Essays Tagged: "Jacque Lacan"
Discuss the importance of the 'mirror' in psychoanalytic terms with reference to Lacan's theory of the mirror stage and Angela Carter's short story 'Flesh and the Mirror'.
Jacques Lacan draws mainly on the work of Freud and Saussure (and even Levi Strauss and Derrida) alt ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Where is Psychoanalytic Criticism coming from? And What does that mean?
, with each phase corresponding to a season of the year and to peculiar cycles of human experiences.Jacques Lacan believes that the unconscious greatly affects our conscious behavior. According to Lac ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
Subjectivity: Psycho-literary Aspect
ransformed any belief in the subject as a coherent, rational and conscious being. Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan's theories have been most widely used in relation to literary studies, but [keep in mi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
How useful is psychoanalysis when viewed from feminist perspectives? Identify and discuss the main criticisms that have been made of the work of Freud, as well as the main strengths.
inguistic) importance of the mother. (Beasley, C (1999). The second groupings draw upon the work of Jacques Lacan, an interpreter of Freud's analytic method which provides a linguistic view of Freud. ... /socialist feminists with such viewpoints being extremely diverse. They include the writers such as Jacqueline Rose and Juliet Mitchell, whose earlier work was clearly more within the Marxist/Socialis ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Critique of a Postmodern Philosophy
re-linguistic) importance of the mother (Beasley, 1999). The second grouping draws upon the work of Jacque Lacan, an interpreter of Freud's analytic method which provides a linguistic view of Freud. T ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Psychoanalysis and King Lear
mother and to seek other subjects outside the family (Rivkin and Ryan, 1998. 39).Theorists such as Jacques Lacan shift the stress to the pre-oedipal stage; and so the focus is on the experience of th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Latin Language & Literature