JORGE RODRIGUES SIMÃO

Gandhi Movie

MOHANDAS GANDHI

PERSPECTIVAS - HOJEMACAU - O SONHO INDIANO - 24.06.2016

“Maintaining rapid yet environmentally sustainable growth remains an important and achievable goal for India. The country's main problems lie in the disregarding of the essential needs of the people. There have been major failures both to foster participatory growth and to make good use of the public resources generated by economic growth to enhance people's living conditions; social and physical services remain inadequate, from schooling and medical care to safe water, electricity, and sanitation.”

An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions

Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen

A Índia não pensa no tão ansiado e cobiçado papel de ser uma superpotência económica, que parece ter ficado enterrado no passado e de que se recorda com receio. O aumento do preço do petróleo devido à guerra no Iraque, em 1991, deixou a Índia com apenas duas semanas de reservas em dólares para as importações de petróleo bruto. O Fundo Monetário Internacional concedeu empréstimos, tendo como contrapartida a liberalização da sua economia autárquica. O então ministro das finanças e depois primeiro-ministro, afirmou, parafraseando o escritor francês Victor Hugo, de que nenhuma força podia parar uma ideia quando o seu tempo tivesse chegado, mudando assim, o curso da história moderna do país asiático, com a abertura da economia, e nascia a “Índia brilhante”.

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Lacan in Theory

Jacques Lacan

 The French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan (19011981) is frequently described as the architect of postmodern psychoanalytic semiotics. Drawing on the ideas of Freud, Saussure, and Lévi-Strauss, he argues that the unconscious is structured like a language; it is therefore crucial to identify the inner workings of that discourse that takes place within the unconscious – the repository of knowledge, power, agency, and desire. We do not control what we say; rather the structure of language is predetermined by thought and desire. He employs a psychoanalytical, Freudian conception of the divided human subject - ego, superego, and the unconscious - to demonstrate that the ‘I’ expressed by language (which he calls the ‘subject of the statement’) can never represent an individual’s ‘true’ identity (which he calls the ‘subject of enunciation’).

How to Control your Mind - Sarvangasana Yoga

We cannot control everything that happens to us. But we can control our response to those things.

We cannot control the feelings of others-their fear, their power trips, their issues.

All that we can choose is how we want to respond.

Maybe you have been wronged.

Everything Happens For A Reason

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

James Russell Lowell

Success rains down for no apparent reason.

Tragedy strikes like a freight train.

We’re left to deal with the results.