L'objet de cette recherche est de définir les affects qui passent dans les groupes et leur transmission. Ce travail a pour objectif d'éclairer la façon dont des affects traversent le groupe et franchissent, pénètrent et parfois imprègnent la psyché des membres du groupe. Les affects désorganisent la capacité de penser, et circulent par les liens archaïques des identifications affectives, sans représentations et grâce à la capacité de co-éprouver des autres membres du groupe. Le groupe permet de reconnaître et traiter des souffrances très primitives et des conflictualités archaïques à la limite du corporel et du groupal. L'étude débute par une recherche du même et du semblable autour de la terminologie : affect, émotion, sentiment, sensation... L'affect est contagieux. La problématique interroge la contagiosité des affects dans les dispositifs groupaux. Par contagiosité des affects, nous entendons le processus de transmission intersubjective qui permet au sujet, par le groupe, d'être perméable à l'affect, de l'assimiler psychiquement, et d'effectuer un travail de transformation. La psyché primaire qui préexiste à l'ancrage corporel est le lieu où se situe le lien inconscient commun le plus profond des membres du groupe. Les souffrances auraient des effets de contamination, au niveau de cette psyché primaire, pour les personnes mais aussi les groupes. Par contamination, nous entendons un processus dans lequel l'affect fait effraction dans la psyché du sujet et où la confusion sujet-autre, s'apparente à une transmission transpsychique. Notre hypothèse postule que la contagiosité des affects serait un levier pour l'élaboration des souffrances primitives et favoriserait les processus associatifs dans le groupe alors que la contamination de la psyché par les fantasmes agressifs persécuteurs qui circulent dans le groupe entretiendrait la résistance. Dans un groupe de psychodrame d'adolescentes souffrant de troubles du comportement alimentaire, les passages et transmissions sont observés au travers d'un travail de lien, des mouvements du cadre et de la contenance groupale. / The purpose of this research is to define the emotions that pass through groups and the transmission of those affects. This work tries to show the way affects cross over groups and sometimes permeate the psyche of the group. The affects disrupt the ability to think and pass by archaic links of affective identifications, without representations and due to the ability to co-experience of other group members. The group allows to recognize and to treat primitive pains and archaic conflictualities between corporal and groupal. The study begins with a search around terminology : affect, emotion, feeling, sensation ... The affect is contagious. The question is the contagiousness of affects in groupal devices. By contagiousness affects, we mean the intersubjective transmission process that allows the subject, in the group, to be permeable to affect, to assimilate it psychically, and to transform it. The primary psyche that pre-exists the body feeling is the place of the deepest unconscious and common link of the group. The suffering could have the effect of contamination at this primary psyche, but also for groups. By contamination, we mean a process in which the affect is breaking into the psyche of the subject and where the subject-other confusion, is like a transpsychic transmission. Our hypothesis is that the contagiousness of the affects would be a way for the elaboration of primitive sufferings and for associative processes in groups whereas contamination of the psyche by the persecutors aggressive fantasies that circulate in groups would maintain the resistance. In a group of teenage psychodrama suffering from eating disorders, ways and transmissions are observed through a working link, movement of the frame and groupal capacity.

