Existential Conflict Research Articles

Understanding the psychodynamics of the pathway to suicide

This paper describes the current understanding of the psychodynamics of the pathway to suicide and argues that the limitations of current epidemiological and observational approaches often overlook crucial psychodynamic factors. It describes how an underlying vulnerability in the capacity to process emotions can lead to unbearable pain, where death is perceived as the only escape. The intense emotional states following life’s losses can then precipitate a profound division within the self. This internal split is characterised by a detached, destructive ‘perpetrator’ aspect and a vulnerable ‘victim’ aspect, with the former often overpowering the latter in the lead-up to suicide through suicidal fantasies of life after death. Drawing on data from various sources, including case studies, mental health audits, and coroner’s reports, the paper assesses the practical efficacy of understanding suicide through a psychodynamic lens. This approach aims to provide more effective intervention strategies, not just by preventing suicide but also by addressing the needs of those left bereaved, who often suffer from complex grief and an elevated risk of suicide themselves. By shifting focus from solely preventive measures to a deeper understanding of the underlying psychological mechanisms, this research advocates for a more holistic approach to suicide prevention. It calls for a shared philosophical inquiry into the nature of human existence and the existential conflict between the will to live and the impulse to die, suggesting that a more nuanced comprehension of these dynamics could lead to better support systems both for those at risk and those bereaved.

Avoiding Existential Conflicts with Hyper Intelligent Computers

This Article presents my vision of the future where existential conflicts with intelligent computersand networks will be mitigated by the evolution of the human race from the intelligent people who invented the ‘dumb’ computers in the 1940s, to the smart people of 2010s who created ‘artificial intelligent’ computers (see reference [1]), and who through bioengineering built superhumans to face super-intelligent computers by 2040 [2], and to the builders of the future Hybrid humanoids (with organoid brains) who will evolve before 2100 to avoid conflicts with Hyper intelligent computers and of the Android robots (loaded with Avatars of humans) capable to deal with the omnipresent adversary distributed networks (Divergent networks).

Cultural orientation of the “mimicry” society. The search for national self-identification in contemporary screen art

The purpose of this article is to study the peculiarities of the behavioral manifestation of Ukrainian screen characters in order to identify qualitative features characteristic of the Ukrainian mentality. This will allow us to determine the themes of screen works that will be relevant for the contemporary Ukrainian viewer, which will improve the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of Ukrainian audiovisual art.
 The methodology. Five scientific sources were studied (one dissertation, one collective scientific work, and three scientific articles), which allowed us to analyze the relationship between the behavioral reactions of the screen character and the nature of fear that was formed in the process of adaptive transformation of society. On the example of the films “The Guide” by Oles Sanin, “The Red” by Zaza Buadze, and “The Rising Hawk” by Leonid Osyka, the main themes and conflicts that characterize Ukrainian identity were identified and formulated.
 The results of the study demonstrate certain stable psychophysical reactions displayed by the screen character in a situation of existential conflict caused by the historical development of Ukrainian society. The nature of fears, as the main instrument of the motivating impulse in the process of forming cognitive, emotional and behavioral reactions, is determined by the level of the scale of the hero’s own identity recognition.
 The scientific novelty of the study lies in the author’s attempt to consider the conflict of the Ukrainian screen hero as a value clash between the goal-setting of a free individual and a society that has undergone adaptive transformations, which is realized through the manifestation of a certain behavioral nature of screen characters.
 The practical significance of the research findings will help in the process of creating new screen works. This will increase the attention to Ukrainian cinema.

Artificial Intelligence – Friend or Foe

This article intends to unveil the myth of the dangers of A.I. to human society and reiterates the fundamental advantages of human intelligence over existing and future intelligent machines by mitigating potentially existential conflicts between humans and intelligent computers.

