Emotional Universe Research Articles

Introduction to New Book on Stravinsky

A new book is devoted to the work of Stravinsky follows and expands upon the tradition of Boris Asafyev’s 1929 monograph. The central analytical object of the new book is the sound fabric unfolding over time in the works of the Russian master. Content-related and semantic interpretations of this object are intended to expand upon, refine, and in some cases correct ideas about Stravinsky’s work that exist in the modern musical consciousness. The book relies on four methodological premises. The historiographical premise stems from an interpretation of Stravinsky’s artistic legacy as a musical universe resting on proto-elements formed during the early stage of his creative development. The methodological premise is based on emphasizing the differences between the dynamic-procedural creative method, which is characteristic of the classical and romantic branch of Western European music, and Stravinsky’s object-descriptive polymorphism, which is rooted in the traditions of 19th-century Russian music. The musical-imagery premise is conditioned on the expressive spheres within Stravinsky’s oeuvre which were new to the world of early-20th-century music. In these areas, the composer operates masterfully in realms of the human emotional universe which were previously unrepresented in music. Finally, the cultural and worldview-related premise originates with Stravinsky’s unique role in 20th-century musical culture as the most brilliant representative of a new, essentially dialogic, cultural type. The dialogical mental apparatus, the diverse forms of intercultural dialogue in his life and art, and the harmonization of European and non-European strategies for perceiving the world around us — a characteristic feature of Stravinsky’s life and work.

The Persistence of the Emotional Lexicon in Political Discourse

Several researchers argue that political discourse or, especially, political communication, is strategic interaction, because several actors participate in this communication, such as: a politician and the public, or a politician – a politician. Political discourse is one of the most emotionally consistent. The emotional universe in political discourse is sometimes even exaggerated and/or false. It is represented by means such as: affective verbs, conditional-optative verbs, inverted topic, adjectives at the superlative degree. The purpose of political discourse is to manipulate the opinion of the public so that the speaker emerges a winner, to present his own opinion in a reasoned manner. The speaker’s desire is to gain the public’s trust, to accumulate sympathizers, to spread political ideologies in masse, most often political speech arouses controversial opinions among the public, therefore it is considered a speech with a strong degree of emotionality.

Understanding social entrepreneurial intention in higher education: does gender and type of study matter?

ABSTRACT Social entrepreneurship is a research topic that has received great attention from academics especially in recent years. However, the results in the literature are far from univocal, for example, there is no clear conceptual delimitation of the term, and it is often analyzed using the same theoretical models of traditional entrepreneurship. With the present study, we have attempted to overcome this problem by analyzing different antecedents, closer to the social and emotional universe, and detached from a male-centric and traditional vision of entrepreneurship, with the aim of understanding social entrepreneurial intentions in higher education. Results obtained from a sample of 962 college students showed that prior experience with social problems (PESP) and empathy (EMP) have a significant and positive impact on social entrepreneurial intention (SEI). Furthermore, social self-efficacy (SES-E), moral obligation (MO), and perceived social support (PSS), in addition to directly influencing SEI, mediated the relationship between PESP-SEI, and the relationship between EMP-SEI. More interestingly, gender (male vs female), but not the different type of study (social sciences vs economics and business sciences), moderated the relationship between EMP-SEI to the benefit of women. Given the importance of social entrepreneurship as an alternative solution to the current economic crisis, these are important results because, on the one hand, they make it possible to overcome the male-female gap that characterizes traditional entrepreneurship, on the other, they underline the need to introduce different constructs closer to the social and emotional sphere into entrepreneurship education programs.

The Love for International Organizations

Abstract Albeit the object of compelling criticisms in recent decades, international organizations continue to occupy a very central place in the practical, conceptual, cognitive, imaginary, and emotional universe of international lawyers. This article argues that the resilient centrality of international organizations in international legal thought and practice is the manifestation of international lawyers’ love for such institutions. This article’s main aim is to provide an account of the drivers that inform international lawyers’ love for international organizations with a view to elucidating what lies behind the centrality of international organizations in international legal thought and practice. Among the drivers of international lawyers’ love for international organizations, attention is paid to the representations of international organizations as taking care of people, as showing where to look for power, as knowing so much, as romanticising history, as providing a shared standard of experience, as textualising the universe, as providing and organizing space for discontent, as expanding international lawyers’ field of study, and as holding many secrets.

