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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-185). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

In the last twenty years, relational psychoanalysis has emerged as an important voice in psychoanalytic theory and practice. Relational approaches operate within the tension between intrapsychic and interpersonal levels of explanation. On the one hand, intrapsychic explanations assume the existence of a private inner life focusing on internal processes such as fantasy, desires, repression, and unconscious motivations. On the other hand, interpersonal explanations focus on transactions with others, the daily give and take of our relationships, and our inextricable participation in the social realm. Schools in the relational movement often struggle to integrate these two poles, but the risk seems to be collapsing one explanatory pole into the other. This work argues that framing this discussion within a wider philosophical horizon can suggest a compelling new way of thinking about these matters. The theoretical psychology of Jack Martin and Jeff Sugarman (1999, 2000), the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer (1977, 1994), and Martin Heidegger (1993, 1996), offer a view of selfhood that transcends the problematic internal-external dichotomy pervasive in relational approaches. / text

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The psychological significance of recurrent dreams was explored in a multivariate comparison of recurrent, previously-recurrent and non-recurrent dreamers on core psychological well-being and recalled dream content dimensions. Analytical psychology dream theory was employed to generate hypotheses concerning the relationship between recurrent dreams and psychological distress or neuroticism, and the psychological health value held to associate with the resolution of a recurrent dream. Sixty-seven individuals twice completed measures assessing core psychological well-being dimensions and collected a fourteen day time-sample of their remembered dreams. Multivariate and discriminant analyses revealed the clear separability of the comparison groups in the directions predicted by Jung. Recurrent dreamers achieved significantly less adaptive scores on the psychological well-being measures and reported significantly more conflicted and dysphoric dream content. Previously-recurrent dreamers achieved significantly higher psychological well-being scores and reported more thematically and affectively balanced dream content. The results are discussed in terms of insights afforded into the experience (and resolution) of recurrent dreams, and the support generated for core assertions of analytical psychology dream theory concerning the relationship between dreaming and psychological adaptation (individuation).

The purpose of this study is to give an overview of the writings on postmodernism and explores a number of different postmodern constructs. Postmodernism's insistence on the decentred and fragmented nature of the human subject is investigated and challenged. A psychoanalytic solution to the postmodern impasse is suggested and as such, the thesis argues for a reading of a mutual entanglement between postmodernism and psychoanalytic theory and practice by demonstrating their reciprocal influences and strengths. This 'solution' is illustrated by examining an object relations case study of a fragmented postmodern subject. A final chapter explores possible implications of the postmodern debate for educational theory.

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In this thesis an investigation of Carl Gustav Jung's transcendent function will be undertaken in relation to women's processes of individuation. These processes will be examined through creative activity in the visual and literary arts. The work of a number of women artists and writers will be considered in order to understand better, the particular qualities of the transcendent function within creative practice and its importance to women's individuation. In the examination of the transcendent function within women's creative activity, the role of visual metaphor will be emphasised in its capacity to carry a specific articulation; feminine and phenomenological, which addresses issues of gender in women's individuation. In exploring the historical and contemporary context of the transcendent function as it relates to both the imaginary and rational capacity of the psyche, as Jung understood it, the early influence of Immanuel Kant's transcendent within the Critique of Judgement will be considered. This will include reference to contemporary revisions of Kant, undertaken by Luce Irigaray and Christine Battersby. An important development in the thesis will be the concept of phenomenological ecriture. With this concept we will re-visit the position of the mother in issues of women's individuation by considering a conscious, early rapport of the infant with the maternal face. This argument, supported by references to the earlier work of D.W Winnicott, Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva, will be developed and expanded upon by the further consideration of what women's selfhood might entail if a retrieval of the maternal regard includes an archetypal component. Here, C.G Jung will be referred to again, as will James Hillman and the later work of Luce Irigaray. Throughout, and with reference to both Kant and Jung, the aesthetic and moral issues within the transcendent will be investigated in relation to women's exploration of self through creative forms of individuation. In considering the aesthetic, references will be made to the phenomenological philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a number of particular references within the work of Walter Pater, Roland Barthes and Adrian Stokes. Using particular case studies in women's visual and literary practice, a further perspective is brought to bear on current issues within both Jung's concept of individuation as it relates to women, and within feminist aesthetics and its prevailing understanding of the language and forms of women's authentic articulation.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Philosophy, August 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.