Hidden Desires Research Articles

Hidden desires, echoed distress: Dissecting Nigeria’s sexting landscape and its ties to depression

In a broader context of increasing incidences of sexting-related backlashes resulting in victims’ depression and, at times, suicide in Nigeria, this study examines the prevalence, trends, and mental health implications of sexting among 700 Nigerian social media users. With the help of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and the Sexting Behaviors and Motives Questionnaire, we found that 58% of respondents engaged in sexting, a high percentage given the cultural conservatism of Nigeria. In addition, more than 41% admitted forwarding or having another forward sexted images or messages without the victims’ consent, increasing the risk of cyberbullying and subsequent mental health problems. In our study, we found a strong positive relationship between sexting and depression; the effects of sexting on depression differed for men and women: Men sexters exhibited higher depression levels than women. Our analysis, which employed descriptive, regression, and Structural Equation Model (SEM) methodologies, suggests that despite regional cultural disparities, sexting behaviors are surprisingly uniform across Nigeria. This study underscores the urgent need for informed strategies addressing digital privacy, security, and mental well-being in the context of sexting in Nigeria.

Recommendation Systems for e-Shopping: Review of Techniques for Retail and Sustainable Marketing

In recent years, the interest in recommendation systems (RSs) has dramatically increased, as they have become main components of all online stores. The aims of an RS can be multifaceted, related not only to the increase in sales or the convenience of the customer, but may include the promotion of alternative environmentally friendly products or to strengthen policies and campaigns. In addition to accurate suggestions, important aspects of contemporary RSs are therefore to align with the particular marketing goals of the e-shop and with the stances of the targeted audience, ensuring user acceptance, satisfaction, high impact, and achieving sustained usage by customers. The current review focuses on RS related to retail shopping, highlighting recent research efforts towards enhanced e-shops and more efficient sustainable digital marketing and personalized promotion. The reported research was categorized by main approach, key methods, and specialized e-commerce problems addressed, while technological aspects were linked with marketing aspects. The increasing number of papers in the field showed that it has become particularly popular, following the explosive growth in e-commerce and mobile shopping. The problems addressed have expanded beyond the performance of the core algorithms to the business aspects of recommendation, considering user acceptance and impact maximization techniques. Technologies have also shifted from the improvement of classic filtering techniques to complex deep learning architectures, in order to deal with issues such as contextualization, sequence-based methods, and automatic feature extraction from unstructured data. The upcoming goals seem to be even more intelligent recommendations that more precisely adapt not only to users’ explicit needs and hidden desires but also to their personality and sensitivity for more sustainable choices.

Signs of sexuality in a book about death seen through a psychoanalytic lens: Paradox and parody in play and perversion

Whereas the Song of Songs can be said to be about Eros, the Book of Job could be about Thanatos. Yet, the Song ends with a crucial reference to death, and in the Book of Job there are subtle traces of sexuality: the first chapter tells about probably promiscuous parties held by Job’s children who then die during such a feast. Job reacts by referring to the womb, which presumably has sexual connotations. The womb is once again an issue in chapters 3 and 10. Twice he mentions breasts, although negatively connoted. In his last speech, Job suddenly refers several times to hypothetical transgressions with women, which betrays his hidden desires behind his piety. In addition, apart from body-parts such as the feet, hands and heart, a tail, loins and even a nose might sometimes be interpreted as euphemisms with phallic hints. In the final chapter his three ‘new’ daughters are the most beautiful in the world, perhaps presenting him as eventually allowing his libido to be re-introjected. Through a psychoanalytical lens it is, however, possible to make sense of this unexpected presence of sexual traces in a book about death.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Approaching texts from a psychoanalytical perspective challenges historical-critical exegesis by questioning its assumption that universality dissolves into historicity. It adds unconscious aspects of a text, here interpreting unexpected traces of sexuality in a book about mourning. This is done in a divergent way by pointing out various possible understandings.

