Sökning: "death drive"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 33 avhandlingar innehållade orden death drive.

  1. 1. The economic point of view : A defence of the concept of psychic energy, its place in theory and practic

    Författare :Christer Forsberg; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; libido; psychic energy; motivation; mind body relation; consciousness; psychosomatics; darwinism; death drive; Psychology; Psykologi; Psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis purports to prove the logical necessity of the psychic energy concept discarded by modern psychoanalysis by linking the "evolutionistic argument" against epiphenomenalism to Brillouin´s negentropy principle. If our conscious awareness of affects and other psychological events should be attributed a signal value at all, they must necessarily exercise effect on the soma. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Ways of Being Free : Authenticity and Community in Selected Works of Rushdie, Ondaatje and Okri

    Författare :Adnan Mahmutovic; Paul Schreiber; Claudia Egerer; Louise Bethlehem; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; existential angst; death; freedom; authenticity; individualism; communalism; orthodoxy; heritage; community; inoperative community; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : Iconized migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential “nervous conditions,” caused by violent postcolonial history, drive individuals to rework the critical notions of freedom, authenticity and community. This existential thread in their works has been largely ignored or left undeveloped in literary criticism. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Genes and proteins controlled by cGMP-PKG during retinal degeneration

    Författare :Jiaming Zhou; Lund Oftalmologi; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; retinal degeneration; cell death; cGMP-PKG; organotypic explant culture; RNA sequencing; mass spectrometry;

    Sammanfattning : prevalence was reported as 1:3000-4000 worldwide, making it the main reason for blindness in the working population in industrial countries. The mutations of over 70 genes have been related to this genetic disorder, and there is generally no effective treatment, except for gene therapy for the RPE65 mutations. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Perinatal nicotine exposure. Effects on the defense against hypoxia in lambs

    Författare :Ola Hafström; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; carotid body; nicotine; prenatal exposure delayed effects; respiration; respiratory mechanics; sudden infant death; smoking; tobacco;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether perinatal nicotine exposure could impair cardiorespiratory defense mechanisms to hypoxia. The rationale for this approach is that exposure to tobacco smoke, particularly before birth, is a risk factor for the sudden infant death syndrome as well as for obstructive airway disease in childhood. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Dynamic Changes in the Peripheral and the Central Nervous Systems in Patients with Prior Polio

    Författare :Arne Sandberg; Erik Stålberg; Jože Trontelj; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Neurosciences; polio; prior polio; weakness; Macro EMG; EMG; post polio syndrome; Neurovetenskap; Neurology; Neurologi;

    Sammanfattning : After the acute spell of poliomyelitis, patients commonly suffers from sequelae of weakness. Some of these patients experience new weakness after a time period of stable symptoms.The aim of this thesis was to evaluate the possible mechanisms for persistent weakness and development of new weakness in prior polio patients. LÄS MER