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320 p |
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-04, Section: A, page: 1355 |
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Adviser: Daniel T. Linger |
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010 |
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Summary. This dissertation explores double binds, seemingly "impossible situations," tricksters, and their cultural representations in Hungary. In this dissertation I explore the responses to double binds, such as denial, dissimulation, disengagement, self-abuse, suicide, and rebellion. I argue that double binds are used as a mechanism of state power in Hungary and the USSR in order to maintain patron-client relations. Double bind relations create a situation where everyone is guilty of criminal activities and thus is subject to punishment |
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Methodology. I employ participant-observation, discourse analysis, film and literary criticism, symbolic analysis, formal, and informal interviews |
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Conclusions. I have found that double binds can be generated out of diarchies and double binds, as a, mechanism of power, reinforce traditional patron-client relations, corruption, and widespread illegality in Eastern Europe. Double bind relations motivate subjects to engage in moonlighting, tax evasion, smuggling, and other illegal activities to "make a living" and to "survive" through dissimulation and disengagement. Hungarian culture shows representations of double binds and "tricksterism" in films, novels, jokes, laments, and everyday discourses |
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Key words: Double bind, crime, corruption, dissimulation, disengagement, svejkism, trickster, Hungary |
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School code: 0036 |
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Dissertation Abstracts International 71-04A
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Literature, Slavic and East European
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Anthropology, Cultural
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Cinema
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0326
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0900
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University of California, Santa Cruz
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