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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
'Now that I am forever with child' : a study of the subjective experience of women in pregnancy
(Dublin Business School, 2002)In writing this thesis I have set myself the task of examining female subjectivity in pregnancy. However, it is immediately apparent that in order to see this one must first look at female subjectivity itself, and in ... -
Self harm: establishing boundaries?
(Dublin Business School, 2002)The case of a young woman of twenty five, Sharon, whom I saw for five sessions, who self-harmed by cutting and burning her skin made me interested in exploring this phenomenon from a psychoanalytic perspective. She said ... -
Psychosis
(Dublin Business School, 1998)Psychosis presents difficulties for the subject and the clinician. The psychotic subject is affected by a condition which may leave him or her seriously undermined in their ability to undertake the ordinary everyday ... -
Homo homini lupus
(Dublin Business School, 2002)In recent times, with the influx of foreign nationals to our shores seeking political or economic asylum the question of racism and its effect on society has been raised. Ireland is no longer seen as an ethnically ... -
A Missed Encounter: Freud and The Girl.
(Dublin Business School, 2006)This thesis examines The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman. It was wondered if there was any relevance for the theories and issues that structure her and her relationships in today's society. From a close ...