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Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of “reading a dark trace”, thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The sense of guilt is indeed a trace that leads deep into the individual’s mental life, into his childhood life, and into the prehistory of culture and religion. In this book this trace is followed and thus Freud’s thought on the sense of guilt as a central issue in his work is analyzed, from the earliest studies on the moral and “guilty” characters of the hysterics, via the later complex differentiations in the concept of the sense of guilt, unto the analyses of civilization’s discontents and Jewish sense of guilt. The sense of guilt is a key issue in Freudian psychoanalysis, not only in relation to other key concepts in psychoanalytic theory, but also in relation to debates with others, such as Carl Gustav Jung or Melanie Klein, Freud was engaged in.

Traditional historiography tends to underestimate the role of women in the local settlement of the power of elite networks during the 9th and 10th centuries. The process of transmission of public offices and inheritance, and the building of dynasties of counts, is well known. However, recent work has highlighted the important role of women in the assertion of local spaces of domination by the great families of the imperial aristocracy, especially when these women were descendants of the Carolingian dynasty. The establishment of the principality of the Guilhemid in Aquitaine, around the county of Auvergne until the early 870s, is a paradigmatic example for understanding the central position of women in the control of places of power. However, it was on the basis of the county of Auvergne, handed down by his wife Ermengarda, that Bernard Plantapilosa and his successors built a dominion extending over the centre and south of the kingdom of Western France, until the demise of this group in the late 920’s.

In 2014 the UK Supreme Court was asked to rule on whether three people with intellectual disabilities were deprived of their liberty. Each of these people were living in 'post-carceral' care settings in the community: a small care home, supported living and in foster care. The Supreme Court ruled that they were, and the resultant 'acid test' of deprivation of liberty under UK law means that over 300,000 people living in the community are considered to be detained and requiring legal safeguards. This This chapter analyses the ruling in its historical context and in light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It suggests future avenues for addressing some of the judgment's more paradoxical and troubling consequences.

Die partizipative Mediendidaktik steht für ein Modell einer kritisch-konstruktivistischen Mediendidaktik. Sie verfolgt den Anspruch, aus vorwiegend erziehungswissenschaftlicher Sicht eine zeitgemäße, zukunftsorientierte und kritische Perspektive auf aktuelle gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen im Zuge von Mediatisierung und Digitalisierung einzunehmen. Mit dem Band liegt ein theoretisch fundierter und praktikabler mediendidaktischer Ansatz vor, der bestehende Ansätze um einen medienbezogenen, partizipativen Fokus erweitert.

Collected in memory of the Vermeer scholar and Yale economist J. Michael Montias, these essays take into account the latest trends in the field and provide new data on a wide range of topics in Netherlandish art. Themes include the reception of paintings and architecture; art collecting as interpreted through inventories and other documents that reveal modes of display; relationships between patrons and painters; recently found or attributed works of art; artists as teachers; and the art market. Taken together, these focused studies offer fresh perspectives on the historical appreciation and evaluation of art. Drawing upon J.M. Montias' contribution to art history, these 32 essays present new analyses, attributions, and documents on Netherlandish art and material culture - including the work of Vermeer, Rubens, Rembrandt, van Eyck and others - by internationally known scholars of art history and the economics of art

