Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Tana French’s work has been the subject of a number of recent scholars. Scholarship on French ranges from theories of liminality, to meditations on how French’s work explores the “Celtic Tiger” phenomenon in Ireland, to looking at her stories as new takes on old fairy tales. French’s work straddles the line between popular detective fiction and literary fiction, upending popular tropes and creating something wholly new. One issue that has not been explored is how French’s work fits into a Lacanian framework. The six novels in her Dublin Murder Squad detective stories are rife with issues of psychological mirroring, or doubling. As such, they take the typical mystery trope of pairing a detective with a case that alters and reflects back their own psychological traumas, and takes them to a new level. This work will address issues of French’s characters and how they fit into the theories of Lacan’s Mirror Stage, as well as the “Real,” “Symbolic,” and “Imaginary” realms that we human beings unconsciously construct for ourselves. This writing examines the first two novels of the series, In the Woods, and The Likeness, and analyzes them in light of these theories, showing how mirroring exists in nearly every aspect of each text.

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In this study I employ Lacanian psychoanalysis and ideological criticism to analyze the development of "gender and mathematics" research over the past fifty years. This study is motivated by the original Marxist-Lacanian claim by Valerie Walkerdine in the 1980s that women's relationship with mathematics must always be considered as fundamentally problematic, and by the complex and often contradictory claims that are made in research artifacts that report on this topic. Many approaches to this topic that focus on "closing the gender gap" or aiming for "gender equity" warrant an ideological critique to situate these motivations within the political realm of mathematics education research. Artifacts analyzed in this study were gleaned from a comprehensive electronic library search of over 600 entries, where 178 were retained as yield. A complete ideological critique was performed on a subset of these. Findings include (1) historical alignment of the ideologies evidenced in the research with the ideological influences of the political situation at the time of publication, including scientism, neoliberalism, evolutionism, and solutionism, (2) the ideology of interpellationism which indicates the role of scientific ways of knowing in capitalist political economy, and (3) theoretical foundations of what I call the feminine-quilted-speech indicate how at the present moment in the field, we have the opportunity to shift the ideological underpinnings of research on gender and mathematics. The study avows the role of gender as an agent of capitalist accumulation in school mathematics, through a notion I develop called the masculine-quilted-speech. / Doctor of Philosophy / "Gender and mathematics" is a concern for mathematics education researchers that is old as the field itself, yet it is one that continues to be an active focus for a large swath of researchers. Conundrums abound. Such research includes, for example, neurotic obsessions and phantasies about closing achievement gaps between males and females, whilst other approaches consider the social factors impacting women's and men's relationship to mathematics. I wager that one reason for this plurality of approaches (and the incommensurability of their constituent findings and results) is the inability of existing theoretical perspectives for getting to the root of the problem (the point-de-capiton of the discourse). This dissertation offers a political psychoanalytic counter-perspective to prevailing theoretical approaches on the issue of "gender and mathematics" that critiques the ideologies advanced by researchers in the field through their actions of performing and publishing research on this topic. Findings indicate the extent to which ideology structures the actions of researchers, and the role of gender in the capitalist mode of school mathematics.

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The purpose of this study is to present an alternative way of analyzing the behavior of our leading social and governmental institutions through the employment of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, specifically Lacan's theory of discourse. Lacan used the term discourse to show that a society's primary social link is founded on language, reflected back through society in the form of discursive practices. According to Lacanian discourse theory, a subject's movement into language and the social bond that is created between people as a result of this movement are at the center of our current cultural condition. More mainstream approaches to organizational behavior have traditionally focused on observed human action to explain human behavior and the correlation of this behavior with possible remedial actions. Lacanian discourse theory, with its foundation in psychoanalytic theory, enables the formulation of a model of institutional behavior that goes beyond more mainstream approaches by focusing on behavior at the unconscious level. The central premise of this dissertation is that there has been a cultural shift in the United States from the dominant form of discourse of the modern era to a new form of discourse. This new discourse has led to serious disconnections between our current social bond and true human desire. By employing Lacanian discourse theory, changes in the deeper, structural level of how a society relates to and communicates with each other will be revealed, thus providing greater insight into the current social condition of the United States and how this condition affects the behavior of its leading public institutions. / Ph. D.

