Siena FromentBuddhism and Mindfulness: The Art and Nature of Ecstasy and EnstasyTo counter the contemporary capitalistic system in thought, it is particularly interesting to consider the surge of counter-culture…Jan 2, 2023Jan 2, 2023
Siena FromentHysteria: An Affective History and Contemporary ManifestationsThe affective understanding of “hysteria” has twists and turns in its historic origin as well as in its contemporary manifestations, either…Jan 2, 20234Jan 2, 20234
Siena FromentToo Sad to Tell You: The Manifestation and Experience of ‘Ugly Feelings’ in the BodyBeyond penetrating the psyche and generating emotional outcomes, feelings, specifically ugly feelings, manifest in and are experienced by…Jan 2, 20231Jan 2, 20231
Siena FromentMystical Experience and Cosmic ConsciousnessA dreaming state can feel like a possession of the mind and a gleam into the fire within. In waking, one can inhale the incense of mystery…Jan 2, 2023Jan 2, 2023
Siena FromentDemystifying the Forces of Power, Speech and Desire in ConfessionIn Troubling Confessions, Brooks begins by addressing doom and the fate of accusation, with confession as coming from the lips of a person…Jan 2, 2023Jan 2, 2023
Siena FromentGuilty Subjects: Seduction, Morality and AnnihilationA distinct quality of guilt is its ability to provoke, to torment the psyche and to penetrate it with its manifestations and confusing…Jan 2, 2023Jan 2, 2023
Siena FromentThe Talking Cure to the ‘Magic Bullet’ of Pharmaceutical Control: Ordinary People and the…The film, Ordinary People (1980) directed by Robert Redford and adapted from Judith Guest’s novel, is set in the 1970’s, a time in which…Aug 17, 2022Aug 17, 2022
Siena FromentUnmasking Social Suffering: The Plague and AbsurdityIn order to unmask social suffering and its absurdity, the town of Oran on the Algerian coast can be dissected in a petri dish within the…May 21, 2022May 21, 2022
Siena FromentBeauty, Taste and the Body: Meeting the Divine, Absolute or RealityAfter having landed in from 2022 into the vibrancy of the year 1320 in a cafe with three scholarly Sufis, a passionate discussion unfolds…May 21, 2022May 21, 2022
Siena FromentBeyond Dichotomy: Alternative Healing in SufismAs a starting point to alternative healing, in the Introduction by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger from In Amma’s Healing Room: Gender and…May 21, 2022May 21, 2022
