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Showing 1 to 20 of 285 for “"Psychic"”.
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Performing psychic: the performance of mentalism and psychic arts on stage, screen, and in everyday life
… regularly buy tickets to watch mind readers and psychic mediums, tune in to the television and radio shows of such performers, dial psychic hotlines, and visit psychics, fortune-tellers, numerologists, astrologists, tarot card readers, and energy healers. Despite the popularity of such practices, …
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Psychic life: the Freud-Bergson convergence
… diminution of a sensation or affect, as well as psychic dynamics determined by the relative magnitudes of unconscious psychic forces) and qualities (i.e. sensations and affects that differ in kind) in psychology. Between forces that differ in degree and experiences that differ in kind, how can …
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Towards self-discovery: Elucidating adolescent intra-psychic tensions
In this research piece I set out to shed light on narratives of recovery from adolescent depression. I interview ten adults in their twenties, both male and female who deem themselves to have recovered from adolescent depression, and I analyse their stories from the perspective of Narrative …
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Impartialist Ethics and Psychic Disintegration: A Talking Cure
<p>This dissertation deals with integrity understood as a state of the psyche. Its primary interlocutor is Professor Bernard Williams, and its point of departure is my interpretation of his Objection from Integrity to impartialist moral theories. Against Williams, I hope to show that the active …
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Liminal blankness : mixing race and space in monochrome's psychic surface
… sense of how to see, meet in what I call the `psychic surface'. Deploying this notion of a `psychic surface' allows for readings which move on from the potentially confining logic of the Phallus. Paradoxically, the psychic structure of monochrome's liminal blankness is homologous to the …
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Decolonizing Psychic Space: Remembering the Indigenous Psychology Movement in Taiwan
This project is part of the historical struggle of the indigenous psychology movement in Taiwan. It turns a critical gaze back upon the movement itself in order to decolonize it from colonial cultural imaginary. The contribution of this project is two-fold. First, on the theoretical level, it …
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Kitchen Space, Cauldron Calling: Origins of Psychic Shells and the Poetry of Pain
… myriad of poetic forms is to peer through the psychic shells we create and examine the workings of the mind so as to give form to the nebulousness found within while most closely recreating physical experiences of pain. In the collection, domestic spaces, particularly kitchens, serve as filters …
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The constellation of the archetypal feminine : a psychic process essential to psychodynamic psychotherapy
… Jung's concept of the coniunctio, or union of psychic opposites, forms the central theoretical premise on which the study is based. It is with the constellation of the coniunctio that psychic tranformation is achieved. The re-evocation and hence constellation of the archetypal feminine is …
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The "Jaded Traveller": John Jasper's Failed Psychic Quest in Charles Dickens's <em>The Mystery of Edwin Drood</em>.
<p>This thesis is a Jungian study of John Jasper, the central character in Charles Dickens's <em>The Mystery of Edwin Drood</em>. Jasper fails to achieve psychological wholeness because he suffers from what Carl G. Jung calls dissociation of consciousness, a malady that prevents Jasper from …
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Violence as an impediment in the actualisation of the psychic life of the child in education : a psychopedagogic perspective
… the inadequate self—actualization of the psychic life of the child due to the influence of violence. * To describe changes in society that have caused a breakdown in the pedagogic relationship between parents and children. * To determine, from the findings obtained, certain guidelines …
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Parapsychology and Buddhism – to afford a comparison between descriptions of psychic experiences in Buddhist works and in parapsychological research
… a comparison between the description of psychic experiences in Buddhist works and Parapsychological research. As such, this thesis scholastically outlines the Buddhist Pāli Canon’s perspective on the phenomenon of psychic power or psi. This particular Theravadin Buddhist scripture has …
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The unspoken dialogue : an exploration of the role of ongoing self- and mutual regulation in the formation of psychic structure
… and organising principles - that is new psychic structure. Views on the nature of psychic structure and the process of structure formation, are considered from the perspectives of self psychology, intersubjectivity theory and the findings of infant research.
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Belonging in the Psychic Nowhere: Racial Trauma, Racial Melancholia and Related Mental Health Outcomes Amongst South Asian Immigrants in the US
<p>South Asian immigrants have experienced a nuanced immigration history in the US while straddling the Black-White racial binary. Despite their growing presence, research on South Asian mental health is relatively limited and often subsumed under the broader category of "Asian Americans," which …
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A modern mecca of psychic forces: the Psychical Science Congress and the culture of progressive occultism in fin-de-siecle Chicago, 1885-1900
The Psychical Science Congress (PSC), held from August 21-25, 1893, was a division of the Science and Philosophy congresses of the World’s Congress Auxiliary held in conjunction with Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition. The first international congress devoted solely to psychical research, the PSC …
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(De/Re)Constructing ChicanX/a/o Cinema: Liminality, Cultural Hyphenation, and Psychic Borderlands in <em>Real Women Have Curves</em> and <em>Mosquita y Mari</em>
… favor of a liminal landscape of potentiality— a psychic Borderland of identity. Contemporary ChicanX/a voices in <em>Real Women Have Curves </em>(Patricia Cardoso, 2002) and <em>Mosquita y Mari </em>(Aurora Guerrero, 2012) use feminist and feminine modes of storytelling to emphasize the …
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Theatre of the contact zone : a quest for a means to nurse split psychic spaces in public spheres through the transformation of dramatic texts into performance texts
This study is a theoretical explication of an idea of a theatre called Theatre of the Contact Zone. Its main feature is the collaboration between the playwright and the director in the transformation of dramatic texts into performance texts. Within the pragmatics of this theatre the playwright's …
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Illusory judgments under conditions of uncertainty: Reasoning errors related to paranormal and religious beliefs
… relied on the paranormal strategy (e.g., a psychic) to a greater degree under conditions of uncertainty than under conditions of certainty. Study 3 replicated these results using a between subjects design but also expanded upon Study 1 and 2 by examining individual difference and demographic …
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Multinational Teams: The Relationship Between Work Values and Productivity and the Moderating Effect of Degree of Operational Integration
… the relationship between team productivity and psychic distance, which is a measure of country-level cultural differences. Work values were assessed using The Values Scale (Neville & Super, 1989), perceptions of team productivity were assessed used an instrument by Kirkman and Rosen (1999), …
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