Psychic Violence Research Articles

SEMANTICS OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE IN NOVEL “PĪTERS VYLĀNS” BY ČENČU JEZUPS

Physical violence is a social phenomenon, which is mostly connected with human psychology. There are two main instincts typical of human beings: instinct of life and instinct of death. Violence is one of death instincts. Čenču Jezups (real name Jezups Kindzuļs, 1888–1941?) was a Latgalian public figure, agronomist, publicist and writer. His novel “Pīters Vylāns” is written about 1905 Russian Revolution, which also occurred in the territory of Latvia and Latgale and was one of the most forcible periods in the history of Latvia during the 20th century. Bearing in mind that language is always linked with thinking and language usage reflects author’s view of the world, the aim of this research is to analyse semantics of lexis connected with physical violence. The author of this research has selected the methods of semantic field theory, linguacultural approach, and analysis of semantic components. There is much discussion about meaning in linguistics and semantics, which shows that semantic analysis is often a subjective process depending on researcher’s interpretation. To obtain reliable results, this research is based on the theory about semantic roles and how they display physical violence. Major or core semantic roles are Aggressor, Victim and Cause. The author of this research is interested in interpersonal physical violence, which appears in novel “Pīters Vylāns” as Subjects or Objects of physical violence. There are several functional levels of physical violence lexis: 1) it is actualized in context with 1905 Russian Revolution; 2) it is a way, how to give a masculine voice in novel; 3) subjects and objects of psychical violence are interacting; 4) it demonstrates some features of patriarchal thinking. A number of verbs are used to describe violence, which means that violence is very active and it includes lot of persons as aggressors or victims, or both. In some cases subjects of physical violence are anonymous. Usage of pronouns is also important, because they help to describe violence. For example, “I” as storyteller , “you” in dialogue function, “he” or “she” as the third person or somebody and “we” as group of aggressors or victims. Domestic violence is directed to husband or wife and mostly it is described as men’s power over women, but in some cases also women are aggressors.

Access to Justice for the Disability Women as Victims in the Criminal Justice System

Women are the parties who have potential chance to be victims; this problem is regardless of patriarchy culture which is still very strong in the community. Women are considered vulnerable, moreover those who have dissabilities. Disability women are less able to protect themself from the violence. These problems are related to access to have the rights in justice for those disability women who become the victims of violence. This research used primary data and secondary data with qualitative research through juridical sociological approach. The violence which often occurs to women could be physical, verbal, sexual, as well as psychic violence. The disability women as victims get less access to justice and protection as set in regulations because they are lack of understanding from law enforcer about disability. Moreover, there is no infrastructure that can support the rights of disability women.

Nonphysical Violence in Criminal Law: Definition and Signs

The article is devoted to researchof criminal law and other branches of law problems related toregulation of certain types of violence. Current definition «mental violence», «psychological violence»and others do not have a single content and are not explained in the current legislation. The urgencyof the issue is also due to the fact that according to statistics the share of violent crimes is traditionallyhigh, even considering their latency.The authors determined the aim of the study as development ofdefinition of certain types of violence oriented on further implementation into the criminal legislation.During the research the dialectical method of cognition was as methodological basis. Were usedsuch methods as comparative legal method, formal legal method, and method of content analysis,which contributed to the realization of scientific interest. The article presents a study of foreignexperience of regulation of this institution in such countries as Great Britain, Canada, Israel andothers. The positions of authoritative figures of science are analyzed, and that allowed to reflect theiradvantages, shortcomings and an absence of any general approach to determining the content ofthe phenomenon under exploration. Two main scholars positions have been singled out, accordingto which the definition “psychic violence” is revealed depending on the object of encroachmentor on the method of encroachment. The study of judicial and investigative practice also revealedproblems of application of norms, related to certain types of violence. In the sentences of courts,the term “mental violence” is used, but in a different semantic meaning. On the basis of analysis theauthors concluded that current definitions do not correspond to the nature and essence of certaintypes of violence. Thereby the authors offer a completely new definition - «Nonphysical violence».The advantage of the definition is that it meets the requirements of legal technique as well as thecoverage of all criminal law values of this type. Besides, conclusions of the article include the contentof signs of nonphysical violence (object of infringement, ways of infringement, violent character,intent character and wrongfulness), and formulation of recommendations for the further use of thedefinition

