Double identity in Czesław Miłosz’s The Captive Mind

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

The captive mind: antipsychotics as chemical restraint in juvenile detention.

critical examination of the theory of mind-brain identity

the theory of dualism, i.e. duality of mind and body is, from most of the religious scholars and theologian's point of view, a theoretical basis for believes to hereafter. today the doctrine of physicalism is the most important challenge against dualism and whereby, mind and its moods, either are unrealistic and illusion (eliminative physicalism), or reductive physicalism; i.e. reduce them...

Medicine, mind and the double brain

ANNE HARRINGTON, Medicine, mind and the double brain, Princeton University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xiii, 322, £24.70. This is a remarkable book, and one that will doubtless become indispensable to students of the history of the neurosciences. It offers a comprehensive account of the growth of ideas within neurology and psychology concerning asymmetries of function between the two hemispheres of t...

Spinoza on Mind, Body, and Numerical Identity

Spinoza claims that the mind and body are “one and the same.” But he also claims that the mind thinks and does not move, whereas the body moves and does not think. How can we reconcile these claims? As a way of sharpening the challenge, let’s restate it as a puzzle involving Spinoza’s favorite philosophical character: Peter. Suppose that Peter woke up one morning and decided to go for a run. Le...