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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"repetition compulsion"”.
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The Horror, the Horror: The Repetition and Compulsion of a Genre
… pose questions about the universal psychological compulsion for horror movies and their remakes. It proposes that repetition compulsion and regression to childhood are interlinked motivations for the repetitious nature and popularity of horror.
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The function of repetition in typology
… part of the thesis will examine the role of repetition in the evolution of architectural typology, in parallel to the role of repetition (compulsion to repeat) in the mechanism of instinctual repression of the Freudian model. The analogy will not serve as a claim for the nature of the …
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Nora's Transformative Journey: From A Doll's House and The Little Mermaid to The Way Home
… life. Art can contribute to blocking the repetition compulsion of gendered violence; in particular, as I have found, it can make its mark through visual re-cognition, textual re-telling and physical re-enactment. As an artist, I found myself equipped with the will for self-preservation and …
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Working with the Drive: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Treatment of Addictions
… of the drive, which is closely linked to the repetition 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 …
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Masking the Past: Trauma in Latin American and Peninsular Theatre
… four key traumatic tropes: memory, avoidance, repetition compulsion, and witnessing. The first chapter of this study will define post-traumatic stress disorder and contextualize it in terms of the traumas, or the wounds, suffered by Argentina, Chile, and Spain. Lastly, it outlines a set of …