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Leitch, Ruth. "Journey into paradox : re-searching unconscious in teacher identity using creative narrative." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/c082e9f1-22b8-4455-a0f3-838e449516b7.
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Pannuti, Daniela Viana. "Aspectos descritivos e interpretativos da narrativa do sonho na criança." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-30032009-160755/.
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O presente trabalho tem como objeto de estudo as narrativas do sonho produzidas por crianças, suas principais características e contribuições para o desenvolvimento da linguagem na criança. Neste sentido, o principal objetivo deste trabalho é identificar e descrever os organizadores dominantes no processo de construção das narrativas orais por crianças entre 6 e 7 anos, a fim de evidenciar a importância da escuta do interlocutor, bem como explorar as relações metalingüísticas presentes no encontro entre o adulto (= pesquisador) e a criança = sujeito). Assim, com base nessas produções, a análise levará em conta os aspectos discursivos e lingüísticos, os mecanismos do sonho, a construção das seqüências narrativas e os elementos lingüísticos pertinentes, como os marcadores conversacionais, os tempos verbais, a questão da subjetividade, entre outros. A proposta apresentada foi uma situação de relato a partir de uma mesma pergunta feita pela pesquisadora: Você já sonhou quando estava dormindo? Conte um sonho que já teve. Para examinar os desdobramentos obtidos nas respostas a esta indagação, nos apoiamos em referenciais teóricos psicanalíticos (Freud, Winnicott) e psicolingüísticos (F.François), sobretudo. Colocar na fala o sonho é um desafio e um prazer para a criança, na medida em que, nesse exercício, a criança, ao colocar-se como sujeito, tem possibilidade de ampliar suas habilidades comunicativas, entrar em contato com construções provindas de seu inconsciente e confirmar seu papel enquanto protagonista de sua história. É justamente isto que nos interessa desvendar para o leitor.The present work has as object of study the narratives of dreams produced by children, its main characteristics and contributions for the development of child´s discourse. In this direction, the main objective is to identify and to describe the dominant organizers, in the process of construction of oral narratives from children between 6 and 7 years, in order to evidence the importance of the listening of the interlocutor, as well as exploring the metalinguistics relations current in the meeting between the adult (researcher) and the child (subject). Thus, on the basis of these productions, the analysis will take in account the discursive and linguistic aspects, the mechanisms of the dream, the construction of the narrative sequences, pertinent the linguistic elements, as the conversational markers, the verbal tenses, the question of the subjectivity, among others. The proposal presented was a situation of narrative from one same question made by the researcher: Have you ever dreamed when you were sleeping? Tell me a dream that you had. To examine the unfoldings gotten in the answers to this investigation, we use as references the psychoanalytical (Freud, Winnicott) and psycholinguistic (F.François) referential, over all. To place in words the dream is a challenge and a pleasure for the child, in the measure where, in this exercise, the child, when placing itself as subject, has possibility to extend its communicative abilities, to enter in contact with constructions come from its unconscious and to confirm its role as protagonist of its history. This is exactly what we intend to unmask for the reader.
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Lima, Magda Wacemberg Pereira. "Linguagem e psicanálise: as marcas do sujeito do insconsciente em narrativas escolares." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2015. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1078.
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A presente dissertação teve como motivação a busca pelo entendimento de como adolescentes, alunos do 9 ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola da rede pública municipal de Serra Talhada/PE, ao serem solicitados a produzir textos narrativos, tendo como referência os contos clássicos infantis, relacionaram cenas e
personagens dos textos originais a pessoas e acontecimentos de suas vivências. Esse fenômeno levou-nos a supor que a reescrita das cenas e dos papéis desempenhados pelos personagens, nos textos dos alunos, poderia resultar da ação do sujeito do inconsciente, uma vez que mesmo revisadas e aprimoradas as narrativas escritas pelos alunos apresentavam situações de seu cotidiano que pareciam ter sido recalcadas. Assim, partindo do pressuposto lacaniano de que o
inconsciente é estruturado como uma linguagem, cujo sujeito nasce dividido pelo efeito da linguagem, este estudo teve como objetivo analisar a incidência do sujeito do inconsciente em textos narrativos escritos no ambiente escolar. Para tanto, a pesquisa foi fundamentada no Interacionismo de base estruturalista, ressignificado pela psicanálise lacaniana, visto que a articulação entre a Linguística Estruturalista e a Psicanálise Lacaniana, nessa proposta teórica, possibilitou compreender a captura do sujeito pelo funcionamento linguístico-discursivo, assim como o funcionamento da ordem significante e os pontos de afastamento e de aproximação das produções dos alunos em relação aos textos originais. Nessa ordem, os procedimentos de análise adotados permitiram trazer para nosso trabalho as reflexões teóricas de Saussure, Jakobson, Lacan, Cláudia de Lemos, Sônia Borges, dentre outros. Considerando que o objeto de análise desta pesquisa consiste em uma coletânea composta por
vinte e um contos de fadas e contos maravilhosos escritos individualmente, fez-se necessário delimitar o corpus de análise. Dessa forma, selecionamos, aleatoriamente, quatro contos maravilhosos, os quais foram escritos com base nos contos Ali Babá e os quarenta ladrões, João e o pé de feijão, O pequeno Polegar e
As aventuras de Pinóquio. Os dados apontaram que os autores das narrativas reelaboradas transformaram situações da realidade em significantes, o que permitiu a substituição dos significantes dos contos originais, mais precisamente cenários, personagens e cenas, ora apresentando relação de proximidade (identificação) com o texto original ora distanciando-se dele, o que, possivelmente, assinala a
identificação do sujeito ao outro (imaginário), mas também a emergência do sujeito do inconsciente, do sujeito do desejo, pela dimensão da linguagem.
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Bezerra, Dinarte Varela. "1930, a Para?ba e o inconsciente pol?tico da revolu??o: a narrativa como ato socialmente simb?lico." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2009. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/13699.