SEMIOTIC AND MULTIMODAL REPRESENTATION OF EXISTENTIAL CONFLICT IN FICTIONAL DISCOURSE

The article represents an attempt to build and apply a linguosemiotic model of existential conflict research in modern English fictional discourse. The modern tendency of philological and socio-humanistic studies to involve the tools of semiotics, discourse theory, and multimodality in the process of complex analysis of a literary work as an artistic model of reality is highlighted. The research is based on practical blocks of illustrative material, selected discursive fragments from a literary work, which contain an existential conflict. Basically, the key point here is the analysis of intra- and interpersonal conflict based on the theoretical achievements of semiotics and linguosemiotics (Ch. Pierce, Yu. Lotman, U. Eco, G. Pocheptsov) and the theory of discourse and multimodality (G. Kress, K. O’Halloran, C . Forceville, M. Halliday). It makes it possible to provide a detailed research of existential conflict in fictional discourse with the identification of latent, ambivalent meanings and the relevant reconstruction and interpretation of the conflict by the reader. The paper aims at projecting the modern tendency towards the synergy of various aspects of conflict studies across the humanities. Therefore, the goal of the paper is to outline the advantages of an integral approach to the study of conflict in modern linguistic conflictology and to build a linguosemiotic model for the analysis and interpretation of existential conflict in fictional discourse. Thus, the paper`s core objectives involve: 1) to study the achievements of the semiotic and multimodal approach in its application to synthetic level communicative systems containing conflict; 2) to reveal the place, role and potential of the existential conflict in fictional discourse using the above-mentioned methods; 3) to present a linguosemiotic model for the study of existential conflict in modern English fictional discourse. The theoretical and methodological base of the research involves general-scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, deduction as well as the method of linguosemiotic and multimodal analysis to determine the components of semiosis of existential intrapersonal conflict in fictional discourse. The results of the research consist in the creation of an integral semiotic model of the analysis of existential conflict in modern English-language fictional discourse, which assumes the presence of a static and dynamic component in its structure, revealed, in particular, in the process of semiotic reading of the work in three successive stages of mimesis, semiosis, and synthesis. The process of conflict interpretation presupposes a comprehensive approach to semiotic reading activity developed in consecutive steps. The linguosemiotic means of representing the existential conflict at different levels of the literary work, which have a multimodal nature, have been revealed. The temporal, psychological, and sign-symbolic characteristics of the existential conflict, which make up the semiotic space or semiosphere of the literary work, are analyzed and classified. As a result of the identification and unification of the factors that determine the way of development of existential conflict in fictional discourse, the linguosemiotic model of the analysis of this type of intrapersonal conflict was reconstructed. The model covers the study of the semiotic components of the sign-symbolic, psychological and temporal space and the surface and deep levels of the semiotic reading of the literary work, at which the cognitive, behavioral and emotional aspects of the conflict are decoded and reconstructed.

To the ontology of war: why warfare but not peaceful negotiations

The article is aimed at a philosophical study of the foundations/causes of war. Its background is a definition of the Russian-Ukrainian full-scale warfare as an irreconcilable existential conflict of the "Russian world" between the "Russian world" and the national world of Ukraine. Methodological specific of the article is reliance on the everydayness of a boundary situation of war to define the cultural world, as well as cultural identity as concepts that get existential meaning. Philosophy potential is used to clarify the key question for today's war discourse about why the parties to the conflict are determined to take military actions, but not to resolve the conflict through peace negotiations. The answer is sought by comparing two ontologies of the world that there are in Habermas' communicative theory of action and Heidegger's fundamental ontology. Each of them provides an alternative concept of understanding and, accordingly, different foundations for its truth theory. This also provides a perspective, firstly, to distinguish two alternative positions of participants in the discourse of war – "internal" one as "being in a culture at war" and another of an "external" observer. Secondly, this distinction helps to explain why war as a conflict of cultural worlds could be considered from different philosophical points of view, namely from the position of the philosophy of communicative action, as well as in the context of existential analysis of being. Examination of the explanatory potential of both approaches is carried out on the basis of a comparison of different concepts of the world, fundamental to each of philosophers. It is done by clarifications of basics of two ontologies of understanding and, accordingly, of their theories of truth. The article indicates that the theory of truth in communicative philosophy is based on the regulative idea of the unity of the objective world. Instead, with reference to examples from Charles Taylor and Jean-Luc Nancy, the author claims that the fundamental ontology can be reinterpreted in terms of the plurality of being-in-common of people in sovereign cultural worlds. Accordingly, the interaction of representatives of different cultural identities under certain political conditions, i.e., official propaganda can turn into a radical disagreement of different existential understandings of the meaning of being, into a war of cultural worlds that cannot be overcome by just negotiations at the level of competent communication. The article ends with an open question about searching for ways to unify the mentioned ontological approaches.

