ON SYMBOL HOUSE

Meanings and interpretations of symbol

 HOUSE in literature and art

 SYMBOL HOUSE is a notable and useful symbol in literary and artistic works . so many  events in different stories , tales , novels, movies,paintings,operas,  happen in  different houses . Every one of them has special characteristics for it self.But I want to say that House has variety forms in literature and art, therefore :cities,countries,temples,palaces,rooms,castles,shopes even prisons are different shapes of symbol HOUSE in literary and artistic works.Thus I mean by House here is more than general definition of this symbol.In my opinion house as a symbol can be not only a physical place but also a spiritual realm where belongs to a good or evil person in story.So according to my opinion, human’s thoughts and heart wills and also her or his situations and circumstances  are  indicated by symbol  house

 

I want to say that, symbol house by this widespread definition has 2 meanings and interpretations

Psychological meanings  and interpretations

Social  meanings  and interpretations

 

The first meaning indicates hero’s inner  realms and ibdividuality  and the second one, refers to  her or his outer world and Collective issues

 

I clarify these poins with two examples:in gulliver’s travels  ,liliput country and its political system and government   can be explained as a house or chateau d'if prison  in alexandre duma’s novel count mont Christ are accounted for symbol house.But how?I explain it.In first example Gulliver’s travels,liliput is a dimension of symbol house with particular property

 

The second example is on two kinds of houses

 

A)     A house for self-development and promotion I mean chateau dif prison

 

B)     Another house is a palace that Edmond Dantes or the count of monte Christo bought it after his transformation and finding Spada treasure

 

• Indeed in first house Edmond dantes knew himself and his potential abilities with help of Abbe Faria btter  than past so in that time symbol house was a suffering prison because attaining knowledge is hard.But after his reformation his house was a palace.I mean that prison and this palace are symbols of Edmond’s self in two junctures. His self before and after transformation.This is a very considerable meaning for BECOMIN

 

• On second example I should say beriefly that liliput as a country and society is a big house and its happenings  refers to thoughts and decisions of its people

 

• With another word heros and good beings in stories have beautiful and shining houses but evils and wicked ones have dark and fearful houses .It is denotation  of therir thoughts and heart wills

 

• But sometimes hero has bad and dark hous (like the first part of edmond dantes’s story) this is because of reforming and indicator of a great change and after his change also his prison turns into his palace
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Overcoming giant,dragon and monster in literature and art

 

Meanings of Overcoming giant and dragon and monstor  in literature and art

By:Dr VidaAhmadi(Dana Kamran)

In many literary and artistic works there is a hero who encounters with a giant or dragon or monster and she or he must fight with them and conquer the whole of them to achieve her or his goals.

These giant and monster and dragon are symbols in literature and art.In this short article,I indicate 2 general symbolic meanings of these groups of symbols and then I explain them briefly .These two main groups are as follow

The basic concepts

secondary meanings

In basic meanings there is a monster or dragon and hero destroys it.

But in secondary meanings  hero faces with a person or thing that has no dragon's or monstor's appearance  but indeed the inner of that enemy is like a devil dragon or monster. Therefor dragon and monstor in these cases are

A) moral vices

B) fears

C) Anxiety

D)wrong thought or belief

I want to clarify it with examples.In so many fairy tales or other kind of literary or artistic works an evil human or a fals belief or wrong thought can be the same dragon or giant that must be defeated.In the conference of the birds written by attar (Iranian mystic poet) limited attitudes of birds toward themselves and life is their monster or dragon or mephisto in faust written by goethe or stepmother and stepsisters in cinderella are other symbols for this meaning.So the shape of this enemy is not important but what is notable is the form of facing with it .this is the case

Basically in all these meanings hero conquers and dragon and monster defeated and destroyed

Also it can be another symbolic meaning for alchemy. hero kills dragon or giant and by this victory  her or his dark nigredo finished and her or his Albedo and Rubedo or self developing and actulizing happen.this is the real meaning of gold in alchemy

 

 

 

 

?FAIRY TALES Imagin Or Reality

 

 

 قصه های پریان ،واقعیت یا خیال؟

نویسنده:دکتر ویدا احمدی(دانا کامران)

 

تا کنون مقالات و کتاب های گوناگونی را درباره  تعریف و چیستی قصه های پریان  خوانده ام اما  افراد متعددی (نه همه افراد)که در این باره نوشته اند ( چه در ایران و چه در دیگر کشور ها ) تقریبا در یک نکته با هم اتفاق نظر دارند و آن خیالی بودن این گونه قصه ها و غیر واقعی بودن آنها ست و اینکه رخدادها و شخصیت ها در چنین داستان هایی صرفا زاییده خیالات نویسندگان و یا راویان آنهایند نه بیش از این و هدف از طرح این قصه ها ، لالایی کودکان بوده است.