‘We should no longer sit on packed suitcases’: German expellees’ emotions in post-war West Germany

ABSTRACT This article examines the integration into West Germany of those Germans expelled from Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia after the Second World War through an emotional perspective. The focus on evangelical communities serves here the purpose of exploring the significant role of evangelical churches and pastors in comforting the expellees, as well as their wishes and expectations. Since expellees used to share existential and intimate questions with their pastors, this correspondence provides a closer look at their multifaced emotional universe, which often diverged from the stereotypical image proposed by the expellee political representatives. The discrepancy between these two images reflected the political rupture that occurred between the expellees and their political leaders from the mid-1950s. The article’s aim is to show that significant emotional reasons underlie this progressive political detachment that deals both with the transformation of the expellees’ idea of homeland and with the desire to look forward from the Nazi legacy.

Emotional Universe of Nurse Case Managers Regarding Care for Elderly at Risk in Spain: A Hermeneutical Study.

The role of nurse case managers (NCM) involves a rarely visible emotional labor, even more when their role focuses on the care of elders at risk (EAR). Motivated by the lack of qualitative research on the emotional universe of NCM, this study explores the emotional universe (EU) of NCM regarding the care they provide to EAR in primary health care as well as the reasons that generate these emotions. An interpretative-phenomenological approach was implemented in southern Spain, with a purposive sampling that included nurses playing the NCM role for at least three years. Data collection was conducted in two periods (between September 2019 and July 2022). The primary collection tool was the semi-structured individual interview, with starting categories based on Bisquerra's EU taxonomy. The analysis followed Ricoeur's considerations, using the Nvivo software. In the NCM's EU, the recognition of the social phenomena stands out, with an open feeling of empathy regarding the desire of the EAR to continue living at home. However, there was also helplessness, resignation, disappointment, and frustration when EAR rejected their proposals. Furthermore, the system's limitations aroused compassion in the NCM and made them go beyond the limits of their role. This EU requires that their role be valued more, and higher responsiveness must be enforced to improve EAR care.

A qualitative study of medical-surgical intensive care unit nurses' experiences in caring for critical patients.

To describe the meaning attributed to nurses' clinical experience in a medical-surgical intensive care unit in Northern Cyprus. The qualitative study was conducted in two medical-surgical intensive care units at a university hospital. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 17 nurses. Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological approach was used to analyze nurses' experiences. The consolidated criteria for reporting a qualitative research checklist were followed in this study. The data analysis led to the extraction of the 5 themes and 19 subthemes. The themes identified for the study were competence, the emotional universe, stress resources, the meaning of nursing care, and profoundly affecting events. The study results show that the nurses expressed that having gained much experience in intensive care units and working there has contributed significantly to their professional development. It was indicated that the nurses had meaningful, caring experiences in intensive care units, which were perceived, however, as stressful experiences as well. The study has important implications for nurses, faculty members, and administrators to gain positive care experiences in terms of intensive care units.

The Emotional Universe of Insecure Scholars in the Early Modern Ottoman Hierarchy of Learning

Life is tough for many in the increasing precarity of today's academy. Despite all the degrees received, courses taught, grants awarded, conferences attended, articles published, resumes polished, and networks established, many people aspiring to a thriving academic career are now denied the opportunity to prosper in a stable position and to secure a settled life. Given the shrinking academic job market worldwide, especially for humanities and social science disciplines, it is no wonder that over the last two decades quit-lit written by disillusioned members of the academy has grown to such an extent that it now comprises a particular genre. From personal social media accounts to newspapers and websites circulating recent news about academics’ life across and beyond the United States, a wide array of platforms daily reveals the gloomy perspectives and emotional reactions of nontenured academic laborers overwhelmed by the uncertainties and insecurities that mark their professional and private lives.

