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 Harold Blum: Ego Psychology and Contemporary Structural Theory
While traditional structural theory has put primary emphasis upon oedipal conflict and the tripartite contributions to unconscious conflict, ego psychological-object relations theory tends to describe conflict in terms of internalised object relations and the opposing units of self, object, and affect.
Arlow and Brenner (1988) believed that the theoretical concepts concerning conflict, defense, and pathogenesis, etc. are properly correlated with a derivative theory of technique, and that theory must influence technique.
Structural conflict was still considered the critical issue and arrests, deviations, and deficits could only be attenuated through the analysis of unconscious intrapsychic conflict concomitant with the analytic experience.
http://eseries.ipa.org.uk/prev/newsletter/98-2/blum.htm

  
 Culture Conflict Theory
Rather than conceptualizing deviance as a problem of the stress and strain related to a weakening of social control, the idea, rooted in a Marxist image of social inequality and competition, of the social system being constituted by diverse cultural groups with conflicting interests, values, and norms emerged.
Proposition 1: Conflict between authorities and subjects occurs when behavioral differences between authorities and subjects are compounded by cultural differences.
Under what conditions are authority-subject cultural and behavioral differences transformed into legal conflict?
http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/culflic.html   (832 words)

  
 Free Term Papers on Conflict vs Labeling
Two theories that make up a substantial amount of how the population is foreseen, are the labeling theory and the conflict theory.
The labeling theory and the conflict theory have their similarities as well as their differences.
Throughout this paper, the conflict theory and the labeling theory will be discussed in detail concerning their similarities and difference.
http://www.freefortermpapers.com/show_essay/7164.html   (398 words)

  
 Queer theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This point of view places these scholars of Queer theory in conflict with some branches of feminism that view prostitution and pornography, for example, as mechanisms for the oppression of women.
Queer theory is an anti-essentialist theory about sex and gender (and often other aspects of identity, especially race) within the larger field of Queer studies.
In her 1991 essay "Tracking the Vampire," Case saw in queer theory the chance to escape the reinscription of sexual difference that marks lesbian theory and gay male theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_theory   (1138 words)

  
 Oedipus complex
The Oedipus conflict or Oedipus complex was described as a state of psychosexual development and awareness first occurring around the age of 3 and a half years (a period of development known as the genital stage in Freudian theory).
Adler believed that the repression theory should be replaced with the concept of ego-defensive tendencies - the neurotic state derived from inferiority feelings and overcompensation of the masculine protest, Oedipal complexes were insignificant.
In fact it aroused Freud's anger for he had more complex construction of the female Oedipal complex: The girl is originally attached to the mother as well, however the discovery of the absence of a penis leads to an anger at the mother, who is held responsible.
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/O/Oedipus-complex.htm   (1138 words)

  
 beyond.html
The term, structural theory, is often used to designate the whole of psychoanalytic conflict theory.
Even today analysts habitually speak and, what is more important, think of successful analysis as resolving pathogenic conflicts, as though the conflicts over the sexual and aggressive wishes that give rise to neurotic symptoms disappear when one is restored to health by analysis.
As he put it, it often requires analytic work to help a patient become aware, not only of the instinctual side of the patient's pathogenic conflicts, but of their defensive aspect as well.
http://users.rcn.com/brill/beyond.html   (1138 words)

  
 The Inner Eye Theory of Laughter: Mindreader Signals Cooperator Value by Wonil Edward Jung
This theory is incorporated in the Inner Eye theory in the forms of the contrast between the false belief and the current belief of the laugher and the conflict between those who undergo relatively positive welfare changes and those who undergo relatively negative welfare changes.
In his theory of humor as a disabling mechanism, Chafe has argued that the purpose of humor is to prevent people “from acting upon or ‘taking seriously’ conditions and conclusions into which they are misled by the misapplication of natural processes of human reasoning” (Chafe, 1987).
The theory incorporates concepts from the theory of mind in cognitive science.
http://human-nature.com/ep/articles/ep01214253.html   (12740 words)

