Essays about: "Psychoanalysis"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 77 essays containing the word Psychoanalysis.

  1. 6. The Jungelian Knowledge in the Garden of Europe: “The Other” and their representation in the European Studies Program at Malmö University

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Mostafa Mohamed; [2023]
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    Abstract : European Studies as a mainstream field needs evaluation of how its structured, and what ontological, epistemological, and methodological approaches it takes. Through a theoretical framework consolidated mainly by Spivak and Said with a post-colonial lens on the European Studies Program, where it uses positional superiority, Subject-Constitution and Object-Formation concepts, theorizing “The Other” using anthropological writings and psychoanalysis, and use destructive representation to investigate the positionality of “The Other” or its effective absence, this dissertation investigate and analyze four core courses of European Studies Program at Malmö University to address the knowledge about, and the representation of, “The Other” within the program’s curriculum. READ MORE

  3. 7. Me minus me: Self-Effacement in Autofiction by Christopher Isherwood, Rachel Cusk and J. M. Coetzee

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Jim Callderyd; [2022-11-24]
    Keywords : Autofiction; Christopher Isherwood; Goodbye to Berlin; Rachel Cusk; Outline; J. M. Coetzee; Summertime; sexuality; gender; auto biography;

    Abstract : Autofiction is one of the most popular genres in contemporary Anglophone literature. Yet the self-fashioning, outwardly hybrid genre merging autobiography with fiction is also the object of frequent contestation and derision, the source of which is nearly singularly rooted in authors’ perceived self-absorption. READ MORE

  4. 8. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, and the Myth of ‘Myth’

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Noak Snow Gröning; [2022-07-04]
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    Abstract : This paper sets out to critically discuss and analyse both the scholarly and general implementation of the word ‘myth’ as designator of style, narrative, and cultural significance, within film studies and adjacent academic fields. This is done through an examination of scholarly discourse surrounding the topics of mythology, folk tale, and fairy tale, specifically in regard to Fritz Lang’s film Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924), and, albeit to a lesser extent, its sequel Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Rache (1924). READ MORE

  5. 9. Hiding in Plain Sight : A Gynocritical Reading of Rochester’s Narrative in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Emma Hennig; [2022]
    Keywords : Jean Rhys; Wide Sargasso Sea; Elaine Showalter; gynocriticism; psychoanalysis; postcolonialism; feminism; cultural theory; Edward Rochester; consciousness; narrative;

    Abstract : This essay is the result of a close-reading of the male protagonist’s narrative in Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). His narrative was examined through an interpretive lens layered with a combination of several critical onsets that form the pillars of Elaine Showalter’s theory of a metaphysical female crescent outside of male consciousness. READ MORE

  6. 10. Fantasy Fiction and Reality : How Fantasy Fiction Reflects Our Reality and How It Can Be Used in the English Classroom

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Rim Winssi; Kenan Tutusevic; [2022]
    Keywords : Fantasy; Escapism; Swedish National Agency of Education; Psychoanalysis; Reality; Classroom activities;

    Abstract : Reality and fantasy fiction have often been seen as opposites. Fantasy fiction is many times seen as childish, with escapism as its sole purpose. READ MORE