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Previous issue date: 2009-07-10Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior
This work is an attempt to show that the ideological conflict that has been developed by the hegemony of the 1930 Revolution historical events in Para?ba, conceptually turned into an insoluble social contradiction. It ocurred due to imaginary or formal resolutions of the literature that ended up by altering the epistemological rules of the relation between fiction and reality. The present work is based on The unconscious politics: a narrative as a socially symbolic act , book in which all the literary or cultural texts can and should be read as symbolic resolutions to insoluble social contradictions. From string to contemporary literature this phenomenon has been registered by the several ways of textual production turning the 1930 Revolution into one of the main elements which guides the political scene of Para?ba. The ideological groups still centered on the political resentment and committed to a political conflict forged the existence of two historical truths: one which suits the liberais , the winners, and another is of the 1930 conflict. This work argues in favour of the unconscious politics of the 1930 Revolution. This thesis considers necessarily the relation that the Paraibana society maintains with its past and how this past reaches in the present the liberation of a hidden and repressed truth through its narrativization. Beyond that, how the ideological partiality generated the political resentment through the way of thinking of the rivals under the perspective of the good and evil reveals its insoluble social contradiction. Process which comprehends varied narrative forms of the mass culture products and literary production, as in the methodological perspective pointed by Fredric Jameson that all literary or cultural texts can and shall be read as symbolic resolutions of true political and social contradictions. In the case of Paraiba we will have resolutions that search for the reasons which caused the death of Jo?o Pessoa: forgery and publicity of love letters, dispute over the official version of suicide commited by Jo?o Dantas, the man who assassinated Jo?o Pessoa
Este trabalho argumenta em defesa do inconsciente pol?tico da Revolu??o de 1930, tese que, necessariamente, passa pela rela??o que sociedade paraibana mant?m com esse seu passado e como este passado atrav?s da narrativiza??o alcan?a na atualidade a libera??o de uma verdade reprimida e oculta. E mais, como a parcialidade ideol?gica gerou o ressentimento pol?tico sob a forma do pensar dos advers?rios na perspectiva do bem e do mal, revelando a contradi??o social insol?vel da revolu??o. Esse processo abrange as variadas formas de narrativas, dos produtos da cultura de massa ? produ??o liter?ria, e sob a perspectiva metodol?gica apontada por Fredric Jameson, todos os textos liter?rios ou culturais podem e devem ser lidos como resolu??es simb?licas de verdadeiras contradi??es pol?ticas e sociais. No caso da Para?ba, teremos resolu??es que visam a verdade sobre: os motivos que causaram a morte de Jo?o Pessoa, a adultera??o e publicidade da correspond?ncia amorosa entre Jo?o Dantas e Anayde Beiriz, o oficialmente declarado suic?dio de Jo?o Dantas o homem que assassinou Jo?o Pessoa; acontecimentos esses que relacionam a Para?ba ? Revolu??o de 1930
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Bevir, Mark. "Lo inconsciente en la explicación social." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2011. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112745.
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The Unconscious in Social Explanation”. The proper range and contentof the unconscious in the human sciences should be established by referenceto its conceptual relationship to the folk psychology that informs the standardform of explanation therein. A study of this relationship shows that humanscientists should appeal to the unconscious only when the language of theconscious fails them, that is typically when they find a conflict between people’sself-understanding and their actions. This study also shows that human scientistsshould adopt a broader concept of the unconscious than the one developedby Freud, that is, one free from his ahistorical concept of the instincts and hisahistorical emphasis on the sexual experiences of childhood. The unconscious,understood in this way, has an ambiguous relationship to more recent linguisticand narrativist strands of psycho-analysis.El verdadero alcance y contenido de lo inconsciente en las CienciasHumanas debería ser establecido en referencia a su relación conceptual con lapsicología popular que moldea a la forma estándar de explicación allí en juego.Un estudio de dicha relación muestra que los científicos de las Ciencias Humanasdeberían apelar al inconsciente solo cuando el lenguaje de lo consciente lesfalla, esto es, especialmente cuando encuentran un conflicto entre la autocomprensiónde las personas y sus acciones. Este estudio muestra también que loscientíficos de las Ciencias Humanas deberían adoptar un concepto más ampliode lo inconsciente que aquel desarrollado por Freud, es decir, un concepto queesté libre de la concepción freudiana ahistórica de los instintos y su énfasisahistórico en las experiencias sexuales de la niñez. Lo inconsciente, entendidode esta manera, tiene una relación ambigua con las más recientes vertienteslingüísticas y narrativas del Psicoanálisis.
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Minns, Michael David. "National Health Service (N.H.S.) mediation in focus : a psychoanalytic lens on the unconscious at work : how does conflict find its way into organisational life?" Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/25894.
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Workplace mediation services are committed to developing strategies that help people resolve conflict. In its various intrapsychic and psychosocial guises conflict is central to psychoanalytic theory and practice, but within the current literature there are no qualitative workplace mediation studies explicitly drawing on psychoanalytic/systems psychodynamic theory and thinking. In this way, the dynamic unconscious is effectively marginalised from the mediation research literature. This research adopts a case study approach, and reports the findings of a mixed methods mediation service review undertaken in an N.H.S. Trust. All research participants experienced significant conflict in the workplace, or were directly involved in addressing the antecedents, management and/or consequences associated with collegial and organisational dispute. 27 current N.H.S employees, selected by the mediation service lead, were invited to participate, with 15 proceeding to interview. All 15 participants contribute towards the service review data, whilst 6 of these interviews are used to specifically underpin psychoanalytic/systems psychodynamic analysis. The study methodology incorporates analytically informed negative capability and the Free Association Narrative Interviewing (F.A.N.I.) and analysis methods of Holloway & Jefferson (2012). An emphasis is placed working with the whole data according to the principles of gestalt, including the inter-subjective dynamics of the interview encounter itself, and analytical concepts such as counter-transference, splitting and projective identification. Many of the skills needed to work successfully as a psychoanalytic mediator are illustrated. The study also presents a summative content analysis of Trust board minutes Dec.2012 - Dec. 2015 to establish the representation of organisational conflict and mediation at the most senior levels of the organisation. A discrepancy between the reported prevalence of organisational conflict and its representation at board level is evident. The study links the service review findings to recommendations for the N.H.S. Trust at the level of policy and practice, alongside suggestions for further research.
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Guadalupe, Segunda Maria. "O chiste em Tutam?ia: riso que (des)vela." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2009. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16163.
