Search for dissertations about: "psychoanalysis sigmund freud"
Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words psychoanalysis sigmund freud.
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1. The Narcissus Theme from Fin de Siècle to Psychoanalysis : Crisis of the Modern Self
Abstract : This dissertation is an intertextual-thematological investigation of the Narcissus theme at the turn of the century 1900. It focuses primarily on French-, German-, and English-language decadent and Symbolist literature from the 1890s and early 1900s, as well as on early sexology and psychoanalysis. READ MORE
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2. A Different Kind of Ignorance : Self-Deception as Flight from Self-Knowledge
Abstract : In this dissertation I direct critique at a conception of self-deception prevalent in analytical philosophy, where self-deception is seen as a rational form of irrationality in which the self-deceiver strategically deceives himself on the basis of having judged that this is the best thing to do or, in order to achieve something advantageous. In Chapter One, I criticize the conception of self-deception as analogous to deceiving someone else, the so-called “standard approach to self-deception”. READ MORE
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3. "Frightened by a Word" : Shirley Jackson and Lesbian Gothic
Abstract : This study examines representations and configurations of lesbianism in literary narrative and, in particular, three novels by American author Shirley Jackson (1916-1965). As recent scholarly work has demonstrated, representations of sexuality between women in literature tend toward the ghostly, the Gothic. READ MORE