Jacques Derrida

‘Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences' (Derrida, 1978: 278 –293) may be read as the document of an event, although Derrida actually commences the essay with a reservation regarding the word "event", as it entails a meaning "which it is precisely the function of structural – or structuralist – thought to reduce or suspect" (278). This, I infer, refers to the emphasis within structuralist discourse on the synchronous analysis of systems and relations within them, as opposed

radically changed the nature of literary studies, but people saying this do not mean literary theory or the systematic account of the nature of literature and of the methods for analysing it. Theory is a bunch of names- Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Judith Butler, Louis Althusser, Gayatri C. Spivak, for instance. (Culler

This person is Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He is a famous philosopher, composer, and writer from the time period called the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment. He influenced many later philosophers and educators such as Maria Montessori and Jacques Derrida. Most of Rousseau’s accomplishments were novels. The most famous novel Rousseau wrote was called “Julie, Ou la Nouvelle Heloise”. This novel was 800 pages and was a romantic novel about a Swiss women. This novel was very important because it sparked

We follow Lacan and return to Freud, only to find ourselves arriving at the knowledge that the unconscious operates like translating without the original text. There goes a process of representing activity in which we achieve a representation without knowing what is the "represented." Lacan leads us back to so many of Freud's decisive terms, thereby prefiguring the way those terms slip away from the grasp of traditional conceptual discourse. In The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

corrupted by the society he lives in, as said by Jean Jacques Rousseau? Both philosophers have very strong opinions and well reasoning for what they believe. Golding’s views are displayed well throughout his novel, Lord of the Flies; a tale about strong minded, young boys stranded on an island who must find a way to survive on their own. After reading this novel, I found myself agreeing much with Rousseau’s views on human nature. Jean Jacques Rousseau was a French philosopher who believed that man

Question 1: From a Marxist perspective, Herman Melville’s story “Bartleby the Scrivener” can be interpreted as a story proving that capitalism makes it unnecessarily difficult for its subjects to succeed, forcibly enslaves its subjects to its system, rids its subjects of aspirations and purpose due to the impossibility for creativity, and deceives its subjects into believing that money can alleviate emotional issues. Because both Bartleby and the narrator lose their professions during the course

Publications, 2009. This is a book written by Lionel Bailly, a Psychoanalyst, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who teaches on the subject of Jacques Lacan and is a member of the Association Lacanienne Internationale, an organization that continues the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Its purpose is to break down the major theories of Jacques Lacan on a level that is accessible

Confessions (1789), an autobiography by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is seen as a reaction against Augustine's Confessions and stands as a rebuttal to the latter’s understanding of human nature. Rousseau is considered to have invented modern autobiography in his compositions of Confessions, Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques (1776) and The Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1778). The idea of confession and in naming the book as such, the narrative presented in Confessions can be seen as an attempt

Psychoanalytical criticism is a form of literary critique, which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature. One of the more prevalent Psychoanalytical theorists after Freud was Jacques Lacan. In his text, “The Signification of the Phallus,” asserts that the idea of both sexes are based on the male “being” and the female “having” the phallus, and these two differences determine the relations between the sexes while also bringing them together. For Lacan, the

Avis rara I’m proud to be a heterosexual. There. I said it. The outburst was stuck in my throat, I must confess, since Tim Cook, Apple’s super CEO post-Steven Jobs found it in his best interest to declare in public his sexual orientation. I was looking forward to declare mine too, even considering that because of the sexual-confessional content of my first novel, it would hardly come as a surprise. I lie, or at least, I soften it up. Such outburst has been stuck in my throat for much longer, since