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Essentials of Pediatrics: Padmasani Venkat Ramanan and Ramachandran P (eds) : Published by Universities Press (India) Private Limited, Hyderabad, India; 2023; ISBN: 978-93-93330-40-6; Pages 724; Price: ₹ 1575.

Essentials of Pediatrics: Padmasani Venkat Ramanan and Ramachandran P (eds) : Published by Universities Press (India) Private Limited, Hyderabad, India; 2023; ISBN: 978-93-93330-40-6; Pages 724; Price: ₹ 1575.

Reading Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog with Deutsch, Nietzsche and Nijinsky

ABSTRACT In this article I argue that Jane Campion’s film The Power of the Dog (2021), can be read through Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy (1967); and that Campion’s films more generally can be viewed insightfully in a Nietzschean frame. Campion’s films are often concerned with ancient mythic themes and forces that continue to find expression in later times and places. I argue that Campion is also a feminist filmmaker who questions Hollywood narrative cinema from a subject position of difference, from within its genres but re-writing and re-valuing the values of its ‘plots’ (Gillett, Sue. 2004. Views From Beyond the Mirror: The Films of Jane Campion. The Moving Image 7. Australia: Australian Teachers of Media, Australian Film Institute and Deakin University). Campion explores abiding psycho-social phenomena and needs – here, masculinity, men’s relations with ‘mother’ – by drawing on mythological figures in service to the present in original ways and as a female director. I draw on Hélène Deutsch’s (1969. A Psychoanalytic Study of The Myth of Dionysus and Apollo: Two Variants of the Son-Mother Relationship. The Freud Anniversary Lecture Series, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute. New York: International Universities Press Inc.) analysis and discussion of Apollonian and Dionysian mythologies in support of this argument.

Grammatical Morphology in Aphasia: Evidence from Cantonese Classifiers

Grammatical Morphology in Aphasia: Evidence from Cantonese Classifiers

The posthuman abstract: AI, DRONOLOGY & “BECOMING ALIEN”

This paper is addressed to recent theoretical discussions of the Anthropocene, in particular Bernard Stiegler’s Neganthropocene (Open Universities Press, 2018), which argues: “As we drift past tipping points that put future biota at risk, while a post-truth regime institutes the denial of ‘climate change’ (as fake news), and as Silicon Valley assistants snatch decision and memory, and as gene-editing and a financially-engineered bifurcation advances over the rising hum of extinction events and the innumerable toxins and conceptual opiates that Anthropocene Talk fascinated itself with—in short, as ‘the Anthropocene’ discloses itself as a dead-end trap…”. The objective of this paper is therefore twofold: (1) to discuss how the Anthropocene is appropriated to certain ideological discourses (paradoxically) to maintain the hegemony of precisely those systems of production that have most accelerated climate change etc.; (2) to consider how the factography of the Anthropocene is exploited in this process to mask the ideological character of industry-aligned “technocratic” environmental management. The paper is not concerned with specific case studies in terms of government and industry policy, or climate science, but rather with the ways in which the discourse of the Anthropocene has been inflected within the humanities and the broader cultural field—that is to say, ideologically, as a system or logic of meaning. How the Anthropocene “means” is, in this respect, a question of some importance. This paper does not attempt to address all the facets of this question, but focuses upon a central “apocalyptic” strain in the discourse of the Anthropocene drawn particularly from Francis Fukuyama’s millennial posthumanism and centred in the question of “sustainability” as catastrophe management—with the risk that real environmental degradation will become an alibi for a revived neoliberalism. In other words, that the critical Earth system transformations that characterise the Anthropocene are themselves commodities, and that the project of their amelioration is in process of defining a future (opportunistic) “crisis” rhetoric with a global political franchise. The ideological import of the Anthropocene stems precisely from the fact that it is planetary and, while catalysed by human agency, independent in its specific behaviour from it. The Anthropocene objectively presents as the contemporary counterpart of the Cold War doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction and the most compelling argument for a new kind of technological “arms race.” But it also presents as the condition of an emerging ideological discourse which will determine how this race is run. From the discourse on “energy security” to the widespread “security crackdown” on environmental activists across the so-called developed & developing world, the Anthropocene has come to represent the co-option of a scientific factography for the thinly disguised resurgence of “ideological science” of the Fukuyamaesque variety (post-history, post-human). For Fukuyama, the true meaning of “posthuman” is thus the accomplishment of humanity’s historical mission. As the “End of History” designates an end of ideological struggle, so too the denouement of the Anthropocene and the “ends of man” represent the accomplished purpose of species warfare: dominion, not simply over the world, but over all possible worlds. According to this narrative, science—like technology—must be uniquely at the service of the maintenance of the global order, organised around a universal appeal to “crisis management.” It is precisely for this reason that what calls itself post-human masks the return of an ever-more-apocalyptic Humanism.

