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Master's Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 20th century, grade: 67, Staffordshire University, language: English, abstract: This dissertation offers an analysis of the figure of the hysteric in Foucault and Lacan and argues that it is productive to approach simulation (Foucault) and hysterisation (Lacan) as demands for truth in order to understand the power of the hysteric¿s position and her discourse, and ...

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Medicine - Neurology, Psychiatry, Addiction, grade: 84, Staffordshire University, language: English, abstract: This paper is about hysteria and its different discourses. Hysteria as a disease has over 4000 years of history. Freud invented psychoanalysis on the basis of his work with female hysterics like 'Dora' (Ida Bauer). In 1952, with the elimination of the word 'hysteria' as a separate clinical entit...

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, grade: 75, Staffordshire University, language: English, abstract: The predicament of our moment (Anthropocene, Chthulucene, Capitalocene...) calls for disruptive ways of thinking and acting. A (re)reading of Michel Serres and feminist new materialist theoreticians can lead us towards creative, realistic, and pluralistic ways of understanding human and nonhuman agency. Both Ser...

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, grade: 63 (70 being distinction), Staffordshire University, language: English, abstract: The question of death is addressed through the philosophy of the Other in Levinas and the philosophy of Being in Heidegger. Levinas contests Heideggerian ontology as first philosophy and presents an ethical account to re-work themes that are related to the conception of death in the ontolo...