Unconsciously Research Articles

The sin of the translator: On words and mental images in translation

This paper explores the interface between the conscious and unconscious minds in translation and focuses on the inner word form that it considers to be the linchpin in this interface. This paper assumes that words pertain via their inner forms directly to archetypal images and via these images indirectly to archetypes, which underpins image-driven interpretations of individual words in translation. This paper discusses Ukrainian гріх commonly translated as English a sin and shows that this translatability does not imply an interpretability as the words via their inner forms relate to two distinct archetypal images - of fire and of movement, respectively, - that uniquely transcend the cultures to the core and capture a different, culture-specific knowledge of SIN. Pictorially, these are different SINs, owing to which гріх means something different to a speaker of Ukrainian than a sin does to a speaker of English. Yet, ingredients and associations drawn into the archetypal images show that THE SHADOW, ANIMA, THE SELF, and TRANSFORMATIONS are the archetypes that jointly endow to speakers the same foreknowledge of SIN as mediated from within the collective unconscious. This way the inner word forms via their connection to archetypal images extend back beyond the conscious into the unconscious mind.

Socio-Psychological Problems of the Protagonist in Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife: The Outcast’s Queen. An Analytical Study

This paper explores the socio-psychological problems of the protagonist in Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife: The Outcast’s Queen, discoursing the causes for the socio-psychological problems that the marginalised were subjected to in the epic era. This research aims to study the-then social conditions and analyse how they cause the trauma in the psyche of the protagonist. While the Freudian psychological approach interprets that the causes for the psychological distress are to be searched for in the unconscious minds, the Marxist approach asserts that they are to be seen in the then-material conditions of social life. So, the Marxist literary critical approach is necessary for carrying out this research, tracing the dialectical relationship between the human psyche and the then-contemporary social relations. It is asserted that the social discriminations would adversely cause socio-psychological problems among individuals and it was true in the case of Karna, too.

Unconscious mind activates central cardiovascular network and promotes adaptation to microgravity possibly anti-aging during 1-year-long spaceflight

The intrinsic cardiovascular regulatory system (β, 0.00013–0.02 Hz) did not adapt to microgravity after a 6-month spaceflight. The infraslow oscillation (ISO, 0.01–0.10 Hz) coordinating brain dynamics via thalamic astrocytes plays a key role in the adaptation to novel environments. We investigate the adaptive process of a healthy astronaut during a 12-month-long spaceflight by analyzing heart rate variability (HRV) in the LF (0.01–0.05 Hz) and MF1 (0.05–0.10 Hz) bands for two consecutive days on four occasions: before launch, at 1-month (ISS01) and 11-month (ISS02) in space, and after return to Earth. Alteration of β during ISS01 improved during ISS02 (P = 0.0167). During ISS01, LF and MF1 bands, reflecting default mode network (DMN) activity, started to increase at night (by 43.1% and 32.0%, respectively), when suprachiasmatic astrocytes are most active, followed by a 25.9% increase in MF1-band throughout the entire day during ISS02, larger at night (47.4%) than during daytime. Magnetic declination correlated positively with β during ISS01 (r = 0.6706, P < 0.0001) and ISS02 (r = 0.3958, P = 0.0095). Magnetic fluctuations may affect suprachiasmatic astrocytes, and the DMN involving ISOs and thalamic astrocytes may then be activated, first at night, then during the entire day, a mechanism that could perhaps promote an anti-aging effect noted in other investigations.

اضطراب الهذيان للشخصيّة الرئيسة في رواية عندما تكذب الحقيقة لآية رأفت (دراسة التحليل النفسي)

This study aims to present the psychological disorder of delirium in the main character of the novel Indama Takzib al-Haqiqah by Ayaa Raafat, which is based on the abnormal behavior of the character, who cannot distinguish the truth of the surrounding reality. To uncover the delirium phenomenon, the researcher conducted a study using Freud's three levels of mind: the preconscious, the conscious, and the unconscious mind. This research uses qualitative descriptive research. The data collection technique used is careful and thorough reading of psychological phenomena and behavioral abnormalities that indicate the symptoms of delirium in the main character. This study found the following: 1. The form of psychological disturbance in the main character's delirium is in the form of imaginary images and actions based on his belief in the imaginary image that it is a real thing. 2. The influence of delirium causes the unconscious of the main character to dominate the consciousness, which manifests in the form of psychological disorders or abnormal psychological phenomena that he suffers

