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Showing 1 to 20 of 420 for “"psychoanalysis"”.
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Houses undergoing psychoanalysis :
… through design is uncovered. Similarly to psychoanalysis, this methodology privileges process and the observation of change over time. In order to test these assumptions, I chose three case studies of house designed by architects either for themselves, or for a close family relation. I …
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Psychoanalysis and male homosexuality
… status of homosexuality, within the history of psychoanalysis, and the effects of that status in the development of contemporary talking therapies. Focusing on homosexuality in men, the research in this study examines Freud’s theories and concepts, as the foundation of this thesis. This paper is …
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Interpretation and explanation in psychoanalysis
… suggests that although Freud's defence of Psychoanalysis as a natural science has been legitimately rejected as problematic, the reconstrual of Psychoanalysis as an interpretive or hermeneutic knowledge is likewise inappropriate to the psychoanalytic object. On the basis of the work of …
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“Sacred psychoanalysis”: an interpretation of the emergence and engagement of religion and spirituality in contemporary psychoanalysis
… the emergence of religion and spirituality in psychoanalysis is a unique development, given its traditional pathologizing stance. This research examines how and why ‘sacred psychoanalysis’ came about and whether this represents a new analytic movement with definable features or a diffuse …
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Interpreting Interpretation in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, and Lacan
This theoretical dissertation examines psychoanalytic interpretation through a critical textual analysis of primary texts by Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Jacques Lacan. Chapter One presents Freud's The interpretation of dreams (1900) as initiating a new psychoanalytic hermeneutic/interpretive …
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City Limits: A Psychoanalysis of Urbanism and Everyday Life
This dissertation begins with Lefebvre’s theoretical framework that space is a social product and provides a brief account of the plans and road networks established with John Graves Simcoe’s founding of York (now Toronto). Foucault’s arguments about gridded street systems and early forms of …
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Child's Play: Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Clinic
… There, Freud hailed ‘the child’ as the future of psychoanalysis, declaring that “[o]f all the fields in which psychoanalysis has been applied none has aroused so much interest… as the theory and practice of child training. …The child has become the main object of psychoanalysis research” (Freud, …
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Within and Without: Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory, and the Healing Narrative
<p>In this collection, I explore the process of writing to heal from trauma. In exploring the rhetorical landscape of trauma writing, I offer a new framework for understanding how those who experience a traumatic event may use the process of writing creatively to engage in a process of healing. I …
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Psychoanalysis and Modernity: A Failure to Find Relief from Existential Terror
… defense has been weakened. I will argue that psychoanalysis emerged during a time of tremendous cultural flux and represents the de facto model of psychological defense in modernity, replacing religion as the primary cultural mode of meaning-making. I will argue that as system, psychoanalysis …
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Psychoanalysis, management and labour in the British workplace, 1942-c.1970
… centre. While existing research on psychoanalysis has taken childhood and the family as sites of study, this thesis reveals the working world of adults as a parallel site where psy-science was mobilised in service of democracy. The first chapter traces the development of …
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Personal Politics: The Rise of Personality Traits in the Century of Eugenics and Psychoanalysis
… personality psychologys development alongside psychoanalysis and eugenics, offering a disciplinary and cultural history of personality across the twentieth century. Using the psychological concepts of neurosis and introversion as an organizational framework, personalitys history is portrayed as …
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An inductive exploration of group learning and knowledge generation through group reflection and psychoanalysis
This thesis aims to explore a rather simple question in relation to the process of how knowledge is generated within the organisational group. The question posed and pursued using an inductive methodological approach is "how do groups learn?"This deceptively simple and almost child-like question …
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Unmaking the remake: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian logic, and the problem of repetition in Hollywood cinema
… It is perhaps little wonder then that psychoanalysis is often<br/>thought of as one of the discourses with which to write about film in the 20th century.<br/>However, this thesis problematises both cinematic repetition and psychoanalytic film theory,<br/>stressing that each is haunted …
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Structure or Knot: What Phenomenology and Asperger’s Syndrome can Teach Lacanian Psychoanalysis About Subjective Constitution
… Spectrum Disorder) through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis and speaks to current debates in the field regarding the structural diagnosis of autism. Framed by critiques of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the project takes up autism and treatments for the disorder from within mainstream psychological …
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Holistic Treatment: A Qualitative Study Of The Integration Of Chinese Medicine With Psychoanalysis In China
… way for therapists in China to integrate with psychoanalysis. This qualitative study investigates how Chinese psychotherapists in China with Western psychanalytic backgrounds synthesize the principles and methods of CM into their practice. Further, the barriers and facilitators to the …
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Gendered signs of the sacred : contested images of the mother in psychoanalysis, feminism, and Hindu myth
… and the maternal found at the intersection of psychoanalysis, feminism, and religion. The study explores embodiment, gender, and the sacred as expressed in symbolic representations of the mother and the institution of motherhood in patriarchy. I have therefore drawn on Freudian and …
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Psychoanalysis and Asexuality: An Exploration of The Phenomenon and Implications for Therapeutic Work Using A Psychoanalytic Theoretical Framework
In the past few decades, there has been an apparent rise in individuals who identify as Asexual. Asexuality has been defined as the lack of sexual attraction to anyone or anything. The current thesis explores this phenomenon from a psychoanalytic perspective and considers the possible implications …
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A Feminist-Psychoanalysis of Measure For Measure's Isabella and Hamlet's Title Character: Their Nontraditional Travels Between Stoicism and Skepticism
What does it mean to be a woman? How does it feel to be a man? Having pondered those answers for a moment, now consider this: the time is three centuries ago, the woman has a bright mind and a strong soul which she values more than a brother, and the man places family relationships above all esle …
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