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Seymour, Emma Ursula Harriet. "#Dangerous conceits' : mind, body, and metaphor 1590-1640." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295352.
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Mason, Joel W. "The concept of mind in Pauline literature." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Perham, John. "SCIENCEFRICTION: OF THE POSTHUMAN SUBJECT, ABJECTION, AND THE BREACH IN MIND/BODY DUALISM." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/268.
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This thesis investigates the multiple readings that arise when the division between the biological and technological is interrupted--here abjection is key because the
binary between abjection and gadgetry gives multiple meanings to other binaries, including male/female. Using David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and eXistenZ, I argue that multiple readings arise because of people’s participation with electronically mediated technology. Indeed, abjection is salient because Cronenberg’s films present an ambivalent relationship between people and technology; this relationship is often an uneasy one because technology changes people on both a somatic and cognitive level.
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Frendo, Ruth. "The tyranny of the soul : mind, body and humanity in Katherine Anne Porter, Caroline Gordon and Flannery O'Connor." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391537.
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Lang, Christopher T. "The importance of consciousness and the mind/body problem exploring social systems of containment in 19th century American literature /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2006. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2006.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2833. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as 1 leaf (iii). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 461-474).
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Jones, William Timothy. "Paper Tower: Aesthetics, Taste, and the Mind-Body Problem in American Independent Comics." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395604923.
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Harris, Raymond. "Mechanics of the soul : the rhetoric of the interrupted self in twentieth-century narratives /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9440.
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Watkins, Emily Stuart. "“That I should always listen to my body and love it”: Finding the Mind-Body Connection in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Slave Texts." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2363.
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This thesis explores the presence of the movement theories of Irmgard Bartenieff, Peggy Hackney, and Rudolf Von Laban in the following texts: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself (1845), The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave (1831), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Linda Brent (1861), Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose (1986) and Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987). The terms and phrases of movement theory will be introduced to the contemporary critical discussion already surrounding the texts, both furthering and challenging existing arguments.
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Schnabl, Ruth. "Gravity-bound the articulation of the body in art and the possibility of community /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Hellman, James. ""As Mind to the Body": Prudence and Artificial Memory in the Illustrations and Commentary of George Sandys' Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished (1632)." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/506.
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This thesis is an analysis of an English verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, published in 1632 by the Englishman George Sandys. This book included a full English commentary and was illustrated by several full-plate engravings. This study examines the edition's elaborate utilization of the rhetorical practices of artificial memory and related concepts of rhetorical invention. It demonstrates that these rhetorical practices were chosen and implemented for their inherent structural appropriateness for the cultivation of prudence, or practical wisdom. It reveals that the lessons in practical wisdom encoded in the work through the techniques of artificial memory were particularly aimed at political issues and the concerns of rulers. From the work's preoccupation with prudence as appropriate for a ruler, and from the dedication and prefatory texts, it becomes clear that it was intended to provide a means of counsel, or advice, to the King Charles I in an elaborate poetic format.
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Roesch, Lynn Marie. "The Master and the Machine: Applying the Perception of Mind and Body to Rochester's “The Imperfect Enjoyment” and Aphra Behn's “The Disappointment” and Oroonoko." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1493044405051968.
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Drew, Christ. "Literacy Practices of Student-Athletes: The Ethics of Repetition, Surveillance and Breakdown." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/57212.