RETRACTED: Trauma Reverberations: A Study of Selected Novels

Trauma is typically associated with both physical and mental traumas created by tremendous external forces that enslave both the conscious and unconscious minds. The terrible experiences of women produced by numerous strong forces, such as battle, seduction, abuse, incarceration, and so on, are repeated. Women's lives are haunted by nightmares, hallucinations, and other sorts of traumatic symptoms when terrible memories of the past are purposefully buried. It is, nonetheless, possible to use story to solve difficulties. In actuality, there are two pillars to this technique: a mending device and a "bearing witness" device. Through the process of coding and narrating, women's individual traumatic experiences are turned into collectivity, according to this study. As a result, the two books under consideration, Iqbal Qazwini's Zubaida's Window and Betool Khedairi's A Sky so Close, are testimony tales that give witness to the patriarchal system's powers of war, sexual assault and seduction. Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub coined the term "bearing witness," which situates traumatic experiences within the fictional structure of a trauma novel that employs postmodern literary techniques and devices, encapsulating and documenting the components of women's traumatized collective consciousness. The research examines the proposed books that fall under the category of "trauma fiction," which brings up the subject of trauma poetics. As a result, the recommended books are trauma fiction that bear witness to and work through individual experiences through experimental being (techniques) in order to highlight the significance of women's suffering and the ways in which their memories deal with and absorb it.

On Motivation for Ethical Action and Character Building – Transcendental Philosophical Propositions

In this paper I connect the well known assertion from Kant’s ethical theory that we can never be fully certain about our motivations with his theory of the thing in itself of the self from the first _Critique_ in order to demonstrate that Kant has a theory of the unconscious. I situate this argument in a criticism of Wuerth’s recent interpretation in _Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics_ and suggest a revision of his notion of immediatism. I gather other information about Kant’s theory of the unconscious and show that, for Kant, the unconscious mind is a privileged site of moral personhood.

Self’s the Man, and: Six over Six

Self’s the Man, and: Six over Six Richard Kenney (bio) Self’s the Man How is it we can know that there’s a wordwhen we can’t for the life of us think of it? My word!Worse—who’s the Oz-like Dream Masterwho casts my dream to its catastrophe?Who is that shaper of the unforeseen?Here in my hemispheres, are we a foursome?Dog-faithful, some insomniac Man Fridayshook me gently at five sharp last Friday.Why? I had to catch an early flight.Who’s he? Say, is that faithful acolytewho recognizes four is two plus two—who rings the bell to signal something’s true—the same as that valet who ties my shoes?It’s my unconscious mind? Excuse me, whose?Who carries words up from the basement, rungby rung, depositing them on my tonguein the nick of time, as though I “thought of them?”That’s what I think, of course. “I thought of them.” [End Page 146] Six over Six Raindrops streak the tic-tac sash like silver arils.Behind, rain sheen sheets the oblong lawn table,reflecting diamonds of our lattice trellis. Over all,mosquito screen, its insert scarcely visible,a filtering diaphony of minute nylon cellsthrough which the framed scene seems. Closer, my squarewire-rimmed readers. Behind these, the retinal pixelswinking, and behind those, zeroes and ones in the weirof nerve, and behind those, the putative digitsof charge in a grid so fine it’s said to catchlight-bits like moths in mesh. Maybe. But I wish itotherwise. I wish for roundness in the crècheof creation. I wish for the roundness of raindrops, dimpledwith our gaze, causeless, curving, and unsimple. [End Page 147] Richard Kenney richard kenney’s most recent book is Terminator (Knopf, 2019). He teaches at the University of Washington. Copyright © 2022 Richard Kenney

Sentiomics: the identification and analysis of dynamical patterns that characterize sentience

Sentience, defined as the capacity of feeling, for example, to experience basic sensations such as hunger, thirst and other types of qualitative mental states, is a psychobiological phenomenon that involves dynamic patterns of electrochemical (below 1Hz) and electromagnetic (above 1Hz) waves in living systems. The science we have called Sentiomics studies unconscious dynamic patterns in the brain that define the capacity for feeling. This paper discusses the explanation of creative processes based on unconscious patterns that combine and constructively interfere, generating a conscious output experienced in the living system's first-person perspective. We claim that the Sentiomics approach to wave interferences helps to explain creative intuition, artistic creativity, the formation of dreams, and related phenomena. We raise a hypothesis – based on available evidence, to be experimentally tested – that the dominance of slower synchronized oscillatory frequencies (such as Delta, Theta and Alpha bands) in scalp electroencephalogram spectra makes more room for constructive electrochemical interferences supporting creativity. This research points to the dynamism of the unconscious mind, since such interferences happen without the need of conscious control but are influenced by the degree of attention focusing. Once those dynamic processes are understood, they can be used to enrich mental life, boost creativity in general, and improve decision-making processes.

