This article examines utopian elements in Wilhelm Reich's writings in his American phase (1939-1957) in order to illustrate utopian sources of dynamic psychology. Although there are scholars who have used the term "psychological utopia" and applied it to individual thinkers (Reich, Marcuse, Fromm) and to specific psychological disciplines (psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology), the...

For a utopian thinker, involving the public to bring about change is critical. For a messianic utopian artist such as Vasily Kandinsky, no issue was more central to his work. This essay argues that Kandinsky’s movement away from conventional easel painting to its construction as a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, was intended to provoke the general public to turn away from complacency. A ...

In athletes, a secure diagnos is of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) is dependent on objective testing. Evaluating spirometric indices of airflow before and following an exercise bout is intuitively the optimal means for the diagnosis; however, this approach is recognized as having several key limitations. Accordingly, alternative indirect bronchoprovocation tests have been recommende...

This article starts by reviewing the negative account of utopian thinking in dominant liberal western political theory, through the positing of a link between utopianism and totalitarianism, as present in the writings of liberal writers like Hayek, Popper, Berlin and others. As such, this article constitutes a critique of the liberal theories of utopianism and totalitarianism as well as positin...

The technical-economic performances of static (traditional) and auction-driven dynamic radiospectrum allocation (FSA and DSA), and of an utopian “federated” network (with all spectrum and customers) are compared. Spectrum licensees operate cellular CDMA networks populated by heterogeneous data-downloading terminals, which may experience ultra-wide-band (UWB) interference. A terminal has its own...