The peacock manoeuvre: Ethnographic research on group behaviour among Danish ultras groups

Abstract Most contemporary research on Danish football fandom has been conducted on hooliganism while research in other fan groups such as ultras is scarce. Although, some Danish ultras groups socialize with and occasionally engage in conflicts, this article suggests that ultras activities differ markedly from hooliganism despite that both fan segments is entitled ‘risk fans’. Based on a longitudinal three-year ongoing ethnography study of Danish ultras groups this article shows that ultras group members in certain situations instantly can change attitude from calm and peaceful to aggressive and confrontational. However, this article also illustrates that this transformation of behaviour rarely, if ever, escalates into psychical violence. Inspired by Erving Goffman’s theatrical theory, this article suggests that such aggressive ultras group behaviour is a performative act that primarily serves to intimidate or scare off rivals; rather than a genuine desire for demonstrating violent behaviour. To capture this performativity, this article uses the analogy of the peacock, which ‘puff itself up’ as a strategic manoeuvre to intimidate rivals and thereby avoid a physical confrontation. It is in this sense that the analogy is applied. Subsequently, this article ‘maps out’ the two typical social occasions where the manoeuvre unfolds.

‘Ceaselessly losing our identity’: Psychic Rupture in ‘King Arthur’s Tomb’

This article analyzes violence in two of William Morris’ Arthurian poems in terms of Julia Kristeva’s theories of psychic violence, especially the linguistic construction of identity and her modernist aesthetics of resistance.

Psychical violence against women in the Province of Vojvodina

Psychical violence against women in the Province of Vojvodina

Person as criminal element criminological characteristics of incitement to suicide

Problem setting. The structural element of criminalistics description of driving to suicide is a person of a criminal. Characterizing the person of a criminal, that accomplishes, in form intention or carelessness, such crime as driving to suicide, it is necessary to take into account that the subject of crime is a man from that a victim was in material or other dependence. Recent research and publications analysis. The questions of the study of a criminal scientists engaged in as a criminal law, criminology, criminal process, legal psychology and criminalistics, in particular, R.L. Ahmedshin, V.A. Jbankov, V. O. Konovalova, G.I. Povreznyuk, E.E. Centrov, V. Yu. Shepitko. Paper objective. The purpose of this paper is to develop a person of a criminal, that is characterized a row criminalistics meaningful signs specific for driving to suicide, that represent the method of leading to of victim to suicide, features of character of criminal, his temperament, skills in life and work. Paper main body. Being base on researches of criminal lawyers, in connection criminal-victim in the process of driving to suicide, depending on character of social contacts, it is possible to distinguish such types of victims from this crime: a victim was in domestic or domestic relationships with a criminal; victim, it is an acquaintance of criminal – domiciliary or by the place of birth; on work, studies, service in an army, rest; to the casual meeting on streets; to participating in criminal activity; other acquaintances; a victim is unknown to the criminal, they met immediately in front of commission of crime. The origin of copulas can be divided at times – on that arose up to the commission of crime and on that arose up in the process of criminal trespass. By the nature of cooperation of victim and criminal (by a presence or absence) of copulas it can be to direct and mediated. On the circumstances of creation of copulas it is possible to divide into: that develops as a result of certain mutual relations; what existed between a criminal and victim to the commission of crime; on that appeared in the total sharply conflict situation directly to or in the moment of commission of crime. Conclusions of the research. The person of a criminal in the process of driving to suicide is a person, from that a victim was in material or other dependence and that applied to her) physical influence (physical violence) and / or psychological influence (psychical violence), certain complex of physical and psychical violence, that resulted in suicide or to encroaching upon suicide

The Body One Is: The Best Form of Containment or The Crying Game Redux

By and large, the gender binary holds internationally. There are long-standing pressures in the psychoanalytic world not only to see gender development in a linear trajectory, but to attempt to peer backward to discern normal or abnormal trajectories. The emphasis is on categorization, rather than curiosity. This article examines hostile readings of, and reactions to, gender ambiguity that can result in psychoanalytic policing behaviors and bring transgender people into contact with psychic violence for not being readable at a glance.

