Anne Herrmann, a dual citizen born in New York to Swiss parents, offers in Coming Out Swiss a witty, profound, and ultimately universal exploration of identity and community. "Swissness"-even on its native soil a loose confederacy, divided by multiple languages, nationalities, religion, and alpen geography-becomes in the diaspora both nowhere (except in the minds of immigrants and their children) and everywhere, reflected in pervasive cliches. In a work that is part memoir, part history and travelogue, Herrmann explores all our Swiss cliches (chocolate, secret bank accounts, Heidi, Nazi gold, neutrality, mountains, Swiss Family Robinson) and also scrutinizes topics that may surprise (the "invention" of the Alps, the English Colony in Davos, Switzerland's role during World War II, women students at the University of Zurich in the 1870s). She ponders, as well, marks of Swissness that have lost their identity in the diaspora (Sutter Home, Helvetica, Dadaism) and the enduring Swiss American community of New Glarus, Wisconsin. Coming Out Swiss will appeal not just to the Swiss diaspora but also to those drawn to multi-genre writing that blurs boundaries between the personal and the historical.

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This juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf, writers of two distinct cultures, countries and generations, focuses on the strategies the two authors share in creating their female characters. Hermann looks at each author within the social and historical conditions that produced them, employ

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Forensische Psychologie, Strafvollzug, Note: 2, Technische Universitat Chemnitz (Philosophische Fakultat), Veranstaltung: Abweichendes Verhalten, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um feststellen zu konnen ob und welche Storung der Personlichkeit bei einem Menschen vorliegt, muss geklart werden wie eine Personlichkeit bzw. ein Charakter entsteht. Zum naheren Verstandnis soll hier die Personlichkeitstheorie in Sigmund Freuds Psychoanalyse herangezogen werden. Freud geht in seinem allgemeinen Menschenbild davon aus, dass alle menschlichen Aktivitaten durch die Verarbeitung von Energie hervorgerufen werden. Diese Energie entsteht durch korperliche Spannungszustande, den Trieben. Er spricht von drei psychischen Instanzen, welche die Verarbeitung von Energie regeln. Er nennt sie das ES, das ICH und das UBER-ICH. Bei der Geburt ist nur das ES vorhanden. Es ist dem Lustprinzip" unterworfen, d.h. Es strebt an sofort Energie zu entladen. Es sucht Lust und vermeidet den Schmerz. Durch Kontakt mit der Aussenwelt bildet sich im Laufe der Entwicklung aus einigen Teilen des Es das Ich heraus. Das Ich vermittelt zwischen dem Es und der Aussenwelt. Einerseits versucht es den Einfluss der Aussenwelt zu andern durch bestimmte Verhaltensweisen, wie z.B. Flucht, Anpassung, andererseits versucht das Ich die Triebanspruche des Es einzudammen. (Asendorpf, 1996) Das Uber-Ich ist entstanden durch die Werthaltung und den sozialen Normen, die durch die Eltern oder Vorbildern vermittelt wurden. Diese vermittelten Normen wurden verinnerlicht und fuhrten zu einer Eigendynamik im Ich. Das Uber-Ich beobachtet das Ich und suche es anstelle der Eltern und Vorbilder zu kontrollieren." (Asendorpf 1996, S.16) Kurz gesagt, bedeutet das fur das Ich, es muss zwischen dem ES, der Aussenwelt und dem Uber-Ich vermitteln. Dieses von Freud bezeichnete Seelenleben findet auf drei Bewusstseinsebenen statt. Die bewusste Ebene beinhaltet Inhalte des momentane