Essays about: "lacan s discourse"

Found 5 essays containing the words lacan s discourse.

1. 1. Unsubstantial Territories : Nomadic Subjectivity as Criticism of Psychoanalysis in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Andrey Belov; [2019]
   Keywords : Virginia Woolf; The Waves; Jacques Lacan; Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; Rosi Braidotti; psychoanalysis; subjectivity; nomadic subjectivity;

   Abstract : This essay looks at subjectivity in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves employing a psychoanalytic approach and using the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Woolf’s relation to the theories of her contemporary Sigmund Freud was unclear. READ MORE

3. 2. Why Brands Still Cause Trouble : Revisiting Holt's dialectical theory of consumer culture and branding

   University essay from

   Author : Luis Grau; Andrei Vanetski; [2018]
   Keywords : brands; consumers; consumer culture; instagram; influencers; marketing; micro-celebrity; endorsement; Bourdieu s habitus; lacan s discourse;

   Abstract : The rise of social media in general and Instagram in particular has enabled a new type of celebrities, called micro-celebrities, that nowadays are being increasingly used by companies to endorse their products or establish their brands. While celebrity endorsement as a type of stealth branding together with some other marketing techniques characteristic of postmodernism were predicted to be unveiled and scorned by consumers (Holt, 2002), there are signs that through the practices of micro-celebrities, the language and logic of marketing have become even more ubiquitous in our contemporary social life (Khamis et al. READ MORE

4. 3. 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

5. 4. “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free”: Rethinking feminist politics in the 2014 Swedish election campaign

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Kirill Filimonov; [2015]
   Keywords : feminism; feminist politics; identity politics; electoral communication; intersectionality; radical democracy; discourse theory; hegemony; antagonism;

   Abstract : This study explores the hegemonic articulation of ‘feminist politics’ by the Swedish political party Feminist Initiative (Feministiskt initiativ) during 2014 national parliamentary election campaign. The analysis is carried out on two levels: the construction of the hegemonic project of feminist politics and the construction of an antagonist. READ MORE

6. 5. Discourse of Gender : How language creates reality

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

   Author : Martin Hohendorf; Alessandra Pucci Daniele; [2014]
   Keywords : Leadership; gender; sex; Discourse; language; Post-structuralism; feminism; Foucault; female leadership; glass ceiling;

   Abstract : This master thesis deals with the gender perception in leaderships positions. Starting from our awareness of a gendered leadership gap, this thesis aims to show our development towards our understanding of reality as socially constructed. We apply the Discourse in order to see how oppression works on women. READ MORE