Pedagogical Contextualisation and Integration Challenges for Organisation Development in India: Cultural Wisdom and Rational Modernity in Organisations

Since the 1970s, Indian organisations adopted the new and imported thrust of management knowledge, orientations, practices and systems. But much of what was imported did not take root, as it did not take into account the latent level of emotional and social universe of Indian managers in which their manifest behaviour is grounded. The role design is based on a picture of the organisation that is drawn from the West, and worse still, its models were colonial. It is dysfunctional for the individual, untenable for society and disempowering for the organisation. Indic wisdom has venerated the quintessential Arjuna. In reawakening and valuing this cultural heritage of ours lies our ability to shape a future free of colonial hangovers and envy of Western ways of being. It is only by awakening the Arjuna power and fostering a deep dialogue that we are going to be able to find creative and regenerative ways of living.

Emotional universe of intensive care unit nurses from Spain and the United Kingdom: A hermeneutic approach

AimTo acquire an understanding of the emotional universe of intensive care unit nurses, working in Spain and the United Kingdom. MethodologyThe study used a hermeneutic study design and was set in an academic environment. Participants included nurses with clinical experience in intensive care units. Data were collected from seven in-depth interviews, four in Spanish and three in English. The analysis followed Ricoeur’s Theory of Interpretation. The affective taxonomy Universe of Emotions, served to establish starting categories in it. FindingsSix themes were identified: 1) Critical patient care, critical context; 2) Intensive care… for whom?; 3) Nursing a dying patient; 4) In the company of others; 5) But… is it worth it? and 6) Emotional labour is crucial. These all describe different, multifaceted nurses’ affective journeys, through categories such as: So little time-so much to do, Relatives, Young death vs. elderly death, Poorly-valued work and I'm in the profession I want to be. ConclusionThe sociocultural context shared by the Spanish and English nurses working in intensive care units generates a complex emotional universe, with opposing affective experiences, such as those related to fear, anxiety, sadness, anger, shame, love, surprise and happiness.

The emotional universe of women affected by hepatitis C: A hermeneutic approach

ObjectivesUnderstanding the emotional universe of women from Cordoba affected by hepatitis C. MethodHermeneutic qualitative study. Participants met the criteria of being adult women with a current diagnosis of hepatitis C and belonging to the Plataforma de Afectad@s por la Hepatitis C of Cordoba. The intentional sampling was nominated and followed a criterion of intensity. Data collection was conducted through in-depth interviews. The analysis took place in 3 levels: Explanation, naïve understanding and in-depth understanding. In the second level, the metaphor universe of emotions was incorporated, which is a taxonomy that organises emotions into clusters of galaxies to facilitate understanding of affective phenomena. ResultsFour participants were included. Seven themes roam the galaxies in the emotional universe of women. “Damned disease” explores their disgust, sadness and shame. “Intimate affections” focuses on happiness and love as well as sadness. “Friendship-platform” focuses on understanding, welfare and affection. “Physicians” deal with distrust and disappointment regarding new treatment, and with “curing” sadness, fear, anxiety and hope. “State of ill-being” focuses on anxiety. And “universal access now” explores anger. ConclusionsDespite the presence of love in the complex emotional universe of women with hepatitis C, anger, sadness and anxiety are highlighted. Hermeneutics of their emotions facilitates nursing care and nursing research humanization.

Affetti e passioni nel pensiero medievale

The article points out the stages of medieval reflection on affectivity. In controversy with stoical positions, Augustine re-evaluates passions, linking them to the Passion of Christ, and describes them as motions of will that may be both good and bad, depending on the object to which they are directed. This christianization of passions dominates high-medieval culture, intertwining with the most widespread moral system, that of the seven deadly sins. From the XII century and especially in the thirteenth century, the translation of the Greek and Arabic philosophical sources and a renewed interest in the study of the soul and its faculties, allow to develop new doctrines about passions, culminating in the treatise of Thomas Aquinas, the most complete and systematic analysis of the emotional universe up to the modern age.

The center of the emotional universe: Alcohol, stress, and CRF1 amygdala circuitry.

