El presente trabajo es un intento de aproximación crítica –desde la propialógica del sistema– a la supuesta visión teleológica presente en la concepción hegeliana de la ética. En primer lugar, analizaremos este componente teleológicoy mostraremos cómo la imposibilidad de una realización fáctica en la propia dimensión del espíritu objetivo de este supuesto telos conlleva a una redefinición total del recorrido del mismo. En segundo lugar, en tanto la nueva figura aparece carente de dirección y reclama, a lo sumo, su consumación en una dimensión distinta a la fáctica, se hace necesario introducir algún elemento que nos permita sostener el recorrido del espíritu objetivo; es en este punto que arribamos a la noción lacaniana de “sentido”, la cual estudiaremos tanto en su significación original (es decir, entendiendo “sentido” como despliegue masivo de significantes cuyo único orden es una dirección) como en su particularización mediante la figura del “sentido ético”. La parte final de nuestro trabajo estará dedicada a examinar las consecuencias que tiene nuestro intento de síntesis para una real comprensión del fenómeno ético.

Magíster en Psicología Clínica Mención Adultos / La presente investigación desarrolla la pregunta acerca de la perspectiva técnica de la transferencia deducible de la enseñanza de Jacques Lacan. La pregunta de investigación se formuló en los siguientes términos: ¿Qué aportes, principios, indicaciones u orientaciones técnicas respecto al manejo de la transferencia es posible producir y derivar de la conceptualización de Lacan? Para poder responder a ella se realiza una revisión por las distintas formas de conceptualización de la transferencia en la obra de Lacan. Se exploran la relación de la transferencia con temáticas como la dialéctica imaginaria, la demanda y el deseo, el ideal del yo y el amor, el objeto a, los cuatro discursos y el deseo del analista. Luego se expone la teoría de Lacan acerca del desarrollo de la cura psicoanalítica y el lugar de la transferencia en ella. La entrada en análisis, la intervención del analista y el fin de análisis son los temas que se desarrollan en dicho apartado destacando siempre la relación de cada uno de esos momentos de la cura con la dimensión transferencial. En la segunda parte de la tesis se realiza una discusión teórico-clínica a partir de los planteamientos desarrollados en la primera parte de la investigación. Se presenta de manera inicial la discusión y reformulación de la pregunta por la técnica en la orientación lacaniana, introduciéndose la noción de acto analítico como ordenador de los distintos niveles de la intervención del analista. Desde esta perspectiva se realiza una revisión de las orientaciones del acto analítico que se pueden desprender de las perspectivas teóricas revisadas en la primera parte de la tesis. De esta forma se pone en relación el acto analítico y la transferencia con temáticas como lo imaginario, la demanda y los tipos clínicos, la entrada en análisis, el amor y el ideal del yo, el objeto a y el sinthome y finalmente los discursos y el problema de la política del acto analítico

Based on a psychoanalytic perspective, the article develops a new theoretical framework with which to examine organizational spirituality. Proponents of spirituality claim that it leads to the experience of an authentic self at work, one that is connected to others and a higher order, fully integrated, balanced, complete and ultimately fulfilled. This article suggests that these current definitions rest on conceptualizations of the self that capture little more than the imaginary function of the ego and the empty speech in which it engages. The article reconstructs core dimensions of spirituality in organizations as full speech, that is, as a discourse in which true subjectivity can emerge.

This investigation combines contemporary Marxian political economy with Lacanian psychoanalysis to understand the discourse of finance capitalism, and to understand the dialectical seeds of the industry’s eventual destruction that were inherent within the hegemonic commodities of the era. These commodities, which include derivatives, futures, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps and subprime mortgage loans, were ideological and communicative as well as profitable, and thus do a double duty under finance capitalism’s dominance. Lacan’s concepts of metaphor, fantasy, the quilting point, and the master signifier are extended in order to understand how subjects come to know themselves and their world through the terms given to them by capital. In addition, the rhetorical interventions of two chief ideologists for finance capitalism in the 1990s, Thomas Friedman and Alan Greenspan, are interrogated as exemplifications of the fantastical nature of late capitalism. / text

This thesis examines occurrences of hypermasculinity in examples from the genre of comic book fiction, utilizing textual evidence to suggest the current collection has re-iterated the more negative hypermasculine components of their source material: comic books. In doing so, the thesis compares the present novels with the creative element of the PhD submission – This Is It – a novel which serves as a critique of the prevalence of hypermasculinity in heroic figures within comic book fiction. By analyzing the sociological reasons behind hypermasculinity, and its subsequent effects, this thesis aims to make apparent the danger inherent with the continued association of hypermasculinity and hero figures in a new medium such as comic book fiction. It will also argue that the development of such a form divergent from comic books allows scope for a deconstruction of the hypermasculine comic book hero.