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Previous issue date: 2009-10-08The aim of this paper is to present the study of the laughter in Tutam?ia, by Jo?o Guimar?es Rosa, throughtout the four forewords and ten novels selected from the author s literary work. It is based on the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan about the laughter (and delight in the humorous nuances) and the unconscious mind. By taking the laughter as the point of exploitation and understanding, the narration can be understood from an esthetical pattern established on the variety of orallity retained by the narrator and the cordel pamphlets (known as string literature ) and its bypassing on the classical literature and the popular literature revealing its own logical linguistic and conception apart from the official one. It is taken a comparative conception of life in the Fran?ois Rabelais characters and some characters from Tutam?ia having Melim-Meloso as a paradigm showing how one s life can be happy in spite of all adversities by using laughter as the antidote potion against human being s misery and pain to achieve sense of freedom and pleasure
Esta disserta??o tem como objeto de estudo a an?lise do chiste em Tutam?ia, de Jo?o Guimar?es Rosa, a partir dos 04 (quatro) pref?cios e 10 (dez) contos selecionados da obra. Apresenta como principal refer?ncia a teoria psicanal?tica sobre o chiste e o inconsciente, de Sigmund Freud e Jacques Lacan. Ao lado do chiste como fio condutor do estudo, ? abordada a quest?o da narrativa como uma est?tica fundamentada na multiplicidade de vozes do narrador, na oralidade dos folhetos de cordel, intermediada por uma intertextualidade entre a tradi??o culta e a tradi??o popular, em que se sobressai uma l?gica ling??stica e conceitual ?s avessas, ao contr?rio dos c?nones oficiais da l?ngua. Por fim, ? estabelecida uma an?lise comparativa entre a concep??o de vida dos personagens rabelaisianos e alguns personagens de Tutam?ia, tendo como paradigma o personagem de Melim-Meloso, atrav?s do qual a alegria de viver sobrep?e-se a todas as adversidades da vida, veiculando a mensagem de que o chiste, o riso, ? o melhor ant?doto contra as dores e pesares da travessia humana, encontrando-se a servi?o de uma maior liberdade e prazer de cria??o
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Barbosa, Leonardo S. "The predictive unconscious : how predictions shape unconscious perception." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PSLEE029.
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L’un des phénomènes naturels probablement des plus communs et pourtant des moins compris, la conscience, s’est longtemps trouvé restreint à des considérations purement philosophiques et métaphysiques. Ces dernières décennies, scientifiques et philosophes ont pu s’atteler à son étude, en l’opérationnalisant.Dans le même temps, une quantité croissante de données suggère que notre cerveau est constamment en train de prédire des entrées sensorielles, et que chaque niveau de l’organisation hiérarchique du cortex génère en continu les représentations de telles prédictions, ainsi que le décalage entre ces prédictions et l’entrée réelle.Dans ma thèse, j’ai exploré comment cette capacité surprenante de notre cerveau à générer des prédictions est connectée à notre expérience consciente.Plus spécifiquement, j’ai étudié comment ces prédictions peuvent impacter les traitements inconscients, et la différence par rapport aux traitements conscients. Ce travail montre que la latéralisation de l’activité électrophysiologiqueoscillatoire du cerveau peut être un marqueur important; et comment les prédictions affectent le traitement inconscient. De plus,il montre que les attentes peuvent entrainer un traitement inconscient au point d’impacter un comportement orienté vers un but. Il souligne également que les prédictions affectant les traitements conscient et inconscientemploient différents mécanismes neuronaux.J’avance l’idée que la conscience pourrait être nécessaire pour le développement de nouvelles prédictions. Finalement, je montre que les prédictions peuvent changer la qualité du traitement inconscient. Intégrant ces résultats à la littérature existante, je discute les caractéristiques d’une possible théorie prédictive de la conscienceDuring the last decades, philosophical and scientific developments allowed the flourishing of the scientific study of consciousness. Probably one of the most common and yet least understood of natural phenomena, until last century consciousness was mainly restricted to pure philosophical and metaphysical accounts. Through the operationalization of consciousness, scientists have been able to endeavor in the seemingly elusive investigation of the cognitive function of consciousness.At the same time, an increasing amount of evidence suggests that our brain is constantly predicting its sensory inputs. Each level in the hierarchical organization of the cortex is continuously generating representations of such predictions and also the mismatch between predictions and actual input.The highly structured regularity of sensory information would allow our brain to make predictions about its environment and help it to make sense of the world.In my thesis I explored how the surprising ability of our brains to generate predictions is connected to our conscious experience. More specifically, I investigated how predictions can impact unconscious processes, and the corresponding contrast with respect to conscious processes. In my experimental contributions, I tried to to delineate how behavioral and neural responsesto unconscious stimuli can be affected by predictions. In my first study, I investigated how neural markers of predictive mechanisms can index unconscious behavior, and how predictions can impact unconscious stimulus processing. I show that the lateralization of oscillatory electrophysiological brain activity can be an important marker of how predictionsaffect unconscious processing. Moreover, I show that expectations can drive unconscious processing up to the point of goal-directed behavior.In my second and third studies I investigated the behavioral and electrophysiological responses of unconscious processing under predictive contexts, and how they differ from the conscious ones. I demonstrate that predictions affecting conscious and unconscious processing engage different neural mechanisms. I push forward the idea that consciousness might be necessary for the development of new predictions. Finally, I show that predictions can change the quality of unconscious accumulation of evidence.I discuss how predictions can help to understand the cognitive function of consciousness in the light of these results and other recent developments in the literature. I discuss possible constraints for this contribution under the light of current theories of consciousness
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Cravenho, David M. "Conscious/Unconscious /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11514.
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Meendering, Joshua. "The unconscious Everest." Thesis, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10244701.
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This two-rater study sought to identify psychological defense mechanisms in the climbers of the 1996 Mount Everest climbing disaster through two sources documenting the event, a biographical interview documentary titled “Storm Over Everest,” (Breashears, 2008) and a written autobiography titled “Into Thin Air” (Krakauer, 1997). The two raters’ objectives were to locate and identify defense mechanisms in the material through verbal excerpts or descriptions of behaviors. Once the researchers coded the data and reached consensus, the defense mechanisms were ordered using Vaillant’s (1993) hierarchy of defense mechanisms. The current study identified high levels of psychotic defenses (i.e., Psychotic Denial) in the 1996 Mount Everest climbers prior to the storm and disaster striking. The climbers who continued to use denial after the storm hit were negatively impacted, while the climbers who used more adaptive defenses were positively impacted. This study’s results suggest that the 1996 Mount Everest climbers’ defense mechanisms became more flexibly adaptive once the climbers were caught in the storm. This in turn suggests that the more adaptive a person’s unconscious defense mechanisms, the more likely he or she may be able to adjust to the internal and external environment.
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Freer, Alexander William. "The Wordsworthian unconscious." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709519.
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Brams, Janis A. "Writing and the unconscious." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/409.
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Rebello, J. P. "Unconscious reasons : the explanation of human actions and the idea of an unconscious mind." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375984.
