The Desire Housing Project opened in 1956 as a segregated public housing development in New Orleans‟ Upper Ninth Ward. The Desire neighborhood, one of the few neighborhoods in the city where black homeownership had been encouraged, was transformed by the project. Hundreds of former Desire residents were displaced by the mammoth project, which became home to more than 13,000 residents by 1958. Built on what had once been a landfill, the Desire Housing Project came to epitomize the worst in public housing, before it was torn down by 2001. Although the project was isolated from the rest of the city and lacked basic services, residents worked to create a viable community, in spite of the pitfalls of segregation. Within the context of the civil rights movement, Desire residents fought to bring in basic services, pushing local government to more fully develop their neighborhood.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:39:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AdirFL_DISSERT.pdf: 763960 bytes, checksum: ca032dbf0b688684d23897b7b4ea3c48 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-27 / 2020-01-01 / Este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir, a partir de um caso cl?nico, a articula??o entre a Ang?stia e a Inibi??o, ? luz da psican?lise. Partindo do trauma como fator fundante do psiquismo e desencadeador do estado de desamparo, destacamos a castra??o, como marca de um perigo a ser recalcado, at? chegar ? ang?stia primitiva, afeto que prepara o caminho para a emerg?ncia do sujeito. No primeiro momento, abordamos a evolu??o do conceito de ang?stia em Freud, ressaltando o modo como ele a articulou ? inibi??o e ao sintoma, marcando, ainda, a diferen?a entre a ang?stia, como consequ?ncia direta do momento traum?tico, e como sinal de uma reprodu??o do trauma origin?rio. Em seguida, investigamos o conceito de ang?stia em Lacan, enfatizando os avan?os conceituais promovidos para o mesmo, notadamente no Semin?rio X; destacando-se a introdu??o do conceito de objeto a e os desdobramentos dessa inven??o te?rica. No segundo momento, focamos no conceito de inibi??o em Freud, seguido pela leitura lacaniana a esse respeito. Finalmente, refletimos acerca da delimita??o que o conceito de objeto a d? ?s poss?veis rela??es entre sujeito e objeto, buscando extrair algumas consequ?ncias cl?nicas das respostas que o sujeito constr?i frente ao enigma do desejo do Outro, entre as quais a inibi??o e a ang?stia, articulando, desse modo, o caso cl?nico ?s discuss?es levantadas

In der vorliegenden Studie wurde mittels der Bildgebung des funktionellen MRT die Dynamik der neuronalen Hirnmechanismen untersucht, die es dem Menschen erlauben, durch kurzfristigen Verzicht auf Belohnungen seinen Verhaltenserfolg langfristig zu optimieren. Durch den Vergleich zweier Extremgruppen gesunder Probanden (hoch- versus niedrig- impulsive Probanden) sollte ein möglicher Zusammenhang zwischen der Impulsivität und dem funktionellen Zusammenspiel frontostriataler Regelkreise während des aktiven Prozesses der Entscheidungsfindung dargestellt werden. Die vorliegende Studie hat gezeigt, dass gesunde, nicht- klinische Individuen, die sich selbst mittels der Barratt- Impulsivitätsskala als hoch- impulsiv charakterisiert haben, ihr Verlangen nach einer direkten Belohnung erfolgreich durch Aktivierung zweier komplementärer Hirnmechanismen kontrollieren können. Als erster Mechanismus ist festzuhalten, dass selbstkontrollierte Entscheidungen zu einer Abschwächung der belohnungsabhängigen Aktivierung im Nucleus accumbens führten, welche von einer ansteigenden inversen Verbindung mit dem anteroventralen präfrontalen Kortex begleitet wurde. Der zweite Mechanismus ist, dass HI- Probanden ihren Wunsch nach einer höherwertigen, aber suboptimalen Belohnung in Abhängigkeit von der Wertigkeit der unmittelbaren Belohnung durch Downregulation im ventromedialen präfrontalen Kortex kontrollierten. Diesem Mechanismus folgte eine ansteigende inverse Kopplung mit dem ventralen Striatum. Von entscheidender Bedeutung ist dabei, dass sich diese neuronalen Mechanismen qualitativ von denen der extrem- kontrollierten Probanden unterschieden. Insgesamt lässt sich sagen, dass diese Ergebnisse darauf hindeuten, dass es persönlichkeitsspezifische neuronale Mechanismen gibt, die es hoch-impulsiven Probanden ermöglichen, ihren Wunsch nach einer unmittelbaren Belohnung zu kontrollieren.

This thesis concerns the question of what it is for a subject to act. It answers this question in three steps. The first step is taken by arguing that any satisfactory answer must build on the idea that an action is something predicable of the acting subject. The second step is taken by arguing in support of an answer which does build on this idea, and does so by introducing the idea that acting is doing something which is an exercise of a particular kind of disposition on the part of the acting subject. The third step is taken by arguing that the disposition in question must be of a kind which is exercised in conditions in which the acting subject thinks they are acting. From this vantage point the thesis develops many further commitments: That action is constitutively subject to a mode of explanation that mentions the kind of disposition just mentioned; that any case of acting requires a veridical representation of a means by which the action is performed; and that a problem about the underspecified nature of desire ascriptions can be solved by appeal to the conceptual materials made available by these investigations. The thesis finally develops several objections to the account it gives, both substantive and methodological, and explains why these objections ought to be rejected.

