<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Emilie Bilman, Poet]]></title><description><![CDATA[emily-bilman]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:32:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.emily-bilman.net/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Neuro-psychoanalysis]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have been researching neuro-psychoanalysis based on the study of neuroscience and the emotions. So far, I have been concentrating on seven principal emotions some of which conflict with each other. Here are the seven basic emotions which have been named by neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp and correlated by  Professor Solms: Seeking; Panic/Grief in conflict with Rage as in a baby crying for the breast; Lust or Erotic Desire; Fear in conflict with Rage and also with Panic/Grief which forms the...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/neuro-psychoanalysis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab5ef49e4b93bd9a85514b4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:18:17 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since we are in a world which will be dominated by AI and mathematics more and more, we can conclude that we will be reaching objectivity both as reporters and viewers. I think that the most efficient way of carrying out a positive journalistic reporting might be based on a moderate and diplomatic and tactful manner of reporting which is open to alternate solutions and presents a possible consensus in political and geo-strategic issues that, if not presented as such, might and does lead to...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/journalism-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69573dffdd9c59302c382004</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:52:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is the state of today's journalism in the world? What I observe in the daily news is a state of dissipated anxiety which turns to negativity and contradicts objectivity that is supposed to be the hallmark of decent journalism. Since we are humans, we are incapable of total objectivity: we have to rely on our perceptions and our subjectivity to report whatever is going on in today's world. But, on the other hand, with political reporting, a journalist deals with political figures and the...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/journalism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6952e715bc6e9ca01961a168</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:55:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Warrants]]></title><description><![CDATA[Published in the Deronda Review, 2023   I will return to the Aegean, the sea Of my youth where dolphins raced after Our departing ship in...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/the-warrants</link><guid isPermaLink="false">685defaa899a64fbc9605819</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 01:11:36 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Narcissism]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to Freud, primary narcissism is based on the needs of the infant who has to be fed and cared for by the mother whose body the...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/narcissism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">685deb82d2c786af5d6011c4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 01:03:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eco-Poetry]]></title><description><![CDATA[I define eco-poetry as poetry written on the pressing issues of ecology that our world faces within the context not only of warmer...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/eco-poetry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68263afed9eda83af437a5a7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 19:20:25 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the main convergences of all watershed basin issues in the world is conflict resolution. That is where human geography with its...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/non-fiction-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6703246dae49f5f15a1788f3</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:04:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is character study relevant for non-fiction? I definitely think so because the creation of a realistic character who is involved in a...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/non-fiction-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66fdbf633e6c6e6febef9e6d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:50:53 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Should the genre of non-fiction be based on objective knowledge or by taking the reader's participation into consideration, rather be a...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/non-fiction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66fb1f56fd205b37257e4d67</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:08:17 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethnography]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I participated to the Annual General Meeting of the Ethnography Museum of Geneva in which we started a discussion about...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/ethnography</link><guid isPermaLink="false">665e717bc58c8794330dacca</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 01:58:30 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[William BLAKE]]></title><description><![CDATA[William Blake was born in November 28, 1757 in Soho, London. He was a precocious child with a lively imagination and was reprimanded by...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/william-blake</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6619b0bb0999b8e4eeaf9bb3</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:47:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry and Psychoanalysis]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently wrote an essay on William Blake's "Four Zoas" and Freud's paper on "Splitting of the Ego". Whereas for Freud and contemporary...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/poetry-and-psychoanalysis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65ee5d427a939be132bcc0b3</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:33:46 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Double Bind" with the Editor's e-mail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dear Emily, Thanks for sending me this fascinating short story. It is a pleasure to read your work again and I have now published your...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/the-double-bind-with-the-editor-s-e-mail</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64ee662dbeb079968b7b6de9</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:42:34 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[          Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have been re-reading Freud's book written in 1928, the year before the Holocaust. In the book, Freud argues that human beings are...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/civilization-and-its-discontents-by-sigmund-freud</link><guid isPermaLink="false">649e118d7fef493778f982b4</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 23:28:35 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close Reading ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The close reading of a text enables us to think through the implications of the writer and  expand our empathy with the writer and enter...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/close-reading</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6462ade5b2d2ef3a66ad62f6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 22:11:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelley]]></title><description><![CDATA[We celebrated the anniversary of his death on July 8 with the Romantic Scholars in Rome. "The Triumph of Life" was read in many different...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/shelley</link><guid isPermaLink="false">62d49827a08811b9ffa3902d</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 22:03:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perception and Cognition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perception is attained by the five senses; yet it is also imprinted in the human brain which enables us to do everyday tasks without much...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/perception</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6462a70d42aa35ded8b7478f</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 21:50:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dante and Human Consciousness]]></title><description><![CDATA[I think that Dante wrote about human consciousness in his books. In "The New Life" he refers to his growing awareness of his body through...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/dante-and-human-consciousness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">640bc5bbea200e0a77b66674</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:17:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polaris Trilogy]]></title><description><![CDATA[I started 2023 with the good news that my sonnet entitled "Pathfinder" was chosen to be published in the tripartite Anthology called "The...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/the-polaris-trilogy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63b89423c54228a89bccb71e</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 21:41:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hybrid Forms in Literature ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I think that the new hybrid forms assimilated into a literary text add an innovative touch to the texts. A poem which opens a chapter or...]]></description><link>https://www.emily-bilman.net/single-post/hybrid-forms-in-literature</link><guid isPermaLink="false">637f874158bb615c8728512d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:08:21 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Emily Bilman</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>