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Dynamic Tension (dynamic + tension)
Selected AbstractsMother,Child Relationships in France: Balancing Autonomy and Affiliation in Everyday InteractionsETHOS, Issue 3 2004MARIE-ANNE SUIZZO French child-rearing beliefs share features of both individualist and collectivist cultural orientations and have appeared contradictory within this individualism,collectivism framework in previous research. For this study, 32 Parisian mothers of infants and young children were interviewed regarding four possible sources of variation in their relationships with their children: interpersonal distance, communicative accommodation, desirable and undesirable early behaviors, and long-term goals and values. Five themes are identified and a cultural model of Parisian parenting is elaborated, demonstrating how beliefs, practices, and goals are connected in mothers' minds. This study demonstrates that individualism and collectivism are orthogonal, multifaceted orientations, each containing dimensions, such as autonomy as separateness and group affiliation and belonging, that can coexist both harmoniously and in dynamic tension within individuals and within cultures. [source] Principles for Public Management Practice: From Dichotomies to InterdependenceGOVERNANCE, Issue 3 2001Martha S. Feldman In this essay we explore the relationship between management practices and a basic governance dilemma: how to manage flexibly and accountably. The challenge is both practical and theoretical. Managers must respond flexibly to the changing demands and expectations of the public and the ever-changing nature of public problems, yet they must do so in a manner that provides accountability to the public and political overseers. A dichotomous approach to the study of leadership as management action and the governance structures within which managers operate has inhibited the search for a public management theory that reconciles the dilemma. Emphasis upon managers as leaders typically focuses on the flexible actions managers might take to overcome structural "barriers," while emphasis upon governance structures typically focuses on the essential role of structure in ensuring accountability and restraining or motivating particular management efforts. The practicing manager, however, cannot deal with these aspects of the work separately. Managers must attend to demands for both flexible leadership action and structures that promise accountability. Anecdotal evidence provides illustrations of some of the ways that managers can integrate these demands. We suggest that these efforts point to an alternative theoretical framework that understands action and structure as mutually constitutive, creating a dynamic tension in which attention to one requires attention to the other. [source] "I think of God, in order not to be aware": defensive dissociation and the use of religious objectsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 2 2004Ryan LaMothe Associate Professor of Pastoral Counselling Abstract This article explores the relation between defensive dissociation and the use of religious objects from three related directions. First, religious objects and their attributes provide an interpretative framework that generates, for the believer, an unassailable and thoroughly self-consistent experience of agentic hate and hostility and a concomitant sense of worth, power, and efficacy, which together keep intolerable anxiety unformulated and thus outside of awareness. The unassailable religious object (e.g., crucifix or swastika) points to the collapse of potential space whereby doubt and ambiguity, which are necessary for the construction of new meaning, are eliminated. Second, I depict how unthinkable anxiety is dissociated, in part, through the formulation of omnipotent identifications and these identifications represent a collapse of potential space , a refusal to recognize likeness in difference and difference in likeness. Third, the collapse of potential space attends the breakdown of the dynamic tension between generating and submitting to experience. On the one hand, this collapse enables a compulsive, omnipotent construction of experience, a concomitant rigid subjectivity, and the foreclosure of new meaning. On the other hand, it leads to an intrapsychic, desymbolized space: an empty space from which subjectivity, meaning, and value are absent. The hidden presence of desymbolized space is indicated in the intentional construction of a depersonalized other and by the wish or plan to annihilate real and imagined others. Copyright © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd. [source] Creativity and integrity: Marketing the "in development" screenplayPSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 5 2009Brooks Ferguson This study's purpose was to explore the relationship between creativity and integrity in the ideation phase of feature filmmaking. Integrity refers to one's self-defined ability to maintain authenticity and moral autonomy while preserving one's sense of membership and loyalty to the team or organization. When team members choose elements for the screenplay's story that they feel will attract the ideal audience, the dynamic tension between creativity and integrity is most apparent. The forces at play during this phase of work yielded the research question: In what ways and to what degree do screenwriters and'or studio executives feel their personal integrity is in alignment with the creative process of feature film development? Several concepts from the literature formed the design around which 23 active screenwriters and studio executives employed by the seven major and two of the minor U.S. motion picture studios were interviewed. The researcher's Creative Integrity Alignment Model yielded the hypothesis that the more aligned participants' individual integrity is with the creative process of feature film development, the more innovative they can be. From this hypothesis, anecdotal evidence was gathered from contributors to one of this year's most successful films to discover the potential relationship between integrity alignment and a film's performance in the marketplace. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] The analysis of the homoerotic and the pursuit of meaningTHE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2006Barry Miller Abstract:, This paper explores the dynamic tension between an evolving collective phenomenon and the nature of analytic process. Specifically, the focus will be erotic experiences which acquire a meaning through the culture at large, a meaning that may not be supportable when that material is subjected to psychological analysis. This stimulates a conflict between the symbolic attitude and the cultural perspective of the time. While the struggle between the individual and collective consciousness always emerges in analysis, the subject of same-gender sexual relations has become such a controversial and divisive issue in the current political environment that views toward homosexuality demand powerful allegiances and identification with either historic or contemporary ideas. People now identify as ,gay' and tend to see themselves as something akin to a race or perhaps alternative gender. Sexuality and relationship between same gendered people tends to be viewed through the lens of civil rights and the undeniable need for social equality. In this far-reaching and expanding collective phenomenon, psychology, in its support of human rights and accommodation to emerging trends, may be diminished in its capacity to pursue the meaning inherent in these human experiences. The position developed in this paper is that psychological experience, whether in the imaginal realm, dreams or personal consciousness, must be available for full analysis. Clinical experience and dreams are used to amplify this challenge to dynamic analytic practice. [source] | |||||||||||||