Essays about: "Psychoanalytic"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 59 essays containing the word Psychoanalytic.

  1. 1. Heathcliff’s Complex Character : Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality and Reader-response Theory to Understand Heathcliff

    University essay from

    Author : Mohamed Ashmawi; [2024]
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    Abstract : Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, presents Heathcliff as a complicated character that makes it hard for readers to declare him a victim or a villain, hence leaving them with questions about his morality. This work looks deep into Heathcliff’s tough character by integrating the view of psychoanalysis with reader-response theory. READ MORE

  3. 2. The suffocating enjoyment of the Other: An ideology critique of enjoyment in the mediatisation of the climate crisis

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Gabriel Bintley; [2024]
    Keywords : Enjoyment; Jouissance; the Other; Climate Crisis; Lacan; Žižek; Environmental Politics; Ideology Critique; Njutning; Jouissance; Den Andre; Klimatkrisen; Lacan; Žižek; Miljöpolitik; Ideologikritik;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how the Lacanian concept of ‘the enjoyment of the Other’ (la jouissance de l’Autre) can be applied to break open normative understandings of the political factors shaping the climate crisis deadlock. The principal aim is to investigate how ostensibly disconnected environmental debates may be regarded as linked by an economy of enjoyment, more precisely by the promise of enjoyment by which the subject is libidinally attached to an ideology. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Consequences of Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved : A Psychoanalytic Reading of Sethe and Denver

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Tina Eriksson; [2023]
    Keywords : Anxiety; Core issues; Defence mechanisms; Feminism; Freud; Narrative; Psychoanalysis; Repression; Slavery; Trauma;

    Abstract : This essay’s main focus is on Sethe and her daughter Denver in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and how they try to survive the trauma that comes from slavery. By using psychoanalysis as a theoretical framework, the essay examines what psychological reactions Sethe and Denver have as two traumatised characters, and what happens to them psychologically when they are forced to face the repressed. READ MORE

  5. 4. “Affected Indifference, or Momentary Shame” : Gothic Awareness in Northanger Abbey and Mexican Gothic

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Andrea Johansson; [2023]
    Keywords : Jane Austen; Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Gothic awareness; female sexuality; sexual violence; domestic entrapment; exploitation;

    Abstract : Feminist scholars have focused on the Gothic as a medium for expressing the horrors of female experience in a patriarchal society. This study examines Gothic awareness in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic. READ MORE

  6. 5. 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