Infernal Landscape In Jacob’S Ladder (1990) In Light Of Carl G. Jung’S Theory Of Individuation,
2023
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Infernal Landscape In Jacob’S Ladder (1990) In Light Of Carl G. Jung’S Theory Of Individuation, Fryderyk Kwiatkowski
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
Carl G. Jung’s conception of the human psyche as an inner realm that gives access to profound, numinous experiences inspired many artists and popular culture authors to portray heaven and hell as symbolic expressions of the opposite forces within the human psyche rather than cosmological or supernatural regions. In my paper, I will concentrate on how the Hollywood film Jacob’s Ladder (1990) directed by Adrian Lyne, by portraying the main character’s descent into a deathbed vision depicted as hellish reality, reflects Jung’s theory of individuation, a process of self-realization that aims at reconciling various elements of the psyche and achieving …
Hell On His Mind: Dean Winchester’S Journey To Hell And Back,
2023
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Hell On His Mind: Dean Winchester’S Journey To Hell And Back, Anna Caterino
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
Season three of Supernatural (2005-2020) closes with a shot of Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) in Hell. The place has no discernible features and resembles neither the long waiting line nor the gothic castle of later seasons. The few elements that do characterize it, however, make it look like a brain, the labyrinth of ropes reminiscent of neurons. This association introduces Hell as a place that exists first and foremost in Dean’s dead. The lack of establishing shots and the abstract terms used to discuss Hell, damnation, and Dean’s experience further support this claim, working in its favor. After all, the …
The Righteousness Of The Damned In Jeffrey Konvitz’S The Sentinel,
2023
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Righteousness Of The Damned In Jeffrey Konvitz’S The Sentinel, Raymond G. Falgui
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
The paper will examine the nature of the damned in Jeffrey Konvitz’s 1970s pulp horror novel The Sentinel by using a framework utilized by C.S. Lewis in The Great Divorce, wherein damnation involves a species of spiritual blindness that masquerades as righteousness and shields the damned (for a time) from an awareness of their ultimate condition. Specifically, the paper will provide a character analysis of the co-protagonist Michael, arguably one of Konvitz’s more complex literary creations, and the role he plays in briefly elevating a generic genre-contrived plot into the realm of true spiritual horror. While making such a …
Welcome And Announcements,
2023
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Welcome And Announcements, Mythsoc Stewards
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
Welcome and Announcements
Join us for a screening of the Welcome and Announcements video, and have a cup of coffee before we get started!
Can Fiction Lead To Prosocial Behaviour? Exclusion, Violence, Empathy, And Literature In Early Modernity,
2023
Portland State University
Can Fiction Lead To Prosocial Behaviour? Exclusion, Violence, Empathy, And Literature In Early Modernity, Isabel Jaén-Portillo
World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations
In this short essay, I want to address the relationship between positivity and negativity in affect theories and literary analysis by focusing on the connection between empathy and literature in early modernity, a period when affect theories emerge robustly and are articulated in treatises such as De anima et vita (1538) by Juan Luis Vives (1492–1590) or Nueva Filosofía (1587) by Oliva de Sabuco (1562–1626?).1 We begin with the proposition that fictional narratives may move us to care for others and help them. Indeed, the idea that fiction can make us more empathetic and, thus, turn us into better human …
No Place Like Home? A Dialogical Journey With Shlomo Biderman,
2023
San Jose State University
No Place Like Home? A Dialogical Journey With Shlomo Biderman, Daniel Raveh
Comparative Philosophy
This paper aims to think or rethink the concept of home as the contemporary avatar of the age-old question of self-identity. In dialogue with Shlomo Biderman, a comparative philosopher without borders who feels at home both in Jewish and Indian sources, the author assembles a philosophical jigsaw-puzzle made of different materials from different thinking traditions in attempt to reveal a new picture of home (and self) compatible with the changing world of immigration, relocation, dislocation and displacement, a world of emigrants, refugees and exiles, in which we live. The puzzle pieces include Plato’s cave, Isaiah Berlin’s “inner citadel”, Shmuel Yosef …
Back Pages,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
The Language Of English,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
The Language Of English, Sasha Ortiz Bazan
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
This Is Me,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
This Is Me, Kimberly Piñon
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Querida Niña,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
Querida Niña, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Being Part Of The Lgbtq+ Community,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
Being Part Of The Lgbtq+ Community, Genevive Cerda
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Nopayele,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
Nopayele, Cayele Ameyalli Esteva
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
El Primer Dia,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
El Primer Dia, Erick Esparza
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
From Roots To Wings,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
From Roots To Wings, Anonymous Author
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Here We Stand,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
Here We Stand, Nelsy Ramirez Pacheco, Chelsea Rios Gomez
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
I Am,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
I Am, Kyra Alway
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
I Am Who I Am,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
I Am Who I Am, Claudia Lopez-Hernandez
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
¡Viva México!,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
¡Viva México!, Diego Vega, Georgina C. Salvarrey
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Mis Motivadores,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
Mis Motivadores, Eduardo A. Moreno-Ortiz
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
No Effect On Me,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
No Effect On Me, Brenda Santos
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
