My Experience with Paul Ricœur

How does Paul Ricœur apply metapsychology to collective memory?

The concept of “abused collective memory” gathers two of Ricœur’s main lines of concern: history and psychoanalysis. The article aims to explain how this convergence was possible, especially, when the transposition of the Freudian metapsychology from the individual to the collective level was hindered by the Ricœurian emphasis on the Freudian libidinal economy. Our hypothesis is that this conve...

My Experience with Smallpox

Testimony, Memory and Solidarity across National Borders: Paul Ricœur and Transnational Feminism

In many ways, globalization created the problem of representation for feminist solidarity across the borders of the nation state. This problem is one of presenting a cohesive identity for representation in the transnational public sphere. This paper proposes a solution to this problem of a cohesive identity for women’s representation by drawing on the work of Paul Ricœur. What these women seem ...

Mini-Fast with Exercise – My Personal Experience

Back in 1984, I visited China and Japan in the course of attending an international scientific congress on dietary selenium. After I had been walking around in Tokyo for a couple of days, a thought suddenly struck me: “Where are the fat people?” I literally recall seeing only one Japanese I considered fat during my several days in Japan – and that was a fellow dressed in a business suit in the ...

My experience with cubital tunnel syndrome

Cubital tunnel syndrome can be defined as a compressive neuropathy of the ulnar nerve around the elbow from the arcade of Struthers to the flexor-pronator aponeurosis. However, this complex neuropathy is related not only with compressive force but also with tensile force caused by elongation of the ulnar nerve while flexing the elbow joint and with friction force caused by excursion of the nerv...