Topology and Applications International Topological Conference, Dedicated to P.S. Alexandroffs 100th Birthday

The International Topological Conference, which was held in Moscow in the summer of 1996, had gathered a brilliant assembly of mathematicians.The Conference was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pavel Sergeevich Alexandroff, the founder of the world-famous Moscow topological school. The traditions of this school were sharply featured in the lectures delivered by mathematicians from Moscow State University, Steklov Mathematical Institute and other Russian scientific centers. The lectures presented by foreign guests of the Conference also comprised a great deal of interest.The papers collected in this book are written by the participants of this Conference. They give a clear impression of the current state of Topology, as one of the most actively developing mathematical sciences. Nowadays topological methods often find applications not only in other branches of Mathematics, but also in various problems of Physics and other sciences. Investigations in such fields as the behavior of dynamical systems and their stability, wave phenomena in a continuous medium, quantum mechanics and field theory are especially fruitful when they are carried out from the topological viewpoint.The present book will be of use both for professional mathematicians and for all investigators who apply topological methods in their research. Claudette Kulkarni explores lesbian experience from a Jungian and feminist perspective, through interviews with women who see themselves as lesbians or who are in a lesbian relationship. Although a feminist treatment of the subject challenges the heterosexism of Jungian theory, the author presents a link between theory and experience that is consistent with both approaches. She concludes that when a woman finds herself loving another woman she is often responding to a profound psychological instinct to act, in spite of internal conflict or external opposition, and that this is a significant move in the service of personal and collective individuation and a movement toward achieving self-understanding Claudette Kulkarni explores lesbian experience from a Jungian and feminist perspective, through interviews with women who see themselves as lesbians or who are in a lesbian relationship. Although a feminist treatment of the subject challenges the heterosexism of Jungian theory, the author presents a link between theory and experience that is consistent with both approaches. She concludes that when a woman finds herself loving another woman she is often responding to a profound psychological instinct to act, in spite of internal conflict or external opposition, and that this is a significant move in the service of personal and collective individuation and a movement toward achieving self-understanding Claudette Kulkarni's Study Of Lesbianism Explores Lesbian Experience From Both A Feminist And Jungian Standpoint. Her Feminist Interpretation Challenges The Heterosexism Embedded In Jungian Theory, Yet Kulkarni Is Able To Demonstrate That There Are Links Between Theory And Experience And Common Ground Between Jung And Feminism. Using A Methodology Anchored In Gadamer's Hermeneutics, Kulkarni Bridges Theory And Experience By Grounding Theory In Experience Rather Than By Trying To Make Experience Conform To Theory.