To Protect and Serve Whiteness

Critics of policing often utter the phrase ‘to protect and serve,’ in order to point out the gap between discourses of ethical policing and practices of punitive policing in black communities. However, the present analysis asserts that a more appropriate representation of the policing function is ‘to protect and servewhiteness.’ Drawing ethnographic observations, the Ferguson Report and Officer Darren Wilson’s Grand Jury Testimony, I shift the locus of critique away from the putative problems of ‘police brutality,’ ‘excessive force,’ and ‘police militarization.’ I argue that these critiques naturalize the forms of psychic violence, dehumanization and dispossession inflicted in routine and professional encounters between police and black people. Instead, I argue that anti‐blackness is imbricated in policing itself. Then, by examining the ways in which modern policing and ‘order maintenance’ approaches developed from southern slave patrols, I assert that policing in the United States is always already racialized policing. It plays a foundational role assigning of racial meanings, helping to produce whiteness as a subject of protection and blackness an object of regulation.

“Who's the Crack Whore at the End?” Performance, Violence, and Sonic Borderlands in the Music of Yva las Vegass

This essay amplifies sonic borderlands as a sonic lens for the intersections of performance and violence in the music of Yva las Vegass. Foregrounding voice, sonic borderlands is a theoretical and experiential marker for identities and bodies that occupy geographic and discursive borderlands. The research intervenes in a genealogy of the utopic in queer performance, demonstrating that it is precisely in performance that some subjects encounter the most physical and psychical violence. Extending queer and transgender of color critique into the fields of ethnomusicology and performance studies, the discussion conversely brings theoretical frameworks in voice, performance, and music, into Latino/a studies, Black feminisms, disability studies, and queer and transgender of color critique.

Wybrane przyczyny dysfunkcjonalności rodziny

Within several centuries the family model has been considerably transformed. After radical social changes different types of families arose. One of them is a dysfunctional family which is known for not meeting their children's basic needs. Many external factors contribute to dysfunctionality of a family. One of them is the phenomenon of physical or psychical violence. Others are: alcoholism, poverty, negative parental attitudes which affect negatively on child's personality.

Decision-making and Consent of Paediatric Cancer Patients: Between Guidance and Promotion of Child Autonomy

Aims: Assessing how medical teams in a paediatric cancer hospital cope with the legal requirement to search for the child’s consent for an inclusion in a clinical trial and children’s participation in tough medical decisions. Study Design: Anthropologic Field Study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Paediatric Solid Cancer of La Timone Hospital (Marseille, France) between August 2004 and February 2007. Methodology: The author attended medical staff meetings, visits and conversations between doctors, children and their parents. About 200 patients where included in the study. Numerous interviews took place with staff, parents and children, as well as with two cancer-survivors, who were cured of their childhood cancer 30 or 40 years ago. Two “blogs” written by mother of young patients were read in order to assess how medical information was disseminating towards families. Results: The announce of a cancer diagnosis, the search for the child’s consent or participation in tough medical decisions, imply new kinds of relationships between medical teams and children. That modification of positions is not easy for several reasons. First, children do not always feel free to express their views and choices. Besides, these changes disrupt the traditional model of a “medical paternalism”, where physicians would know by themselves what is good for their patients. Above all, confronting children with medical choices may be of the utmost psychic violence, since children are faced with impossible choice or “double bind”. Thus, medical teams have to recognise the child as a person capable of autonomy but also to provide special protection regarding their Original Research Article Bonnet; AIR, Article no. AIR.2014.005 232 vulnerability. They experiment different ways to establish a dialog with children, through picturing, “discursive avoidance” and symbolisation. Conclusion: Looking for the right balance between guidance and promotion of child autonomy, medical staff can create some “protected areas”, where children are sheltered from the naked truth by symbolisation and “discursive avoidance”, and where a genuine dialog may be established.

Russian Teenager: Attitude towards Psychical, Physical and Sexual Violence

This article is based upon two sociological research projects carried out by the Institute of Educational Sociology of the Russian Academy of Education. The first study took place in 2010-2012, as part of the programme initiated by ISE RAE “A teenager in the former USSR: 20 years later” in Moscow, Riga and Chisinau. The second research was conducted in 2012 in Krasnoyarsk region and was dedicated to the study of teenagers’ attitude towards deviant behavior (smoking, alcohol and drugs abuse) and their orientation to the healthy lifestyle.