The posthuman: AI, dronology, and “becoming alien”

This paper is addressed to recent theoretical discussions of the Anthropocene, in particular Bernard Stiegler’s Neganthropocene (Open Universities Press, 2018), which argues: “As we drift past tipping points that put future biota at risk, while a posttruth regime institutes the denial of ‘climate change’ (as fake news), and as Silicon Valley assistants snatch decision and memory, and as gene-editing and a financially engineered bifurcation advances over the rising hum of extinction events and the innumerable toxins and conceptual opiates that Anthropocene Talk fascinated itself with—in short, as ‘the Anthropocene’ discloses itself as a dead-end trap…”. The objective of this paper is, therefore, twofold: (1) to discuss how the Anthropocene is appropriated to certain ideological discourses (paradoxically) to maintain the hegemony of precisely those systems of production that have most accelerated climate change etc. and (2) to consider how the factography of the Anthropocene is exploited in this process to mask the ideological character of industry-aligned “technocratic” environmental management. The paper is not concerned with specific case studies in terms of government and industry policy, or climate science, but rather with the ways in which the discourse of the Anthropocene has been inflected within the humanities and the broader cultural field—that is to say, ideologically, as a system or logic of meaning. How the Anthropocene “means” is, in this respect, a question of some importance. This paper does not attempt to address all the facets of this question, but focuses upon a central “apocalyptic” strain in the discourse of the Anthropocene drawn particularly from Francis Fukuyama’s millennial posthumanism and centred in the question of “sustainability” as catastrophe management—with the risk that real environmental degradation will become an alibi for a revived neoliberalism. In other words, the critical Earth system transformations that characterise the Anthropocene are themselves commodities, and that the project of their amelioration is in process of defining a future (opportunistic) “crisis” rhetoric with a global political franchise. The ideological import of the Anthropocene stems precisely from the fact that it is planetary and, while catalysed by human agency, independent in its specific behaviour from it. The Anthropocene objectively presents as the contemporary counterpart of the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction and the most compelling argument for a new kind of technological “arms race”. However, it also presents as the condition of an emerging ideological discourse which will determine how this race is run. From the discourse on “energy security” to the widespread “security crackdown” on environmental activists across the socalled developed and developing world, the Anthropocene has come to represent the co-option of a scientific factography for the thinly disguised resurgence of “ideological science” of the Fukuyamaesque variety (posthistory, posthuman). For Fukuyama, the true meaning of “posthuman” is thus the accomplishment of humanity’s historical mission. As the “End of History” designates an end of ideological struggle, so too, the denouement of the Anthropocene and the “ends of man” represents the accomplished purpose of species warfare: dominion, not simply over the world, but over all possible worlds. According to this narrative, science—like technology—must be uniquely at the service of the maintenance of the global order, organised around a universal appeal to “crisis management”. It is precisely for this reason that what calls itself posthuman masks the return of an ever-more-apocalyptic Humanism.

