Pieter Van der Zwan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6794766 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pieter Van der Zwan |
| PRENOMES | Pieter |
| SOBRENOME | Van der Zwan |
| ASSINATURA | VAN DER ZWAN P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6385-0561 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
An evaluation of book-tax differences of South African firms
This paper evaluates the permanent and temporary differences between accounting profits and taxable income of South African companies using the data in the SARS-NT panel. It contributes to the establishment of a body of knowledge about book-tax differences of South African companies. Unlike previous research conducted on this topic in other countries, the characteristics of the whole population of South African companies are considered. The resul…
Following Job's feet
The feet are the base of the body but suggest mobility at the same time. As such an important corporeal part to be expected is that figurative language would develop around it hinting at unconscious associations to feet which might not be consciously logical. In the Book of Job the protagonist’s feet are mostly referred to as metaphors and then mainly with negative connotations. This is both because of the Satan’s attack on a man whom he suspects…
The Nose as Organ of Anger in the Book of Job
As an external and more specifically a facial organ, the nose in the Hebrew Bible not only has various physiological functions such as smell and breathing, but also various meanings as metonym and metaphor. It is also one of the body parts attributed to God, mostly serving a metaphorical role. The nose is probably the body part which is most connected to an emotion, to such an extent that this emotion often displaces the bodily organ. This makes …
Signs of sexuality in a book about death seen through a psychoanalytic lens
Whereas the Song of Songs can be said to be about Eros, the Book of Job could be about Thanatos. Yet, the Song ends with a crucial reference to death, and in the Book of Job there are subtle traces of sexuality: the first chapter tells about probably promiscuous parties held by Job’s children who then die during such a feast. Job reacts by referring to the womb, which presumably has sexual connotations. The womb is once again an issue in chapters…
Grotesque bodies in the book of Job
Job is suffering from illness without understanding it. His impairment and exclusion render him disabled in an abled, gloating but threatened society for which he is the laughing stock despite his exceptional piety. His psychic and spiritual breakthrough comes when God makes him reflect on and in the mirror of the wild and disorderly bodies of the two monstrosities, Behemoth and Leviathan, elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible exemplifying chaos, but now…
The possible psychoanalytical meanings of the mouth for mourning in the Book of Job
This study is about the mouth and its parts in the book of Job on the one hand, and on psychic introjection on the other, even when these two aspects do not completely overlap. The dominance of the mouth and orality in this biblical book speaks for its symbolic and psychic implications, including dependency and depression, but also symbolisation and empathy, where psychic digestion is resymbolising what has been desymbolised by trauma. The hypoth…
Hearing the invisible
Job’s body is ‘portrayed’ in a text that can be nothing more than audible. Compared with the eyes of Job (mentioned 49 times explicitly), his ears (mentioned 13 times, i.e., four times less than his eyes, perhaps because his ears are less visible) play a much more subtle role, underlying even his final confession in 42:5-6, where it seems/sounds that his eyes gave him (only) his final in-‘sight’. That leaves the impression that his ears give him …
Pathology and pain, disease and disability
Not only trauma, mourning and disease, but also disability has been recognised in the Book of Job in which the body plays an exceptional role. The protagonist is suffering physically, psychically and spiritually. Although the word, חלה [be sick, ill], never occurs in the book, his body is portrayed negatively being afflicted by some unknown illness, which would probably exclude him from the community described in Leviticus 13–14. While חָרֵשׁ [be…
Images of the dead (body) and the missing corpse in the Book of Job
The Song of Songs is regarding Eros, whereas the Book of Job seems to be about Thanatos. Despite the dominance of the theme of death in this biblical book, no word for a corpse or even a dead body occurs. Absence is, however, hermeneutically so important that it probably constitutes its essence in that only gaps leaving questions can be interpreted. The theory of the French psychoanalyst, Mária Török, about a phantom in a psychic crypt as unknown…
Hair matters
Compared with other biblical books that are named after its main protagonist, Job mentions many (at least 72) body parts. Yet hair is explicitly referred to only once, even when it plays a relatively significant role in other books in the Hebrew Bible. This virtual absence of hair in the book can at first glance be explained by the shaving of Job’s ‘head’ as early as 1:20, using a different verb, גזז, from the one in Leviticus 13:33 and 14:8.9, ג…
Fantasy and fiction in religion
The question about fantasy and fiction in religion is probably as old as the first interrogation and critique of revealed religion. However, the relation between fiction and religion is a two-way street. Underlying both is imagination which brings into play the psychological dimension of both but this in turn is always based on the body. Fantasy dreamily imagines the perfect body precisely to try and fill the gap left by imperfection. As an examp…