  
 NU433KING'S.htm
Encourages a nurse and a client to share information about their perceptions (if perceptions are accurate, then goals are attained, growth and development is enhanced, and effective nursing care results; additionally, if a nurse and a client perceive congruent role expectations and performance, transactions occur; if role conflict ensues, stress occurs)
King's model is a useful framework for nurses whose social interactions with clients are a key focus of their practice.
The goal of nursing is to help individuals maintain health so that they can function in their roles.
http://www.muw.edu/nursing/tupelo/NU433KING'S.htm   (2874 words)

  
 Truth Maintenance with Cognitive Dissonance by Peter Schwartz
Leon Festinger [3] developed Cognitive Dissonance Theory in 1957 to explain how a person's beliefs can change when they are in conflict.
Cognitive Dissonance Theory explains these results in terms of "insufficient justification." It is assumed that subjects come into the experiment with the belief "I do not lie without a good reason." The subjects in the experiment groups then go on to tell a lie.
The strength of cognitive dissonance is a direct function of two factors: the number of beliefs in conflict and the importance of those beliefs.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/Honors/reports/Schwartz/cogdis.html   (886 words)

  
 Feminist theory
Canadian Anarchist Feminist Musings - This site is an exploration of the erasure of women from history, theory, and art, and the suppression of ideas and thoughts which conflict with the corporate/capitalist agenda.
Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory - Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory.
Labyrinth - Peer-reviewed international on-line journal for philosophy, feminist theory, and cultural hermeneutics, edited by the Institute for Axiological Research, Austria (ISSN 1561-8927).
http://www.nebulasearch.com/encyclopedia/article/Feminist_theory.html   (497 words)

  
 Review 3
The current trend in clinical psychoanalytic theory and practice turns away from drive theory and conflict and toward object relations and deficit.
Kristeva's notion of the abject, then, was part of a more widespread effort to address these borderline states, their relation to the structuring of the subject, particularly in the fixation of borderlines in a pre-objective, and therefore pre-subjective, state that tends toward foreclosing on the paternal function, that is, toward psychosis.
Bronfen explains her project as a concern for "the navel as a critical category for cultural analysis, namely, the enmeshment between connection, incision, bondage, and negation, that is, the bond constructed over naught.
http://www.brynmawr.edu/bmrcl/Spring2001/Bronfen.html   (497 words)

  
 IACM: The International Association for Conflict Management
The International Association for Conflict Management was founded to encourage scholars and practitioners to develop and disseminate theory, research, and experience that is useful for understanding and improving conflict management in family, organizational, societal, and international settings.
Call for Papers: Conflict Studies Graduate Student Conference.
New IACM List-Serve: A forum for asking questions, exchanging ideas, and promoting awareness about developments in our field
http://www.iacm-conflict.org   (214 words)

  
 Sociology of deviance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This theory, while very much a symbolic-interactionist theory, also has elements of conflict theory as the dominate group has the power to decide what is deviant and acceptable, and enjoys the power behind the labeling process.
Also known as Social Learning Theory, it explains deviance as a learned behavior.
The most important variables in this theory are the age of the learner of deviance, the quality of contact between the learner and the deviant role model, and the relationship between the learner and the deviant model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_deviance   (1009 words)

  
 PES Yearbook: 1998: Kieran Egan, Conceptions of Development in Education
Herbert Spencer compactly expressed the basis for a cultural recapitulation theory of education in the claim:
Recapitulation curricula came into conflict with the urgent social needs of the new mass schools of America and Europe to prepare the immigrants and indigenous working classes for new kinds of work in rapidly changing economies.
The young child learning to talk is recapitulating an evolutionary achievement; the child learning to write and read recapitulates techniques invented a few thousand years ago; the student learning history recapitulates a way of making sense of experience whose development in the ancient eastern Mediterranean we can trace in some detail.
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/1998/egan.html   (3984 words)

