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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Symbolic Order"”.
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Whose gender? Whose identity? Trans medicine, psychiatry, and the symbolic order
… (APA) published the diagnoses Gender Identity Disorder (GID, originally “Transsexualism”) and Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood (GID-C) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). When applied to adults, the Transsexualism and GID diagnoses represented individuals as …
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Interpreting Interpretation in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, and Lacan
… in terms of rewriting history via the symbolic order. Klein focuses on the phantasies that form and govern unconscious object relations, whereas for Lacan fantasy involves the Other, which the subject encounters in the symbolic order. Klein emphasizes transference interpretations, …
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Die desentralisasie van die subjek : 'n post-strukturalistiese beskouing van Breytan Breytenbach se Die Ysterkoei moet sweet en ("YK")
… codes are destroyed and recreated and where the symbolic order is challenged.
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Navigating the Void: Subjectivity and Contemporary Critical Theory
… continued interrogation of our dominant socio-symbolic order as characterized by its prevailing structures, institutions and discourses. These discussions are oriented by an exploration of the antinomy between universality and contingency in efforts to theorize subjectivity and ethics in …
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Ambiguity in the workplace: some aspects of the negotiation and structuration of asymmetrical relations
… of their importance in the constitution of the symbolic reality, or order, of the organization. This is offered as an alternative but complementary perspective to the traditional focus of labour process or social exchange theorists, and suggests a potentially fruitful new direction for …
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these americas: Black and Indigenous Poetics Exhausting the Human
… knowledge outside the disciplinary borders of colonial modernity. I explore such themes by linking literary archives normatively separated by approaches that focus on discrete national and linguistic traditions or comparative approaches that exclude questions of coloniality, in each …
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A knowledge of spirit and flesh: a novel and exegesis exploring the numinous feminine, the interior journey and sites of resistance within a patriarchal world
… - as sites of resistance outside the patriarchal Symbolic Order, and thus posits an alternative framework to that upon which many current feminist theories are based.
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Ixion's wheel: Masculinity and the figure of the circle in the novels of Charles Dickens
… and metonymic movement of language within the symbolic order; what Jacques Lacan has identified as "symbolic necessity." I demonstrate this double function of the circle by showing how orality in Dickens's work belongs to a chain of images that include pretty lips, rings, necklaces, fur ringed …
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Feminism, psychology and the work of Charlotte Mew
… stem from the absence of female space within the symbolic order. Principally Mew's work dramatically illustrates the tensions, very apparent in society at the time, between Victorian ideals of womanhood and emerging Modernist aspirations.
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Symbolic masters/semiotic slaves : subjectivity and subjection in Atwood, with reference to The circle game and Two-headed poems
… to the eruption of poetic language into the symbolic order are described in the poetry. Even though these processes do not provide a clear-cut solution to the position of the subjected, their presence signals the possibility of renegotiating unbalanced relationships of power.
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NGOs and the transformational state : theorizing the ambiguities of educational development and change in post-apartheid South Africa
… and ambiguities are generated within the symbolic order, through the manifestations of power and authority within the policy-making process and through the allocation of resources determine space and contextual realities within which NGOs operate. The argument is put forward that one of …
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The transience of the interior self: Exploring the lost Real within a creative visual praxis
… in Zizek’s reading of Jacques Lacan’ s triad of orders that comprise the thinking self (Zizek, 2007a, p. 8). In Zizek, the interior self is positioned at the interstice between the Real and the Symbolic orders (Myers, 2003), hovering between life and death, absence and presence, here and not …
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A thousand points of light : a novel, with accompanying exegesis : 'Lacanian psycho : analysing transgressive fiction'
… by imagining the text of the novel as a Lacanian symbolic order, a pre-existing domain into which the subject/reader arrives and must resolve primary conflicts. The exegesis locates the transgressive moment in the text as the last signifier in the metonymic chain proximate to ‘das Ding’, the …
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Moments of Seeing: Woolf, Lewis, and Modernist Exteriority
… disrupts the stale conventions of the cultural symbolic order. Woolf's increasing commitment to feminism and pacifism emphasizes the ability of the verbal half of this tension to displace entrenched patriarchal and fascistic imagery, while Lewis's increasing commitment to misogyny and fascism …
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Between respectability and disgrace: schismogenesis and the regeneration of inequality, stigma and social exclusion in Limerick
… culture of community and develops a heuristic ‘symbolic order of the city’. This is defined as “…a cultural structure, the meaning making aspect of hierarchy, the categorical structures of world understanding, the way Limerick people understand themselves, their local and larger world” (p. 37). …
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Abjection in the novels of Marlene Van Niekerk
… abjecting, of rejecting the impositions of the symbolic order. Following the publication of her first collection of short stories, Die Vrou wat haar verkyker vergeet het [The woman who forgot her binoculars] in 1992, there was general consensus that the baroque nature of the language resulted in …
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The encounter with the real and post-Soviet trauma : fantasy construction in Russian popular cinema /
… of the Soviet Union's collapse on the Russian Symbolic as represented through popular cinema of the post-Soviet period. The disintegration of the USSR in 1991 became one of the most traumatic experiences for many Russian people. The trauma of the collapse of the Soviet Union penetrated the …
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Encountering Eucharistic Presence Within a Postmodern Context: A Dialogue Among Chauvet, Schmemann and Zizioulas
… understanding of the various strata of the symbolic order and the paradigm of relationality as being the primary contexts within which the people of God celebrate his presence. This shift is necessary in order to correct the problematic of a causal, mechanistic, reductionist, …
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Oriental Contributions to Franciscan Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
… that converted the unfamiliar into symbolic order. Across these chapters, the dissertation demonstrates that artistic exchange between East and West in the Franciscan world was less a story of mutual understanding than of selective appropriation and re-signification. Oriental images …
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CHAMELEON BOY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LITERARY CRITIQUE OF BIRACIAL SUBJECTS IN A RACIALIZED SOCIETY
<p>In American society, race is a determining factor when realizing a salient identity. Social engagements, relationships, and the perception has of one’s self are all effected and choreographed by race. Deeply ingrained within our social structure race aims to categorize humanity into easily …
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