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Jacques Lacan’s Reinterpretation of Freud

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on April 20, 2016 • ( 0 )

Jacques Lacan, who is often referred to as the “French Freud” transposed Freudian concepts into the realm of Saussurean structural linguistics, focussing on the operations of the process of signification, instead of the human mind as such. Lacanian reading attempted… Read More ›

Freudian Psychoanalysis

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on April 16, 2016 • ( 21 )

Psychoanalytic criticism (emerged in the 1960s), the most influential interpretative theory among the series of waves in the post war period is based on the specific premises of the workings of the mind, the instincts and sexuality, developed by the… Read More ›