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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Psychoanalytic interpretation"”.
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Foreign Talent and Its Discontents: A Psychoanalytical reading of the foreign talent issue in Singapore
… lies something else. Through the application of psychoanalytical tools, one could make sense of the various statements and understand the structure from which such sentiments are generated. A psychoanalytic interpretation would suggest that it is too painful to speak out against the ruling …
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Tres lecturas de las novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa : interpretación psicoanalítica de la producción novelesca de un autor
This doctoral thesis is a psychoanalytic interpretation of the novels of the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, and it explores these novels from three different perspectives, here called readings. The first perspective focuses on the literary techniques and the importance these may have for the …
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Interpreting Interpretation in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, and Lacan
This theoretical dissertation examines psychoanalytic interpretation through a critical textual analysis of primary texts by Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Jacques Lacan. Chapter One presents Freud's The interpretation of dreams (1900) as initiating a new psychoanalytic hermeneutic/interpretive …
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Ambivalence and penetration of boundaries in the worship of Dionysos: Analysing the enacting of psychical conflicts in religious ritual and myth, with reference to societal structure
… methodological claim of the thesis is that prior psychoanalytic engagements with cultus scholarship have suffered from being either insufficiently thorough or diffused in attempts to be comparative. A more holistic and detailed approach allows us to ground a psychoanalytic interpretation in the …
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Nurturing the Event: A Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Analysis of Conversions to Christianity and Desistance from Crime
… (18 months post-release), this thesis provides a psychoanalytic interpretation of the relationship between early childhood development, traumatic events, and spiritual transformations in prison. Data was gathered using Hollway and Jefferson’s (2001) Free Association Narrative Interview Method …
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Touching the hero: bodies, boundaries and blood in the Old French Cycle des Narbonnais
… approach to identity, overlaid with a psychoanalytic interpretation of the subject’s relationship with the Other, I argue that regulated patterns of touch in the poems iterate and maintain heroic identity. Of course, an identity forged in this way is problematic, for touch both creates …
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Beyond mourning and melancholia: depression in the work of five contemporary North American women writers.
… state of mourning, has been linked with psychoanalytic constructions of femininity by leading feminist theorists such as Irigaray, Silverman and Kristeva. The first chapter provides an overview of melancholia as a gendered discourse privileging male practitioners; the subsequent chapters …
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Medea senecana in lingua tedesca tra XVIII secolo e oggi
… der Vernunft (1984) by Ula Stöckl; and the psychoanalytic interpretation in M., nach Euripides (1984) by George Tabori. The six works selected here are considered exemplary for certain thematic and stylistic aspects and are essential to examine the Medea story from a critical perspective. …
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Navigating Postmodernism & Critical Theory in Family Therapy
<p>Postmodern and critical theories have become important theoretical paradigms encouraging therapists to honor diversity and combat oppressive social structures and practices. However, at times, these two paradigms have been thought to position therapists in contradictory ways, with critical …