Search results
Results from the Tech24 Deals Content Network
The Gothic double is a literary motif which refers to the divided personality of a character. Closely linked to the Doppelgänger, which first appeared in the 1796 novel Siebenkäs by Johann Paul Richter, the double figure emerged in Gothic literature in the late 18th century due to a resurgence of interest in mythology and folklore which explored notions of duality, such as the fetch in Irish ...
The Apollonian and the Dionysian are philosophical and literary concepts represented by a duality between the figures of Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.Its popularization is widely attributed to the work The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, though the terms had already been in use prior to this, [1] such as in the writings of poet Friedrich Hölderlin, historian Johann ...
Double consciousness is the dual self-perception [ 1] experienced by subordinated or colonized groups in an oppressive society. The term and the idea were first published in W. E. B. Du Bois's autoethnographic work, The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, in which he described the African American experience of double consciousness, including his own.
Black-and-white dualism. The Last Judgement by Viktor Vasnetsov. The contrast of white and black ( light and darkness, day and night) has a long tradition of metaphorical usage, traceable to the Ancient Near East, and explicitly in the Pythagorean Table of Opposites . In Western culture as well as in Confucianism, the contrast symbolizes the ...
Dialectical polar monism holds that: (1) the cosmos and its contents are substantively and formally identical with teotl; and (2) teotl presents itself primarily as the ceaseless, cyclical oscillation of polar yet complementary opposites. Teotl's process presents itself in multiple aspects, preeminent among which is duality.
Double articulation[ 2] refers to the twofold structure of the stream of speech, which can be primarily divided into meaningful signs (like words or morphemes ), and then secondarily into distinctive elements (like sounds or phonemes ). For example, the meaningful English word "cat" is composed of the sounds /k/, /æ/, and /t/, which are ...
Platonism. Head of Plato, Roman copy. The original was exhibited at the Academy after the death of the philosopher (348/347 BC). Platonism is the philosophy of Plato and philosophical systems closely derived from it, though contemporary Platonists do not necessarily accept all doctrines of Plato. [ 1] Platonism has had a profound effect on ...
Dualism (philosophy of mind), where the body and mind are considered to be irreducibly distinct. De Morgan's laws, specifically the ability to generate the dual of any logical expression. Complementary duality of Carl Jung's functions and types in Socionics. Duality (CoPs), refers to the notion of a duality in a Community of Practice.