Trauma y el narcisismo negativo en los casos límite

Este trabajo hace énfasis en la repetición de cómo la violencia psíquica revela el trauma. Este tema es particularmente importante para laclínica de los casos límite. La idea freudiana de que combina el trauma y la sexualidad ha existido desde los comienzos del psicoanálisis. Pero¿existen diferentes enfoques a lo largo de su trabajo? ¿Cómo pueden estar relacionados con la clínica de los casos límite? Nos guiamos por eltexto freudiano llamado Más allá del principio del placer (1920) y por las proposiciones de Andre Green en el tema, que se refieren a la objetivacióny deobjetivación, funciones neutrales y narcisismo negativo. Desde el momento en que Freud complejiza la noción de trauma por lo queevidencia un exceso de estímulos externos e instintivos que no pueden ser parte de la cadena de la representación psíquica, Freud tambiénrevela un modo particular de amor objetual: el par sadismo-masoquismo. Pero mientras este par sigue siendo expresión de Eros, el conceptoNeutral de Green es la expresión de lo que él llama narcisismo negativo. En ambos casos, el trauma es un requisito.

Psychic family violence and pathological jealousy with tragic consequences: Homicide

The presented case is not a singular one and it belongs to the pathology of the last period in Romania as a consequence of an unprecedented social phenomenon in the last 50 years, namely the massive migration of the young labor force especially in Western-European countries. One of the consequences is that many children are left in the care of only one parent or more often in the care of the grandparents. Another consequence is that the spouses separate for shorter or longer periods of time, they keep in touch only through telephone and after months, or even years, when they meet, they fight, especially regarding the possible infidelity. Authors have published several papers about children left to grow up without parents. This time it's about a young man who killed his wife in a very particular way, the wife having returned from working in Italy for one day. The psychological profile of the perpetrator and even more the lack of psychiatric antecedents wouldn't have suggested such an ending to the relationship between the two, but still the murder took place and the authors are trying to explain it.

Portrayal of Psychic Violence in Fire on the Mountain and The Bluest Eye

The role of woman is significant in the human world from the ancient time not only as a human being but also as an inseparable entity to take the mankind ahead with the time. The woman represents the symbol of nurture. She contributes to make progress in the family, society as well as country through her active participation same as the male counterpart. But woman is suppressed into lower status compared to the male power and position in the society intentionally, even after her great contribution in reality. The evidence can be found in the portrayal of woman in the literatures from the different cultures. How does the patriarchal society suppress the woman? How is the patriarchal ideology dominating the grand-narrative as well as molding the notion of woman’s psychology? In what ways, the voice of woman is controlled and represented with manipulative hegemony in unconstructive words? How is the woman fighting against the psychic violence to construct her self? Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes echo those thought provoking questions with ravenous eyes to discover the real female subject. Both writers exhibit the woman’s situation, emotion and realization which are scrutinized to observe the universality of female psyche. Stamford Journal of English; Volume 6; Page 230-248 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sje.v6i0.13916

Topical Problems of Investigation of Abuse of Rank by Employees of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation Committed with Application of Psychic and Physical Violence

Topical Problems of Investigation of Abuse of Rank by Employees of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation Committed with Application of Psychic and Physical Violence

Trauma, (Mis)Perception and Memory in Uwem Akpan's ‘Fattening for Gabon’

It is a generally accepted principle in contemporary poststructuralist literary studies that language can only ever partially succeed in signifying that which it purports to signify. Where the profoundly dislocating experience of trauma is concerned, language loses even this partial success, and the victim of psychic violence is forced to resort to silence, a silence which is all the more expressive precisely because it overwhelms language. Thus, trauma fiction reveals what Steiner refers to as ‘the revaluation of silence’ which emphasises ‘the conceit of the word unspoken’ (67). Uwem Akpan's short story, ‘Fattening for Gabon’, from his collection Say You're One of Them (2008), is concerned with the culpability of socio-economic structures in giving rise to and perpetuating trauma in children. This paper will examine the retrospective narration of the protagonist by paying particular attention to the motif of memory. A discussion of the painful ambivalence of the experience and textualization of trauma, as conveyed through the story's use of silence and the disruption of the conventional bildung typical of narratives of remembrance, will form a substantial part of the paper.

Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber (review)

Reviewed by: Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber Nancy Jesser Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber. Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2010. 224 pp. $42.50. The strengths of Evelyn Schreiber’s book are her careful and attentive readings of Morrison’s novels and a focus on the deep and difficult histories embodied by these characters. Race, Trauma, and Home works through Morrison’s earlier novels depicting slavery to the more recent works, Love and A Mercy, and her notes on the 2006 Louvre exhibition “The Foreigner’s Home.” The chapters most often cover two novels thematically—memory, “inherited” trauma, and the “almost insurmountable task of recovering … to gain subjectivity.” Thematically, Schreiber works from the traumas of slavery through the inherited and generational traumas of postslavery America. She examines all the novels with a clear and focused textual analysis joined together with insights drawn from the disciplines of psychoanalysis and neurocognitive science. In many cases, her readings are buttressed by these nonliterary modes of analysis, and a picture of Morrison’s theoretical and political trajectory is made clear. Morrison as the chronicler of complex, nuanced and particular lives of African Americans, especially women, emerges throughout Schreiber’s work as a potent, real and effective social commentator who can also be of use in deeply individual, personal, and subjective ways. For the most part, Schreiber provides the reader with careful close readings of Morrison’s narratives. She works her way through Morrison’s career, starting with the early novels and concluding with Morrison’s most recent works. She also engages somewhat with Morrison’s own critical and theoretical writings. Her focus throughout is on the parental relations under the conditions of racism. Since Morrison herself writes her narratives using deeply historicized and very particularized moments in African American and American history, Schreiber’s readings are thematically unifying, drawing out the repeating, traumatic, and violent effects on these relations under the conditions of white supremacy. This tends somewhat to reduce Morrison’s careful historicity. This reveals one of the difficulties of bringing to bear a psychoanalytic lens on fictional narratives. There is an inherent tension between the grounding narrative of psychoanalysis in the mother-child relation and the historicizing and particularizing narrative of the novels. Schreiber’s strength is her ability to elucidate Morrison’s own concerns with the ongoing and lasting effects of both physical and psychical violence under the conditions of racism and white supremacy. In her own criticism and theoretical writings, Morrison suggests this thread. Schreiber adds to her readings of the novels by layering some insights drawn from research into trauma by both psychoanalysis and neuropsychology. The concurrent conclusions about the ongoing and embodied nature of trauma drawn from these kinds of research confirm Schreiber’s (and Morrison’s) workings out of these scenarios in fiction. That said, Schreiber mostly uses these scientifically framed notions to gird up and confirm Morrison’s insights into the effects of racism and its institutions as well as her own readings of Morrison. The result of this is that the various forms of “data” gathered on the effects of trauma on families, especially problematic or ineffectual maternal attachment, merely confirm one another. Each of these various ways of describing trauma and its effects in the body and on relationships (fiction, psychoanalysis, neuropsychology) demand specific assumptions and commitments. Some of these are contrary to each other and others to the project of historicizing and particularizing the (fictional) lives Morrison describes. Schreiber sees them all as merely descriptive of reality, rather than perhaps constitutive. It is not terribly surprising to find contemporary thinking on the effects of trauma, namely violence in novels that mirrors and reflects contemporary thinking on these effects in other disciplines. [End Page 469] The problem that this raises for this reader is that the universalizing narrative forms of science and psychoanalysis may override the historical particularity of the novels. This runs the risk of describing parental relations as always traumatized and traumatizing under the conditions of white supremacy. Schreiber’s focus on the damage done to black women and their children misses some of Morrison...

Research on Abuse and Violence Against the Elderly in a Family Setting

Abstract The article calls for attention to the problem of violence and abuse of the elderly within their family, partnership, and relationships with relatives in the postmodern society. The outcomes of the research, carried out on a sample of the elderly people within different residence settings are presented. Results show that all kinds of violence and abuse are present in all kinds of settings, except in the residence with relatives, where sexual abuse was not noticed. Physical and sexual violence and abuse is mostly present in the households in which the elderly live with their partner, while psychical violence is present in the households with relatives. Material violence and abuse are present in case of elderly people who live alone. Both, men and women, experience most violence and abuse in their flats.