The aim of ARTCADHi, the transdisciplinary research network which designed Porphyry and Steatite software, is to experiment the feasibility of a digital hermeneutics. The main idea is to offer a digital place where scholars could build their interpretation about document corpora and confront it with the viewpoints of other scholars. In order to be easily confronted the viewpoints are modeled th...

In conclusion, we should like to add two admonitions. First, criticism is an art, not the raw tables or summaries of scholarship. The scholarship is a necessary prerequisite, and the formal reports, the compilations of the learned monograph, are essential to criticism. We have too much of unimaginative word counting, the pedestrian assemblage of arguments, the methodical and generalized comment...

Animal fable is often discussed as a genre in its own right, associated with moralising, criticism, and popular ideology. 1 Yet any instantiation of a fable in a literary text intersects with the conventions of the host-genre. While fable is found in various ancient genres, it has a particular association with Greek iambus, and Hellenistic and Roman imitators of archaic iambus turn regularly to...

Since the 1980s, a substantial body of literature has emerged exploring application psychoanalytic theory in field translation. Lawrence Venuti’s article, “The Difference That Translation Makes: The Translator’s Unconscious,” occupies prominent position within this for two significant reasons: First, challenging descriptive paradigm neglecting translator’s unconscious while primarily focusing o...

Content analysis is a firmly established technique for textual data analysis. In particular, the notion of fully automatic, or at least computer assisted, content analysis has remained a desideratum among researchers working with large bodies of text, with the development of systems such as General Inquirer (Stone et al., 1966), Words (Iker and Harway, 1969), Quester (Cleveland, McTavish and Pi...

Associations of 6-week postpartum maternal self-criticism and dependency with 4-month mother-infant self- and interactive contingencies during face-to-face play were investigated in 126 dyads. Infant and mother face, gaze, touch, and vocal quality were coded second by second from split-screen videotape. Self- and interactive contingencies were defined as auto- and lagged cross-correlation, resp...

Three interventions used to assist highly self-critical patients develop self-compassion are described and illustrated with case material. Theoretical background, assumed mechanism of change, and research evidence for each intervention is presented.

Attachment with altruistic others requires the ability to appropriately process affiliative and kind facial cues. Yet there is no stimulus set available to investigate such processes. Here, we developed a stimulus set depicting compassionate and critical facial expressions, and validated its effectiveness using well-established visual-probe methodology. In Study 1, 62 participants rated photogr...