abstract: focusing on spiritual and mental needs of slow-pace people i.e. mentally retarded people has been always an integral part of designing spaces for them. according to lacan’s way of thinking, real, imaginary and symbolic orders are three ways of expression through human’s reality language and it usually considers reality as a combination of symbolic and imaginary orders. this research a...

In the present paper, we look into what is painful psychical analgesia in relation to what 19 century clinicians have named “moral pain” in melancholia, and more particularly in the delusion of negation described by the French psychiatrist Jules Cotard in 1880, a form of delusion that can be seen mostly in cases of chronic anxious melancholia. This condition is characterized by a painful absenc...

This article aims to develop a Lacanian approach to bioethics. Point of departure is the fact that both psychoanalysis and bioethics are practices of language, combining diagnostics with therapy. Subsequently, I will point out how Lacanian linguistics may help us to elucidate the dynamics of both psychoanalytical and bioethical discourse, using the movie One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Soph...

This research attempts to unearth the contrasting discourses that constitute subjectivity in Basharat Peer’s memoir. By highlighting circulation of these multiple discourses, further endeavours trace resistance subject's agency. These often resorting violent modes disciplining, relentlessly struggle configure subject. However, with its potential for resistance, agency subverts all hegemonic con...

What is the function of dreaming? The vast contribution on dreams made by Freud and Jung has been largely ignored by science, which harshly criticized their approach for the lack of a quantitative method and of testable hypotheses. Here I review a series of experimental results that corroborate two important psychoanalytical insights regarding dreams: 1) that dreams often contain a "day residue...

This paper aims at analysing William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying through a variety of contemporary reading strategies, especially to identify his famous character Addie Bundren. In the novel, represents narrative ego, monstrous-feminine double, who is capable experiencing and sublimating paternally repressed desires. this respect, major framework will be constructed on Julia Kristeva’s theo...

to social work. The first part of the book consists of basic psychoanalytical theory with an emphasis on ego psychology. The rest of the book consists of ten chapters written by different psychoanalysts demonstrating how psychoanalytical knowledge can be applied usefully in various fields of social work. The theoretical part of the book gives a concise account of psychoanalytical theory and it ...

Objective(s): Resveratrol (RSV) is a naturally occurring plant polyphenol with cardioprotective, neuroprotective, immunoregulatory, and anticancer properties and is biologically effective against various diseases. This study aimed to investigate the chemopreventive effect of different doses of RSV against hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) induced by  diethylnitrosamine (D...