Essays about: "emotional dependency"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 essays containing the words emotional dependency.

  1. 6. The Wish for Stability : From Alienation to Femininity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus

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

    Author : Paulina Fischer; [2016]
    Keywords : submission; emotional dependency; father figure; gender; alienation; bell hooks; traditional gender roles; violence; male dominance; postcolonial; trauma;

    Abstract : This essay concerns Purple Hibiscus and Kambili's emotional development, and explores how violence, submission and emotional dependence along with a traditional feminine gender role can hinder acknowledgement of trauma. I propose that Kambili is encouraged to take on a culturally expected feminine gender role, and her submissive disposition is discussed and connected to her constant search for a father figure. READ MORE

  3. 7. Hybrid space counter-strategies: Rebalancing our relationships with networked technologies

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Peter Romich; [2012]
    Keywords : over-mediation; hybrid space;

    Abstract : Our increasing dependency on the internet has had a significant social, behavioural and psychological impact on us all, and not entirely positive. Networked technologies provide an endlessly-renewing refuge of digital information from the uncertainties of life in the physical world, a potentially addictive and ultimately unfulfilling emotional sanctuary. READ MORE