FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico / Esta dissertaÃÃo tem por objetivo demonstrar as contribuiÃÃes mÃtuas e contrastes fundamentais entre as teorias de Freud e Jung quanto ao delÃrio paranÃico. Para alcanÃar esse objetivo, decidimos abordar individualmente as teorias e, por essa via, demonstrar os principais conceitos associados a elas para, apenas entÃo, distinguir as principais contribuiÃÃes entre os dois sistemas psicolÃgicos a respeito do delÃrio. Em seguida, elucidamos como essas influÃncias foram possÃveis e de que maneira elas se originaram. As principais contribuiÃÃes verificadas foram: a influÃncia da noÃÃo freudiana de libido para a teoria de Jung, a importÃncia da teoria junguiana dos complexos para a PsicanÃlise freudiana e seu interesse mÃtuo sobre as heranÃas arcaicas verificadas nos delÃrios. Constatamos que as diferenÃas no contexto e os inevitÃveis pressupostos nÃo impediram o diÃlogo e algumas contribuiÃÃes importantes entre os dois pontos de vista. Os aportes, entretanto, somente foram possÃveis com a recriaÃÃo das noÃÃes de acordo com o contexto interno de cada sistema que, decerto, tambÃm se modifica no processo em sentido amplo. / This thesis was made on the purpose of demonstrate the fundamental contributions and contrasts between Freudâs and Jungâs theories on the problem of the paranoiac delusions. To persecute this goal we have chosen to discuss the developments of both theories individually and, in doing so, demonstrate the primary conceits that were associated with them and then, finally, distinguish the main contributions between the two psychological systems. Afterwards we have shown how those influences were made possible and by which means they came to be. The main contributions verified were the inspiration of Freudâs theory of libido to Jungâs own, the importance of Jungâs complexes theory to Freud and their mutual interest in the archaic inheritances verified in the delusions of the paranoiac patients. We have found that the differences in the context, and the inevitable presuppositions did not cripple a dialogue and some significant contributions between them. Notwithstanding, these contributions were made possible only by a recreation of the ideas according to the internal context of the system which, of course, is modified in the process.

This study discusses works by Martin Amis and Don DeLillo in the context of several key scientific and technological transformations that occur in the aftermath of the Second World War. I begin by revisiting one of the most-discussed aspects of DeLillo's work: the currents conspiracy and paranoia that recur in his novels and, he claims, pervade the wider culture. By demonstrating how paranoid narratives strive to accommodate contemporary technologies, I create a context in which the paranoia addressed in works such as Libra and Underworld becomes intelligible as a response to the specific technological character of surveilance and control in the post-War period. The sciences of information and cybernetics also cohere in the years folowing the War, and the second chapter explores the creative tension between metaphors of entropy and information in Amis's fiction as wel as DeLillo's. The third chapter focuses on television as a constitutive element of postmodernity, and traces how DeLillo and Amis adopt narrative strategies that enable them to represent subjects who have grown accustomed to living within an environment mediated, to an unprecedented degree, by visual imagery supplied by or formatted for television. Another product of postmodern technology, commercial air travel reconfigures relationships to place and to time for inhabitants of industrialized countries. Both the liberating and limiting consequences of living in the latter half of the century of flight are addressed in the fourth chapter. The final chapter offers an assessment of the role contemporary media and technology play in establishing the characteristics associated with postmodernity, and concludes with a brief discussion of the role the internet might play within the context of the specific technologies discussed in the body of the thesis. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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This dissertation proposes to examine the conspiracy narratives of Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, and Leslie Marmon Silko that retell American experience with the Cold War and its culture of paranoia for the last half of the twentieth century. Witnessing the resurgence of Cold War paranoia and its dramatic twilight during the period from late 70s to mid-80s and the sudden advent of the post-Cold War era that has provoked a volatile mixture of euphoria and melancholia, the work of DeLillo, Didion, and Silko explores the changing mode of Cold War paranoid epistemology and contemplates its conditions of narrative possibility in the post-Cold War era. From his earlier novels such as Players, The Names, and Mao II to his