Schizophrenie in lacanianischer Perspektive

Im folgenden werde ich versuchen, etwas von dem darzustellen, was mich in den letzten Jahren in zunehmendem Maße beschäftigt hat, nämlich das Studium der Schizophrenie. Man kann ohne jegliche Übertreibung sagen, dass die Schizophrenie ein Stiefkind der Psychoanalyse geblieben ist, ja, nicht nur das, darüber hinaus ist sie seit jeher ein ungeliebtes Stiefkind. Dies im Gegensatz zur Paranoia. Freud wie auch Lacan haben zur Para­noia ungleich mehr beigetragen als zur Schizophrenie; das zeigt sich mit aller Deutlichkeit am Paradebeispiel des Senatspräsidenten Schreber, des­sen Buch Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken Gegenstand einer um­fangreichen Untersuchung Freuds geworden ist, was wiederum Lacan dazu veranlasste, einen Grossteil seines Seminars über die Psychosen wie auch seiner Arbeit .D. une question préliminaire d. un traitement possible de la psychose. / .Von einer Frage, die jeder möglichen Behandlung der Psy­chose vorausgeht. Freud und Schreber zu widmen.1 \ud In der Psychiatrie ist es dagegen eher umgekehrt; ein so renommierter Psychiater wie Eugen Bleuler hat der Schizophrenie auf dem Feld der Psychosen einen vorrangigen Platz eingeräumt und sogar die Paranoia seinem Konzept der Schizophrenie subsumiert2. Die Untersuchungen über Schizophrenie sind auch in der zeitgenössischen Psychiatrie zahlreich geblieben. \ud Wie kommt es, dass sich die Psychoanalyse seit jeher kaum für die Schi­zophrenie interessiert? Ich glaube, dass dies etwas mit der Bedeutung des Vaters zu tun hat, dessen Funktionen für Neurosen wie auch für Paranoi

Counting primitive points of bounded height

Let $k$ be a number field and $K$ a finite extension of $k$. We count points of bounded height in projective space over the field $K$ generating the extension $K/k$. As the height gets large we derive asymptotic estimates with a particularly good error term respecting the extension $K/k$. In a future paper we will use these results to get asymptotic estimates for the number of points of fixed degree over $k$. We also introduce the notion of an adelic Lipschitz height generalizing that of Masser and Vaaler. This will lead to further applications involving points of fixed degree on linear varieties and algebraic numbers of fixed degree satisfying certain subfield conditions

Wordsworth's Aeneid and the influence of its eighteenth-century predecessors

William Wordsworth's attempt at translating Virgil's Aeneid reached as far as Book 4, and mostly survives in manuscript drafts. The literary influences behind it can be illuminated through the poet's correspondence, and analysed more fully by tracing verbal echoes and other resonances in his translation. Despite the hostility he expressed towards Dryden and Pope, the foremost translators of the previous age, Wordsworth followed them in using heroic couplets, and, as has previously been argued, his translation draws increasingly on Dryden's Aeneis the further he advanced with his project. But Wordsworth owes an equally large debt, hitherto unrecognized, to the eighteenth-century blank verse renderings by Joseph Trapp and others, who anticipated many of his supposed stylistic innovations

Permutation Complexity Related to the Letter Doubling Map

Given a countable set X (usually taken to be the natural numbers or integers), an infinite permutation, \pi, of X is a linear ordering of X. This paper investigates the combinatorial complexity of infinite permutations on the natural numbers associated with the image of uniformly recurrent aperiodic binary words under the letter doubling map. An upper bound for the complexity is found for general words, and a formula for the complexity is established for the Sturmian words and the Thue-Morse word.Comment: In Proceedings WORDS 2011, arXiv:1108.341

Counting points of fixed degree and bounded height

We consider the set of points in projective $n$-space that generate an extension of degree $e$ over given number field $k$, and deduce an asymptotic formula for the number of such points of absolute height at most $X$, as $X$ tends to infinity. We deduce a similar such formula with instead of the absolute height, a so-called adelic-Lipschitz height

Quasi-alternating Montesinos links

The aim of this article is to detect new classes of quasi-alternating links. Quasi-alternating links are a natural generalization of alternating links. Their knot Floer and Khovanov homology are particularly easy to compute. Since knot Floer homology detects the genus of a knot as well as whether a knot is fibered, as provided bounds on unknotting number and slice genus, characterization of quasi-alternating links becomes an interesting open problem. We show that there exist classes of non-alternating Montesinos links, which are quasi-alternating.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure

Schanuel's theorem for heights defined via extension fields

Let $k$ be a number field, let $\theta$ be a nonzero algebraic number, and let $H(\cdot)$ be the Weil height on the algebraic numbers. In response to a question by T. Loher and D. W. Masser, we prove an asymptotic formula for the number of $\alpha \in k$ with $H(\alpha \theta)\leq X$. We also prove an asymptotic counting result for a new class of height functions defined via extension fields of $k$. This provides a conceptual framework for Loher and Masser's problem and generalizations thereof. Moreover, we analyze the leading constant in our asymptotic formula for Loher and Masser's problem. In particular, we prove a sharp upper bound in terms of the classical Schanuel constant.Comment: accepted for publication by Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci., 201

Does The Rock Really Rock? The effects of using a celebrity in a B2B advertisement.

Background: Previous studies have investigated the relationship between the content of advertisements and the effect it has on viewers’ engagement and retention. Seno and Lukas (2007) looked into this phenomenon and stated, “research has found that celebrities are more effective than other types of endorsers” (p. 121). Another study by Tantiseneepong, Gorton, and White (2012) found that celebrity endorsers “can improve the effectiveness of marketing communications, by enhancing a product’s image, attracting attention and improving recall rates” (p. 57). Research Questions:This research addresses relationships with having a celebrity in a B2B advertisement. This study sought to answer the following questions: a) How does the usage of a celebrity in a B2B advertisement affect visual fixation? b) How does the usage of a celebrity in a B2B advertisement affect retention of product information presented in the advertisement? Methods: The eye-tracking data was collected in the Customer Experience Lab (a School of Business behavioral research lab featuring two eye-tracking stations). The participants for this research were 37 qualified business managers. This was a between subjects experimental design in which one cell was shown a shredder advertisement featuring a celebrity and the other cell was shown a shredder advertisement with a stock photo model. After viewing their respective advertisements, participants completed a short survey to evaluate their experience. Conclusion: In general, the results indicate that the usage of a celebrity brings greater attention to the advertisement. The data shows that participants spend more time looking at the advertisement with the celebrity in comparison to the advertisement with the stock photo model. Retention of product information included in the advertisement is greater when a celebrity is not present in the advertisement. References: Diana Seno, Bryan A. Lukas,(2007) The equity effect of product endorsement by celebrities: A conceptual framework from a co‐branding perspective , European Journal of Marketing,Vol. 41Issue: 1/2, pp.121-134, https://doi.org/10.1108/03090560710718148 Nisachon Tantiseneepong, Matthew Gorton, John White,(2012) Evaluating responses to celebrity endorsements using projective techniques , Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal,Vol. 15Issue: 1, pp.57-69, https://doi.org/10.1108/13522751211191991https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/uresposters/1269/thumbnail.jp