... with Cassandra and Oedipus as both texts questioned and challenged certainties. This too is an illustration of the social function of literature - encouraging the reader to question and delve deeper rather than assuming one version to be correct. Oedipus also is a study in ideology, paralleling itself with texts such as The Waste Land and Paradise Lost. Some ideological concerns, however, may have ... the conflicts and dynamics of the unconscious psyche. Likewise, Levi-Strauss also studies the unconscious psyche but also discovered the semantics of mythology and evolving patterns. The s...

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... in a similar situation. In fact, I would venture to say that most of us have found ourselves in a similar, forgetful predicament. Tauber, et al. discuss this commonality in their study, stating "a growing area of research examines memory for proper names. Such research has consistently demonstrated that such names (e.g. Mr. Smith) are more challenging to learn and remember than other ... job or a hobby. While deficits of proper name learning are well documented, comparatively little work has examined the metacognitive basis for proper name learning (p.522)." Often times, as Freud notes, I...

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