There are two major, well-known operas based on plays of Tennessee Williams. He refused many times throughout his life to give permission for his play, A Streetcar Named Desire, to be set as an opera. It was not until the 1960s that he granted permission for Lee Hoiby to choose any of his plays as a basis for a new opera. Hoiby chose Summer and Smoke, a play which was written at approximately the same time as Streetcar. Lanford Wilson created the libretto for the opera which was given its premier in 1971 by the St. Paul Opera Association. In 1994 representatives of the Williams estate granted permission to the San Francisco Opera to commission an opera based on A Streetcar Named Desire. With a libretto by Philip Littell, the opera was composed by André Previn and given its premier in 1998. These two plays share common themes, character types, character relationships, and literary symbols due in part to the autobiographical nature of Williams's writings. The plays exhibit a cinematic nature and possess common dramatic elements such as the symbolic use of sets, props, and musical leitmotifs as a result of his attempts to create a new "plastic" style of theatre. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how each composer has captured the essence of Williams's dramatic style in these well known plays while dealing with stylistic elements that by nature could interfere in operatic composition. A brief biography of Williams is included to show the familial basis of his character types. Illustrations of his style serve as the basis for a comparison of the librettos to the plays. The musical analysis focuses on the composers' choices in dealing with Williams's poetic southern language, use of music, cinematic techniques, and complex characterizations.

Malgré le rôle central qu’ils jouent dans la sexualité, le désir sexuel et le comportement sexuel restent mal compris – particulièrement chez les couples. La rareté des résultats empiriques dans ce domaine contribue à l’écart qui existe actuellement entre la recherche en sexualité et la pratique clinique, et peut impacter négativement la qualité des soins disponibles aux nombreux couples qui consultent pour des problèmes de désir sexuel - la plainte la plus courante en thérapie sexuelle. L'objectif des trois articles de cette recherche doctorale était d'aider à combler cette lacune en étudiant le désir sexuel dans le cadre d’une perspective relationnelle. L’hypothèse de départ de ce travail était que le bien-être de chaque partenaire est influencé en interaction avec l’autre partenaire, et que cette influence est médiée en partie par le comportement sexuel du couple. Les résultats obtenus appuient cette hypothèse : Ils suggèrent que les interactions positives pendant les rapports sexuels, telles que les motivations d'approche « pour soi » et « pour l’autre » des deux partenaires et les comportements génitaux et affectifs du couple sont associées à une plus grande satisfaction sexuelle et à un plus fort sentiment d’intimité (étude 1). À l'inverse, les difficultés sexuelles telles que le faible désir sexuel sont associées à des restrictions de comportement sexuel et à l'insatisfaction sexuelle (étude 2). De même, les asynchronies entre partenaires telles que les décalages de désir sexuel sont associées à une plus grande détresse sexuelle (étude 3). Enfin, la troisième étude commence à établir une direction et une portée à ces associations, en suggérant que les problèmes de décalage de désir sexuel prédisent la détresse sexuelle d'un jour à l'autre, et que ces associations quotidiennes sont reflétées par des associations plus distales sur des périodes d’un an ou plus. Ces résultats sont cohérents avec les recherches récentes sur la régulation émotionnelle en sexualité, et plus spécifiquement, avec des modèles où le désir sexuel joue un rôle régulateur, médié par des variations de comportement sexuel. Il est espéré qu'au-delà de ces contributions conceptuelles, la présente recherche sera utile aux cliniciens. En particulier, ces résultats soutiennent les thérapies qui se concentrent sur les interactions quotidiennes entre les partenaires pour aider les couples aux prises avec des problèmes de désir sexuel. / Despite the central role they play in sexuality, sexual desire and sexual behaviour remain poorly understood in committed couples. The paucity of empirical results in this area contributes to the distance between research and clinical practice, and negatively impacts the quality of care offered to the many couples seeking help for sexual desire issues – the most common complaint in sex therapy. The objective of the three articles in this doctoral research was to help address this gap by studying sexual desire within a relational perspective, working from the assumption that each partner’s wellbeing was influenced by that of the other partner, and that this influence was mediated in part by the couples’ sexual behaviour. Results from this research suggest that positive interactions during sex, such as self- and other-approach motives and genital and affective behaviours, are associated with greater sexual satisfaction and intimacy (study 1). In contrast, sexual difficulties such as low sexual desire are associated with restrictions in sexual behaviour and sexual dissatisfaction (study 2), and asynchronies between partners such as sexual desire discrepancy are associated with sexual distress (study 3). Furthermore, the third study begins to establish a direction and span to these associations, by suggesting that issues with sexual desire discrepancy are predictive of sexual distress from one day to the next, and that these daily associations are mirrored by more distal associations spanning a year or more. These results are consistent with recent research on emotional regulation in sexuality, and more specifically, with proposals that sexual desire plays a regulatory role in the couple, mediated by variations in sexual behaviour. It is hoped that, beyond these conceptual contributions, this research will be of use to clinicians. In particular, these results support the use of therapies that focus on everyday interactions between partners to help couples struggling with sexual desire issues.

