Poster Session
University of San Jorge
Khôra - Intervals of the Unconscious View Digital Media
Poster Session Jessica Poser
'Khôra' first emerged as a philosophical idea in the writings of Plato and was used to describe a space or interval that was ‘outside’ normal experience. He described it as a kind of ‘non-being’ or ‘formless interval’, a space that existed in between realms that were logical and knowable. I use the idea of Khôra as a way to investigate emergent images of the unconscious as they materialize in conversations with experienced psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in an arts-based research project. This study explores Khôra as a generative way to think about the unconscious, a space in-between, one that can never be definitively posited, but one that can be explored through refraction, projection, condensation, and automatism. Conversations with seasoned therapists and analysts about the ways in which the unconscious takes form in their practice are used to generate works of art that attempt to visually explore these 'formless intervals'. Presented research consists of original works of art that will be displayed alongside excerpts from the interviews.
Featured What We Tell the Kids: Discourses of Womanhood in Spanish Children's Literature View Digital Media
Poster Session James Smith
Gender roles are learned by children while they are still very young, but there remains an insufficient body of research into the messages communicated about gender through non-anglophone countries’ children’s and young adult literature. Working to address this disparity, this study uses the books from the last two decades of Madrid’s annual "Muestra del Libro Infantil y Juvenil" that have been marked as being thematically about “mujer(es)” to investigate popular discourses of femininity in literary art intended for Spanish children. The work explores answers to three guiding questions: What do women do, what don’t they do, and what happens when women do something they “shouldn’t”? It gives specific attention to the differences that surface following variables of age and time. In other words, this study considers how discourses of “appropriate” womanhood have changed in Spanish children’s literature since the turn of the 21st century and if those changes are different for young children than they are for older children.
Study of the Narrator's Positionality on the Representation of Hikikomori: A Life History Survey of People who Have Experienced Hikikomori Conducted by a Researcher Who Was Once a Hikikomori View Digital Media
Poster Session Hiroki Fujitani
The presenter who has a long-term experience of Hikikomori conducted an oral history research on Hikikomori. “Hikikomori” was started to attract attention in Japan from around the 1990s. This word means people who withdraw from society and hide in their homes or their rooms all of time, or the phenomenon like this. Recently, the presence of Hikikomori has been confirmed in countries other than Japan. Hikikomori research has been carried out by various experts so far, and they have been responsible for disseminating discourse on Hikikomori. However, in recent years, the voices and experiences of Hikikomori have started come to the public. There are also medias that Hikikomoris run independently to disseminate discourses about their life experiences. In light of this background, the presenter connects the thoughts of the researcher about Hikikomori and the voices of Hikikomori himself. Because I have both properties. In this respect, the present study based on the context of “Tojisha-kenkyu”. In Japanese, “Tojisha” refers to the person who confront the problem, and “kenkyu” means “study”. Therefore, “Tojisha-kenkyu” means “study by persons concerned themselves”. In the narrative of Hikikomori, a structure of division has emerged in the relationship between experts and Tojisha, between Tojisha and Tojisha, and between Tojisha and those who have experienced Hikikomori. This research focuses on the positionality that is the cause of this structure, and will seek ways to create a platform where various discourses are intermingled. Its ultimate goal is to create the academic discipline of "Hikikomori Studies".
