La forme en -re, dite « futur du subjonctif » (cantare), tombée en désuétude dans la langue standard espagnole, s’observe toujours dans le discours juridique. Dans cette étude, nous faisons l’hypothèse que la forme en -re survit car elle a une utilité pour la communauté des sujets parlants juristes. Adhérant à la linguistique du signifiant, dans la tradition guillaumienne, nous posons que cette utilité découle du signifié de la forme en -re. Notre corpus est composé de plusieurs documents juridiques qui représentent les cinq étapes du système modal définies par Gilles Luquet (1988). Nous choisissons les hypothèses en si car les experts ne s’accordent pas sur les alternatives légitimes de la forme en -re dans les protases de ces hypothèses. Les exemples collectés de ces documents, analysés au regard de la linguistique du signifiant, nous permettent de faire quatre conclusions : 1) l’alternance entre la forme en –se et la forme en -re dans les protases existe depuis le Moyen Âge ; 2) la forme en -re et ses alternatives ont des fonctions pragmatiques : elles contribuent à la cohérence du texte et elles permettent au juriste de faire progresser ourégresser l’argument du texte (fonction déictique) ; 3) la morphologie verbale des apodoses semble fortement liée au sous-genre juridique ; 4) cette étude de la forme en -re et ses alternances dans les hypothèses en si, jette la lumière sur la particularité du morphème si : étant élément du système espagnol d’affirmation, si ramène le perspectif de l’énoncé au présent, permettant au juriste de regarder la situation depuis le non-révolu (forme en -re) ou le révolu (la forme en -se) sans perdre la cohérence de son texte. / The -re form, or “future subjunctive” (cantare), is obsolete in Modern Standard Spanish, yet is still observed in legal literature. In this dissertation, we made the hypothesis that the -re form has survived because it is useful for the community of speakers who interact with legal literature. Using the theory of the linguistique du signifiant, we postulated that the different uses of the -re form are linked its signifier. To test ourhypothesis, we composed a corpus of several legal documents. They represent of each of the five epochs of the Spanish mode system defined by Gilles Luquet (1988). We chose to examine the role of this verb form in the protases of si-clauses because experts do not agree on the legitimate alternative verb forms in this syntax. After the observation and analysis of the examples collected, we made four conclusions. Firstly, the alteration between the -se form and the -re form in protases of si-clauses dates from the Middle Ages. Secondly, the -re form and its alternatives have pragmatic uses: they contribute to textual organization and allow the jurist to move backwards and forwards in the construction of his or herarguments (deictic function). Thirdly, the verbal morphology of the apodoses seems strongly linked with the legal subgenre of the documents. Fourth and finally, our study of the -re form and its alternatives sheds light on the specificities of the morpheme si: because it is part of the Spanish affirmation system, the morpheme si always brings the speaker’s perspective back to the present, allowing the jurist to observe the event unfold from a point in the non-past (-re form) or the past (-se form) without disrupting the text’scoherence.

Partant de l’observation et de l’étude expérimentale (réalisée en Master 2) de situations de maladie d’Alzheimer débutante avec association d’une amnésie hippocampique, d’une anomie et d’une apraxie constructive pour l’espace projectif (syndrome S3A), nous proposons que la cooccurrence des troubles cognitifs et psychopathologiques peut être liée à une rigidification de la fonction symbolique, à savoir la réduction de l’empan de substitution d’un signifié par des signifiants. Nous examinons cette hypothèse à propos des troubles cognitifs en partant de la définition de la fonction symbolique (ou sémiotique) par Piaget. Nous l’étendons aux aspects psychopathologiques en partant de la symbolisation et de ses transformations. La notion de distance symbolique est évoquée à titre de dénominateur commun à tous ces processus, cible de la rigidification de la fonction symbolique. Elle pourrait être liée aux perturbations de la mémoire de travail, entraînant :_ Proactivement, une déstructuration des éléments attributionnels dans le réseau sémantique élargi, contribuant à la genèse des troubles cognitifs._ Rétroactivement, du fait de l’érosion des mécanismes secondaires, l’activation de phénomènes archaïques - dont l’angoisse de non représentation – et des défenses attenantes. Quelques implications psychothérapiques sont envisagées. / Starting from the observation and experimental study of Alzheimer's disease early situations with association of hippocampal amnesia, anomia and constructive apraxia for projective space (S3A syndrome), we propose that the co-occurrence of cognitive and psychopathological disorders may be linked to a stiffening of the symbolic function, namely the reduction of the span of substitution of a signified item by signifiers. We examine this hypothesis about the cognitive impairment on the basis of the symbolic function as defined by Piaget. We extend it to psychopathological aspects starting with the symbolization and its transformations. The concept of symbolic distance is mentioned as a common denominator for all these processes, as a target for the stiffening of the symbolic function. It could be related to working memory impairment, causing:_ Proactively, a destructuration of atributional elements in the “broad semantic network”, contributing to the genesis of cognitive impairment._ Retroactively, because of the erosion of secondary mechanisms, an activation of archaic phenomena - including the anxiety of non-representation - and of the archaic defenses.Some psychotherapeutic implications are considered.