latest novel about 9/11 Falling Man, DeLillo has interrogated how the American paradigm of paranoid national self-fashioning envisioned by Cold War liberals stands up to its equally paranoid post-Cold War nemesis, terrorism. In his epic dramatization of Cold War history in Underworld, DeLillo mythologizes the doomed sense of paranoid connectivity and collective belonging experienced during the Cold War era. In doing so, DeLillo attempts to contain the uncertainty and instability of the post-Cold War or what Francis Fukuyama calls "post-historical" landscape of global cognitive mapping within the nostalgically secured memory of the American crowd who had lived the paranoid history of the Cold War. In her novels that investigate the history of American involvements in the Third World from Eisenhower through Kennedy to Reagan, Didion employs the minimalist narrative style to curb, extenuate, or condense the paranoid narratives of Cold War imperial romance most recently exemplified in the Iran-Contra conspiracy. In her latest Cold War romance novel The Last Thing He Wanted, Didion reassesses her earlier narrative tactic of "calculated ellipsis" employed in A Book of Common Prayer and Democracy and seeks to commemorate individual romances behind the spectacles of Cold War myth of frontier. Departing from the rhetoric of "hybrid patriotism" in Ceremony, a Native American story of spiritual healing and lyricism that works to appease white paranoia and guilt associated with the atomic bomb, Silko in Almanac of the Dead seeks to subvert the paranoid regime of Cold War imperialism inflicted upon Native Americans and Third World subjects by mobilizing alternative conspiracy narratives from the storytelling tradition of Native American spirituality. Silko?s postnational spiritual conspiracy gestures toward a global cognitive mapping beyond the American Cold War paradigm of "paranoid oneworldedness".

Au début des années soixante, le thème de la folie fait simultanément irruption dans les sciences sociales et dans la littérature. Les modalités discursives, les enjeux philosophiques et sociaux divergent autour de la question antipsychiatrique. Étude de littérature comparée, l'analyse d'un corpus de neuf romans écrits par des écrivains français (Marguerite Duras, Roland Topor), américains (Ken Kesey, Sylvia Plath), anglais (Jennifer Dawson), dominicain (Jean Rhys), néozélandais (Janet Frame), marocain (Tahar Ben Jelloun) et portugais (Antonio Lobo Antunès) permet une appréhension large et contextualisée des formes que revêt l'antipsychiatrie dans l'écriture romanesque. Ainsi, Faces in the Water de Janet Frame et The Ha-Ha de Jennifer Dawson (1961), One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest de Ken Kesey (1962), The Bell Jar de Sylvia Plath (1963), Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein de Marguerite Duras et Le Locataire chimérique de Roland Topor (1964), Wide Sargasso Sea de Jean Rhys (1966), Moha le fou, Moha le sage de Tahar Ben Jelloun (1978) et Conhecimento do Inferno d’Antonio Lobo Antunes (1980) sont analysés à la lumière des recherches psychiatriques (Szasz, Cooper, Laing...), sociologiques (Goffmann, Anderson...) et philosophiques (Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard...) de l'époque pour tracer les contours de ce que ce temps précis nomme "folie". Obsessions particulières et motifs traditionnels de la folie convergent au sein de ces œuvres en une poétique de la fugue, plus encore, en une esthétique de la fuite. / In the early sixties, the theme of madness suddenly became a prominent subject in both social sciences and litterature. Whether as discursive pratice or philosophical and social issue, there was considerable divergence in and around the anti-psychiatric mouvement. A comparative study of a body of litterature composed of nine novels by French, American, English, Dominican, New-zealander, Moroccan and Portughese writers allows a broad and contextualized comprehension of the various treatements of anti-psychiatry in contemporary litterature. Thus, Faces in the Water by Janet Frame and The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson (1961), One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962), The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963), Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein by Marguerite Duras and Le Locataire chimérique by Roland Topor (1964), Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966), Moha le fou, Moha le sage by Tahar Ben Jelloun (1978) and Conhecimento do Inferno by Antonio Lobo Antunes (1980) are analized from the point of view of psychiatry researches (Szasz, Cooper, Laing...) sociological (Goffmann, Anderson...) and philosophical reflection (Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard...) in order to trace the outline of what that historical moment called 'madness'. Punctual obsessions and traditional definitions converge in these works to create a poetic of runaway, moreover, an aesthetics of escape.