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Literacy Practices of Student-Athletes: The Ethics of Repetition, Surveillance and Breakdown examines how a group of male basketball players as a small Division II university in the southeast United States used and were affected by literacy in their academic, athletic and social lives. The driving question that guided data collection was How do the physical learning and material conditions of high level basketball players at Richardson University influence their literacy practices? The impetus for this question was a desire to understand the relationship between the literate activity and moving bodies of these players. In school settings academic training is often conducted in ways that isolate the body from the mind. This ethnography sought to uncover if or how a bifurcation of mind/body occurred amid the training practices of these subjects. To accomplish this task, the study was designed to look at what bodies were doing during "literacy events." "Literacy events," which is borrowed from Barton and Hamilton, functioned as the core unit of analysis of the database. The method for pursuing the primary research question was ethnography. For one academic year I observed, interviewed, took fieldnotes, collected artifacts and supervised photographic literacy logs. Observations were conducted across the campus of Richardson University in three domains of the players' lives - academic, athletic and social domains. Interviews were conducted with individual players and were based off of fieldnotes, observations and the players' photo literacy logs that the players made as a way of documenting samples of their literacy practices. There were four core findings that this study of these student-athletes allows me to state with certainty: (1) these student-athletes' training methods influenced their literacy, (2) these student-athletes have highly sophisticated literacy that reflects their highly sophisticated cognition, and (3) these student-athletes liked their training regimens. The fourth finding can be split into thirds based on the three themes organizing the data of the study - Repetition, Surveillance and Breakdown. And, each of these attests to the highly physical nature of these student-athletes' academic and athletic training; they also indicate the extent to which reading-writing was infused in this training. Repetition was essential to habituating motor-movements as the foundation for being able to move beyond the basic physicality of a literacy event to more critical, higher order engagement. Repetition is not a mindless, rote activity. Repetition is thinking. Surveillance was an effective educational technology for instilling positive literacy habits through a system of control and observation. Breakdown was another educational technology that demonstrated a powerful connection between body and mind, similar to repetition. These three concepts and the conversations that support them illustrate that literacy is not simply a cognitive act; it is not just a way of thinking, but a socially embedded way of acting.
Temple University--Theses
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Raab, Angela R. "Mangled Bodies, Mangled Selves: Hurston, A. Walker and Morrison." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1628.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008.Title from screen (viewed on July 1, 2008). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Missy Dehn Kubitschek, Jennifer Thorington Springer, Tom Marvin. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-114).
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Harmon, Geraldine Mart. "William Faulkner, his eye for archetypes, and America's divided legacy of medicine." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07152008-114016/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.Title from file title page. Thomas L. McHaney, committee chair; Nancy Chase, Marti Singer, committee members. Electronic text (175 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed November 6, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-175).
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Oliveira, Leandro Silva de 1980. "Representações do corpo na obra de Hilda Hilst." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270171.
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Orientador: Suzi Frankl SperberDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é fazer uma análise do desenvolvimento do pensamento de Hilda Hilst manifesto em sua obra literária acerca da relação com o tema do corpo. Partindo da constatação de que sua literatura possui uma natureza essencialmente existencialista, procuramos apontar de que modo o corpo manifesta-se como elemento central na produção hilstiana já que se apresenta como uma das dimensões conflitantes da dupla natureza humana (corpo/mente). Elegemos quatro momentos distintos da carreira literária de Hilda Hilst para compor esse painel da representação do corpo: sua produção poética de 1962 a 1967; toda sua produção dramatúrgica (1967 a 1969); o livro A Obscena Senhora D (1982) e o livro Cartas de um sedutor (1991). Elegemos também três autores muito referenciados por Hilst - Nikos Kanzantzakis, Ernest Becker e Georges Bataille - para nos auxiliar na análise crítica e procuramos relacionar o pensamento deles aos livros analisados a fim de encontrar ressonâncias possíveis
Abstract: The objective of this research is to make an analysis of the development of Hilda Hilst's thoughts manifested in her literary work regarding the relation with the thematic of the body. Starting from the statement that her literature has a nature that is essentially existentialist, we try to point out the way that the body is presented as a central element in Hilst's production, since it appears as one of the conflicting dimensions of the double human nature (body/mind). We elected four distinct moments of Hilda Hilst's literary career to compose this panel of the representation of the body: her poetic production from 1962 to 1967; all her dramaturgical production (1967-1969); the book "A Obscena Senhora D" (1962) and the book "Cartas de um sedutor" (1991). We also elected three authors that are often referenced by Hilst - Nikos Kanzantzakis, Ernest Becker e Georges Bataille - in order to help us with the critical analysis, establishing relations between their thoughts and the pieces analyzed looking for possible resonances
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Jonsson, Höök Malin. "Midnattssol : Metamorfoser och medvetandefilosofi i The Hidden Oracle och Midnight Sun." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-179659.
