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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"jouissance"”.
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The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism
… Two, the concepts of masochism and feminine jouissance are re-examined through the figure of Mohawk Saint Káteri Tekahkwí:tha, a figure whose masochistic jouissance has undergone revision and overwriting by the Roman Catholic Church, but who nevertheless illustrates a form of feminine …
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Psicanálise e velhice
… de comment intervenir dans une économie de jouissance. Le récit fréquent d'un sentiment d' étrangeté, en relation à l' ampleur et à la concomitance des pertes exprimées, nous conduisent à soulever la question de la perturbation du deuil lors de la vieillesse. Pour Lacan, l' expérience du …
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Transforming the Law of One: Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath from a Kristevan perspective
… in texts marked by renewal, transgression, and jouissance. Unlike Sexton, Plath is able to achieve transformation as she oscillates masochistically between the “inside” and the “outside” of her psychic borders, and between the symbolic and the semiotic. Furthermore, this enables Plath to develop …
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An Ecology of Immanent Otherness: The Onto/eco-poethics of Hélène Cixous
… and purity and discover how the poetry and jouissance of immanent otherness can help us to better navigate these strange, contaminated and incoherent times.
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A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva
… crisis, and poetic expression reveals the “jouissance” or unspoken voice of repression. Bishop's poetry constantly questions reality, knowledge, sexuality and the self. I strive to expose how Bishop's poetry performs Kristeva's theory of the self in writing; her poetry puts at the core of …
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The Significance of Meister Eckhart's View of the Self for Psychoanalytic Theories of Subjectivity: A Radical Hermeneutic Study
… and living without why (ohne Warum) with jouissance - in order to explore the significance of Eckhart's view of the self for psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity. Additionally, the discussion includes clinical vignettes in order to suggest implications for the practice of psychotherapy. …
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"Purple People": "Sexed" Linguistics, Pleasure, and the "Feminine" Body in the Lyrics of Tori Amos
… and intertextuality on one hand, and <em>jouissance</em> and “irruption of the chora” on the other that can inform those styles we might term “feminine” and allow for a more productive and responsive perception of “femininity.”</p> <p>Amos’ lyrics illustrate these theories working …
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Do mal-estar na cultura ao mal-estar estrutural: considerações sobre o advento da modernidade e o sujeito analítico
… sur le rapport entre les notions de loi et de jouissance, dans le sens d'élargir la portée de la these freudienne sur l 'origine de l 'ordre culturel. Finalement, à partir des considérations de Lacan sur la primauté du langage, nous avançons vers l' idée de la castration en tant qu' opérateur …
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Neurosis or Perversion? A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Diagnostic and Clinical Approach to the Treatment of Paraphilia at a Forensic Outpatient Setting: A Case Study and Exegetical Method
… or having limits set by the law on one's jouissance. Of the three, perversion remains by far the least understood and least discussed. To date, Lacan's diagnostic system--not to mention his corpus in general--has been largely ignored by psychotherapists in the United States. Where Lacan …
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To Build Home and to Live in (U)Hygge
… marginalization to imagine a refuge built with jouissance, the delight in pain and danger.
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Public Servant identity at work in Chilean State bureaucracy: a Lacanian interpretation
… affective satisfaction or what Lacan calls jouissance. Overall, from this standpoint, the construction of identity within the bureaucratic realm is appreciated as a paradoxical and un-determined project, featuring interrupted yet sustained narrations of self and/or distorted yet committed …
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Working with the Drive: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Treatment of Addictions
… compulsion and what Lacan refers to as jouissance--a kind of painful enjoyment beyond the pleasure principle. Since addictions involve drive-related circuits of repetition and Lacanian psychoanalysis aims to facilitate transformations on the level of the drive, this dissertation proposes …
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Dialogues between Feminists and Jacques Lacan on Female Hysteria and Femininity
… to articulate an ethics of feminine desire and jouissance and the differences between how a woman maintains her victimhood by being dominated by the law and how a woman achieves her emancipated potentialities by realizing her infinities in relation to the law.
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Speaking being: language, body, and the construction of a world in Heidegger and Lacan
… “speaking being”, a being under the sway of jouissance and the signifier. I follow Lacan in his argument that meaning is always floating, unstable, and retroactively established, and discuss his efforts to reach an “ideal” of discursive mathematic formalisation. This discussion paves the way …
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Fantasy and politics in South African literature : a comparative study of the use of the fantastic in selected works of Christopher Hope, Ivan Vladislavic and Andre Brink
… Africa is manifested in the sense of Barthian jouissance his fiction evokes, his Nonsense elements and his teasing postmodern games with potential meanings. Sometimes his work suffers when intellectual concerns take precedence over their fictional realisation. More significantly, however, …
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'n Herwaardering van Olga Kirsch se oeuvre: Identiteit ,moederskap en ballingskap aan die hand van die psigoanalitiese toeriee van onder andere Sigmund Freud,Jaques Lacan en Julia Kristeva
… of the chora, as well as self-actualisation and jouissance through the creative process. Kirsch is reaffmned as an important Afrikaans poet who, with each volume of poetry, shared her life as a sujet en proces with her Afrikaans-speaking readers. Whereas Sigmund Freud's basic tenets and further …
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Alive in death : Bataillean eroticism in the 60s gothic cinema of Mario Bava
… is resolved but rather they meet in a kind of jouissance, intermingling iconic binaries such as pleasure and pain, beauty and the grotesque, and order and disorder. However, although he often does displace sexuality into the domains of the dangerous, grotesque and violent through strong …
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Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays
… on the early modern stage is shaped by female jouissance, by insatiable, destructive, and all-consuming desire. In the third chapter, “Abortion in <em>Hamlet</em>,” I argue that Ophelia can be read as an herb-woman, in that her rue and bawdy incantations link her to representations of abortion …
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Valorisation du savoir local pour une cogestion conservatoire de l'arganeraie marocaine
… Celles-ci, disposant de nombreux droits de jouissance au niveau de la forêt d’arganier, ont mis au point une gestion communautaire régulant l’accès et le contrôle aux ressources. Cette gestion et le fonctionnement du système agraire témoignent de la possession par ces populations de savoirs …
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