Postcolonialism
Feminism
Psychoanalytic theory
Marxist Theory
Archetypal/ Jungian Theory
Gender/ Queer Theory
100
His book Orientalism, published in 1978, explores the concept of the postcolonial theory.
Who is Edward Said?
100
She argued that women have been historically defined as the "Other," and her work is crucial for understanding the intersection of gender and existentialism.
Who is Simone de Beauvoir?
100
He developed key concepts such as the unconscious, id, ego, and superego. He is known for his theories of psychosexual development, dream analysis, and the structure of personality.
Who is Freud?
100
Who is Karl Marx?
100
He believed that the psyche, one’s total personality, was made of personal experience and pre-personal and common traits.
Who is Carl Jung?
100
She wrote the book Gender Trouble which introduced the idea of gender performativity.
Who is Judith Butler?
200
To view or treat a person, or a group of people, as intrinsically different or alien than the dominant culture
What is "othering?"
200
She focused on the experiences of Black women and critiqued both racism within the feminist movement and sexism within civil rights struggles. Her work also addresses the role of patriarchy in shaping gender roles and relationships.
Who is bell hooks?
200
This is driven by desires, thoughts, and memories, which are not directly accessible to the conscious mind.
What is the unconscious?
200
This exploits the proletariat.
What is Capitalism?
200
This is part of the mind containing memories and impulses of which the individual is not aware and common to mankind as a whole and originating in the inherited structure of the brain.
What is the collective unconscious?
200
This term refers to that anything outside of the constructs of heteronormativity.
What is queer theory?
300
The dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland.
What is a diaspora?
300
This wave of feminism was inspired by the civil rights movement and protests against the Vietnam War. These feminists called for a reevaluation of traditional gender roles in society and an end to sexist discrimination.
What is Second Wave feminism?
300
Freud believed that these are the window to the unconscious, where repressed desires and conflicts are expressed through symbols.
What are dreams?
300
The state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved, or in Marxist theory, a condition of workers in a capitalist economy, resulting from a lack of identity with the products of their labor and a sense of being controlled or exploited.
What is alienation?
300
These are pre-personal common traits found amongst people of all cultures that are revealed by the arrangements produced in consciousness, through symbolic imagery
What is archetype?
300
In The History of Sexuality, this theorist examined the evolution of sexuality and power relations.
Who is Michel Foucault?
400
In postcolonial theory, the subaltern are the colonial populations who are socially, politically, and geographically excluded from the hierarchy of power of an imperial colony. They belong to this social class.
What is the lower class?
400
This examines how gender, race, class, sexuality, and other identities create complex systems of oppression.
What is intersectionality?
400
This is the moral conscience, which incorporates societal values and norms.
What is the superego?
400
The name for the affluent class who own most of society's wealth and means of production.
What is the bourgeoisie?
400
In literature, this archetype can reflect the dark aspects of either an individual character or a larger group of characters.
What is the Shadow?
400
When a character's sexual orientation is implied by significant subtext without being stated outright.
What is "queer-coding?"
500
The centering Western standards of belief, class, and beauty as the norm.
What is Western Universalism?
500
Explores the mechanisms of patriarchy and the cultural mindset that resulted in sexual inequality.
What is feminism?
500
He states that the unconscious is structured like language.
Who is Lacan?
500
Co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx.
Who is Friedrich Engels?
500
His work focuses on the process of individuation, which he sees as the central task of human psychological and spiritual development. He emphasizes the importance of the ego-Self axis in psychological growth, describing the ongoing dialogue between the conscious ego and the archetypal Self.
Who is Edward Edinger?
500
She looked at grammatical, syntactical, and rhetorical structures of texts for "potential queer nuances" in literature.
Who is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick?