Secrets Between Selves and The Exchange of Desires: Mirror-Stage Politics and Self-Reflecting Wishes within Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and Under Western Eyes
Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing author Joseph Conrad's work in relation to self-realization, self-awareness, and the loss of self. Includes psychoanalytic theories, especially those of Jacques Lacan.
Essays on Conrad
Foreword: Frank Kermode 1. Joseph Conrad: alienation and commitment 2. Almayer's Folly: introduction 3. Conrad criticism and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' 4. Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the critics 5. Comedy and humour in Typhoon 6. Political and social background of The Secret Agent 7. The Secret Sharer: introduction 8. Conrad, James and Chance 9. Story and idea in The Shadow-Line 10. The decline of the decline: notes on Conrad's reputation 11. Around Conrad's grave 12. 'The Bridge over the River Kwai' as myth.
Is the Psychopath ‘morally insane’?☆
Abstract Very early accounts of Psychopathic Disorder explained the disorder in terms of a deficit within some form of moral faculty or structure (Pritchard, 1837; cited by Blackburn, British Journal of Psychiatry, 153 , 505–512, 1988). However, such accounts fail to specify the nature of the faculty/structure or its role in the control of behaviour. Blair ( Cognition , in press) has suggested that a mechanism for the control of aggression is a prerequisite for the development of morality. Specifically, he has suggested that this mechanism mediates the moral/conventional distinction for transgressions. Blair has suggested that psychopaths may lack this prerequisite, predicting that these subjects should fail to make the moral/conventional distinction for transgressions. The first goal of the present study was to replicate the findings of an earlier study (Blair, Cognition , in press) confirming this prediction. The second goal of the present study was to extend the earlier findings, to examine the influence of the proposed mechanism on the observed moral/conventional distinction for positive acts (Smetana, Bridgeman & Turiel, The Nature of Prosocial Development: Interdisciplinary Theories and Strategies . New York: Academic Press, 1983). The results closely replicated those of the earlier study for the transgression moral/conventional distinction; the psychopaths, in contrast to the controls, were failing to make this distinction. However, diagnosis did not predict performance for the positive act moral/conventional distinction; the psychopaths and the controls responded to these items similarly. The results are discussed with reference to theories of the development of the psychopath and theories of the development of morality.