The Conscious and Unconscious Minds

The Conscious and Unconscious Minds

The Unconscious Mind Worry: A Mechanistic-Explanatory Strategy

AbstractRecent findings in different areas of psychology and cognitive science have brought the unconscious mind back to center stage. However, the unconscious mind worry remains: What renders unconscious phenomena mental? I suggest a new strategy for answering this question, which rests on the idea that categorizing unconscious phenomena as “mental” should be scientifically useful relative to the explanatory research goals. I argue that this is the case if by categorizing an unconscious phenomenon as “mental” one picks out explanatorily relevant similarities to a corresponding paradigmatically mental conscious phenomenon. Explanatory relevance is spelled out in terms of mechanistic norms.

Interpretation of Surrealism among University Fine Art Students - Analysis of Selected Surrealist Work by Fourth Year Students at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Surrealism, whether in drawing or painting, remains an engaging and fascinating Art style and continues to be of great influence in the way artists, including students of Art, perceive self-expression and generation of new meaning in their work. Surrealism is considered among the most influential artistic movements of the 20th Century. It started in the 1920s as a literary movement that eventually took on a visual dimension, its foundational principles have continued to influence the thought process and styles of many modern artists in the realm of self-expression. Though students at the University undertake drawing in the context of a number of units in their undergraduate programme, surrealism is introduced as a fourth-year unit since they are expected to have adequately mastered drawing and consolidated an expressive individual style over time. This study examines, through analysis of selected works, the extent to which students are able to, firstly, internalize the concept and visual tenets of surrealism such as distortion, abstraction, and juxtaposition of forms and apply these tenets in the composition of new artistic work of their own. Secondly, the study sought to determine whether their drawings demonstrated individual capacity for self-expression and the derivation of meaning that appealed to the audience. The students were introduced to surrealism through examination and discussion of examples of previous students’ surrealist work, analysis of the subject matter, the origination of ideas, and style of execution in pencil as a manipulative tool. The students were also introduced to rendering surrealist images from various sources into artistic compositions that are interpretable by the audience and, therefore, bear the ability to generate artistic meaning. This being a drawing unit and for the purpose of uniformity of medium, they were instructed to work in pencil on A3 drawing paper. They were expected to internalize each other’s work through class presentations and focused critiques. The students, subsequently, produced a large body of drawings that were sampled and selected in terms of artistic execution and/or display of a significant impetus for self-expression. They were ultimately expected to demonstrate the ability to interpret the meaning of imageries derived from the unconscious mind or whatever dreamlike sources they may have referenced. The work was analysed in accordance with the guidelines outlined in the analytical framework.

Wakandan Utopia, Blackman’s Techno-Scientific Imaginaries, and the Complexities of Pseudoscience in Black Panther

The stereotypical representation of the Black world in Western cultural repositories has often been of great concern to scholars in African studies. This prejudicial delineation fosters dystopian sensibility on the unconscious mind of the Blackman who involuntarily internalises the myths of his sub-humanity. Stephen Hopkins’ The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), Antoine Fuqua’s Tears of the Sun (2003), Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda (2004), Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener (2005), Kevin Macdonald’s The Last King of Scotland (2006), Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation (2015), and Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe (2016), for instance, project the Black world as a locus horridus. Though this stereotype has been invalidated in many scholarly writings, the Hollywood superhero movie, Black Panther (2018), further intensifies the repudiation, affirming the Blackman’s contributions to humanity, albeit with a touch of narcissism. Using sci-fi genre, the movie provides a fictional truth, abstracted reality averring the cargo cult thinking of the Blackman. This is because the movie envisions Black hegemony and a world that pays homage to the wealth and imagined techno-scientific prowess of the Blackman. In this article, I examine the underlying subtexts in the movie, interrogating its Afrofuturist or Africanfuturist agenda. I argue that the agenda is steeped in illusionism, fringe science, esoteric spirituality, and cargo cult mentation. I contend that the failure of the Black world to catch up with the rest of the world may have necessitated its love for esoteric and infantile desires, rather than exploring the material, empirical realities around it to effectuate tangible development.

