I read witness poetry as a model of response to suffering. Compassion is feeling together with another. Compassion is, then, opposed to empathy’s feeling as another. Compassion can be better understood through the witness poetry that privileges metonymical relationships in which readers are contiguously positioned in relationship to a speaker. This emphasis on relationship can be contrasted to the collapse of relationship in identification in which a reader reads as though he or she is the lyric I, the poetic voice, rather than a listener. I discuss this reader-as-listener in contrast to the trauma studies-influenced discourse surrounding witness poetry, a discourse which focuses on indexical poetic evidence of a poet’s wounds and the transferability of the poet’s trauma to readers. Compassionate response, as demonstrated by this poetry, is premised on a recognition of one’s intimacy with or distance from that which one witnesses. Distance is not synonymous with disengagement, but rather with the space of relationship through which connection and consideration is possible. All intimacy involves some distance; the two are not opposites, but a continuum. Witness involves waiting: response derives from the time of relation through which it might form. This waiting has reflection as its retrospective partner. Together, they form commemoration, which brings reflection into future and communal celebration and remembrance. Com-memoration is linked to com-passion in this communal element. My project engages witness poetry as a communal form inviting feeling in community, response to widespread suffering, and the establishment of relationship and connection. / Thesis (Ph.D, English) -- Queen's University, 2013-06-18 10:21:39.793

My work articulates experiences of intimacy and porosity with regard to domestic space. I think of these paintings as fields of interrelatedness which work to dismantle the perceived thresholds between things. The following text brings together the research of my studio practice and a survey of artists, writers, and filmmakers who have charted related spaces of the ordinary, domestic, and porous.

This study sets out to understand how international development projects supporting labor activism work in contemporary China. It focuses on the lived experiences of and relationships among a group of grassroots⁠ labor NGOs in the province of Guangdong, South China; intermediary NGOs in Hong Kong; and Western funding agencies that try to bring about social change in postsocialist China where the political climate is still highly restrictive and the limits of the state’s tolerance for activism are ambiguous and uncertain. Foregrounding the notion of uncertainty, this study investigates how state control is exercised by examining a specific logic of practices, discourses, and a mode of existence that constantly mask and unmask the state. More specifically, this study explores how the uncertainty about the boundaries of permissible activism is generative of a sociopolitical realm in which variously positioned subjects mobilize around the idea of the state, which in turn leads to articulations and practices conducive to both self-censorship and a contingent space of activism. Viewed as such, the idea of uncertainty becomes an enabler through which certain kinds of practices, relationships, and networks are made possible and enacted, and through which a sociopolitical realm of intimacy is constituted by and constitutive of these relationships, networks, and practices. Situated in the domain of uncertainty, this study examines the ways in which uncertainty, both as an analytical idea and an ontological existence, produces an intimate space where labor activists not only effectively self-censor but also skillfully map the gray zone between the relatively safe and the unacceptably risky choices.

This is a sociological essay made by Johanna Friman. ”When it comes to sex” purpose is to understand the relation between individuals with intellectual disabilities sexuality (IID) and the  role adaption of staff members at group homes. The purpose is also to understand the meaning of attitudes in relation to role adaption and how staff members cooperation affect these roles. For the current essay I have used the dramaturgy perspective as a tool for the understanding of staff members role adoption. To understand the meaning of the sexuality amongst IID and as a completion to the dramaturgy perspective I have used the theory of sexual script as an implement. These theories has allowed me to understand role adaption in relation to sex and intimacy. The method that’s been used to gather information for the empirical material is mainly interviews. Observations has also been made mainly in purpose to get a deeper knowledge for the interpretation of the material from the interviews. The results of the study shows that staff members take on three different kinds of roles. The supportive role rises when the purpose is to support the sexuality of IID. The protective role rises when the purpose is to reduce sexual behaviour amongst IID to protect them. The last and third role is taken on by staff members when the purpose is to teach IID about acceptable sexual behavior.

