Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be SolvedUniv of Wisconsin Press, Sep 15, 1998 - 328 pages French historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the conflict between the ideals of individualism and community defines American culture. In this groundbreaking new work, anthropologist Charles Nuckolls discovers that every culture consists of such paradoxes, thus making culture a problem that cannot be solved. He does, however, find much creative tension in these unresolvable opposites. |
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... ( female = histrionic , male = antisocial ) ; the perpetuation of culture members ' shared ambivalences through recurrent character ix types and their eternal struggle or dialectic ; psychiatry's ( Copyrighted Material Foreword.
... character . Indeed , he shows how pathology is incomprehensible without characterology . In doing so he does not reduce pathology to culture ; rather , he shows that both are outcomes of beneath - the - surface processes that turn out ...
... character types , " social cynosures , " as Weston LaBarre called them ) is inescapable . We have met the borderline and sociopath and she / he is us , on the Hollywood screen as well as in the psychiatrist's office . Through splitting ...
... characters stand on the brink of a decision between two extremes , are the essence of Shakespeare . Terrible debates within the confines of a solitary psyche obviously strike home , not because of specific issues but because the character ...
... character with a choice he or she would rather not make . How can aesthetic enjoyment depend on the dynamics of doubt , on the pain experienced as characters contemplate paradoxically related alternatives ? The answer challenges the ...
Contents
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Value Dialectics and the Construction of a Regional Identity Max Weber in Oklahoma | 74 |
The Allocation of Value to Gender and the Cultural History of Psychiatric Diagnosis | 108 |
Cultural Ambivalence and the Knowledge Structures of Modern American Psychiatry | 161 |
The Narrative Reproduction of Values in Psychiatric Training and Practice | 202 |
Dialectical Values and Cultural Paradox | 270 |
Bibliography | 279 |
Index | 293 |