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This research paper develops an analysis of orality as a narrative resource in Ricardo Zelarayán's poetics. After a brief introduction to the objectives of this work and to the bibliography that, up to now, has dealt with this author, still meager outside Argentina, two sections are displayed corresponding to two scenes from the first chapter of Lata peinada, an unfinished novel that Laura Estrin edited in 2008 with the author's help. The reasons why these scenes, as enigmatic as revealing, have been chosen are the reproduction they make of the traditional tension between popular culture and literate culture and the fact that they allow the elucidation of a Zelarayanian author's figure. The results that this textual exegesis will illuminate are, on the one hand, that the voice occupies a preeminent place in the poetics of Zelarayán compared to the letter, as will be seen from the first scene, and the orphanhood that defines the writer's trade, whose poetics isolates him from the literate tradition. Collaterally, attention will be paid to the method of construction of the characters in the novel, the importance of the etymology of their names, traditional music as a narrative resource, or the presence of the «young orphan» motif, typical of the Latin American narrative of between centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following study describes the emotional changes experienced by people who were orphaned during their childhood due to the armed conflict in Colombia. A research with a qualitative methodology was carried out, in which, through four in-depth interviews carried out with the victims, it was shown that children and adolescents must assume roles that do not correspond to them, such as the financial burden of their home, raising their siblings, and the abandonment of their education and childhood dreams. The interviewees narrated how they faced displacement and forced recruitment and how they had to get used to new family nuclei and institutions. Their descriptions reflect that they have assumed the development of a childhood, youth, and adulthood dealing with grief and unresolved losses, such as living emotionally mutilated for the rest of their lives, as they mentioned. Other relevant findings of the study are the behaviors of social isolation and physical consequences that the victims develop, even in adulthood, because of the emotional impact of the violent loss of their parents due to the conflict. This research highlights the importance of recognizing minors orphaned by the conflict as victims, and accompanying them in the process of mourning the death of their relatives, in times closer to the traumatic event, as well as providing tools, based on real experiences, that allow them to adapt to their new family and life dynamics with the support of mental health professionals and family counselors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered a crisis in Mexico and Latin America that affects, among many other aspects, the human rights of children and adolescents. This study focuses on the scenario of orphanhood and violence as a factor that jeopardizes the wellbeing of this population sector using the parameters of measurement indicators. From a humanist perspective, it reflects on the influence of the State and its responsibility to guarantee the exercise of the rights of girls, boys, and adolescents. It also addresses the urgent actions required to protect children and adolescents, and regional mechanisms that seek to contribute to the defense of, and respect for, their prerogatives. Finally, it identifies some of the most important current challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I attempt to show how deep engagement, which is gradually developed within the relational container, can facilitate access to the psychoid dimension of the unconscious characterized by a quality of interconnectedness. The resulting synchronistic experiences can support and strengthen this container as well as having profound re-connecting impact on the people involved. With this in mind, I suggest that openness to this dimension can be very important in working with the issues of loss, abandonment, aloneness and mistrust in human connections - the symbolic domain of the orphan. Although none of the patients I describe in this paper were actual orphans, symbolically the orphan theme featured significantly in their processes, in that early relational trauma left them feeling profoundly alone and unable to trust human contact. For this reason, the most important yet difficult challenge of the work was to help them restore their sense of connectedness to themselves and to others. I consider the role of attunement and reverie as the basis for facilitating this openness and propose that such openness can be seen as a feature of the analytic attitude in its own right and that it constitutes a unique contribution of the Jungian approach to working with early trauma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Marcelino pan y vino (1954) directed by Hungarian Ladislao Vajda, with the stellar participation of Pablito Calvo in the role of Marcelino is based on a popular religious story whose written version is authored by José María Sánchez Silva (1952). This study will focus on film analysis including: gender role inversion by which friars are feminized in their maternal role; temporal ellipsis situating the story in 1808-14; Marcelino and his mystery of origin, among some of the most salient aspects of the film. Moreover, the study argues that the religious and political prejudices are masked in order to render a mythological origin of an orphan child as a way to deal with the trauma of the Spanish Civil War in which hundreds of children were left orphans. Finally, it will conclude relating the film to the monument of the "Valle de los Caídos" as another religious symbolic act promoting social reconciliation about a fratricidal conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]