Without somewhere acquiring this full evaluative toolset, however, students are bereft of an essential component of agency. They must resort to wit, which produces the sort of one-sided cleverness Mr. Roth seems to be encountering; we become slaves to our own opposition. Critical thinking, define...
doi:10.1080/00207578.2019.1681769Beatriz de León de Bernardi
The British historian Lewis Namier, (1888–1960), who owed much of his success to being able to read the execrable handwriting of the duke of Newcastle, argued that the two “sciences” the historian must know are psychoanalysis and graphology. Reading is, of course, far more than making ...
Week 7: Psychoanalysis:Postcolonial Challenges and Applications This session will consider psychoanalysis as a methodological approach which has both been put to use in, and challenged by, anti-colonial and post-colonial thinking. Specifically, we will consider an extract from Frantz Fanon’s seminal ...
but Christian Metz has contended that watching a finished film is like looking into a mirror in which the spectator sees everything reflected but the self-and this act of seeing in turn forces the subject to recognize himself or herself as a perceiving subject {Psychoanalysis and Cinema 48-9)...
However, Adkins points out that reflexivity can also be supportive of social order—a statement supported by studies that show how reflexive thinking has permeated almost all areas of neo-liberal life (Adams, 2006: 518). It is therefore useful to recall Foucault's notion of neo-liberal ...