The prince and the dressmaker

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David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa

"This volume presents a comparative perspective on the way dreams are reported, perceived, and interpreted in vastly different cultural milieux. In contrast to Freud's claim that all dreams share a universal language of symbols, the authors of the essays collected in this book seek to explore the unique dream-languages of distinct civilizations."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cristóbal Loriente Zamora

INDEX PREFACE I-. Introduction. II-. Methodology and field work. 1-. Methodology. 1.1-. Reflexivity of knowledge and methodological pluralism. 1.2-. Qualitative methodology. 1-. Definition. 2-. Qualitative research techniques. 2.1-. Participant observation. 2.2-. The Interview. 2.3-. Field annotations. 1.3-. Quantitative methodology. 2-. Field work. 2.1-. Introduction. 2.2-. Description of field work. 1-. Phases and ethnographic content. 2-. Data gathering techniques. 2.1-. Participant observation. 1-. In virtual groups. 2-. In self-help groups. 2.2-. Interviews. 2.3-. Field work annotations. 2.4-. Survey. III-. Stuttering as a sociocultural construct. 1-. Introduction. 2-. Basic historical considerations. 2.1-. From antiquity to the XX century. 2.2-. From the beginning of the XX century until 1987. 1-. Introduction. 2-. Logopedic methodology. 3-. Psicoanalisis. 4-. Personality. 5-. Scientific research. 5.1-. Organic biology hypothesis. 1-. Predomiance Deficit theory. 2-. Alteration of the speech mechanisms self-control. 3-. Difficulties in the neuromuscular coordination. 4-. Lack of coordination between the respiratory and phonoarticulatory systems. 5.2-. Psychological hypothesis. 1-. Diagnosogenic theory. 2-. Sheehan’s Theory. 3-. Van Riper’s theory. 6-. Conclusion. 2.3-. From 1987 to the present day. 1-. Introduction. 2-. Starkweather’ theory of capacities and demands. 3-. Bloodstein’s hypothesis of anticipatory avoidance. 4-. Friedman’s confidence . 3-. Criticism of biomedical stuttering. 3.1-. Classification and criticism of biomedic definitions of suttering. 1-. Definitions from the point of view of the hearer. 2-. Definitions from the point of view of the speaker. 3.2-. Sociocultural construction of stuttering disfluencies. 3.3-. From the Biopsicosocio a to the Sociopsicobio. 1-. Introduction. 2-. Social construction of stuttering. 2.1-. Introduction. 2.2-. Medicalization. 2.3-. Stigmatization 4-. Conclusions. IV-. Personal identity of the stuttering community. 1-. Introducción. 2-. Feelings on the wound of the difference. 2.1-. Introduction. 2.2-. Defencelessness. 2.3-. Avoidance. 2.4-. Shame. 2.5-. Guilt. 1-. Description and theoretical analysis. 2-. Criticims of Sheehan¡ concept ofguilt. 2.1-. provoked guilt. 1-. Guilty myths. 2-. Innocent myths. 2.2-. The guilt of the false role. 2.3-. Guilt from audience reaction. 3-. Ethnographic analysis of guilt. 2.6-. Fear. 1-. Introduction and theoretical and practical example. 2-. Theoretical analysis. 2.1-. Wendell Johnson. 2.2-. Van Riper. 3-. Ethnographic analysis of fear. 3.1-. Fear of speaking (and stuttering). 3.2-. Fear of social relationships. 3.3-. Fear of genetic transmission. 4-. Consequences of fear. 3-. Thoughts of the wound of the difference. 4-. Compound elements: the self-concept. 5-. Pride. 6-. Conclusions. V-. Coming Out. 1-. Introduction. 2.-. The group as an open system. 2.1-. In-group favouritism. 2.2-. Intergroupal conflicto. 1-. Introduction. 2-. Stereotype. 3-. Discrimination. 2.3-. Social identity. 1-. Concept. 2-. Shared beliefs. 2.1-. Ethnogprahic comparisons. 2.2-. Theoretical analysis. 1-. Stigma and hiding stuttering. 2-. Destigmatization of homosexuality. 3-. Emancipation Project: Coming Out. 3.1-. Introduction. 3.2-. Ideary. 3.3-. Objectives and mutual interdependence. 3.4-. Meaning and concept. 3.5-. Ethnographic testimony. 3.6-. Personal Coming Out. 1-. Phases: theoretical and ethnographic analysis. 1.1-. Introduction. 1.2-. Analisys. 2-. Consequences. 3.7-. Dignification of stuttering. 1-. Causal inversion. 2-. Ethnographic testimony. 4-. Reconstruction of stuttering. 4.1-. Introduction. 4.2-. Specific consequences of traditional construct. 4.3-. transfluency 1-. Two basic principles of biomedicine. 1.1-. Dual ontological opposition. 1.2-. Medicalization of the difference. 2-. Transfluency: concept and characteristics. VI-. Conclusions. VII-. Bibliography.

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Holly Smale

"My name is Harriet Manners, and I am still a geek." The fourth book in the award-winning GEEK GIRL series. Harriet Manners has high hopes for the new school year: she's a Sixth Former now, and things are going to be different. But with Nat busy falling in love at college and Toby preoccupied with a Top Secret project, Harriet soon discovers that's not necessarily a good thing ...

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Pascal Bruckner

The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought--birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, women's massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of homosexuality. But as Pascal Bruckner, one of France's leading writers, argues in this lively and provocative reflection on the contradictions of modern love, our new freedoms have also brought new burdens and rules--without, however, wiping out the old rules, emotions, desires, and arrangements: the couple, marriage, jealousy, the demand for fidelity, the war between constancy and inconstancy. It is no wonder that love, sex, and relationships today are so confusing, so difficult, and so paradoxical. Drawing on history, politics, psychology, literature, pop culture, and current events, this book--a best seller in France--exposes and dissects these paradoxes. With his customary brilliance and wit, Bruckner traces the roots of sexual liberation back to the Enlightenment in order to explain love's supreme paradox, epitomized by the 1960s oxymoron of "free love": the tension between freedom, which separates, and love, which attaches. Ashamed that our sex lives fail to live up to such liberated ideals, we have traded neuroses of repression for neuroses of inadequacy, and we overcompensate: "Our parents lied about their morality," Bruckner writes, but "we lie about our immorality." Mixing irony and optimism, Bruckner argues that, when it comes to love, we should side neither with the revolutionaries nor the reactionaries. Rather, taking love and ourselves as we are, we should realize that love makes no progress and that its messiness, surprises, and paradoxes are not merely the sources of its pain--but also of its pleasure and glory.