Role of artistic activities in developing the academic achievement of middle school students

Artistic activities are considered one of the most prominent types of visual arts through which artistic expression is practiced, whether it is intellectual expression or the expression of feelings and feelings. From an emotional and psychological point of view, psychological researchers have also been interested in the field of adolescent arts, for what it contains of psychological facts and indications that reflect their motives, struggles and hidden desires in an unconscious and transcendent manner. Which artistic activities carry for their direct impact on adolescent students and know the impact of these activities on academic achievement through a scale built by the researcher for this purpose. This study found the following: 1) There are differences in the motivation for academic achievement and in favor of the post-test. 2) Technical activities can develop the motivation for academic achievement and make positive change in this field, and this is confirmed by the current study through its findings.

The Secret Life of Books and Generations: Generational Dynamics of Reading in Bulgaria under Post-Socialism

The paper will examine the intra- and intergenerational dynamics of reading practices in сcontemporary Bulgaria. It is based on anthropological observations and analyses made by students in the cultural studies, who have asked to observe and discuss in exam papers the reading habits of parents and peers. Their own attitudes towards reading intersect, challenge or correspond with those of the respondents, outlining a highly fragmented field of “the love of books”, which gives visibility to a strong normative model, under which heterogeneous objects of analyitcal interest flourish – hidden desires, unusual uses of books, escapist routes, internalized ideologies, etc., All of these are seen as both sustained by and in themselves sustaining the special cultural and generational dynamics of post-socialism.

Interrupting Everyday Life

The Freudian slip has become a key reference point for our contemporary understanding of the human psyche. An underlying urge makes its way to the surface, interrupting a conversation and exposing our hidden desires. While there is an extended body of research addressing these so-called psychic mechanisms, little attention has been devoted to the actual moment of embarrassment that takes place: the moment in which the slip occurs, and the distinct socio-cultural moment that shapes Freud's case studies. For Freud himself, the context is fin de siècle Vienna, a period labelled as a version of modernity caught in the tension between cultural productivity and interpersonal alienation. The first recorded occurrence of the Freudian slip was when Freud himself suffered the unfathomable humiliation of not remembering the name of the painter Signorelli, thus embarking on a complex explanation of the various unconscious mechanisms at play. In ‘Interrupting everyday life: The socio-cultural dimension of the Freudian slip’, Ruth Schor revisits these early case studies with the help of an iconic guidebook, revealing a telling first account of a well-known glitch as part of an indicative study of a legendary cultural milieu.

The Relationship Between Stress Coping Styles and Sense of Humor Styles Among Teenagers

Healthy jokes are one of the best ways to cope with life's pressures. The humor is relieved or prevented by accepting the fleeting self-esteem of a hidden desire, which creates pleasure or happiness, while at the same time alleviating the anguish that often manifests the miracle of a wish. Sudden release of tension, pleasant surprise Bring it. However, the unconscious root of one's stress changes somehow in a joke, which is often not uncomfortable. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population of this study included all teenage girls and boys of Zahedan in the academic year of 2019 and the sample was selected by random sampling method &using Cochran formula which was 270 people. The standardized questionnaires used for data collection included Andrews & Parker Stress Coping Strategies Questionnaire (1990) and Humorous Styles Questionnaire of Martin et al. (1988). Spss25 software was used for data analysis. In this study, the demographic status of the subjects was examined by age and gender. According to the descriptive statistics, among the dimensions of stress coping styles, the highest mean was related to problem-oriented style and among the dimensions of humor styles, the highest mean was related to self-destructive style. The results of the data analysis confirmed all the existing hypotheses and showed that there is a relationship between coping styles and humor styles in Teenagers.

Garden City: Everyday Life of the Sixties in the Soviet Social Memory

The article is devoted to the history of Soviet urban everyday life at the turn of the 1950s — 1960s. and its reflection in the social memory of the inhabitants of Omsk, the problem of exploiting the enthusiasm of Soviet people during the years of the Khrushchev thaw. A forgotten episode in the history of urban housing construction in a Siberian city is associated with the socialist competition between Omsk and Leningrad in 1959 for the title of an exemplary Garden City. The very fact of the improvement of the urban environment by the forces of the townspeople and the method of socialist competition led to a lot of contradictions — between the general and the private, between free and paid, between the ideological and the real. And this historical episode revealed many aspects of the behavior of ordinary workers of the Soviet industrial city, with their explicit and hidden desires, aspirations, upbringing and the degree of “faith in a bright future”. The creation of a garden city by means of the public work of the residents became a significant idea that could unite everyone. It coincided with the very atmosphere of the “Khrushchev thaw” when the most daring ideas and projects were born and implemented. The study of the history of urban non-capital everyday life was carried out on materials of oral history (memoirs of the old residents of the city of Omsk), a large complex of archival sources, periodicals, etc.

