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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"death drive"”.
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Through the Devil's Mirror: The Villain and the Sinthomosexual as Manifestations of the Death Drive
… Edelman’s <em>No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive</em> (2004) offers a model for reading queer sexuality and societal place very much in line with that which begins to emerge in early Gothic literature, including Matthew Lewis’s <em>The Monk: A Romance</em> (1796). The Gothic villain …
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The Death Drive Revisited: A Reexamination of Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and its Implications for Critical Theory
… is a reexamination of Sigmund Freud's mature drive theory, also known as his theory of the death drive, and its relevance for critical social theory, and in particular that of the so-called "Frankfurt school." By tracing the emergence of Freud's theory in his enigmatic Beyond the Pleasure …
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The Erotics of Race Suicide: The Making of Whiteness and the Death Drive in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
… this concurrence between the self-willed deaths of the collective body and the individual body. By attending to the literary depiction of suicidal characters’ difficult negotiation of the twin discourses of race and sexuality in such works as Henry James’s The Bostonian (1886), Kate …
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The Subaltern Clinic
… throughout the course of his writings as the "death drive," or the compulsion to repeat. In Freud's work, the death drive is often thought as the opposite of the pleasure principle, which situates the pleasure-unpleasure binary at the center of psychoanalytical thinking and Freud's …
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Danger-zone tourism: Emotional performances in Jordan and Palestine
… as well as psychoanalytic theories on the death drive to examine danger-zone tourism as a form of tourism performance based on danger and conflict as enticing factors. Fieldwork was carried out in Jordan and Palestine during April 2009 and July-November 2010. Individual interviews, both …
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An Inert State: Tracing a double-defiance of death via photographic poiesis
… against the Freudian concept of the death-drive. From this, a new concept photo-dermy was established and explored via the production of five museum-based practice-projects. Examination of the photo-dermy concept necessitated the practical testing of cultural ideas pertaining to …
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Nadoodse ondersoek
… are applied. The definitions of desire and the death drive as formulated by Jacques Lacan, as well as Julia Kristeva's definitions of the semiotic chora and the abject are used as theoretic criteria in an investigation of psychoanalytic processes in the creative writing process.
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The Rhetoric of Gallows Humor: The Settler Colonial Unconscious in Reservation Dogs
… humor, which is defined as comedy engaging death, trauma, and suffering, functions as a distinctly Native rhetorical practice that reveals and resists ongoing colonial violence. Drawing on rhetorical studies, Native studies, and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the project theorizes the “settler …
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Freud after Bataille: Death, Dissolution and the 'Oceanic' Feeling
… examines how the uneasy relationship between death and representation plays out across three overlapping modalities – text, body, and image. Drawing from Freud’s formulations, I trace out the paroxysmal movements of the death drive in concurrence with narcissism, masochism, and the uncanny, …
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The Aesthetics of Waste: Investigating the role of the ephemeral in the development of the avant-garde in Western Europe and Greece and its relationship to trauma
This research project, driven by my on-going practice, seeks to identify the role of non-traditional materials such as ephemera, debris, waste and historical archive footage in order to produce art installations for investigating trauma, especially in moments of social crisis. My art practice is …
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Animals as Projections of the Self in “The Raven” and “The Black Cat”
… himself upon an animal in order to deal with death. Ultimately, in both works, loss and the death drive lead to madness and the finality of death. No one can defeat death; it’s an inevitability that cannot be escaped. In both works animals serve as conduits of the knowledge that the ideal is …
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Gissing and unhealth: an analysis of medicine, death, and eugenics in the work of George Gissing
… novels are suffused with examples of illness and death. The aim is to discover whether he used unhealth as a way of prescribing a healthy, middle-class status quo. Character response to and author treatment of medicine, death and eugenics will be explored, reflecting how health and unhealth are …
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The Specter of Death in James Joyce's "Ulysses"
Before Sigmund Freud incorporated the death drive into his theories of the unconscious in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Martin Heidegger emphasized the individuating power of facing death as our “own most-potentiality-for-Being” in Being and Time, Joyce was deeply familiar with the effect of …
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The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism
… centres around Lacan’s theorization of the death drive through the figure of Antigone, and while he does not describe her as the original woman masochist, I believe she is a central figure in understanding women’s masochism and how engaging in masochistic acts is a radical action. In Chapter …
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Chronolibidinal Reading: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
… Contesting Freud and Lacan's notion of the death drive, I argue that temporal finitude is not a lack of being that we are inherently driven to overcome. Rather, temporal finitude is the source of both the desirable and the undesirable. The theory of chronolibido provides the framework for …
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Between Homes: Examining the notion of the uncanny in art practice and its relationship to post-colonial identity and contemporary society in Taiwan
… the 'return of the repressed', 'thedouble' and 'death drive' will be applied to explore identity confusions. I base my argument on issues of confusion about personal and cultural identity, which originate in contrasting ideals and beliefs about 'home' (ideas that are formed by the divergent …
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Muriel Spark's postmodernism
… the form of this novel. Chapter III analyses The Driver’s Seat (1970), the novel which most shockingly elucidates the postmodern condition according to Spark and demonstrates her postmodernist narrative strategies. Her concern with the crisis of the “subject” in the world in its postmodern phase …
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Sensing-through Architectural Scenographies: Tactility, Language and Natural History in the Work of Walter Benjamin
… of the uncanny and the articulation of the death drive, beyond the pleasure principle. Secondly, a reconstruction of Theodor W. Adorno’s arguments set out in “The Idea of Natural History” exposes the juncture between Benjamin’s and Martin Heidegger’s approaches to the “secularisation of …
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