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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 ... -
Systems theory as an approach to the study of literature : origins and functions of literature
(The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999)This text offers an alternative account of literary reception as communications-based. It seeks an alternative to post-Saussurean theories of language and discourse. The author makes a case for literature as a form of ... -
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 ... -
The subject of addiction : psychoanalysis and the administration of enjoyment
(Karnac Books, 2002)The incidence of addiction is higher than ever, and drugs and drug use are an increasingly prevalent part of our culture. Yet we seem to lack the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Translation and Justice in Paul Ricoeur
(Peter Lang UK, 2011)In the recent philosophical literature the problem of translation has been treated by a relatively small number of thinkers. We might recall the contributions of Donald Davidson and Willard van Orman Quine in the analytical ... -
The seminar of Jacques Lacan : Book X : Anxiety : 1962-1963.
(2011-08-17)