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Hedda Gabler Psychoanalysis And The Space Of Play
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Geometric Shapes B C
440 wordsWilliam Zorach conceived a sculpture entitled "Victory" that shows an indebtedness to the late classical fourth century B. C. idealized images of Venus, combined with a figural attitude of flight that is perhaps derived from the twisting torso of the conceptions of flight in the winged Victory of Samothrace. The figure exhibits a lustrous surface of sensual light that is reminiscent of the finish on Donatello's bronze image of David. The torso may be viewed at once as a provocative and modern he...
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Greater Can Be Conceived Idea Of God
1,457 wordsThroughout history there has been a concept of a greater being (s) that guided our lives. In the beginning the main idea was that of plurality and polytheism. In ancient Greece and Rome, there were various gods that were believed to control different aspects of life. At some point, people began to worship only one god, the god of their own tribe. This religious position of henotheism eventually shifted to monotheism, for many. With monotheism comes the idea that your god is not only the god of y...
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1,673 wordsAn Insightful Look Into Mormonism Mormonism: General Facts Mormonism is a very large and powerful religious denomination both in the United States and worldwide. According to Martin Johnson, nowadays there are approximately 4. 2 million Mormons in the United States and 8 million worldwide. (p. 51) Some scholars predict that Mormonism might even achieve popularity comparable to Christianity, Buddhism and other well-known religions in the nearest future. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Sa...
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Point Of View Ch Ing
2,679 wordsSince religions such as Buddhism and Christianity have fundamentally different grammars, how can they have anything to say to each other? Thirty years ago, before I began the study of Zen, I said, "Mountains are mountains, waters are waters. " After I got an insight into the truth of Zen through the instruction of a good master, I said, "Mountains are not mountains, waters are not waters. " But now, having attained the abode of final rest [that is, Awakening], I say, "Mountains are really mounta...
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1,799 wordsApril 22, Pornography Chris Goebel April 22, 1999 Ms. Mathews Victimization of Women Today there are many controversial ideas on pornography. Mens views of women are warped by the dominating and explicit scenes of pornography. The community can find adult entertainment stores on almost every corner and everywhere on the Internet. Women feel pornography degrades them in the eyes of men and may have an affect on their position in society. Pornography victimizes women by changing men? s views towar...
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Postmodern Spatial Ity Represses Temporal Ity Space
4,978 wordsThe impetus behind this paper has been the recent publication of Fredric Jameson's 1991 Welleck Lectures, The Seeds of Time. 1 As these lectures were delivered a decade after Jameson's initial attempts to map the terrain of postmodernity it appeared to me to provide an occasion to reflect upon the current status of Jameson's highly influential and much criticised theory of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism. It also enables me to return to, what I consider to be, one of the m...
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Hedda Gabler Judge Brack
4,345 wordsHEDDA GABLER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SPACE OFHEDDA GABLER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SPACE OF (THE) PLAY HEDDA GABLER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SPACE OF (THE) PLAY by Nigel Hand The established view of Hedda Gabler sees the play as a study of the frustration and despair engendered in the exceptional individual by a conventionalized society. In this paper I present a psychoanalytic re-interpretation of the play which in certain respects inverts this received reading. Insofar as it does so, however, my...
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Seven Deadly Sins Hedda Gabler
10,446 wordsThe established view of Hedda Gabler sees the play as a study of the frustration and despair engendered in the exceptional individual by a conventionalized society. In this paper I present a psychoanalytic re-interpretation of the play which in certain respects inverts this received reading. Insofar as it does so, however, my interpretation is intended not to cancel the received view but to play against it. The first section of the paper is predominantly Freudian in approach. The second section ...
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God Exists Necessarily Exists
2,664 wordsThis paper will outline Spinoza s argument in Part 1 of his Ethics of substance. He argues that there is only one substance, which is the same as God, that includes everything in the universe. It will walk through each proposition and explain his proof of it, which relies of his stated definitions. This paper will also explain the difference between Spinoza s belief of substance and that of Leibniz from his Discourse on Metaphysics. It will then argue that Leibniz s account of the number of subs...
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God Must Exist Greater Than God
1,186 wordsThroughout history It has been man kinds quest to find a proof of the existence of God. Even today, religious archeologist, plunder the Earth, looking for Noahs Ark, The Ark of the Covenant, or the site Jesus Christ was thought to have been buried. These men and women are searching for artifacts to prove the existence of God to people who believe there is no God. Many people, however, do not need artifacts to prove Gods existence, they have faith, and like St. Anselm of Canterbury, believe that ...
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Greater Can Be Conceived Ontological Argument
354 wordsSt. Anselm S Ontological Argument For The Experience St. Anselm S Ontological Argument For The Experience Of God. Gods existence may vary from philosopher to philosopher, but according to the late St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury there was absolutely no doubt that Gods presence is certain, and yet the philosopher desires the understanding of faith. As stated; if god cannot be thought to exist, then whomever which may be conceived, only a fool would believe that he God does not exist. Only a ...
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