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Mealor, Andrew D. "Conscious and unconscious : passing judgment." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45262/.
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The extent to which conscious and unconscious mental processes contribute to our experiences of learning and the subsequent knowledge has been subject to great debate. Dual process theories of implicit learning and recognition memory bear many resemblances, but there are also important differences. This thesis uses subjective measures of awareness to explore these themes using the artificial grammar learning (AGL) and remember/know (R/K) procedures. Firstly, the relationship between response times associated with intuition and familiarity based responding (conscious judgment of unconscious structural knowledge) compared to rule and recollection based responding (conscious structural knowledge) in AGL were found to be strikingly similar to remembering and knowing; their R/K analogues. However, guessing (unconscious judgment knowledge) was also distinct from intuition and familiarity based responding. Secondly, implicit learning in AGL was shown to occur at test, which would not be expected in R/K. Finally, wider theories of cognition, unconscious thought and verbal overshadowing, were shown to have measurable effects on AGL and R/K respectively. The approach used in this thesis shows the merits of both in-depth analysis within a given method combined with the synthesis of seemingly disparate theories. This thesis has built upon the important distinction between conscious and unconscious structural knowledge but also suggests the conscious-unconscious division for judgment knowledge may be as important. Implicit learning and recognition memory tasks differ in the kinds of mental processes that subjective measures are sensitive toward; particularly so in situations where judgment knowledge is unconscious. Different theories and methods divide nature in different ways; the conscious-unconscious judgment distinction may prove an important one.
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Gray, Katie L. H. "Unconscious processing of emotional faces." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/341583/.
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Due to capacity limits, the brain must select important information for further processing. Evolutionary-based theories suggest that emotional (and specifically threat-relevant) information is prioritised in the competition for attention and awareness (e.g. Ohman & Mineka, 2001). A range of experimental paradigms have been used to investigate whether emotional visual stimuli (relative to neutral stimuli) are selectively processed without awareness, and attract visual attention (e.g. Yang et al., 2007). However, very few studies have used appropriate control conditions that help clarify the extent to which observed effects are driven by the extraction of emotional meaning from these stimuli, or their low-level visual characteristics (such as contrast, or luminance). The experiments in this thesis investigated whether emotional faces are granted preferential access to awareness and which properties of face stimuli drive these effects. A control stimulus was developed to help dissociate between the extraction of emotional information and low-level accounts of the data. It was shown that preferential processing of emotional information is better accounted for by low-level characteristics of the stimuli, rather than the extraction of emotional meaning per se. Additionally, a robust ‘face’ effect was found across several experiments. Investigation of this effect suggested that it may not be driven by the meaningfulness of the stimuli as it was also apparent in an individual that finds it difficult to extract information from faces. Together these findings suggest that high-level information can be extracted from visual stimuli outside of awareness, but the prioritisation afforded to emotional faces is driven by low-level characteristics. These results are particularly timely given continued high-profile debate surrounding the origins of emotion prioritisation (e.g. Tamettio & de Gelder, 2010; Pessoa & Adolphs, 2010).
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黃淸華 and Ching-wa Wong. "On Freud's theory of the unconscious." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3121471X.
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The Best MPhil Thesis in the Faculties of Architecture, Arts, Business& Economics, Education, Law and Social Sciences (University of HongKong), Li Ka Shing Prize, 1995-1997published_or_final_version
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Blue, Ruth Isabel Victoria. "Circles and repetitions : habit and unconscious." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271819.
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Wong, Ching-wa. "On Freud's theory of the unconscious /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18404431.
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Stacy, Michelle A. "Graphic design and the unconscious codes /." Online version of thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11761.
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Draine, Sean C. "Analytic limitations of unconscious language processing /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9143.
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Chen, Piera, and 陳思祥. "Of rocks and trees and the unconscious." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3195070X.
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Chen, Piera. "Of rocks and trees and the unconscious." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17957606.
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Helliwell, Paul. "The creative unconscious and the pictorial sign." Thesis, University of East London, 2016. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/5172/.
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Within The Creative Unconscious and Pictorial Sign I explore the dialogue that exists between social language and personal expression to understand how creativity is mediated. I consider how the involuntary inventiveness of artistic creativity and the structuring function of language come to negotiate what artists can experience and represent. My Doctoral practice attempts to question the influence of orthodox postmodernist views and allow sensual and direct experiences to be located within improvisation and spontaneous approaches to image making. I ask if it is possible for a humanistic and psychological interpretation of creativity to move beyond the copy and quotation that some postmodern theories of simulation and the hyperreal advance; but to retain the communicative function of visual expression and the model of a social form of signification instead of naïvely promoting unintelligible and personal languages.
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Wienen, Renske. "Gender differences in unconscious visual working memory." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-161418.
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Recent research has shown that working memory tasks can be performed with information that hasn’t been consciously perceived. This provides new opportunities in research concerning possible limitations and influential factors on unconscious working memory. Gender has been demonstrated to be a factor affecting conscious visual working memory tasks and could likewise influence unconscious visual working memory. An analysis of behavioral data, obtained in three similar unconscious visual working memory tasks (n = 89), was performed. Three ANCOVAs were conducted to establish whether there was a significant effect of gender on unconscious working memory accuracy, response time (RT) and speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT) across the three datasets. The analysis demonstrated a significant advantage in response time for female participants compared to male participants. Implications of this observation, such as male and female response strategies and possible social implications of unconscious processes, are discussed in this thesis.Nyligen har arbetsminnet bevisats fungera omedvetet. Detta öppnar nya dörrar för forskning om möjliga begränsningar och påverkande faktorer på omedvetet arbetsminne. Kön, som har betydande inflytande på medvetet visuellt arbetsminne, kan på samma sätt också påverka det omedvetna visuella arbetsminnet. En analys av data, insamlad vid tre liknande visuella uppgifter där det omedvetna arbetsminnet användes (n = 91), utfördes. ANCOVAs utfördes för att fastställa huruvida det fanns betydande effekter utifrån kön på det omedvetna arbetsminnets noggrannhet, svarstid samt avvägning mellan snabbhet och noggrannhet, oavsett uppgift. Analysen visade ett signifikant övertag vad gäller kvinnors svarstid i jämförelse med manliga deltagare. Detta övertag gäller generell svarstid och en fördelaktig avvägning mellan snabbhet och noggrannhet. Konsekvensen av dessa observationer, såsom olika svarstaktik för män och kvinnor, möjlig samhällspåverkan av omedvetna processer, diskuteras i denna uppsats.