The commonalities between different phases of stress and alcohol use as well as the high comorbidity between alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and anxiety disorders suggest common underlying cellular mechanisms governing the rewarding and aversive aspects of these related conditions. As an integrative center that assigns emotional salience to a wide variety of internal and external stimuli, the amygdala complex plays a major role in how alcohol and stress influence cellular physiology to produce disordered behavior. Previous work has illustrated the broad role of the amygdala in alcohol, stress, and anxiety. However, the challenge of current and future studies is to identify the specific dysregulations that occur within distinct amygdala circuits and subpopulations and the commonalities between these alterations in each disorder, with the long-term goal of identifying potential targets for therapeutic intervention. Specific intra-amygdala circuits and cell type-specific subpopulations are emerging as critical targets for stress- and alcohol-induced plasticity, chief among them the corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) and CRF receptor 1 (CRF1) system. CRF and CRF1 have been implicated in the effects of alcohol in several amygdala nuclei, including the basolateral (BLA) and central amygdala (CeA); however, the precise circuitry involved in these effects and the role of these circuits in stress and anxiety are only beginning to be understood.

The Mental Representation of the Emotional Universe and that Related to Bonding among University Students of Health Sciences

Abstract Stress and the emotional responses of anxiety, fear and anger, the prevelance of a psychiatric and or psychological symptomatology and a huge emotional exhaustion affect the relationship between the health professional and the patient as regards bonding. This symptomatology may even appear in university students of Health Sciences. Concious of the need to train the management of emotions and bonding in university students, we organised a theoretical-practical workshop in the Department of Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy and Nursing at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. A total of 77 students participated, all of whom responded to a series of questions. The qualitative analsis of these questions reflects that the most difficult emotions to train are admiration and security. The emotions that most habitually appear are happiness and sadness, while those of anger, fear, disgust and curiosity appear to a lesser extent. With regard to the results of the variables related to bonding, it was shown that the students know which elements make the therapeutic bond easier or more difficult. Finally, the majority of the experiences that the students recounted were related to the spheres of health, education and their relationships with partners.

A Vivência da Gravidez em Usuárias de Crack e sua Influência na Formação do Vínculo Materno-Fetal

The mother-baby bond starts to be established during the gestational period through the pregnant investment with her unborn child. However when drugs are used during the pregnancy the relation may be compromised. The present work aimed to understand, through a qualitative research, the pregnancy experience by the crack users and their bond with the fetus. Three pregnant women, whose uses crack and others drugs, were interviewed in the Hospital Presidente Vargas, in Porto Alegre RS. The interviews were evaluated by content analysis of Bardin and for thematic categories interpretation, the psychoanalytic literature related to pregnancy and bond formations were used. The results point that the pregnant relation with the fetus starts in an ambivalent form, this because the pregnant may lost their baby´s guard; the drug occupies a privileged place in the mother’s psyche, making it difficult for her intended the baby a place in hers emotional universe; without the each other’s support the pregnants cannot become aware of the vulnerable situation that they are exposed to. The support network it is fundamental to intensify the pregnant’s bond and she may able to take care of her ‘s pregnancy.

The stigma of surrender: German prisoners, British captors, and manhood in the Great War and beyond

Recent scholarship on the history of masculinity has struggled with a difficult question: how did men form ideals of manhood in the traumatic context of total war? While scholars like George Mosse have studied how medical and political authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries defined images of manhood, the more complex, often contradictory self-conceptions of ordinary soldiers coping with the physical and psychological stresses of combat have remained more elusive. Hegemonic images of manhood in the age of total war featured the “martial masculinity” of steel-nerved, emotionally controlled heroes willing to die for the nation. But this ideal was challenged as many men had to incorporate a “softer side” of nurturing and compassion to survive the destructive effects of modern industrialized war. In The Stigma of Surrender, Brian Feltman (Georgia Southern Univ.) investigates the understudied experiences of German POWs from 1914 to 1920. He analyzes the psychological and emotional universe of men enduring the emasculating conditions of capture and imprisonment. In a military culture prizing the glory of heroic death as the ultimate expression of manhood, they suffered the stigma of falling short of prescribed gender roles. Feltman argues that these POWs underwent a crisis of identity and had to re-establish themselves as “real men” who served their country even while imprisoned. To this end, they cultivated a camp culture of resistance and redemption in a new kind of battle against their captors. This gave them a much needed higher purpose beyond the crushing routine of daily life in British prisoner camps. The author seeks to expand our understanding of manhood in war by revealing how men negotiated and changed prevailing images of masculinity in a specific context of trauma and defeat. Inspired by new perspectives on the history of emotions, Feltman uses POW voices to clarify the effects of their humiliation, depression, and separation. Drawing on over a thousand letters in various German archives and samples from camp newspapers, capture reports, and unpublished memoirs, he offers fascinating glimpses into the everyday lives and emotions of men who were made to feel like failures and even traitors to their families and their nation. Chapter 1, “Between Victory and Death,” concerns the immediate effects of surrender on a German soldier’s sense of self: “If going to war confirmed an individual’s manhood, the act of battlefield surrender challenged a soldier’s masculine identity and cast doubt upon his commitment to Germany’s national struggle” (13). Of the more than 997,000 German soldiers captured during the Great War, about 325,000 fell into British captivity. German military authorities often portrayed surrendering sol-