Signs of sexuality in a book about death seen through a psychoanalytic lens
Verbum et Ecclesia is a theological research journal that challenges traditional discourses within and between the fields of biblical, religious, social and human sciences as well as the constructive engagement with the natural sciences. It is an instrument of engagement between theological disciplines, on the one hand, and theology and other disciplines, on the other
The possible impact of animals on Job’s body image
The body plays an important role in the book of Job – as do animals. According to psychoanalytical specifically object-relations theory, a subjective body image was partly constructed through the internalisation of external stimuli from significant others who mirrored the subject through their feedback or through their own bodies, which served as an ideal or critique to the subject. Amongst the external stimuli, animals constitute such significan…
Comparing the Body Images of the Protagonists in the Song of Songs and Job, Focusing on the Skin
The Song of Songs
Book Review
Job’s Emotional Struggle with the Womb
The womb is invested with great significance in the book of Job. As Job regresses from his extended body, concretised in his children, servants and material possessions, to his own, which is then “eaten into” by his skin problems, he longs to return to it. His fantasies about this womb reflect his unconscious anger, wishes and anxieties, processed by his symbolisation of the womb as a holding and containing grave where he can escape the attacks o…
The Ideal Body in the Hebrew Bible Compared to That in Transpersonal Psychology
Despite the Hebrew Bibleâ€TMs canonicity does not present a single picture of the ideal body, ranging from texts from the Priestly Source, the Song of Songs and the way the body of God has been portrayed. Its response to and interaction with pluralistic post-modern searching for the ideal, such as in trans-, super- and posthumanism, are therefore a complex struggle which transpersonal psychology can clarify, even if it cannot resolve it
Possible Psychoanalytic Meanings of the Foreskin in the Hebrew Bible
Amongst the approximately 250 body parts which are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the foreskin is mentioned infrequently, even when it is closely linked to circumcision, an essential religious, national, and identity marker. While the foreskin must therefore be highly cathected, this background position may be indicative of either unconscious or constantly assumed meaning(s) which it has in its literary contexts. A psychoanalytic exploration of i…
Daniel
Beneath the Body of the Text
The various explicit references and descriptions of the different bodies in the Song of Songs have, just as characters, an “unconscious†which can be interpreted by psychoanalysis. These body-images are important as they unconsciously influence the recipients of the text and therefore need to be unpacked in a critical way. This will hopefully also show that the literal interpretations are flat reductions and a denial of a hidden depth of meaning
The Body in Poverty – Psalm 22
This article is based on a paper read at the ProPsalms Conference held at the University of Pretoria, 28–29 August 2014.
Longing for Belonging Beyond Belongings
The intimate and “monogamous†eroticism in the Song of Songs can be considered as a critique of economic materialism where multiple women may be “bought†in some sense or another. It is the female lover, however, who regards the lovers as belonging to each other and visualises her belovedâ€TMs body as made up of precious metals and gemstones which she then owns. It therefore appears that this protest is partially self-subversive in that it equates …
Psychological Approaches to the Song of Songs
Within the broader psychological biblical criticism this study intends to motivate why psychological approaches to the text of the Song of Songs make sense for a meaningful reception, which kinds of psychological approaches suit this analysis the most, and how they could be utilised for analysing and interpreting the characters that feature in this lyric love poetry, with a special focus on the unconscious way they perceive their bodies and those…
Religiosity in the Aesthetic of the Song of Songs
Two extremes in the interpretation of the Song of Songs are the allegorical and the literal, respectively representing the ancient and the modern way of understanding this poetry.As a result of this shift from the ancient to the modern, the religious elements of the Song have often been sacrificed.When its aesthetic nature, which has not been sufficiently appreciated, is considered from a psychological perspective, its embedded religious dimensio…
Bedeutungen Und Bilder Der Gebã„rmutter in Der Hebrã„ischen Bibel
Die Gebärmutter kann in der Hebräischen Bibel durch vier verschiedene Wörter ausgedrÃ1⁄4ckt werden: × ̈Ö¶×—Ö¶× , ×‘Ö¶× ֶ̃ן, [מעה ] und ×§Ö¶× Ö¶×‘. Dass diese Wörter auch manchmal metaphorisch oder mit anderen Bedeutungen gebraucht werden, zeigt, dass sie auch diverse emotionelle Verbindungen haben. DarÃ1⁄4ber hinaus wird der Mutterschoß in mehreren Kontexten aus verschiedenen Perspektiven betrachtet, wobei er nirgendwo als Erfahrung (einer Frau) …
Grotesque bodies in the book of Job
Job is suffering from illness without understanding it. His impairment and exclusion render him disabled in an abled, gloating but threatened society for which he is the laughing stock despite his exceptional piety. His psychic and spiritual breakthrough comes when God makes him reflect on and in the mirror of the wild and disorderly bodies of the two monstrosities, Behemoth and Leviathan, elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible exemplifying chaos, but now…
