In the place of language [[electronic resource] ] : literature and the architecture of the referent / / Claudia Brodsky

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457039503321
• Autore: Brodsky Claudia <1955->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-8232-3528-9; 0-8232-4674-4; 1-282-69895-8; 9786612698958; 0-8232-3775-3; 0-8232-3002-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 171 p. )
• Disciplina: 801
• Soggetti: Literature - Philosophy; Reference (Philosophy); Reference (Linguistics); Semiotics and literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-171).
• Nota di contenuto: Referent and annihilation: "x" marks the spot -- Theory of appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant -- "Sovereignty" over language: of lice and men -- Goethe after Lanzmann: literature represents "x" -- Faust's building: theory as practice -- Faust's and Heidegger's technology: building as poiesis -- In the place of language -- "Time refound" -- Building, story, and image -- Benjamin's and Goethe's Passagen: Ottilie under glass -- Nature in pieces -- "Superfluous stones" -- "Stones for thought" -- Kant's and Goethe's Schatzkammer: buried time.
• Sommario/riassunto: The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not something first found in nature and then named but a ; thing whose own origin joins language with materiality, a thing marked as it is made to begin with. In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent develops a theory of the "referent" that is thus also a theory of the possibility of historical knowledge, one that undermines the conventional opposition of language to the real by theories of nominalism and materialism alike, no less than it confronts the mystical conflation of language with matter, whether under the aegis of the infinite reproducibility of the image or the identification of language with "Being."Challenging these equally naive views of language - as essentially immaterial or the only essential matter - Brodsky investigates the interaction of language with the material that literature represents. For literature, Brodsky argues, seeks no refuge from its own inherently iterable, discursive medium in dreams of a technologically-induced freedom from history or an ontological history of language-being. Instead it tells the complex story of historical referents constructed and forgotten, things built into the earth upon which history "takes place" and of which, in the course of history, all visible trace is temporarily effaced. Literature represents the making of history, the building and burial of the referent, the present world of its oblivion and the future of its unearthing, and it can do this because, unlike the historical referent, it literally takes no place, is not tied to any building or performance in space. For the same reason literature can reveal the historical nature of the making of meaning, demonstrating that the shaping and experience of the real, the marking of matter that constitutes historical referents, also defers knowledge of the real to a later date. Through close readings of central texts by Goethe, Plato, Kant, Heidegger, and Benjamin, redefined by the interrelationship of building and language they represent, In the Place of Language analyzes what remains of actions that attempt to take the place of language: the enduring, if intermittently obscured bases, of theoretical reflection itself.

Beyond violence : a prevention program for criminal justice-involved women participant workbook / / Stephanie S. Covington, Ph.D., L.C.S.W

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797120903321
• Autore: Covington Stephanie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-118-72359-7; 1-118-72360-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.3/4
• Soggetti: Women - Violence against - Prevention; Women - Crimes against - Prevention
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Beyond Violence: A Prevention Program for Criminal Justice-Involved Women; Copyright; Contents; Orientation Session; Introduction to the Program; Overview of the Program; Your Workbook; Group Introductions; Topics Covered in This Program; Group Agreements; Triggers and Coping Tools; Five Senses; Breathing and Exhaling; Statistics on Violence in the United States; Definition of Violence; The Social-Ecological Model (People in the Environment); Creating a Container; Discovering Your Anger Style; Anger Survey; Assignment; Self-Soothing Activity: Palms Down, Palms Up; Part A: Self; Session 1: Thinking Our ThoughtsThe Spirals of Violence and Nonviolence; Cognitive Distortion; My Typical Distorted Thinking; Feelings Inside and Outside; The DVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You; Understanding Keila; Understanding Me; Assignment; Session 2: Feeling Our Feelings; Identifying Feelings; Beliefs About Feelings; Intensity of Feelings; Emotional Wellness; Feelings and the Body; When Feelings Threaten to Overwhelm You; The Observer Self; Assignment; Session 3: Violence and Trauma in Our Lives; Types of Abuse; The Process of Trauma; Calming Strategies; Two Calming Activities; Mindful BreathingTen-Point Body Scan; Assignment; Session 4: The Effects of Trauma; Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey; Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire; The Adverse Childhood ; Experiences Study; The Effects of Trauma and Substance Use on the Brain; Personal Experiences With Substances; Triggers and the Body; Yoga Poses and the Mind-Body Connection; Assignment; Session 5: Women and Anger; Words for Anger; Meeting a Feeling; The Anger Funnel; Anger Triggers; Anger Management Strategies; Anger Dos and Don'ts; Hidden Anger; Self-Inflicted Violence; Assignment; Session 6: Understanding OurselvesDVD of What I Want My Words To Do To You; Understanding Keila; Understanding Me; Understanding My Behavior; Understanding Keila; Understanding Me; Becoming Whole; Assignment; Part B: Relationships; Session 7: Our Families; Self-Soothing Activity: Deep Breathing; Risk Factors; Family Sculpture; The Cost of Violence; Feelings and the Family; The Anger Questionnaire; The Anger Questionnaire: 1. The Past; The Anger Questionnaire: 2. The Present & Future; Wheel of the Nurturing Family; Assignment; Session 8: Communication; Communication Styles; Nonverbal CommunicationCommunicating Emotions; Strategies for Creating Connection Through Communication; Responses to Stress; Assignment; Session 9: Power and Control; The Power and Control Wheel; Types of Abuse in Relationships; The Violence Continuum; Escalation and De-escalation; Violence in Prison; Using the Time; Assignment; Session 10: Conflict Resolution; Fair Fighting; Words, Words, Words; Impulse Control; The Equality Wheel; Assignment; Session 11: Creating Our Relationships; Falling in Love; Love and Addiction; Contrasting Intimate Relationships and Addictive Relationships; How to End a Relationship