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Vystoupení na 5. obroční evropské konference Society for Literature, Science & Arts "Figurations of knowledge", Berlín, Německo, 2.-7. června 2008 (Stream 1: Inspiration & intuition)

In our research we focus on the thresholds, passages and incommensurabilities between psychiatry and spirituality. More specifically, we ask: How it happens, in terms of observable and accountable practices, that phenomena such as hearing the voice of God, having an apparition of Virgin Mary or suffering from demonic oppression are sometimes understood as symptoms of mental illnesses or, other times, as elements of true spiritual or religious experience? Assuming that it simply is psychiatry, which produces the former, and pastoral practice, which pushes such cases to the latter end, is misleading. The field of practices we study is much more complicated. A useful methodological tool for observing subtleties of our phenomena is taking a symmetrical stand toward them, i.e., taking the spiritual and the psychiatric equally seriously. In our paper we would like to discuss the movie “Exorcism of Emily Rose” (Scott Derrickson, 2005), a combination of horror and court drama, in which a priest is sued for causing death of a young woman by performing exorcism on her. We analyze various means by which the film maintains undecidability for us, as audience, as for the key point of the story: was the young woman, Emily Rose, sick, or possessed? The aim of our analysis is to show what such a symmetrical approach might mean and what implications it could have for research practice, which also can be seen, after all, as a kind of trial.

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ZK & KM (oba PK 1293, Vojnův Městec) - 5. místo (ze 40 dvojic). Zámecký park v Jaroměřicích byl pěkný, počasí nádherné. Hrálo se na cestičkách, neohraničená hřiště. Napřed čtyřkolový "švýcar", šestnáct nejlepších pak vyřazovací zápasy. Vyřazení dohrávali o umístění. Dostali jsme se mezi nejlepších osm, vypadli v krásném a dramatickém zápase o postup do čtvrtfinále. Nakonec jsme vybojovali páté místo v bratrovražedném boji s Oldou Brožem a Vlastou Vejmělkem od nás z Vojnova Městce. Dobrý den to byl.

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