La parole politique est l'instrument principal d’exercice du pouvoir au Cameroun, dirigé par Paul Biya depuis trente-cinq ans. Confrontée aux postures du sujet politique, cette parole trahit à l’arrière-plan discursif, les pensées profondes de l’homme politique. Apporter un éclairage sur cette situation particulière est la tâche principale que nous nous sommes assigné dans cette thèse de Doctorat qui s'intéresse à la relation entre le pouvoir et la mise en scène argumentative dans le discours de Paul Biya à l'ère du multipartisme au Cameroun. Le cadre épistémologique dans lequel se positionnent nos travaux est l’analyse du discours avec une orientation vers l’argumentation rhétorique. Empruntant les démarches intégrative et analytique de l’analyse de discours, nous puisons les concepts opératoires de notre recherche principalement dans les sciences du langage. Nous procédons aussi à l’exploration textométrique de notre corpus à l’aide du logiciel d’analyse statistique Hyperbase. L’analyse nous invite également à constituer de nouvelles notions pour rendre compte des particularités du discours de Paul Biya. La thèse montre que dans sa communication, Paul Biya procède à une mise en scène fondée sur des arguments logico-affectifs, ancrée dans la réalité sociale et les pratiques des différents pouvoirs traditionnels camerounais. Derrière le masque discursif, l'analyse met au jour des stratégies de persuasion, l'évolution de la vie sociopolitique camerounaise. Cette recherche révèle comment Paul Biya incarne un pouvoir fort, sacralisé voire mythifié; s'arrogeant une aura nationale exclusive apte à apaiser le peuple et à inhiber toute action rivale. C’est ainsi qu’il a réussi à mettre en place un régime politique qui joue constamment sur des contrariétés en vue de pérenniser son pouvoir. / Political speech is the main tool used in order to wield power in Cameroon, a country which is being run by Paul Biya for the past 35 years. The various stands taken by this political figure is revealed through these speeches which inform on the argumentative background and inner thoughts of this politician. The doctorate thesis which studies the relationship between power and the argumentative strategies in Paul Biya speeches in the multiparty era in Cameroon therefore sets out to throw more light on this peculiar situation. This research work is discussed from the vantage point of discourse analysis, more specifically on rhetoric argumentation. Using integrative and analytical approaches to discourse analysis, the work draws its key concepts mainly from language sciences. The textometric analysis of the corpus is carried out using the Hyperbase Statistics Analysis software. Also, the analysis of the corpus has brought us to coin new terms in order to address the specificities of Paul Biya speehes. The findings reveal that in his speeches, Paul Biya makes use of a set-up which is grounded on logico-affective arguments anchored in the social reality as well as in the practices of the various traditional powers in Cameroon. The analysis also brings to the fore the various persuasive strategies and the evolution of the sociopolitical life in Cameroon. This research work also reveals how Paul Biya incarnates a strong, sacred and mythified power which gives him the privilege of having an exclusive aura at the national level which can appease the Cameroonian people and nip in the bud all the initiatives of his rivals. He has therefore succeeded in establishing a political regime which takes advantage of disharmony in order to perpetuate his power.

De plus en plus, l'interaction entre personne et machine se rapproche du naturel afin de ressembler à l'interaction entre humains, incluant l'expressivité (en particulier les émotions et les attitudes). Dans la communication parlée, les attitudes, et plus généralement les affects sociaux, sont véhiculés principalement par la prosodie. Pour les langues tonales, la prosodie est utilisée aussi pour coder l'information sémantique dans les variations de tons. Ce travail de thèse présente une étude des affects sociaux du vietnamien, une langue à tons et une langue peu dotée, afin d'appliquer les résultats obtenus à un système de synthèse de haute qualité capable de produire la parole « expressive » pour le vietnamien. Le premier travail de cette thèse consiste en la construction du premier corpus audio-visuel des attitudes vietnamiennes, qui contient seize attitudes. Ce corpus est ensuite utilisé pour étudier la perception audio-visuelle et interculturelle des attitudes vietnamiennes. Pour cela, une série de tests perceptifs a été effectuée avec des auditeurs natifs et non-natifs (des auditeurs francophones pour les non-natifs). Les résultats de ces tests montrent que les facteurs influant sur la perception des attitudes sont l'expression de l'attitude elle-même et la modalité de présentation (audio, visuelle et audio-visuelle). Ces résultats nous ont ainsi permis de trouver des affects sociaux communs ou interculturels entre le vietnamien et le français. Puis, un autre test de perception a été réalisé sur des phrases avec tons afin d'explorer l'effet du système tonal du vietnamien sur la perception des attitudes. Les résultats montrent que les juges non-natifs peuvent traiter et séparer les indices tonals