Although Kofman's writing repeatedly invokes a seemingly closed image of a
double bind, her texts remain open, undecided.
Bodily detours: Sarah Kofman's narratives of childhood trauma
This sampling is not exhaustive--officers could frame each injunction as contradictory, complementary or paradoxical in a number of different ways.) Framing Technique Tension Framing the tension Framing the tension Framing the as a
double bind: To as a contradiction: tension as obey is to disobey The two actions complementary: and to disobey is to cannot be done at Viewing the obey (most once, but can tension not potentially alternate or one or as a tension debilitating).
Correctional contradictions: a structural approach to addressing officer burnout
It is only proper, therefore, that I begin with a look at the positive side of the reader's
double bind in confronting this prodigious achievement.
Primo Levi: the biographer's challenge and the reader's double bind
It must be said, however, that it is not obvious how radical pedagogy can help employees of the manufacturing and service organizations mentioned in parts 1 and 2 to cope with their own paradoxes and
double binds of empowerment.
The Paradox of Empowerment: Suspended Power and the Possibility of Resistance
Wood and Conrad succinctly summarized the idea of the
double bind in interpersonal relationships as introduced by Gregory Bateson and applied to interpersonal communication by Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson.
Paradoxes: No simple matter
What Margaret Waller terms the
double bind of liberalism (1993)--that is, individual freedom in tragic conflict with collective welfare--is depicted by various literary devices, like the sentimental blazon and the tableau, which Cohen discusses in some detail.
The Sentimental Education of the Novel
Quentin's
Double Bind "it will be better for me for all of us"
Faulkner's Family Crucible: Quentin's Dilemma
It is not surprising, therefore, that the bishop has been able to comprehend fully the
double bind that church teaching imposes on pay Catholics.
For gay Catholics, conscience is the key
The "hard call or
double bind" has to be balanced by the fact that the people at Philip Morris are so knowledgeable and enthusiastic.
Kicking the habit
Jamieson points out that
double binds are often reinforced by "newsbinds." Kim Campbell was criticized for her verbosity in a Montreal Gazette article that called her mouth her "Achilles heel." The femininity/competency
double bind was certainly apparent in a Toronto Star article that said, "Maybe we are asking for the impossible.
Beyond the double bind: women & leadership
They are all interrelated one way or another."(1) Sandra Adell's Double-Consciousness/
Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature and Craig Hansen Werner's Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse probe deeply and constructively into the dialogic relations between black and white, Afrocentric and Eurocentric articulations of the literary in modern and postmodern periods of thought.
Double-Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature
And when playing against the computer you are in a
double bind because the computer knows where everything is but you don't.
Computer games reviewed
Professional sales agents are taught to close a sale by asking the prospect, "Would you like us to install it on Monday or Tuesday?", or "Do you want to use my pen or yours to sign the agreement?" This kind of persuasive language represents a "
double bind" device.
The red flags of persuasion
Second, the applicability of Bateson, Jackson, Haley and Weakland's (1956)
double bind hypothesis to teenage suicidal behavior is explored to assess whether teenage suicide can be seen as an indication that the youngster is caught up in contradictory interactive patterns in the family.
A case of family dysfunction and teenage suicide attempt: applicability of a family systems paradigm