  
 Sigmund Freud
The Oedipus conflict was described as a state of psychosexual development and awareness.
Freud was an early user and proponent of cocaine (see Freud and Cocaine), and also a developer of the nasal reflex neurosis theory and practice with Wilfed Fliess.
Another important element of psychoanalysis is a relative lack of direct involvement on the part of the analyst, which is meant to encourage the patient to project thoughts and feelings onto the analyst.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/sigmund_freud   (3984 words)

  
 cognitive_dissonance.jsp
In 1957, Leon Festinger published a theory of cognitive dissonance, which has changed the way psychologists look at decision-making and behavior.[1] At its heart, cognitive dissonance theory is rather simple.
Cognitive Dissonance: Progress on a Pivotal Theory in Social Psychology.
The author argues that "cognitive dissonance is related to conflict management because it is the results of the conflict that lead the persons involved to seek resolution.
http://www.beyondintractability.org/m/cognitive_dissonance.jsp   (2163 words)

  
 Theoretical Primatology Project: Research Page 2
* Reeve, H.K. A transactional theory of within-group conflict.
The dissertation of Dr. Tom Wenseleers (University of Sheffield) offers a bold treatment of intragenomic conflict attempting to provide the theoretical architecture for a "general theory of conflict." Download Chapter 9 (2 meg pdf) (with Ratnieks).
It will be important for students of social vertebrates to incorporate the growing body of work on genomic conflict into their thinking and research (theoretical and empirical).
http://www.robertwilliams.org/tpp/tppresearch02.html   (3319 words)

  
 Ronald L. Akers , Christine S. Sellers - 1931719063 - Criminological Theories: Introduction, Evaluation, and Application
Empirical Validity of Conflict Theory of Criminal Behavior
Theory and Philosophy of Restorative Justice: Reintegration and Rehabilitation
Empirical Validity of Consensus and Conflict Theories of Law and Criminal Justice
http://www.aaabooksearch.com/Book/TableOfContents/1931719063   (380 words)

  
 - Essays and Papers on Labeling Theory Research Papers, Essays, and Term Papers
Overview of theories on interpersonal conflict, therapy & crisis intervention, using domestic violence as framework.
Though many theories of what causes deviance have been developed, this report will examine the labeling or interactionist theory of deviance which Goode (2001) describes as focused on rulemaking and, most particularly, reactions to rule-breaking.
Labeling, social reaction, interactionism, cognitive behaviorism, family systems....
http://www.research-assistance.com/cgi-bin/searchresults1.cgi?method=any&theme=a_ra_default&refid=netessays&words=Labeling%20Theory   (1568 words)

  
 Relativity and GPS
The Sagnac effect is also in conflict with the general theory, if the common interpretation of the general theory is accepted.
In addition, the new theory predicts experimental results at variance with the general theory for several experiments to be performed in the near future.
The particular claim of the general theory that a freely falling body is not acted upon by external forces was explored at length.
http://www.egtphysics.net/GPS/RelGPS.htm   (1568 words)

  
 Social learning theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the classroom, a teacher may use the theory by changing the seating arrangements to pair a behaving child and a misbehaving child, but the outcome may be that the behaving child begins to misbehave.
Burgess, a behavioural sociologist, and Akers revised Sutherland’s theory and included the idea of reinforcement, which increases or decreases the strength of a behaviour, and applied the principles of Operant Psychology, which holds that behaviour is a function of its consequences (Pfohl, 1994).
The theory was focused on the interaction between the individual and the social group, and did not address individual differences or social context (Jeffery, 1990:252; Akers, 1998).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_learning_theory   (1500 words)

  
 Power-Control and Feminist Theories
Power-control theory, developed by John Hagan and his associates seeks to explain these differentials.
Hagan's theory has been criticized as being basically a fairly straightforward adaptation of the "liberation hypothesis," as females experience upward mobility and status change, their access to deviant and illicit behaviors expand.
One problem, as Goode points out, is that as a powerless group, a conflict perspective would expect women to be more represented in traditional forms of deviance, this would be especially true for lower and working class females.
http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/powcontr.html   (1500 words)

