What follows is a plea for considering disaster, on its course from trauma to crisis, in multidisciplinary terms, medicine, psychology and sociology coming first, anthropology, economics and politics close behind. Whatever coping mechanisms, if really efficient, are presumed to go along th..
Epilepsy-targeted Personality, Creativity-wise. The Case of Ion Creangă
ABSTRACT. We first state the case of temporal lobe epilepsy for Ion Creangă. We then relate his long-lasting personality to ten factors that hopefully describe the Artistic Personality by and large, five of them in cognitive and educational terms, the remaining five in psychosomatic and behavioural ..
Aspects of the Sublime in Philosophical Aesthetics
ABSTRACT. The intention of the present study is to bring the sublime back into the light in contemporary philosophical debates, in order to present its significance both for aesthetics and in the field of art in particular, as well as for the sphere of cultural creation in general. In this sense, in..
Translation as Detective Work: Three Cases in Point from Oscar Wilde’s Tales
ABSTRACT. The paper analyses a series of textual and paratextual ‘samples’ which are meant to provide empirical evidence to support the intrinsic revelatory character of translation – more specifically, of research on translation. Three types of cases in point are listed, which draw attention to asp..
Good Taste or French Taste? The Meeting Place of Gastronomy and Social Distinction
ABSTRACT. The French gastronomic model, based on a genuine culture of taste, and sustained by a model of social conduct has exerted an extraordinary fascination on European elites since the 18th century, as they have unequivocally associated it with the splendor of the Court of Versailles. We will f..
Milking the Unconscious: Anne Sexton’s Poetic Creativity
ABSTRACT. Brought up in the ‘tranquilized’ 1950s and educated by fierce adepts of New Critical dogmas, the poets who formed what was subsequently called the American Confessional school came to revolutionize Western poetry in the 1960s and 1970s by openly exploring in their texts topics previously c..