Slayer and psychoanalysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Copilaș
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Psychoanalytic Approach

Using Freud and Lacan, this article proposes a psychoanalytic approach to the thrash metal band Slayer. It particularly focuses on the band’s engagement with violence and perversion. The article starts by analysing Slayer in Freudian terms, as a symptom of the discontent existing in western civilization and it advances further to using Lacan, taking into account concepts like expression, conceptualization, repression and signifying chains, among others, in order to reach the conclusion that Slayer’s revolt against present-day society is not so much a revolt as an unconscious expression of its symbolic order.

The Flesh Made Word

Janus Head ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Carolyn M. Tilghman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Space Form ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Body Self ◽  
At Home

Luce Irigaray's concept of the "sensible transcendental" is a term that paradoxically fuses mind with body while, at the same time, maintaining the tension of adjacent but separate concepts, thereby providing a fruitful locus for changes to the symbolic order. It provides this locus by challenging the monolithic philosophical discourses of the "Same" which, according to Irigaray, have dominated western civilization since Plato. As such, the sensible transcendental refuses the logic that demands the opposed hierarchal dichotomies between time and space, form and matter, mind and body, self and other, and man and woman, which currently organize western civilization's discursive foundations. Instead, it provides a useful means for helping women to feel at home in their bodies, and it signifies the implementation of an ethical praxis based on the acknowledgment of sexual difference. Such a praxis demands philosophical, theological, juridical, and scientific accountability for systemic sexism and, in its acknowledgment and validation of the alterity of sexual difference, it respects life in its various forms and its vital relationship with biological and physical environments.

scholarly journals House of Memories and Oblivion by Filip David: Literature, Memory and Death

2017 ◽  
pp. 241-258
Author(s):  
Časlav V. Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
World War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Way

The aim of this paper, is to determine the status of the Holocaust themes in contemporary Serbian literature. Philip David’s novel House of memories and oblivion contains resonances of the civilization after World War II considering the fate of Jewish people in this war. The attempt to highlight the work and the way of Western civilization to define itself in respect of the Holocaust was made. David’s novel is an example of a literary text which tests the boundaries of narrative regarding life of those who survived the Holocaust and tryed to find their identity. Literary discourse also allows to search for the truth about the crime in the gaps of the symbolic order of our world.

scholarly journals Veliki drugi i (ne)mogućnost dostizanja realnog: lakanovski pristup priči „Crna mačka” Edgara Alana Poa

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Stojanović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Order ◽  
The Real ◽  
Full Control ◽  
Psychoanalytic Approach

The paper aims to analyze the narrator of “The Black Cat” by using Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic approach. In an attempt to explain what seems like utterly irrational actions, we took a closer look at the story through Lacan’s notions of the Symbolic, the Real and the big Other. The black cat will be represented as the big Other, a figure that has full control over the Symbolic order in which the narrator is trapped. Frustration due to his inability to escape from this order leads to the narrator’s desire to destroy what he sees as an obstacle on his path towards attaining the Real. No matter the number of attempts to kill the cat, which would lead to his freedom, the narrator’s desire remains unfulfilled. As the black cat is represented as the big Other, the narrator’s attempts to murder the creature are seen as an attempt to escape the Symbolic. The possibility of leaving the Symbolic and reaching the Real are examined in the paper as the narrator’s ultimate attempt at freedom.

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Introjects

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-146
Author(s):  
Lloyd H. Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Approach

Third Wave Feminist Analysis of a Second Wave Feminist's Art

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Zenovich ◽  
Shane T. Moreman
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Feminist Art ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Second Wave

A third wave feminist approach to feminist oral history, this research essay blends both the visual and the oral as text. We critique a feminist artist's art along with her words so that her representation can be seen and heard. Focusing on three art pieces, we analyze the artist's body to conceptualize agentic ways to understand the meanings of feminist art and feminist oral history. We offer a third wave feminist approach to feminist oral history as method so that feminists can consider adaptive means for recording oral histories and challenging dominant symbolic order.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan L. Mittleman
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Western Civilization

This introductory chapter first considers the concept of human nature, raising questions such as how human nature and nature as such are related, and how are both related to person. It then turns to what the Jewish tradition says about human nature. It sets out the book's focus, namely a dialogue between contemporary perspectives and traditional Jewish thoughts on human nature. Both sides have something to gain from the dialogue; both have something to lose from shunning it. Judaism risks intellectual irrelevance by failing to engage with the challenges of contemporary thought. Contemporary thought risks attenuating its moral seriousness if it ignores one of the sources of Western civilization. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

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