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El, Karoui Imen. "Mechanisms of conscious and unconscious interpretative processes." Thesis, Paris 6, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA066155/document.
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Lorsqu’une représentation accède à la conscience, ce n’est pas simplement une représentation « objective », mais plutôt une interprétation subjective. Cette interprétation reflète la combinaison de nos connaissances sur le monde avec les données de notre environnement. Il est intéressant de comprendre comment ces interprétations se modifient lorsque l’on est confronté à des incohérences entre nos connaissances et les données. Dans cette thèse, nous avons étudié ces incohérences dans l’environnement et dans le comportement des individus.Dans une première série d’études, nous avons étudié l’apprentissage de régularités dans l’environnement ainsi que les relations entre ce processus et la conscience d’accès. La première étude porte sur les réponses cérébrales associées à la détection de régularités auditives chez des patients épileptiques implantés. La seconde porte sur la mise en place de stratégies lorsque l’on est confronté à de fréquents conflits, conscients ou non. Dans une seconde série d’études, nous avons étudié comment les sujets traitent les incohérences dans leur propre comportement, dans le cadre de la théorie de la dissonance cognitive, en utilisant le paradigme du choix libre. Nous avons identifié un rôle crucial de la mémoire grâce à une étude comportementale et une étude en IRM fonctionnelle.Les résultats de ces quatre études sont discutés dans ce manuscrit autour de deux questions clés. Tout d’abord, ces résultats mettent en évidence l’existence de processus utilisant des stimuli conscients, mais qui ne sont pas conscients eux-mêmes. Ensuite, nous discutons pourquoi l’on tend à chercher de la cohérence, dans notre environnement et dans notre comportementWhen we perceive a word, a picture or a sound, we do not access an ‘objective’ representation of them. Rather we gain immediate access to a subjective interpretation. This interpretation reflects the combination of our prior knowledge about the world with data sampled in the environment. An interesting issue is to understand how we deal with inconsistencies between our prior knowledge and the data from the environment. During this PhD, responses to inconsistencies both in the environment and in subjects’ own behavior were explored. The first series of studies address how subjects process regularities in the environment and how these processes relate to conscious access. To do so, two levels of auditory regularities were studied in epileptic patients implanted with intracranial electrodes. In a second experiment, we used a paradigm derived from the Stroop task to test responses to frequent conscious or unconscious conflicts. Behavioral measures and scalp EEG were used to assess changes in subjects’ strategy when processing trials conflicting with current expectations. In the second series of studies, we analyzed how subjects adapt their interpretations when confronted with inconsistencies in their own behavior, using the framework of cognitive dissonance. The implication of explicit memory was tested in a behavioral experiment and in an fMRI study. The results of these four studies are discussed around two main issues. First, these results highlight the existence of processes which rely on conscious stimuli but are not conscious themselves. Second, we examine what could explain our tendency to constantly seek consistency both in the external world and in our own behavior
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Trigoni, Efthalia. "Re-cognizing the unconscious in modernist literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707931.
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Fitzgerald, Cathy. "Waking dreams : Dickens and the Victorian unconscious." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605163.
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This thesis examines Dickens's fiction within the context of nineteenth-century psychology, with particular emphasis on the developing concept of unconscious thought and states such as reverie, somnambulism and trance, which were seen as borderland territories between voluntary and involuntary mental activity. Fred Kaplan drew attention to this field in Dickens and Mesmerism (1975) and the past thirty years have brought a succession of stimulating articles broadening his focus. This is the first full-length study, and it aims to consolidate this piecemeal background and spark further effort by demonstrating the many ways in which the vibrant mess of discourses that comprised the fledgling science are at play in these texts. The breadth of Dickensian work available necessitates a selective approach and I focus on novels which reveal the evolution of theories of mind during the author's career. I sift the psychological material similarly, using books owned by Dickens as a skeleton and fleshing out arguments where appropriate with concepts widely disseminated in journals. The thesis charts a shift in the novels from a type of identity based on theories of associative memory propounded by Scottish Common Sense philosophers in the lateeighteenth century, to a less stable, more fragmented self founded upon the psychophysiological work of the mid-Victorian period. It argues the associative ideal of an integrated psyche rooted in domestic reminiscence is central to the early Dickensian vision of a socially engaged middle-class identity, and suggests later novels lament the loss of this dream and construct an increasingly solipsistic and conflictual model of the genteel psyche in its place. Further, it notes the texts' engagement with philosophical warnings about the addictive nature of daydream and fantasy, and asserts they offer metafictional justification of their own status as imaginary creations by seeking to transform readers in socially productive ways.
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Weatherby, Yvonne Martha. "D.H. Lawrence's "struggle for verbal consciousness": From Women in love to Psychoanalysis and the unconscious and Fantasia of the unconscious." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1224.
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Stark, Louisa-Jayne. "The effects of idea elaboration on unconscious plagiarism." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1919.
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Rates of unconscious plagiarism were investigated using Brown and Murphy's 3-stage paradigm. Initially, participants completed the creative Alternate Uses Test (generation phase) and then at test, recalled their original ideas (recall-own phase) and generated new ideas (generate-new phase). In both of the testing phases, participants plagiarised by reporting someone else's ideas as either their own idea or a new idea. Plagiarism rates increased over a one week retention interval (Experiment 2) and both active and passive participants were equally likely to plagiarise someone else's idea as a new idea (Experiment 1). When an elaboration phase was incorporated into the paradigm, following idea generation, different types of elaboration had clear and consistent effects on participant performance. Elaboration by rating ideas positively and negatively improved correct recall (Experiment 3) and rating the imaginability of ideas (Imagery-elaboration IE) and improving the ideas in three ways (generative-elaboration GE) also increased correct recall to a comparable degree (Experiment 4). In the generate-new phase, these different types of elaboration either reduced plagiarism (Experiment 4) or did not affect the level of plagiarism relative to control (Experiment 3, 5, 6, 7 & 8). However, in the recall-own phase, the GE alone consistently led to the highest levels of unconscious plagiarism (relative to IE or control, Experiment 4, 5, 6, 8). This pattern prevailed when participants were encouraged not to plagiarise by means of a financial incentive (Experiment 5) or when their memory was assessed more stringently by a source monitoring task (Experiment 9). IE did not result in such recalled intrusions, even when it was matched in terms of content to the GE (Experiment 6) or when IE was repeated (3 days after generation) and thus strengthened (Experiment 7). Also, strengthening IE did not affect plagiarism levels in a source monitoring task (Experiment 11). Strengthening GE, on the other hand served to dramatically inflate the observable intrusions in both a recall-own task (Experiment 8) and in a source monitoring task (Experiment 10). Therefore, contrary to a strength account, the probability of plagiarising another's ideas as one's own is linked to the generative nature of the elaboration performed on that idea, rather than its familiarity. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings will be discussed.
