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Knowledge, power, and Freud's Clark conference lectures
Martha Cooper,John J. Makay +1 more
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In 1909, Sigmund Freud delivered five lectures on psychoanalysis at Clark University as discussed by the authors, which constituted the new knowledge of psychoanalysis, while simultaneously forging relationships between the scientific and medical communities that endowed the psychoanalyst with power.Abstract:
In 1909, Sigmund Freud delivered five lectures on psychoanalysis at Clark University. This rhetorical event, Freud's only public appearance in the United States, offers a case in point of the intersection among knowledge, power, and discourse. Freud's rhetorical action constituted the “new” knowledge of psychoanalysis, while simultaneously forging relationships between the scientific and medical communities that endowed the psychoanalyst with power.read more
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The concept and the practices of discipline in contemporary organizational life
James R. Barker,George Cheney +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of the corporate specification of an employee value system is presented, which draws upon observations, interviews, and the analysis of company policy statements, using this case as an illustration of four aspects of discipline in contemporary organizational life.
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Contemporary social theory and its implications for rhetorical and communication theory
Susan Whalen,George Cheney +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed SOCIAL SCIENCE AS CIVIC DISCOURSE: ESSAYS ON the INVENTION, LEGITIMATION, and USES of SOCIAL THEORY.
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The rhetoric of midwifery: Conflicts and conversations in the Minnesota home birth community in the 1990s
TL;DR: This article applied and tested Michel Foucault's theories about local centers of power and knowledge by rhetorically analyzing a Midwifery Study Advisory Group in Minnesota in 1991-1992, demonstrating how a group of traditional midwives achieved status within the public sphere and temporarily resisted the surveillance and normalization of state authority.
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Silencing the patient: Freud, sexual abuse, and “the etiology of hysteria”
TL;DR: The authors argued that Freud's failure to persuade his original audience was not only due to their denial of sexual abuse, but also due to his failure to make clear how the young science of psychoanalysis could comport with traditional models of medical authority.
Reaching others: the rhetoric of proselytizing and community of a christian campus organization
TL;DR: This paper examined the proselytizing rhetoric of a campus religious organization (CRO) using a combination of rhetorical, ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods to evaluate the rhetoric of CRO with regards to sensitivity.
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The Rhetoric of Economics
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