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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Lacan"”.
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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 Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology
… reduced subject to a mere function of ideology, Lacan was a genuine critic of such a position, who showed how the subject can separate itself from the symbolic structure of ideology. Zizek's portrayal of the debate, however, is not only based on a misapprehension of Lacan's own theory but also …
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Interpreting Interpretation in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, and Lacan
… 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 revisions and evolving …
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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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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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L'ecriture Automatique Surrealiste Et La Psychanalyse. Breton Avec Freud Et Lacan
… to enjoyment. Whence the importance of what Lacan calls the ""other satisfaction,"" the one pertaining to the symptom. Since love is a symptom, and ""words are making love"" (Breton), writing about love implies writing with one's symptom. It is what I finally discern in Breton's Les vases …
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“Fall” and Redemption in the Thought of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan
… 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
… 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 the …
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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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Speaking being: language, body, and the construction of a world in Heidegger and Lacan
… the basic theoretical hypotheses and models of Lacanian psychoanalysis, taking into consideration Martin Heidegger’s critique of science and modernity, and his arguments against (Freudian) psychoanalysis. I begin by presenting certain key aspects of Heidegger’s phenomenology in connection with …
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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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Luce Irigaray and the concept of woman : the fate of the dialectic after Hegel, Marx and Lacan
Includes bibliographical references.
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From Case Study as Symptom to Case Study as Sinthome: Engaging Lacan and Irigaray on "Thinking in Cases" as Psychoanalytic Pedagogy
… goals. First, this dissertation articulates a Lacanian account of the epistemological and historical presuppositions of the psychoanalytic case study genre, while engaging reflexively with extant Foucauldian scholarship on this genre as well as feminist psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray’s criticisms …
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Neurosis or Perversion? A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Diagnostic and Clinical Approach to the Treatment of Paraphilia at a Forensic Outpatient Setting: A Case Study and Exegetical Method
The work of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) provided clinicians with three main diagnostic ontological structures: neurosis, psychosis, and perversion. All three diagnostic structures indicate fundamentally different ways of solving the problems of alienation, separation from the primary caregiver, and …
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'n Herwaardering van Olga Kirsch se oeuvre: Identiteit ,moederskap en ballingskap aan die hand van die psigoanalitiese toeriee van onder andere Sigmund Freud,Jaques Lacan en Julia Kristeva
… developments in psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan form the underlying structure of this research, extensive insights from the prolific theoretician Julia Kristeva have been employed to counterpoint the masculine and arguably paternalistic views of the former two psychoanalysists. Some …
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Harry Penhaul and the Subject of the Real: Photographing post-war Cornish community through a Lacanian lens
… In this study I argue that the discourse of Lacanian psychoanalysis provides a conceptual prism with which to encounter a less familiar narrative in Penhaul’s images, one which foregrounds an account of the subject figured as estranged and fragile. Lacan figures the image as the linchpin of …
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Do mal-estar na cultura ao mal-estar estrutural: considerações sobre o advento da modernidade e o sujeito analítico
… marqué cette époque. Fondés sur l'affirmation de Lacan selon laquelle c'est sur le sujet de la science que la psychanalyse opère, nous essayons de distinguer les points de conjonction et de disjonction entre le discours analytique et le discours scientifique. Ensuite, sous la perspective du statut …
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Repetition Repeated: Reconstructing a Lacanian Subjectivity Through Kierkegaardian Repetition
… the subject is thoroughly dismantled. Jacques Lacan inaugurates this dismantling by positing a subject rooted in desire and borne out of a constitutive lack, a subject created by a linguistic and symbolic structure that is completely inaccessible to the one who is. In short, Lacan defines the …
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Kristeva’s Social Theory: A Lacanian Critique for Education
… relation to the theories of Althusser, Hegel and Lacan. Each chapter aims to displace an accepted or dominant interpretation by Kristeva and also by her readers. In reconstructing the problematic that is concealed in Kristeva’s work, I will explore how her theory maintains an Althusserian approach …
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