Orientador: Francisco Hashimoto / Banca: Catarina Satiko Tanaka / Banca: Thassia Emídio de Castro / Banca: Diana Pancini de Sá Antunes Ribeiro / Banca: Maria Luisa Louro de Castro Valente / Resumo: Nesta pesquisa, estudou-se a intimidade que se estabelece no encontro entre a dupla terapeuta-paciente, dentro do contexto psicoterápico. Considerou-se, da clínica contemporânea, as queixas de ausência de simbolizações, marcada por angústias de invasões e abandonos, sem contornos psíquicos de mundo interno e externo. Essas angústias levam a pensar na necessidade de construir uma ligação íntima e criar, nesses vazios, algo novo e representável, a fim de que a pessoa possa entrar em contato com seu mundo interno. Para tanto, foi importante compreender o espaço de intimidade onde ocorre o encontro que possibilitará a busca de autonomia e criatividade do paciente. Essa criação entre terapeuta e paciente, frequentemente, poderá ser vivenciada pela primeira vez nessa relação, precisando, portanto, passar pelo repertório do terapeuta, o qual acolhe as angústias do pacientes no campo vincular, da transferência e da contratransferência, oferecendo condições para a sustentação psíquica. Utilizaram-se, da obra de Winnicott, os estudos que abordam o processo de desenvolvimento do indivíduo e como estabelecer intimidade consigo e com o mundo, e as considerações de holding, handling, apresentação de objeto, mãe suficientemente boa, capacidade de estar só, falso self, self verdadeiro, medo colapso e tendência inata ao desenvolvimento. Empregaram-se também as contribuições de Freud, no aspecto técnico sobre construções feitas na análise, a atenção flutuante, a transferência e a contratransferência e, no que se trata da teoria, discutiu-se sobre o narcisismo na vida relacional das pessoas, os investimentos libidinais que são possíveis nas situações de luto elaborado, bem como... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: In this research, we studied the intimacy that is established in the encounter between therapist-patient, within the context of psychotherapy. It was taken into considerations the complaints of lack of symbolizations marked by fears of invasions and withdrawals without psychic contours of internal and external world, in contemporary clinical practice. These anxieties led to thinking about the need to build an intimate relationship and to create something new and possible of being represented, so that one can get in touch with his/her inner world. It was important to understand the space of intimacy where the encounter which may facilitate the search for autonomy and creativity of the patient takes place. This process between therapist and patient may often be experienced for the first time in this relationship, and therefore needs to go through the therapist's repertoire, which hosts the anguish of the patient, providing conditions for psychic support. From the works by Winnicott we used the studies which address the process of individual development and the process of establishing intimacy with oneself and the world, and considerations of holding, handling, object presentation, mother image, ability to be alone, false self, true self, collapse fear and innate tendency to development. We also used the contributions of Freud, the technical aspect of the constructions made during the analysis, the floating attention, transference and counter transference. And as far as theory is concerned, we discussed narcissism in the affective life of the persons, the libidinal investments which are possible in situations of... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Ego identity and intimacy statuses were determined for 88 college students, 44 men, and 44 women, and related to each other and to measures of intimacy-isolation, loving and liking, Sex differences were also investigated. Identity achievement subjects were more likely to be engaged in intimate relationships. Students having foreclosure. moratorium. and diffusion identities were variable in their intimacy statuses. A stronger association exists between intimacy and loving than intimacy and liking. While no significant sex differences were found on the overall ego identity and intimacy comparisons, sub scale differences were noted. The evidence suggests identity achievement status is predictive of highly intimate relations while foreclosure, moratorium and diffusion identities are highly variable.

It has become increasingly apparent that the topic of marital conflict has been given “special status” within the published literature on issues of marriage (Bradbury, Rogge, & Lawrence, 2001; Fincham, 2003). The question has been raised as to whether or not there are other constructs that deserve comparable attention. The present study argues for a closer look at an additional emerging construct, emotional intimacy, and its role in couples’ relationships. Much of the literature on overt conflict and emotional intimacy fails to make an adequate distinction between these two constructs. The present study proposed to derive two factor scales from the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised, Disaffection and Disharmony. Basic psychometric properties of these scales were examined using multiple data sets. Implications were examined for understanding underlying components of relationship distress in both community and clinic couples, and results provided support for the use of the revised factor scales in both clinical and research applications.

Along with the fashion of personal marketing, the traditional print media make a breakthrough by taking the advantage of digital technology to leap over the limitation of time and space. Take eDM as an example, the brand-new advertising technique that arranges bills, expenditure records and other personal information in group with the eDM, results in significant recommendation effect. Meanwhile it eradicates the prejudice that eDM is nothing more than spam and makes the eDM fresh and new! Therefore the recommendation effect appears. In the recent years, numbers of marketing researches pay much attention to the classical intimacy theory and put it into applications. Furthermore, the positive effect of personalization is verified by academical researches and business practices. Based on the manipulation of personalization and the theoretical application, this study is objective to confer the recommendation effect of personalized eDM and the mediating effect through intimacy. A two-stage survey by questionnaires was used with these samples of 490 ordinary consumers which are capable of using E-mail, and data were analyzed using the SPSS and AMOS for statistical tests. The results reveal that 1.the significant factor in influencing on intimacy is the personalization of eDM; 2.the significant factor in influencing on recommendation effect is the intimacy conceived by the eDM reader; 3.in the causal relationship between personalization and recommendation effect, intimacy is indeed an indispensable mediator. In the end, according to the findings, we draw upon some suggestions and limitations for future research.

Thesis supervisor: Sam V. Cochran. Thesis supervisor: William M. Liu. Includes bibliographic references (p. 135-147).

Project Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Seminary, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-262).