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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Psychoanalytic Theory"”.
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Towards a psychoanalytic theory of financial corruption
… problem, albeit this is seldom addressed in psychoanalytic terms. The ultimate aim of this research study is to enquire into the psychoanalytic roots of financial corruption and to ask whether it is possible to attempt a psychoanalytic investigation and explanation of acts of financial …
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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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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. According to …
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Healing through meeting : Martin Buber's philosophy of dialogue and its relevance for the theory and the practice of psychotherapy
… of Martin Buber's philosophy of dialogue for the theory and practice of psychotherapy. In particular, Buber's distinction between I-Thou and I-It modes of relating, his understanding of sickness and healing as occurring in the "between" of relation, and his thoughts on psychotherapy are examined. …
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The personality of the organisation : a psycho-dynamic explanation of culture and change.
… Relying on a mixture of personal reflection and psychoanalytic theory concepts of organisation, boundaries, symbolism, learning, socialisation and creativity are put forward as background data which supports an original explanation and understanding of organisational culture. This knowledge is …
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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
… and by literary critics influenced by psychoanalytic theory. The primary material is principally taken from the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing database, and includes 37 papers or chapters by psychoanalysts and some by psychoanalytically informed literary critics, addressing …
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Showing what we see: psychoanalytic vision, transparency, and linguistic pragmatics
… yet to be brought to bear on the analysis of psychoanalytic constructs. I discuss some theoretical overlaps that already exist between psychoanalytic theory and the linguistic philosopher John Austin (namely critiques of modern subjectivity and the function of language) and give examples of …
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Reading Consciousness: Analyzing Literature through William James' Stream of Thought Theory
Proceeding from the assumption that psychoanalytic theory has yielded insightful literary interpretations, I propose that equally legitimate readings result from analyzing consciousness in literature. William James' "Stream of Thought" offers a psychological theory of consciousness from which I …
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Individualized education programs (IEPS) as lived experiences
… employed with research techniques informed by psychoanalytic theory. Five participants used their childhood life stories to critique the IEP policies and practices. The participants performed the roles of co-researchers as well. Through a focused synthesis of their analyses, the identified …
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Time, narrative and liberation discourse : a brief review and assessment of aspects of the recent hermeneutical writings of Paul Ricoeur
… approach, in association with a materialist theory of literature, such as that emerging from the South African context. Ricoeur's position is useful as a starting point because of the eclectic make up of his theory. His work includes aspects of the historical critical approach, psychoanalytic …
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Living with a spoiled identity : HIV positive women talk of stigma
… The study used both Social Constructionist and Psychoanalytic theory to understand the impact that their """"spoiled identity"""" had on the emotional lives of these women. The study elicited women's narratives as they talked about the circumstances surrounding their diagnosis, their subsequent …
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Pedem referens: art historical memory and the analogue in the work of Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar and Lucy Skaer
… thesis combines twentieth century photographic theory from Roland Barthes, André Bazin and Walter Benjamin, among others, with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan in order to argue that the indexical qualities of analogue film and photography place the medium in close proximity to the …
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Finding the goddess within : the goddess archetype in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Robber Bride.
Jean Shinoda Bolen offers a psychoanalytic theory suggesting that Greek goddesses can act as archetypal bridges between modern woman and the primordial feminine. An examination of Margaret Atwood's novels using Bolen's theory reveals the development of women's search for unification with the …
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Oedipus' Wake: The (Neo-)Masculinization of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century American Women's Memoir
… to late-twentieth-century flowering of western theory and criticism built around autobiographical writing and follows the feminist branch(es) of that theory and criticism through a reading of the following four memoirs: <em>Autobiography of a Face </em>by Lucy Grealy, <em>All the Lost Girls …
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ʼn Psigoanalitiese lees van die ouer-kind-verhouding in die romans Kinnes van chase rhys en hy kom met die skoenlappers deur valda jansen.
… Sigmund Freud. This analyzing method, namely psychoanalytic literary criticism, can be used when the complex parent-child-relationship, especially in households that were previously marginalized, are portrayed. The method allows the reader to identify behavioural patterns as well as analyze …
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“The Monster of Her Own Creation”: Freud’s Seduction Theory and Algernon Blackwood’s Jimbo: A Fantasy
… finds itself structured around pre-existing psychoanalytical theory. Algernon Blackwood’s <em>Jimbo: A Fantasy</em> (1909) is a children’s novel reminiscent of a combination of Henry James’s <em>The Turn of the Screw</em> and Lewis Carroll’s <em>Alice in Wonderland</em>. In the novel, the …
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Freud after Bataille: Death, Dissolution and the 'Oceanic' Feeling
… to think beyond the limit that death poses for psychoanalytic theory. However, I propose that reconsidering Freudian metapsychology in light of Georges Bataille’s work on transgression and excess allows us to think across said limit. In deploying this highly dynamic approach, I elaborate on the …
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A psychodynamic view of male homosexuality : oedipal and pre-oedipal
… of homosexuals. More recently, however, psychoanalytic writers have questioned traditional assumptions and pointed to a need to look at the diversity of homosexual adaptations. Of interest in a more recent perspective is Socarides' (1979) classification, distinguishing between pre-oedipal …
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'THE LOCAL' IN THE HUMANITARIAN PSYCHE: HOW EMOTIONS OF HUMANITARIAN WORKERS MEDIATE THE EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF PARTICIPATION
… system? To answer this, I first present a psychoanalytic theory of emotions in equilibrium, where potential traumas are kept at bay through adequate defense mechanisms. Next, based on fieldwork in Singapore, Jakarta and Aceh, 45 semi-structured interviews and 20 published autobiographies, I …
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Woolf and Freud: A dialogue between Woolf's fiction and psychanalytic theory
… dialogue that exists between Woolf's fiction and psychoanalytic theory, namely Freud's theories on sexual identity that were being published by Woolf's own Hogarth Press much around the same time as her earlier works. It is the contention of this thesis that not only do Woolf s texts explore many …
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