اما من در این نوشتار قصد دارم تا به اختصار بگویم به هیچ وجه چنین نبوده است. این داستان ها نه خیالند و نه با هدفی تا این حد معمول گفته و یا نوشته شده اند و البته برای روشن کردن چشم انداز خودم لازم می دانم به  دو نکته اساسی توجه شود نکاتی که تقریبا همه آنانی که معتقدند این قصه ها خیالی اند به آن ها بی توجه بوده اند هرچند با  دونکته ای  که می خواهم مطرح کنم بیگانه نبوده اند اما شاید آن ها را مغفول گذاشته اند و آن دو نکته عبارتند از:

1-نمادین بودن این قصه ها

2-و دیگر معطوف بودن همه شخصیت ها و رویدادهای این قصه ها به وقایع درونی انسان و زندگی وی

نخست تعریف خودم را از این داستان ها مطرح می کنم تعریفی که در بیشتر مواردی که قبلا خواندم ، ندیدم. حتی کسانی مانند ولادیمیر پراپ  و یا لوفر دلاشوکه سال ها در این زمینه مطالعه کردند و نوشتند هم از این چشم انداز به موضوع ننگریستند .

به باور من قصه های  پریان به قصه هایی گفته می شود که در همه آنها مجموعه ای از عوامل و موجوداتی  جادویی ومتافیزیکی  در پیشبرد اهداف قهرمان داستان و پیروزی وی بر ضد قهرمان تاثیر گذارند و این عوامل و موجودات نیز معمولا برای انسان عجیب و نا متعارفند به این معنا که انسان با آنها  مانوس نیست .با چند نمونه موضوع را روشن تر می کنم و با توضیح  نماد شناسانه هر کدام از آنها تلاش می کنم تا نشان دهم آنچه به عنوان شخصیت و یا رویداد در قصه های پریان وجود دارد خیلی هم  خیالی نیست بلکه می تواند واقعی باشد البته مشروط بر اینکه چه کسی بنای آن را دارد تا وارد چنین عرصه ای شود، با چه درکی و ایمانی و البته قدرت شهودی، زیرا این عوامل در نحوه دریافت این گونه داستان ها و بهره برداری واقعی از آنها  بسیارمهمند. مثلا: گربه ای که سخن می گوید و توانایی های شگفت آور بسیاری دارد،عصای جادویی ،کوتوله ها،پری ها،خانه های شگفت انگیز،باغ ها و جنگل های اسرار آمیز،غول و دیو و اژدها،کتاب های عجیب با تصاویر جاندار و متحرک،تبدیل شدن  موقت قهرمان داستان به سنگ با طلسم  موجود شرور و شکسته شدن طلسم ، توسط کیمیاگر یا پریان و خلاصی قهرمان و نمونه های بسیار دیگری که در قصه های پریان یافت می شوند همه و همه برای انسانهای زیادی قابل فهم نیستند و حتی باور به آنها برایشان دیوانگی و خنده آور است

