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Summary [ edit ] Reich argues that character structures were organizations of resistance with which individuals avoided facing their neuroses : different character structures — whether schizoid, oral, psychopathic, masochistic, hysterical, compulsive, narcissistic, or rigid — were sustained biologically as body types by unconscious muscular ...
Some examples are: Character Analysis , the analysis of character structures that act in the form of resistances of the ego. Bioenergetic analysis , which combines psychological analysis, active work with the body and relational therapeutic work.
In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Ebert gave the film 2.5 out of 4, and wrote: "The Theory of Flight is actually fairly enjoyable. [But] when you see Dance Me to My Song, you're struck by the difference. Two movies. Same story. Same objective. Similar characters. Similar situation. One is an entertainment. The other is a thunderbolt." [7]
Russell's theory is focused on the logical form of expressions involving denoting phrases, which he divides into three groups: Denoting phrases which do not denote anything, for example "the current Emperor of Kentucky". Phrases which denote one definite object, for example "the present President of the U.S.A."
Illustration of the hero's journey. In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's quest or hero's journey, also known as the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed.
A sophisticated example of this occurs in the theory of monstrous moonshine: the j-invariant is the graded dimension of an infinite-dimensional graded representation of the Monster group, and replacing the dimension with the character gives the McKay–Thompson series for each element of the Monster group.
Archetypal literary criticism is a type of analytical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes (from the Greek archē, "beginning", and typos, "imprint") in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in literary works.
The object of psychoanalytic literary criticism, at its very simplest, can be the psychoanalysis of the author or of a particularly interesting character in a given work. The criticism is similar to psychoanalysis itself, closely following the analytic interpretive process discussed in Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and other works.