„I kroczy Chrystus po wodzie…”. Świat duchowości chrześcijańskiej w poezji Haliny Twaranowicz

The article is devoted to the issue of Christian spirituality in the works of the Belarusian poet Halina Tvaranovich. Particular attention is paid to religious poems, which are an interesting attempt to show an existential conflict of an individual that defines human life, but also the inner desire of faith and the experience of its power in the matter of the poetic word. Faith in the poetry of Halina Tvaranovich is an experience that leads to the depths of God and enables touching His Mystery. The confrontation of the personal image of God crucified for the sins of humanity with the image of a suffering man is, in Tvaranovich’s poetry, a source of philosophical and metaphysical questions and longings.

Stability and disruptive speech

Stability and disruptive speech

ХАОС ВІЙНИ ТА КРИЗА ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ: ТИПОЛОГІЧНІ ДОМІНАНТИ ОПОВІДІ ПРО ТРАВМУ В СУЧАСНІЙ УКРАЇНСЬКІЙ ЛІТЕРАТУРІ

The article presents a study of the phenomenon of narratives about trauma in modern Ukrainian literature - based on works devoted to the Russian-Ukrainian war. The focus of the study is on two examples: the media project "Another Day: War Diaries" and Oleksandr Mykhed's fairy tale "Cat, Rooster, Cupboard". The purpose of the article is to analyze the attributive features of a story about traumatic events, to clarify the definition of a "trauma novel", and to analyze the genre features of a story about traumatic events that appear in modern Ukrainian literature. Research results and conclusions. Artistic practices of understanding the Russian-Ukrainian war are formed in the context of two trends. The first tendency is neorealism as a special way to reproduce the truth of trauma, the chaos of war, documentary, and impressive facts. The second tendency is to depict fundamental changes in the identity of the characters. This actualizes the trauma novel genre in modern Ukrainian literature. The genre of the trauma novel can be described as a story about the events before, during, or after traumatic events (war, migration, family destruction, violence, genocide, etc.). In such works, the story of the character as a witness or victim of traumatic events is told, and the existential conflict between life and death is described thanks to the principles of self-narrative, family history, fragmentary narrative, etc. This is a special type of understanding of a traumatic event - at the moment of the Catastrophe when the identity crisis of the characters is shown as overcoming silence and creating an individual story inscribed in the collective history. The emergence of such projects as "One more day: war diaries", and the therapeutic story-tale "Cat, Rooster, Cupboard" was influenced by extra-literary factors, in particular mass media, and this determines their typological originality: they combine the collective experience of trauma with individual stories about changing identity and overcoming the consequences of traumatic experiences, forming the language of victory.