O objetivo de nossa pesquisa é demonstrar que a intervenção psicológica durante o desencadeamento da primeira crise psicótica, pode ajudar de modo muito significativo, o terapeuta no seu trabalho clínico. O Estudo de Caso, objeto desta pesquisa, que chamamos de O Caso Clínico de Isadora, foi inspirado por nosso trabalho terapêutico com esta jovem paciente. Foi no decorrer deste trabalho que descobrimos a importância da intervenção psicológica, quando o paciente psicótico, desde a sua primeira crise, recebe, simultaneamente com o trabalho psiquiátrico, uma ajuda psicológica. Utilizando a estratégia da intervenção psicológica desde a primeira crise psicótica, nós conseguimos minimizar os seus efeitos desastrosos sobre a personalidade da paciente. A realização desta pesquisa só foi possível graças às narrativas que a paciente nos fez durante as sessões psicoterápicas, bem como graças a tudo o que ela própria escreveu sobre os seus sonhos e os seus delírios. Recolhemos os dados que nos pareceram mais importantes e, desse material clínico, tentamos fazer uma leitura psicanalítica, tendo como referência teórica a doutrina freudiana e os comentários de alguns discípulos de Lacan. Nós esperamos que esta pesquisa possa mostrar de que modo o paciente psicótico, após a intervenção psicológica, torna- se menos resistente ao processo psicoterapêutico, que vai ajudá-lo a reconstruir seu mundo interior, em condições mais favoráveis, levando em consideração a melhora de seu sistema defensivo, de sua capacidade de relação com a realidade e também com as pessoas que formam seu mundo ambiente, com as quais tenta conviver / The objective of this research is to demonstrate that psychological intervention during the first psychotic crisis can sinificantly help the therapist in his clinical work. The Case Study, object of this research, entitled The Isadora Clinical Case, was inspired by our clinical psychotherapeutic work with a young patient. During this clinical psychoterapeutic process we discovered the importance of the psychological intervention, when the psychotic patient, in her first crisis, receives psychological help simultaneously with the psychiatric treatment. Utilizing the strategy of the psychological intervention right from the first psychotic crisis, it was possible to minimize its desasterous effects on the patients personality. The implementation of this research was possible due to the patient narratives during psychotherapeutic sessions, as well from everything she wrote about her dreams and her delirius. We collected the data that seemed most important and, from this clinical material, we proceeded with a psychoanalytic reading, using as theoretical reference Freuds doutrine and the comments of some of Lacans disciples. We hope that this research will show how the psychotic patient, after psychological intervention, becomes less resistent to the psychotherapeutic process, which will help to rebuild his inner world, in more favorable conditions, having improved his defense system, his capacity to relate to reality, and also, with the persons that form his surrouding world that he tries to live with

Higher education in post-independence Kenya from 1963 to 2009 has been characterized by rapid expansion - both in terms of student enrolment and in a sharp increase in the number of both private and public universities. While national and institutional mechanisms, such as the establishment of a revolving fund, the Higher Education Loans Board and the introduction of the Privately Sponsored Students Programme, have been initiated to address the sharp demand for higher education against a backdrop of diminishing financial support, violent student unrest - which seriously undermined these efforts - has persisted. A sustained period of student unrest has characterized Kenya‟s higher education. This has manifested itself in the form of violent protests, riots, boycotts and strikes. Statistics indicate that the intensity/frequency and violence of the strikes has steadily increased over the years. For example, between 1969 and 2000 sixty-nine cases of student strikes were recorded at all the public universities. Of these cases, twenty-two (31.88%) occurred within a time span of 20 years (1969-1989) while forty-seven cases (68.12%) occurred in a short period of just one decade (1990-2000).At Moi University twenty-four cases of strikes, which affected its colleges and campuses, were recorded between 1985 and 2009. In terms of radical policy adaptation at both national and institutional levels, one would expect a downward trend in unrest. Instead, however, the frequency and intensity of violence associated with strikes has increased at an alarming rate with several deaths being reported. As such, this study has investigated the factors that have contributed to, and informed, a sustained period of student unrest with a specific focus on Moi University in order to identify policy lessons. Global, national and institutional aspects were examined. A case study strategy was applied - with Moi University as its focus. Data was collected through an in-depth review of the relevant literature, document analysis and interviews. Past and present senior management staff members at Moi University, including Deans of Faculties, Deans of Students, Heads of Departments, and Heads