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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Jacques Lacan"”.
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Dialogues between Feminists and Jacques Lacan on Female Hysteria and Femininity
… dissertation aims to initiate a dialogue between Lacan and Irigaray, Butler, and poststructuralist Anglophone feminists on the relationship between hysteria and femininity. The very existence of hysteria has been called into question by the majority of Anglophone feminists, who have criticized its …
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“Fall” and Redemption in the Thought of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan
… with Nietzsche. I conclude by incorporating Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalysis as a further extension of Heidegger’s discourse on falling, showing that the subject’s discourse and relationship to the truth of Being is at the core of his constitution and neurosis.</p>
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The social imaginary, Jacques Lacan, and the African Christian diaspora in Europe
… is compared to the theories of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. In Part Two, the findings from this comparison are applied to reflect on contemporary issues in Christianity in and out of Africa. The notion of the social imaginary represents a way of addressing issues of society through the lens of …
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RETHINKING ABSENCE: ART PRACTICE AND THE CRITICAL METAPHYSICS OF JACQUES DERRIDA AND JACQUES LACAN
The methodology aims to demonstrate that absence is not reducible to one approach or another but plays on the incommensurabilities, commensurabilities and gaps between the different concepts presented. The 'motions of absence', which are textual insertions interspersed between the sections, …
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Subject to reading : literacy and belief in the work of Jacques Lacan and Paulo Freire
… novel comparison between, the thought of Jacqes Lacan and Paulo Freire, this thesis endevours to rethink subjective agency in a way which takes into account the determinate influence of socio-symbolic structures. It argues for a reconceptualisation of subjecthood such that it might once again …
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Paul Auster und die Klassiker der American Renaissance
… den Ideen des französischen Psychoanalytikers Jacques Lacan. Die drei durch die Prätexte vorgezeichneten Grundpositionen -- die erkenntnisoptimistische Position der Transzendentalisten, die des metaphysischen Zweifels der "düsteren" Klassiker und die metaphysikfreie Position des …
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Fall Line: a work in progress
… novel, based on the critical theories of Jacques Lacan and Helena Cixous, which explores the exclusion of women from the cultural ideal, and their redefinition as cultural "others" in Western American Society. The novel incorporates three separate narratives: two first person narratives …
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Nadoodse ondersoek
… of desire and the death drive as formulated by Jacques Lacan, as well as Julia Kristeva's definitions of the semiotic chora and the abject are used as theoretic criteria in an investigation of psychoanalytic processes in the creative writing process.
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Physician, heal thyself: Desire and impairment in physicians' Writings
… act and respond as they do. \r\n According to Jacques Lacan, desire is the quality of more that leaves us lacking and wanting something else. This quality of more is what I will explore in physicians’ writings. Lacanian desire is one key to the prevalence of the number of impaired physicians. …
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Pedem referens: art historical memory and the analogue in the work of Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar and Lucy Skaer
… among others, with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan in order to argue that the indexical qualities of analogue film and photography place the medium in close proximity to the Lacanian Real. In its obsolescence the analogue’s language of both touch and loss is heightened. Each chapter of …
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The Death Drive Revisited: A Reexamination of Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and its Implications for Critical Theory
… its development in the hands of Hans Loewald and Jacques Lacan, I aim, in the first three chapters, to articulate a drive theory centered around the opposition between what Freud calls the death drive and the drive to mastery, as well as the developmental hazards therein. In the last two chapters, …
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The Emblematic Divide: Contemplating Reality, the Imaginary and Perception in Photographic Practices
… of Psychoanalysis, Seminar XI, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1977) recounts the ancient Greek parable of the contest between the Zeuxis and Parrhasios, two artists competing to paint the most convincing trompe l'oeil painting. In the first instance, Zeuxis painted grapes so perfectly that birds …
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The Logic of Sexuation in Deleuze and Lacan
<p>In <em>The Logic of Sexuation in Deleuze and Lacan</em>, I argue for an account of sexual difference that responds to a tension in feminist philosophy, namely, the problem of the ontological status of the sexed body. In so doing, I turn to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan. I argue …
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Vision and desire: Jim Morrison's mythography beyond the death of God
… mainly from Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan and philosophy, based largely though not exclusively, in Friedrich Nietzsche' s The Will to Power.
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Pilgrim
… Therefore, the theoretical part expands upon Jacques Lacan's concept of the Real and Julia Kristeva's idea of abjection (which she relates to the experience of immigration) and Slavoj Zizek’s Lacanian reading of partial objects as organs without bodies. After covering the theoretical aspects …
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Uncovering the Address of the Eye: The Unconscious as Consciously Experienced in Tarkovsky’s <em>Mirror</em>
… in their film experience, the film enacts what Jacques Lacan calls “full speech,” disclosing its relation to the signifying chain through an introceptive image that the viewer simultaneously appropriates as their own, another “introceptive image.” This correspondence confers upon the viewer a …
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Ixion's wheel: Masculinity and the figure of the circle in the novels of Charles Dickens
… of language within the symbolic order; what Jacques Lacan has identified as "symbolic necessity." I demonstrate this double function of the circle by showing how orality in Dickens's work belongs to a chain of images that include pretty lips, rings, necklaces, fur ringed boots, as well as the …
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The radical music of John Zorn, Diamanda Galás, and Merzbow: a hermeneutic approach to expressive noise
… of Paul Ricoeur and the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, but that also emerges organically from the exigencies of the works under consideration. Across case studies on Zorn, Galás, and Merzbow, I demonstrate how a hermeneutic approach can uncover comprehensible musical meaning even when …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
… and Benjamin’s work through the theory of Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Martin Heidegger.
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