Phenomenological aspect of the title of B. Pasternak’s book of poems The Twin in the Clouds

This article focuses on the phenomenological interpretation of Boris Pasternak’s first book of poems, The Twin in the Clouds, examining the artistic intentions that shape the work’s subjective structure. The study delves into the creative conflict involved in defining the lyrical subject, seeking self-identity and engaging in a dialogue with their “double”. The analysis incorporates mythopoetic, hermeneutic and psychoanalytic perspectives to explore the work’s imagery. The author investigates the unique intentional experiences of the lyrical subject within the artistic text’s syntagmatic-paradigmatic connections, transcending conventional sign-defined certainty. This aspect models the existential-ontological realization of the lyrical hero and the author’s self-awareness in phenomenological reflection. The article also examines the linguistic structure of the poetic texts, exploring various interpretations of metaphors that trace back to the sacred tradition of naming. The analytical portion of the article focuses on texts that best demonstrate the ideologically significant aspects of Pasternak’s book. These texts primarily reveal the intentional specificity of resolving the existential conflict of the lyrical subject in their quest for cosmogonic unity with their divine counterpart. The study’s conclusions present findings from an analysis of all poems in the book, considering the actualization of artistic intentions in three main aspects: ontological, gnoseological, and metaphysical. This comprehensive approach uncovers the full range of the hero–subject’s existential experiences.

MORE DIFFERENT THAN NOT:DIVERGENCE OF VALUES IN UKRAINE's AND RUSSIA's SOCIETIES AMIDSTTHE FULL-SCALE INVASIONine’s and Russia’s Societies amidst the Full-Scale Invasion

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which started on February 2022 and had been preceded by years of more limited warfare, has again brought to the fore the question of a civilisational split between the two countries. While Ukrainians have clearly opted for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, Russians have repeatedly sought to assert their influence over the former Soviet countries—Ukraine included—denying their right to freely choose their alliances and creating their own version of ‘civilisation’ rooted in Orthodox Christianity and the Russian language. While, by all appearances, the difference between the two could not be any starker, various myths and analyses have persisted portraying Russia and Ukraine as ‘one people’ or culturally approximate societies. The paper seeks to elucidate one aspect of such thinking, by exploring values—a vague concept which is at the same time instrumental in self-identities and orientations of political actors—as they are manifested in Ukrainian and Russian societies. It looks at different approaches to defining values, particularly in the (geo)political context of Russian aggression against Ukraine, and explores their dynamics in both countries following the events of February 2022. While there is little relevant sociological data, discourses, official statement, and context analysis is employed to show that the divergence of values between Ukrainian and Russian societies seems to be growing unalterably, with Ukraine manifesting European values and portraying its fight against Russian aggression as an existential conflict for the entire European project and Russia propounding its constructed myths of the ‘Russian world’, a loosely defined community of Russian-speaking people, and ‘traditional values’ as juxtaposed to Western and European ones in an attempt to court non-Western countries. This bears implications for the entire international system as it splits into two blocs regarding on whose side is taken in the global confrontation between democracy and autocracy.

Роль Украинского кризиса в формировании нового миропорядка

The situation in Ukraine is often interpreted by Western analysts as a conflict that changes the rules of the game in world politics. The article is dedicated to the analyzes of the Ukrainian crisis and stresses the point that Ukrainian conflict’s assessments as “game-changer” are largely a consequence of the large-scale investment of political, military and financial resources by Western countries in Ukraine. Western politicians have made such serious bets in recent years (at least since 2014), exaggerating the conflict to the level of an existential conflict against the forces of “absolute evil” or confrontation between “democracy” and “authoritarianism”, that they can no longer search for a compromise or, especially, just step aside. As a result, assessments of this kind take on the meaning of self-fulfilling prophecies. And Ukrainian civil war turned to a dangerous regional conflict, so according to this approach and Western states readiness to continue to invest resources in the confrontation with Russia in Ukraine, the duration of the “unipolar moment” in the system of international relations, as well as the parameters of the emerging new world order, really begin to depend on the outcome of the initially peripheral conflict (taking into account the interests of external actors and the parties involved).