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The aim of this work is to examine how physical and mental metamorphoses affect the perception of the self. To do this I study the literary characters Apollo (The Hidden Oracle, by Rick Riordan) and Edward Cullen (Midnight Sun, by Stephenie Meyer), both of whom experience these different kinds of metamorphoses. I approach this problem with the help of philosophy of mind and, more specifically, the mind-body problem as well as the problem of personal identity. Amongst other things, I find that the physical metamorphoses are what enable and initiate the mental ones. I also discover that one of the biggest impacts on personal identity and the self comes from whether the characters are immortal or not.
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McInnis, Brian Todd. "Reading the moral code theories of mind and body in eighteenth-century Germany /." Diss., 2006. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-08072006-035449/.
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Saumaa, Hiie. "Meditative Modernism: Tuning the Mind in British Literature, 1890-1940." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8TD9VGN.
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This dissertation uncovers a strand in early twentieth century British literature that is currently missing from readings of modernism - a fascination with portraying meditative states of mind. Modernist authors were intrigued by the mind's capacity to be in constant movement between the present, past, and future - what they represented as a stream of consciousness. This study examines the potential of the "still," calm, and concentrated mind in modernist visions of consciousness by exploring how the meditative mind takes a different shape in theme and form in the writings of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Aldous Huxley. Drawing from the works' preoccupation with physical practices such as spiritual and ritual dance, relaxation techniques, Yoga, the Alexander Technique, and meditative walking, this study highlights the role of the body in views on consciousness in modernist literature. This dissertation argues that looking at modernism through the lens of meditation allows us to see the period not only in terms of the split, wounded self in the fast-paced modern metropolis but reveals its yearning for what the authors in this study call "wholeness," "mind-body harmony," and "the spirit of peace" - a search for peace attainable within, if not without, an attempt to cure the self in the fracturing modern world through experiencing the mind at peace.
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Reimchen, Margaret Helen. "Heinrich Boll's early prose : a discourse of war-damaged bodies." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10848.
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Using insights drawn from research in a variety of disciplines into theories of the body,
this dissertation investigates Heinrich Boll's (1917-1985) early prose (1936-1955) as a discourse
of war damaged bodies. The "new" texts discussed appeared in Germany between 1982 and
1995. The thesis represents the first attempt to analyse Boll's work from the perspective of the
human body.
Chapter I briefly outlines the influence sociology has had for a better understanding of the
role of the human body in society. This chapter demonstrates that the body can be fruitfully used
both as a critical tool and as an interpretative device in discussing literary texts. An elucidation of
the methodology and theoretical approach used concludes the chapter.
The thesis explores Boll's use of the body not only as aspects of the narrative and also for
its ethical implication. According to him, an author's temporality ("Zeitlichkeit") is the first thing
to be communicated before embarking on an analysis or interpretation of his work. Chapter II
investigates the "Aryan/Nazi" body and refers to other contemporary body discourses. Chapter
III, investigating the "Writer's" body, provides insights into Boll's biography. Both chapters
shed considerable light on Germany's cultural, social, internal, and external political situation.
Chapter IV describes the soldier's 'closed,' "disciplined" body as portrayed in texts such
as Das Vermachtnis. Colonel Bressen, a key character in Wo warst du, Adam?, epitomises the
"mirroring" body in Chapter V. More "Schein" than "Sein," it reflects an intentionally
internalised and acquired "habitus." In Chapter VI, Boll's war story "Der blasse Hund," provides
a striking example of a "dominating" body which seeks to preserve its power and to control its
fears through committing violent acts against its helpless victims. In contrast, however, a
"communicative" body such as Kate Bogner's in Und sagte kein einziges Wort, examined in
Chapter VII, is 'open' and caring.
