The paper tackles four basic questions associated with human brain as a learning system. How can the brain learn to (1) mentally simulate different external memory aids, (2) perform, in principle, any mental computations using imaginary memory aids, (3) recall the real sensory and motor events and synthesize a combinatorial number of imaginary events, (4) dynamically change its mental set to ma...

We assume some standard choices for the branch cuts of a group of functions and consider the problem of then calculating the branch cuts of expressions involving those functions. Typical examples include the addition formulae for inverse trigonometric functions. Understanding these cuts is essential for working with the single-valued counterparts, the common approach to encoding multi-valued fu...

This paper presents an analysis of the experiences outreach project developed with adolescents sentenced by state deprivation liberty. The carried out pedagogical workshops using rap to provide support correctional measures. Mobilizing strategies from sociology literature, we analyzed lyrics produced during these understand their social content. Results highlight relationship between inequality...

This research attempts to unearth the contrasting discourses that constitute subjectivity in Basharat Peer’s memoir. By highlighting circulation of these multiple discourses, further endeavours trace resistance subject's agency. These often resorting violent modes disciplining, relentlessly struggle configure subject. However, with its potential for resistance, agency subverts all hegemonic con...

interdisciplinary studies have provided researches with new perspectives. the relation between literature and psychoanalysis is rather recent in iran; but even within this short period we have come to realize the benefits of such a relation to both literature and psychoanalysis. lacan's theories lead us towards interesting and sometimes decisive results in the analysis of characters and literar...

Drawing on the work of Eric Santner, Slavoj Žižek, and Alenka Zupančič, this paper constructs a theory of subjective singularity from a Lacanian perspective. It argues that, unlike the "subject" (who comes into existence as a result of symbolic prohibition), or the "person" (who is aligned with the narcissistic conceits of the imaginary), the singular self emerges in response to a galvanizing d...

the prominent french psychoanalyst, jacques marie émile lacanand his theories describing the unconscious, has created a huge transformationin literary criticism. he uses freud’s concept of the unconscious andsaussure’s linguistics to explain the new framework of the concept of theunconscious. this paper is an attempt to apply the theories of lacan in thenarrator of the blind owl written by a co...