Ecopsychology in J. G. Ballard’s Fiction

Abstract

I:Paola Della Valle Ecopsychology in J. G. Ballard's Fiction J. G. Ballard prompted a turn in dystopian literature from political/social issues to environmental concerns with his famous tetralogy in the 1960s. Fascinated by psychology and psychoanalysis, he was interested in the effects of urban and natural surroundings on the human psyche. He believed in the interconnectedness of humans and the environment, and was convinced that an unbalanced relationship could affect people's psychological equilibrium. Novels like Concrete Island (1974) and High-Rise (1975) investigate the reactions of the human psyche to hyper-technologized habitats, which makes him a forerunner of ecopsychology, an emerging discipline studying the connections between mental health and the environment. Abstract II:Con la sua famosa tetralogia pubblicata negli anni '60, J. G Ballard segnò una svolta nella letteratura distopica allontanandosi da temi socio-politici a questioni ambientali. Appassionato di psicologia e psicanalisi, amava studiare gli effetti dell'ambiente (naturale o urbano) sulla psiche umana. Ballard credeva che vi fosse un sottile rapporto tra l'uomo e i suoi possibili habitat, la cui messa in crisi ne avrebbe minato l'equilibrio psicofisico. In romanzi come Concrete Island (1974) and High-Rise (1975), lo scrittore analizza le reazioni della psiche umana a spazi iper-tecnologizzati, inaugurando così le tematiche dell'ecopsicologia, una disciplina emergente che studia la relazione tra ambiente e salute mentale.

What We Learn from the X-Ray Grating Spectra of Nova SMC 2016

“…However, this seems unlikely, so Aydi et al (2018) still favored SMC distance. della Valle (1991) found already back in 1991 that the few very intrinsically luminous and fast novae, like N SMC 2016, do not follow the MMRD, so this may explain the non-SMC distance obtained when we try and apply the MMRD to Nova SMC 2016.…”