Some psychoanalytical meanings of the skin in the book of Job
Traditionally, there has been a tension between psychology and religion because of the Freudian critique of religion. This research intends to show that a deeper understanding of religion leading hopefully to an even deeper religiosity can be achieved by studying bodily features portrayed in a (religious) text from a psychoanalytic perspective. Just as any literary character can be ‘psychoanalysed’ to produce new perspectives on it and on the nar…
Song of Songs
The Song of Songs is usually appreciated for its celebration of love in the foreground, erotic or divine, if these are not regarded as different aspects of the same experience. This has perhaps led to the neglect of the celebration of life as pertinent background in a unique way in the Hebrew and even Christian Bible as a whole. In a secular world disillusioned by the perceived emphasis on death in traditional religion and therefore desperately o…
Some psychoanalytical meanings of the skin in Leviticus 13 14
Psychoanalysing the different forms of scale disease dealt with in Leviticus 13 14 can shed some light on the way the skin can be interpreted in this context. The eight psychic functions of the skin identified by Anzieu reveal how individuals meet collective anxieties on the surface of the skin where unconscious conflicts about identity boundaries are projected and inscribed.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Traditionally t…
The Body in Poverty – Psalm 22
This article is based on a paper read at the ProPsalms Conference held at the University of Pretoria, 28–29 August 2014.
Longing for Belonging Beyond Belongings
The intimate and “monogamous†eroticism in the Song of Songs can be considered as a critique of economic materialism where multiple women may be “bought†in some sense or another. It is the female lover, however, who regards the lovers as belonging to each other and visualises her belovedâ€TMs body as made up of precious metals and gemstones which she then owns. It therefore appears that this protest is partially self-subversive in that it equates …
Psychological Approaches to the Song of Songs
Within the broader psychological biblical criticism this study intends to motivate why psychological approaches to the text of the Song of Songs make sense for a meaningful reception, which kinds of psychological approaches suit this analysis the most, and how they could be utilised for analysing and interpreting the characters that feature in this lyric love poetry, with a special focus on the unconscious way they perceive their bodies and those…
Religiosity in the Aesthetic of the Song of Songs
Two extremes in the interpretation of the Song of Songs are the allegorical and the literal, respectively representing the ancient and the modern way of understanding this poetry.As a result of this shift from the ancient to the modern, the religious elements of the Song have often been sacrificed.When its aesthetic nature, which has not been sufficiently appreciated, is considered from a psychological perspective, its embedded religious dimensio…
Bedeutungen Und Bilder Der Gebã„rmutter in Der Hebrã„ischen Bibel
Die Gebärmutter kann in der Hebräischen Bibel durch vier verschiedene Wörter ausgedrÃ1⁄4ckt werden: × ̈Ö¶×—Ö¶× , ×‘Ö¶× ֶ̃ן, [מעה ] und ×§Ö¶× Ö¶×‘. Dass diese Wörter auch manchmal metaphorisch oder mit anderen Bedeutungen gebraucht werden, zeigt, dass sie auch diverse emotionelle Verbindungen haben. DarÃ1⁄4ber hinaus wird der Mutterschoß in mehreren Kontexten aus verschiedenen Perspektiven betrachtet, wobei er nirgendwo als Erfahrung (einer Frau) …
The “Openness” of the Song of Songs
More than any other biblical book the Song of Songs has received a wider range of interpretations, most of which seem to be valid, even when they sometimes contradict each other. A literary approach to both the form and contents of the Song can assist psychological investigations into this diverse reception and show that the multiplicity of meanings attributed to the Song, sometimes experienced as disturbing, can also be an invitation to creative…
Some psychoanalytical meanings of the skin in the book of Job
Traditionally, there has been a tension between psychology and religion because of the Freudian critique of religion. This research intends to show that a deeper understanding of religion leading hopefully to an even deeper religiosity can be achieved by studying bodily features portrayed in a (religious) text from a psychoanalytic perspective. Just as any literary character can be ‘psychoanalysed’ to produce new perspectives on it and on the nar…
Daniel
Beneath the Body of the Text
The various explicit references and descriptions of the different bodies in the Song of Songs have, just as characters, an “unconscious†which can be interpreted by psychoanalysis. These body-images are important as they unconsciously influence the recipients of the text and therefore need to be unpacked in a critical way. This will hopefully also show that the literal interpretations are flat reductions and a denial of a hidden depth of meaning
The Ideal Body in the Hebrew Bible Compared to That in Transpersonal Psychology
Despite the Hebrew Bibleâ€TMs canonicity does not present a single picture of the ideal body, ranging from texts from the Priestly Source, the Song of Songs and the way the body of God has been portrayed. Its response to and interaction with pluralistic post-modern searching for the ideal, such as in trans-, super- and posthumanism, are therefore a complex struggle which transpersonal psychology can clarify, even if it cannot resolve it