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<p>U na&scaron;em radu poku&scaron;aćemo da, na korpusu drama za odrasle, koje su u &scaron;tampanom obliku dostupne javnosti, izdvajanjem samo nekih interpretativnih problema, ukažemo na ono za &scaron;ta pretpostavljamo da je po-etička osnova Popovićevog rukopisa. Njihova priroda nametnula je aparaturu i strategije koje pripadaju postmodernizmu. To je stoga &scaron;to i sam pisac, verujemo, jeste postmoderni pisac.<br />Pre svega, Popovićev opus hronolo&scaron;ki posmatrano, interferira s postmodernizmom u srpskoj književnosti, pa nas zanima priroda veze ove dve pojave. Takođe, u Popovićevom delu značajno je prisutna, prvenstveno jezička, građa preuzeta iz srpskog književnog nasleđa, te tradicionalne kulture, a upravo je odnos prema tradiciji jedno od relevantnih pitanja koje postmoderna postavlja. Slično se može reći i za problem književnog redefinisanje obrazaca kulture. Doslednim preoblikovanjem farse, temeljnim postupka prema žanru kojim se A. Popović služi, on je ne samo na tragu op&scaron;tih književnih težnji dvadesetog veka, nego posebnim poetskim postupcima čini vidljivim one kulturne pojave koje su u vreme nastanka Popovićevog opusa bitno uticale na kulturnu matricu Srbije, ali i naznačile ono &scaron;to će se u kulturi (pa tako i u književnosti) tek dogoditi.<br />U hermetičnim tekstovima, dakle onima koje smo svrstali u drugu tendenciju Popovićevog opusa, predstavljanje značenja kao nepredstavljivog, realizovano je i kao igranje (jezičkih) igara, &scaron;to je drugo ime za apofatičku misao koja, verujemo, prožima Popovićevo celokupno delo. Nihilizam neće zavr&scaron;iti u samoubistvu nijednog njegovog lika (&scaron;to bi predstavljalo tragičnu preteču postdramskog teatra u verziji Sare Kejn), nego u samožrtvovanju (u drami Afera Ljiljak i njenom negativu &ndash; Ružičastoj noći), svojevrsnoj razradi Popovićeve teme potrage, koja signalizira su&scaron;tinsko nepristajanje na logos vidljive stvarnosti. On zna da je nasleđeni koncept o diskurzivnim hijerarhijama &ndash; obmana, ali nije napustio ideju potrage za aksisom.<br />Time &scaron;to problematizuje binom centar-margina, &scaron;to dekonstrui&scaron;e velike narative kulture uspostavljajući tako svojevrsni kontinuitet s nasleđem (i onim koje je ostalo skrajnuto), &scaron;to ukida hijerarhije kulturnih kodova, &scaron;to tematizacijom jezika diskutuje metafiziku prisustva i označiteljske prakse kulturnog kanona kojem pripada, Popović postavlja okvir za (re)konstrukciju poetičkih načela svog opusa. Konačno, tezom o apofatizmu, koja svoju paralelu ima u ruskom postmodernizmu, ma koliko na prvi pogled bila nespojiva s Popovićem i njegovim dramama, onakvim kako ga pamti ideolo&scaron;ki opterećeno književnoj nasleđe, verujemo da odgovaramo na pitanje za&scaron;to Popović pi&scaron;e, tada i tako.</p> / <p>In our paper-work we shall try, concerning the corpus of dramas for adults, which are in printed forms available to the public, to point to what we assume is po-etic basis of Popovic&#39;s writings, by singling out certain interpretative problems. The nature of those works imposed apparatus and strategies that belong to the postmodernism. It is because the writer himself, as we belive, is postmodern writer.<br />First of all, Popovic&#39;s oeuvre, chronologically speaking, interferes with postmodernism in Serbian literature and we are interested in the conection between these two phenomena. Also, in his literary work there is a significal presence of, primarly linguistic, material taken from Serbian literary heritage and traditional culture, and the relationship to the tradition is the one of the relevant questions that postmodernism raises. The same can be said about the problem of literary redefining cultural patterns. By consequent reshaping of farce genre аs the fundamental Popovic`s mood, he is not just on the trail of XXth century<br />literary aspiration, but through special poetic procedures he makes visible those cultural phenomena that had, at the time when Popovic`s oeuvre appeared, significant impact on cultural matrix of Serbia and indicate what in culture (incuding literature) will only happen in the future.