Browsing by Subject "embodiment"
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(2012-08-08)Department: EnglishChristopher Marlowe’s early modern hero, Tamburlaine, The Great is a totalitarian who appears to control every thing and every person on the world-stage with speech-acts. This paper argues that Tamburlaine, The Great Parts ...
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(2012-12-06)Department: SociologyIn this dissertation, I examine the social world of deep brain stimulation and its use in the treatment of people with movement disorders, including Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremor, and Dystonia. Through ethnography, ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: PsychologyEmbodiment deficits were central to early theories of schizophrenia and remain at the phenomenological core of the disorder. Contemporary evidence confirms disturbances of the bodily self as central to schizophrenia and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-02-07)This episode begins our new mini-series on bodies and embodiment. Leah Marion Roberts, senior graduate teaching fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, interviews experts who can help us understand why paying attention ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: GermanHand/Arbeit/Buch/Schrift investigates the persistent absence of the female hand from representation. It suggests that the female hand embodies a pernicious blind spot in the humanist discourse, resisting representa-tion ...
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(2023-10-03)Department: PsychologyHumans relate to their spatial environment according to their interpretation of physiological signals (e.g., hunger, temperature, gastrointestinal symptoms). Therefore, changes inside the body operate to serve ‘one’s ...
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(2016-11-22)Department: PsychologyIndividuals with schizophrenia consistently display social functioning deficits with underlying emotion recognition impairments. Simulation of other’s emotional expressions facilitates recognition. Emotional states are ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation addresses the philosophical problems of meaning and identity in the context of major depression. I provide a phenomenological account of the depressive’s intrapsychic and intersubjective life that is ...
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(2009-05-20)Department: PhilosophyPartially borrowing a title from Freud’s “Instincts and Their Vicissitudes,” this thesis will take up a similar project in the sense that it will examine the different destinies or variations that memory fulfills as a ...
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(2014-07-21)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines textual constructions of stillness—representations of waiting, resting, hesitating, sensing, and perceiving—and argues that the still body becomes a trope infused with political significance in ...
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(2018-03-24)Department: PsychologySelfhood is experienced at multiple levels in healthy individuals with the minimal, unconscious self providing the building block for self-identity. In control populations, emotional experiences and awareness of physiological ...
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(2021-06-02)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that affect is a critical element of worship. One of the reasons people go to church or go to one church instead of another is because of how worship makes them feel. The subjective nature of feeling ...
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(2011-07-28)Department: EnglishThis dissertation argues that slapstick film’s conventions, including the gag, humiliation and violence, and comic business, produce the screen figure body-object, which operates as the substrate and the cause of slapstick. ...
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(2013-08-01)Department: ReligionThis study aims to provide a novel interpretation of discipleship as presented in the Gospel of Mark. Traditional Markan scholarship on this theme has emphasized the disciples’ failure to know Jesus’ identity and follow ...