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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"psychoanalytical"”.
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Immortal Melancholia: A Psychoanalytical Study of Byronic Heroes
<p>This culminating project examines Byronic heroes using psychoanalytic theory across four case studies in media, including classic literature, theater, film, and television. The Byronic hero is a literary archetype inspired by the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824). Typical …
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Getting Out: A Feminist Psychoanalytical Analysis of Intimate Violence
… of intimate violence. Utilizing various feminist psychoanalytical theorists and critics, I explored the realm of intimate violence. This included paying particular attention to the feminists Rhoda Unger & Mary Crawford in Women in Gender: A Feminist Psychology and Tony Martens in The Spirit Weeps: …
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Self Against Others: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Harold Pinter's Work
This thesis critically examines some of the plays of the playwright, screenwriter and poet, Harold Pinter, in order to argue, first of all, that he was a writer of psychological realism, and that his oeuvre can, in the main, be defined as a body of psycho-political works. My essential contention is …
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Positioning the subject : a social psychoanalytical analysis of aggressive behaviour
This research project addresses aggressive and violent behaviour. It focuses on the question of the experiences of a research subject whose behaviour results from his inability to resolve the anxiety arising from his positioning in contradictory discourses. The relationship between his behaviour …
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A psychoanalytical approach to Harold Pinter’s plays :Old Times, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party
… of Harold Pinter’s plays, by using a Freudian psychoanalytical approach aligned with a close reading of the following works: Old Times (1971), The Homecoming (1965) and The Birthday Party (1957). Furthermore, the thesis aims at conducting a thorough analysis of the selected plays, by using key …
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Foreign Talent and Its Discontents: A Psychoanalytical reading of the foreign talent issue in Singapore
… lies something else. Through the application of psychoanalytical tools, one could make sense of the various statements and understand the structure from which such sentiments are generated. A psychoanalytic interpretation would suggest that it is too painful to speak out against the ruling …
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Internal Punishment: A Psychoanalytical Reading of F. M. Dostoevskyʼs Crime and Punishment (1866), L. Rebreanuʼs Ciuleandra (1927) and P. Ackroydʼs Hawksmoor (1985)
… manifestations, is explored through the lens of psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan and Otto Rank. My psychoanalytical readings of the texts are furthermore complemented by the theoretical frameworks offered by Mikhail Bakhtinʼs theory of polyphony, Linda …
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Dynamics of self-discovery in Hermann Hesse’s novels (1919–43): an analysis of the influence of Jung, Freud and Nietzsche on Hesse
… I examine the influence of Jungian and Freudian psychoanalytical patterns of thought on the specific narrative composition of Hesse’s novels and also how Nietzsche’s psychology of self-composition (cf. Graham Parkes, Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche’s Philosophy, 1994) and his ideas of …
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ΟΙ ΕΠΙΠΤΩΣΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΓΑΛΛΙΚΟΥ ΜΑΗ ΤΟΥ 1968 ΣΤΗΝ ΨΥΧΑΝΑΛΥΤΙΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
… IS DELINEATED BY MEANS OF PROVIDING A PSYCHOANALYTICAL EXPLANATION TO THE POLITICAL PHENOMENON OF MAY 1968. APART FROM STUDYING THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OFMAY REVOLT IN A PSYCHOANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVE, WE WOULD LIKE TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF THE MAY EVENTS ON THE FORM OF PSYCHOANALYTICAL …
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Carrefours théorico - cliniques
… examines some problematical concepts of the psychoanalytical Theory: autoerotim as first psychical activity, sublimation, Oedipus- and Castrationscomplexes, Instances of the Personnality, Projection and projective Identification.
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Sujeito e psicose
This thesis links psychoanalytical theory and clinical practice, which I understand as being the only way to develop knowledge in psychoanalysis. In this thesis I investigate the psychoanalytical concept of "subject", taking psychosis as a fruitful basis. The onset of a psychosis causes the …
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Blue Poets: Brilliant Poetry
… freshly reflected through a symbolic slant or a psychoanalytical lens. The poems in this study lend themselves to several possible areas of exploration: religious interpretation, assessment of socio-psychological factors, dream analysis, and / or the scrutiny of surrealistic elements.</p> …
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An exploration of how childlessness and the decision whether to parent is understood by psychoanalytic practitioners.
… and respond to VC in the clinical setting. Four psychoanalytical practitioners were interviewed and three main themes arose as a result of the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of the data collected. The first finding highlighted the biopsychosocial pressures that the participants …
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Select Reject Reconfigure: Editing Speech in Artists’ Direct Address to Camera
… the area has been widely understood within a psychoanalytical framework. This new approach provides a non-psychoanalytical perspective on direct address to camera, taking into account linguistic self-editing during the generation of speech (Skinner, 1957, p. 370) and technological editing …
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Fame, Sex and Other Types of Criminality
… extensive use of references to philosophical, psychoanalytical and political texts to explore issues surrounding desire, the rule of law, romanticism, democracy and gender.
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An exploratory study of emotional autonomy of employees within the context of strategic change
… financial organisations. Based on the Lacan's psychoanalytical theories, emotional autonomy is conceptualised here in terms of subjection, detachment and individuation - subjective phases that a subject goes through in seeking an individual sense of selfhood. In this empirical research, the …
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Obsessive collecting : curiosity of lost objects and unknown narratives, an archive of carte de visites
… of work is a result of a personal process and psychoanalytical challenge to overcome loss.
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Dalí's Religious Models: the Iconography of Martyrdom and its Contemplation
… transcribing Biblical meaning in the context of psychoanalytical theories of cultural production. In Part III, I show how Dalí's later, overt use of religious imagery evolved from within his Surrealism. I trace a condensed, personalised life-narrative through Dalí’s paintings of 1948-52, based on …
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Sound and Image: Experimental Music and the Popular Horror Film (1960 to the present day)
… This study applies a relatively new psychoanalytical framework to explain how the post-1960 horror film deploys these non-representational elements, incorporating them into an overall cinematic strategy which indexes the transition towards a post-classical cinematic aesthetics. More …
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Dryden and the Solution to Domination: Bonds of Love In the Conquest of Granada
… founds itself on bonds of love, just as modern psychoanalytical theorist Jessica Benjamin suggests is necessary for society today.</p>
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