HASRAT SARTIKA SARI DALAM KUMPULAN PUISI ELEGI TITI GANTUNG: PERSPEKTIF PSIKOANALISIS LACANIAN

This research aims to reveal the ‘selfness’ of Sartika as the subject through her hidden desire that is repressed by the values, law, and culture in the poems collected in poetry anthology Elegi Titi Gantung (2016). The aim comes from the phenomenon that the subject (human) never really knows her desire. The desired object is always replaced by another desired object. Based on that, the issues raised were (1) how is the combination of signifier as Sartika Sari’s desire manifestation through metaphor and metonymy mechanism in the poetry anthology of Elegi Titi Gantung? (2) how is Sartika Sari’s desire that is manifested in the poetry anthology of Elegi Titi Gantung? This research used Lacanian perspective and method, i.e. analyzing the data in the form of words, phrases, stanzas, or lines in the poem to find the under-consciousness condition of Sartika who wishes the wholeness of herself through metaphor and metonymy mechanism. The result of this research was that Sartika has the desire to be an existing woman and an ideal woman. Sartika’s desire to be an existing woman showed her existence as a subject in the Symbolic order. Meanwhile, Sartika’s desire to be an ideal woman was a negotiation form toward herself who wanted freedom.

Language and Gender Representation in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

This article examines the linguistic construction of gender in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. It shows how this reflects the social reality of the relationships between women and men in society, which is firstly structured in the unconscious mind. The examination of language use in constructing genders in the novel is important as it unveils the relationships between the male and the female in society. This is because gender representation is influenced by unconscious and hidden desires in man. This study specifically examines Achebe’s use of grammatical categories in the construction of the male and female genders in Things Fall Apart. To this end, it reflects the pre-colonial Igbo society in its socially stratified mode, which language served as the instrument for both exclusion and oppression of women. This article shows that the male and female genders dance unequal dance in a socially, politically and economically stratified society where the generic male gender wields untold influence over women in that pre-colonial Igbo society. The study further shows that Achebe used language in Things Fall Apart to glorify masculine gender while portraying the female gender as docile, foolish, weak and irresponsible second-class citizen.

The concept of happiness in Night Zoo

Abstract This paper deals with a psychoanalytic interpretation of the titular story. It is part of the first volume in the Hungarian anthology series entitled Night Zoo – An Anthology of Women’s Sexuality (‘Éjszakai Állatkert – Antológia a női szexualitásról’). The analysis focuses on the story Night Zoo (‘Éjszakai Állatkert’) written by Zsófia Bán according to Freud’s personality theory. The theory regards our psyche as divided into three parts. The id is the instinctual part of our mind that represents our sexual and hidden desires, the superego contains the moral conscience and the norms, and the ego mediates between the wishes of the id and the rules of the superego. The chosen short story seems to revolve around unfulfilled love between two people. But after critical reading, it is obvious that this is not a love story of two people, but the relationship lies between the narrator and her unfulfilled desires. There is an immense conflict between instincts and social expectations. The narrator’s id has a desire; she just wants to be happy and have harmony in her life. But the superego does not allow her to fulfill the desire. The ego is therefore instrumental in deciding what the correct decision is.