اما این افراد از این نکته مهم  غافلند که همه این موارد همانند کدهایی هستند که باید رمزگشایی شوند و در زندگی واقعی مورد بهره برداری قرار گیرند وگرنه چرا باید اساسا چنین داستان هایی وجود داشته باشند و حتی چرا باید بزرگانی مانند برادران گریم سالها برای جمع آوری و نگهداری چنین میراث فکری ،وقت بگذارند اگر ارزشی در این قصه ها نبود! همچنین باید در نظر داشت که رویدادهای قصه های پریان در واقع اتفاقاتی است که  بخشي از آن (و نه همه رخدادها زيرا بخشي از رويدادها به راستي بيرونيند )در درون انسان تحقق می یابد و همه عناصر و اجزا داستانی در چنین مسیری قابل رمز گشایی نمادینه اند. با توجه به وجوه نمادشناسانه ای که در نمونه های بالا هست ، دیگر نمی شود به راحتی آنها را خیال دانست، مثلا :تبدیل شدن اشخاص داستان به سنگ با طلسم  موجود شرور می تواند این طور توضیح داده شود که موانعی که توسط موجود شرور بر سر راه قهرمان  داستان قرار می گیرد و راه او را موقتا سد می کند و یا افکار نادرستی که باز هم برای مدتی کوتاه به وی تحمیل می شود همه و همه می توانند مصادیق همان سنگ شدگی باشند.ویا پریان و کوتوله ها می توانند همان قدرت های شهودی و خردمندانه قهرمان قصه باشند که از وجود پاک و مقتدر وی نشات گرفته اند و در راه مبارزه با شرور به او کمک می کنند.و یا غول و دیو و اژدها در قصه های پریان نمودهایی از ترس ها ، رذایل اخلاقی ،اضطراب ها  ،افکار و عقاید نادرست و یا وسواس های  درونی خود قهرمانند که باید با آنها مبارزه و بر آنها غلبه کند و یا نمادی از افراد ستمگر و شروری هستند که در زندگی واقعی هم هستند و مانع تراشی و کارشکنی هایی می کنند تا سد راه رشد کسی شوند که در راه شکوفاندن خود گام برمی دارد و باید شکستشان داد.موارد بسیار دیگری هم که در قصه های پریان ظاهرا خیالی به نظر می رسند همگی با ژرفکاوی نمادشناسانه  قابل توضیحند ،توضیحاتی که نشانگر این مهمند که این قصه ها درس هایی برای زندگی واقعیند برای آنانی که مشتاقند تا خود را و توانایی های خود را بشناسند و با غلبه بر موانع درونی و بیرونی به خود شکوفایی و فعلیت یافتگی برسند و در واقع می توانم بگویم قصه های پریان نیز به نوعی کیمیاگری وجودند که در شکلی نمادین و ظاهرا خیالی مطرح شده اند و تنها آنانی که قابلیت فهم و گشودن رمز و رازهای این قصه ها را دارند هم در عرصه نظر و هم عمل ، می توانند به حکمت های ژرف این قصه ها دست یابند، کسانی که باور دارند این قصه ها واقعیند.

 

 

 

 

 

Alchemy As Knowledge Of Self Actulization

 

 

 کیمیاگری به مثابه هنرخودشناسی و فعلیت یافتگی و کیمیاگر به مثابه هنرمند (این نوشتار کوتاه برگرفته از بخشی از چهارمین کتاب من با عنوان ژرفکاوی منطق الطیر عطار است)

نویسنده:دکترویدااحمدی(داناکامران)

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حجم: 311 کیلوبایت

همچنين اين مطلب برگرفته از كتاب از بند تا پرواز اثر دكتر ويدا احمدي با نام قلمي داناكامران است.

 

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حجم: 18.3 مگابایت

On Myself

 

I was born on a snowy winter night. I am from Khorasani and my hometown is Mashhad, but it was not until three years later that Neyshabur became the city of my life and I spent my childhood and adolescence there. My joyful bicycle rides in the alleys of Neyshabur, my childish leaps and bounds among the flowers and trees of the garden where Attar and Khayyam are buried, and the sweet singing of the birds there are so deeply engraved on my soul that even as I write these words, it seems like it is now that's where I am. I always read a lot of books, very enthusiastically. I wrote poetry. I also loved painting. I still remember my various colored pencils, crayons, and watercolors with their colorful designs and patterns. Since my teenage days, I have also been writing calligraphy, not mostly with black ink, but with colored ink, and mostly red, of course.

In elementary school, middle school, and high school, I was an excellent student and always wrote good essays. Contrary to the wishes of my elders, who said that a student with a GPA of 19 or higher should not study humanities, and that he must either become a doctor or study mathematics or industrial physics, I insisted and chose humanities because I loved it and still do. From then on, the same debates continued, especially regarding the choice of university major. Now that you have your say in high school, and you studied humanities, come and study law at the University of Tehran. But I still insisted and said no, and I studied Persian literature and, with a rank of 88, I became a student at Ferdowsi University of my own free will (it goes without saying that the reason for this rank was my poor health at the time, otherwise, as I said, I would have strived for single-digit and high-profile ranks). Then I completed all three of my academic years at this university with an A grade and an honors grade. I remember the first time I wrote a scientific paper when I was nineteen years old, and my paper was about "Hafez and Soren Kierkegaard ," which I wrote in I lent it to a student, and after that, if you saw that article, I saw it too. Then I attended a world congress for the first time.

