... and is obsessed with certainty of origin. The French feminists in particular construe "woman" as any radical force that subverts the concepts, assumptions, and structures of traditional male discourse -- the realism, rationality, mastery, and explanation that underline it. By contrast, the American and British feminists mainly engage in empirical and thematic studies of writings by and ... 1. The Socio-Political Approach of what is sometimes termed the British school of feminist criticism focuses on a neo-Marxist exposé of the patriarchy as reflected in the delimited lives and destinie...

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... from alienation. Therefore, they should not repress their radical ideas by ignoring what society had engraved into their minds from the start. This concept of repression leads me to the discourse on Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalysis. This theory seems to parallel Marx in many aspects. Sigmund Freud was born into a period where "the ever-growing class began to express its aims ... led to the conclusion that through this individual psychological analysis, Freud discovered the existence of an unconscious dimension to psychic life. In so many words, Freud was able to outline a method for...

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... Content. Freud's theories have always been objected and tested by many. C. G. Jung challenged Freud's position but retained and even expanded his metaphors. Jung began to insist first on the primacy and then on the exclusive validity of the manifest dream. He stated that the manifest dream picture is the dream itself and contains the whole meaning of the dream. Jung stressed ... reading the dream as text metaphor prior to the interpretation. He gradually moved from Freud's free association toward a method that he called amplification which is extending and deepening the ... dream conte...

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