Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic method and theoretical approach that emphasizes the importance of the unconscious and exploits the mechanisms or processes by which the unconscious manifests. Many extremely influential contemporary semioticians (such as Jacques Lacan,...
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Primacy of Subjectivity
The primacy of subjectivity is an assumption or position from which we start within our own consciousness or subjectivity. The meanings of words, for example, are above all the images and ideas that flow through our consciousness when we hear these words. This...
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Adequacy
Three realities or degrees of the theory, moving respectively from one minimum requirement for reporting (observing) adequacy to the ultimate goal of explanatory adequacy through the mediation of descriptive adequacy. This three-threshold difference can best be...
Adequatio
Latin word meaning equivalence, equality, or conformity. Unification is a process in which one thing is done to be the same as another. In medieval thought, the truth was defined in terms of adequatio. According to Thomas Aquinas, truth is adequatio rei et...
Ad Hoc
A Latin term meaning "for this", used as a definition to describe something (such as a committee or hypothesis), specifically intended to solve a particular problem, result, or desire. If an administrator at a university organizes a committee tasked with approving...
Ad Hominem
A Latin expression commonly used as an abbreviation of argumentum ad hominem. One of the meanings is an argument that applies specifically to a person (for example, "If you maintain or assume this, you cannot consistently defend another position"), by which a person...
Adjuvant
A French term, that means helper. The term was used by A.J. Greimas to denote something that originally had an actant role attributed but was later classified as an auxilliant of the same significance.
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