(34) This refigures differently the
double bind: one must tell the whole story, yet there can be no more stories.
(2) And people who hear dilemmas as "
double binds" are susceptible to even more debilitating emotional reactions.
Figuring into both the negative and the positive sides of my reader's
double bind is this book's dual loyalty in generic terms.
In 1985, curiously including neither the Putnam paper nor that by Wood and Conrad in its bibliography, Kathleen Hall Jamieson's Beyond the
Double Bind: Women and Leadership, appeared.
"When I became head of the physical and health education department, I was unaware of the
double binds this leadership role would thrust upon me." Jamieson's book looks at these Catch 22 situations, by examining their roots in theology, biology, morality and the law.
articulated in the Phenomenology of Spirit" (8) than as an example of self-reflexive criticism that demonstrates, in its exposition of Du Bois's Hegelianism, the deeply complex, even tricky work of (re)constructing the omnicritical genealogy which is Adell's own
double bind. Like the dilemma faced by poststructuralists committed to theorizing African American literature (among whom Adell takes Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, and Robert Stepto to be most representative), "The Souls of Black Folk: Reading Across the Color Line" is most instructive when, paradoxically, it shows itself mired in the textual system that she observes Du Bois, by necessity, writing through.
The uncritical listener, for example, might choose one or both for the "worse" in the following
double bind:
To address these questions, the connections between the two concepts within the family systems framework are assessed, and the case of one youngster's suicide attempts are discussed and placed in context to illustrate how
double bind contingencies and boundary transgression may contribute to our understanding of how suicidal behavior occurs in adolescence.
It represented a classic
double bind. "Before Forest Ag, development became a self-fulfilling prophecy," Osterman said.
Johnson astutely relates these ideas to Freud's analysis of the apparently contradictory relation of memory and perception, and then examines Derrida's style of writing by following closely several word-associations, such as ecart, entamer, economy, articulation, and the
double bind. He then proceeds to examine Darwinian evolutionary theory, with its emphasis upon innovation, adaptation, non-teleological 'development', and on evolution as affecting and changing the codes through openness to mutation and feedback.