Showing papers on "Shadow (psychology) published in 1981"

In the Shadow of Organization

Abstract: This book deals with the dilemma of individual autonomy in an organizational society. It argues that the organizations that we established to work for us have instead imprisoned us. Drawing upon critical social theorists like Habermas, depth psychologists like Jung, and phenomenologists like Husserl, author Robert B. Denhardt shows how the "ethic of organization" inhibits the individual's search for meaning and then discusses strategies for enhancing the individual's role. He champions independence, expressiveness, and creativity over discipline, regulation, and obedience. To this first paperback edition, Denhardt has added a new introduction that focuses on leadership's key role in humanizing organizations, as well as a bibliographical update.

“far, far away my shadow wandered…”: the dream symbolism and dream theories of the Mehinaku Indians of Brazil

Abstract: The Mehinaku Indians of Brazil make a deliberate effort to recall and interpret their dreams. The interpretations, most of which are based on a metaphoric relationship between the dream symbol and its meaning, suggest a concern with the physical and psychological boundaries of the individual. This pattern is part of a larger system of beliefs that reflects the relative absence of bounded social groups and a “person-centered” system of conferring identity. [dreams, dream interpretation, nature of self, South American Indians]

The Antitrust Shadow over Advertising Self-Regulation

Abstract: In response to public criticism and government regulation, the advertising community has developed programs of industry-wide self-regulation. A major difficulty with these programs, however, is the potential danger of antitrust violation. This paper reports findings of interviews with representatives of industry and government designed to clarify the limitations of the antitrust laws on advertising self-regulation. Guidelines for minimizing the antitrust risks of advertising self-regulation, which are derived from empirical data and the legal literature, are suggested.

Shadow-prices for the economic appraisal of public sector expenditures

Abstract: In a recent paper Glenn Jenkins (1980) alludes to the protracted debate which took place in the 1960s and early 1970s on the relative merits of the use of the shadow price (or shadow benefit/cost ratio) and the shadow discount rate in the evaluation of public projects. In the opening paragraphs of his paper Jenkins concludes (correctly) that 'most of the theoretical issues have been resolved' and the 'the areas of disagreement seem to have shifted to questions concerned with the empirical measurement of the variables.' In other words, it is generally recognized (see, for example, the paper by Sjaastad and Wisecarver, 1977) that the two approaches to shadow-pricing public projects (or expenditures) give the same result provided that the same assumptions about the appropriate reinvestment proportions and rates of return for public and private project benefits are used in applying each rule. Since Jenkins clearly subscribes to this generally held view, I interpret his description of the version of Marglin's (1963b) shadow-pricing criterion used in my paper (Campbell, 1975) as 'simplistic' and 'deficient' as a case of transferred epithet: what Jenkins really means is that my application of Marglin's criterion was simplistic and deficient in that I excluded the possibility of reinvestment of either public or private project benefits. Of course, the reinvestment proportions and rates of return for public and private project benefits will depend upon the nature of the public project and how it is financed. In the absence of any empirical information it is nonetheless possible to extend the kind of sensitivity analysis contained in my Table (1975:175). The results reported in that Table are based on the assumption that all public project benefits are consumed, that public project output is not subject to indirect taxes, and that there is no reinvestment of the throw-off from private sector projects. If instead we make the following assumptions: (i) the initial impact of the financing of a public project is to displace resources from the private production of consumption and investment goods in the proportions (1-b) and b; (ii) that private investment projects are perpetuities with a social return of r*; (iii) that a proportion b of the throw-off from private projects is continually reinvested at

In the Shadow of Old Hickory: The Political Travail of Martin Van Buren

Abstract: The Senator was never at a loss for words, especially when describing moments of pomp and circumstance. "I had seen the inauguration of many Presidents," Thomas Hart Benton later recalled, "but they all appeared as pageants, empty and soulless, brief to the view, unreal to the touch, and soon to vanish." Inauguration day, 1837, would never vanish from Old Bullion's memory. Nearly two decades later he could still recall the crisp, clear air, the huge throngs, and the martial music. The people came, he thought, not so much to greet the new as to pay homage to the old. And so they waited dutifully until Martin Van Buren read his inaugural address and the ceremonies concluded. As the presidential party began to descend from the platform, the crowd caught a glimpse of ex-President Andrew Jackson and unleashed a thunderous ovation "such as power never commanded, nor man in power received." "For once," Benton said, "the rising was eclipsed by the setting sun."1 Despite the flawed celestial imagery, historians have generally accepted Benton's account of the inauguration as symbolic of the relationship between Andrew Jackson and his successor. The third term of the Jackson administration thus reads many a description of Van Buren's presidency. Curiously, the Red Fox is in part responsible for this misconception. His Autobiography, begun in

