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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"the irrational"”.
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"Poetic Surrealism in the Films of Bernardo Bertolucci: ""The Spider's Strategem"", ""The Conformist"" and ""Last Tango in Paris"""
The final film chapters examine surrealism in The Spider's Stratagem, The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris as it developed out of a series of formal models that derive from surrealist painting, photography and film. Subliminally registered images that show the union of irreconcilable elements as …
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Is There a Commercial Residential Housing Bubble in China
<p>There are plenty of arguments about the Chinese residential housing market bubble. Making improvement of the analyses Yu (2011), the present paper present a more reasonable “discount cash flow model” to detect the existence of the bubble in the residential house market from 1998 to 2010. The …
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On the Democritean concept of poetic inspiration
The concept of poetic inspiration as a species of madness has usually been traced back to Democritus of Abdera, who is believed to have been the first to use the vocabulary of ecstatic possession for the characteristic activity of the talented poet, in implicit contrast with that of the …
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LETS MAKE IT OUTBACK TONIGHT
<p>When I was younger, shortly after my father died, my mother bought me a t-shirt that I loved and wore till it was worn out. On the shirt there was an image of a man, strapped into an electric chair, holding pieces of bread in each hand. A sign above him read, "Making the best of a bad …
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The relationship between suicidal phenomena and depression, dysfunctional attitudes, irrational beliefs, and hopelessness
The study of depression and suicidal phenomena among adolescents has lagged behind that of adults. Very few studies have examined attitudes and beliefs of relevance to cognitive therapy among suicidal adolescents. In this study 40 incarcerated juvenile females were administered the Beck Depression …
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Balancing the Scale of Rationality: The Public Memory of the Boston Tea Party and the Transformation of Dissent
This study examines the public memory of the Boston Tea Party as it has been appropriated for political purposes throughout history. First, I examine the Boston Tea Party to show that the rhetoric surrounding this protest created a tradition of American dissent in which dissenters created a balance …
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Magic Mountain
… of believability without recognition. While the work references landscape it also emphasizes its contrivance, as it is automatically estranged in an "unnatural" gallery setting. I subvert or de-familiarize the materials and processes that I use in the service of creating a fictitious …
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A study of furor in Republican and Augustan literature
"The focus of this investigation is a study of the concept furor in Latin literature from the beginnings through the middle of the Augustan Age. The purpose is to show that the complex ideas behind the term furor developed by degrees until the word became a general term for "madness." No attempt in …
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"""Music that makes holes in the sky"": Georgia O'Keefe's visionary romanticism"
"At the time of Georgia O'Keeffe's death in 1986, she was stereotyped as provincial American who was untouched by literary or intellectual stimuli, a ""frontier"" woman attached to nature by gender rather than philosophy. O'Keeffe's extraordinary abstractions and their sources remained largely …
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Lost Elysium: space as a metaphor for the liminal in a post-Catholic world
This thesis was submitted as part of a PhD by Prior Publication. It explores the motivations for my writing, and examines the formative early experiences, and early artistic habits and reading in which my life as a writer are rooted. The thesis is divided into two parts, an essay called ‘Lost …
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Make Hit Phlegm
This thesis is an application of surrealism to architecture. Surrealism is an art & literary movement started in Europe between the world wars. After the chaos of the first world war the surrealist group was disillusioned with the devotion to rationalism that they believed produced the war. The …
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Situace surrealistického subjektu
… Filosofická fakulta katedra estetiky Diploma thesis Šimon Svěrák Situation of the Surrealist Subject (abstract) 2012 thesis supervisor: prof. PhDr. Vlastimil Zuska, CSc. Abstract This thesis focuses on the situation of a substantial subject in the historical development of the surrealist …
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How Do Practising Astrologers Understand the Epistemic Nature of Astrology and What Impact Does This Have on Their Practice?
… examines astrologers’ perceptions of the nature of astrological knowledge, considering the epistemological paradigm of astrology and the potential impact of that paradigm on astrological practitioners. It investigates how Western horoscopic astrologers understand and work with the …
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Not my brother's keeper: How ethnic violence causes infighting
… group turn its weapons against itself? That is the question that motivates this dissertation. Such behavior is puzzling because as an ethnic group devotes valuable time, energy, and resources on an intra-group conflict, it reduces the total amount of resources the group can draw on to wage the …
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Randomness as a generative principle in art and architecture
As designers have become more eloquent in the exploitation of the powerful yet generic calculating capabilities of the computer, contemporary architectural practice seems to have set its mind on creating a logic machine that designs from predetermined constraints. Generating form from mathematical …
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Le surréalisme, la fiction, et l'apparence de la réalité dans les œuvres de Louis-René des Forêts
… de l'esprit conscient et inconscient, l'irrationalité, et le jeu de la fiction et de la réalité font encore écho et restent présentes dans les oeuvres littéraires à présent. Les résultats de cette analyse indiquent que les oeuvres littéraires fictives d'aujourd'hui sont largement …
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Atuação farmacêutica no campo da saúde mental : uma revisão da literatura
With the new concept of health, how to exercise the pharmacy profession to promote recovery and this involves a new way of acting. With the enactment of the Health Law and the psychiatric reform, it is understood that mental health care should be object of health professionals as well as physical …
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Asymptotic formulae for certain arithmetic functions produced by fractional linear transformations
K.T. Atanassov introduced the two arithmetic functions \[ I(n) = \prod_{\nu=1}^k p_\nu^{1/\alpha_\nu} \qquad \text{and}\qquad R(n) = \prod_{\nu=1}^k p_\nu^{\alpha_v - 1} \] called the irrational factor and the strong restrictive factor, respectively. A variety of authors have studied the properties …
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Pooled resources: an experimental investigation of salt production and pottery manufacture within the LIA and Romano-British landscape of Poole Harbour, Dorset.
… Focusing on two major economic activities in the production of salt and a major pottery industry, South East Dorset Black Burnished Ware 1 (SEDBB1). Excavation has revealed evidence for a landscape heavily exploited for production and trade from the Late Iron Age. Previous work has identified …
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Comparative analysis of irrational beliefs and alexithymia to predict anxiety, neuroticism, and depression
… are highly studied human disturbances in the field of psychology. There are many theories as to the cause of these distresses. Followers of Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy have hypothesized that the maintaining of irrational beliefs causes emotional distress. Others have …
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