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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"Freudian"”.
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The Adaptive Function of Freudian Ambivalence, A Freudian Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
… develops a proposal for the adaptive function of Freudian ambivalence through evolutionary psychology, a neo-Darwinian sub-paradigm. This proposal posits that Freudian ambivalence is a grand-superordinate adaptive program composed of two integrated bivalent superordinate programs that in turn …
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Reading Lacan reading: Freudian theory, literary text
Lacan is a reader of Freud and of literature, a psychoanalyst whose theoretical texts demonstrate a reading practice useful to literary critics. However, Lacan's reading practices remain largely unexplored by English-speaking critics because his reception has led to a conflation of Lacanian theory …
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A validity study of certain Freudian sex symbols
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Recognition Thresholds for Freudian Symbols and Related Phenomena
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Do dreams protect sleep? Testing the Freudian hypothesis of the function of dreams
… correlates of dreaming, this study tested the Freudian hypothesis that dreams protect sleep. In order to do this, sleep architecture in patients who had experienced dream loss as a result of thrombotic stroke in the region of the posterior cerebral arteries was compared with that of patients …
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A Freudian <i>Dream</i>: Interpretations of <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> by Psychoanalysts and Psychoanalytically Informed Literary Critics
… of <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> by Freudian and post-Freudian clinicians, and by literary critics influenced by psychoanalytic theory. The primary material is principally taken from the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing database, and includes 37 papers or chapters by …
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Symptomatic writings: prefigurations of Freudian theories and models of the mind in the fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins and George Eliot
This thesis examines ways in which the writings of Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) and George Eliot (1819-1880) anticipate aspects of the works of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). It argues that psychoanalytic theories were a product of their time, finding their ancestry in …
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A psychoanalytical approach to Harold Pinter’s plays :Old Times, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party
… of a number of Harold Pinter’s plays, by using a Freudian psychoanalytical approach aligned with a close reading of the following works: Old Times (1971), The Homecoming (1965) and The Birthday Party (1957). Furthermore, the thesis aims at conducting a thorough analysis of the selected plays, by …
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Η ΜΟΡΦΗ ΤΟΥ ΗΡΩΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΤΡΙΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΒΕΝΕΖΗ. ("ΤΟ ΝΟ 31328", ΓΑΛΗΝΗ ΑΙΟΛΙΚΗ ΓΗ)
… LEVI STRAUSS HAVE CONTRIBUTED BASED ON THE FREUDIAN STUDY OF THE TEXT WITH THE AIM OF LOCATING THE POINTS OF CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN THEHEROES' ATTITUDE AND FINDING THE POINTS OF ACCORD IN THE BEHAVIOUR AND IN THE WHOLE PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTION BETWEEN THE HERO AND THE AUTHOR. A …
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FEMALE NEUROSIS : A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING OF WOMEN IN HARDY'S NOVELS
… society. The principal tool of analysis used is Freudian psychology. Hardy's fiction Invites a Freudian reading because of the psychological complexity that Hardy Injects into his female characterisation. There Is a certain progressiveness in Hardy's characterisation of the female psyche, and the …
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Testing the therapist: an analysis of the patient’s attempt to direct treatment
… (CMT)) and Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan (Freudian-Lacanian theory). The primary research question asked: what is testing? CMT, based on the higher mental functioning hypothesis (HMF), proposes that testing is a phenomenon based on an assumption that the unconscious can think, plan and make …
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To Be Loved Is To Be Seen: Gazing as a Form of Interpretation in the Turn of the Screw
… meaning of the novella would usurp the Freudian and anti-Freudian arguments. With the governess’s sight being the main source of debate, reading the novella through the Lacanian lens of the Gaze, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic offer unprecedented explanations and arguments for the …
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Gendered signs of the sacred : contested images of the mother in psychoanalysis, feminism, and Hindu myth
… in patriarchy. I have therefore drawn on Freudian and post-Freudian theories, gender analysis, feminist critical analysis, and classical Hindu goddess myth to discern ways in which sacred images of the mother serve to reinforce the oppression of women on the one hand and can be transformed …
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Poiesis and Obstruction in Art Practice
… possibility’ to occur. It maps a context of both Freudian and Jungian interpretations of art practice, identifying how these ideas have shaped the way art is seen today. Furthermore, it challenges the Freudian idea of ‘pathography’ and favours a Jungian approach of ‘individuation’ in the …
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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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The function of repetition in typology
… part of the cultural production, and the Freudian thesis of the connection between the development of the individual and the development of culture under the domination of the same form of instinctual repression. The first part of the thesis will examine the role of repetition in the …
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Psychogeography, Psychotherapy and Psychogeotherapy: a critique of containing space in therapeutic work
… in depth psychology are presented (particularly Freudian, post-Freudian, Jungian and post-Jungian perspectives). The dominant models of containment in psychotherapy are then interrogated. The thesis discusses these models from different perspectives, drawing on various disciplines, such as art, …
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The Threshing Place
… perspectives of trauma--the former taking a Freudian stance, considering it to be that which persists in haunting and confusing the subject, and the latter considering trauma to be a positive force that leads to innovation and change. These poems work to explore expressly feminine …
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