Nilofer Kaul
Biographic Data
| ID | 5211480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nilofer Kaul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nilofer |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaul |
| SIGNATURE | KAUL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Cancer Society |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-1796-973X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Prescience and Premonition
On messianic links
The messianic structure of human experience is manifest in the form of waiting—for an object who will alleviate suffering, and thereby, bring about change. The underpinning of such waiting is imagined here as messianic hope. In individuals, families, cults, religion, and politics, we may detect such hope—one that perhaps makes the unbearability of life bearable. This longing may get concretized in the shape of a person who comes to represent a li…
Why I Write
Breaching the frame
Sunset Boulevard is a film that breaches the frames that cinema has conventionally used. It playfully satirises Hollywood with its silent era, its glossy nostalgia, its mystique that conceals its brittle cynicism. Norma Desmond is satirised but she is also the means by which Hollywood stands exposed. In many ways, the audience like Joe Gillis thinks they are in on the joke, till it turns against them. This paper argues that we can read this as a …
Mother Only You
This chapter examines child marriage, prevalent till the nineteenth century, as amongst other things the expulsion not just of the girl but the psychic and cultural associations of the feminine. Psychically, the space of the feminine is often reserved for pain, suffering and emotionality. Mostly, exiling of the girl/woman is an act of violence and fear of the female body with its sexual and emotional excessivness. Scholars have argued that the tr…
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Breaching the frame
Sunset Boulevard is a film that breaches the frames that cinema has conventionally used. It playfully satirises Hollywood with its silent era, its glossy nostalgia, its mystique that conceals its brittle cynicism. Norma Desmond is satirised but she is also the means by which Hollywood stands exposed. In many ways, the audience like Joe Gillis thinks they are in on the joke, till it turns against them. This paper argues that we can read this as a …
Mother Only You
This chapter examines child marriage, prevalent till the nineteenth century, as amongst other things the expulsion not just of the girl but the psychic and cultural associations of the feminine. Psychically, the space of the feminine is often reserved for pain, suffering and emotionality. Mostly, exiling of the girl/woman is an act of violence and fear of the female body with its sexual and emotional excessivness. Scholars have argued that the tr…
On messianic links
The messianic structure of human experience is manifest in the form of waiting—for an object who will alleviate suffering, and thereby, bring about change. The underpinning of such waiting is imagined here as messianic hope. In individuals, families, cults, religion, and politics, we may detect such hope—one that perhaps makes the unbearability of life bearable. This longing may get concretized in the shape of a person who comes to represent a li…
Why I Write
Prescience and Premonition
Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Omniscience (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (2 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)