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In this highly original volume, Gunnar Karlsson offers new answers
to the question concerning the relationship between belonging to a
specific sex as a male and striving for a masculine identity. This
book offers a uniquely psychoanalytic and phenomenological
perspective on masculinity. Karlsson considers masculinity and
traditional masculine ideals through a psychoanalytic lens before
taking phenomenological concepts to chisel out the relationship
between sex and gender. This perspective is developed throughout
the volume to inspire readers to further their understanding of
traditional gender assignment – female, male and intersex – in
light of gendered characteristics such as femininity and
masculinity. Chapters span topics such as the characteristics of
typical, so-called ‘phallic masculinity’, its allure and
psychogenetic explanation, as well as looking at what phallic
masculinity disregards. Throughout, Karlsson maintains that phallic
masculinity is unattainable, as it seeks to escape the existential
conditions of helplessness, vulnerability, and dependence. He makes
the case for the importance of considering the notion of
ego-identity in the field of sex/gender studies, encouraging a
liberation from gender stereotypes. Psychoanalytic and
Phenomenological Reflections on Masculinity will be of great
interest to researchers, clinical psychoanalysts, and
psychotherapists, as well as anyone interested in masculinity,
Gender Studies and the relationship between sex and gender.
In this highly original volume, Gunnar Karlsson offers new answers
to the question concerning the relationship between belonging to a
specific sex as a male and striving for a masculine identity. This
book offers a uniquely psychoanalytic and phenomenological
perspective on masculinity. Karlsson considers masculinity and
traditional masculine ideals through a psychoanalytic lens before
taking phenomenological concepts to chisel out the relationship
between sex and gender. This perspective is developed throughout
the volume to inspire readers to further their understanding of
traditional gender assignment – female, male and intersex – in
light of gendered characteristics such as femininity and
masculinity. Chapters span topics such as the characteristics of
typical, so-called ‘phallic masculinity’, its allure and
psychogenetic explanation, as well as looking at what phallic
masculinity disregards. Throughout, Karlsson maintains that phallic
masculinity is unattainable, as it seeks to escape the existential
conditions of helplessness, vulnerability, and dependence. He makes
the case for the importance of considering the notion of
ego-identity in the field of sex/gender studies, encouraging a
liberation from gender stereotypes. Psychoanalytic and
Phenomenological Reflections on Masculinity will be of great
interest to researchers, clinical psychoanalysts, and
psychotherapists, as well as anyone interested in masculinity,
Gender Studies and the relationship between sex and gender.
'Iceland's 1100 Years' recounts the history of a society on the
margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and
wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European
societies in being founded as late as the Viking Age, and in
surviving for centuries without any central power after
Christianity had introduced the art of writing. This was the age of
the Sagas, which are not only literature but also a rare treasury
of sources about a stateless society. In sharp contrast to the
prosperous society portrayed by the Sagas, early modern Iceland
appears to have been extremely poor and miserable. It is
challenging to question whether the deterioration was due to
foreign rule, to a colder climate, or to an unfortunate internal
power structure. Or was the Golden Age perhaps the invention of
19th-century nationalists? Iceland adopted nationalism quickly and
thoroughly. In the mid-nineteenth century about 60,000 inhabitants,
mostly poor peasants, set out to gain independence from Denmark,
which was finally achieved in 1944 with the foundation of a
republic. In recent decades Iceland has caught up economically with
its closest neighbours. This has come about mainly through the
mechanisation of fishing, which gave rise to a second battle for
sovereignty, this time over the country's fishing grounds.
Thisstate-of-the-artsurveyoftechnologies, algorithms, models,
andexperiments in the area of Internet Quality of Service is the
?nal report of COST (European Cooperation in the ?eld of Scienti?c
and Technical Research) Action 263, Qu- ity of future Internet
Services, http: //www. fokus. fraunhofer. de/cost263 (QofIS). COST
263 ran from January 1999 until October 2003 with the participation
of some 70 researchers from 38 organizations from 14 European
countries (France, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, UK, Belgium, Germany,
the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Finland, Greece,
Romania, and Spain). The Action - longed to the COST area
"Multimedia and Internet Communication"; together with COST 264,
Networked Group Communication, this Action continued the e?ort
started in 1992 by COST 237, Multimedia Telecommunications
Services. Both groups have combined their e?orts now in the Network
of Excellence in Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies,
http: //www. ist-e-next. net (E-NEXT) of the 6th European Framework
program. The book consists of seven chapters that were written in
18 months by 67 individual authors. The main objective of this book
is to report the state of the art in the area of QofIS, as
percieved by the authors, including achievements that
wereoriginatedby the authors. The book wasdesigned in a top-downm-
ner: after three years of running the Action with close
co-ordination of research e?orts, it was easy to achieve a
consensus on the table of contents. To ensure the content quality
the following roles were de?ned and assigned to COST 263 members:
chapter editor, chapter author, chapter reader.
What kind of a science is psychoanalysis? What constitutes its
domain? What truth claims does it maintain? In this unique and
scholarly work concerning the nature of psychoanalysis, Gunnar
Karlsson guides his arguments through phenomenological thinking
which, he claims, can be seen as an alternative to the recent
attempts to cite neuropsychoanalysis as the answer to the crisis of
psychoanalysis. Karlsson criticizes this effort to ground
psychoanalysis in biology and neurology and emphasizes instead the
importance of defining the psychoanalytic domain from the vantage
point of the character of consciousness. His understanding of the
unconscious, the libido and the death drive offer new insights into
the nature of psychoanalysis, and he also illuminates and develops
neglected dimensions such as consciousness and self-consciousness.
Karlsson's approach to psychoanalysis is rigorous yet original, and
this book fills an intellectual gap with implications for both the
theoretical understanding and clinical issues of psychoanalysis.
This volume recounts the history of a society on the margin of
Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of
a proper state - Iceland.
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