Neurosis: another tough old word.

An Introduction to Jung's Psychology: Psychotherapy

PSYCHOTHERAPY is the treatment of the mind, or rather the psyche, by psychological methods. Psychotherapy has come to be identified in the public mind with 'psychoanalysis', a word which was coined by Freud and should strictly speaking be applied only to his method, which explains psychic symptoms in terms of repressed infantile sexual impulses; this implies tracing neuroses back to their roots...

Foreign Words and the Automatic Processing of Arabic Social Media Text Written in Roman Script

Arabic on social media has all the properties of any language on social media that make it tough for natural language processing, plus some specific problems. These include diglossia, the use of an alternative alphabet (Roman), and code switching with foreign languages. In this paper, we present a system which can process Arabic written in Roman alphabet (“Arabizi”). It identifies whether each ...

Anthropophobia: An Old and Typical Japanese Neurosis, its Conceptual Transition and Clinical Disappearance

The Underlying Representation of the Tough Construction in English

In this paper, we adopt the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) (Bresnan 1982a, Dalrymple et al. 1995) and propose an analysis of the tough construction in English. Our analysis is first presented as one which accounts for two kinds of tough sentences in English, i.e. those with a tough adjective complementing the copula be, and those with a tough noun complementing the co...

The Meaning of the Word Tamhis in the Holy Quran and in the Hadiths of the Infallibles (a.s.)

Ebtela’ (affliction) and emtehan (examination) are among the divine traditions in the field of Quranic studies, and many verses in the holy Quran deal with them. This research work has been conducted using the analytical-descriptive method and by referring to the commentaries of the Quran and the hadiths of the Infallibles (a.s.), and it aims to find out what the word tamhis conceptually means ...