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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Lacanian"”.
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Kristeva’s Social Theory: A Lacanian Critique for Education
… my argument is that Kristeva’s critique of Lacanian psychoanalysis is inherently flawed and that this, therefore, leads her psychoanalytic work into ethically difficult areas. In the last chapter, on education and transference, I will show how certain educational applications of Kristevan …
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Repetition Repeated: Reconstructing a Lacanian Subjectivity Through Kierkegaardian Repetition
… Job Discourse— and situate their importance for Lacanian repetition. By re-reading Lacanian repetition through a Kierkegaardian framework, we can liberate it from a Freudian determinism that situates the subject as only suffering from alienation and lack, and find a post-structuralist subject …
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A Lacanian Ideology Critique of Gender in Mathematics Education
In this study I employ Lacanian psychoanalysis and ideological criticism to analyze the development of "gender and mathematics" research over the past fifty years. This study is motivated by the original Marxist-Lacanian claim by Valerie Walkerdine in the 1980s that women's relationship with …
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A Lacanian and post-Althusserian approach to homophobia and its resolution
… of them developed. These frameworks are: Lacanian psychoanalysis, which provides an account of the individual subject's relation to the social; and a post-structuralist view of ideology, which analyzes the specific contributions made by the social phenomenon of ideology to the way the …
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Public Servant identity at work in Chilean State bureaucracy: a Lacanian interpretation
… by policy-makers. In particular, drawing from a Lacanian theoretical framework, this study analyses the inconsistent fashion in which identification unfolds discursively. On the one hand, public servant subjectivity is viewed as articulating and enacting cohesive self-meanings during the …
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Working with the Drive: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Treatment of Addictions
… examines the clinical utility of applying Lacanian psychoanalytic interventions to the treatment of addictions. By combining theoretical exegesis with clinical case studies of psychotherapy with patients who struggled with addictions, this project seeks to: 1) contribute to the improvement …
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A thousand points of light : a novel, with accompanying exegesis : 'Lacanian psycho : analysing transgressive fiction'
… the theoretical aspect of the thesis calls the Lacanian desire/drive of the transgressive. Additionally it explores the gulf between conventional morality and the artistic instinct which seeks to show beauty wherever it lies, asking to what degree the photographer is responsible for the scenes …
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Unmaking the remake: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian logic, and the problem of repetition in Hollywood cinema
… rather than replacement, of the predominant Lacanian<br/>model. This is, however, neither a defence of the remake nor of psychoanalysis, but, rather, an<br/>attempt to submit both to a radical reassessment that, as Lacan says, aims at giving you a<br/>‘kick up the arse’ …
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An analysis of unconscious generational transmission in psychoanalytic theory and practice from a Lacanian perspective
This thesis provides a Lacanian psychoanalytic study of the phenomena of unconscious generational transmission. It proposes a model of transmission without trauma, specifically a model of the effects produced as a result of generational transmission which can be described as unconscious, but …
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Beyond Symptom Accumulation: A Lacanian Clinical Approach to Obsession - A Case Study and Theoretical Exposition
… in correcting this imbalance by offering a Lacanian clinical approach to working with obsession. I offer two case studies of former patients--both of whom presented with classic symptoms of the medical syndrome known as obsessive-compulsive disorder--to illustrate Lacan's structural approach …
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Structure or Knot: What Phenomenology and Asperger’s Syndrome can Teach Lacanian Psychoanalysis About Subjective Constitution
… 5, Autism Spectrum Disorder) through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis and speaks to current debates in the field regarding the structural diagnosis of autism. Framed by critiques of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the project takes up autism and treatments for the disorder from within mainstream …
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Beyond the artist-teacher fantasy: a Lacanian psychoanalytic investigation of K-12 art teachers' artist identities
… I utilize the conceptualization of fantasy in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine how art teachers negotiate their desires to be artists with the desire of the professional teaching Other, or the normative professional values of teaching. Through content analysis of art teachers’ …
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The role of the advocate for the detained patient: a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective of advocacy in psychosis
… a psychotic structure through the lens of the Lacanian psychoanalytic theory on the approach to psychosis. From the time when advocacy was introduced as a right in 2009 under amendments to the Mental Health Act (1983, 2007), detained patients who are diagnosed with a serious mental illness and …
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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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Impossibilities and Missing Pieces: An Auto-Ethnographical Approach to Exploring Teacher Identity Formation in Art Education from a Lacanian Perspective
Using Lacanian theory as the interpretive framework, this autoethnography explores teacher identity formation through the researcher’s experiences as a student teacher in the field of art education. The catalyst for this study arose from the lack of literature that uses Lacanian theory to explore …
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Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and the Historical Progression of Discourse: The Shifting of Social and Institutional Identity in Post-World War II America
… institutions through the employment of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, specifically Lacan's theory of discourse. Lacan used the term discourse to show that a society's primary social link is founded on language, reflected back through society in the form of discursive practices. …
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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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