Die Schweizerische Strafprozessordnung, die 2011 in Kraft trat, vermittelte Geschädigten von Straftaten in der Rolle des Strafklägers gegenüber den meisten kantonalen Strafprozessordnungen zusätzliche Verfahrensrechte, mit denen sie aktiv auf den Gang des Verfahrens einwirken und dieses gegebenenfalls verzögern können. In der Strafprozessordnung finden sich gleichzeitig aber auch effiziente Verfahrensformen, welche die Strafjustiz entlasten sollen. Dazu gehören insbesondere das Strafbefehlsverfahren sowie das abgekürzte Verfahren. Damit aber besteht ein Konflikt zwischen der effizienten Beurteilung von Straftaten einerseits und dem Anspruch von Geschädigten andererseits, am Verfahren als Partei teilzunehmen und auf dieses Einfluss zu nehmen. Bezüglich des Strafverfahrens gab der Gesetzgeber dem Effizienzgedanken den Vorzug: Das Strafbefehlsverfahren soll rasch zum Abschluss gebracht werden. Geschädigte, die sich als Strafkläger konstituierten und Parteirechte geltend machen könnten, bleiben regelmässig aussen vor. Das liegt nicht nur an den faktischen Umständen - fehlende Informationen zum Verfahren, zeitliche Dringlichkeit etc. - sondern eben auch an der Konzeption des Strafbefehlsverfahrens: Parteirechte können im Strafbefehlsverfahren regelmässig erst in der Einsprache gegen einen erlassen Strafbefehl geltend machen. Die Einsprachefrist beträgt 10 Tage. Innert dieser Zeit müssen Geschädigte sich als Strafkläger konstituieren, Einsprache erheben, diese begründen und zugleich ihre Rechte - Akteneinsichtsrecht, Replikrecht, Beweisantragsrecht etc. - geltend machen. Regelmässig sind Strafkläger dabei auf sich alleine gestellt - die Strafprozessordnung sieht zumindest keine Möglichkeit vor, Strafklägern die unentgeltliche Rechtspflege zu gewähren und ihnen einen unentgeltlichen Rechtsbeistand beizuordnen. So düster die Situation für Strafkläger im Strafbefehlsverfahren, so vorteilhaft ist sie für Strafkläger im abgekürzten Verfahren: Geschädigten bleibt in der Regel ausreichend Zeit, sich zu konstituieren. Als Strafkläger haben sie anschliessend die Möglichkeit, den von der Staatsanwaltschaft unterbreiteten Vorschlag für eine Anklageschrift ohne weitere Begründung abzulehnen. Mit der Ablehnung eines einzelnen Strafklägers scheitert das gesamte abgekürzte Verfahren und die Staatsanwaltschaft muss ein (ordentliches) Vorverfahren durchführen. Weil der Strafkläger seine Ablehnung nicht begründen muss, bleiben seine Ablehnungsmotive im Dunkeln. Es können redliche Motive sein, aber eben auch Beweggründe wie insbesondere private Rachemotive, die in einem modernen Strafprozess nichts zu suchen haben. Nach dem Gesagten drängt es sich auf, die Rechte von Strafklägern im Strafbefehlsverfahren zu stärken. Dazu sind insbesondere erweiterte Informationspflichten für die Strafbehörden notwendig, damit Strafkläger über den Verfahrensgang informiert sind und sich rechtzeitig konstituieren und ihre weiteren Verfahrensrechte geltend machen können. Für das abgekürzte Verfahren muss das Ablehnungsrecht des Strafklägers beschränkt werden. Analog zur Rechtsmittellegitimation im ordentlichen Verfahren soll der Strafkläger eine Anklageschrift nur dann ablehnen können, wenn er ein rechtlich geschütztes Interesse nachweist.

ven if they are contradictory, the different senses give thickness and subtlety to the concept. The journey of a notion in time and space then also contributes to broadening our understanding of a cultural history between universality and identity within the artistic diversity that characterizes modern Europe.

The study describes creative experiences as learning experiences of students and primary school children in the context of the Learning and Research Workshop Primary School of the TU Dresden (LuFo). The aim is to elaborate what is 'special' about learning in university learning workshops in order to contribute to the current discourse on the self-understanding of university learning workshops. The study emerged from the TUD-Sylber project Teaching, Learning and Research in Workshops, in which workshop seminars in the format of research-based learning in the LuFo were developed from 2016 to 2019 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hoffmann. The seminar I developed, Didactic Research Workshop on Creative Writing, forms the framework for the empirical study. The central research question is: How does learning take place in university learning workshops? The starting point is the phenomenological understanding of learning as experience in connection with creative processes. This is examined in three objects: in writing processes of primary school children, in free children's texts as well as in reflection conversations with students.

Examining Russia–EU relations in terms of the forms and types of power tools they use, this book argues that the deteriorating relations between Russia and the EU lie in the deep differences in their preferences for the international status quo. These different approaches, combined with economic interdependence and geographic proximity, means both parties experience significant difficulties in shaping strategy and formulating agendas with regards to each other. The Russian leadership is well aware of the EU’s "authority orientation" but fails to reliably predict foreign policy at the EU level, whilst the EU realizes Russia’s "coercive orientation" in general, but cannot predict when and where coercive tools will be used next. Russia is gradually realizing the importance of authority, while the EU sees the necessity of coercion tools for coping with certain challenges. The learning process is ongoing but the basic distinction remains unchanged and so their approaches cannot be reconciled as long as both actors exist in their current form. Using a theoretical framework and case studies including Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine, Busygina examines the possibilities and constraints that arise when the "power of authority" and the "power of coercion" interact with each other, and how this interaction affects third parties.