Gay shame in a geopolitical context

ABSTRACTWith the developing acceptance of gay equality in the west, it is assumed that we live in a post-shame era, with ‘the world we have won’. However, this is a chimeric cliché of neoliberalism (rather like the idea that we are all postfeminist now). The ‘proud’ homosexual of the west is discursively constructed against the ‘shamed’ homosexual of the east, a typecasting resonant with postcolonial clichés of the primal, religious, and homophobic savagery of the global south in contrast with the civilising, liberal evolution of the secular global north. Shame displacement is of course a dynamic of shame itself. The perceived failure in achieving the ‘proud iconic gay’ of media cultures in the global North results in a traumatic double bind of being ashamed of being ashamed. This article will reconsider the cultural politics and temporality of shame for primarily white gay identities after the ‘War on Terror’. As Islamophobia has exponentially increased, some western gays translocate their unacknowledged shame onto a misconceived ‘brown threat’ in a complex, aggressive, and racist shame loop [Lewis, H.B., 1971. Shame and guilt in neurosis. New York: International Universities Press; Scheff, T.J., and Retzinger, S.M., 1991. Emotions and violence: shame and rage in destructive conflict. New York: Lexington Books].

Our Most Fundamental Task.

Our Most Fundamental Task.

The Character Heads by Franz Messerschmidt: An Example of Art Therapy.

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Images in PsychiatryFull AccessThe Character Heads by Franz Messerschmidt: An Example of Art TherapyAntonio Perciaccante, M.D., Alessia Coralli, B.S.N.Antonio PerciaccanteSearch for more papers by this author, M.D., Alessia CoralliSearch for more papers by this author, B.S.N.Published Online:1 Sep 2017https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17050518AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail Man Looking at the Sun (1780–1783), alabaster, 42×22×30 cm, Museo Palazzo Coronini Cronberg, Gorizia, Italy (property of the Fondazione Palazzo Coronini Cronberg, Gorizia; photograph by Claudio Sclauzero, Gorizia).The Vexed Man (1771–1783), alabaster, 39.4×27.3×26 cm, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content program).A relationship between psychiatric illnesses and creativity is supported by the case of the German sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) and his most famous artistic work, the collection known as the Character Heads. It comprises 69 (49 actually known) marble, alabaster, and bronze busts, mostly self-portraits, characterized by facial distortions and dated about 1770–1780. They were found in the sculptor's studio after his death. The titles were not created by Messerschmidt but were assigned only after the sculptures were found. Erroneously, the Character Heads were believed to be Messerschmidt's study of physiognomy and pathognomy. Really, they were strictly related to the mental illness he suffered (1). Messerschmidt shared the late Baroque focus on religious and courtly subjects until 1770, when he began to sculpt the Character Heads. Although biographical accounts of him are unclear and fragmentary, it is known that in 1771 Messerschmidt started to suffer from paranoid ideas and hallucinations (1). These symptoms progressively worsened, and in 1774 he was expelled from teaching at the Art Academy of Vienna. The State Chancellor at that time justified this decision to the Empress by arguing that, despite Messerschmidt's great artistic ability, his “confusion in the mind” would damage the institution (1). Despite his elusive character, Messerschmidt agreed to meet the German writer Friedrich Nicolai in his studio (2). A report of their meeting was later published by Nicolai, and it is the only useful contemporary document detailing Messerschmidt's reasoning behind the execution of his Character Heads (2). It emerged that Messerschmidt suffered from paranoid ideas, hallucinations, and an unspecified digestive disorder causing him considerable discomfort (1, 2). The sculptor used to pinch himself to distract him from this abdominal discomfort. Some resulting facial expressions observed in a mirror were then reproduced in the Character Heads (2).The artist sculpted to display the spirits intending to destroy him and his art (1). Indeed, Messerschmidt explained that he was periodically tormented by malign spirits, the most frightful of which he called the “Spirit of Proportion.” He said that the Character Heads irritated this spirit, who visited him at night, forcing humiliating torture on him (2). Messerschmidt was convinced that if he welcomed the spirits with sculptural expressions of extreme emotions, they could be kept at bay (2).Messerschmidt's psychiatric disease, probably schizophrenia, fed his creativity, but at same time the art acted as a means to counteract his ailments. Thus, it could be considered a form of art therapy.From the Department of Medicine, San Giovanni di Dio Hospital, Gorizia, Italy; and Alto Isontino District, Azienda per l'Assistenza Sanitaria Bassa Friulana—Isontina, Gorizia, Italy.Address correspondence to Dr. Perciaccante ([email protected]).References1 Kris E: Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art. Madison, Conn, International Universities Press, 1952Google Scholar2 Nicolai F: Beschreibung einer reise durch Deutschland und die Schweiz, in Jahre 1781: Nebst Bemerkungen über Gelehrsamkeit, Industrie, Religion und Sitten. Edited by Nicolai F. Berlin, Stettin, 1783Google Scholar FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited byNone Volume 174Issue 9 September 01, 2017Pages 838-839 Metrics KeywordsSchizophreniaart therapyPDF download History Published online 1 September 2017 Published in print 1 September 2017

