Essays about: "Jacques Lacan"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words Jacques Lacan.

  1. 1. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Otherness and The Abject in Alice Munro's "Dimensions" and "Child's Play"

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Sara Frigerio; [2023]
    Keywords : Otherness; Abjection; Critical Discourse Analysis; Lacan; Kristeva;

    Abstract : This thesis is aimed at investigating the concepts of otherness and the abject/abjection in the various characters' discourses in the two short stories "Dimensions" and "Child's Play" in Alice Munro's collection Too Much Happiness from a psychoanalytic perspective in conjunction with a Critical Discourse Analysis. Both texts share features of otherness which manifest in various forms in the characters. READ MORE

  3. 2. Adrift in an Unfamiliar Place: Exploring the Architectural Uncanny in Rachel Cusk´s Outline Trilogy

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Alonso Mochales Rodríguez; [2022-12-05]
    Keywords : Rachel Cusk; Outline; uncanny; Freud; architecture; Jacques Lacan; Anthony Vidler; uncanny architecture; extimacy;

    Abstract : This essay explores the uncanny as an overarching element of Rachel Cuk´s Outline trilogy. This is done within the theoretical framework of Freud´s uncanny, the architectural interpretations of the concept, as well as with the help of Lacan´s extimacy, a concept that will be defended as closely related to Freud´s. READ MORE

  4. 3. Making her feel like a fairy : a study of young women engaging with selfie applications in China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Yilin Yang; [2022]
    Keywords : selfie; media engagement; self-representation; the gaze; human body; audience research; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : It’s not unusual for young people these days to take and edit a selfie. With the rise of consumerist culture and the popularity of mobile Internet, nowadays selfie applications, including beauty cameras and photo-beautification applications, have become the most well-accepted products/brands among Chinese women, who have grown accustomed to showing only one exquisitely edited face in digital photos without any dirt or blemishes. READ MORE

  5. 4. Chasing the Unattainable: Manifestations of Desire in Selected Novels by Carson McCullers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hans Ingvar Marmén; [2022]
    Keywords : Carson McCullers; Desire; Lacan; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The American author Carson McCullers’s often non-normative fictional characters typically desire something they cannot have and thus a pattern of nonreciprocal love and desire permeate much of her work. Earlier scholarship on her fiction has focused on themes of isolation as well as the element of symbolism but also psychological approaches including Freudian and Jungian perspectives have been taken. READ MORE

  6. 5. Towards a transindividualist understanding of the pedagogical relation

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS)

    Author : Florencia Fernández; [2022]
    Keywords : the pedagogical relation; transindividualism; relational autonomy; psychoanalysis; the four discourses;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of an analysis of the canonical notion of the pedagogical relation, as introduced by Hermann Nohl in the 1930’s following the tradition of pedagogy and education in Germany. This notion, which has both been central in current debates on educational theory, for example in the work of Norm Friesen and Tone Sævi, has certain implications and political consequences. READ MORE