Cette thèse est orientée vers les souffrances ressenties par les sujets avec un phénomène psychosomatique (PPS). Ma pratique clinique en chirurgie à l’hôpital public fonde l’intérêt des PPS dans une maladie somatique. Le caractère énigmatique du phénomène évoque la butée des discours médical et psychologique. Généralement, ces discours buttent sur le PPS. Ces patients sont rapidement diagnostiqués comme psychosomatique. Ce diagnostic évite la question du soin. Ces patients sont disqualifiés (défaut de pensée ou émotion inadaptée), sans solution de traitement. C’est un problème de santé publique. Beaucoup de théories considèrent que les psychotiques ne peuvent avoir des troubles somatiques. De quoi meurent ils alors ? Pour discuter ces positions théoriques et descriptives, cette thèse revient à la pratique, avec des patients souffrant de PPS. Généralement, les interprétations des PPS sont centrées sur le signifiant ou l’objet a, un objet pulsionnel. Quelque chose s’écrit inconsciemment, sur la répétition en nombre. La problématique conduit à l’hypothèse : « avec un sujet de structure psychopathologique, psychose ou névrose, la clinique des PPS à l’hôpital est une clinique du trait unaire, qui peut se transformer en une clinique de la lettre ».La méthodologie adoptée est une praxéologie, une articulation entre pratique et théorie. Des études de cas illustrent ce chemin. Le paradigme est la psychanalyse. L’hypothèse est mise à l’épreuve par la clinique. Une autre interprétation est efficace pour le PPS, le trait unaire. La répétition en nombre s’arrête et le PPS disparaît. Cette psychothérapie préserve la réponse subjective du PPS, limite la Jouissance et autorise une autre position subjective, avec des structures psychopathologiques différentes. / This thesis is orientated by the suffering felt by the subjects with a psychosomatic phenomenon (PSP). My clinical practice at the surgery unit of the public hospital is basis toward PSP on a somatic disease. This enigmatic character of the phenomena evokes well the abutting of medical and psychological discourses. Usually, these discourses bump into PSP, and these patients are rapidly qualified, like psychosomatic. This diagnosis avoids the caring, and patients are disqualified (deficit of mentation or maladapted emotion), without care’ solution. More this reality is a problem for Public Health. Some theories considered psychosis unable to have some somatic troubles. But how explain they died ?To discuss theses theoretical and descriptive positions, this thesis has decided to turn back to the practice, with some patients suffering from PSP. Usually about PSP, the interpretations are focusing on the signifier and the object “a”, which is an object of Pulsion. Something is writing unconsciously, in the repetition in number.Problematic leads us to posit an hypothesis: “With a subject of psychopathologic structure, psychosis or neurosis, the clinical practice of PSP at the hospital, is a clinical practice of “trait unaire” which can moved in clinical practice of letter”.Methodology adopted is praxeology, an articulation between practice and theory. Studies of cases illustrate this way. The paradigm is psychoanalysis.Hypothesis is corroborated by the clinical practice. An other interpretation is efficiente with PSP, “trait unaire”. The repetition in number stop and PSP disappears. This psychotherapeuty preserv the subjective answer of PSP, limit to the Jouissance and authorize an other subjective position, with the different psychopathologic structures.

A presente tese tem por objetivo investigar as possíveis contribuições da Psicanálise para a Assistência Social, a partir de um processo de supervisão ofertado à equipe técnica de um Centro de Referência Especializado da Assistência Social CREAS. Partimos desta experiência de trabalho e de questionamentos que foram sendo levantados durante sua realização, rumo ao debate das políticas públicas de Assistência Social e das práticas por ela encetadas. Dada a amplitude desta problemática, buscamos, através de uma retomada histórica das práticas socioassistenciais desde as sociedades primitivas até os dias atuais com foco na realidade brasileira, interrogar os significantes que foram se incorporando aos textos constitucionais e às práticas da Assistência Social, com vistas a questionar e problematizar a que valores e ideais esta política está a serviço e como e o que opera na execução de suas ações. Além disso, partindo de um esforço de formalização de nossa experiência de trabalho enquanto supervisora de um equipamento da rede socioassistencial, intentamos delimitar as contribuições da Psicanálise para a área a partir deste espaço que se insere na articulação entre a prática e a teoria. Aposta-se que de que a Psicanálise, a partir de seu caráter subversivo e da descoberta freudiana da supremacia do inconsciente, possa fazer vacilar saberes conclusivos no campo da Assistência Social, sensibilizando os técnicos para o encontro com o saber inconsciente e, desta forma, ampliando as possibilidades de reflexão acerca das práticas socioassistenciais propiciar a construção de alternativas aos impasses que se apresentam nos serviços socioassistenciais, subvertendo queixas em demanda de trabalho / The present thesis aims to investigate the possible contributions of Psychoanalysis to Social Assistance, based on a supervision process offered to the technical staff of a Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance - CREAS. We took advantage of this work experience and of the questions that were raised during its realization, towards the debate of the public policies of Social Assistance and the practices that it undertook. Given the breadth of this problem, we seek, through a historical recovery of socio-assistance practices from the primitive societies to the present day focusing on the Brazilian reality, to interrogate the signifiers that have been incorporated into the constitutional texts and the practices of Social Assistance, with a view to Question and question what values and ideals this policy is in service and how and what operates in the execution of their actions. In addition, starting from an effort to formalize our work experience as supervisor of a social assistive network equipment, we try to delimit the contributions of Psychoanalysis to the area from this space that is inserted in the articulation between practice and theory. The point is that psychoanalysis, based on its subversive character and the Freudian discovery of the supremacy of the unconscious, may waver conclusive knowledge in the field of Social Assistance, sensitizing technicians to the encounter with unconscious knowledge and, in this way, by broadening the possibilities of reflection on the socio-assistance practices, can propitiate the construction of alternatives to the impasses that present themselves in the social assistance services, subverting complaints in work demand