The unfinished project of decolonisation: a revisionist reading of Pakistan at 75

ABSTRACT For much of its history, Pakistan has been analysed through binaries that suggest an existential conflict between liberal democrats and illiberal theocrats. In fact, ideological polarisation has always existed within Pakistan’s militarised structure of power. This article proposes a revisionist reading of Pakistan’s history prefacing foundational logics of class, ethnic-national and state power. It is only by explicating such underlying structural logics that one can make sense of persistent palace intrigues as well as the dialectic of local political economies and regional/global geo-politics. Rehabilitating the normative horizon of decolonisation can animate a meaningful transformative politics in our time.

Singing in Dark Times: Report from Berlin

Singing in Dark Times: Report from Berlin

Carl Schmitt and The Taking of the South China Sea

China has established a string of synthetic islands in the belt of the South China Sea. Then it militarized those islands and began claiming possession of the entire region. Under the body of Carl Schmitt’s theories at the Nomos of the earth and the relation of political enmity, this work aims to explain the consequences of this issue for the international legal order. To this purpose, we clarify the idea of Nomos of the earth and stress its relevance for the development of International Law. Then, we describe the international legal system on the Nations of the Sea, namely The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). We also exhibit the strategic value of the South China Sea and the current framing of those problems inside present day international law. However, we argue that the mere deployment of law enforcement cannot settle the situation. For the only country which could effectively challenge the new South China Sea Nation, given the volume of the Chinese financial and navy power, is the USA. Hence, this work explains how the relationship among the two powers, i.e., on the one hand, the democratic capitalist United States of America and, on the other hand, the dictatorial communist China, grew to what Carl Schmitt describes as a relation of enmity. An enmity stems from the ultimate existential conflict among groups, that could in the end lead to war. It is, then, from the conflict between the US and China that will emerge a new Nomos of the earth as well as a new law regulating the possession of the South China Sea.

Рrofessional burnout of naval personel and ways of its psychophysiological correction: a review

OBJECTIVE: define specificity of professional burnout with regard to the Navy specialists’ activity; formulate approaches to its psychophysiological correction.MATERIALS AND METHODS: Articles in database and information system have been analyzed: Scientific Electronic Library Elibrary.ru, RISC, CyberLeninka, Scopus, WoS based on research of professional burnout among the Navy specialists. Key words like psychophysiological correction, stress and professional burnout were used.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Synthesis of literature data allowed to determine that signs of professional burnout among the Navy specialists are mainly expressed in the destructive strategy of overcoming behavior, manifested in an effort to distance themselves from a difficult situation, to shift the responsibility of its solution to others. They tend to experience existential conflicts, don’t have effective ways to cope with stress. All these exacerbate the condition of professional burnout, promote impulsiveness and decrease emotional-volitional behavior control down to expression of psychopathic tendencies in interpersonal relations, borderline nervous and mental symptoms.CONCLUSION: Methods of psychical self-regulation will be more effective if specialists learn to practise them systematically in their position.

Inner Conflict of Personality in the Paradigm of Existential-Phenomenological Ontology.

This article analyzes the problem of internal personality conflicts from the the standpoint of existential-phenomenological ontology. The article presents a theoretical substantiation of phenomenological ontology as a nonclassical paradigm in the human sciences to solve existential conflicts in personality. It is noted that the main models of internal conflict do not give a satisfactory answer to the question of psychogenesis and psychological mechanisms for resolving existential conflicts. It is emphasized that it is perspective to analyze internal conflicts, relying upon phenomenological ontology and the existential approach. The main provisions of phenomenological ontology presented in the works of Husserl and Heidegger, as the founders of this scientific direction, are considered in a psychological context. A classification of existential experiences of a difficult life world is proposed, depending on the intra- and inter-orientation of mental processes. The concepts of the self-closing life world, ambivalent Other, ambivalent intentionality, spontaneous involvement are introduced, making it possible to substantiate a conceptual model for resolving existential personality conflicts. It is concluded that the resolution of existential conflicts is associated with the feeling of an intersubjective life-world, in which the ambivalent Other and spontaneous bodily involvement play a primary role.