Who are we? Why do we do the things we do? These questions are constantly under scrutiny, forever unable to provide us with adequate answers, it seems. Yet, with the continuing rise in popularity of digital media, we are able to situate these questions in a different sphere and see aspects of the self that we were unable to perceive before. Digital media forms have provided us with the capacity to explore whole new worlds, as well as allowing for new and innovative methods of communication. These changes make a huge impact on the daily lives of individuals. This thesis presents a theoretical contribution to both psychoanalytic thinking and to the rapidly expanding field of games studies, with especial reference to avatar-based games. It considers the status of the bond formed between the individual at play (known here as the ‘user’) and the game itself. Furthermore, it presents this as a model which identifies the user’s relation to the game dynamic through an understanding of the key components of a video game, including aspects such as the control mechanism. Elements which cross the boundary between the user/game realities are also considered with relation to hyperreality, thus forming a more complete imagining of this framework. This also allows for an application of this dynamic to what we define as violent (and associated) acts within games. In turn, this allows for a more complete understanding of the game situation, and can be applied to our understanding of the user as well. This thesis provides a standalone framework which can also be utilised in other types of investigation in future.

The present dissertation is a study of the process of national identity renegotiation in modern Russia. More specifically, I analyze the use of the word fascism in contemporary Russian discourse. Developing a blend of Kenneth Burke’s theory of human motives and Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory of the subject, I compare the psycho-rhetorical narratives of the four distinct parties - Vladimir Putin, state-sponsored “anti-fascists” (Nashi), independent anti-fascists (Antifa), and neo-fascists - which fight over the usage of the word fascism in their attempts to renegotiate the meaning of Russianness. While explicating the mechanism of national identity construction, Lacan’s theory, as I argue, does not help distinguish among various visions of the nation. Therefore, I build upon Burke’s classification of symbolic frames (comedy, tragedy, epic, elegy, satire, the burlesque, and the grotesque) to differentiate among alternative fantasy-frames (Lacanian fantasy and Burkean frame) as more or less politically dangerous and ethically sophisticated. As the reading of the four psycho-rhetorical narratives shows, the vision of Russia proposed by Russian neo-fascists dangerously approximates the Russian idea promoted by the state and pro-Putin “anti-fascists.”

Made available in DSpace on 2019-03-30T00:21:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-12-22 / The present work intends to carry out a historical-philosophical analysis of the doctoral thesis of Jacques Lacan, "Of the psychosis paranoic in its relations with the personality". By choosing as its theoretical-clinical object the paranoia, the author prints an investigation about its conceptual and diagnostic bases proposing a research model that does not involve an organic reductionism as an explanation of the psychopathological phenomena. To this end, he criticizes the notion of personality and the way it is used by medical-psychiatric knowledge of the time. That said, our study intends to investigate before the history of paranoia itself what Lacan's need to rethink the notion of personality to investigate it. Thus, we will first make a historical-philosophical reflection on the foundations of psychiatry, seeking to delimit elements that explain the type of specific investigation of this medical science and how these condition the elaboration of a concept of psychosis. This will be done in the history of the conceptualization of paranoia, pointing out the specificities of this condition and trying to identify which of its characteristics are the object of Lacanian reflection. From this point on, we will discuss the author's needs to rethink the notion of personality in order to investigate paranoia by proposing a theory of the "social genesis of personality", and finally rehearsing the philosophical reach of these propositions. Keywords: Jacques Lacan; Paranoia; Personality; Psychiatry; Medicine / O presente trabalho pretende realizar uma análise histórico-filosófica da tese de doutorado de Jacques Lacan, ¿Da psicose paranoica em suas relações com a personalidade¿. Ao eleger como seu objeto teórico-clínico a paranoia, o autor imprime uma investigação sobre suas bases conceituais e diagnósticas propondo um modelo de investigação que não incorra num reducionismo organicista como explicação dos fenômenos psicopatológicos. Para tanto ele realiza uma crítica à noção de personalidade e ao modo como ela é utilizada pelo saber médico-psiquiatrico da época. Isso posto, nosso estudo pretende investigar diante da própria história da paranoia qual necessidade de Lacan repensar a noção de personalidade para investigá-la. Assim, faremos a princípio uma reflexão histórico-filosófica sobre os alicerces da psiquiatria, buscando delimitar elementos que expliquem o tipo de específico de investigação dessa ciência médica e como estes condicionam a elaboração de um conceito de psicose. Feito isso adentraremos na história da conceitualização da paranoia, apontando as especificidades dessa afecção tentando identificar quais de suas características são objeto da reflexão lacaniana. A partir dai, discutiremos quais as necessidades do autor de repensar a noção de personalidade para investigar a paranoia, mediante sua proposta de uma teoria da ¿gênese social da personalidade¿, ensaiando, ao final, o alcance filosófico dessas proposições. Palavras-chave: Jacques Lacan; Paranoia; Personalidade; Psiquiatria; Medicina

