Symbolism
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

Fire as an engineering tool of early modern humans.

12 Aug 2009 The controlled use of fire was a breakthrough adaptation in human evolution. It first provided heat and light and later allowed the physical properties of materials to be manipulated for the production of ceramics and metals. The analysis of tools ... Read more...

On love, hate and knowledge.

30 Jul 2009 In this short theoretical paper, I discuss Bion's three relations of love, hate, and knowledge, using Peirce's semiotic theory of relations and Bakhtin's semiotic/philosophical writings. Reading Bion through the prism of these resources allows us to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Symbolism'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• The piano teacher: a case study in perversion and sadomasochism. 29 Sep 2009
• [Play: the foundation of life. Child play as the motor of personality development] 30 Aug 2009
• Origin of the mind. 30 Aug 2009
• Fire as an engineering tool of early modern humans. 12 Aug 2009
• On love, hate and knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• Agave, Salome and the Enchanted Heads: mind and body dialectics in Euripides' and Oscar Wilde's work. 30 Jul 2009
• Mother-child play: children with Down syndrome and typical development. 29 Jun 2009
• Orienting of visual attention among persons with autism spectrum disorders: reading versus responding to symbolic cues. 29 Jun 2009
• Toddlers' referential understanding of pictures. 25 Jun 2009
• Symbolism of plants: examples from European-Mediterranean culture presented with biology and history of art: AUGUST: Bittersweet, woody nightshade. 21 Jun 2009
• Symbolism of plants: examples from European-Mediterranean culture presented with biology and history of art. Jun 2009
• Problemas de nervos: a multivocal symbol of distress for Portuguese immigrants. 30 May 2009
• Child and mother play in three U.S. cultural groups: comparisons and associations. 30 May 2009
• The skin house: a psychoanalytic reading of 3-Iron. 30 May 2009
• The 'body-container': a new perspective on the 'body-ego'. 30 May 2009
• Childhood abuse, avatar choices, and other risk factors associated with internet-initiated victimization of adolescent girls. 30 May 2009
• Concept of representation and mental symptoms. The case of theory of mind. 14 May 2009
• The White Coat Ceremony: a tribute to the humanism of Arnold P. Gold. 13 May 2009
• A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany. 12 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Symbolism'

Definition: A concept that stands for or suggests something else by reason of its relationship, association, convention, or resemblance. The symbolism may be mental or a visible sign or representation. (From Webster, 3d ed)

Descriptor UI: D013561

Alternative terms: Symbolism; Symbolisms; Symbolism (Psychology); Symbolisms (Psychology);

Tree Number: K01.400.899; K01.752.798;

History Note: 96; was SYMBOLISM (PSYCHOLOGY) 1979-95; was heading 1963-78

Technical Notes: no qualif; symbolism in art, music, literature, etc. goes here; graphic symbols go in a variety of places where pertinent (EMBLEMS AND INSIGNIA; LANGUAGE; COMMUNICATION; WRITING; etc.); coord IM with the object or concept symbolized (IM)