The article focuses on the Italian cinema in building collective memory post-war transitional phase. It tackles neorealist humanism and descriptive style, together with its obliteration of Fascism. These features contribute to ‘cultural trauma’: a symbolic activity reshaping identity. Finally, scrutinizes non-fiction works representing contested area, political historical terms: Tr...

There is much scholarship on the linkages between Afrikaner nationalism and South African (Afrikaans-language) filmmaking. Within context of a sustained post-apartheid renegotiation Afrikaans or in popular imagination, this article we argue that two feature film historical dramas from production company Bosbok Ses Films, Stuur groete aan Mannetjies Roux (2013) Verraaiers (2013), resonate themat...

An alternative subtitle to this essay, which my non-Freudian Minnesota colleagues urged upon me, would have been, "Whose mind does the mindreader read?" To motivate discussion of a topic not deemed important by some today, consider the story of the last "Congress" between Freud and Fliess, the rupture of their relationship at Achensee in the summer of 1900—the last time the two men ever met, al...

thematic claim that Freud should be understood primarily not as a "pure psychologist" but as a "biologist of the mind" is hardly new. The neurological and evolutionary inputs into Freud have been traced and accepted by most recent scholars. Second, Dr. Sulloway offers his book as "comprehensive". Despite its 600 pages, it certainly isn't. The development of Freud's views after about 1900 is qui...

“three drops of blood” is among sadeq hedayat’s best-known stories and has captured both the general attention of many interested readers of literary fiction as well as the particular attention of numerous literary scholars and critics. the narrator-protagonist of the story,       who has been hospitalised at a mental hospital, describes the other patients and explains a traumatic event in his ...

YANNINCK RIPA, Women and madness: the incarceration of women in nineteenth-century France, transl. Catherine du Peloux Menage, Feminist Perspective Series, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1990, pp. 175, £29.50 (0-7456-0454-4). We meet a parapraxis on p. 86: "There is a clear analogy to be drawn between asylums and hospitals and indeed it was a truism for the madwoman." Read asylums and pris...

YANNINCK RIPA, Women and madness: the incarceration of women in nineteenth-century France, transl. Catherine du Peloux Menage, Feminist Perspective Series, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1990, pp. 175, £29.50 (0-7456-0454-4). We meet a parapraxis on p. 86: "There is a clear analogy to be drawn between asylums and hospitals and indeed it was a truism for the madwoman." Read asylums and pris...