False Division Research Articles

Crash: A Transformative Experience

Jane Alexander Stewart, “Crash: A Transformative Experience,” Jung Journal: culture & psyche, 2007, 1:2, 55-64. This profile examines the film “Crash” as a series of allegorical stories that explore the inevitable “collisions” in a mixed-culture society such as present-day L.A. involving race, class, religion, and gender, which are transformed into an unexpected path toward healing society's false divisions. These conflicts are presented in terms of Jung's idea of conjunctio — the coming together of extreme opposites that activates elements buried deep in the psyche, something like the transformative power of the alchemical clash of opposites. The opposing drives that set-up these types of conflicts are an individual's desire to create boundaries in order to maneuver through an increasingly bewildering complex society, and the personal, social, cultural, and spiritual needs for the growth and wisdom that comes from crashing into — and overcoming—the prejudices and false projections that we create in an attempt to protect ourselves from a feeling that our lives have slipped out of control.

Spiritual‐material identification in the deep ecology movement

In an attempt to reverse the ecological damages of anthropocentric and materialistic cultures, deep ecology attempts, through a rhetoric of identification, to revise the dominant values of its audiences, advancing the ideas that non‐human life has intrinsic value and that the welfare of human beings is tied to the well‐being of the environment. Applying David Payne's concept of spiritual‐material identification, I argue that deep ecology's efforts fail because the movement forces a false division between spiritual and material understandings of various aspects of environmental debates. In advancing this claim, I examine basic philosophical texts of the movement for their spiritual and material themes. At stake in deep ecology's rhetorical efforts is not only the potentially beneficial revision of cultural values concerning nature, but also the intellectual and spiritual development of deep ecology activists who adhere to the movement's literature and philosophies.

False Division Towers of Elliptic Curves

False Division Towers of Elliptic Curves

The School Prayer Amendment: A False Division Between Public Education and the Religious Right

The School Prayer Amendment: A False Division Between Public Education and the Religious Right

False Divisions: Security Studies and Global Political Economy

False Divisions: Security Studies and Global Political Economy

False division of the left atrium by a redundant, mobile flap valve of the foramen ovale: Echocardiographic and anatomic assessment in a neonate with critical pulmonic stenosis

False division of the left atrium by a redundant, mobile flap valve of the foramen ovale: Echocardiographic and anatomic assessment in a neonate with critical pulmonic stenosis

Macro/Micro — The False Division?

Is the teaching of economics based on a false perception of the nature of the subject? Professor Frank Tinari, of Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, presents a radial proposal to unify bath micro‐economics in a single framework that analyses responses to scarcity.

Analysis in Flames

Film analysis has finally become an art without a future. The fact is that it has never been, in itself, anything more than an illusory object. That is why, paradoxically, it could appear to be a particular activity endowed with a sort of intransitivity. As it happened, it laid claim to this quality without worrying about the confusions and false divisions that would result from it. At the other end of the chain, this tendency was confirmed by the accumulated bibliographies: useful, but ambiguous, they helped make film analysis a separate theoretical genre, with no justification other than the false sense of plenitude that can derive from the act of analysis itself. There are two reasons for this misleading effect of analysis: the nature of the cinematic signifier, which effectively distinguishes film analysis from all other enterprises of the same type; and the coincidence of concern (which was self-evident) between a new interest in films and the general movement in many zones or research that crystallized for a time around the idea of text. Right away, because these two reasons converged with one another, film analysis got to the bodily core of its text. But this seductive body is an elusive body: it cannot really be quoted nor grasped. It is polysemous as well, in an excessive way, and its matter, moulded by iconicity and analogy, pushes language into check. This irreducibility of the filmic substance, which fascinates and stimulates (as do all such elusive objects), serves to limit analysis: the readings of films have been unable to produce the equivalence brought out in readings of Les Chats or in S/Z.1 This does not simply result from the analysts' lack of genius, but primarily from the exceptional resistance put up by the analytic material.2 This resistance has too often led film analysis to take refuge in its own domain, and thereby to add to the illusions and inevitable developments that are proper to the accumulation and the organization of knowledge a special fascination for the circle within which film analysis, since its beginnings, has not been able to avoid turning. As a result of this it still can happen that film analysis will mistake itself for something it is not. In truth there are no longer, or should no longer be, any analyses of films. There are just gestures. Free gestures, made possible now because one day a new intellectual practice that had to be called film analysis allowed (then at the cost of great difficulty) for the stopping of films. And for looking at them with a new and, as it were, cleansed eye. An eye at last freely fascinated. These gestures seem to me, today, to be four in number. First there is this unsurpassable gesture: fixation on the image, the freeze frame. We can never say adequately to what extent it remains the magic gesture par excellence. A paradox: the video recorder, the ideal instrument for analysis, is also what has killed it. Via an excessive generalization, a passage to the infi-

Formation of filaments and synthesis of macromolecules at temperatures below the minimum for growth of Escherichia coli.

When Escherichia coli ML30 was transferred during exponential growth at a temperature near the minimum for growth to temperatures just below the minimum for growth, optical density increased for a considerable period of time and considerable synthesis of ribonucleic acid, deoxyribonucleic acid, protein and mucopeptide also occurred. Synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid was inhibited slightly before the cessation of synthesis of other macromolecules. At 6 C, filaments up to 300 mu in length were formed. Cross walls were not formed, but on transfer to 30 C the filaments rapidly fragmented into short, single cells. The filaments had abundant nuclear material distributed along their length, in contrast to filaments formed by E. coli 15T(-) in the absence of thymine. There was evidence for false division points and incomplete septum formation.

THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN

In the title of this essay the traditional partner of development—growth—is missing. We have been taught that growth refers to the multiplication of cells and size changes, while development concerns the maturation of such structures and their concomitant functions. Today we realize that the whole process—call it what you will—is extremely complex and a mass of processes interacting upon each other. Because, in addition, there is no dividing line between the two terms, it seems desirable to drop an unnecessary and rather false division and use but one of the two good words. PART I. A GUIDE TO THE INTERPRETATION OF GROWTH-CHARTS AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENTS The pediatrician is confronted today with many aspects of development. Are babies who are fed two different regimens growing comparably? Is a patient receiving steroids being stunted? Or does an anabolic hormone hasten epiphysial closure to the extent that it causes premature arrest of growth? Before interest can be taken in such questions, and in the problems of identifying true disturbances in developmental patterns, the basic principles of human development, of present methods, and the resources available must be critically reviewed. The pediatrician and his ancillary colleagues may well be overwhelmed by the quantity of data, charts and grids concerning growth that have appeared in the last 20 years. This is not surprising and not the fault of physicians. It is perhaps an irritating fact that development and its allied problems cannot be discussed without a basic, simple knowledge of biometiy. The reader can be assured that the knowledge he requires is not complicated and will stand him in good stead in many branches of his scientific art.