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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"drive theory"”.
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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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Manifest anxiety, stress, and learning: a test of Saltz's hypothesis
… is in contradiction to the traditional drive theory interpretation of the MAS, which considers the MAS to be a measure of drive level. The present study attempted to empirically test these rival views of the measurement characteristics of the MAS in a verbal learning situation. Results …
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The problem of sexuality: philosophy’s weak spot and the inconsistent nature of nature
… block. Through an investigation of Freud's theory of sexuality, this dissertation seeks to open up a series of philosophical questions that force us to re-think not only the nature of sexuality, but also the nature of nature itself. The guiding question for this dissertation becomes, not …