Essays about: "Repetition compulsion"

Found 2 essays containing the words Repetition compulsion.

1. 1. Trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved : Literary Methods and Psychological Processes

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Rebecca Nyberg; [2020]
   Keywords : Toni Morrison; Beloved; dream image; primary and secondary process; displacement; condensation and repetition compulsion.;

   Abstract : In this essay, the novel Beloved, by Toni Morrison is observed using a working psychoanalytical approach. Story is observed as an important factor in engaging the reader on a personal level with the experience of trauma. READ MORE

3. 2. Blue Eyes, Lacanian Real : A psychoanalytic reading of Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

   Author : Marco Rep; [2019]
   Keywords : Gustav Mahler; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Psychoanalysis; Lacan; Žižek; three Orders; Repetition compulsion;

   Abstract : Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (first published 1887) feature as their only character a miserable wayfarer who laments his unrequited love for someone and who, in spite of all his beautiful pastoral surroundings, cannot help but feel deep unhappiness. Using Lacan’s three orders (Imaginary, Symbolic and Real) and further developments of his theory by Slavoj Žižek in The Sublime Object of Ideology, I argue that the eyes of the wayfarer’s beloved are the Lacanian Real that disrupts his symbolic network and thus are the origin of his traumatic existence. READ MORE