This article is about Émile Zola’s Three Cities: Lourdes (1894), Rome (1896) and Paris (1898), in which the author describes eponymous cities through eyes of a Catholic priest. trilogy not only Pierre’s journeys his wanderings inside three cities, but it also reveals spiritual, sentimental, intellectual path. The protagonist marked by two influences: charity need for truth justice. Guillaume, p...

Willa Cather's 1913 novel, O Pioneers! concludes with an unexpected moment of extreme violence as two young lovers, Emil Bergson and Marie Shabata, are murdered by Marie's husband in a mulberry orchard. Cather's novel is almost wholly devoted to the psychological interior of the protagonist, Alexandra Bergson, thereby rendering this violent interruption more dynamic as it essentially undercuts ...

In the 1950s Jacques Lacan developed a set-up with a concave mirror and a plane mirror, based on which he described the nature of human identification. He also formulated ideas on how psychoanalysis, qua clinical practice, responds to identification. In this paper Lacan's schema of the two mirrors is described in detail and the theoretical line of reasoning he aimed to articulate with aid of th...

This easily read and simple book has a tribute from Jung who refers to the difficulties of extracting his theories from the mass of comparative material with which his works abound. The historical and ethnological background against which he measures his hypotheses provide bewildering side-tracks but the author has kept steadily to her chosen path. For the general reader, it is the impact of th...

In his recent commentary, Gorik Ooms argues that “denying that researchers, like all humans, have personal opinions … drives researchers’ personal opinion underground, turning global health science into unconscious dogmatism or stealth advocacy, avoiding the crucial debate about the politics and underlying normative premises of global health.” These ‘unconscious’ dimensions of global health are...

Marie-Anne Félix is a Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) and a Principal Investigator at the Institut Jacques Monod in Paris. She started her scientific career in cell biology, and later turned to development and evolution. In the last years, her laboratory focused on evolution of vulva development in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and othe...

Bernard Chevalier, MD; Sigmund Silber, MD; Seung-Jung Park, MD, PhD; Eulogio Garcia, MD; Gerhard Schuler, MD, PhD; Harry Suryapranata, MD, PhD; Jacques Koolen, MD, PhD; Karl E. Hauptmann, MD; William Wijns, MD, PhD; Marie-Claude Morice, MD; Didier Carrie, MD, PhD; Gerrit-Anne van Es, PhD; Hirofumi Nagai, PhD; Danny Detiege, MS; Dragica Paunovic, MD; Patrick W. Serruys, MD, PhD; for the NOBORI 1...