Bachelor thesis | Film- en literatuurwetenschap (BA)
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In deze scriptie wordt de game Silent Hill 2 (Konami 2001) geanalyseerd door middel van psychoanalyse. Door de psychoanalytische methode te gebruiken kunnen onderliggende elementen van de game...Show moreIn deze scriptie wordt de game Silent Hill 2 (Konami 2001) geanalyseerd door middel van psychoanalyse. Door de psychoanalytische methode te gebruiken kunnen onderliggende elementen van de game worden blootgelegd. Omdat psychoanalyse onlosmakelijk verbonden is aan de mens, zegt deze scriptie niet alleen iets over de wetenschappelijke potentie van games, maar ook over de werking van games op de speler. Daarnaast geeft Silent Hill 2 nieuwe inzichten in bestaande psychoanalytische theorieën. In deze scriptie zal de diepgewortelde binding met de avatar worden geanalyseerd en hoe het effect van onbeschrijfbaar trauma door een gevoel van onmacht voelbaar wordt bij de speler van Silent Hill 2.Show less
This thesis puts forward a dialogue between postcolonial philosophy and psychoanalysis as a way of furthering the development of contemporary decolonial theory. Analysing the example of the Dutch...Show moreThis thesis puts forward a dialogue between postcolonial philosophy and psychoanalysis as a way of furthering the development of contemporary decolonial theory. Analysing the example of the Dutch king Willem-Alexander offering official appologies to the Indonesian state, a reading of Frantz Fanon through the lens of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory provides the fundament for showing how this effort at postcolonial reconciliation is lacking, and how this example can be used for furthering the development of postcolonial thinking.Show less
The Legend of The Grand Inquisitor, as featured in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, certainly requires little introduction. As a universally acclaimed piece of literature it has...Show moreThe Legend of The Grand Inquisitor, as featured in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, certainly requires little introduction. As a universally acclaimed piece of literature it has served as a source of inspiration for a wide array of different fields including philosophy, politics, literature, theology and art. Amongst the peculiarities that this Legend holds, we find that the head of the Spanish Inquisition, ‘The Grand Inquisitor’, is himself accused of being an atheist. In this ironic accusation, however, may just lie the expression of a defining feature of Christianity itself, as Slavoj Žižek would argue. With his unorthodox thesis that true atheist freedom is reached only through the process of Christianity, Žižek makes a point that seems to relate to Dostoyevsky’s legendary passage. Through a close analysis of several key points in The Grand Inquisitor, the manner in which the passage implies an intertwinement between Christianity and atheism is explored. In connecting this inquiry with Žižek’s theory of ‘Atheist Christianity’, a case is made for the idea that atheism and Christianity are interdependent and in the most radical sense even equivalent. This cross-analysis leads towards the issue of defining a secular form of faith, while at the same time opening up the way for questions regarding the aptness of Žižek’s Atheist-Christian framework in understanding the social issues brought to light in Dostoyevsky’s intriguing passage.Show less