Reviews of Books and Maps

REVIEWS OF BOOKSTHE IRISH LANDSCAPE, by Frank Mitchell. London: Collins, 1976. 240 pp. £5.50. Reviewed by: T. J. HughesTHE LAND AND PEOPLE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY CORK: THE RURAL ECONOMY AND THE LAND QUESTION, by James S. Donnelly, Jr. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. 440 pp. £9.95. Reviewed by: William J. SmythIRISH SETTLEMENTS IN EASTERN CANADA: A STUDY OF CULTURAL TRANSFER AND ADAPTATION, by John J. Mannion. University of Toronto Press, 1974. 219 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by: T. J. HughesREGIONAL PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY 1975–95. Department of Housing, Local Government and Planning, Northern Ireland, Discussion Paper. Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1975. 39 pp. £0.30.; REGIONAL POLICY IN IRELAND: A REVIEW. National Economic and Social Council Report No. 4. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1975. 86 pp. £0.25.Reviewed by: A. A. HornerCARTON, CO. KILDARE: A CASE STUDY OF THE MAKING OF AN IRISH DEMESNE, by Arnold Horner. Dublin: Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, Vol. 18, Nos. 2 and 3, 1975. 57 pp. £ 1 .Reviewed by: R. A. ButlinTHE CLIMATE OF IRELAND, by P. K. Rohan, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1975–112 pp. £1.50.Reviewed by: J. P. HaughtonDINNSEANCHAS. Baile Atha Cliath: An Cumann Logainmneacha. Vol. 3, No. 4, December 1969 - Vol. 6, No. 2, December 1974. Current price, £1.50 per annum.Reviewed by: Breandán S. Mac AodhaLOGAINMNEACHA AS PAROlSTE NA RINNE CO. PHORT LAlRGE. Baile Atha Cliath: An Cumann Logainmneacha, 1975. 43 pp. Reviewed by: Breandán S. Mac AodhaTHE JEWS OF IRELAND, by Louis Hyman. London: Jewish Historical Society of England; Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press, 1972. xix + 403 pp. Reviewed by: Stanley WatermanTHE CAVES OF FERMANAGH AND CAVAN, by G. L. Jones. Enniskillen: Watergate Press, 1974. 117 pp.Reviewed by: D. P. DrewARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION - AN IRISH VIEWPOINT. Dublin: the Architectural Association of Ireland, 1975. 95 pp. £3.75.Reviewed by: J. A. K. GrahameHOW TO USE THE RECORD OFFICE: MAPS AND PLANS. NO. 11, CO. ANTRIM, C.1570–C.1830, 31 pp. NO. 12, CO. ARMAGH, c. 1600–c. 1830, 36 pp. NO. 13, CO. DOWN, c. 1600-c. 1830,39 pp. NO. 14, CO. FERMANAGH, C.1590-C.1830, 16pp. NO. 15, CO. LONDONDERRY, c. 1600–c. 1830, 23 pp. NO. 16, CO. TYRONE, C.1580–C.1830, 34 pp. NO. 17, BELFAST, c.1570– c.1860, 19 pp. NO. 18, GENERAL MAPS OF IRELAND AND ULSTER, C.1538–C.1830, 15 pp. Belfast: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, n.d. £0.05 each.; NORTHERN IRELAND TOWN PLANS, 1828–1966. A CATALOGUE OF LARGE SCALE TOWN PLANS PREPARED BY THE ORDNANCE SURVEY AND DEPOSITED IN P.R.O.N.I. Belfast, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, n.d. 20 pp. £0.20. Reviewed by: J. H. AndrewsANGLO-IRISH STUDIES. Chalfont St Giles: Alpha Academic Books. Volume i, 1975, 118 pp. £4.Reviewed by: J. H. AndrewsA GEOGRAPHY OF TOWNS AND CITIES, by A. J. Parker. Dublin: the Educational Company, 1976. 117 pp.Reviewed by: James E. KillenMAP REVIEWOILEÁlN ÁRANN. 1:25,344. Kilronan, Aran Islands: T. D. Robinson, 1975.Reviewed by: J. P. Haughton

