Search for dissertations about: "Lacan"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word Lacan.

2. 1. The Other Side of Technology: Lacan and the Desire for the Purity of Non-Being

   Author : Carl Cederström; Institutionen för informatik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lacan; psychoanalysis; information systems research; critique; fantasy;

   Abstract : Against the deeply ingrained belief that technology is instrumental and neutral, this thesis argues that our relation to technology is inextricably bound up with fantasies. But what is the nature of these fantasies and where do we find them? Are they strictly reserved to the domain of Science Fiction, or can we also find them in more mundane contexts, like the business organization? These are some of the central questions of the present study. READ MORE

4. 2. Understanding China’s Rise : Competing Online Identity Discourses behind Short-term Changes in Foreign Policy

   Author : Nicholas Olczak; Karl Gustafsson; Shaun Breslin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; China; foreign policy; North Korea; Southeast Asia; the South China Sea; rising powers; international relations; security; the Internet; critical constructivism; identity; mixed methods; discourse; Lacan; 中国，国际关系，外交，朝鲜; International Relations; internationella relationer;

   Abstract : China has undergone a remarkable rise in the past four decades, its economy and material power growing substantially. These developments have led to several interlinked debates about how we should understand this rise. READ MORE

5. 3. Circoanalysis : Circus, Therapy and Psychoanalysis

   Author : John-Paul Zaccarini; Lena Hammergren; Ana Sanchez-Colberg; Helen Stoddart; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Circus; Psychoanalysis; Pedagogy; Therapy; Freud; Klein; Winnicott; Lacan; Performativa och mediala praktiker; med inriktning mot film och media koreografi opera scen; Performative and mediated practices; with specializations in choreography film and media opera performing arts; teatervetenskap;

   Abstract : There is an object/artefact of circus and a subject/process that makes it. This research considers the subject of the circus-making in order to bring it to the foreground of future discussions about pedagogy, practice and production. READ MORE

6. 4. The Vicissitudes of Corruption : Degeneration - transgression - jouissance

   Author : Thomas Taro Lennerfors; Claes Gustafsson; Thomas Polesie; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Industrial organisation; administration and economics; Industriell organisation; administration och ekonomi;

   Abstract : In a time when corruption is receiving increasing media coverage and when many claim to wage a war on corruption, this book brings up the need for a problematisation and an increased understanding of the different manifestations – the vicissitudes – of corruption and also what measures are taken against it. The book advances the claim that corruption is tightly related to modernity and particularly to a transgression of the public / private dichotomy. READ MORE

7. 5. The materiality of serial practice : a microarchaeology of burial : (Materialitet i seriell praktik. En mikroarkeologisk gravanalys)

   Author : Fredrik Fahlander; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Microarchaeology; social theory; social practice; landscape; graves; Ajvide; Asea; Tegea; corporeality; Neolithic; GRK; Pitted Ware Culture.;

   Abstract : The main concern of the thesis is the question of how to deal with matters of social heterogeneity in prehistory. A social reading of psychoanalytic theory of e.g. Jacques Lacan suggests that social heterogeneity generally is more likely than homogeneity in most social formations. READ MORE