As I see it, this reduction stems from a problematic literalism that some ecocritics have brought into their reading of Thoreau's opposition to Emerson. ... Lance Newman founds his reading of Thoreau upon an ecocriticism that emphasizes as "the central axiom in its critical theory" a "direct contradiction" of the claims of "poststructuralist" theories reducing the world to language. ... I begin with Emerson's exploration of the nature of metonymy in his later work to locate Emerson's poetics of nature writing beyond Nature. On my reading, Emerson has his own more empirical, late...

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During the period from 1895 to 1900, Freud developed many of the concepts that were later incorporated into the psychoanalytic practice and doctrine (free association...) and he abandoned the use of hypnosis. ... He says that errors in speech, reading and writing are not accidents or coincidences: they reveal something that has been packed into the unconscious. ...

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Scharff and Val Dusek, and last source I will be citing are my own ideas that have been created in me through viewing the films, reading books on this subject, having discussions concerning the philosophy of the Matrix and similar topics. ... When you are dreaming, it may seem to you that you are sitting in your chair, reading, when in fact you are fast asleep in your bed (Descartes, pp. 12-13). ... Of course he framed his question in a way that made it impossible to give the only reasonable answer, which we in the science studies have slowly rediscovered three centuries later: that we are rel...

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The idea of free thought will come later, but while we're at it, understand that if we did not have free thought, we would not have an idea of our self. ... A couple of examples from the readings that have to deal with self- identity come from Sartre in The Flies. ... Later however, all kinds of protection grow around that naked body of animals, like furs, feathers, scales, shields and sometimes even whole houses. ...

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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt Reality is the actuality of things, what is really happening, without interpretation. Perception is that interpretation of the experience. Let's say for example that the reality of things may be that you are in a room with people talking very loudly. But perhaps your perception may be that these people are obnoxious and rude. This would be your interpretation of the situation. ...

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Lessing starts off the story with a description of three men at work on the roof during the week of the hot sun. I believe Lessing wanted to emphasize the characteristics of men of the construction class. These guys were tough, they were constantly exposed to heat, hard headed, domineering and egois...

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