Piano concerto no. 1 by Andrzej Nikodemowicz – a hidden desire for freedom

Piano concerto no. 1 (1994) by Andrzej Nikodemowicz (1925-2017) is among seven piano concertos written by the composer. Its first version is the Violin concerto created in 1973. Because of the difficult violin part, the composer remade the composition for the piano. The first performance of the Piano concerto no. 1 took place in 1998 in Lviv. While writing the piece, Andrzej Nikodemowicz was persecuted by the Soviet authorities in Lviv for his religious views, that is why the piece expresses his hidden desire for creative freedom. It remains close to expressionist tradition influenced by Scriabin and his idea of “unhindered power of artistic creation” and “apotheosis of the freedom of creative spirit” . The proof for the expressionist origin of Piano concerto no. 1 are the lack of melodic lines, significant dispersion of sound material, loosened rhythmic relationships, lack of tonal centralisation (full atonalism) and a special kind of musical material formation that places the tension layer on extremely different poles: from arhythmic, muffled, slowed, veiled and dreamlike, to a cascade of scattered tones and harmonies preferring sharp, extensive dissonances, passages which are maximally dense in terms of rhythm and divergent, leading to an explosion of drama. The shape of the piano part indicates a clear analogy to an expressionist character – alienated, contradicted and conflicted with the world, experiencing loneliness and suffering. Piano concerto no. 1 by Andrzej Nikodemowicz was also influenced by other 20th century composers, such as B. Bartók and I. Stravinsky (new kind of expression manifested e.g. in impulsive rhythm) and W. Lutosławski (aleatorism).

F. O. Matthiessen's Modernist Hawthorne

F. O. Matthiessen's Modernist Hawthorne

War Memories and the Refusal of Male Dominance in Shakir's "Oh, Lebanon"

This study investigates the role of the war memories in the construction of the female gender identity in Evelyin Shakir's "Oh, Lebanon," in which the female protagonist refuses to belong to her Arab identity when she lives in the United States because of the brutal war memories she witnesses in Lebanon. Such memories make the protagonist unable to accept her submissive gender role in the Arab culture. In other words, these memories of war motivate the protagonist to revolt against her father's will and to choose her own way of building her identity away from the influence of her Arab culture and traditions. The methodology of this paper is based on a close reading analysis of some quotations from Shakir's short story which will be analyzed to see how the war memories in Lebanon have influenced the construction of the protagonist's gender identity. The study concludes that the trauma of war motivates Arab female gender to react against the male dominance and traditions because war, with its dark memories, might uncover that hidden desire in female's subconscious mind to feel unlimited or constrained with the male dominance.

Maternal intrusion: Its roots and consequences

Behind an intrusive mother’s view of her actual child lies a disproportionate, hidden desire to revive an ideal relationship with a perfect mother. The resulting image of an idealized child then becomes a strategic aspect of the mother’s own identity, representing an idealized figure from her own past. As the mother’s idealization is disturbed by the reality of the child, the mother experiences the situation between herself and the baby as “pathological,” that is, disruptive to her. She then attempts to repair the idealization by resisting any change in the status of her relationship to her child, even as the child grows older. Her rigidity in this regard necessarily excludes a paternal presence that could challenge or change the mother–infant idealized dyad. The mother’s orientation is also contradictory to, and acts as a resistance to, psychoanalytic therapeutic interventions, which aim at any “change.”

Disgust in Emotion Theory, Development, and Clinical Work: A Discussion of Josephs

Disgust is one of the primal emotions described by Darwin and strongly influences human motivation, behavior, and psychopathology. Disgust has sensory aspects, but when combined with certain cognitions it can take on moral implications. Although the biological source of disgust is protection from harmful substances, it can be manipulated to achieve political ends. Disgust combined with lust can sometimes lead to heightened sexual excitement. Disgust reactions may also be a defensive denial of our hidden desires. Psychotherapists must be careful to distinguish their own disgust reactions from the patient’s lovemap. In couples therapy, disgust reactions and mutual shaming processes can be clarified and restructured.

