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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"metapsychology"”.
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What matter? Human nature beyond the Cartesian Framework. An essay in metapsychology
This thesis seeks to recast the body/mind problem and some of its associated questions in light of a historical diagnosis of the underlying metaphysical premises of the current debate and through a contrastive examination of two aternative metaphysical frameworks. Despite a proliferation of …
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Freud after Bataille: Death, Dissolution and the 'Oceanic' Feeling
… However, I propose that reconsidering Freudian metapsychology in light of Georges Bataille’s work on transgression and excess allows us to think across said limit. In deploying this highly dynamic approach, I elaborate on the role of death in the drive economy and, subsequently, its potential …
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Psychic life: the Freud-Bergson convergence
… to both Bergson's metaphysics and Freud's metapsychology, has also been largely neglected in psychoanalytic and Bergsonist scholarship. In certain key passages on quality and quantity in their respective works, Freud and Bergson come closer to each other in their thinking on the nature of …
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Speaking being: language, body, and the construction of a world in Heidegger and Lacan
… insights, Lacan presents a post-Freudian metapsychology that can, as I show, respond confidently to Heidegger’s critique of psychoanalysis, and reach beyond it. Lacan offers a conceptualisation of the human being as a sexed “speaking being”, a being under the sway of jouissance and the …
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Freud, discourse analysis, and otherness: The historical hermeneutics of creativity and aesthetics in the subject formations of writing and psychoanalysis.
… Research: Narrative Theory to a Hypertext to a Metapsychology"; (d) "The Originality of the Research Project: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Otherness in the Subject-Formations of Writing and Psychoanalysis"; and (e) "Research Methodology: The Qualitative Approach to Grounded Theory in …
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Phylogeny, Psychology, and the Vicissitudes of Human Development: The Anxiety of Atavism
<p>This cross-disciplinary dissertation provides a missing intellectual history of an ostensibly dead idea. Once widely held and no less elegant for its obsolescence, the principle of biogenetic recapitulation is best remembered by its defining mantra, “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.” Among …