VOLUME 3(1) • 2015
Living in death, or being wedded to the great divorcer
ABSTRACT. Probably a complex of guilt operating with giant force on man’s psyche, thus forcefully moulding all his actions without his willing it. A guilt so powerful that is translated into a quasi-compulsive behavior. pp. 5–8 {downloads}{slider Author's contact} Mihai A. Stroemihaistroe@yahoo.co..
Death deals doubtfully
ABSTRACT. Aortic root aneurysm and aortic dissection are the most common cardiovascular manifestations of the Marfan syndrome. Among patients with aortic root replacement, the surgical reintervention rate at 10 years is about 40% and it increases in Marfan syndrome’s patients. These patients also pr..
The chariot race against Alzheimer
ABSTRACT. Alzheimer’s disease is the most frequent type of dementia to be found in the elderly. It carries along a huge negative impact on the patients’ lives and their families, and also on caregivers and society in general. It still is a disease quite difficult to diagnose in the early stages, usu..
Gout – a disease for the elect
ABSTRACT. Gout is an articular disease defined by acute attacks of inflammatory arthritis, which most often involve the metatarsophalangeal joint of the hallux. A gout attack with this localization was formerly known as podagra. The evolution of the disease involves acute attacks alternating with as..
For a night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury
ABSTRACT. Syphilis, a treponemal sexually transmitted disease, was from the very beginning stigmatized and considered to be disgraceful and embarrassing. But its history is connected with the artistic personality in more ways than one. The artists themselves were often its victims whilst, in a kind ..
Claiming dignity while dangling between life and death
ABSTRACT. Brain death can occur especially as a violent unnatural death, mainly in severe traumatic brain injury, a frequent neurosurgical pathology. Such injuries are common in specialized neurosurgical services mostly in patients with a poor prognosis or with no chance of survival. The neurosurgeo..
Et moriemur. A pastiche
ABSTRACT. Unlike Ars Moriendi, a medieval devotional work, Everyman, an anonymous 15-th century morality play, exhibits, an et moriemur attitude, but with a tiny difference, foreshadowing the birth of la mort de soi attitude. If this viewpoint is singular and novel (i.e. creative) we cannot go as fa..
The intermediate beings
ABSTRACT. Starting from a concise review of the issues raised by the quest of the hero in Don Quixote, we explore the complex relations between fiction and reality, mental constructs and their projections in the real world, text, mental representation and the concrete space-time continuum. The quest..
The imprisoned double
ABSTRACT. The article discusses feminist theories of psychoanalysis used by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The article will highlight, among others, the ways in which gender roles are reflected in American literature in texts written by women who have had schizophrenic, depressi..
Children of the night
ABSTRACT. Life-in-Death, or Life-after-Death. An enigma and a research field for professionals, be they physicians, psychiatrists, scientists, scholars, or literary authors. A domain which may refer both to the existence of the living beings or of the dead–undead creatures. One of these creatures is..
The voodoo curse
ABSTRACT. Life-in-Death, or Life-after-Death! Who are the unfortunate creatures to be forced to such ordeal? Every kind of undead from ghouls to vampires, from mummies to zombies. The reasons for their being as such are different. And, in the case of zombies, we are talking about voodoo. pp. 104–131..
Leaping headlong into the Sea Janusian of light-and-shade
ABSTRACT. One of the most powerful romantic poets, John Keats (31 October 1795; London– 23 February 1821; Rome, the Papal States/Italy) continues to amaze generation after generation of readers of poetry. The fascination for Keats has multiple sources, not last among these being the fact that he pro..