Psychoanalytic Criticism Classical Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Theory of the Psyche Humans are motivated‚ even driven‚ by desires‚ fears‚ needs‚ and conflicts of which they are unaware‚ that is unconscious The world through psychoanalytic lens Individual human beings Psychological history Childhood -> adolescent -> adult behavior Goal: help us resolve problems Disorders Dysfunctions Patterns of behavior – destructive (in some way) The Unconscious The storehouse of those painful experiences
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STRUCTURALISM IN LINGUISTICS Introduction It is not my purpose here to give a historical treatment of linguistic ideas‚ nor it to distinguish and analyze the various approaches and schools of thought generally subsumed under the heading of Structuralism. Rather‚ I propose to look at the general features characterizing structuralism as seen and treated by structuralists and further to see how it has come to be viewed by Chomsky and other transformationalists. Structuralism in linguistics has come
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could say that Titchener is seen as the father of structuralism. Thought he gives great credit to Wundt‚ he altered Wundts theory extensively resulting in a new theory. Structuralism‚ in short‚ is the "system of psychology‚ which dealt with conscious experience as a dependant on experiencing persons" (Schultz‚ 2004‚ p509). This varies greatly from the functionalism approach that’s focus is on the mind and how it adapts with its environment. Structuralism brought forth the focusing on mental attributes
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Structuralism and Semiotics What is Structuralism? Structuralism is the name that is given to a wide range of discourses that study underlying structures of signification. Signification occurs wherever there is a meaningful event or in the practise of some meaningful action. Hence the phrase‚ "signifying practices." A meaningful event might include any of following: writing or reading a text; getting married; having a discussion over a cup of coffee; a battle. Most (if not all) meaningful events
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Post Structuralism And Deconstruction . · without a fixed point of reference against which to measure movement we cannot tell whether or not you are moving at all. · · Post Structuralism accuse of not following through the omplications of the views about language on which their intellectual system is based. · Post structuralism says‚ in effect‚ that fixed intellectual reference points are pemanently removed by properly taking on board what structuralists said about language. · We could
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Structuralism Structuralism is a mode of thinking and a method of analysis practiced in 20th-century social sciences and humanities; it focuses on recurring patterns of thought and behaviour it seeks to analyse social relationships in terms of highly abstract relational structures. Structuralism is distinctly different from that applied to Radcliffe-Brown it involves more the bio and psychological aspect of human studies rather than social structures. Claude Levi-Strauss was the one to pioneer
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Marxism and Structuralism: • Marx concerned with causes of conflict in society and believed that it was the result of struggle between different socio-economic classes. • saying capitalism as a bondage from which people strive to be liberated. • Theory of history based on historical materialism‚ where the system of economic production determined structures of society. All history was the history of class struggle between a ruling group‚ from which [came] a new economic‚ political and social
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STRUCTURALISM Lichbach & Zuckerman – Research traditions and theory in comparative politics: an introduction * Influenced heavily by Marx and Weber * Draw together long-standing interests in political and social institutions * Emphasize‚ for example‚ formal organizations of governments‚ class relations (Marxist)‚ political parties and interest groups‚ how states and societies interact‚ themes of political economy. * Explore relations among actors in an institutional context *
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‘Structuralism and Literary Criticism’ - Gerard Genette Structuralism is a way to examines a literary text to arrive at their meaning‚ rather than the actual meanings of the text themselves. It is a study of structure wherever they occur. In the essay Genette analyses content‚ logics‚ grammars and semiotics. He is considering structuralism as a method to study literary criticism. In the beginning of the essay Genette is establishing difference between Bricoleur and Engineer‚ Art critic and Literary
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According to Wikipedia‚ structuralism is an intellectual movement that was developed in France in the 1950s and 1960s‚ in which human culture is analyzed as a system of signs. Structuralism argues that a specific area of culture may be understood by means of a structure modeled of languages which come from reality and ideas of one’s imagination. Structuralism also emerged as one of the first school of thought and some of the ideas came from this school that was founded by Wilhelm Wundt. It focused
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