locaux et les traits saillants prosodiques de portée globale. Après une présentation de nos études sur les affects sociaux en vietnamien, nous décrivons notre modélisation de la prosodie des attitudes en vue de la synthèse de la parole expressive en vietnamien. En nous basant sur le modèle de superposition des contours fonctionnels, nous proposons une méthode pour modéliser et générer de la prosodie expressive en vietnamien. Cette méthode est ensuite appliquée pour générer de la parole expressive en vietnamien, puis évaluée par des tests de perception sur les énoncés synthétiques. Les résultats de perception valident bien la performance de notre modèle et confirment que l'approche de superposition de contours fonctionnels peut être utilisée pour modéliser une prosodie complexe comme dans le cas de la parole expressive d'une langue à tons. / Today, the human-computer interaction is reaching the naturalness and is increasingly similar to the human-human interaction, including the expressiveness (especially emotions and attitudes). In spoken communication, attitudes or social affects are mainly transferred through prosody. For tonal languages, prosody is also used to encode semantic information via tones. This thesis presents a study of social affects in Vietnamese, a tonal and under-resourced language, in order to apply the results to Vietnamese expressive speech synthesis task. The first task of this thesis concerns the construction of a first audio-visual corpus of Vietnamese attitudes which contains sixteen attitudes. This corpus is then used to study the audio-visual and intercultural perceptions of the Vietnamese attitudes. A series of perceptual tests was carried out with native and non-native listeners (French for non-native listeners). Experimental results reveal the fact that the influential factors on the perception of attitudes include the modality of presentation (audio, visual and audio-visual) and the attitudinal expression itself. These results also allow us to investigate the common specificities and cross-cultural specificities between Vietnamese and French attitudes. Another perception test was carried out using sentences with tonal variation to study the influence of Vietnamese tones on the perception of attitudes. The results show that non-native listeners can process the local prosodic cues of tones, together with the global cues of attitude patterns. After presenting our studies on Vietnamese social affects, we describe our work on attitude modelling to apply it to Vietnamese expressive speech synthesis. Based on the concept of prosodic contour superposition, a prosodic model was proposed to encode the attitudinal function of prosody for Vietnamese attitudes. This model was applied to generate the Vietnamese expressive speech and then evaluated in a perceptual experiment with synthetic utterances. The results validate the ability of applying our proposed model in generating the prosody of attitudes for a tonal language such as Vietnamese.

Cette recherche, en étroite relation avec notre pratique clinique en milieu carcéral, s'intéresse aux émotions dans les agirs violents. Les termes « émotions » et « agirs » sont à entendre dans une acception généraliste puisque nous partons de ce qui est visible pour remonter au fonctionnement psychique. Notre recherche s'intéresse ainsi à la clinique de l'agir et aux théories psychanalytiques de l'affect. Soulignant le fait que la prise en charge du sujet ne doit pas exclusivement se centrer sur l'agir violent, nous nous questionnons sur le fonctionnement des auteurs d'agirs violents et sur le lien qui existe entre un type d'agir (recours à l'acte et / ou passage à l'acte) et un fonctionnement particulier. Les fondements théoriques de la clinique des états-limites et de la clinique psychosomatique semblent pouvoir nous apporter des réponses intéressantes. Ainsi, à une analyse du fonctionnement en fonction de l'acte, nous préférons avoir une lecture qui part du fonctionnement pour éclairer la compréhension de l'acte. De manière générale, au-delà de vouloir préciser à quel fonctionnement appartient un type d'agir, nous souhaitons avant tout souligner la pluralité des fonctionnements dans la clinique des agirs. Enfin, nous chercherons à comprendre l'impact du milieu carcéral sur le fonctionnement de ces sujets. / This research, in conjunction with our clinical practice in prisons, focuses on emotions in violent act. The terms "emotion" and "act" must be understood in a general sense because we start from what is visible for up to psychic functioning. Our research interest in the theory of violent act and psychoanalytic theories of affect. It's important not only focus on the violent act and we questionned the functioning of the author of violent act and the relationship between one type of act (different type of acting out ) and psychic functioning. The theoretical foundations of limit states and psychosomatic seem to bring us interesting answers. Thus, an analysis of the operation according to the act, we prefer to have a reading that part of the psychic functioning to illuminate the understanding of the act. In general, beyond wanting to clarify what types of operation belongs act, we would first like to emphasize the plurality of functioning in the clinic act.

