Bibliographic record
Abstract
In my forthcoming book, Psychoanalytic Thinking: Essays in Critique (London: Routledge, 2018, in press), I trace what I call “The Melancholic Existentialism of Ernest Becker” (Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death, 1973) and the related melancholic sociology of Peter Berger (The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, 1965) to the unresolved depression that prevented them from seeing the splitting and the one-sidedness entailed in their attitudes of despair and disgust. Becker and his followers in “terror-management theory” have the peculiar idea that death anxiety is our primordial fear, the Ur-anxiety motivating the denial of death through the quest for immortality and various forms of heroism, just as Berger thinks we construct society and religion as illusory defenses against what he takes to be the reality of chaos and anomy (“The Melancholic Existentialism of Ernest Becker,” Free Associations, Vol. 11, Part 3, No. 59, 2004: 422-29).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.047 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.009 | 0.016 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.010 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".