The signified as a reflex of language contacts

The present study joins the series of works aiming to bring up to date, within Romanian linguistics, the theories concerning (Romanian-Hungarian) linguistic interferences manifested in bilingual communities and the research of lexical properties which have entered the Romanian written language either by the influence of the Hungarian dialects, spoken in different regions of the country, or by the translation of Hungarian texts into Romanian. The study will focus on Hungarian loanwords in old Romanian language which are discussed in terms of their changes in meaning. The inventory of the Hungarian loanwords’ meanings listed here was made based on a corpus of old Romanian texts, taking into account the material provided by various dictionaries with etymological concerns. As the few examples analysed in this study show, lexical meaning is impregnated with both intellect and emotional sensibility. The emotional universe, however, is rarely taken over along with the loanword. The emotional content is most often adapted, in its turn, to the sensitivity and spirituality of the speakers who borrowed the word.

The Sound of Music: Transforming Medical Students into Reflective Practitioners

There is a growing focus on the introduction of courses in humanities in medical education. Music is not a widely-used tool in medical education. It has unique features that make it an excellent educational resource for the possibility to express emotions. Within minutes, topics of interest in learning medicine, such as loss, compassion, sorrow, and solidarity can be identified and used in pedagogical processes. Music—like other art forms—can deal with the emotional universe of the student. Promoting a reflective attitude within an academic discipline requires the creation of space to make it formal. The Public Health Department of Jundiai Medical School (Sao Paulo, Brazil) offers a special course on family medicine core values, led by a SOBRAMFA Medical Education & Humanism faculty member. The process of understanding a student’s experience has allowed for the unveiling of a phenomenon that encompasses the student’s inner world as he/she attends to his/her medical training. The music is played on the outside resonates with the story and emotions of the student. Students realize that the pace imposed by the medical school does not allow them to reflect on either their own lives or their formation. The musical experience allows students to hear their feelings and share them with the professor and peers. They are surprised by memories and feelings that surface that they were unaware of or could not remember. These feelings are presented in themes that organize the affective experience of students, mobilized by the music. Several themes have emerged, such as the search for the self; family; vocational doubts; relationships with peers, professors, and patients. The findings of the experience of the music spectrum come in, offering numerous prospects for development in the context of medical education, as noted in the themes that emerged. As the basic experience we have of the world is emotional, the music—this form of human knowledge of affective tone—also becomes educational force, because the teaching process is not limited to transmission of content. Instead, more importantly, it implies that the teacher in development processes of meaning and significance enable the learner to reflect and transform the everyday practice, especially in medicine, where the interpersonal relationship is the basis for the full realization of future professional action.

