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The Imaginary
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TL;DR: In this paper, a number of approaches to an analysis of settler colonial subjectivities, the exploration of a specific state of mind and the detection of paranoiac dispositions in a particular set of political traditions are outlined.
Abstract: This paper outlines a number of approaches to an analysis of settler colonial subjectivities, the exploration of a specific state of mind and the detection of a number of paranoiac dispositions in a particular set of political traditions. At the same time, this paper explores the possibility of a Lacanian (i.e. imaginary–symbolic–real) interpretation of what is here defined as the settler colonial situation. First there is an imaginary spectacle, an ordered community working hard and living peacefully Little House on the Prairie style. Then there is the symbolic and ideological background: a moral and regenerative world that supposedly epitomises settler democratic traditions (the ‘frontier’, the ‘outback’, the ‘backblocks’, etc.). Finally, there is the real: expanding capitalist orders associated with the need to resettle a growing number of people. While this paper is aware that the categories of this analysis were initially developed in order to classify individual psychic phenomena and not collective ...
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27 Sep 1991
TL;DR: In this paper, a translation of Lacan's theory of the mirror stage is presented, with a discussion of the rise and fall of the signifier and its relationship with metonymy and metaphor.
Abstract: Translator's introduction Prefatory note 1. Introduction 2. Mistaken identity: Lacan's theory of the 'Mirror Stage' 3. The unconscious chess player 4. The rise and fall of the signifier 5. Significant fallout: metonymy and metaphor 6. Spades and hearts: the subject as stylus 7. The subject as 'Fader': the imaginary and the symbolic 8. 'When someone speaks, it gets light': demand 9. The signification of the Phallus Appendix.
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TL;DR: It is argued that the imaginary audience is a normal aspect of early adolescent development that diminishes in the context of secure parental relationships by late adolescence but remains salient if these relationships are insecure and represents a critical form of public self-consciousness.
Abstract: In this study, we examined the construct of the imaginary audience (Elkind & Bowen, 1979), presumably a precipitant of adolescent egocentrism, as it relates to public individuation and self-consciousness. We hypothesized that the imaginary audience inhibits public individuation and represents a critical form of public self-consciousness. We also argued that the imaginary audience is a normal aspect of early adolescent development that diminishes in the context of secure parental relationships by late adolescence but remains salient if these relationships are insecure. These hypotheses were examined in a cross-sectional study of 850 adolescents in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 12th grades. Support was generally found for the hypothesized relations. The validity and limitations of the imaginary audience and public individuation constructs are discussed, along with more general theoretical issues concerning adolescent self-consciousness.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether there is a relationship between imaginary companions and creative potential, whether children with negative self-images are more likely to have imaginary companions, and whether there are gender differences among those children who have Imaginary Companions and what characteristics of those who invent them are related to creativity.
Abstract: This study investigates 4 questions: First, whether there is a relationship between imaginary companions and creative potential; second, whether children with negative self-images are more likely to have imaginary companions; third, whether there are gender differences among those children who have imaginary companions; and, finally, what aspects of imaginary companions and what characteristics of those who invent them are related to creativity. The measurements used were a questionnaire about imaginary companions, 3 estimates of creative potential, and a self-image inventory. Among the 69 participating 4th graders, 52% reported having (had) imaginary companions. The children with imaginary companions were more creative on 2 of 3 estimates of creativity and had lower self-image scores. The self-image differences were greatest on the subscales measuring psychological well-being and peer relations. It was more common for girls to have imaginary companions. Aspects associated with creativity among the childr...
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The Private Comedy of Thomas Rowlandson and the Private Eye: William Collins's 'Ode to Evening' as mentioned in this paper, the public figure and the private eye, and the Politics of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Abstract: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Foreword - The Private Comedy of Thomas Rowlandson - The Public Figure and the Private Eye: William Collins's 'Ode to Evening' - The Public Prospect and the Private View: The Politics of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain - 'The Dangerous Goddess': Masculinity, Prestige and the Aesthetic in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain - Visualising the Division of Labour: William Pyne's Microcosm - Imaginary Treason, Imaginary Law: The State Trials of 1794 - The Birth of Pandora and the Origin of Painting - Notes - References - Index
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