<br />In hermetic texts, those considered as the second tendency of Popovic`s oeuvre, representing void as unimaginable, implemented as a play (language) games, is another name for the apophatism, which, we believe, permeates entire Popovic`s oeuvre. Nihilism will not end up in suicide of any of his characters (which would be a tragic forerunner of postdramatic theater in Sarah Kane`s version) but in self-sacrificing (in drama Afera Ljiljak and its opposite &ndash; Ružičasta noć), a kind of working out of Popovic`s theme &ndash; quest, which signals a fundamental refusa of visible reality. He knows that inherited concept of discursive hierarchies is deception but he did not abandon the idea of searching for Axis.<br />By problematizing binary opposition center &ndash; margine, by deconstruction of the grand narratives of culture which means establishing specific kind of continuity with legacy (even with those remained sidelined), by terminating the hierarchy of cultural codes, by discussing the metaphysics of presence and practice of signification to which he belongs (by focussing language), Popovic sets the framework for (re)construction оf poetic principles of his ouvre.<br />Finally, through the thesis on apophatism which has its parallel in Russian postmodenism, although, at first glance, that thesis is incompatible with Popovic and his dramas, as it is remembered by ideologically laden literary legacy, we believe that we have answered the question why Popovic has been writing, then and so.</p>

Ce travail dans le domaine de la « neuropsychanalyse » propose une spéculation théorique sur la structure physiologique de l’inconscient psychanalytique en recoupant les observations expérimentales et cliniques des deux cadres. L’écoute clinique indique une insistance de phonèmes récurrents dans ce qui fait conflit, appelés « phonèmes fantômes ». En effet, tel un membre fantôme, le signifiant refoulé est investi d’une intention mais son articulation est bloquée. Or, du fait de la structure ambiguë du langage, un même mouvement d’articulation peut radicalement changer de signification. C’est ce mécanisme qui donne lieu au retour du refoulé dans le signifiant et permet la survie de fantômes phonémiques qui tisseraient la structure linguistique de l’inconscient. Cette question du signifiant est présentée en écho à une question plus fondamentale, celle de l’émergence du psychique en réponse à la contrainte de l’organisme de faire la distinction entre intérieur et extérieur. Pour cette distinction, il faut supposer l’existence d’un système d’inhibition ciblé puisqu’il doit faire ressortir précisément ce qui dans la façon d’appréhender le monde extérieur n’a pas été anticipé. Cette précision est offerte par le modèle sensorimoteur des copies d’efférence, qui présentifie le mouvement avant qu’il ne se fasse et montre comment l’inhibition est condition de la représentation, constitutif du psychique. Pour l’humain la nécessité de la distinction intérieur-extérieur est impérieuse du fait précisément du langage qui rend complexe l’identification du lieu d’où ça parle. Elle mène au mouvement de refoulement, qui par inhibition fait apparaitre les fantômes phonèmiques comme les représentations en négatif des fragments de paroles refoulés. Cette réflexion théorique est précédée d’une mise en contexte élaborée dans l’histoire et l’épistémologique parfois controversée de la neuropsychanalyse et revendique pour sa méthodologie une approche transcendantale. / This study in the domain of « neuropsychoanalysis » proposes a theoretical speculation on the physiological structure of the psychoanalytic unconscious by cross-checking the experimental and clinical observations from both domains. Clinical listening indicates the insistence of recurring phonemes when it comes to conflictual topics, called “phonemic phantoms”. Indeed, as is the case in a phantom limb, the repressed signifier is invested by an intention while its articulation is blocked. However, due to the ambiguous structure of language, a same articulation movement can radically change signification. It is this mechanism that causes the return of the repressed in the signifier and allows for the survival of phonemic phantoms which are thought to weave the linguistic structure of the unconscious. The question of the signifier is presented as an instantiation of a more fundamental question, the emergence of the psychic realm in response to the constraint of the organism to distinguish interior from exterior. For this distinction, the existence of an accurate system of inhibition must be postulated since it has to be able to delineate precisely what in the way of apprehending the world