Simples Nacional: Análise da Constitucionalidade das Exclusões Setoriais

A Constituição Federal determina o tratamento jurídico favorecido, inclusive e, sobretudo, no campo das obrigações tributárias, para as pequenas empresas, sem estabelecer qualquer exceção explícita. Nada obstante, todas as leis que introduziram regras tributárias mais benéficas orientadas por esse preceito superior discriminaram empreendimentos diminutos em razão do setor econômico de atuação. O atual regramento, chamado “Simples Nacional”, consta da Lei Complementar nº 123/06, mas dele não podem se beneficiar as menores unidades produtivas de diversos setores, tais como o automobilístico, o de transporte de passageiros, o de energia e o de fabricação de armas, bebidas e produtos de tabaco. Ao demonstrar a erronia dos argumentos a favor de tais exclusões, o artigo sustenta que nenhuma dessas previsões encontra amparo constitucional. Ademais, com base numa análise crítica do direito positivo, demonstra-se que o intento oculto almejado com as exclusões foi o de reservar para o grande capital, em detrimento das iniciativas de menor porte, setores econômicos de elevada lucratividade.

CHARLOTTE BRONTË'NİN JANE EYRE VE EMİLY BRONTË'NİN WUTHERİNG HEİGHTS ROMANLARINI

The aim of this study is to examine Charlotte Bronte‟s Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte‟s Wuthering Heights using Sigmund Freud‟s psychoanalytical approach which has been influential for long years on a great many fields of study among which literature exists as well. Heathcliff‟s – the protagonist of Wuthering Heights – examination through Freud‟s Oedipus complex and Jane‟s – the protagonist of Jane Eyre – analysis through Jung‟s Electra complex are significantly important. Apart from this, the characters‟ hidden feelings and desires that were engraved in their subconscious are important psychoanalytical elements which direct their behaviour. The reflections of their childhood experiences can be observed in the rest of their lives, thus emphasizing the importance Freud gives to past experiences. While Jane tries to fulfill her hidden desires by loving a protecting man and trying to have freedom throughout her life, Heathcliff tries to satisfy his inner instincts by tormenting those who caused him to suffer. In analysing the novels, particularly repressed thoughts and id, ego and superego which are the three main systems of the structural identity theory in psychoanalysis are significant. In short, the objective of this study is to analyse the above mentioned novels with Freud‟s psychoanalytical approach and to examine characters‟ inner selves and the reasons of their attitudes.

Analysing E-Services and Mobile Applications with Companied Conjoint Analysis and fMRI Technique

Previous research has shown that neuromarketing and conjoint analysis have been used in many areas of consumer research, and to provide for further understanding of consumer behaviour. Together these two methods may reveal more information about hidden desires, expectations and restrains of consumers' brain. This paper attempts to examine these two research methods together as a companied analysis. More specifically this study utilizes fMRI and conjoint analysis as a tool for analysing consumer's preferences and decision making in e-health and ITC products. This paper provides theoretical background with short history of conjoint analysis and contributions for the audience of consumer research: 1. how conjoint evaluation models works; 2. different conjoint models; 3. counting attribute interactions in conjoint analysis; and 4. brain activation triggers in fMRI and connection to conjoint analysis. Researchers of consumer behaviour may learn a new method for understanding user´s preferences and decision making from e-services and mobile applications. E-services and mobile applications need to be successfully analysed for various marketing segments of new products. An application might appeal well to consumer, but what is known about the attributes that makes consumer act? The customer might orally request other than her brain will inform. Needs could be derived from product parts or attribute bundles of mobile applications. The knowledge will help the producer to target new applications to relevant marketing segments.

Huellas que no se borran. Ruptura y desdoblamiento psíquico en tres obras de Luisa Valenzuela

The emotional rupture caused by experiences of repression, displacement and exile originates a dislocation in the identity of the subject which often leads into a schizophrenic search for a new identity. In the process of adaptation to the new condition the characters often unfold into split subjects which cause them to act irrationally. This essay will explore the psychic transformations suffered by characters in their efforts to reconstitute a coherent and stable self in three works by Luisa Valenzuela: Novela negra con argentinos (1990) , “Tiempo de retorno” (2008), and Realidad nacional desde la cama (1990). Her characters are split between the external reality and a repressed trauma, a situation where Memory and the wish to erase an unspeakable past strive to arouse into the surface of consciousness. Valenzuela’s protagonists are driven by the hidden desire to reach the Secret of their desolation. The true re-encounter and reconstitution of the Self will only be possible after the recognition of the indelible traces engraved in the collective Memory.