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Showing 1 to 20 of 247 for “"Freud"”.
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Freud : moments of modernism
… that the importance and weight of Sigmund Freud's "discovery" and elaboration of psychoanalysis - its impact as a turning point for western modes of intellectual activity, and as a determining consideration for western culture as a whole - has been so profound that it would be impossible to …
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Psychic life: the Freud-Bergson convergence
<p>Sigmund Freud and Henri Bergson contemporaneously developed theories of the psyche bearing many features in common, including an unconscious substrate of memories which furnish dreams and a dualism of vital and repetitive drives. I argue that these similarities, which have received little …
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Interpreting Interpretation in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, and Lacan
… textual analysis of primary texts by Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Jacques Lacan. Chapter One presents Freud's The interpretation of dreams (1900) as initiating a new psychoanalytic hermeneutic/interpretive epistemology, methodology, and method; explores Freud's subsequent epistemological …
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Freud after Bataille: Death, Dissolution and the 'Oceanic' Feeling
… modalities – text, body, and image. Drawing from Freud’s formulations, I trace out the paroxysmal movements of the death drive in concurrence with narcissism, masochism, and the uncanny, arguing that the theoretical indeterminacy of these concepts might be ascribed to the manner in which they …
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Stranger than fiction : the case histories of Sigmund Freud
… of the cultural-historical significance of Freud' s major case histories, through a close examination of three of the most famous: the cases of "Dora", "Schreber" and the "WolfMan". My investigation of the case histories themselves is prefaced, in Chapter One, by a selective review of some …
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Woolf and Freud: A dialogue between Woolf's fiction and psychanalytic theory
… fiction and psychoanalytic theory, namely Freud's theories on sexual identity that were being published by Woolf's own Hogarth Press much around the same time as her earlier works. It is the contention of this thesis that not only do Woolf s texts explore many of the same theories being …
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L'ecriture Automatique Surrealiste Et La Psychanalyse. Breton Avec Freud Et Lacan
"In the conclusion of the dissertation, I corroborate this observation with the fact that poetry and love, in their Surrealist design, constitute the radical contrivance standing in for the lack of a logical, commensurable accord between male and female relations to the signifier of desire, to …
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The Marx-Freud synthesis of Erich Fromm : a critical examination and appraisal
… Marx's historical materialism by recourse to Freud's psychological theory in an effort to comprehend the relationship between the economic substructure (base) and the ideological and cultural superstructure more adequately. In so doing, it critically examines the following problematic: In what …
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Concerns of The Self 1800/1900: Freud and The Making of Modern Subjectivity
… each of these approaches. In doing so, however, Freud would install a tension at the heart of the modern self that radically undermined the liberal conception of the individual as transparent, coherent, and responsible. My conviction is that positioning psychoanalysis within the history of …
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Freud-1, a novel regulator of the dopamine D2 and serotonin 1A receptor genes
… a novel helix-loop-helix transcription factor, Freud-1, which is implicated in the regulation of the 5-HT1A receptor and is genetically linked to non-syndromic mental retardation. Initially, I have characterized the repressor activity of a novel long isoform of human Freud-1 and shown that it is …
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Carry On Joking: Freud, Laughter and the Hysterical Male in the Carry On films
… voyeuristic male spectator, this thesis draws on Freud's Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious to analyse the Carry On films. Freud's comprehensive theory incorporates the verbal, the comic (visual) and the importance of sharing humour in jokes. He explains the psycho-social relationship …
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A critique of political self-deception: Kant and Freud at the edge of critical theory
… of ideology, this dissertation draws on the Freudian concept of self-deception. It contends the concept of ideology contains the seeds of its own overcoming, and thus cannot represent the limits of political reason. In contrast to ideology, this dissertation claims the Freudian concept of …
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Catástrofe ou reviravolta pulsional? : uma análise crítica da tradução e interpretação do termo umsturz em Freud
… da tradução e interpretação do termo Umsturz em Freud, questionando a ideia de que o autor teria identificado uma "catástrofe" na relação mãe filha. A pesquisa se baseia em uma revisão da literatura em Freud e na análise crítica de dissertações e teses acadêmicas que frequentemente associam a …
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
… Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud,” contributes new research to the diverse field mapping the intersections of science and literature in the nineteenth century. Although scholars such as Gillian Beer and George Levine have established ties between developments in the natural …
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"Intentionnalité et inconscient. Réflexions sur le fonctionnement de la vie psychique à partir du premier Husserl et de Freud"
… de l’inconscient inspirée des textes de Sigmund Freud. A partir de ces textes nous proposons une cartographie plus complète de l’esprit humain, qui rend compte non seulement de la conscience, mais aussi des phénomènes psychiques qui échappent à une telle description. Une première partie est …
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