This thesis examines how the fiction of Joseph Conrad anticipates and enacts the elaborate model of subjectivity that is later formalised in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. While modernist criticism has often utilised the work of post‐structuralism in reading key texts of modernism, the complexity and profundity of the conceptual relationship between Conrad and Lacan has not yet been explored in depth. Conrad’s work captures the impact and influence of emerging transnational capital upon forms of the subject in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Further, his fiction is also sensitive to how nascent global capital structures forms of space that the subject is embedded within in their daily experience. I argue that it is the intricate and finely woven theories of Lacan that are necessary in identifying this area of the novelist’s work, as Lacan’s model contends with both the individual psychic structure of the subject, and, crucially, how the individual is located and constituted within the broader matrix of social reality. Using four of Conrad’s novels from his early period to the end of his major phase, the thesis traces the evolution of the various fundamental modalities of Lacan’s subject across Conrad’s fiction. I examine how Almayer’s Folly offers the key tenets of Lacan’s primary model of the subject of desire, while Lord Jim presents the transition of the subject of desire into Lacan’s later mode of the subject of drive. Subsequently, The Secret Agent is shown to critique the role of rationalism in the structuring of the subject’s consciousness, while, finally, I read Under Western Eyes as a tour de force of Lacan’s four discourses. The deep and fundamental relationship between the two figures’ work attests to their acuity in observing the development of the subject in the twentieth century, while the method of theoretical analysis also, on a wider disciplinary level, suggests and helps to confirm the continued validity of the mode of deep reading in literary interpretation.

El objetivo de esta investigación es describir las construcciones teóricas de Jacques Lacan y André Green sobre la transferencia en la cura psicoanalítica. Ambos autores tienen un origen teórico común en tanto sus constructos están basados en la obra de S. Freud. Sobre este punto de partida encuentro dos usos muy distintos de la transferencia en la búsqueda de una cura que mantiene características comunes. La principal diferencia está en que A. Green usa la contra transferencia como parte de su interpretación en transferencia. Mientras Lacan, en el sentido indicado por Freud, descarta el uso de la contra transferencia atribuyéndosela al propio analista. En estos dos usos de la contra transferencia encuentro que para Green el analista reconoce la tremenda influencia que tiene sobre el analizado y la utiliza para buscar su cura, mientras que Lacan propone un psicoanálisis que se sustenta en no usar este poder y orienta su final, su cura, a un analizante que se libera de la influencia del psicoanalista. / The objective of this research is to describe the theoretical constructs of Jacques Lacan and André Green on transfer in psychoanalytic cure. Both authors find a common origin in both their theoretical constructs are based on the work of S. Freud. On this point I find two very different uses of the transfer in the search for a cure that maintains common characteristics. The main difference is that A. Green uses to transfer as part of his performance in transfer. While Lacan, in the direction indicated by Freud, discarded the use of transfer against attributing the analyst himself. In these two uses of the transfer contract I find that for Green analyst recognizes the tremendous influence it has on the analyzed and La transferencia en la cura de Lacan y Green used to find a cure. While Lacan proposes a psychoanalysis that is based on not use this power and orients its end, its cure, an analizante released from the influence of the analyst / Tesis