The Literary Manuscripts and Letters of Hannah More by Nicholas D. Smith

MLR, 105.3, 2,010 845 risks sounding over-insistent. Equally, while the nature of the project requires that it respond to previous critics of Richardson, at times thewriting becomes bogged down in refuting dated views. This makes the study useful as a retrospective on twentieth-century Richardson criticism, but further limits the appeal of an already narrowly focused piece. That said, anyone who is seriously interested in Clarissa ought to read this thoughtful book. University of Leeds Bonnie Latimer The LiteraryManuscripts and Letters ofHannah More. By Nicholas D. Smith. Farnham: Ashgate. 2008. xxvi+245 pp. ?55. ISBN 978-0-7546-6270-9. Nicholas D. Smith's scholarly survey,which purports 'to collect and describe Han nah More's surviving papers (literary and epistolary)' (p. xxiii) and 'to furnish materials for scholarly and critical editions of her poems and letters' (p. xxiii), is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of thematerial facts of literary production and thebook market in thefinal decades of the long eighteenth century. At the same time, by shedding light on the impressive network of private com mentaries and social relationships which helped define the cultural and emotional universe against which Hannah More (1745-1833) shaped and refined her own authorial voice throughout her long, thriving career?and by explicitly connecting such insights to his substantial archival findings?Smith opens a window onto the literary interdiscursivity and cultural dynamics connecting the private and public spheres in that same period. Smith's book, which includes valuable reference tools such as a 'List of Repo sitories' (pp. ix-xix), a 'First Line Index ofManuscript Verse by Hannah More' (pp. 221-24), and a 'Bibliography ofRecent Criticism on Hannah More' (pp. 225 32), consists of two main sections. The first, described as 'a narrative analysis' (p. xxiv) and preceded by a preface (pp. xxi-xxvi) stating the aims of the study and alerting the reader to the immense and yet uncharted scale ofMore's manuscript production and literary output, is developed forcefully through a scholarly and engaging introduction (pp. 1-120). This in turndirects the reader, under a number of subheadings, to the extraordinarily varied aspects and forms ofMore's sociable milieu and manuscript production. The second section, where Smith's findings are ordered to form an unparalleled archival resource for this author, describes More's 'voluminous store of extant literarymanuscripts and letters' for the first time (p. xxvi), and lists them according to genre: 'Verse' (pp. 121-65), 'Prose' (pp. 165-72), 'Drama' (pp. 172-73), and 'Letters' (pp. 175-220). Smith's thorough and painstaking investigation was inspired by his discovery in 2003 of the transcripts of fortyunpublished poems by Hannah More 'in a manu script commonplace book compiled by a childhood acquaintance' (p. vii). While there is little hope, as the author states, 'that the full extent ofMore's poetical canon will ever be established' (p. 22), awareness of the role of indirect testimonies (along with external and internal locators) inhelping to define the actual contours 846 Reviews of individual corpora and authorship within the fertile economy of sociable and artistic exchange which characterized late eighteenth-century literary elites in ge neral, and women's intellectual circles inparticular, is at the heart of Smith's choice to inventory and describe such a plethora of non-autograph material (transcripts, autograph books, commonplace books, epistolary references, portraits, tokens, and memorabilia), which makes a significant contribution to themultifaceted canvas of this book. In so doing, he conveys suggestive and intriguing information about the actual extent and variety ofMore's literary production, the innerworkings of her creative imagination, and 'the contemporary circulation and reception history of her writings' (p. xxiv). In line with his stated objectives, Smith identifies a wealth of undocumented autographs and transcripts of letters and poetic and prose fragments by More. He also charts, and this makes indeed for compelling reading for literary and cultural historians alike, themultiple migration' routes of her previously largely unfathomed epistolary and literarymanuscripts, tracing them back to public and private repositories in ninety-five British and North American locations and providing exhaustive and richly detailed records according to a template which improves on the Index ofEnglish LiteraryManuscripts and Letters, 4 vols (London: Mansell...

Landscapes of Remembrance: Home and Memory in the Nineteenth-Century Bürgertum

This article examines the ways in which the nineteenth-century German middle class turned their homes into sites of family memory as part of a vibrant vernacular memory. The highly segmented organization of middle-class homes contributed to and grew out of this memory culture. The divisions of domestic space ascribed heightened meaning to particular zones, especially festive spaces like the “Christmas room.” Families filled domestic spaces with memory, putting family portraits and heirlooms on prominent display in the home. Middle-class Germans also filled the pages of personal memoirs with recollections of their childhood homes that almost always portrayed an idyllic environment. Ultimately, this article argues that family memory offers a window into the emotional universe of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie and that the sanitizing narratives of family memory were used to impart a sense of stability and control.