Thesis-Building: Architecture, Alchemy and the Constructive Moment(s) of a Doctoral Dissertation by Willem de Bruijn

“…Drawing on some of the historical sources of the thesis, in particular the emblem books of seventeenth-century alchemist Michael Maier (1568-1622), the paper argues that the above-named ‘moments’ in a PhD constitute an ensemble of impassioned investment, which can be known as the PhD-pathos. …”
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Exploring transcendence of the quantum self and consciousness through communication symbols by Rose-Marié Bezuidenhout

“…An archetypal and mythical semiotic textual analysis of ‘The Alchemist’ by Paolo Coehlo, and an individual case analysis of dream symbols and a self-report based on the interpretation of a dream theme by using active imagination indicate that an inner, subjective transcendental reality is imminent in the individual. …”
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