Throughout his early prose, Boll's careful use of body language reveals the multi-layered
nature of reality. Chapter VIII summarises the thesis and presents its major findings upon which
further critical work on the significance of the human body in Boll's later writings might be
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Chauderlot, Fabienne-Sophie. "Des mots et des corps en Denis Diderot, philosophe, or, I to eye, sight, sense(s) and discourse an essay on body presence and representation in Diderot's Salons and other texts /." 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/33183291.html.
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Besbes, Mounira. "Mapping the captive body in three twenty-first century women’s writings." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24628.
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Dans cette thèse de doctorat, “Mapping the Captive Body in Three Twenty-
First Century Diasporic Women’s Writings,” j’analyse le fonctionnement du pouvoir
de l’État en relation avec le corps, comme le montrent les mémoires de Edwidge
Danticat, Azar Nafisi and Marina Nemat. En m’appuyant sur leurs écrits, j’explore les
différentes manières dont la violence, la dictature, et le patriarcat, parrainés par l’État,
modifient les constructions du corps, de l’esprit, de la voix et de la subjectivité. En
examinant ces formes institutionnalisées de violence et de coercition, je montre
comment le confinement physique engendre la captivité de l’esprit et la
dé(con)struction de soi. Ainsi, je conceptualise la captivité comme étant physique,
psychologique mais aussi sociale. En outre, je soutiens que la lutte pour résister à cet
effacement identitaire afin de récupérer la subjectivité et la corporealité prend la
forme d’une action individuelle et/ou collective.
Le premier chapitre contextualise les oeuvres étudiées pendant le règne de
deux Duvaliers, de Khomeini, en plus de la politique d’immigration des Etats-Unis
après le 11 septembre. En outre, ce chapitre fournit le cadre théorique. Le deuxième
chapitre est consacré à l’analyse l’emprisonnement et la privation des droits
fondamentaux de Joseph Dantica, soulevant ainsi des questions sur le biopouvoir qui
définit le Centre de Détention de Krome. Je montre comment Edwidge Danticat a
récupéré l’identité de son oncle à titre posthume. Le troisième chapitre étudie la
captivité des femmes engendrée par la surveillance et l’imposition d’un code
vestimentaire. J’analyse aussi comment Nafisi et ses étudiantes prennent refuge dans
la littérature afin de résister. Dans le dernier chapitre, je regarde comment la prison
régularise le genre et l’identité de Nemat. Je soutiens que le viol conjugual, étant une
violence politique liée au genre, devient un moyen par lequel la soumission et la
domination de Nemat deviennent possibles. Enfin, la dernière partie étudie
l’importance de l’amitié carcérale et de l’acte de l’écriture dans la résistance à et la
défiance de l’effacement.In my doctorat project, entitled “Mapping the Captive Body in Three Diasporic Women’s Writings,” I analyze the workings of state power in relation to the body, as illustrated in the works of Edwidge Danticat, Azar Nafisi and Marina Nemat. I explore the different ways state-sponsored violence, dictatorship and patriarchy alter the very constructions of body, mind, voice, and subjectivity. By considering these institutionalized forms of violence and coercion, I demonstrate how physical confinement engenders the captivity of the mind and the de(cons)truction of the self. In so doing, I conceptualize captivity as physical, psychological and social. In addition, I contend that the struggle to resist this erasure and reclaim subjectivity and corporeality takes the forms of individual, communal, and/ or collective action. The first chapter contextualizes and historicizes the studied works with the era the Duvalier, Khomeini’s dictatorship, in addition to the post 9/11 US immigration policies. It also provides the theoretical framework that frames this dissertation. The second chapter focuses on Joseph Dantica’s imprisonment and disfranchisement and raises questions about the biopwer that defines Krome Detention Center. I demonstrate the way Edwidge Danticat posthumously recover her uncle’s identity. The third chapter studies female captivity in terms of forced veiling and constant surveillance. I analyze how Nafisi and her students take refuge in and resist through the power of literature. In the fourth chapter, I look at how prison regulates Nemat’s gender and identity. I argue that marital rape, as a gendered political violence, becomes a means through which Nemat’s subjection and domination is possible. The second part of the chapter explores the importance of carceral friendship and the act of writing in defying and resisting erasure.
