A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the Degree of Master of Arts. / The topic of this dissertation is self-deception. It involves a general analysis of the problem, however, the central discussion centres on an agency-type approach to the problem, and in particular on Freudian-type approach. / Andrew Chakane 2018

This study analyzes the way in which Freud presents psychoanalysis as a science. From the review of the published work of Freud we would select and analyze the most important passages on the subject. Through this analysis we would be able to show that Freud presents psychoanalysis as a non-prototypical revolutionary science. We will show how Freud describes important features of his notion of psychoanalysis and its notion of science and that the fact that Freud present psychoanalysis as science does not necessarily refer to the clinical practice but rather to theoretical research. / El presente estudio analiza la forma en la que Freud presenta al psicoanálisis como una ciencia. A partir de la revisión de textos de la obra publicada de Freud seleccionamos y analizamos los pasajes más importantes sobre el tema. A través de dicho análisis podremos mostrar que Freud presenta al psicoanálisis como una ciencia no-prototípica y revolucionaria. Mostraremos como en esta presentación Freud describe características importantes de su noción de psicoanálisis y su noción de ciencia y mostraremos que el hecho de que Freud presente al psicoanálisis como ciencia no hace necesariamente referencia a la práctica clínica sino más bien a la investigación teórica. / Tesis

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, public discourse in German society has been repeatedly riven by debates prompted by three leading figures of the literary scene: Günter Grass, Martin Walser, and Christa Wolf. The tremendously emotional controversies regarding Wolf's purported cowardice as a GDR-writer, Walser's alleged anti-Semitism, and Grass's membership in the Waffen-SS served to confirm the significance of these writers, which, I argue, stems not only from their literary merits, but also from their status as former members of the Hitler Youth. Building upon Sigrid Weigel's claim that generations in post-war Germany act as symbols of the country's relationship to the Nazi past, my dissertation elucidates the process by which Grass, Walser, and Wolf were adopted--and adopted themselves--as proxies for a "better Germany." The biographies of these three writers, I argue, came to represent the overarching political goal of both post-war German states: the successful transition from an intimate association with the Nazi regime - in the authors' case, their associations with the Hitler Youth - to a full embrace of democratic values. The conflation of the writers' biographies with national identity explains their authority and popularity in both German societies. It also explains why the process of detachment from these writers as political figures began after 1990 as national identity changed after reunification. With the waning of the Hitler Youth generation's dominance in the public sphere, a re-evaluation of the writers' political and literary work, set against the backdrop of their generational identity, is long overdue. In four chapters, this dissertation examines key moments in the careers of Grass, Walser, and Wolf. I emphasize the striking similarities between the generational discourse of the two West-German writers and the East-German writer, while pointing out where their shared generational background led to distinct political agendas. I show that the literary output, self-understanding, and public reception of arguably the three most significant writers in the post-war Germanies cannot be understood without a consideration of this mutual historical-biographical legacy. My dissertation thus rewrites an important part of post-1945 and post-1989 cultural history.

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Shi, Huiwen. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-116). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / 摘要 --- p.iii / List of Abbreviations --- p.v / Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction: an Opening --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- "Departure and Discovery: ""Revelation of the Self to the Self""" --- p.11 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- "Archaeology: ""Restoration of the Culture to Itself""" --- p.38 / Chapter Chapter Four: --- "Reflection and Imagination: ""Harmonious Reproduction of the Self""" --- p.78 / Chapter Chapter Five: --- Conclusion: Continuity --- p.108 / Bibliography: --- p.112

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of English

Cet essai sera consacré à l'immoralisme et à l'incroyance de Clément Rosset. Pour ce faire nous devrons, en premier lieu, traiter du tragique. Le tragique est un moment marquant de l'existence qui nous révèle l'inanité des valeurs morales vers lesquelles nous croyons devoir nous tourner. En effet, que nous propose la morale? Une objection au monde tel qu'il est. Elle nous apprend qu'il est un mal et une souffrance qui ne doivent pas être: c'est en cela qu'elle refuse le tragique. L'homme moral a besoin de fondements et de certitudes qui lui expliquent le monde et lui permettent d'agir. Il a surtout la prétention, à travers la pensée humaniste, de devoir parler au nom de tous, ce qui est éminemment suspect aux yeux de Rosset. Dans ce passage de l'individuel à l'universel, il n'y a qu'un pas à franchir pour voir naître un surcroît d'enthousiasme moral, enthousiasme qui peut se révéler passablement meurtrier... Il existe donc un lien entre la morale et l'idéalisme politique qui réside, avant tout, dans notre préférence pour ce qui n'existe pas et la prétention d'un réel plus vrai, soit un double du réel existant, que nous devons construire. C'est dans la croyance d'une possible saisie du réel, c'est-à-dire la possibilité de l'expliquer par la raison et l'espérance de le modifier radicalement, que se dessine le lien entre la morale et l'idéologie. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Clément Rosset, tragique, morale, réel/double, croyance, idéologie.

This study contents a research of the Swedish temperance movements IOGT, NTO and TO:s adult education in Dalarna between 1921 and 1939. A theory that is used in this essay is the publicity theory of Jürgen Habermas. A theory in this essay is that the adult educational work of the temperance movements could bee seen as an alternative publicity because the courses that the temperance movement held in general contents a great part of the movements own literature, the participants in the courses held their own lectures to each other and it was mostly only members of the temperance movements who could join the courses. The main subject of the courses was history in literature, English, Esperanto, and knowledge about local democracy. Not many courses content the drinking issue in Sweden at this time, even thought a national referendum was held in the issue during the research period of this essay. The lack of courses in the drinking issue illustrates of the fact that the courses only was held for the members of the temperance movement, and they don’t drink alcohol in any case. It was not a big difference in the contents of the course between the organisation in the temperance movements and between different years in this research.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Fachbereich Philosophie- und Sozialwissenschaften--Universität Hamburg, 1996. / Bibliogr. p. 423-462. Index.

Diss.--Freie Universität--Berlin, 2000. / Notes bibliogr. p. 307-317 (vol. 2). Index.