Notions Of Anxiety Research Articles

The Existential Predicament: Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World

One of the key issues of Existentialism is taking complete responsibility of one’s life and one’s actions and making no excuses. It might be conceived of as a movement and not a sensibility. One can think of it in many different ways but the literature that has come out in the years when Existentialism first became popular just after the Second World War and ever since, it often has the connotation of being a particularly gloomy philosophy – one that is obsessed with the notions of anxiety and dread. However, the important thing to consider is that the researchers find Existentialism a very invigorating and positive minded philosophy. The purpose of this paper is to highlight all the major aspects of the philosophical outlook and especially the importance of human determination in making constructive changes in life.

Growing urban anxiety and eco-dystopia in Usha K. R.’s Monkey Man

Urban anxiety is the wretched condition people undergo due to urbanization, and they become apprehensive when thinking about a sustainable future. When a city becomes urban, some people are thrilled to explore the elevated opportunities it provides, while some fear the havoc of urbanization. The following research is based on Usha K.R.’s Monkey Man, which seeks to understand how Bangalore city witnessed a massive transformation due to urbanization from being a pensioner’s paradise to India’s renowned Silicon Valley and India’s giant IT hub. The objectives of this research are two-fold (i) to understand how urbanization makes people’s lives anxious, and (ii) to analyze how urbanization also causes environmental distress leading to eco-dystopia. Monkey Man has been the subject of urban studies, yet the notions of anxiety and dystopia are relevant today. It intends to remind the city dwellers that they can survive with minimal nature exposure but cannot live a wholesome life without it. The objectives of this research could be achieved by combining the idea of urbanization and eco-dystopia with ecocritical theory.

The Significance of Time, Being and Transcendence on the Road to the Heideggerian Authentic Self

This paper attempts to reveal the meaning of Heideggerian self on the basis of time. In the course of this, it examines Heidegger’s following terms: time, the self, the world and Being. In the present paper, the notions of anxiety, death, the call, freedom, transcendence, resolution and temporality (time) constitute a frame for articulating the meaning of the authenticity of Dasein. The road to the authentic self is challenging since it is not something already given; rather, the self is something to be accomplished. Dasein must accomplish it by making life its own. To achieve this, the elaboration of the meaning of “the Being of beings” in the exploration of Dasein must be the first step. For it is Dasein who can give an answer to the question of the meaning of “Being”.

Filthy lucre: gold, language, and exchange anxiety

ABSTRACTThis essay examines the discourse among newly emerging American right-wing groups around gold currency and the gold standard to develop the concept of exchange anxiety, a discomfort about the terms of subjects’ participation in social economies of exchange. Gold is a common thread linking many otherwise disparate conservative groups, and examining this continuity may demonstrate an underlying connective logic among newly emerging right-wing ideologies. Using Jacques Lacan’s notions of anxiety and psychosis, I argue that anxiety over the gold standard bears a metaphorical relationship to both language and excrement. This anxiety can be further illuminated with Lacan’s concept of the “yieldable object,” an intermediary between subject and Other that may serve as the object of the Other’s demand. Ultimately, the gold standard represents an insistence on intrinsic value that compensates for uncertainty about subjects’ participation in highly complex and rapidly changing social systems. Rather than directly refuting specific claims, engaged scholarship might profit by insisting on rhetoric’s traditional embrace of ambiguity and messiness to disrupt the delusional certainty advanced by extremist ideologies.

Public Space and the Body

“Public Space and the Body” is the transcription of a public talk that took place at the London School of Economics (LSE) on the 16 October 2007. The talk was comprised of a conversation between the artist Antony Gormley and the authors Darian Leader, Susie Orbach and Renata Salecl, and was hosted by psychoanalysis@lse, an LSE research group that seeks to explore psychoanalytic perspectives on a variety of pressing societal and political issues. Taking place shortly after Antony Gormley's Blind Light show at the Hayward Gallery, the talk focused largely on experiences of and ideas relating to the exhibition and, in particular, its titular piece, the “cloud in a box”. As with much of Antony's recent work, the discussion concerned issues of the inter-relation of the self and the other, and related notions of anxiety, identity, lack and the body. The transcription was edited for publication by Calum Neill.

Creating an empathic and healing poetic mantra for the soon-to-be-released prisoner

The process of transformation within the mindset of the prisoner can be enhanced through the use of a poetic mantra. A framework for the creation of a dynamic poem that has been introduced to a population of incarcerated adult females is presented in this article. Through coaching and counseling, the poetic mantra was found to be largely accepted for use as a daily tool towards the objective of becoming positive and affirming of better life choices. Notions of anxiety, guilt and self-judgment are converted to statements of new direction and healing.

Anxiety, construct differentiation, and message production

Neuliep and Hazleton have reported a significant negative relationship between a general measure of trait anxiety and interpersonal construct differentiation. The study reported in this paper failed to find a significant relationship between a more specific measure of interpersonal trait anxiety and interpersonal construct differentiation, and also found no significant relationships between state anxiety and construct differentiation, or either interpersonal trait or state anxiety and the production of messages considered more or less competent by constructivist conceptions in an anxiety‐producing interpersonal context. The study did find a significant positive relationship between interpersonal construct differentiation and the production of such messages. These results are discussed with particular emphasis on the lack of conceptual relation between notions of anxiety and construct differentiation.