Jacques de Lamberville

Many of us are given so much information and to be able to understand the plentiful information that we are given each day, we must simplify them or they will not be remembered. Many of us use stereotypes to classify certain people or any other piece of information that we are given into groups to speed up the process because since they are already in place for us it makes our lives easier. The media does show us what they want to show us therefore sometimes that information is not always valid.…

Analysis of “The Lottery” and “The Cask of Amontillado” Psychoanalytic theory is based on Freud’s idea that we can realise what does person’s thinks and feels if we look at what he or she perceives in his mind (Psychoanalytic Criticism (1930's-present)). Moreover, it follows that by analysing one of the author’s characters we are really analysing the author itself. We do not need to believe this as a whole. We believe based on experience and on some Psychological theories, that the main…

In Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the reader is pulled in two directions as he or she must decide for himself or herself if the ghosts are simply projections of the governess’ unconscious or if they are truly haunting both Miles and Flora. These two differing viewpoints are a direct result of James’ use of ambiguity of the text. James’ story then changes from a simple ghost story about a governess, two ghosts, and two children to a story filled with ambiguity and questions, which contribute…

the archaeological record to provide the answers regarding the past. He highly relies on the archaeological record (ceramic styles, design) to determine information on identity, politics and interrelationships between the St. Lawrence Iroquoians and Huron-Wendat people. Opinions in Place of Conclusions: These are unsupported assertions which Gibbon (2014) suggests are opinions. Therefore, the following are opinions asserted in place of conclusions: ¬ Ramsden (2016:6) suggests that his…

Laura Mulvey is the author of “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. Where she uses psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Lacan, to critique Hollywood films. A very big argument that she pursues is Freud’s concept of “Scopophilia”. Which is defined as obtaining a sense of pleasure from observing someone else. Freud compares this to a form of sexual domination. Observing someone without their knowledge, is like possessing a kind of mastery over them. Mulvey takes this concept and compares is to…

history asserts that the ‘savage’ Indians scalped ‘civilized’ whites in their resistance to the ‘taming’ of the continent.” In the twentieth century, this racialized understanding was rebuked as a fundamental distortion of Indian history. Attempts to “de-racialize” scalping allowed for a series of new and troubling misrepresentations of the practice’s role in early America to emerge. By far the most significant of these claims was the proposition that it was colonials who first introduced…

So there was once a group of friends whose names were Nathan, Vern, Carter, and the short fat one Potato. Nathan, Vern, and Carter have been friends for a while as they just met Potato, Potato has always been the weird kid, (Verns perspective) our teacher explained that he moved from a small island called gimwarre but never told us where it's at, when we ask potato he just says “Gimwarre GIN BUFF MCBOOGY”. We always thought he was weird, but one day when we all went out camping and no adults…

II. Lacan On the individual level, the obsession for an identity, for cohesion, is a result of the subject’s development through the mirror stage of life. This stage begins in the early years of one’s life when the child encounters their reflection in the mirror. Upon this first glimpse of oneself from the outside, the child is given an image of her existence which is far more unified and cohesive than their own subjective experience. Instead of the confusing collection of limbs and body parts…

Danielle Ramsey (2000), in the course pack, described psychoanalysis’s presence in feminist theory, as mainly in the position of the enemy. With many feminist adopting the idea that Freudian theory based female sexual identity around the thought of “passivity and, in particular, penis envy” (Ramsey, 2000, p.168), the idea that women, of all races (to be more accurate), suffered inferiority, from both the psyche and physical body, became acknowledged as harmful to feminist and their work in…

Figurative language, as a core pillar of language, has played a major part in the development, discovery and creation of most, if not all the concepts in our real world today. Nietzsche, Plato and Aristotle, are three well noted philosophers who all believed that a great extent of our knowledge and everything that we know today and believe to be true is in someway metaphors and illusions. They all understood the strong bond that knowledge and metaphors had. However, they each viewed metaphors…