As the twentieth century began, Native Americans were reeling from a century of war, forced resettlement, and loss of indigenous control. In a narrative that is compellingly evenhanded and insightful, Donald L. Parman follows the Indians' continuing struggle to hold on to their land, their resources, and their identity. Focusing on the American West, Parman presents twentieth-century Indian history in the context of regional development. Two questions dominate this story: Who will control Indian resources, and who will control Indian affairs? The turning point is World War II, when Indians in considerable numbers left reservations for wartime jobs or military service, leaving a postwar legacy of migration to urban centers, a sharpened sense of racial identity, and a desire for greater tribal autonomy. These changes set the stage for such key events and trends of recent Indian history as the Red Power Movement, tribal development of resources, fights for new legislation and more favorable policies, and the entry of Indians into gambling ventures. Parman details these events and clarifies their historical significance, and he provides a useful assessment of the status of Native Americans in the West as the century comes to a close.

Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. It attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the “metaliterary” to the more recent “metaphysical” approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov’s deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic oscillation on his part between the relative stability of meaning, which expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov’s practice of translation changed profoundly over the course of his career, his adherence to the Romantic notion of a “true” but ultimately elusive metaphysical language remained paradoxically constant.

Das Hirsch-Institut für Tropenmedizin (HITM) wurde 2013 als Außenstelle der Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf unter Leitung von Professor Dieter Häussinger eröffnet. Das HITM dient dem Zweck des Wissenstransfers in den Bereichen Wissenschaft und Medizin, der Ausbildung von Ärzten sowie der Durchführung wissenschaftlicher Projekte im Bereich der Infektions- und Tropenmedizin.

Consumers have been increasingly involved in the innovation process in the last few decades, a major driving force of business success. This involvement is critically important for innovation, particularly in product development. However, consumers frequently cannot articulate exactly what they need, want, or like if they are asked directly. It is very difficult for consumers to articulate their needs and desires. Therefore, researchers have to use other means to understand their motivations. There are many arguments suggesting that focus groups cannot create a reliable direction for new product development (NPD) or message optimization. A solution for this problem lies in a systematic, structured and disciplined experimentation with consumers - presenting them with a set of experimentally-designed products or concepts and soliciting their preferences. It is much easier for consumers to choose a preferred option from a set of concepts. New technologies make it easier than ever to conduct complex experiments quickly and inexpensively. The expanded use of experimentation provides an opportunity to take innovation to a new level. Rule Developing Experimentation (RDE) is an increasingly popular, structured, consumer-based experimentation methodology. RDE works with prototypes, either physical prototypes, prototypes created out of language (concepts), or prototypes created out of visual stimuli (design and packaging). In business, RDE is used both to understand existing products, product categories and packages, as well as to create next generation offerings in the process of new product development (NPD). Rule Developing Experimentation: A Systematic Approach to Understand & Engineer the Consumer Mind explains RDE concepts, beginning from its origins, to novel consumer research techniques and covers applications relevant to a real market context. Readers are also introduced to the concept of Mind Genomics® - a more holistic approach to gaining insight into the consumer mind.

The idea of this book emerged from the Education Deans Forum (EDF) meeting held in Johannesburg in 2018. The forum discussed the twin issues of the 4IR and Decolonisation and how these were likely to impact the future development of Higher Education in South Africa. Essentially, this book provides scholarly analyses of a range of possible impacts of the two discourses. On one hand, the discourses are discussed as representing convergences and divergences in relation to their epistemological, ontological, axiological and methodological assumptions. On the other, they are portrayed as competing for dominance in the contemporary and future discourses in Higher Education. As a scholarly compilation of high-end research, the book is a must-read resource for academics generally and those in teacher education disciplines particularly. Issues of the automation of academic workspaces, impact of digital divides, the opportunities and constraints of the technologisation of curricula, pedagogies, teaching and learning and the intractable challenges of remote modalities of university instruction are dealt with by some of the leading thinkers in the South African academies.

This Handbook provides new theoretical and empirical insights into men, men’s practices and masculinities across many kinds of organizations and forms of organizing. Most mainstream studies of organizations, leadership and management do not seem to notice they are often talking a lot about men and masculinities. The Handbook challenges this general tendency to avoid gendering men by bringing together a range of theoretical and methodological approaches that: engage with not only formal organizations, such as businesses and state organizations, but also processes of organizing within and beyond organizations; address emergent and future issues on men, masculinities and organizations, such as tech masculinities, men’s emotions, sexualities and violences, animal advocacy and environmental issues, and men and masculinities in pandemics. Targeted at scholars, policymakers, practitioners and students interested in links between men, masculinities, organizations and organizing, this landmark Handbook is an invaluable resource for those working in and beyond such fi elds as gender studies, organization, leadership and management studies, political science, sociology, social and public policy, and social movement studies.