  
 Kulish and Holtzman
Hoffman (2000) suggested that relational analysts tend to subordinate conflicts over oedipal passions to earlier relational issues, and that a lack of appreciation of girls’ passion in psychoanalytic theory in general has resulted in a preoedipalization of their dynamics.
Separation and psychic development are interwoven, beginning in infancy with separation of self from object, and proceeding to the establishment of object constancy and a rudimentary sense of self, the achievement of a solid core gender identity, and a sense of bodily autonomy.
He stressed object relations, and presented clinical material to demonstrate that the woman’s oedipal complex owed its special form almost entirely to a transfer of traits from the pregenital relationship with the mother onto the genital relationship with the father.
http://www.psychoanalysis.net/JAPA_Psa-NETCAST/kulishandholtzma.html   (1500 words)

  
 The Class Politics of Queer Theory
However, for queer theory generally, class conflict turns out to be just another set of problems, marginal at best, which have no determinate relation to sexual politics.
Need-theory, which is to say Marxist theory, stresses social change as historical rather than merely textual/representationa/semiotic...
The problem with (post-modern) queer theory is that (contrary to its own self-understanding) it works basically not against but in the interest of the (economic) status quo, in the interest of purely cultural reform and not economic revolution.
http://www.etext.org/Politics/AlternativeOrange/5/v5n1_qt.html   (3917 words)

  
 The signal function of early infant crying
Parent-offspring conflict theory (Trivers 1974) recognizes that the interests of parents and child are indeed largely overlapping, but it emphasizes where the interests of parents and offspring diverge, and this has important implications regarding the signal function of early infant crying.
Parental neglect, abandonment, killing and sometimes consuming of newborn offspring is known to occur in several animal species when the condition of the offspring is poor, or the conditions for rearing offspring are unfavorable.
L.A. (1985) Physiology and behavior: parents’ response to the infant cry.
http://bbsonline.cup.cam.ac.uk/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/Referees   (3917 words)

  
 Labeling Theory essays
There are two theories that became very prominent in the sixties, as to some of the reasons surrounding criminals, these theories are known as the labeling theory and the conflict theory.
The theory started to develop in the 1930s finally, but it was not really applied until the 1960s.
He started with the idea that deviance is relative to social or group norms and not inherently characteristic of certain human acts or people.
http://www.directessays.com/viewpaper/38765.html   (263 words)

  
 essayonreli.html
The first, based primarily on Freud (1913) and subsequent interpreters of his theories, sees ritual practice as one of the many expressions of conflicts within the psychosexual personalities of the members of a society.
The transition-rite theory, based on the model by Arnold Van Gennep (1965 [1909]), holds ritual as the process that reinforces a society's age and sex role structure by dramatizing individuals' transitions to these roles.
What this means for the participants of a ritual is not a fixed expectation about what must happen because of the nature of the event.
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/subject/essayonreli.html   (263 words)

  
 jamesjoyce.doc
However, one problem with this theory is that the events may not have happened in that order.
Brivic feels the oedipal conflict is always present, but Holland does not go that far.
Brivic sees this yearning for the "warm maternal haven" (253) as the Oedipal desire for the mother, with Wells being the "father" who punishes Stephen for his Oedipal desires.
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~kdunn/jamesjoyce.doc   (263 words)

  
 Brunswik Essay #2
Brehmer, B. Social judgment theory and the analysis of interpersonal conflict.
Brunswikians do have a theory of tasks and it has been enunciated often since 1935 (Brunswik and Tolman), recently very specifically in terms of the "principle of parallel concepts." This principle is used to describe judgment tasks task in terms of concepts parallel to the organism's cognitive system.
Hull, C. The problem of intervening variables in molar behavior theory.
http://brunswik.org/notes/essay2.html   (263 words)

  
 BanSCTMoral.doc
Cognitive Conflict as the Automotivator for Change A theory of morality must explain both the motivators for cognitive change in moral principles and the motivators for acting morally.
Cognitive conflict is posited as the major motivator of cognitive change in stage theories.
Piagetian theory (1948) favors a developmental sequence progressing from moral realism, in which rules are seen as unchangeable and conduct is judged in terms of damage done, to relativistic morality in which conduct is judged primarily by the performer's intentions.
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/BanSCTMoral.doc   (263 words)

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