was not anticipated by the organism. This precision is allowed by the sensorimotor model of efference copies, which presentifies the movement before its realisation and shows how inhibition is a condition for representation. For humans, the necessity of the interior-exterior distinction is imperious due to language which renders complex the identification of the locus from where speech is initiated (from where “id” speaks). This necessity leads to the movement of repression, which by inhibition induces phonemic phantoms in the form of negative representations of repressed speech. This work is preceded by an introduction which contextualises the theoretical reflexion in the sometimes controversial history and epistemology of neuropsychoanalysis and which claims a transcendental approach for its methodology.

This thesis explores the zombie’s rise to prominence in popular culture, with a focus on its development within the comics medium. The zombie is not just a ‘floating signifier’ (according to Jerrold E. Hogle), but a revenant signifier, actively and aggressively linking with existing concepts, and transforming them. The thesis also considers both the zombie figure and zombie genre within the parameters of several media – comics, television, film, and literature. The medium of comics is examined in detail as it has evolved through the influence of the zombie just as the zombie has been reshaped by each new representation. In contemporary horror comics, The Walking Dead series is not just commercially successful, it exploits properties of the medium (including panel arrangement, transitions, repetition, and the liminal space within the gutter) to thoroughly explore the metaphors and allusions that have been associated with the zombie. I discuss these metaphors by charting the zombie’s development. A lack of pre-twentieth century literary texts featuring this creature frustrates easy comparison with the monsters of Gothic fiction. Rather than evolving within the novel form, as its rival horror icons have done, the zombie has maintained a visual and visceral identity, maturing with each new incarnation, and becoming ever more gruesome: the walking corpses of ancient texts; a symbol of eternal slavery within Haitian Voodoo folklore; and its modern interpretation as violent and virulent monster. The recent notion of a zombie plague has redefined the creature as a representation of modern fears, and has led to ‘zombie apocalypse’ becoming a commonly-used fantasy scenario. The zombie’s connection to apocalyptic literature is simultaneously ancient and contemporary, with the creature being a signifier of social disorder and disrupted identity. While the emphasis throughout is on the shifting relations between media, comics are the main focus of this study. The symbolism present in the zombie, and the political and cultural ideas stemming from its slow maturation are revealed within The Walking Dead and sustained through the functions of the comics medium. Through the application of Scott McCloud’s comics theory, the closure between panels and the transition within the gutter enhance these ideas, and provide further understanding of the zombie as depicted in comics. The visual/textual relationship within comics is compared with Jacques Lacan’s modalities of consciousness, and the psychoanalytic reading provided here explores the crises of identity within the zombie, and within the fragmented narrative of the comics medium. Alternative psychoanalytic readings, and the physiology/pathology of the zombie itself are undertaken, revealing the creature to be responsive to Julia Kristeva’s concept of the abject, and Slavoj Zizek’s postmodern reworking of Lacanian ideas. The thesis also returns to notions of the Gothic, haunted spaces, and the role of suburbia in the zombie narrative. This is augmented with a study of intertextuality and the “revenant” status of the zombie, and of comics. Through incorporating the critical theory of Kristeva, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jacques Derrida, and by positioning in parallel comics theorist Thierry Groensteen’s concepts of braiding and arthrology, I emphasise the operations of the zombie figure in the comic book, and other media, asserting that the zombie is a revenant signifier continually returning and transforming, never resting, but endlessly cannibalising and reconstructing debate about identity, morality, and society.

