http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/mafia Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 21 May 2026 14:01:43 -0400 Thu, 21 May 2026 14:01:43 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/751/in-treatment-the-casting-and-bracketing-of-repulsion-in-the-sopranos By Simonetta Menossi - The Sopranos (1999-2007) opens with its lead character, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), unenthusiastically meeting his therapist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Lorrain Bracco) for the first time. He is reluctant to trust a female analyst; nevertheless, he begins a confessional narrative that reveals the extent to which the Mafia boss is willing to tell selected portions of his own personal history, but fails to understand fully their meaning and how they refer back to whom he is. Despite his resistance, the scene conveys the extent to which the Mafia boss does not fully realize and understand his own personal... Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:28 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/751/in-treatment-the-casting-and-bracketing-of-repulsion-in-the-sopranos http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/292/italian-politics-and-the-sicilian-mafia-an-account-from-1983-to-present By Nico G. Sciasci - Many know the Island of Sicily as a warm, sun-filled exotic paradise that became home to travelers from distant lands. This paese di sole or land of sun, not only assisted in growing abundant amounts of lemons, cactus fruit and almonds, but rather something mysterious, secret and somewhat intoxicating. A force so strong that even academics today are baffled by a society that has planted its roots deeper than the palm trees of Palermo, which has survived the greatest of wars and the upmost of inadequacies in both the public and political spheres. With its thirst for power and honor, which fights... Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/292/italian-politics-and-the-sicilian-mafia-an-account-from-1983-to-present