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    • Love is a metaphor 

      Payne, Elin (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 

      O'Connor, Maire (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 

      Ruane, Medb (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 

      D'Alton, Jane (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 

      Magee, Brian (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 

      Donohue, Aisling (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 

      Byrne, Sean (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 

      Byrne, May (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 ...