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De quelle mise en discours procède l’ensemble des récits pluriels qui narrent les « origines » dans le livre de la Genèse de la littérature biblique pour composer ce qui est présenté comme un « cycle » ordonné ? Cette question conduit à formuler l’hypothèse selon laquelle le premier récit de création ou « septénaire des jours » constitue, tel un paradigme, un système apte à ordonner le déploiement des récits suivants (Gn 2 à 11). Surtout, l’originalité de ce système est de mettre en place des mécanismes d’orientation vers une instance d’énonciation, constituant ainsi une « empreinte ». Et la mise en discours des textes qui suivent dispose, par les parcours discursifs, des « formants-signifiants » d’ordre « figural » propres à rappeler cette empreinte et à fonctionner comme autant d’indicateurs de l’instance d’énonciation. Enfin, au terme du livre biblique, le septénaire des « sceaux » (Apocalypse 5-8) vient réexposer le paradigme, récapituler le « figural », renouveler l’indication de l’instance d’énonciation et redéfinir l’orientation vers cette instance. La mise en discours opère ainsi, par le figural, un véritable « nouage » entre les grandeurs figuratives et l’instance d’énonciation. En son figural, la figure devient achoppement balisant la lecture, orientant le lecteur pour le conduire au plus près des postures des sujets de l’instance d’énonciation. / What procedure of discursivization makes it possible to present the ensemble of varied narratives recounting “origins,” in the book of Genesis of the biblical literature, as an orderly “cycle”? This question leads to the formulation of the hypothesis that the first story of creation, the “septenary of days,” constitutes, as a paradigm, a system capable of structuring the deployment of the following narratives (Gn 2 – 11). The originality of this system consists, above all, in putting in place mechanisms of orientation toward an instance of enunciation which constitutes a “footprint.” Then, the discursivization of the subsequent texts, by means of the discursive path, employs “formant-signifiers” of the “figural” order, likely to recall this footprint and to function as so many indicators of the instance of enunciation. Finally, at the end of the biblical literature, the “septenary of seals” in the book of Revelation (Apocalypse 5-8) reexposes the paradigm, recapitulates the figural, renews the indication of the instance of enunciation, and redefines the orientation toward this instance. Thus, by means of the figural, discursivization ties a veritable “knot” between figurative values and instance of enunciation. In its figural, the figure becomes a stumbling stone along the path of the reading which orients the reader, leading him as close as possible to the positions of the subjects of the instance of enunciation.

Cette étude porte sur la forme périphrastique había- + do/-to/-cho que la tradition grammaticale répertorie comme le « plus-que-parfait de l’indicatif », en espagnol contemporain. Après avoir interrogé les différentes approches auxquelles a donné lieu l’étude de cette forme verbale, nous en proposons un signifié unique en langue qui en subsume l’ensemble des manifestations discursives. Pour cela, nous adoptons les principes théoriques de la « linguistique du signifiant », laquelle postule l’unicité du signe linguistique – à un signifiant correspond un seul signifié, et inversement – et accorde la primauté à la lecture de la structure sémiologique du signifiant. Cette approche nous conduit à replacer había- + do/-to/-cho au sein des réseaux signifiants de l’espagnol, et à reconsidérer la structuration modale du système verbal de cette langue. Enfin, nous nous employons à décrire le fonctionnement discursif de la périphrase en syntaxe, dans l’élaboration de séquences narratives, d’une part, mais aussi dans les « cas limites » que représentent les emplois diatopiques en situation de contact de langue en Amérique (contact espagnol / guarani en particulier) / This study focuses on the periphrastic form había- + do/-to/-cho that the grammatical tradition identifies as the ‘pluperfect (past perfect) indicative’ in contemporary Spanish. After reviewing the different approaches to this verbal form, we provide a unique signified for this form that is able to subsume all its discursive manifestations. For this purpose, we adopt the theoretical principles of the ‘Linguistics of the signifier’, which postulates the unity of the linguistic sign – i.e. a signifier corresponds to a single signified, and vice versa – and gives priority to the semiological structure of the signifier. This approach leads us to reexamine había- + do/-to/-cho within the signifying networks of Spanish, and to reconsider the modal structure of the verbal system. Finally, we describe the discursive syntactic behaviour of the Spanish pluperfect, in the development of narrative sequences, but also in certain Latin American diatopic occurrences (contact Spanish / Guarani in particular) since they are ‘borderline case’ among the pluperfect discursive occurrences