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A consideration of the death drive using the case history of Matt Talbot
(Dublin Business School, 1996)"Protection against stimuli is an almost more important function for the living organism than reception of stimuli." CD p. 289 Freud's Death Drive since it was first advanced was considered a highly controversial theoretical ... -
Without and within the child
(Dublin Business School, 1998)The question I open this paper with is a simple one, how do we begin a child analysis? The answer may seem to be similarly plain, apart from the stumbling block that communication may be, we begin the same as we would with ... -
Body dysmorphic disorder : a psychoanalytic perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2011)With a close examination of the formation of the body image in psychoanalytic theory, I hope to gain insight into how the image in the mirror comes to be distorted in body dysmorphic disorder and to propose some suggestions ... -
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? : a study of the connection between the infantile fear of the wolf and the desire for sexual satisfaction by the father in the case of the 'Wolf Man'
(Dublin Business School, 2008)In this thesis, I intend to look at Freud's case 'From The history Of An Infantile Neurosis' (1918 [1914]), more commonly known as the case of the 'Wolf Man', I wish to investigate Freud's claim that the childhood fear of ... -
Psychoanalysis : a case of chronic pain
(Dublin Business School, 2008)In medical clinics, clinicians are faced with many patients complaining of symptoms that, after numerous examinations are deemed to be unexplainable and thus are termed Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS). I propose here ... -
The death drive in motion : a necessary understanding for toxicomania
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Discourses, developmental dynamics, dependency and addiction : an exploration of the Lacanian perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2010)This study explores an understanding of the Lacanian discourses and developmental dynamics as they relate to, in particular, the study of addiction and dependency. The terminology used in the field is discussed. Examination ... -
Melancholia, an act of perversion? or, the case of the frog and the eel
(Dublin Business School, 2004)To date, Freud's seminal article entitled Mourning and Melancholia 1917 (1915) remains largely forgotten in the analytic domain. Why should this be so? The answer perhaps rests in the fact that, although Freud explained ... -
An exploration of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy with homeless people
(Dublin Business School, 2015)Homelessness is a multidimensional reality with political, socio-economic, familial, psychological and health aspects. How homelessness is thought of shapes how it is responded to. The aim of this study is to explore ... -
A symbol written in the sand of the flesh: an examination of self-mutilation as symptom
(Dublin Business School, 2005)The area that shall be discussed in this dissertation is the area of self-harm, specifically self-mutilation. The question central to this dissertation is whether self-mutilation is a symptom as the term symptom is understood ...