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Potential Space (potential + space)
Selected AbstractsUsing the Rorschach for exploring the concept of transitional space within the political context of the Middle EastINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 1 2005Shira Tibon Abstract The paper presents an application of a new Rorschach index, the Reality,Fantasy Scale (RFS) for evaluating the extent to which educated Israeli Jews and Arabs manifest a similar adaptive and functional ability in preserving psychic transitional space. The RFS is a psychodynamic oriented diagnostic tool, based on Exner's (1993) Comprehensive System for scoring and interpreting the Rorschach, and designed to operationalize Winnicott's (1971) concept of potential space. The scale is based on a paradigm that conceptualizes the Rorschach task as inviting the subject to enter the intermediate transitional space between inner and outer reality. The RFS ranges from ,5 to +5, and a score of zero indicates adaptive and functional use of potential space. The results point to a basic similarity between two groups of Jewish (n = 41) and Arab (n = 14) non-patients both using adaptively inner space between reality and fantasy. These results are discussed in terms of current psychoanalytic thought of relationality, political psychology research, cross-cultural personality assessment, and the empirical study of psychoanalytic concepts. Copyright © 2005 Whurr Publishers Ltd. [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] Computed tomography manifestations of peritoneal diseasesJOURNAL OF MEDICAL IMAGING AND RADIATION ONCOLOGY, Issue 4 2005K Gordon Summary The peritoneal cavity is a potential space that is divided by the peritoneal reflections into various complex subspaces. It can be involved in many disease processes including developmental, inflammatory, neoplastic and traumatic conditions. Computed tomography is highly sensitive and consistent in detecting peritoneal pathology. This pictorial essay aims to emphasize and illustrate the CT features of the spectrum of peritoneal diseases. [source] Thinking in the space between Winnicott and LacanTHE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Issue 5 2009Deborah Anna Luepnitz The author, following André Green, maintains that the two most original psychoanalytic thinkers since Freud were Donald Winnicott and Jacques Lacan. Winnicott, it has been said, introduced the comic tradition into psychoanalysis, while Lacan sustained Freud's tragic/ironic vision. Years of mutual avoidance by their followers (especially of Lacan by Anglophone clinicians) has arguably diminished understanding of the full spectrum of psychoanalytic thought. The author outlines some basic constructs of Winnicott and of Lacan, including: their organizing tropes of selfhood versus subjectivity, their views of the "mirror stage", and their definitions of the aims of treatment. While the ideas of Winnicott and Lacan appear at some points complementary, the goal is not to integrate them into one master discourse, but rather to bring their radically different paradigms into provocative contact. A clinical vignette is offered to demonstrate concepts from Lacan and Winnicott, illustrating what it might mean to think and teach in the potential space between them. [source] Cartilage Regeneration in the Rabbit Nasal Septum,THE LARYNGOSCOPE, Issue 10 2006Meghann L. Kaiser MD Abstract Objective: Rhinoplasty frequently includes harvesting of nasal septal cartilage. The objective of this prospective basic investigation is to determine whether cartilage can regenerate after submucosal resection (SMR) of the nasal septum in the rabbit. Neocartilage formation has not heretofore been described in this model. Methods: By lateral rhinotomy, SMR was performed on 17 rabbits followed by reapproximation of the perichondrium. After 7 months, septi were fixed, sectioned, and examined histologically. Findings were photographed and data tabulated according to location and extent. Results: Sites of matrix-secreting isogenous chondrocyte islands were identified between the perichondrial flaps of every animal, principally in the anterior inferior septum. The width of the islands averaged 190 ,m, and the mean neocartilage height was found to be 840 ,m. The newly formed cartilage consisted of chondrocytes within chondrons and was comparable in shape and structure to native septal cartilage. Conclusions: After SMR, rabbit cartilage tissue can regenerate and form matrix within the potential space created by surgery. The surrounding stem cell-rich perichondrium may be the site of origin for these chondrocytes. These findings suggest that after SMR of the human nasal septum, it may be possible for new cartilage tissue to develop provided the mucosa is well approximated. This biologic effect may be enhanced by insertion of cytokine-rich tissue scaffolds that exploit the native ability of septal perichondrium to regenerate and repair cartilage tissue. [source] Mass closure: a new technique for closure of the vaginal vault at vaginal hysterectomyBJOG : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY, Issue 12 2001Tariq Miskry A variety of methods of management of the vaginal vault have been described, all of which maintain certain principles. In techniques that advocate closure of the vault, the peritoneum and vaginal epithelium are treated with separate sutures. This leaves a potential space above the vaginal closure. We describe a simple technique of mass closure which obliterates this space and incorporates the pedicles to provide support for the vault. This method may hold potential advantages in terms of haemostasis, risk of vault haematoma, and post-operative vaginal cuff infections. [source] The black flag: Guantánamo Bay and the space of exceptionGEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 4 2006Derek Gregory Abstract The American prison camp at Guantánamo Bay has often been described as a lawless space, and many commentators have drawn on the writings of Giorgio Agamben to formalize this description as a ,space of exception'. Agamben's account of the relations between sovereign power, law and violence has much to offer, but it fails to recognize the continued salience of the colonial architectures of power that have been invested in Guantánamo Bay, is insufficiently attentive to the spatialities of international (rather than national) law, and is unduly pessimistic about the politics of resistance. Guantánamo Bay depends on the mobilization of two contradictory legal geographies, one that places the prison outside the United States ito allow the indefinite detention of its captives, and another that places the prison within the United States in order to permit their ,coercive interrogation'. A detailed analysis of these interlocking spatialities , as both legal texts and political practices , is crucial for any crique of the global war prison. The relations between law and violence are more complex and contorted than most accounts allow, and sites like Guantánamo Bay need to be seen not as paradigmatic spaces of political modernity (as Agamben argues) but rather as potential spaces whose realization is an occasion for political struggle not pessimism. [source] On wave diffraction by a half-plane with different face impedancesMATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE APPLIED SCIENCES, Issue 5 2007L. P. Castro Abstract The impedance wave diffraction problem by a half-plane screen is revisited in view of its well-posedness upon different impedance and wave parameters. The problem is analysed with the help of potential and pseudo-differential operators. Seven conditions between the impedance and wave numbers are found under which the problem will be well-posed in Bessel potential spaces. In addition, an improvement of the regularity of the solutions is shown for the previous seven conditions. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] | |||||||||||||