Essays about: "Lacan and literature"

Found 3 essays containing the words Lacan and literature.

1. 1. The Defense Mechanisms of Moll Flanders : A Psychoanalytical Essay

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Tina Jakobsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Moll Flanders; Literature; Psychoanalysis; Freud; Lacan; Defense Mechanisms;

   Abstract : The essay analyzes how and why Moll Flanders’s childhood created mental and emotional patterns that would come to shape her personality and affect her behavior. The analysis will use psychoanalytical theories by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to discern what defense mechanisms and desires Moll developed in childhood and how these presented themselves throughout her life. READ MORE

3. 2. Desire, cows and resilience : Investigating motivations to steward a bio-cultural refuge in Northern Sweden

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

   Author : Mira Gartz; [2018]
   Keywords : rural; resilience; entrepreneurship; Lacan; motivation; native cattle; sustainability; sustainable development; food security;

   Abstract : In Sweden, centuries of agricultural modernization have marginalized locally adapted food cultures and food production systems. Yet in some places these practices and cultures survive, even in areas that lack conducive circumstances for agricultural production. These places are called bio-cultural refugia. READ MORE

4. 3. Interpreting The Denizens of The Hundred Acre Wood : Freudian & Lacanian psychoanalytical concepts in Winnie-The-Pooh

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Timothy Pettersson; [2009]
   Keywords : Winnie-the-Pooh; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; psychoanalytic literary criticism; Oedipus complex; psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic interpretation; literary criticism; Christopher Robin; unconscious; Nalle Puh; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; psykoanalys; litteraturteori; psykoanalytisk litteraturteori; oedipuskomplex;

   Abstract : In this paper I have strived to provide a new view on a timeless classic of children’s literature, Winnie-The-Pooh. In psychoanalytic literary criticism concepts and theories of psychoanalysis is implemented while interpreting literature; in this paper, I have interpreted the novel incorporating concepts of the psychoanalytic schools of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan while arguing that the denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood are manifestations of parts of the narrator’s unconscious. READ MORE