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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX"”.
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Masculinity in a Colonial Culture – The Oedipus Complex in Taiwan
In my thesis, I aimed to show that masculinity in a colonized culture is distorted by the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. I interpret it in terms of the Oedipus complex, which can be discerned in Taiwanese history and cultural products. I have chosen Taiwan as my object of …
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Psychoanalysis and male homosexuality
This thesis explores the status of homosexuality, within the history of psychoanalysis, and the effects of that status in the development of contemporary talking therapies. Focusing on homosexuality in men, the research in this study examines Freud’s theories and concepts, as the foundation of this …
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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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Devouring the father: family and recuperation in Triomf and the Native Commissioner
This thesis seeks to account for the largely unprecedented vigour of white writing in post- apartheid South Africa. Though there are a number of contributing socio-economic factors, it argues that there is an inherent ambivalence in many texts written by white South African authors. Texts that are …
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BDSM. A search for the container-contained experience: An object-relations approach to the problem of masochism
… pleasure in pain (masochism) into his instinct theory. In his endeavours to do so, he developed several models of masochism that were dependent on instinct vicissitudes and their governing principles. Freud took a marked turn towards a quasi-object-relating theory when he recognised the …
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A psychoanalytical approach to Harold Pinter’s plays :Old Times, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party
This PhD thesis presents an analysis of a number of Harold Pinter’s plays, by using a Freudian psychoanalytical approach aligned with a close reading of the following works: Old Times (1971), The Homecoming (1965) and The Birthday Party (1957). Furthermore, the thesis aims at conducting a thorough …
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The edifice complex : a study of the causes and effects of conflict between generations of marines, and of cultural changes in the United States Marine Corps
The title of The Edifice Complex presents two metaphors which combine to form the focus of this study's research. The first of these refers to the Oedipus Complex of Freudian psychology: metaphorically, Marine recruits fall in love with the folklore of the Marine Corps they wish to join, yet …
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Adolescents’ experiences of parental reactions to the disclosure of child sexual abuse
… sexual abuse is a worldwide problem throughout the history of mankind. Under the influence of Freud in the 1890’s, an impression was established that claims of sexual abuse were the result of hysterical symptoms in women. His theory of the oedipus complex, depicted girls as fantasizing about …
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Η ΜΟΡΦΗ ΤΟΥ ΗΡΩΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΤΡΙΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΒΕΝΕΖΗ. ("ΤΟ ΝΟ 31328", ΓΑΛΗΝΗ ΑΙΟΛΙΚΗ ΓΗ)
TRACE OF THE ELEMENTS OF OBSESSION AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS AS WELL AS THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE MACROCOSMIC AND MICROCOSMIC STRUCTURE ACCORDING TO WHAT R. JAKOBSON AND CLAUDE LEVI STRAUSS HAVE CONTRIBUTED BASED ON THE FREUDIAN STUDY OF THE TEXT WITH THE AIM OF LOCATING THE POINTS OF CONVERGENCE AND …