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But, as I have said - in brief - Berlusconi's success was founded upon his ability to epitomise all the bad things about the Italian state of mind: the fact that he played to the national psyche's follies and foibles enabled him to get away with murder.
Frederic Whyte: The Long-Overdue Demise of Silvio Berlusconi Frederic Whyte 2011
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Faith, for them, is precisely the area where the psyche's ability to form images, symbols, metaphors and myths can run free without applying the questions of objectivity that are typical for scientific discourse and questions of power that characterize politics.
Carlo Strenger: The evolving relationship between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought 2010
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Such roles and relationships are, after all, essentially projections of the male psyche's constrained and constraining view of what women should be rather than what they are.
Patrica Russo's "The Oracle Opens One Eye" Hal Duncan 2008
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It is perhaps one of Romanticism's most powerful and disturbing legacies to modernity that it signifies the absolute ambivalence between marking the psyche's resistance to symbolization and making its darkness visible to a public sphere increasingly concerned to seek out and neutralize the mind's sepulchral recesses.
Article Abstracts 2008
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And more often than not, this search ends up with specters that the future history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis would rather set aside, but whose powerful hauntings are constitutive of the Romantic psyche's confrontation with itself.
Introduction 2008
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Such roles and relationships are, after all, essentially projections of the male psyche's constrained and constraining view of what women should be rather than what they are.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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That is to say, Romantic approaches to the psyche tend to be rather heterogeneous themselves because, well, the psyche's resistance to any monolithic interpretation of it was precisely the period's difficult education to us about psychology and psychic reality — a lesson we still find difficult to learn.
Introduction 2008
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I believe that the human body and psyche aren't made for war, so whether the psyche's responses are normal or not normal becomes a philosophical conundrum.
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Not all of the papers herein remain faithful to the volume's emphasis, and in Woodman's final case make a more analogical use of the period's literary concern with the psyche's labours.
Introduction 2008
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This constant popular U.S. media hit on Haiti apparently feeds the white psyche's programming on Haiti, its expectations and their US/Euro cultural narratives of superiority while throwing shame on Haiti precisely to marginalize, ad nauseam, Haiti's great feat of abolishing European chattel slavery, the Triangular Trade and direct colonialism.
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