O início do século XXI trouxe importantes revelações para o autismo. Sua concepção ampliou significativamente e a ideia da causalidade psíquica foi questionada, dando lugar a teorias que privilegiam o aspecto biológico. A genética está no seu auge e representa o grande interesse científico. A psicanálise, por sua vez, tem sido rejeitada em detrimento de abordagens que utilizam técnicas de aprendizagem. Dessa forma, esta pesquisa pretendeu investigar as contribuições da psicanálise de orientação lacaniana e da genética no que diz respeito ao autismo na atualidade, a fim de sustentar a posição de que a psicanálise tem algo a contribuir no tratamento desses casos. A discussão sobre os embates entre a supremacia de saberes em relação ao autismo e como o viés político pode justificar essas ações, torna-se importante. Primeiro retratamos os autismos hoje, na tentativa de percorrer seu campo de abrangência: o mercado, os manuais de classificação, os debates atuais, o gozo autista e o seu percurso histórico. Em seguida, foram revisadas as contribuições da psicanálise de orientação lacaniana, no sentido de marcar a distinção entre autismo e psicose, a partir do advento do sujeito no campo da linguagem. Por último, discorremos sobre as novas pesquisas genéticas, com a finalidade de propor uma interlocução possível entre esses campos. A concepção de investigação que embasa esta dissertação é o modelo de pesquisa em psicanálise, que permite compreender os fenômenos em profundidade. Referente à coleta de dados, foram utilizadas a pesquisa bibliográfica e a de campo. A pesquisa de campo seguiu os moldes da entrevista em psicanálise. Foram realizadas duas entrevistas com uma geneticista envolvida com o Projeto Genoma Humano na área do autismo, com o intuito de complementar o escopo teórico deste estudo, bem como identificar um possível encontro entre psicanálise e genética. Concluímos que há um encontro possível, que é, justamente, o retorno do particular, o olhar para a singularidade. O aporte teórico de Lacan sobre o objeto a, traz importantes balizas de como conduzir esses casos na clínica. Esta pesquisa aponta para o compromisso do psicanalista em se posicionar frente aos debates contemporâneos, para procurar desmistificar algumas das principais críticas à psicanálise, que procuram afastá-la das opções dos tratamentos possíveis do autismo / The early 21st century has brought important breakthrough when it comes to autism. Its conception expanded significantly and the idea of psychical causality was questioned, opening precedents to theories which favor the biological aspect. Genetics is at its peak and represents the greatest scientific interest. Psychoanalysis, as an alternative, has been rejected at the expense of propositions that use learning techniques. Along these lines, this research focused on investigating the contributions from Lacanian psychoanalysis and genetics regarding autism at this moment in time, in order to support the viewpoint that psychoanalysis has something to contribute in the treatment of these cases. The argumentation about the dispute between the dominance of knowledge in relation to autism and how the political bias can justify such actions becomes important. We start depicting the contemporary autisms, in an attempt to cover its range field: the market, classification manuals, current debates, autistic jouissance and its historical background. Subsequently, the Lacanian psychoanalysis contributions were elaborated, in order to differentiate between autism and psychosis, deriving out of the introduction of the subject in the language field. Lastly, we discuss about the recent genetic research, intending to propose a possible exchange between the aforementioned fields. The genesis of the investigation that guides this essay is the psychoanalysis research model, that endorses an in-depth understanding of the phenomena. In the matter of data collection, bibliographical and field research have been practiced. The field research followed the interview standards in psychoanalysis. Two interviews with a geneticist involved with the Human Genome Project in the area of autism were carried out, in order to complement the theoretical scope of this study, as well as to identify a possible concurrence between psychoanalysis and genetics. Its been deduced that there is, in fact, a possible encounter, which is, precisely, the return to the particular, the attention to the singularity. Lacans theoretical contribution on object a, bears important landmarks of how to conduct such cases within the practice. This examination acknowledges the psychoanalyst\'s commitment to take a stance in the face of contemporary debates, in an attempt to disparage some of the main criticisms towards psychoanalysis, that ultimately seek to deviate it from the options of possible treatments for autism

