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Showing 1 to 20 of 178 for “"obsession"”.
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Obsession with the wall
This thesis presents a design process. It takes a look at the issue of whether architecture is what one brings to the design or what one discovers in the process. It explores the complexity that comes from an involvement with architecture without having to do complicated things. It is a study to …
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In the Age of Obsession
<p>In Writing <em>In the Age of Obsession</em> the author has attempted to create a novel which examines a number of important issues. By writing the narrative in the first person he has been able to pursue these themes through the development of Daniel Rackham, the main character.</p> <p>The …
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Beyond Symptom Accumulation: A Lacanian Clinical Approach to Obsession - A Case Study and Theoretical Exposition
… a Lacanian clinical approach to working with obsession. I offer two case studies of former patients--both of whom presented with classic symptoms of the medical syndrome known as obsessive-compulsive disorder--to illustrate Lacan's structural approach in contradistinction to a descriptive, …
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"I'm not going to let the patriarch stop me!": Examining the Obsession with Muslim Women's Bodies, Voices and Veils in Cinema, Television & Popular Culture
Historically, Muslim female bodies have been a key focus of attention in colonial and patriarchal discursive practices. This colonial and patriarchal desire to control Muslim women's bodies ± and, by extension, their voice ± is rooted in Orientalism. Today, Orientalist modes of representation are …
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The Impact of Mood-State and Emotion Regulation on Negative Appraisal and Neutralising Motivations in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
… motivations in response to an induced obsession-like thought. This analogue study utilised a non-clinical sample (N=120) and employed an obsession-like thought provocation protocol to generate an obsession-like experience. Results revealed mood-state-dependent patterns in participants’ …
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The Impact of Mood-State and Emotion Regulation on Negative Appraisal and Neutralising Motivations in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
… motivations in response to an induced obsession-like thought. This analogue study utilised a non-clinical sample (N=120) and employed an obsession-like thought provocation protocol to generate an obsession-like experience. Results revealed mood-state-dependent patterns in participants’ …
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Kaleidoscope
… in olfactive language, the thesis’s scent obsession is a gateway to many other themes: fragmentation, digital addiction, and mental health crises.</p> <p>Accompanying the thesis is a short critical introduction that explores the relationship between scent, pain, and futurity in my work. I …
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"The Return of the Dead": Reactions Against Photography in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… to disrupt their contemporaries’ collective obsession with clinging to the past, which was an obsession that was fueled by the proliferation and popularity of photography.
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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 …
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Falling into gentle ruin.
… to unpack the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of my own obsession with collecting photographs, by relating it to a theoretical framework as well as to contemporary artistic practice. I further present here examples of my own body of work to show how I have given form to my concerns.
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Calamity Sample: Stories About The Weatherman
… around annual holidays & our protagonist’s obsession with the mundane amidst apocalypse, questions what it means to be hopeful in the face of disaster, emphasizing themes of anxiety, a desire for human connection, obsession around the minutia, & the fleetingness of stability. Yes, the world …
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The Representation of Disability in the Music of Alfred Hitchcock Films
… three Hitchcock films. Vertigo (1958) addresses obsession and phobia as its main themes, whereas Psycho (1960) investigates obsession and madness. Finally, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) explores muteness, hysteria, and identity in the context of two pieces of diegetic music. Hitchcock made …
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LIFESTYLE CHOICES RELATED TO FOOD CONSUMPTION AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO DEPRESSION
… as it is, one might believe dieting is a new obsession or at least an obsession to which popular culture is returning. Despite this, it is only in recent years that researchers have begun to focus on the health benefits of such behaviors. The present study was designed to take this focus a …
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H and I
… love of dogs and the loyalty they return breeds obsession in owners, though obsession can act ephemerally too (people transfer their obsessions). My desire is for the poems of <em>H and I</em> to embody this ephemerality and obsessiveness simultaneously.</p>
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<em>Two from the Underworld</em>: Short Fiction.
… is complicated by his girlfriend Charlene’s obsession with mummification. The second, “Jolly,” is the story of Calvin Edwards, a young bus station attendant haunted by his father’s ghost and visited by a cadaverous stranger, Jolly, who also sees the dead. The stories are preceded by an …
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