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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Perversion"”.
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
The word "necrophilia" brings a particular definition readily to mind that of an act of sexual intercourse with a corpse, probably a female corpse at that. But the definition of the word did not always have this connotation; quite literally the word means "love of the dead," or "a morbid attraction …
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Israeli West Bank Settlements: Perversion of Realism and Obstacle to Peace
… and the continuing growth of settlements are a perversion of classic political realism because these actions create an increased threat to the long-term national security of Israel and to the safety of the global Jewish community.
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The spaces of sex : perversion, performance and place in literature between the wars
… period, when public knowledge of sexual perversion and deviance (taken from popular psychoanalytic writings) had reached a peak, infiltrating middle-class home spaces with potentially threatening and transgressive knowledge of sexual deviance.
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The perversion of the absolute: religion and representation in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
… of this concept in connection with the role of "perversion" in the history of the philosophy of religion.</p>
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Demystifying A Sexual Perversion: An Existential Reading of Sadomasochism and Erich Fromm's Call to Love
… of sadomasochism remains as a gendered sexual perversion. This dissertation explores how theories of sadomasochism became "dominated" by sexual themes along with some of the problems that interfere with a full understanding of sadomasochism as a psychological disorder.</p><p> In part one, …
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The spurn of the screw : Henry James's project of perversion management in three late supernatural tales
… and rhetorical devices in an abiding project of perversion management, whereby unacceptable sexuality and sexual impulses are relegated to the register of the ghostly. James's use of preterition, prosopopoeia, and aposiopesis in the creation of a discursively gothic environment is discussed in …
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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
… 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 of castration, or having limits set by the law on one's jouissance. Of the three, …
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Some ways that a thing can go wrong : malfunctions, disorders and perversions
… malfunction. "Teleological Theories of Sexual Perversion" examines attempts to analyze sexual perversion in terms of the biological goal of sex or the functions of sexual organs and psychological mechanisms. I argue that teleological theories are false, and defend the view that sexual …
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"both nourished at my grandmother's breast": Eating, Feeding, and the Subverted Female Ideal in Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
… of slavery and point to the subversion and perversion of the nineteenth-century ideals associated with True Womanhood. Each element of the ideal—piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity—is, at first glance, seemingly upheld by these women, but a closer analysis of their actions, …
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Illuminating the true light of northern courage: Gandalf as J.R.R. Tolkien's revised Odin
… which is often corrupted or disguised by evil perversion. Tolkien wanted to present Northern courage—the Norse view of fighting to the end despite certain doom—in its true light. Odin was the perfect character through which this virtue could be expressed and revised, principally through the …
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The problem of sexuality: philosophy’s weak spot and the inconsistent nature of nature
… insofar as it produces itself and its perversion in an internally self-differentiated and self-differentiating movement that gives rise both what we have come to call the “natural” and the “non-natural.”</p>
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"By one man's firm obedience fully tried" : Christ the man and messianic misconception in Paradise Regained.
… This misunderstood scene presents an attempted perversion of Christ's role as Messiah and King and leads to a clearer understanding of Milton's conception of the mission of Christ and Satan's endeavor to subvert God's kingdom. In this thesis, I shall explore this crucial theme and illustrate the …
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'All Other Faculties Must Be Silent': Victorian Motherhood and the Divided Female Self
… arguing that the transgressive heroine's ""perversion"" of maternal love serves as a necessary vehicle for the consolidation of a uniform, patriarchal, middle-class identity characterized by the channeling of desire into economic and moral superiority. Chapter four examines three ""fallen …
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Exiled periphery
… manner, away from the dirt, crime and perversion that was so typical of the city they worked and laboured in. Their homes became spaces of solitude and calm, hermetic retreats where natural beauty could be appreciated. Any attempts from indivi duals or groups, wanting to introduce …
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'I Heard Beauty Dying': The Cultural Critique of Plastic in Gravity's Rainbow
… immortality results in the destruction and perversion of life itself. The essay is divided into three sections. The first uses a cultural history of plastic to identify popular cultural attitudes towards plastic and locate them in Pynchon's text. The second turns towards a closer reading of …
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The Western image of Turks from the Middle Ages to the 21st century: the myth of 'terrible Turk' and 'lustful Turk'
… barbarity, murderousness, immorality, and sexual perversion. These characteristics still appear in cinematic representations of Turks. In Western films such as Lawrence of Arabia and Midnight Express, the portrayals of Turks echo the stereotypes of 'terrible Turk' and 'lustful Turk'. This thesis …
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Severed texts : aspects of aestheticization in Roland Barthes’ post-structural writings
… running through his writing--reverie, pleasure, "perversion," and the hyper-textualization of the human subject and culture. Following this thread/hypothesis of aestheticization, the thesis focuses upon changing notions of the human subject and textuality presented in Barthes' writings from "The …
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