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Heaney, J. C. "Schopenhauer and the unconscious origins of literary modernism." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.676514.
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This thesis explores the initial history of Schopenhauer's reception in Britain and then considers in detail his impact on the work of Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence and Samuel Beckett. It argues that Schopenhauer's influence on the literature of the modernist period was both more nuanced and pervasive than has been previously supposed, contesting in particular the typical reduction of this inheritance to that of 'pessimism'. Special attention is paid to the philosophy's significance as an early theorisation of the unconscious. It will be a central tenet of this thesis that Schopenhauer's colossal influence on the intellectual developments of the latenineteenth and early-twentieth centuries has tended ultimately to obscure his wider cultural legacy, with the literary employment of ideas that were contained in embryo in his writing often ascribed automatically to later thinkers, such as Darwin, Nietzsche and Freud. The chapter on Hardy considers the possible influence of Schopenhauer's metaphysics on the treatment of 'evolutionary themes in his later novels, and - by analysing the use of the reproductive urge in these works to underscore humanity's essential identity with the natural world - seeks to elucidate the degree to which early notions of the unconscious originated from a monistic understanding of nature. The following chapter argues that the idiosyncratic psychology expounded in Lawrence's 'psychoanalytic' essays of the 1920s is indebted to Schopenhauer's theory of will, which is reflected equally in the model of consciousness that finds expression in his fiction of the period. The final chapter argues that the proliferation of 'pseudocouples' in Beckett's writing have their roots in Schopenhauer's dissection of the Cartesian cogito into the ontologically distinct elements of will and intellect, a radical reimagining of human subjectivity which also illuminates the trope of the listener and speaker which achieves similar prominence in the later work. The conclusion highlights Schopenhauerian elements in the work of Joseph Conrad, Wyndham Lewis and Vladimir Nabokov.
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Ellis, Heather. "Unconscious transference : an investigation of eyewitness identification errors." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248645.
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The thesis investigates the unconscious transference phenomenon which has been implicated in cases of mistaken identity. When an eyewitness to a crime misidentifies an innocent, but previously encountered person as the perpetrator in response to a lineup which does not include culprit, it has been speculated that the eyewitness confuses the two people by transferring their identities across contexts. This traditional definition of unconscious transference was investigated in one of two experiments. A videotaped, staged theft scenario was shown to 770 participant witnesses who attempted to identify the perpetrator from a photographic lineup. Those who viewed an innocent bystander prior to the crime scenario, were more likely to mistake that familiar person for the perpetrator when the latter was absent from the lineup, compared to control participants who were not shown the bystander. Bystander misidentifications obtained indicate that transference did occur. A significant minority of participants consciously inferred that the bystander and the perpetrator were the same person seen in different settings. Others realised that the two confederates were different individuals but misattributed the source of their memories. In a second experiment, evidence of another type of unconscious transference, characterised as a commitment effect, was obtained. Three months after the initial lineup, a second lineup administered to 505 participants from the first investigation indicated that an innocent person initially misidentified is likely to continue to be misidentified even if he/she was unfamiliar to the eyewitness prior to his photograph being shown. Further, a repeat misidentification is likely even when the perpetrator is included in the subsequent lineup. Cognitive mechanisms implicated in the transference effects include some monitoring and memory blending. However, relative judgements, demand characteristics and changes of presentation media were also implicated. The ramifications for forensic eyewitness situations are such that unconscious transference demands increased attention from eyewitness researchers.
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Weinberg, Haim. "Group analysis, large groups and the Internet unconscious." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430683.
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Mericle, Robyn Rene. "Mirrors of absurdity the positive unconscious of knowledge /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010464.
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Jones, Evan Douglas. "Testing The Unconscious Effect of Visual Context Illusions." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1530192323.
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This study tested the effects of a visual context illusion when it was suppressed from the subjects conscious awareness. Using a mirror stereoscope and a particular form of binocular rivalry, subjects made estimations of size with and without awareness of the presence of the illusory elements. No differences were found, suggesting that effect of the illusion may require conscious awareness and perhaps is not a product of early visual processing. Keywords: Ebbinghaus, Consciousness, CFS, Illusion
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Armstrong, Anna-Marie. "Unconscious processing at the subjective threshold : semantic comprehension?" Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/51557/.
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Our thoughts and behaviours can sometimes be influenced by stimuli that we are not consciously aware of having seen. For example, the presentation of a word that is blocked from entering conscious visual perception through masking can subsequently influence the cognitive processing of a further target word. However, the idea that unconscious cognition is sophisticated enough to process the semantic meaning of subliminal stimuli is controversial. This thesis attempts to explore the extent of subliminal priming. Empirical research centering on subjective methods of measuring conscious knowledge is presented in a series of three articles. The first article investigates the subliminal priming of negation. A series of experiments demonstrates that unconscious processing can accurately discriminate between two nouns beyond chance performance when subliminally instructed to either pick or not pick a given noun. This article demonstrates not only semantic processing of the instructional word, but also unconscious cognitive control by following a two-word subliminal instruction to not choose the primed noun. The second article investigates subliminal priming of active versus passive verb voice by presenting a prime sentence denoting one of two characters as either active or passive and asking which of two pictorial representations best matches the prime. The series of experiments demonstrates that overall, participants were able to identify the correct image for both active and passive conditions beyond chance expectations. This article suggests that individuals are able to process the meaning of word combinations that they are not aware of seeing. The third article attempts to determine whether subliminal processing is sophisticated enough to allow for the activation of specific anxieties relating to relationships. Whilst the findings reveal a small subliminal priming effect on generalised anxiety, the evidence regarding the subliminal priming of very specific anxieties is insensitive. The unconscious is shown in these experiments to be more powerful than previously supposed in terms of the fine grained processing of the semantics of word combinations, though not yet in terms of the fine grained resolution of emotional priming.
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Weiner, Elana. "Art as an expression of the unconscious psyche." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004903.