Islam and the Malay Shadow Play

Abstract: Introduction: Folk Islam as practiced by the majority of village Malays is a syn­ cretic religion, bearing traces of the Hindu and Animistic influences present in the Malay Peninsula before the arrival of Islam in the fifteenth century. While Modernist Islam, particularly as practiced in Malaysia’s urban areas in the current revivalist climate, disapproves of most of the traditional Malay arts, Malay Folk Islam is more tolerant. Islam and the Wayang Siam shadow play are linked in popular belief in Kelantan; the nature of this link, as well as Kelantanese ambivalence towards the arts and religion, is the focus of this article.*

Subjective Curvature in Late Cézanne

Abstract: Toward the end of his life, Cezanne often walked from his studio to the top of Les Lauves. From various positions along the crest, he painted the plain, Mont Ste.-Victoire, and the sky.“There is the cavern of Plato above,” he said of the mountain to Joachim Gasquet, “notice when large clouds pass, the shadow that falls [upon it]. … For a long time I was unable to paint, did not know how to paint, Sainte-Victo ire, because I imagined the shadow concave (like the others who do not look) while, observe, it is convex.”1

Make Friends with Your Shadow: How to Accept and Use Positively the Negative Side of Your Personality

Abstract: A book to change your life! Hospital chaplain William Miller tells how to channel the dark, undesirable side of your personality into a constructive force.

The First Quarter Century of ASTR

Abstract: In every theatre historian there lurks the shadow of the amateur. For the commitment always begins with a sharing of the theatre-goer's delight in seeing the curtain rise, and a strong sense of being in the presence of history in the making. To record this moment is the instinct of the enthusiast; to recapture it from the past is the function of the historian.

The Family Shadow: Sources of Suicide and Schizophrenia

Abstract: Preparing the books to read every day is enjoyable for many people. However, there are still many people who also don't like reading. This is a problem. But, when you can support others to start reading, it will be better. One of the books that can be recommended for new readers is family shadow sources of suicide and schizophrenia. This book is not kind of difficult book to read. It can be read and understand by the new readers.

Im Schatten der Milchstraße. Erfahrungen auf dem 'Camino de Santiago' (In the Shadow of the Milky Way: Experiences from the 'Camino de Santiago')

Abstract: German Abstract: Ein Soziologe und ein Erziehungswissenschaftler reflektieren die Spuren europaischer Geschichte und Kultur, die sie auf dem Jakobsweg nach Santiago de Compostella und zuruck finden. English Abstract: A sociologist and an educationist reflect on the experiences they made and the cultural traces they encountered while travelling along the old pilgrim's trail to Santiago de Compostella and back.

Changes in the Black Community

Abstract: at Tuskegee Institute is concluding a followup investigation of Charles S. Johnson's classic study of southern rural blacks, entitled "Shadow of the Plantation." The study was published in 1934. The area selected for study was Macon County, Alabama-one of the "black belt" counties which historically formed the region of cotton culture in the South. It is also the county in which Tuskegee Institute is located. The results of this study provide the base line data for our current restudy of the same area almost fifty years later. At the time of the original study, the plantation system, under which blacks had lived for generations, was seen as a sick and dying institution, unable to compete successfully with other cotton-raising areas in the world market. The blacks who were the subjects of the study were seen as folk people. Given these conceptualizations, Robert E. Park, in his introduction to Shadow of the Plantation, proposes a conceptual framework which guided the study:

Part III – Project Analysis

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the concept of project appraisal and presents some controversial aspects of it. Project analysis is a case-by-case method of selecting investments for their ability to contribute to a social welfare function. The selected projects are those that use scarce factors of production most efficiently and, thus, maximize the value of the objective function. A country maximizing growth of net output and a firm maximizing profits have similar investment aims. Both want projects to produce as much output as possible for a given resource input and at the least to cover the cost of those resources. There are, however, critical differences that give social cost-benefit analysis a different character. The treatment of foreign exchange as a factor of production is based on the same considerations that led to the foreign exchange constraint in the two-gap model of growth. The analysis of the shadow foreign exchange rate is analogous to that for the shadow discount rate.

Affirmative Communication as Health: The New Paradigm.

Abstract: A wide range of interesting observations of the past decade, which may now cast their shadow as the health communication paradigm of the forthcoming decade, can be clarified and correlated. One example of effective communication therapy was Norman CouGins's hospitalization with the crippling disease, "ankylosing spondylitis." Using large doses of media comedy and Vittimin C, Cousins believes he laughed his way back to health. Despite this case, laughter can be considered as an aspect of communication, not medicine. Increasingly, research conclusions suggest a major relationship between individual expression and the individual state of health. Noting such interaction between personality and health, the surgeon Wallace Ellerbrook has prescribed changes in patient communication patterns rather than emphasizing drugs, diet, or other external treatments. What is emerging is (1) the increasing correlation of empirical validation with previously theoretical hypotheses, (2) movement beyond academic debate into the broader public Cousins's audience signifies, (3) a startling open-mindedness to forthcoming evidcice and fresh perspectives, (4) an adventurous quest for the scientific understanding and healthy employment of human emotion, and (5) the premise that health and communication define and reflect each other at the core level and may be ultimately identical if properly understood. (EL)