Abstract In this article I propose an erotic theosis as a fruitful possibility for conceptualising our final participation in union with God the beatific vision and imaging said on earth. Particularly, synthesis of recent work from Oliver Crisp that Sarah Coakley sexual desire especially helpful way which to conceive ever-deepening God's love. Further, uses contributions Erin Dufault-Hunter int...

BACKGROUND Several cross-cultural studies have suggested that emotions are influenced by the cultural background. Emotional reactions to International Affective Picture System (IAPS) images were compared between Chinese and American young adults. METHODS 120 Chinese undergraduates (53 females, 67 males; aged 18-25 years) were enrolled at Zhejiang University, China, and the valence and arousal...

Despite the brain's central role in sexual function, little is known about relationships between brain activation and sexual response. In this study, we employed functional MRI (fMRI) to examine relationships between brain activation and sexual arousal in a group of young, healthy, heterosexual males. Each subject was exposed to two sequences of video material consisting of explicitly erotic (E...

Self-control and the ability to resist temptation are critical for successful completion of long-term goals. Contemporary models in cognitive neuroscience emphasize the primary role of prefrontal cognitive control networks in aligning behavior with such goals. Here, we use gaze pattern analysis and dynamic functional connectivity fMRI data to explore how individual differences in the ability to...

When an image is presented to one eye and a very different image is presented to the corresponding location of the other eye, the two images compete for conscious representations, such that only one image is visible at a time while the other is suppressed. Called binocular rivalry, this phenomenon and its deviants have been extensively exploited to study the mechanism and neural correlates of c...

Abstract The anti-Catullan and anti-elegiac perspective characterizing Horace's erotic Odes builds on elements of the biography his persona found in juvenile collections, Satires Epodes , where construction poetic autobiography as a lover brings together matters didactics, ethics literary criticism.