The hysterical organization

The term hysteria has been used in the history of the psychoanalytical movement to describe a large variety of psychic modalities. What is the common denominator of the hysterias? The author suggests that ambivalence in relation to penetration in its passive form (vaginal desire), in its pregenital and genital valences, constitutes the essence of hysteria. It seems that the issue of hysteria thus configured finds its best resolution in the fantasy of an incorporeal penetration, which leads to orgasm, and spares one from the anxiety of destruction to the internal space as well as from the anxiety of guilt following the hoped for climax. The author is attempting to discern, by means of two case studies, how disembodied penetration, depending on whether it is fantasized or delusional, constitutes a solution, neurotic or psychotic respectively, to the issue of hysteria: the private theatre in neurosis, as well as the inhabited and influenced mind in psychosis (delusion of control), act as psychic figurations of vagina.     

组织中的高质量联结

组织中的高质量联结(HQC)指工作中短期的积极互动关系。它能使交往双方体验到活力、积极关照与相互交融, 并具有高情感承载力、关系张力与联结力三个特征。目前, HQC已成为积极组织行为学关注的热点问题之一, 它不仅对个体生理健康、工作态度、学习行为具有积极影响, 还能通过组织过程、高管团队的决策与张力、团队创新力作用于组织。而认知、情感和行为机制是构建与强化HQC的重要方法。未来HQC研究需要对其影响因素、构建与强化机制间关系做进一步讨论。     

Patterns of cerebral organization

An analysis of the concurrent incidence of aphasia and spatial disorder in 270 patients with unilateral brain damage suggests that the two functions are statistically independent. These data can also be used to estimate the distribution of left, right, and bilateral representation of linguistic and spatial functions in the population. In right-handers, sex affects the pattern of cerebral asymmetries, while the familial history of sinistrality has a stronger effect on the pattern of cerebral asymmetries in left-handers. These findings suggest that complementary specialization exists only as a statistical norm: It is suggested that differences in complementary and noncomplementary specialization may underlie individual differences in cognitive skills.     

Cerebral organization in left-handers

We have analyzed the verbal and spatial performances of 141 left-handed and 130 right-handed patients having unilateral hemispheric lesions and that have been grouped according to whether familial sinistrality (FS) is present or not. The present results confirm those of previous studies establishing a relation between FS on one hand and the ambilaterality of the functional representations of language and the lesser intrahemispheric focalization on the other. Such a relation has not only been found with left-handers but, to a lesser extent, with right-handers as well. On the contrary, this type of hemispheric organization does not prevail with respect to spatial functions. These results also allow for the exclusion of any relation between the strength of left-handedness and the pattern of cerebral organization. One finds, nevertheless, some indications that favor the influence of sex on cerebral organization, although it is impossible to specify the interference of this factor.     

Imagery and contextual organization

Three experiments explore the contribution of a shared imaginal context to associative memory for pairs of items imaged interactively or separately. The major result is that an imagined context only contributes to association between items that share the context if the items are imagined as interacting with the context. Therefore, interaction effects do not reflect the contaminating influence of a shared context. Rather, context effects themselves obey the same relational principles that interaction effects in general do. The results are presented as support for the organization-redintegration hypothesis as an account of imaginal interaction.     

Perceptual organization and attention

It is widely assumed that the grouping of the visual field first described by the Gestalt psychologists and the related phenomenon of texture segregation occur very early in the processing of visual information and involve preattentive processes. All the recent evidence supporting this assumption comes from visual search experiments in which the subject is actively looking for a target and attending to the stimulus. The question at issue is whether these kinds of patterns are perceived under conditions of inattention, i.e., when observers are not searching for them. We performed six experiments to determine whether texture segregation and grouping by similarity or proximity are perceived under conditions of inattention. On the first two trials subjects were asked to report the longer arm of a briefly presented cross which was surrounded by a pattern of ungrouped small elements. On the third trial and subsequent control trials these elements were configured into grouping patterns and subjects queried about them immediately following their line length reports. The results establish that neither texture segregation nor grouping by similarity of lightness or proximity are perceived under conditions of inattention. They support the conclusion that there is an earlier stage of processing than that referred to as preattentive.