Self Psychology and Psychosis: The Development of the Self During Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and Other Psychosesby David Garfield and Ira Steinman. London, Karnac, 2015, 208 pp., $35.76 (paperback).

Self Psychology and Psychosis: The Development of the Self During Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and Other Psychosesby David Garfield and Ira Steinman. London, Karnac, 2015, 208 pp., $35.76 (paperback).

Association of hypertension status and cardiovascular risks with sympathovagal imbalance in first degree relatives of type 2 diabetics.

As reports show cardiovascular (CV) risks in first-degree relatives (FDR) of type2 diabetics, and autonomic imbalance predisposing to CV risks, in the present study we have assessed the contribution of sympathovagal imbalance (SVI) to CV risks in these subjects. Body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), basal heart rate (BHR), blood pressure (BP), rate pressure product (RPP), and spectral indices of heart rate variability (HRV) were reordered and analyzed in FDR of type2 diabetics (study group, n=293) and in subjects with no family history of diabetes (control group, n=405). The ratio of low-frequency (LF) to high-frequency (HF) power of HRV (LF-HF), a sensitive marker of SVI, was significantly increased (P<0.001) in the study group compared with the control group. The SVI in the study group was due to concomitant sympathetic activation (increased LF) and vagal inhibition (decreased HF). In the study group, the LF-HF ratio was significantly correlated with BMI, WHR, BHR, BP and RPP. Multiple regression analysis showed an independent contribution of LF-HF to hypertension status (P=0.000), and bivariate logistic regression showed significant prediction (odds ratio 2.16, confidence interval 1.130-5.115) of LF-HF to increased RPP, the marker of CV risk, in the study group. Sympathovagal imbalance in the form of increased sympathetic and decreased parasympathetic activity is present in FDR of type2 diabetics. Increased resting heart rate, elevated hypertension status, decreased HRV and increased RPP in these subjects make them vulnerable to CV risks. SVI in these subjects contributes to CV risks independent of the degree of adiposity.

Addiction: A Kind of Loving

Addiction: A Kind of Loving by Dr David Marjot. Published by Southern Universities Press. London. 2013. Pages 238. No index. Distributed by Gardners books: www.gardners.com. ISBN: 978-0-9570504-2-6, no price given. ![Graphic][1] David Marjot is a senior psychiatrist with long experience in the treatment of alcohol- and drug-related problems. In 2009, he wrote The Diseases of Alcohol , which distilled this experience and his views about alcohol-related problems and their clinical aspects. Some of this is repeated in the present work, but here he advances a theory of addiction which he feels has been almost totally neglected. His hypothesis is that addiction is akin to an enduring love affair, a ‘mistaken attachment’. It is … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif

Probing the relationship between selfobject needs and adult attachment orientations.

Both Kohut’s self-psychology (Kohut, H. 1971. The analysis of the self. New York, NY: International Universities Press. 1984. How does psychoanalysis cure? Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press) and Bowlby’s (Bowlby, J. 1988. A secure base: Parent-child attachments and healthy human development. New York, NY: Basic Books) attachment theory propose that when basic human emotional needs for affirmation, belongingness, and security are inadequately satisfied by early caregivers, the person internalizes problematic schemas and experiences difficulties with self-esteem regulation that subsequently obstruct the achievement of mature interdependence in adulthood. In an effort to explore these relationships, in the present study we probed whether particular selfobject needs and self-esteem-related experiences differentially predicted college students’ scores on each of 2 dimensions of adult attachment insecurity (anxiety, avoidance). There were 142 college students who completed measures of selfobject needs and adult attachment orientations along with measures of self-esteem instability, psychological entitlement, and self-compassion. Findings from simultaneous and hierarchical regression analyses indicated that distinct combinations of selfobject needs and self-esteem regulation experiences made unique contributions to each dimension of adult attachment insecurity.

