Fall 2012 Issue

Thoreau: Mourning Turtle Doves

November 15, 2012 by Ed Mooney

Thoreau: Mourning Turtle Doves An amble from Concord on out By Edward F. Mooney I propose an amble with Thoreau, keeping him usually in sight (not reined in), and letting him be sometimes conjured, rather than the subject of an exclusively scholarly, investigative report. There will be some polemic, a reverie or two, and thoughts on how we might teach others, our students or neighbors, what our walking companion has taught us. I don’t write solely from a place of […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: mourning, nature, Thoreau

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Welcome to the Zeteo Fall Issue

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Dear Readers, Welcome to the Zeteo Fall Issue 2012. In a United States election year we began with the idea of choice. We challenged writers to speak about the choices human beings make not only in politics, but also as consumers, spectators and thinkers. We proposed that choice might be an illusion—our “choices” channeled by economic regimes, education, custom, biology, family dynamics. Zeteo is an interdisciplinary but not undisciplined journal. In this issue you will find pieces that speak directly about our choices. Catherine […]

Categories: Fall 2012 Issue, Issue Welcomes • Tags: Nepal, psychotherapy, rape, Thoreau

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Philip Roth in 1968; Bob Peterson/Time Life Pictures. Image appeared in "Portnoy's Complaint – still shocking at 40," an article in The Guardian "Books blog" by Chris Cox, posted September 7, 2009

For Love of Portnoy

November 15, 2012 by Daniel Taub

Developing a Jewish identity in Philip Roth’s America By Daniel Taub It is coming out of my ears already, the saga of the suffering Jews! Do me a favor, my people, and stick your suffering heritage up your suffering ass—I happen also to be a human being! — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint In the United States we have struggled for our entire history with the integration of racial, ethnic and religious minorities—with who is allowed into American society […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: anti-Semitism, Philip Roth

Jana Andolan

November 15, 2012 by fritztucker

Jana Andolan The People’s Movement in Nepal By Fritz Tucker Every day, hundreds of European, American, Australian, and Israeli tourists walk the streets of Thamel, downtown Kathmandu. Nearby is the Narayanhiti Palace Museum, the Nepali Royal Palace that was converted into a museum after the Nepali People’s Movement of 2006 (in Nepalese, Jana Andolan II). Most of these tourists are unaware that the crowded, winding streets of Thamel were much more crowded in April 2006—filled, in fact, with millions of […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: caste, civil war, Jana Andolan, Nepal

Lana del rey, flowers crown, "Born to Die"

The Meaning of Lana Del Rey

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Pop culture, post-feminism and the choices facing young women today By Catherine Vigier The criticism leveled against pop singer Lana Del Rey on the Internet and in the mainstream press raises a number of questions about young women choosing to conform to the image required of them by the corporate media in order to achieve success, and about the conditions under which success can be achieved in the culture industries and elsewhere. This raises further questions: about the power […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: Adorno, feminism, popular music, women

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Rethinking Rape

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Rethinking Rape Moving Beyond the Social vs. Biological By Caterina Gironda This paper explores the pitfalls of two views of rape: The social constructionist position that rape is not an act driven by sexual desire but rather purely an act of violence, a tool to control and dominate women, and A counter argument by evolutionary psychologists which says that the drive to rape is in some sense natural, a product of human evolution. Through an examination of Elizabeth Grosz’s reading […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: Darwin, Elizabeth Grosz, evolutionary psychology, rape

The King’s Therapy

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Exploring our hopes for a cure, with help from The King’s Speech By William Eaton {Click for pdf} Shortly after seeing the movie The King’s Speech, I had the thought that it might provide a platform for exploring some ideas about psychotherapy. It seemed that this was really what the movie was about: psychotherapy and the relationship between patient and psychotherapist. Rewatching the movie I was impressed by how directly it presented its approach to psychotherapy. One of the lead characters, […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: Freud, Ian Craib, psychotherapy

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