The contributors to this volume represent a consolidation of diverse sub-fields involved in the critical study of language, coming from backgrounds in sociocultural linguistics, as well as communication, media, cultural and political studies. A critical perspective and a focus on discourses of war and terrorism in light of 9/11 provide the central organizing principle shared among all the chapters.
One focus of study in generative syntactic theory concerns the constraints on the distribution of 'empty categories,' syntactically empty positions, which are either derived through movement.
First of all, you should read the introduction which discusses the question: "What can I do to increase my creativity?" Random Input Problem Reversal Ask Questions Applied Imagination - Question Summary Lateral Thinking Six Thinking Hats The Discontinuity Principle Checklists Brainstorming ...
Contemporary psychoanalysis needs less reality and more fantasy; what Michael Vannoy Adams calls the "fantasy principle". The Fantasy Principle radically affirms the centrality of imagination. It challenges us to exercise and explore the imagination, shows us how to value vitally important images that emerge from the unconscious, how to evoke such images, and how to engage them decisively. It shows readers how to apply Jungian techniques to interpret images accurately and to experience images immediately and intimately through what Jung calls "active imagination".
The Fantasy Principle makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of '"imaginal psychology" - which emphasizes the transformative impact of images. All those who desire to give individuals an opportunity to become more imaginative will find this book fascinating reading.
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"The central — and not very surprising — conclusion that emerges from the documentary and historical record is that the U.S. international and security policy, rooted in the structure of power in the domestic society, has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call the "Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced. "This guiding principle was overlooked when Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the Four Freedoms that the U.S. and its allies would uphold in the conflict with fascism: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of want, and freedom from fear."