[pt] A proposta da presente dissertação é buscar pontos na teoria psicanalítica de Freud e Lacan que contribuam para as filosofias da linguagem de Austin e de Wittgenstein. O sujeito dos atos de fala de Austin é pensado a partir do modelo freudiano dos atos falhos do sujeito do inconsciente, passando-se a levar em conta o conceito psicanalítico de pulsão no que diz respeito à fala como ato do sujeito. O ato de fala é colocado como subordinado às peripécias do que Lacan chamou de Grande Outro, uma vez que é na instância do simbólico que esse ato ocorre. No que diz respeito à teoria de Wittgenstein, o principal foco do trabalho é a relação do pensamento do filósofo com a afirmação lacaniana de que o inconsciente é estruturado como uma linguagem. A relação entre subjetividade e linguagem bem como o acesso que a subjetividade tem ao mundo através da linguagem são pensados na ordem do inconsciente; em outros termos, é pensada a relação entre o sujeito do inconsciente e o sujeito da linguagem. / [en] The purpose of this thesis is to search for ways in which Freud’s and Lacan’s psychoanalytical theory can contribute to Austin’s and Wittgenstein’s philosophies of language. We propose that the subject of Austin’s speech acts be framed within Freud’s theory of parapraxis as acts of the unconscious, so that the Freudian concept of drive can be related to speech as an act of a subject. The speech act is, then, thought as being subordinate to the vicissitudes of what Lacan called the Great Other, since the act occurs in what Lacan named the symbolic order. As to Wittgenstein’s theory, the focus of this work is on its relations to Lacan’s claim that the unconscious is structured like a language. The psychoanalytical concept of the unconscious is here used to consider the relations between language and subjectivity and the way how the subject accesses the world through language; in other words, the focus is on the relations between the subject of the unconscious and the subject of language.

Partindo da crítica ao uso imaginário e doutrinal da responsabilidade que eventualmente incide no campo psicanalítico, esta pesquisa de mestrado objetiva investigar a noção de responsabilidade do sujeito na consideração da obra do psicanalista francês Jacques Lacan, situando as possíveis incidências e implicações clínicas dessa noção. Em decorrência das marcações, definições e tempos distintos nos quais Lacan abordou a responsabilidade em seus escritos e seminários, como eixo de trabalho, inserimos a noção no debate entre o indeterminismo-determinismo e a causalidade psíquica, de forma a desdobrar pontos de indeterminação e negatividade que suscitem condições de possibilidade à responsabilidade do sujeito. Posteriormente, abordamos os modos de assunção lógica da responsabilidade em reconhecimento retroativo e em ato , perspectiva que ganha forma (sollen) e efetividade no entendimento lacaniano de tempo lógico. Por fim, delineamos a responsabilidade como noção possível e hipotetizamos que esta traz a marca da posição ética e insondável do sujeito, no que este não pode ser reduzido a um sonho do mundo tragado pela estrutura / Starting from the criticism of the imaginary and doctrinal use of responsibility that eventually affects the psychoanalytic field, this master\'s research aims to investigate the notion of responsibility of the subject in the consideration of the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, situating the possible incidences and clinical implications of this notion. As a result of the markings, definitions and distinct times in which Lacan addressed responsibility in his writings and seminars, as axis of work we insert the notion of responsibility in the debate between the indeterminism-determinism and the psychic causality, in order to unfold points of indeterminacy and negativity that raise conditions of possibility to the responsibility of the subject. Subsequently, we approach the modes of logical assumption of responsibility in retroactive recognition and in act , a perspective that gains form (sollen) and effectiveness in the Lacanian understanding of logical time. Finally, we delineate responsibility as a possible notion and hypothesize that it bears the mark of the ethical and unfathomable position of the subject, in that it can not be reduced to a \"dream of the world\" engulfed by structure