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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Instinctual"”.
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The Immortality Phantasy: an extension of the instinctual model of creativity and its application to classic literary texts
This thesis puts forward the hypothesis that there exists within us an Immortality Phantasy which can help to explain the relationship between creativity and destruction. The Immortality Phantasy occurs in response to sublimation, leading to desexualised libido and the release of self-destructive …
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Social and cultural determinants of psychiatric illness : presenting in an urban general hospital
… symptoms from repression of stereotyped instinctual urges of childhood . These instinctual demands arose out of the patriarchal Viennese society.
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An Investigation of Semantic Invariance in Human Speech
… of clinical and experimental tools to tap instinctual processes which could conceivably contribute to phonetic symbol access. It was reasoned that the phonetic symbol should represent a semantic unit from an early stage of linguistic evolution. Consequently, it was thought that persons who …
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One of many, one with all: (re)searching how to live in this world
… structures and systems for many centuries; our instinctual natures have largely been repressed. The purpose of this study is to find out what my bodymind is telling me about how to live in this world. I use arts based methodology to explore how I experience the place in which I live, to find my …
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The function of repetition in typology
… 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 evolution of architectural typology, in parallel to the role of repetition (compulsion to repeat) in the mechanism of instinctual repression of the …
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From Onlooker to Interpreter
… I seek to divert the viewer's expression of an instinctual response, from one that would be expected to one that plays with the idea of the spectator transforming from onlooker to interpreter.
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Seizing the Initiative: Rhetorical Implications of US Army Doctrine
… and nonrational model of kairos as a kind of instinctual awareness. An analysis of how the notion of professionalism is conveyed in the selected corpus shows that the Army's philosophy of command is communicated in terms of kairos, and offers insight into how the Army professional is taught to …
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Culture and Regulation: Examining Collectivism and Individualism as Predictors of Self-Control
… is the capacity to alter one's intended or instinctual behavior in order to align with societal and cultural standards. It has been suggested that the ability to exert self-control has developed evolutionarily in order to increase the odds of one and one's family's survival through …
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Interpretive Teleology Without Eschatology: A Study of the Hermeneutic Strategies of Nietzsche's Genealogical Project
… origin in previously hidden biological, instinctual, or economic forces. While this element is strong in Nietzsche's work, I attempt to draw from his writings a complementary approach that views meaning as the product of activities that aim toward a goal. I contend that both its origins …
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Eleven Bullets: A Counter Assault on Subjectivity and the Creation of Meaning
… and safely. They also directly influence our instinctual responses to visual stimuli.</p> <p>The artworks in this thesis are designed to use the same inherent meanings within the visual elements to communicate with two polar audiences, liberal & conservative. This is accomplished not by …
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Preservation of a species
… inhabit in our digitally saturated culture. Instinctual impulses and organic chaos are suppressed in the automatic and regulated state incited by our technoutopian environments. I use performance to explore three general interfaces that I've located as antagonistic towards natural human …
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Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination Of Crime, Modernity And The New Woman In Early French And American Crime Films In The Us During The 1910s
… qualities represented a more child-like and instinctual reaction to the dangers associated with modernity. The final chapter discusses the revision of the French female criminal as either a woman whose actions are influenced by her emotions or who is erased entirely from the promotional …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… restrictions on women. Women must reject their instinctual desires for a certain amount of sleep so that they can maintain agency and authority over their bodies and narratives. Implicit in the novels is the idea that deep sleep is a mechanism for achieving health and moral strength of …
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Crisis Management: A Qualitative Study of Extreme Event Leadership
… exclusively be focused on life-saving, and instinctual or emotional responses. Further the differences between leadership in dangerous military and non-military domains are examined. The implication of these findings for practitioners and future researchers is also discussed. </p>
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Transforming the Law of One: Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath from a Kristevan perspective
… language and the process of creativity where instinctual drives are at work. This study further applies a feminist reading to the subject’s poetic language and its ability to transgress the law, not necessarily in the political, macrocosmic sense of the word, but rather on the microcosmic, …
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Exploring the experiences of depression within Krishna consciousness devotees: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… - 3a) cognitive dissonance – a battle between instinctual needs and spiritual expectations/ideals, 3b) a stigma/taboo around therapy and opening up, 3c) a sense of risk to the self. Conclusions & implications: The results of this research indicated that devotee’s spiritual identities as ‘the …
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Like My Voice, Now Yours
<p>This is a collection of poems with a critical preface.</p>
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Facing the Last Enemy: Death, Trauerarbeit, and Harry Potter
… purpose for its completion, but more so as the instinctual and necessary means of coping. Thus, Freud’s theory is a useful tool when exploring how it is that Harry is able to successfully navigate his own mourning—within a world that largely inhibits mourning practices—and it ultimately explains …
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In search of self
… translucency. This practice engages me with my instinctual nature and begins an excavation of my internal world. Intuition helps accomplish the task. Bringing an intuitive disposition into my hunt gives me the ability to measure things at a glance, to name the essence of the thing, to fire it …
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Disability and participation in physical activity and non-elite sport environments: a critical investigation of persons with disabilities experiences
… disabilities may withdraw and demonstrate an instinctual need to self-protect against further oppressive treatment. As reflected in current critiques of the global sport for development agenda, persons with disabilities are still only represented on the periphery of programmes and research. …
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