Possible Psychoanalytic Meanings of the Foreskin in the Hebrew Bible
Amongst the approximately 250 body parts which are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the foreskin is mentioned infrequently, even when it is closely linked to circumcision, an essential religious, national, and identity marker. While the foreskin must therefore be highly cathected, this background position may be indicative of either unconscious or constantly assumed meaning(s) which it has in its literary contexts. A psychoanalytic exploration of i…
Comparing the Body Images of the Protagonists in the Song of Songs and Job, Focusing on the Skin
The Song of Songs
Book Review
Job’s Emotional Struggle with the Womb
The womb is invested with great significance in the book of Job. As Job regresses from his extended body, concretised in his children, servants and material possessions, to his own, which is then “eaten into” by his skin problems, he longs to return to it. His fantasies about this womb reflect his unconscious anger, wishes and anxieties, processed by his symbolisation of the womb as a holding and containing grave where he can escape the attacks o…
The possible impact of animals on Job’s body image
The body plays an important role in the book of Job – as do animals. According to psychoanalytical specifically object-relations theory, a subjective body image was partly constructed through the internalisation of external stimuli from significant others who mirrored the subject through their feedback or through their own bodies, which served as an ideal or critique to the subject. Amongst the external stimuli, animals constitute such significan…
The possible psychoanalytical meanings of the mouth for mourning in the Book of Job
This study is about the mouth and its parts in the book of Job on the one hand, and on psychic introjection on the other, even when these two aspects do not completely overlap. The dominance of the mouth and orality in this biblical book speaks for its symbolic and psychic implications, including dependency and depression, but also symbolisation and empathy, where psychic digestion is resymbolising what has been desymbolised by trauma. The hypoth…
Hearing the invisible
Job’s body is ‘portrayed’ in a text that can be nothing more than audible. Compared with the eyes of Job (mentioned 49 times explicitly), his ears (mentioned 13 times, i.e., four times less than his eyes, perhaps because his ears are less visible) play a much more subtle role, underlying even his final confession in 42:5-6, where it seems/sounds that his eyes gave him (only) his final in-‘sight’. That leaves the impression that his ears give him …
Pathology and pain, disease and disability
Not only trauma, mourning and disease, but also disability has been recognised in the Book of Job in which the body plays an exceptional role. The protagonist is suffering physically, psychically and spiritually. Although the word, חלה [be sick, ill], never occurs in the book, his body is portrayed negatively being afflicted by some unknown illness, which would probably exclude him from the community described in Leviticus 13–14. While חָרֵשׁ [be…
Images of the dead (body) and the missing corpse in the Book of Job
The Song of Songs is regarding Eros, whereas the Book of Job seems to be about Thanatos. Despite the dominance of the theme of death in this biblical book, no word for a corpse or even a dead body occurs. Absence is, however, hermeneutically so important that it probably constitutes its essence in that only gaps leaving questions can be interpreted. The theory of the French psychoanalyst, Mária Török, about a phantom in a psychic crypt as unknown…
Hair matters
Compared with other biblical books that are named after its main protagonist, Job mentions many (at least 72) body parts. Yet hair is explicitly referred to only once, even when it plays a relatively significant role in other books in the Hebrew Bible. This virtual absence of hair in the book can at first glance be explained by the shaving of Job’s ‘head’ as early as 1:20, using a different verb, גזז, from the one in Leviticus 13:33 and 14:8.9, ג…
Fantasy and fiction in religion
The question about fantasy and fiction in religion is probably as old as the first interrogation and critique of revealed religion. However, the relation between fiction and religion is a two-way street. Underlying both is imagination which brings into play the psychological dimension of both but this in turn is always based on the body. Fantasy dreamily imagines the perfect body precisely to try and fill the gap left by imperfection. As an examp…
Signs of sexuality in a book about death seen through a psychoanalytic lens
Verbum et Ecclesia is a theological research journal that challenges traditional discourses within and between the fields of biblical, religious, social and human sciences as well as the constructive engagement with the natural sciences. It is an instrument of engagement between theological disciplines, on the one hand, and theology and other disciplines, on the other
Following Job's feet
The feet are the base of the body but suggest mobility at the same time. As such an important corporeal part to be expected is that figurative language would develop around it hinting at unconscious associations to feet which might not be consciously logical. In the Book of Job the protagonist’s feet are mostly referred to as metaphors and then mainly with negative connotations. This is both because of the Satan’s attack on a man whom he suspects…
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