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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Oedipal"”.
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A psychodynamic view of male homosexuality : oedipal and pre-oedipal
… classification, distinguishing between pre-oedipal and oedipal types of homosexuals. This paper argues that while generalization about "homosexuals" is impossible, a psychodynamic approach is useful in looking at the meaning and adaptive function of the homosexual orientation in each …
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Oedipal dynamics between a male-female co-therapist dyad and a group of adolescent boys with learning difficulties : a case study exploration
… opportunity of parental transferences, including Oedipal conflicts, to occur. However, limited empirical data is available regarding male-female co-facilitation in therapeutic groups for adolescent boys with learning difficulties, especially concerning the re-activation of the Oedipal complex. …
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Female Characterization in the Novels of Robert Penn Warren: Variations on a Cinderella Theme
… work upon Warren's fiction. Specifically the oedipal nature of Warren's male characters has been widely discussed especially in regard to plots culminating in patricide. Based upon this criticism of Robert Penn Warren's novels to date, Warren's female characters are revealed to be developed …
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Master of the house: de-mythologizing the father in Turkish-German film
… to the patriarch in film have been dominated by Oedipal interpretations. Two Oedipal explanations for the phenomenon of the disappearing father are examined. The first involves the psychoanalysis of the auteur as in Freud's analysis of The Brothers Karamazov and Bergman's study of Wild …
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The Immortality Phantasy: an extension of the instinctual model of creativity and its application to classic literary texts
… a result of the first identifications with the Oedipal parent, we can see a defusion of instinct occur, which allows for the concurrent release of creative and destructive energies. The ego is left unprotected against the death instinct, resulting in guilt and punishment for Oedipal phantasies. …
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Self and (m)other in Patrick White's fiction : an object relations approach
… the focus of attention from notions of the Oedipal conflict and repression to issues of nurturing and relationships. This study charts the development of the Whitean protagonist across a selection of novels. The focus of my thesis is White's developing protagonist, and no attempt is made to …
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Nopalitos Mean Something: Communicating Identity in Mother-Daughter Relationships through Food and Recipe
… within both the psychoanalytical stages of the Oedipal complex and the psychological construct of the Mother archetype. The result is insight into how women may come to identify themselves as women—as a part of the ancestral and cultural sisterhood they are born into and as individuals.
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La prostitucion y el deseo masculino en El ano que trafique con mujeres de Antonio Salas
… psychoanalytical approach of the study of the oedipal complex in relation to male behaviour in love, particularly as regards heterosexual desire, allows me to demonstrate that this is the cause of prostitute’s marginalization. The analysis of mediated desire illuminates further the source of …
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Devouring the father: family and recuperation in Triomf and the Native Commissioner
… this thesis is acritical application of Freud's Oedipal family structure and its attendant primal scene. Through this application we find that Van Niekerk's novel is preoccupied with subverting patriarchal Oedipal structures. This is expressed by the dysfunction of the Benade family. One aspect …
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Vision and desire: Jim Morrison's mythography beyond the death of God
… discussion will be framed around not only the Oedipal myth, but also the ?Three Metamorphoses? found in Nietzsche?s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, a transformational trinity which is easily aligned to the story of Oedipus. Critical theory will be drawn from mythology, principally through the work of …
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"Nothing New Under the Sun": Woolf and Joyce, the New Woman and the New Man
… In their critique of heterosexual romance and Oedipal quest fictions, both texts insist upon parallax — holding two conflicting visions simultaneously without absolutely bridging the visions, thus leaving open a space of possibility.Woolf and Joyce particularly invoke the New Woman in order to …
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Tres lecturas de las novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa : interpretación psicoanalítica de la producción novelesca de un autor
… deliberately conceals what he understands as a Oedipal conflict in all of his novels. At the same time this strategy can be seen as an eloquent example of the lacanian conception of the Oedipal complex, that is as the misinterpretation of the own history. According to the Lacanian interpretation …
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Dreams and the Maternal Imaginary: From Nostalgic Intersubjectivity to Mourning
… recruited in the service of constructing the pre-oedipal mother as an object of nostalgia, and whether this nostalgia has fueled omnipotence and obscured the work of mourning. Finally, it explores the idea that psychoanalytic theories are vulnerable to collusion with sociocultural fantasies about …
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A psychodynamics of value: developmental, multicultural, and psychotherapeutic implications
… framework which includes: a) The Preoedipal Stage; b) The Oedipal Stage; c) The Adolescent Stage; and, d) The Adult Stage. Finally, this study specifically considers the cross-cultural context as particularly relevant because it is in this context, this thesis maintains, that the …
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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
… play’s nightmare quality; and the dominance of oedipal interpretations to the neglect of other aspects of Freud’s writing about love. The thesis considers how far psychoanalytic criticism of the play reflects changes in psychoanalytic theory and phases of literary criticism. The thesis …
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On the edge : woman, nature, mother and father in the works of Kono Taeko
… issues of fantasy, marginalization, and preoedipal and Oedipal development are also examined. The approach is psychoanalytical, using the relational model rather than classical analysis as the theoretical basis. The first chapter deals with the manner in which the female protagonists relate …
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An Exploration of the Use of Mirroring as a Therapeutic Technique for the Art Therapist
… technique with clients who have experienced pre- oedipal injuries to their sense of self, or with clients who have little sense of self, such as schizophrenics and little children. Mirroring also enhances the joining process and is effective until transmuting internalizations occur. At that time …
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Capgras' Syndrome
… explanations have emphasized four major themes: Oedipal problems in women, feelings of strangeness, intolerble ambivalence, and pathological splitting. An approach to the delusion based on object relations theory seems most comprehensive, because it is the manner in which images of self and …
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"The Return of Adam to Paradise Lost: Camus' ""Le Premier Homme"
… the novel's original 'trinity,' which, like the oedipal triangle, comprises father, mother, and son, to the orphan 'trinity,' in which the father's position is replaced by the literary work. Camus considered Le Premier Homme to be his ""War and Peace,"" the 'epic' novel of French Algeria whose …
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