The question about whether there is a political unconscious can be understood in two ways. First, it could refer to our (in the Freudian or Lacanian sense) political. Secondly, mean: are (social, economic...) structures, institutions, and processes that unconscious, sense we do not perceive them “normally” (whatever means exactly) nor reflect on them? I want focus this second meaning and, above...

moral psychology is an important part of ethics. some of the recent interpreters of nietzsche’s philosophy have tried to elaborate a nietzschean naturalistic moral psychology based on his remarks and pose it against other positions in moral psychology, especially the kantian one with its fundamental claim that third-person accounts of moral psychology have no bearing on a morality which purport...

No one can deny the influence that Freudian analysis has had on twentieth-century psychiatry. Its widespread acceptance suggests that it is an entirely valid and acceptable form of treatment in mental disorders. Nevertheless, there are many sceptics, and a book attacking the ".. . gigantic cultural swindle of American people. . ." is of importance to the historian who wishes to evaluate the maj...

David Lynch's film Blue Velvet threatens to make interpretation redundant, so openly does it flaunt its Freudian themes and narrative. Its protagonist, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), is an Oedipal hero. His real father is struck down (by a heart attack); he sets out on a journey, encounters woman as enigma, woman as symbolic mother figure, and makes love to her; finally, he kills the murde...

With the assistance of psychoanalytic theory (the Oedipal complex developed by Freud), Neo-Freudian regarding abnormal behavior, female mirror given Luce Irigaray, movie De Lauretis, and sexuality theory, this paper combines them with lens language these two movies to explore potential implication types cyborg images in body aspect Titanium Her, which is based on paths reading simages brought A...

William James is often described as one of America’s foremost philosophers and the founder of American psychology. During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century he published several key texts on a broad range of topics, including the psychology of religion, ethics, epistemology and metaphysics. Many are still in current use, and contemporary phil...