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This study aimed to investigate the use of expressive art as a manifestation of the unconscious psyche and as an indication of underlying personality dynamics. Its use as a significant medium for therapeutic encounter and exploration was investigated by analysing the art produced by four psychiatric in-patients during their participation in an eight-week art therapy programme. Each patient's art series was qualitatively and thematically interpreted with a focus upon the meaning of significant recurring images and motifs. The results of this study indicate that the particularity of each patient's graphic imagery enabled the lived experience of their struggles and preoccupations to emerge as uniquely different. Through their art productions they revealed the nature of their inner worlds and the power of their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
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Raetz, Edward Tucker. "Taran: An individuated hero for the collective unconscious." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/147.
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This study analyzes Lloyd Alexander's The Prydain Chronicles through a Jungian lens. Previous scholarship on Alexander's works has briefly considered archetypal criticism, but not extensively. Bruno Bettelheim's thoughts are used intermittently throughout the thesis. This study concentrates on Taran's individuation process, the discovery of true selfhood, and his consequent development of a whole psyche.
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Soon, Chun Siong. "The Unconscious Formation of Motor and Abstract Intentions." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-223474.
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Three separate fMRI studies were conducted to study the neural dynamics of free decision formation. In Study 1, we first searched across the brain for spatiotemporal patterns that could predict the specific outcome and timing of free motor decisions to make a left or right button press (Soon et al., 2008). In Study 2, we replicated Study 1 using ultra-high field fMRI for improved temporal and spatial resolution to more accurately characterize the evolution of decision-predictive information in prefrontal cortex (Bode et al., 2011). In Study 3, to unequivocally dissociate high-level intentions from motor preparation and execution, we investigated the neural precursors of abstract intentions as participants spontaneously decided to perform either of two mental arithmetic tasks: addition or subtraction (Soon et al., 2013). Across the three studies, we consistently found that upcoming decisions could be predicted with ~60% accuracy from fine-grained spatial activation patterns occurring a few seconds before the decisions reached awareness, with very similar profiles for both motor and abstract intentions. The content and timing of the decisions appeared to be encoded in two functionally dissociable sets of regions: frontopolar and posterior cingulate/ precuneus cortex encoded the content but not the timing of the decisions, while the pre-supplementary motor area encoded the timing but not the content of the decisions. The choice-predictive regions in both motor and abstract decision tasks overlapped partially with the default mode network. High-resolution imaging in Study 2 further revealed that as the time-point of conscious decision approached, activity patterns in frontopolar cortex became increasingly stable with respect to the final choice.
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Alcock, Rupert. "Governing the new unconscious : cognition, computation and biopolitics." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.723433.
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Claude-Phalippou, Laurence. "La parole dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Barbey D'Aurevilly." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030076.
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La parole est au cœur de l’œuvre romanesque de Barbey d’Aurevilly : omniprésente, elle en façonne puissamment à la fois l’esthétique, la poétique et l’imaginaire. Dans sa fiction, l’essentiel passe en effet par le truchement du dire. Le travail du style en témoigne, comme les narrations qui trouvent dans la communication orale aussi bien leur principe déclencheur que le soubassement inconscient qui leur confère toute leur portée. Mais il y a plus : une ontologie singulière se dessine, dans laquelle l’identité des personnages se structure à partir de leur relation à la parole, de leur voix et de leur langue. La densité des récits s’accroît encore quand, des confidences aux causeries, la réussite des échanges verbaux tient moins à ce qu’il est convenu d’en attendre qu’aux enjeux relationnels et inconscients qu’ils mettent au jour. Il en est de même lorsque le dialogue avorte : la surdité, la folie, le silence, la mort ne constituent des échecs qu’en apparence, car ils s’avèrent être le relais efficace de toute une économie libidinale sous-jacente. Les paroles fabulatrices sont également soumises à des renversements de perspective qui élucident leurs ressorts, les mensonges se révélant désirables, les rumeurs inoffensives. Quant à la violence, au fantastique et à la fatalité qui informent l’univers de Barbey, l’analyse de leurs manifestations montre qu’elles sont, elles aussi, inséparables de la force du verbe. La parole aurevillienne se définit en fait par une caractéristique qui subsume toutes les autres : personne ne peut s’y soustraire – pas même le lecteur –, chacun en subissant l’emprise. C’est que parler ou se taire, tout aussi bien qu’écouter, a indéfectiblement partie liée, chez l’auteur des Diaboliques, avec ce dont il est le peintre toujours pénétrant et souvent scandaleux : le désirSpeech is in the centre of Barbey d’Aurevilly’s fiction: omnipresent, it strongly shapes altogether its aesthetics, poetics and imaginary world. In his fiction works, the gist is conveyed through speech. Evidence of this is to be found in the style, as well as in the narratives which find in oral communication both their triggering device and the unconscious basis that endows them with meaning and significance. But there is more to it : a singular ontology becomes apparent, in which the characters’ identities are formed from their relationship with speech, their voices and language. The density of narratives increases even more when, from confidences to chats, the success of verbal exchanges depends less on what is to be expected from them than to relational and unconscious stakes that they bring to light. It is the same when dialogue fails : deafness, madness, silence, death represent failures on the surface only, for they prove to be the efficient conveyor of a whole underlying libidinal economy. The fantasising speeches are also subjected to a reversal of perspective that elucidates their hidden motives, lies are shown to be desirable, rumours harmless. As for violence, fantasy and fate which inspire Barbey’s world, the analysis of their manifestation shows that they are, equally, inseparable from the strength of the words. Aurevilly’s speech is actually defined by a characteristic that subsumes all the others : no one can elude it – not even the reader – everyone is caught in its grip. This is because in the fiction of the author of the Diaboliques, speaking or silence, as well as listening, are unfailingly bound with what he knows how to depict so shrewdly and often scandalously : desire
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Pynchon, Susan Reynolds. "Resisting humiliation in schooling : narratives and counter-narratives /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7766.
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Brems, Makella. "Islamic State Online Recruitment: Narratives and Counter-Narratives." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1708.
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This thesis looks beyond the sensationalized coverage of Islamic State and instead utilizes Islamic State materials as a window into the remote radicalization and recruitment process of susceptible English-speaking individuals in the West. This thesis considers Islamic State’s mode of operation in conjunction with the appeals made in its online materials to devise a framework for understanding how Islamic State materials interact with susceptible individuals. The framework lends insight into how the body tasked with creating counter-narratives within the U.S. State Department can more effectively disrupt the remote recruitment and radicalization process.
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Linser, Katrin. "Unconscious modulation of the conscious experience of voluntary control." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:14-1181000414782-24817.