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Riezky, Günther Helmut Dieter. "Kopf und Schädel : Methoden des Wahnsinns in Canettis roman "Die Blendung"." Diss., 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17618.
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Text in GermanMany treatises and disquisitions concerning "Die Blendung" concentrate on the main character, Peter Kien, as well as on other protagonists. In contrast, this dissertation deals with Pfaff, the primitive force and his influence on Peter Kien, the "Brain", the masterspirit. Common traits of these di verse characters are highlighted and it is explained why Pfaff, the brute, manages to exult over Kien, the intellectual. Their interactions and their interdependence are dealt with and it is shown that insanity which is prevalent in both protagonists prepares the way to Kien's doom whereas it leads to Pfaff's survival.
Das Interesse zahlreicher Untersuchungen Uber "Die Blendung" konzentriert sich auf die Hauptperson, Peter Kien, sowie auf andere Protagonisten. Im Gegensatz dazu beschaftigt sich diese Arbei t mi t dem Hausmeister Pfaff, dem "Schadel", und mit dem EinfluB, den er auf Peter Kien, den "Kopf", den Geistesmenschen hat. Es wird versucht, Gemeinsamkeiten, die diese beiden so gegensatzlichen Charaktere aufweisen, aufzuzeigen und darzulegen, warum der Gewaltmensch Pfaff Uber den wirklichkeitsfremden Wissenschaftler Kien zu triumphieren vermag. Der EinfluB, den sie aufeinander nehmen, und die Abhangigkeit voneinander werden aufgezeigt, und es wird aufge fUhrt, wie der Wahnsinn, dem sie be ide verf all en, zu Kiens Untergang filhrt, wahrend Pfaffs Uberleben durch seinen Wahnsinn gesichert wird
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Burkitt, Ian, and Paul W. Sullivan. "Embodied ideas and divided selves: revisiting Laing via Bakhtin." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5899.
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In this article, we apply Mikhail Bakhtin's model of a 'divided self' to R.D. Laing's eponymous work on the lived experience of divided selves in 'psychosis'. Both of these authors offer intriguing insights into the fracturing of self through its social relationships (including the 'micro-dialogues' staged for oneself) but from uniquely different perspectives. Bakhtin (1984) uses Dostoevsky's novels as his material for a theory of self, centrally concerned with moments of split identity, crisis, and personal transformation, while Laing relies on his patient's accounts of 'psychosis'. We will outline how two key Bakhtinian divisions of the self (spirit/soul and authoritative/internally persuasive discourse) help to make sense of Laing's descriptions of his patient's experiences and micro-dialogues. Conversely, when refracted through Laing's phenomenology Bakhtin's account of the self becomes richer and somewhat darkened in terms of a double-edged ontology, which describes a maximally open self but one that is consumed by ideas, unable to manage their contradictions. The implications of this for managing the dilemmas of self-identity will be drawn out.
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Rieske, Tegan Echo. "Alzheimer's Disease Narratives and the Myth of Human Being." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3183.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)The ‘loss of self’ trope is a pervasive shorthand for the prototypical process of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the popular imagination. Turned into an effect of disease, the disappearance of the self accommodates a biomedical story of progressive deterioration and the further medicalization of AD, a process which has been storied as an organic pathology affecting the brain or, more recently, a matter of genetic calamity. This biomedical discourse of AD provides a generic framework for the disease and is reproduced in its illness narratives. The disappearance of self is a mythic element in AD narratives; it necessarily assumes the existence of a singular and coherent entity which, from the outside, can be counted as both belonging to and representing an individual person. The loss of self, as the rhetorical locus of AD narrative, limits the privatization of the experience and reinscribes cultural storylines---storylines about what it means to be a human person. The loss of self as it occurs in AD narratives functions most effectively in reasserting the presence of the human self, in contrast to an anonymous, inhuman nonself; as AD discourse details a loss of self, it necessarily follows that the thing which is lost (the self) always already existed. The private, narrative self of individual experience thus functions as proxy to a collective human identity predicated upon exceptionalism: an escape from nature and the conditions of the corporeal environment.