Incidentally, one cannot miss the significance of this gesture, for Dickens reintroduces it associatively in Pip's mind at another moral and psychological crisis -- his painful recognition, in a talk with Herbert Pocket, that his hopeless attachment to Estella is as self-destructive as it is romantic.

Inspired by an advertisement he saw while riding an elevated train in New York City ( a shoe store boasting " 21 styles "), Heinz picked the number more or less at random because he liked the sound of it, selecting 7 specifically because, as he put it, of the " psychological influence of that figure and of its enduring significance to people of all ages.

Inspired by an advertisement he saw while riding an elevated train in New York City ( a shoe store boasting " 21 styles "), Heinz picked the number more or less at random because he liked the sound of it, selecting 7 specifically because, as he put it, of the " psychological influence of that figure and of its enduring significance to people of all ages.

Surrealism as a visual movement had found a method: to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance, in order to create a compelling image that was beyond ordinary formal organization, in order to evoke empathy from the viewer.

Jung continued to publish books until the end of his life, including Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies ( 1959 ), which analyzed the archetypal meaning and possible psychological significance of the reported observations of UFOs.

For some women, the menopausal transition represents a major life change, similar to menarche in the magnitude of its social and psychological significance.

Although the significance of the changes that surround menarche is fairly well recognized, in countries such as the USA, the social and psychological ramifications of the menopause transition are frequently ignored or underestimated.

To see a great work of fiction or a great poem primarily as a psychological case study is often to miss its wider significance and perhaps even the essential aesthetic experience it should provide.

In either case the story often has symbolic and psychological significance for the characters in the outer story.

Though the progress of his psychological thought compelled him to abandon the positive theology of the Moravians, he retained an appreciation of its spiritual or symbolic significance.

The cultural and psychological significance of the events listed above combined to cause celebrations to be observed one year earlier than the formal Gregorian date.

For the first time in the campaign, targets were to be chosen for their military, rather than their psychological significance.

* " ... the total constellation of psychological, sociological, educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that combine to influence the nature and significance of work in the total lifespan of any given individual.

Spoto describes its theme as one of " conscious social and psychological significance.

The poem's personal significance has been the topic of several pieces of literary criticism because Smith was treated for psychological problems.

In New Age spirituality, the third eye often symbolizes a state of enlightenment or the evocation of mental images having deeply personal spiritual or psychological significance.

* Early Maladaptive Schemas, a self-defeating pattern of behavior, built upon progressively throughout one's lifetime, which may cause relational dysfunction when activated by emotions surrounding an event of physical or psychological significance to an individual

Modern historical accounts suggest that, while it was effective in pitched-battle situations such as the Matabele war or the 1898 Battle of Omdurman, its significance owed much to the psychological impact the weapon had.

In terms of statistical significance and success rate, the study outperformed similar studies of other psychological interventions for chronic back pain.

Compared to the 2007 TMS study, the Turner study had a lower success rate ( 26 %- 35 %, depending on the type of psychological treatment ) and a lower level of statistical significance ( P <. 05 ).

Although Stanislavski was not the first to codify a system of acting, he was the first to take questions and problems of psychological significance and directly link them to acting practices.

Philocleon is a complex character whose actions have comic significance, psychological significance and allegorical significance.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

In Art and Artist ( 1932 ), the psychologist Otto Rank wrote that the psychological trauma of birth was the pre-eminent human symbol of existential anxiety and encompasses the creative person's simultaneous fear of – and desire for – separation, individuation and differentiation.

The miscarriage was reportedly due to “ psychological trauma ”.

Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (; July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831 ) was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral ( in modern terms, " psychological ") and political aspects of war.

His formal education was limited: he suffered from psychological disorders including a fear of crowds, and although admitted to high school after attending eight years of grammar school ( Long Valley School, whence dates the earliest known photo of him ), he never went to high school.

Later, US naval policy was changed so that after events of such psychological trauma, the crew would be dispersed to new assignments.

In 1986, there was a fire at the Rovers Return, which attracted an audience of just under 27 million, and between 1986 and 1989, the story of Rita Fairclough's psychological abuse at the hands of Alan Bradley ( Mark Eden ), and his subsequent death under the wheels of a Blackpool tram, was played out.

Linebarger was a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare.

As an expert in psychological warfare, Linebarger was very interested in the newly developing fields of psychology and psychiatry.

" If you look at it as a whole ," a senior S / LPD official said, " the Office of Public Diplomacy was carrying out a huge psychological operation of the kind the military conducts to influence a population in denied or enemy territory.

Moreover, these unconventional troops created a psychological impact over the enemy, which was not used to dealing with horse troops, having no training or strategy to face them.

Vertov believed film was too “ romantic ” and “ theatricalised ” due to the influence of literature, theater, and music, and that these psychological film-dramas “ prevent man from being as precise as a stop watch and hamper his desire for kinship with the machine .”

Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

Associated with this increase in resolutions was an increasing vocabulary for tragic dialogue, often involving prefixes to refine meanings, allowing the language to assume a more natural rhythm while also becoming ever more capable of psychological and philosophical subtlety.

The reason was that the game leads the players to a loss of moral virtue and takes them into " heavy " psychological conflicts because of the game quests.

Alternative or complementary medicine, including acupuncture, psychological interventions, vitamins and yoga, was evaluated in a number of systematic reviews by the Cochrane Collaboration into treatments for epilepsy, and found there is no reliable evidence to support the use of these as treatments for epilepsy.

" Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema " was composed during the period of second-wave feminism, which was concerned with achieving equality for women in the workplace, and with exploring the psychological implications of sexual stereotypes.

The psychological blow to the Romans was considerably more painful.

East Germany's culture was strongly influenced by communism and particularly Stalinism and was described by East German psychoanalyst Hans-Joachim Maaz in 1990 as having produced a " Congested Feeling " among East Germans as a result of the East German state's goal to protect people from dangers of deviant cultural influence and dangers of popular expression deviating from the state's ideals through enforcing official ideals through physical and psychological repression of these tendencies via its institutions, particularly the Stasi.

The psychological blow to national self-confidence was severe.