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How does the brain generate our experience of being in control over our actions and their effects? Here I argue that the perception of events as self-caused emerges from a comparison between anticipated and actual action-effects: if the representation of an event that follows an action is activated before the action, the event is experienced as caused by one’s own action, whereas in the case of a mismatch it will be attributed to an external cause rather than to the self. In a subliminal priming paradigm I show that participants overestimated how much control they had over objectively uncontrollable stimuli, which appeared after free- or forced-choice actions, when a masked prime activated a representation of the stimuli immediately before each action. This prime-induced control-illusion was independent from whether primes were consciously perceived. Results indicate that the conscious experience of control is modulated by unconscious anticipations of action-effects.
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Gollan, Tamar Hela 1968. "Conscious and unconscious access to grammatical gender in Hebrew." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282633.
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Access to grammatical gender in Hebrew was examined using gender decisions, lexical decision, two-word lexical decision, and grammaticality judgments (with noun-adjective pairs, noun-verb phrases, and plural noun-plural adjective pairs). In the gender decision task, the role of word-form was dramatic. Nouns with an explicit gender marker (regular feminine) were classified most easily, and next were nouns in the default gender (unmarked masculine). In contrast, exception nouns (unmarked feminine nouns) produced extremely slow RTs and unusually high error rates. These same exception nouns, however, produced radically different results when syntactic context was provided; in the detection of gender agreement (i.e., "yes" decisions in grammaticality judgments) exception nouns did not produce longer RTs, and also error rates were not higher than those for regular nouns. In contrast, there was a strong effect of regularity in the detection of gender agreement violation (i.e., "no" decisions in grammaticality judgments). This same pattern replicated even when all elements of the phrase were explicitly marked (i.e., plurals grammaticality judgments), and also in the context of a task that placed both grammatical and ungrammatical pairs in the context of the same decision type. Because comprehension tasks necessarily begin with the analysis of word-forms where gender-marking regularity is most conspicuous, it is suggested that the results provide very strong evidence in favor of modular access mechanisms to lemma and lexeme representations. It is further suggested that access to the mental lexicon does not provide conscious access to grammatical gender. Efficient access is available only when the syntactic processor is invoked, and this processor does not rely on regularity at the word-form level. Without a syntactic context grammatical gender is retrieved through a variety of strategies and heuristics. Finally, it appears that gender-marking regularity does play a role in post-lexical processing mechanisms that are designed to detect grammaticality violations, and the latter mechanisms, as well as syntactic processing itself, cannot be suppressed.
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Jenkins, Simon Philip Roy. "Conscious and unconscious control in highly learned motor actions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386616.
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Lingham, Susie. "Imaging emptiness: Reading the unconscious form Nagarjuna to Derrida." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488591.
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Imaging Empthiess is an interdisciplinary study of the unconscious as imaged and understood in literary, religious and philosophical discourse. Synthesizing psychoanalytic and philosophical perspectives on the mind, I attempt to develop an understanding of the spatial imagery reflecting the nature of the unconscious.
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Wilkinson, Leonora. "Methods for evaluating unconscious processes in implicit sequence learning." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418299.
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Kolodny, Jonathan Avram. "Conscious and unconscious processes in learning and memory retrieval." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241583.
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Krtolica, Marija. "The Embodiment of the Unconscious, Hysteria, Surrealism, and Tanztheater." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/516449.
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The primary subject of this dissertation is mental illness and performance of the hysterical symptom as they were investigated by the Swedish choreographer Mats Ek (Giselle, 1982), Tanztheater (from 1975-1979), and Second Wave Feminism. Historically, the examination begins in the nineteenth century, with the staging of madness in the romantic ballet Giselle (1841), and medical showings at Salpêtrière (1870s). The historical sites point to the interweaving of medical and dance cultures, and to a tendency towards pathologization of idiosyncratic movement expression within nineteenth century discourses on heredity, degeneration, and female health. To historically probe the ways in which twentieth century concert dance commented on pathologization of femininity, female performative labor, and expressive movement, the examination extends to: the fin-de-siècle café-concert scene; psychoanalytic sessions of 1890s, in which dancing played a role in both diagnosis and treatment; Nijinsky’s dance modernism as seen in Le Sacre du Printemps (1913); the anti-psychiatry within the post-1st World War Surrealism, and the post-2nd World War psychologically inflected choreographies by Antony Tudor, Martha Graham, Donya Feuer and Paul Sanasardo. The performance sites are investigated in relationship to the concepts of the unconscious, trauma, hysteria, hystericization, symptom, and expression. The dissertation proposes that late nineteenth century hysteria gained emancipatory meanings in the theoretical work of twentieth century dance scholarship, feminism, cultural criticism, and Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis. On the side of practice, Tanztheater participated in reclaiming hysteria. The Rite of Spring (1975), Bluebeard (1977), Café Müller (1978), and Arien (1979) explored traumatic memory, and male/female relationships in context of the post-2nd World War consumerist culture. I examine Pina Bausch’s and Mats Ek’s choreographies in dialogue with the contemporary theory to show that dance spectatorship can bring about an understanding of how the residues of political and personal past shape the experiences of the present.
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Frances, Jane. "The role of the unconscious in reactions to disfigurement." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702727.
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People who have disfiguring conditions, injuries, illnesses or marks cannot access the 'civil inattention' which is widely accorded to most people in public places. Instead they are subject to reactions from others which include staring, curiosity, inappropriate solicitousness, admiration, presumptuous offers of advice, avoidance, hostility and abuse. In school, children who 'look different' are twice as likely to be bullied as their peers whose appearance falls within a normal range, and they find it much harder to make friends - particularly if their class mates have been given 'a talk' about the condition or injury that affects the way they look. The subjects of this project are the people responding to disfigurement. This project explores social and individual unconscious material and process which may lie behind other people's reactions to disfigurement. Concerning individual responses, a hypothesis is developed which links the subject's reactions to the disfigured object to the re-mobilisation of disfigured internal part-objects that were damaged in normal aggressive infant phantasy. This remobilisation of unconscious material is accompanied by a crucial few moments of confusion, anxiety, linked to fear of or concern for the subject's own loved object damaged in their own long-ago infant phantasy, and, in this sense, not a direct response to the stranger before them now whose appearance is unusual. To test this hypothesis a methodology is developed which uses contrasted preliminary activities to evoke different kinds of phantasy material within different subjects, before exposing them briefly to a damaged object, and then ascertaining their reactions. The experimental data reveals a significant relationship between the preliminary activities and the subjects' reactions to the disfigured objects, and also indicates an important role for conceptions of disfigurement rooted in the social unconscious.