Enhancing Enneagram Therapy with Contemporary Research on the Conscious and Unconscious Mind.

The Enneagram is a personality framework with ancient philosophical underpinnings and cross cultural roots. It outlines nine different pathways of growth for nine different personalities. In recent years, it has started to gain traction in the peer reviewed level of research. Since the Enneagram has a conceptual versatility in addressing various levels and dimensions of the human psyche, it can both contribute and benefit from cross pollinating its insights with the latest scientific research on how the human mind works. One area of research that has the potential for this type of symbiotic partnership with the Enneagram is the study of the interaction between the conscious and unconscious mind. There is rich potential for the multi-leveled integration of contemporary findings on how the conscious and unconscious mind mutually interact with one another along with insights into personality structures from the Enneagram. These integrative insights have clinical implications and create possible directions for future research.

Observation: Setting the Foundation for Creativity and Innovation.

Observation: Setting the Foundation for Creativity and Innovation.

Table for One

Table for One

A case of Stage III essential hypertension treated with homoeopathy through the windows of the unconscious mind: A case report

A 36-year-old man presented with Stage III accelerated hypertension and reluctance to start anti-hypertensive medication. This case is an attempt to demonstrate the importance of unconscious emotions and dreams with their psychodynamic correlations in essential hypertension through the portrait of disease. Mag carb was selected based on the totality of symptoms in view of the evolution of person, dispositions and adaptive patterns along with available physical characteristics through the psychodynamic study.

The Sacredness of Nature: Response to Six Objections to Religious Naturalism

The Sacredness of Nature: Response to Six Objections to Religious Naturalism

Introduction to the Proceedings of the 8th“Complexity-disorder” days: Tribute to Fernand Braudel and Jean Delacour

This introduction to this pluridisciplinary meeting is mainly devoted to celebrate two exceptional pluridisciplinary scientists. Fernand Braudel was simultaneously a historian, geographer, sociologist and economist. The neurophysiologist Jean Delacour was open to other disciplines from philosophy to physics. Braudel’s global point of view of history created new fields in human sciences, paving the way for new active research. For instance, the emergence of the very singular development of world-cities remains to be well understood from detailed network analysis in order to find the driving process of such an emergent deep localization. In a similar way, Delacour’s physiological evidence for unconscious mind resulting from energy saving during sleep remains to be explored in details both for humans and for animals with expected consequences for managing neural networks as well as for quantum computing, and for poetry. The papers of this meeting are shortly introduced.

Interpretation of dreams and its importance in selection of homoeopathic constitutional remedy in mental disorder

Dreams are succession of images, idea, emotions and sensation that occur involuntary in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Dreams reflect unconscious mind; hence in homoeopathy they are very important. Dreams give the idea of underlying emotions and also give glimses of the real mental state of an individual. A case of generalized anxiety disorder has been treated by homoeopathy with interpretation of dreams.

Desire to Die in Poems of Anne Sexton and Stevie Smith

This study aims at analyzing Anne Sexton and Stevie Smith’s obsession with death as established in their poetry, concentrating mainly on Freud’s psychoanalysis of the death drive. Examining the writers’ personal life and psychological state of mind, revealing the main reason behind their desire to die, and describing the way they reflected this death wish in their poems are the major concerns of this study. The first part presents a brief introduction to the concept of death, explaining Freud’s theory of death drive and presenting the main reasons for wishing to die and how the unconscious mind develops this desire. The second part discusses the American confessional poetess Anne Sexton and how she confesses her death wish in her poems. Evidently, revealing her personal experience enables the reader to discover the inner reason behind this lust for death. The third part deals with the English Poet Stevie Smith who successfully admits her death wish in her poems. She reveals her struggles in life and views death as a god who can save her. In short, it could be asserted that death became Sexton and Smith’s greatest muse; they depict death as a welcome release and a gift for man which provides a peaceful end to life. The psychoanalysis acts as a mean of self-analysis, where both writers confess their desire to ‘return to an earlier state’, thus presenting death as a kinder and desired friend to be with. Finally, the study concludes that both poets desire death because they want peace and relief from their miserable life.