Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be SolvedFrench 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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... create in the external world what we dare not recognize or feel within ourselves in order to be whole . Charles Nuckolls painstakingly describes what Ceorge Devereux four decades ago called the " vicious cycle of psychopathology . " The ...
... creating aesthetic appreciation . No sublime pleasure exists in equilibrium or homeostasis , and the resolution of opposition is synonymous with the death of art . To twentieth - century sensibilities almost nothing could be more remote ...
... creates to develop . Dialectics develop by creating temporary moments of integration or synthesis , which actually reconfigure the constituting opposition in a new form . The sublime is such a moment in the form of an aesthetic concept ...
... create balance . Do all explanatory knowledge systems have their origin in a similar response ? Freud never addressed this question directly , although to infer from his examination of religion it would seem likely that he did . IS A ...
... create Rousseau's moi commun , a state of perfect identification of individual and social interests . It is here , in this state of unresolvable tension , that a bridge to Freud could be built . In Civilization and Its Discontents Freud ...
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 |