This thesis explores architecture as an assemblage of realities. The rise in virtual and cybernetic technologies rapidly increases the convergence of multiple realities, revealing different ways of perceiving the environment. This shift in spatial perception presents the opportu…
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Historical use of psychological assessments in South Africa has led to racially and culturally biased results. Currently the use of personality assessments in South Africa still raises some controversies as the use of personality assessments in contexts other than those for whic…
My research addresses our physical and psychical being in space and the space of representation, through the contrasting mediums of sculptural form, image, and text. Central to this is the photograph - understood by Vilém Flusser as a ‘technical image’, the product of an apparat…
This study is the first attempt to systematically examine the central role of economy, money and debt in the oeuvre of Shmuel Yosef Agnon—1966 Nobel laureate in literature—by offering a reading that combines perspectives from economic theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative…
Whereas recent studies of psychoanalysis and modernism have tended to 'translate' literature through contemporary French psychoanalytic thought, this dissertation opens up a historical dialogue between English psychoanalysis, modernist writing, art criticism and literary critici…
Despite repeated demonstrations of the dysfunctional effects of social defences in organisations, social defence theory's (SDT) problem of organisational change (Long, 2006) remains. Why? Can this be avoided? The research centres on a four-year coaching and consulting project wi…
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a symptomatically defined and debilitating condition that presents as a range of physiological and psychological effects. Post-exertional fatigue and ongoing low energy levels are cardinal fea…
This thesis explores the psychological trauma of the survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986. I argue for the emergence from the disaster of three Chernobyl traumas, each of which will be analysed individually – one per chapter. In reading t…
This dissertation asks how Pan-Africanism sustains itself as a nationalism despite the evident, unorthodox temporal and spatial gaps between the individuals, populations and events it claims for its own. In answering this question, I challenge the inadvertently anti-democratic t…
Postcolonial literary critics note persistently recurring representations of colonial violence in post-independence Anglophone African novels. I suggest that complex psychological and political processes of colonial trauma compel this narrative repetition. This dissertation juxt…
The aim of this study is to offer psychoanalytical readings of two of Ibrahim al-K uni's magical realist novels— al-Khusuf and al-Majus . Almost all of Kuni's novels are set in the desert. In his humanistic concern for his homeland, he takes on several issues such as the invasio…
This dissertation examines the written and artistic production of the Israeli-born artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha L. Ettinger, whose practice of artworking incorporates her theoretical development of the Matrix and Metramorphosis into the act of painting. Et…
This thesis deploys Partition, as produced through testimonies, in order to investigate how intimate violence is produced and narrated. Partition, here, is not the object of analysis; rather, given the associated symbolics and imaginaries that recuperate violence from its abstra…
Since the advent of the "talking cure," (Breuer and Freud, 1893) questions have been raised as to how, specifically, a particular kind of verbal interaction between two individuals is thought to bring about the kinds of change associated with therapeutic outcomes. This essay use…
The distinctiveness of this study lies in its being the first attempt to thoroughly examine the entire oeuvre of Dalia Ravikovitch--the 1998 Israel Prize laureate--by offering a reading that combines psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and trauma studies. The dissertation contains …
The experience of God has been the subject of psychoanalytic discussion, beginning with Freud's focusing on its unconscious defensive aspects. Object relations theorists describe an unconscious relationship with an internalized representation of God, which can be a source of gro…
That Job poses a "crisis" for Israel's wisdom tradition is a long-held critical consensus. Job's suffering despite his righteousness is thought to challenge the wisdom tradition which, being grounded in retribution, is supposedly unable to imagine either that a righteous person …