new thing to contribute. For one thing, Freud's statement of the earlier stages of female sexuality has seemed to many to be untenable. Early vaginal erotism is assumed by Mrs. Klein, and the development of the Oedipus complex in the female child is restated according to clinical findings with which most analysts would now agree. The recognition that to the child the phenomena of psychic realit...

Paternal behaviour is critical for the survival of offspring in many monogamous species. Common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) and cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) fathers spend as much or more time caring for infants than mothers. Expectant males of both species showed significant increases in weight across the pregnancy whereas control males did not (five consecutive months for marmoset m...

Oxytocin plays an important role in monogamous pairbonded female voles, but not in polygamous voles. Here we examined a socially monogamous cooperatively breeding primate where both sexes share in parental care and territory defense for within species variation in behavior and female and male oxytocin levels in 14 pairs of cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). In order to obtain a stable chro...

In her article "Echoes of Sophocles's Antigone in Auster's Invisible" Kathleen Waller discusses Paul Auster's Invisible, a novel that explores Deleuze's and Guattari's ontological idea of becoming in a virtual world versus merely living in the actual, physical world. Sexual and immortal desires in the protagonist's virtual world show a near achieved nothingness, or "a space which is unlimited" ...

intertextuality is one of the most significant techniques to which modern literary scholars have paid considerable attention. intertextuality signifies the participation of the texts within one another, thus every literary text contains several other texts with which it bears relations. the ancient scholars had recognized the phenomenon of intertextuality as well, labeling it though as plagiari...