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Beyond the subjectivity trap
(Imprint Academic, 2015)Beyond the Subjectivity Trap challenges the paradigm of the hard problem of consciousness by contesting the relevance and primacy of human thought. By tracing the evolved egocentricity of the 'I' as an entrapping limitation ... -
Connecting librarians: The HECA Library Group Pilot of the Professional Development Framework
(L2L, 2019)The Higher Education Colleges Association (HECA) represents the interests of fifteen private higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland. Its Committees include a Teaching and Learning Committee and a Library ... -
Dynamism of character in Shakespeare's mature tragedies
(Associated University Presses, 2003)Dynamism of character in Shakespeare's mature tragedies applies the systems theory of character to the analysis of the psychological and dramatic consistence of the main characters from Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. -
The Edinburgh international encyclopaedia of psychoanalysis
(Edinburgh University Press, 2006)Rik Loose's seven entries for the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of psychoanalysis are on: addiction, aggressivity, lamella, mimicry, need, push-to-the-woman and toxin. The Encyclopaedia provides a wide, objective and catholic ... -
Fields of knowledge
(Institute of Public Administration (IPA), 2006)Organic food is becoming increasingly popular in Ireland, as it is elsewhere. In September 2004, the Minister for Horticulture and Food, Noel Treacy, launched a Guide to Organic Food and Farming at the farmers’ market in ... -
From interaction to symbol : a systems view of the evolution of signs and communication
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009)Sadowski's book offers a comprehensive model of communication based on deductive formulations of systems theory supported by evolutionary thinking. The systems model generates the following types of communication: direct, ... -
Gender and literature : a systems study
(University Press of America, Inc., 2001)A Systems Study addresses the notion of gender as a "social construct," and presents evolutionary reasons for human psycho-behavioural differentiation along the lines of sexual dimorphism of the reproductive and the related ... -
Irish agriculture nationalised : the Dairy Disposal Company and the making of the modern Irish dairy industry
(Institute of Public Administrations, 2014)Irish Agriculture Nationalised tells the remarkable story of the Dairy Disposal Company (DDC), one of the first Irish state-sponsored bodies, established in 1927 to acquire private creameries and other agri-businesses and ... -
The knight on his quest : symbolic patterns of transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Associated University Presses, 1996)This book offers an integrated interpretative analysis of the major thematic aspects of the English fourteenth-century romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The chief aim of author Piotr Sadowski is to look at the ... -
A Lacanian Approach to Clinical Diagnosis and Addiction
(Karnac Books., 2002)Towards the end of his Civilization and its Discontents Freud poses a question which he feels he cannot evade. After contemplating the similarities between the development of civilization and the individual he wonders ... -
The making of an artist. Creating the Irishman Micheal MacLiammoir
(The Liffey Press, 2015)The Making of an Artist is a fascinating portrayal of the formative years of Micheál MacLiammóir, actor, playwright, artist, linguist, raconteur and co-founder of the Gate Theatre. Born in Cockney London and christened ... -
Masculinities, care and equality : identity and nurture in men's lives
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)Masculinities, Care and Equality explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, the desire to be ... -
Modern symptoms and their effects as forms of administration : a challenge to the concept of dual diagnosis and to treatment
(Karnac Books, 2011)Considered from a psychoanalytic point of view there is no such thing as an expertise in addiction, but to pay special attention to addiction is important, because it is arguably a paradigmatic expression of the suffering ... -
Power, knowledge and tour-guiding : the construction of Irish identity on Board County Wicklow tour buses
(Channel View Publications, 2003)Tourism industries construct and communicate images of the cultural, ethnic and national identities of host populations, images which are reproduced in brochures, guidebooks and in the language of tour guides. Such ... -
School based bullying in Ireland - a cause for concern? A review of research from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
(Nova Publishers, 2013)Both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have, over the last 20 years, changed dramatically in response to a range of economic, political and social factors. One area of continuing social concern within both ... -
The seminar of Jacques Lacan : Book X : Anxiety : 1962-1963.
(2011-08-17)