Jacques Lacan

Powder In the short story “Powder”, the theme love is portrayed the most through deep connections between father and son. These two characters alone express bond that love can create between families. A father and son begin to drive through the snow storm until they are stopped at a road block by an officer. Love is first shown when the father stops to tell the son that they have to make it back in time for dinner so that the mom won’t feel let down once again as she has been lately. This is…

“Through me the way into the doleful city, / Through me the way into eternal grief, / Through me the way among a race forsaken. / ... / Abandon hope, forever, you who enter,” (Dante 20). When one thinks of the underworld one might expect see eternal flames and hear blood-curdling screams in pain, but what about a small dark room with two other people? What about living cooped up in one room, forever hearing the thoughts of another? Watching those alive forget about you? That’s where the…

and triumphs over masculine domineering. The narrator is, in fact, a woman abused and is psychologically unhinged, but it is through this loss of touch with reality that she is able to “break free” and cast aside societal expectations. In Jacques Lacan’s model on the human mind, mental development is divided into three stages: the imaginary order, the symbolic order and…

Lacan from symbolism and Phallus-centric ideas to the psychology of women and femininity Freud had spent many years writing his first psychoanalytic publication, The Interpretation of Dream (1900), in which he advanced the principals of his new Doctrine (Kurzweil:13). He considered the essence of femininity in Oedipus Complex; so, after he had become convinced that the Oedipus myth is universal and that the boy’s first desires are for his mother. Based on this, he could also expect that the…

it gained wider recognition owing to Sigmund Freud’s work. In his work Freud described narcissism as a sexual perversion, and defined it as “the attitude of a person who treats his own body in the way in which the body of the sexual object is ordinarily treated – who looks at it, strokes it, fondles it till he obtains complete satisfaction from these activities.” (Freud, 1914, p.73) Narcissism is defined by the American Psychiatric Association (2013) as a personality disorder, which includes “a…

Phil 3P97 Take Home Test 3: Deleuze and Guattari Anti-Oedipus Desire has a complicated history to philosophy; for most of philosophy's history they were viewed as fundamentally opposed. Since Plato, philosophy has viewed desire as base and something to be controlled by reason. By emphasizing reason over base desires, philosophy encouraged a pervasive self-denial identified by Nietzsche as the ascetic ideal. The core of this ideology was based on the notion that beliefs should be based upon…

The repressed, irrational characteristics does return in modernity and is characterized by a return that simultaneously serves to benefit instrumental rationality through culture. The subject remains fundamentally passive; there remains nothing for the consumer to classify, since all classification is passed through the culture industry.26 Hit songs, stars, and soap operas recur cyclically and invariably, while even the particular or specific content is generated from these types.27 Implicit in…

Throughout history authors have reflected the issues of society through their work. Kate Chopin, Charlotte Gilman, and Susan Glaspell are three such authors who address the oppressive nature of men and confines of marriage in their classic short stories. One similarity this collection of authors have in common is the time period in which they live(late nineteenth century to early twentieth century). It is important to understand the lack of women's rights and what was expected of a wife…

was evident that a depletion of their revenue was not going to be supported. Calonne also failed to make the parlements and the nobility see sense and his reforms fell short in the courts. Louis XVI acknowledged that just as Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Jacques Necker had tried before him, his reforms would fall on deaf ears thus he was dismissed in April 1787. Lynne Hunt argues…

“A Poison Tree” by William Blake is ostensibly dealing with the narrator’s refusal to communicate his anger to a tree, but the overdetermined nature of the words Blake uses makes a final, correct determination of meaning impossible. In this paper, through a utilization of Derrida’s methods set forth in works such as Spectres of Marx and Dissemination, I will examine how the contradictory imperatives contained within the metaphors in this poem draw a reader away from their initial assumption (i.e…