Mulla Sadra World Congress with an article about the concept of light in the eyes of Attar and Sadra, and among all the participants from forty countries in the congress, I was the youngest at 23 years old. Since then, I have participated in numerous conferences, and even in European countries such as England and France, and in Germany, my article was published alongside the articles of the great scholars, which is a source of pride for me. I also love traveling very much and have traveled to every corner of my country, Iran, and the world. Traveling to India, France, Iraq, England, Syria, Arabia, and Germany is each a bag of magnificent experiences for me, thinking to find answers and awareness. Since 1999, following strange and thought-provoking events that occurred in my life, I have paid great attention to psychoanalysis and the symbology of literary and artistic texts, and of course, the subject of my doctoral thesis was also related to these categories and experiences. The journey into the depths of the psyche of the creators of literary and artistic works and masterpieces of Iran and the world is among my sweetest experiences. Writers, poets, and artists whose existence sometimes reminds me of the ocean and its depths are great human beings that can be understood by studying and thinking about them. The feeling of being in the depths of a place like the ocean and still being able to breathe and survive is an amazing feeling that has repeatedly given me by reading a novel or listening to a piece of music and remembering a painting or a movie or even an animation worthy of scrutiny and insight, such as the works of Bruno Bozzetto.

So far, I have written 4 books, all of which in some way reflect my research passion, namely psychoanalysis and the symbology of literary and artistic texts. Their names are as follows:

The Awake Dreamers

To the Bright

From barrier to Flight

A Deep Analysis of the conference of the birds

and various articles have been published by me, among which even the experience of psychoanalysis of children's works is evident. A review of stories such as "The Sleeping Beauty" by "Charles Perrault" and "Hansel and Gretel" from the "Collected Collection of the Brothers Grimm". I have also given several lectures so far in Iran and Europe, including the City of Books in Tehran and in England and France at the University of Strasbourg, where Goethe is among the honors of this university. I have also had several interviews with newspapers, radio and television, which I will limit myself to mentioning. And now, the most beautiful and happiest moments of my life are still when I am reading and writing because it is only at such times that I truly feel like I am.

 

 

Who Is The Hodhod In The Cinference Of The Birds

اين مطلب برگرفته از كتاب از بند تا پرواز اثر دكتر ويدا احمدي (دانا كامران)است

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حجم: 18.3 مگابایت
 

 

 

 

Alchemy And Money

The reasons for the use of gold and silver as money and criteria for the evaluation of knowledge at Alchemy

 

 

(Dr Vida Ahmadi( Dana Kamran

 

What we now call in our time money to be made from different materials with the old days.Now the paper for this trade tool, as well as alloys that are used in place of the old era. Materials were gold and silver coins last times, although common today, gold coins, but not as a means of trade and buy and sell. But in periods of ancient gold and silver played a prominent role in trade and exchanges. What is important about this is why it is that What was the reason for enjoying this particular metals, are just a lot of it in the past or even more important reason. What is certain is that gold and silver in any period of history, even in comparison with the population, have been abundant and valuable and this is proof of its evaluation criteria.So the answer must be sought in the realm of alchemy. Gold and silver are precious metals in alchemy and the result of "Alchemy":OPUS MAGNUM. Thanks to the efforts and perseverance basis of the metal value in the conversion process Metal Alchemist post to one of the two precious metals in the "alembic" or "Atanor" is realized. And  in fact it means the development of their potential and promoting their existence. Although  alchemists believe that gold and silver are not symbolic but also implies a true elixir in their knowledge that they have achieved, In literature and art also implies a lot of aspects of the same reality of the alchemical accomplishments is rather symbolic that.

Even today, with advances in science and technology, we see that the sun and moon have many material benefits and efficiency and the importance of these two legendary not just beliefs.

 As a result, the use of the precious metal in Business Administration is based on the foundation of such an alchemical value