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Anorexia Nervosa and the dialectic of need, desire and demand
(Dublin Business School, 2003)As a pathology which stands impenetrable to all conscious logic, even when subjected to the empirism of medical science, anorexia nervosa remains an intractable mystery to those who seek to understand it. Despite the ... -
The beating phantasy as a perverse residue of the Oedipus complex
(Dublin Business School, 2001)This dissertation will focus on how the beating phantasy develops during the Oedipus complex, and how it will continue to persist in later life, representing a perverse or masochistic residue of the Oedipus complex, that ... -
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 ... -
Child animal phobia : explorations of what Freud and Lacan have to offer in explaining the origin, possible treatment and the positive aspect of child animal phobia in helping the child navigate the Oedipus complex
(Dublin Business School, 2011)Child animal phobia is explored in terms of psychoanalysis. Freud’s case history of Little Hans is used to illustrate the origin and treatment of child animal phobia. Freud’s theories of infant sexuality, castration fear ... -
An examination of the significance of the difference between the neurotic symptom and the psychotic sinthome
(Dublin Business School, 2012)This Final Year Project will examine Freud‟s theory of the neurotic symptom and Lacan‟s concept of the psychotic sinthome and will illustrate the significance of the difference between them. In addition, Freud and Lacan‟s ... -
An exploration of the link between anxiety and antisocial behaviour
(Dublin Business School, 2005)Demographics and statistics show that crime, drug addiction, antisocial behaviour along with other social problems occur with the greatest frequency in communities that are, for the most part, a lot less well off than ... -
Extimacy and the evocation of the uncanny : between Freud and Lacan
(Dublin Business School, 2003)The uncanny comes as compulsion; that is, like Freud, one will feel compelled, "impelled" (Freud, 1919/1990, p. 339) toward its (infantile) researches, or rather not at all. Nicholas Royle suggests that Freud's essay on ... -
Freud's seduction theory
(Dublin Business School, 2001)During the last five years of the nineteenth century, Sigmund Freud developed most of the core psychodynamic and developmental insights, which became psychoanalysis. Freud' s articulation of the seduction theory of neurosis ... -
Is there a connection between the parental inputs which lead to eating disorders?
(Dublin Business School, 2005)My intention is to explore the condition of anorexia and bulimia and how the parental inputs can lead to these disorders. I will investigate how a parent's unconscious and conscious identifies with the infants needs that ... -
Love is a metaphor
(Dublin Business School, 2006)What does love have to do with Lacan's idea of the transference and how is Plato's Symposium relevant to this topic? The statement implicit in the title and this question are found in Lacan' s Seminar VIII on Transference ... -
The Madness of Robert Schunlann
(Dublin Business School, 2003)The composer Robert Schummm (1810 - 1856) died in an asylum at Endenich, near Bonn, having previously tried to kill himself by throwing himself into the Rhine. Posthumous diagnoses include syphilis, meningitis, dementia ... -
Narcissus in the field : Jacques Lacan' s Le stade du miroir
(Dublin Business School, 2004)The 'drama' of Jacques Lacan's mirror stage/Le stade du miroir is a drama of identifications. Spurred in part by the 'knotty problem' of primary and secondary narcissism arising from Sigmund Freud's 1914 paper, the mirror ... -
Psychoanalysis and the internet : a view to the future
(Dublin Business School, 2004)Computer technology is progressively becoming a part of everyday life in the 21 st Century. The sudden increase in the development of Internet communication is opening up a new dimension in human experience. The Internet ... -
Screen memories as a formation of the unconscious
(Dublin Business School, 2009)During arguably the most productive period of his life spanning ten years from 1895 – 1905 Freud developed his Final Year Project of the psyche and its unconscious mechanisms, the psychosexual development of the individual, ... -
The stress-eating relationship : how food can be used as a coping mechanism for stress and emotions
(Dublin Business School, 2016)A change in eating behaviour can occur as a result of stress or emotions a person may experience. This stress or emotion can be brought about by certain stressors a person can encounter. The purpose of this study was to ... -
A study of the psychoanalytical oedipal concept as it appears in Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the shore
(Dublin Business School, 2011)Few psychoanalytic concepts have received such vehement criticism as that laid at the feet of the Oedipus complex and yet it is ingrained in the very fabric of society. From William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1600) to Alfred ... -
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 ...