Civilization and culture are two prominent themes in Leavis’s seminal essay “Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture” published in 1930. The prominent themes of this essay include the understanding of the mode of civilization and the culture as found in England…
Raymond Williams is a renowned British critic. He is also widely known as an academician and a novelist. His “The Analysis of Culture” is a very remarkable contribution to the field of cultural studies. In his essay, he has analyzed…
Lacan’s version of psychoanalysis discourses mirror-stage as a part of identification in his three-stage model of identity formation. He is a French psychiatrist who worked with psychotic patients from 1930 to 1940. He began to develop his own version of…
Lacan is a French psychiatrist whose own version of psychoanalysis is very distinctive with many remarkable aspects. He worked with psychotic patients from 1930 to 1940. During the 1950s, he began to develop his own version of psychoanalysis keeping his…
Freud, in his psychoanalytical analysis, talks about three indirect routes to the unconscious. Through these routes, the ids or the polymorphous pervert desires try to come out from the realm of the unconscious. Freud argues that these desires always try…
Sigmund Freud is considered to be the father of the theoretical paradigm called to be psychoanalytic theory. Primarily, this theory is applied to cure those who suffered from different mental issues because of their inability of sublimating their pleasure principles.…
Joseph Breuer was a famous German key-personality in the field of neuropsychology who influenced the development of Freudian psychoanalysis. His unique observations on his patient Anna O is a door-opening invention in the field of psychoanalysis which attempts to take…
Derrida introduces his idea of binary opposition in his analysis of Saussure’s structuralism. The concept is narrated in his seminal essay entitled “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences” which he delivered at a conference at John…
Derrida’s criticism of structuralism is a very remarkable issue in the field of theory as it opens space for deconstructive theories later. He studies structuralism in his essay entitled “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences” which…
In different ages, some particular centres always rule human civilisation. These centres also control the nature of knowledge. So, it is important to explore how the world of knowledge has been ruled by the idea of the centre since the…