Ethnological Values and Opportunities for Establishing a Heritage Policy around Tuna-trapping in Andalusia (Spain)

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Philosophical Perspectives on the Politics and Crisis of Sustainable Development in Africa

Philosophical Perspectives on the Politics and Crisis of Sustainable Development in Africa

Genocide and the Terror of History

The Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson initiated the Taskforce for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research in 1998 after visiting a Nazi concentration camp and...

Invisibility and insubstantiality in an anorexic adolescent: phenomenology and dynamics

The author describes a sub-group of anorexic patients who present themselves clinically as ‘invisible’ and ‘insubstantial’. The concept of ‘invisibility’ is understood in terms of primitive object relations. The underpinning of this dynamic is a lack of separation and differentiation from mother and a consequent effort to live inside her skin. The author relies on Rosenfeld's description (On the psychopathology of narcissism: a clinical approach', in Psychotic States: A Psychoanalytic Approach, New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1964) of narcissistic object relations and related defences against recognition of separateness between self and object. Differentiation and the development of a sense of a visible self require a growing capacity to bear pain and conflict. The author offers an extended case example in order to elucidate the factors that contributed to an adolescent girl's experience of herself as invisible, and only really of any substance when merged with another. Paradoxically, the anorexia can also serve to make a patient's problems truly visible for the first time. The anorexia both reflects the sense of insubstantiality and may represent an emerging opportunity for experiences that are one's own to be considered.

An interview with Theodore J. Jacobs

Theodore J. Jacobs is training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute. He is also clinical professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the New York University School of Medicine. Furthermore, Dr Jacobs is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Quarterly (Editorial Board and Board of Directors), Psychoanalytic Inquiry, International Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis. He has written over 50 papers and book reviews on a variety of psychoanalytic topics, as well as two books: The use of the self: Countertransference and communication in the analytic situation (Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1991) and On beginning an analysis (co-edited with Arnold Rothstein; Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1998).

Coping with Guilt and Shame After Gambling Loss

In this study we examined the relations between guilt and shame and coping strategies in response to gambling loss. Based on H.B. Lewis's (Shame & guilt in neurosis. New York: International Universities Press, 1971) account of guilt and shame, we proposed that unlike guilt, the experience of shame involves the attribution of gambling loss to stable and global internal factors (i.e., self-devaluation). We hypothesized that problem gambling severity would be more strongly associated with the intensity of shame than with the intensity of guilt following gambling loss. Further, we hypothesized that the intensity of shame would be positively associated with the use of avoidant coping strategies following gambling loss. Finally, we hypothesized that the intensity of shame would mediate the association between problem gambling severity and the use of avoidant coping. These hypotheses were supported by a retrospective survey of recent gambling losses. Our finding suggests that the experience of shame and the use of avoidant coping strategies to deal with this emotion are central to problem gambling severity.

Mannerism, modernity and the modernist architect, 1920–1950

Criticized for its artifice and stylization, and loaded with negative connotations as manieroso, the art of the sixteenth century nevertheless became, in the 1920s, a new historical and stylistic periodization and an intensely studied subject. Some aspects of that construction of Mannerism as a distinct category are intimately linked to the contemporary development of modernity, and modernism. Mannerism’s ‘discovery’ was closely related to pioneering developments in art and architecture. Furthermore, while Mannerist art was offering up captivating case studies, research on Mannerism adapted models from psychoanalysis, which was maturing in those same years and was crucial to understanding the structure of the modern self and of modern society. Finally, as we will show, the resulting image of the Mannerist architect was seminal in the styling of the figure of the new, modernist architect.