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Contextual interpretations of sexual fantasy
(1998) Evans, Susan
A combination of written and interview protocols were collected from 4 participants, two men aged 27 and 29, and two women, 24 and 28. The participants responded to questions about their understanding and use of sexual fantasy, giving concrete examples. The data were analysed qualitatively using the phenomenological themes of Space, Time and Being. These themes demonstrated the value of examining sexual fantasy experience as a unique lived experience. The data were then discussed in light of this and also with reference to previous research. The data collected for this study demonstrate the unique way in which fantasy exists in interaction with its fantasiser. It also highlights the change between the fantasy and the retrospective experience of fantasy.
A descriptive study of delinquent boys who are socially isolated within the context of an approved school.
(1965) Kolvin, Israel
Discourses of destiny: a multimodal analysis of 2014 issues of Destiny Man magazine
(2016) Leopeng, Bertrand
This thesis took an interpretive approach to analysing content as presented in the print media. The focus of this study was Destiny Man magazine, a six year old lifestyle publication aimed at middle-class men in South Africa. This thesis explored how black middle-class men are presented by looking at the latent content from an interpretive stance. Therefore, a psychosocial approach was adopted to understand how political, socio-economic, and gender interact with one another at the psycho-social level. A total number of 35 articles were analysed using interpretative psychoanalytic methods and relevant critique. In addition to these 54 images were chosen to be analysed and included in an overall contextual framework relating to topics such as race, masculinity, economics, alcohol, and sport. This content was chosen from the eight 2014 issues of Destiny Man magazine. In analysis, the history of colonialism, apartheid, and the development of neoliberal capitalism was taken into account regarding how black middle class men negotiate their masculine identities in the new South Africa. The development of neoliberal capitalism and a multimodal discourse on the male psyche is explored in-depth, with the resultant social analysis. Overall, the basis of this research was to critically analyse African middle class masculinity in post-apartheid South Africa taken many factors into account. The key themes identified in the analysis include narcissism, domination, and denial of feminity, fatherhood, alcohol consumption, and performances of gender. The interactions of all of these factors have been shown to have an impact on our understanding of contemporary African middle class masculinity, affecting the construction and definition of this concept in a complex and dynamic way. Destiny Man magazine is a poignant example of how these interactions are presented in the media.
'How do I speak about the past?" Bernhard Schlink and the genre of Vaterliteratur
(2013-09-11) Wheeler, Alexandra-Mary
This dissertation functions as an exploration of German author Bernhard Schlink’s engagement with the genre of Vӓterliteratur (Literature about Fathers). By examining how Schlink has used adaptations of this genre in his novels The Reader (1998), Homecoming (2009) and short story Girl with Lizard (2002), this project will attempt to ascertain the extent to which one can view these texts as part of a new wave of father writing that has emerged in the German post-unification space. The question dominating this research project and contained in the first part of the title: “How do I speak about the Past”, implies that part of this research will examine Schlink’s portrayal of the second-generation’s attempt to understand and give voice to their experiences in postwar Germany. As such, my work engages with the emergence of Vӓterliteratur as being the result of an incomplete attempt by second-generation Germans to confront Germany’s national traumatic past during the 1968 Student Movement. However, while Schlink’s work demonstrates a familiarity with the content, structure and themes present in the first wave of Vӓterliteratur he appears to rewrite these into a fictionalised format, demonstrating the continued need in German society to work through the past. In many respects the texts selected for analysis in this dissertation deviate from the traditional conventions found within the earlier father novels, and interestingly appear to emphasise the previously marginalised role of women both during and postwar. What I will demonstrate is that while Schlink’s work makes use of the conventions found in Vӓterliteratur, and by doing so explores the postwar relationships between fathers and sons, it also indirectly engages with the experiences of German women and their own perpetration of, or suffering as a result of the patriarchal attitudes present in, Nazism. Through this dual portrayal (the presence of both men and women) Schlink gives a new perspective to the complexities of German postwar life as seen through the eyes of the second-generation.

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