Female academics’ views on work-life conflict in a Covid-19 global pandemic in Nigeria

Remarking on the importance of managing the existential conflict between work and family responsibilities, emphasis on female academics in a COVID-19 era in Nigeria has received diminutive research attention. The study seeks to address this research gap by interrogating women's views of work-life conflict narrative in a COVID-19 era. The exploratory research design was employed to expand the limit of the research gap and a total of 19 female academics were y recruited for interviews. The NVivo (v.12) qualitative software was employed to identify themes from the data and content analysis used to make sense of the various themes. The paper shows evidence of cultural bias in the recruitment and placement of female academics with social constraints hindering female academic capacity development. The long hours of teaching and consultation depict an indicator of work-life conflict with consequences on family support and emotional care for family and dependents. The need to acquire higher education qualifications on the part of females is also established as a pointer for the provocation of work-life conflict during the COVID-19 pandemic. The significance of lockdown constitutes major constraints for parenting mothers in the areas of combining home front responsibilities with work activities such as teaching, supervision, and the requirement of building a competitive career and research portfolio. The study concludes for a more robust measure in ensuring practical and realistic work-life conflict management strategies are introduced by managers of the University in order to aid the conflict between work and family responsibilities for female academics.

دور حرکة الجهاد الإسلامي في الحياة السياسية الفلسطينية (1987-2019)

