Introduction: the struggle for meaningBettelheim, B
One day late, but in keeping with the spirit of Halloween, which reminds us each year of the didactic benefits of scaring the crap out of kids, I want to celebrate a fine example of fairy tales told with the gloves off. As Bruno Bettelheim (perhaps somewhat plagiaristically) reminded us,...
In such uses for social analysis, identity has come up against criticisms. Brubaker claims that when a fixed term takes on unfixed meaning it comes to “bear a multivalent, even contradictory theoretical burden”, which is what happens with the use of “clichéd constructivis[t]” definitions ...
This is done by means of ‘collaterals.’ For example, a main nerve coming from the spinal cord and carrying sensory information to the cortex does not go directly through the reticular formation but as it passes by, its main fibers send off smaller branches to terminate on reticular neurons....
Bruno Bettelheim says it best in The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales: “The central theme of all versions of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ is that, despite all attempts on the part of parents to prevent their child’s sexual awakening, it will take place nonetheless...
This iconology is based not on the meaning of his figures . . . but on the interrelationships between the figures in their complex, autonomous arrangement, which cannot be reduced to discourse.” Yet I think to the contrary, for Warburg the Mnemosyne hungers for discourses to take place and...
Bettelheim, Judith. 1979. The Afro-Jamaican Jonkonnu Festival: Playing the Forces and Operating the Cloth. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. [Google Scholar] Bilby, Kenneth M. 1999. Gumbay, Myal, and the Great House: New Evidence of the Religious Background of ...