Essays about: "defence-mechanisms"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word defence-mechanisms.

1. 1. 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

3. 2. Vanity, Grief and Mary Musgrove : A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Jane Austen's Persuasion

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Anneli Olsson Hagman; [2020]
   Keywords : Persuasion; Jane Austen; Mary Musgrove; psychoanalytic literary theory; grief; Freud; defence-mechanisms; repression; projection; unconsious;

   Abstract : The novel Persuasion by Jane Austen stands out from her canon partly due to the explicit reflection of society’s changing view of the British nobility in the early 19th century. The shallowness and alarming lack of responsibility displayed by the Elliot family is a representation of the growing opinion of the landed gentry being useless and not fit to lead the nation. READ MORE

4. 3. The Loman Family’s State of Mind : A Psychoanalytical Reading of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Niklas Eklöf; [2020]
   Keywords : Loman Family; Willy Loman; Biff Loman; Happy Loman; Linda Loman; Death of a Salesman; Psychoanalysis; Model of personality; Id; Ego; Superego; Freud; Defence mechanisms;

   Abstract : This essay will analyse the members of the Loman family of Death of a Salesman from a Freudian psychoanalytical perspective. The purpose is to understand what goes on inside the mind of these characters through Freud’s structural model of personality, the Id, Ego and Superego. The members of the Loman family are no longer happy with their lives. READ MORE

5. 4. Straight Línea : A phenomenological approach to women's response to piropos in contemporary Havana

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Author : Agnes Ahlsén; [2017]
   Keywords : Piropos; Catcalling; Heterosexuality; Cuba; Havana; Injurious Speech; Queer phenomenology; Sexualised Space; Women s feelings;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates women's feelings on being subjected to piropos (catcalling) in their everyday lives. Through interviews with four Cuban women living in Havana, I analyse women's experiences of piropos through a phenomenological lens and through speech theory, investigating how norms surrounding sexualities and gender are materialised in and between language, bodies and spaces. READ MORE

6. 5. Sjukdomsresistens eller sjukdomstolerans inom husdjursaveln - en jämförelse

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics

   Author : Stina Burri; [2012]
   Keywords : sjukdomsresistens; sjukdomstolerans; nöt; resursfördelning; reaktionsnorm;

   Abstract : Tolerance and resistance are two different defence mechanisms within the immune system that differ from each other in many ways: However it is not clear which of the two is the most advantageous in dairy production. Resistance is described as the ability to fight a pathogen in a host. READ MORE