of Sections as well as former student leaders were interviewed. The study concludes in its findings that the university is operating within a highly dynamic and unstable social-political environment, leading to the emergence of inadequate policy adaptations. The resultant shortcomings in the operations of the university attract the wrath of an informed student population in the form of unrest. The students action is not however simply reactionary, as they too, as change agents have their own agenda that evolves over time as they seize opportunities created by the policy shortcomings to pursue it. The study summarized the salient factors responsible for the violent unrest in five broad thematic areas. These include: (i) Unrest associated with flawed international and national policies and social pressure; (ii) Unrest associated with critical national issues and identification with progressive change agents; (iii) Unrest associated with student politics;(iv) Unrest associated with social identity and threats of their welfare from organized groups; and (v) Unrest associated with the prevalence of institutional catalyzing factors. A typical strike develops through four main phases: (i) The development/ brewing phase; (ii) The heightened tension phase; (iii) The full blown strike phase; and (iv) The dissipation/uneasy calm phase. Organizational disequilibrium describes the general state of instability characterizing the university, while organizational paranoia is associated with instances of devastating strikes during a heightened tension phase. A strike matrix of Spontaneous vs Orchestrated and Flash vs Protracted typify the strikes. Unrest has led to the disruption of academic programmes; the destruction of property and deaths; a loss of critical study time; and damage to students‟ careers caused by suspensions and expulsions. The need for a well-considered policy that involves exhaustive consultation with all the stake-holders emerges as critical for the future stability of universities. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / am2013 / Education Management and Policy Studies / unrestricted

L'objectif de ce travail consiste dans la mise en lumière et la description d'une certaine forme littéraire que nous définissons comme «roman paranoïaque»: il s'agit de grandes oeuvres en prose de Fiodor Sologoub, Rêves lourds et Démon mesquin ainsi que de celles d'Andreï Biély, La Colombe d'argent, Pétersbourg, Carnets d'un toqué, Moscou. Le roman paranoïaque reproduit le processus de connaissance déficiente, réalisée par le héros et transformée par l’auteur en une réalité délirante, c’est-à-dire romanesque. L’objet de notre étude est la stratégie symboliste d'utilisation d’un certain modèle clinique dans le but de lui donner un sens métaphysique, mystique, mythologique, esthétique et de la transmuer en une poétique. Nous aborderons également des textes de Vladimir Nabokov que nous nous proposons de présenter comme un reflet parodique et une étape postsymboliste de cette tradition. / The aim of this study is to extract and describe a literary form which we define as a “paranoid novel”. We attribute this form to Heavy dreams and Petty daemon by Fyodor Sologub and Silver dove, Diary of a crank, Petersburg and Moscow by Andrey Belyï. A paranoid novel reproduces a process of a deficient learning of a hero. The author converts this process into a delirious reality i.e. a reality of novel. Our study is focused on the symbolistic strategy which confers a specifcic meaning to a relevant clinical model. This metaphysical, mystical, mythological, aesthetical meaning transforms the model yielding poetics. We study Nabokov’s texts as well in order to provide an insight into their parodying and post-symbolistic developing of the tradition.

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Text in German / Many treatises and disquisitions concerning "Die Blendung" concentrate on the main character, Peter Kien, as well as on other protagonists. In contrast, this dissertation deals with Pfaff, the primitive force and his influence on Peter Kien, the "Brain", the masterspirit. Common traits of these di verse characters are highlighted and it is explained why Pfaff, the brute, manages to exult over Kien, the intellectual. Their interactions and their interdependence are dealt with and it is shown that insanity which is prevalent in both protagonists prepares the way to Kien's doom whereas it leads to Pfaff's survival. / Das Interesse zahlreicher Untersuchungen Uber "Die Blendung" konzentriert sich auf die Hauptperson, Peter Kien, sowie auf andere Protagonisten. Im Gegensatz dazu beschaftigt sich diese Arbei t mi t dem Hausmeister Pfaff, dem "Schadel", und mit dem EinfluB, den er auf Peter Kien, den "Kopf", den Geistesmenschen hat. Es wird versucht, Gemeinsamkeiten, die diese beiden so gegensatzlichen Charaktere aufweisen, aufzuzeigen und darzulegen, warum der Gewaltmensch Pfaff Uber den wirklichkeitsfremden Wissenschaftler Kien zu triumphieren vermag. Der EinfluB, den sie aufeinander nehmen, und die Abhangigkeit voneinander werden aufgezeigt, und es wird aufge fUhrt, wie der Wahnsinn, dem sie be ide verf all en, zu Kiens Untergang filhrt, wahrend Pfaffs Uberleben durch seinen Wahnsinn gesichert wird / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M. A. (German)