Although C.G. Jung's interest in normality wavered throughout his career, it was one of the areas he identified in later life as worthy of further research. He began his career using a definition of normality which would have been the target of Foucault's criticism, had Foucault chosen to review Jung's work. However, Jung then evolved his thinking to a standpoint that was more aligned to Foucau...

"Joker" is a comic film with mentally ill person as the protagonist, mainly telling story of Arthur Frank, and engaged in clown acting work, because indifference society, betrayal colleagues, deception his mother, ridicule idol various bad encounters, spiritual world gradually collapsed, eventually went to road crime. Supported by Freud's relevant theories, this paper interprets Arthur's charac...

The article discusses contributions from literary research and how they imply psychoanalysis in their field of research. Close readings Freud Lacan serve as an opening to overarching question: what can teach us about psychoanalysis? A question that generates a paraphrase: is already involved the practice reading? historical ‘knowledge dependency’ on myth, rhetorical potential resonance made pos...

One of the most important aspects of analyzing literary texts is the consideration of the reflection of the author's thoughts, wishes, griefs and regrets as defense mechanisms. In reviewing the reflection of an author's unconscious in his or her work, psychoanalytic or psychological criticism is often used, in which the critic tries to reveal the influence of the author's mental constraints on ...

In recent years, several significant translations have been published by Vladimir Vasilyevich Starovoitov, which undoubtedly expand the ideas of Russian specialists about classical psychoanalysis, its criticism and subsequent development Freudian ideas. The article analyzes works John D. Sutherland, Ronald W.F. Fairbairn, Sandor Ferenczi Benjamin Kilborne. An idea is given dynamically complex c...

Psychoanalysis and the cinema were born at the end of the nineteenth century. They share a common historical, social, and cultural background shaped by the forces of modernity. Theorists commonly explore how psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on the importance of desire in the life of the individual, has influenced the cinema. But the reverse is also true-the cinema may well have influenced psyc...

death is one of the most inspiring concepts in most of well-known contemporary western and arab poets’works,including t.s. eliot and badr shakir al-sayyab’s. it plays a unique role in shaping the modern poetry. this paper contains a comparative archetypal-based analysis of symbolic aspects of death in “the waste land”, the most famous literary work by t.s.eliot whose impression on al-sayyab was...

The aim of this work is to analyze the process by which psychoanalysis categories joined scientific and popular culture in Francoism. To do so, we will start with criticism reinterpretations that different experts did on Freud’s theory adapt it new political-social context. This analysis allow us show how reappropriation signification a progressive modern was achieved based doctrinal principles...