Jake Heggie, American art song and opera composer, began his association with Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ when he composed Dead Man Walking, an operatic adaptation of her memoirs. Though from two very different backgrounds, the two developed a deep friendship and spiritual bond that provided the impetus for further compositions dealing with spirituality. Heggie adapted Prejean's meditations as a text for his song cycle The Deepest Desire in 2002, producing what he considers to be his finest work to date. Using The Deepest Desire as a gateway, this paper explores the social and cultural aspects of their association, revealing their personal perspectives on their relationship, collaborations, and shared sense of spirituality. Chapters include the biographies and spiritual philosophies of both Heggie and Prejean, Heggie's compositional style, Dead Man Walking, a performance analysis of The Deepest Desire, and the continuing influence of the relationship between Heggie and Prejean on Heggie's work. The appendix includes transcriptions of personal interviews with both individuals, Prejean's original meditation texts, correspondence with Heggie, Prejean, and Joyce DiDonato, and performance notes for The Deepest Desire derived from a musical coaching with the composer.

Using latent growth curve modeling, this longitudinal study examined the patterns of the discrepancy between desired and actual frequency of sexual intercourse for 331 married couples over a period of 5 years. In addition, couple insecure attachment and control variables such as age, length of relationship, income, race, and education were used to predict each partner's sexual desire discrepancy (SDD) and its change over the 5 year time period. Participants were asked to report their actual frequency of sexual intercourse and their desired frequency in each wave of data collection. Discrepancy scores were created for each year by subtracting the reported actual frequency from the reported desired frequency separately for wives and for husbands. In terms of change over time, findings showed a significant change across time for wives with a trend toward less discrepancy over time. Husbands' discrepancy scores were higher than wives and remained stable over the five years. Insecure attachment predicted the average SDD for husbands. Wife income predicted the change in SDD over the five years for husbands but not for wives. Wife race predicted the average SDD for husbands. Implications for research and clinical use are highlighted.

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Thesis (DPhil (Social Work))--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / It is a common phenomenon that women’s sexual desire diminishes in relationships, yet, to date, limited research has been done locally on this topic. International studies indicate that low sexual desire affects more than half of women, and that an even greater proportion of women indicate that they have sexual intercourse with their husbands without they themselves having a desire to do so. In spite of this, there is an expectation in society that couples should continue to have an active sex life. Low sexual desire may lead to distress in the individual or discord in the couple, and in this aspect the practitioner can render a service. The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the life-world of women with low sexual desire towards their life-partners, and the extent to which this causes her distress or impedes on her relationship. The objectives of the study thus included providing an overview of models of sexual response, an evaluation of the diagnostic criteria for sexual dysfunctions, and an exploration of factors affecting the experience of sexual desire, including the role of social scripts on sexual behaviour. The context for the study is provided by a review of relevant literature, and a qualitative study with a phenomenological interpretative approach was executed. Data gathering focused on a nonprobable purposive sample of ten participants, and used an interview schedule with open-ended questions. Seven themes emerged from the analysis of the data, namely (1) perceptions of sexual desire, (2) experience of sexual desire, (3) experience of sex life without desire, (4) the perceived impact of low desire on the individual or the relationship, (5) personal reasons for decline in desire, (6) relationship factors affecting sexual desire, and (7) the experience of low desire in the socio-cultural context. It was found that ‘desire’ is difficult to conceptualise, that women put a higher premises on the emotional component of desire, and that there is a difference between innate sexual desires and desire that is evoked by stimuli. Reasons for low sexual desire include an array of personal medial, psychological, and life context factors, and in many cases the lack of desire is specific to the present life-partner. Women are especially sensitive to a wide variety of aspects in the relationship and with regards to their partners, and it emerged that even in happy and intimate relationships low sexual desire is experienced. Women experience a loss of emotional intimacy as a result of low sexual desire but do not necessarily feel that their low desire is abnormal. The impact on the relationship is limited mostly because women concede to sex for many reasons, including a need for emotional intimacy. Many strategies, including faking orgasms, are implemented to cope with sexual relationships in the absence of desire. It also appears that social scripts have a big influence on the inception of negative perceptions on sexuality, and generate unreasonable and idealistic expectations of sexual experiences in long-term relationships. Several recommendations flowed from the findings and conclusions. The most important recommendation is that professional people should gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon of low desire in women, in order to render a more effective therapeutic intervention.