"EL SAFFAR, RUTH ANTHONY and DIANA DE ARMAS WILSON, eds. Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993. xv + 332 pp."

Psychoanalytic perspectives on racial profiling.

Jeffrey Goldberg's comments in "The Color of Suspicion"' are comprehensive, factual, and an indictment of the racist practice of profiling. I found it fascinating and revealing to read that racial profiling had its genesis in practices by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's behavioral science unit and the Drug Enforcement Administration's encouragement of state officials to profile drug couri...

Latinismos neológicos en el siglo XV: una propuesta metodológica a partir de la lingüística de corpus

The aim of this paper is to present the theoretical and methodological keys that have been followed for the preparation of a corpus of neological latinisms of the 15 th century. Due to the lack of a historical dictionary of the Spanish language, our research is based upon the lexical items of the Diccionario del castellano del siglo XV en la Corona de Aragón (DICCA-XV). We’ve then compared the ...

Uncommon misery: modern psychoanalytic perspectives on infertility.

Keely Stauter-Halsted, The Devil's Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015), pp. 380, $39.95, cloth, ISBN: 10987654321.

There are a number of reasons why this book is important. Firstly, it offers what is largely missing from the current literature on eugenics, public health and social medicine in EastCentral Europe: the social and medical management and, ultimately, the control of the female body and female sexuality. Certainly, Nancy M. Wingfield, Maria Bucur, Zsuzsa Bokor and Magda Gawin, among others, have d...

Emerging Perspectives on Distinctions between Romantic Love and Sexual Desire

Although sexual desire and romantic love are often experienced in concert, they are fundamentally distinct sub jective experiences with distinct neurobiological substrates. The basis for these distinctions is the evolutionary origin of each type of experience. The processes underlying sexual desire evolved in the context of sexual mating, whereas the processes underlying romantic love?or pair b...