تعتبر حرکة الجهاد الإسلامي أحد أبرز حرکات الإسلام السياسي في فلسطين، وهي جماعة تنتهج الفکر السلفي الجهادي، وتسعى إلى تطبيق الإسلام في کافة مناحي الحياة. والحرکة کغيرها من معظم حرکات الإسلام السياسي خرجت من تحت عباءة الإخوان المسلمين، لکنها اختلفت معها بترکيزها على خيار المقاومة المسلحة، وتقديمه کأولوية على الجانب الدعوي والاجتماعي. وباعتبارها أول تنظيم إسلامي وطني يتبني الجهاد والمقاومة ضد الکيان الإسرائيلي. وتتبني الحرکة برنامجا سياسيا معارضا لأية حلول سلمية مع کيان الاحتلال الاسرائيلي، وترفض الاعتراف بوجوده، وترفض کل اتفاقيات السلام معه، ومن ضمنها اتفاقية أوسلو التي عارضتها بقوة. وذلک استنادا إلى الاعتبارات الفکرية والأيديولوجية للحرکة، التي تعتبر أرض فلسطين أرض وقف إسلامي لا يجوز التخلي أو التنازل عن أي شبر منها. لذلک، اختلفت الحرکة مع منظمة التحرير وفصائلها المختلفة، من حيث الرؤى والمنطلقات وفي نظرتهم للقضية الفلسطينية والصراع مع الاحتلال الإسرائيلي ومشاريع التسوية والمقاومة المسلحة، والتبعية الفکرية والأيديولوجية. ورأت أن برنامجها السياسي ورؤيتها لحل الصراع مع الاحتلال الإسرائيلي، غير قادرة على تحقيق هدف المشروع الوطني في التحرر والاستقلال. فالحرکة رفضت عملية التسوية السلمية والتفاوض مع الاحتلال، واعتبرت الصراع معه صراعا حضاريا ووجوديا. لذلک رفضت الحرکة الدخول في إطار منظمة التحرير بصيغتها ومواقفها السياسية القائمة، ورفضت المشارکة في الانتخابات التشريعية والرئاسية ومؤسسات السلطة. تمسک الحرکة وتشددها بمواقفها فيما يتعلق بوجود الکيان الصهيوني وسبل مواجهته، ومعارضتها لعملية التسوية ومخرجات اتفاقية أوسلو، وانتماؤها لمحور المقاومة، وبروزها في ميدان المقاومة المسلحة ضد الاحتلال والتصدي لاعتداءاته، واتخاذها مواقف حيادية في الخلاف والانقسام الداخلي الفلسطيني وتوسطها لحله، وعدم زج نفسها في صراعات جانبية، وتزايد حضورها في ميدان العمل الاجتماعي والخيري، منحها مصداقية في الشارع الفلسطيني، ولدى القوى والفصائل الفلسطينية المختلفة، ومکنها من تعزيز وجودها وثقلها السياسي على المستوى المحلي والإقليمي، بالإضافة إلى تزايد حضورها الشعبي. کما أخذت في السنوات الأخيرة تتصدر المشهد السياسي على المستوى الفلسطيني، نتيجة لدورها المتنامي إلى جانب حرکة حماس في مشهد التصدي للاعتداءات والحروب التي يشنها الاحتلال الإسرائيلي على الشعب الفلسطيني في قطاع غزة، على الرغم من تعرض الحرکة إلى تحديات ومصاعب کبيرة في نطاق نشاطها السياسي وعلاقاتها الخارجية. Abstract: Islamic Jihad is one of the most prominent movements of political Islam in Palestine, a group that adopts Salafist jihadist ideology and seeks to apply Islam in all aspects of life. The movement, like most of the movements of political Islam, emerged from under the cloak of the Muslim Brotherhood, but differed with it by focusing on the option of armed resistance, and presenting it as a priority on the advocacy and social side. And as the first national Islamic organization to embrace jihad and resistance against the Israeli entity. The movement adopts a political program opposed to any peaceful solutions with the Israeli occupation entity, refuses to recognize its existence, and rejects all peace agreements with it, including the Oslo agreement, which strongly opposed it. This is based on the ideological and ideological considerations of the movement, which considers the land of Palestine as the land of Islamic settlement. Therefore, the movement differed with the PLO and its various factions, in terms of visions and perspectives in their view of the Palestinian cause and the conflict with the Israeli occupation and settlement projects and armed resistance, intellectual and ideological dependence. And considered that its political program and vision to resolve the conflict with the Israeli occupation, is unable to achieve the goal of national project in the liberation and independence. The movement rejected the process of peaceful settlement and negotiation with the occupation, and considered the conflict with him a civilizational and existential conflict. Therefore, the movement refused to enter the framework of the PLO as it stands and its political positions, and refused to participate in the legislative and presidential elections and institutions of power The movement maintains and emphasizes its positions regarding the existence of the Zionist entity and the means to confront it, its opposition to the settlement process and the outcome of the Oslo Accords, its affiliation to the axis of resistance, its emergence in the field of armed resistance against the occupation and the response to its aggression, and taking neutral positions in the internal Palestinian dispute and division, And its increasing presence in the field of social and charitable work, giving it credibility in the Palestinian street, and in the various Palestinian factions and factions, and enabled it to strengthen its presence and political weight at the local and regional levels, Her popular involvement. In recent years it has also taken the lead in the Palestinian political scene as a result of its growing role alongside Hamas in confronting the attacks and wars waged by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip

Sounding diasporic dislocation: The object voice in postcolonial short stories

Jacques Lacan conceives of the voice as more than meets the ear: that is, as an objet a that must be subtracted from the acoustic field to preserve the coherence of reality as a symbolically constructed order in which subjects are inserted and from which they derive a sense of identity. Disruptive manifestations of the object voice are frequent in the modernist and postmodernist British short story, a form which, on account of its brevity and limited scope, renders more sharply the traumatic nature of such episodes, which thus become more memorable and engaging for readers. The short story, likewise, is an apt vehicle for postcolonial and diasporic subjectivities characterized by the tensions and psychic distress provoked by their liminal location between different cultures and their heterogenous and often conflicting interpellations. After an introductory part which elaborates on the interrelations between object voice, the short story genre and the postcolonial subject, this article examines two recent stories by Koye Oyedeji (‘Postscript from the Black Atlantic’) and Diriye Osman (‘Earthling’), in which existential conflicts become so acute that they trigger aural hallucinations, which determine the central characters’ predicament in the context of the migrant diaspora in Britain.