Essays about: "Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious.
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1. A Question of Taste : Psychoanalytic Explorations of Aesthetic Dislike and Bourdieu’s Distinction
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : This dissertation approaches the question of taste and aesthetic dislike from a combined sociological and psychoanalytic perspective. Building on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of art (most notably La distinction from 1979), I attempt to reconcile a view of aesthetic judgments as acts of distinction with a legitimate subjective dimension of aesthetic enjoyment. READ MORE
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2. Digesting the Pan-African Failure and the Role of African Psychology : Fanonian understanding of the Pan-African failure in establishing oneness and ending disunity/xenophobia in South Africa
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The study insists on understanding the miscarriage of “Pan-Africanism” and the role of “African” mentality with the help of Fanon’s psychoanalysis “Black Skin, White Mask,” exemplifying the immense colonial, slavery, and apartheid psychological damages experienced by Black individuals resulting Blacks/Africans self-hate and a desire to be “white” throughout the domain of Western culture, ideology, and language. To provide accurate analysis of the “Pan-African” failure to solve increasing blacks-hate-against-blacks/xenophobia in South Africa, concepts othering, mimicry, subaltern from the critical theory (postcolonialism) were applied. READ MORE
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3. The Defense Mechanisms of Moll Flanders : A Psychoanalytical Essay
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : 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
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4. The Significance of the Unconscious : A Literary Study of Fear Factors and Psychological Blockings in the Harry Potter Series
University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikationAbstract : This essay examines various fears presented in the Harry Potter series along with the psychological blockings connected to each fear. Furthermore, this study examines whether the effect of the characters’ actions and behaviours in situations that frightens them can simulate strategies of managing fears in real-life situations as well. READ MORE
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5. Understanding Locke & Key: A Semiotic and Intertextual study of the Collective Unconscious and some of its Archetypes in Locke & Key
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : This thesis’ focus will be on the comic book series Locke & Key in a semiotic and an intertextual reading through a psychoanalytical framework. The comic series is described as a “psychological horror” and a main theme running across the six volumes is good versus evil, and a lot of the narrative is helped by magical keys. READ MORE
