Journal of Evolutionary Psychology articles from October 2005

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology archives from October 2005

At the edge of contemplation.
October 1, 2005... "We make progress by a constant spiral back and forth between the inner world and the outer one, the personal and the political, the self and the circumstances. Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we." ...

The race (thoughts on Hurricane Katrina as felt by an onlooker).
October 1, 2005... Triumph and Despair stand shoulder to shoulder at the beginning of the race. Lives on the line and cities in ruin, the stage is set for one to over power the other. A first world nation brought to its knees, not by the hand of human flesh but...

Young Goodman Brown's 'evil purpose': Hawthorne and the Jungian shadow.(Young Goodman Brown)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2005... "If only it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart...

From aura to iridescence: Benjamin and Boorstin theorize postmodern mediated culture.(Daniel Boorstin, Walter Benjamin)
October 1, 2005... When Walter Benjamin penned what is often cited as one of the first essays theorizing the effects of visual culture on society "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" in 1935-36, the world of mass media was still in its infancy....

Play therapy and social constructivism: seeing the world through a young person's eyes.
October 1, 2005... * "I'll be the spider. I like my space and like to be in the dark." (Matt, age 12 years) * "Everyone is killing me. And I'm killing me. And then it was all black." Tommy, age 5 years) * "This is like sand of times." (Clarissa, age 5...

The acanthocladous syndrome.(Short story)
October 1, 2005... "Why am I here?" he asked himself. "They can't make me stay... not yet, at least! Don't worry, this Psychiatrist will never find them either, even if he is the Head of Psychiatry at this hospital. The Doctor couldn't find them, the...

Reading the signs while cruising Mulholland Drive.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2005... Mulholland Drive is an ideal candidate for semiotic analysis because it requires exceptional effort by the viewer to recognize key signs and then to use them to frame other signs in order to make sense of the film. If Mulholland Drive is...

Christmas Eve 12/24/04.(Poem)
October 1, 2005... Christmas Eve 12/24/04 Christmas Eve 12/24/04. Many have lived this night In the face of enemy fire. Guns held ready To kill the enemy On this night of the Birth of Christ. On this night of the Birth of the...

Composed in 1910.(Poem)
October 1, 2005... Rachmaninov's Concerto # 2 A crystal brilliance In the perfection of the time The brightness of the New Century. The oboe tells the Truth Of the Age to come, Carried by the minor in the Piano line. The...

He says/she says: Shakespeare's Macbeth (a gender/personality study).(Critical essay)
October 1, 2005... Q: What causes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to change personalities? He says: As in any proverbial "battle of the sexes," isn't the answer obvious? What would make any man change his personality? Marriage! Without a doubt, Macbeth's real...

Sexual attitudes among Hispanic students at a border university: gender differences and failure to support Buss's jealousy theory.
October 1, 2005... Abstract Sexual attitudes were studied in 126 university students, at a Hispanic-serving university in the Rio Grande Valley, in Texas, near the Mexican border. Males and females rated their level of agreement to 38 items on a 1-to-5...

Sisyphus.(Poem)
October 1, 2005... Sisyphus I organize (and reorganize) stack (neatly restock (continuously) systematize (religiously) and group (to reinforce by height to solidify and color to concretize and shape the plan) ...

"In Order to Save the Village We Had to Destroy It".(Poem)
October 1, 2005... "In Order to Save the Village We Had to Destroy It" "Any patriot,'" he said, "would understand the need for the act,'" and he explained it reassuringly, "these bars are not here for any...

Duet.(Poem)
October 1, 2005... Duet Awake in a dream he was lost in a tone as the cello sang mello and reddish in his embrace (Schumann, Adagio, Opus 70) Joseph Petite Columbus State University Columbus GA

An Invitation Declined.(Poem)
October 1, 2005... An Invitation Declined I awoke realizing the word of her passing created a hole in me in the world that took me by surprise though she was "just" an aunt my last who had lost ...

Manual Puig, Argentine politics and fiction, and the psychology of desire and repression in his selective novels.
October 1, 2005... The late Argentine novelist Manuel Puig (1932-1990), best known for a pastiche or bricolage-style in his fictions which combine a dizzying array of multiple narrative voices, references to B-grade movies and other forms of popular culture,...

Consequences of the unresolved oedipal paradigm: a review of the literature.
October 1, 2005... Sigmund Freud was born in Vienna in 1856 and died in London in 1939. Highly influenced by the works of Joseph Breuer, Freud notably went on to become known as the "Father of Psychoanalysis." There are, however, many modern critics of Freud who...

Suppressed pedophilia in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Little Annie's Ramble".
October 1, 2005... In his 1840 review of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales, Edgar Allan Poe imposed a distinction between tales and essays which has haunted Hawthorne scholarship for more than a century and a hale Now we rarely discuss Hawthorne's "essays," and one of...

Not all the edge of contemplation, part III.(Column)
October 1, 2005... You might find it to be of interest that in the English language, there are no words that rhyme with the words "orange", "purple" or "silver." For the Military-minded, a "Twenty-One Gun Salute" at the burial of fallen military personnel,...