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This study examined to what extent the biological sex of the nurse-physician interactants affects the interpersonal communication satisfaction experienced by the nurse. Hypotheses One and Two predicted that communication satisfaction would differ significantly across various combinations of sex of nurse and sex of physician dyads. Hypothesis Three predicted that male nurses would experience higher levels of communication satisfaction than would female nurses. Interpersonal communication satisfaction was operationalized by two self-report instruments. The sample included 153 male and female nurses. Results indicated that same-sex interactions were more satisfying for female nurses, while mixed-sex interactions were more satisfying for male nurses. Nurses reported greater communication satisfaction when interacting with female physicians. Hypothesis three was not supported.

Cette thèse porte sur l’unité du concept de liberté chez Spinoza. Aussi passe-t-elle par les trois objets privilégiés du philosophe, Dieu, l’homme et la multitude. A ces trois objets correspond une certaine forme de la liberté : liberté métaphysique, liberté éthique et liberté politique. Etant données, d’une part la définition de la liberté (en EID7), d’autre part l’affirmation faite par Spinoza selon laquelle seul Dieu est cause libre, le problème se pose en effet de savoir dans quel sens ou dans quelle mesure l’homme peut, du point de vue éthique et du point de vue politique, être dit libre. Nous avons tenté de résoudre le problème par l’étude d’un aspect peu ou pas étudié de la théorie spinoziste des affects, la notion de jouissance. Nous avons commencé par une étude du champ lexical motivé par l’absence de définition du terme fruitio, pour s’étendre ensuite vers d’autres termes proches, tels le gaudium (qui a deux sens différents chez Spinoza) et la delectatio. Ensuite, nous avons situé ces termes du point de vue de l’histoire de la philosophie au sein du débat auquel ils appartenaient : la question de la jouissance dans la philosophie médiévale chrétienne. Ainsi nous avons été amenés à nous interroger sur le concept central d’Amor intellectualis Dei, qui est ce en quoi consiste la liberté, à partir de l’idée de jouissance, et ce dans les deux domaines de Dieu et de l’homme. Enfin, nous avons montré qu’en politique l’unité du concept de liberté était maintenue aussi grâce à l’idée de jouissance (obtinentia). Bref, c’est toujours l’être qui jouit de sa puissance constitutive en tant que telle, parce qu’il existe et qu’il agit nécessairement, qui est dit libre. / This thesis refers to the unity of the concept of freedom in Spinoza, focusing in the three privileged objects of the philosopher: God, man and multitude. To each one belongs a certain form of freedom: metaphysical, ethical and political. Given that, in one hand, the definition of freedom (E1D7) and in the other hand the affirmation made by Spinoza, that God is the only free cause, the problem is indeed, knowing in which sense or measure man can, from the ethical and political point of view, called free. We have tried to solve the problem studying a barely or not studied at all issue of Spinoza’s theory of the affectus: the notion of fruitio (enjoyment). We started by studying the lexical field motivated by the absence of definition of the term fruitio, in order to go further with nearby terms, such as gaudium (which has two different senses in Spinoza) and the delectatio. Furthermore, we have placed these points of view of the history of philosophy in the core of the discussion where they belong: the question of fruitio in Christian medieval philosophy. Thus, we question ourselves about the main concept of Amor intellectualis Dei, which is freedom itself, starting from the idea of fruitio, and the same in both God’s and man’s domains. Finally, we showed that in politics, the unity of the concept of freedom was sustained also due to the idea of obtinentia (enjoyment). In brief, we call free the being that enjoys its constitutive power as such, because it exists and acts out of necessity.

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A presente dissertação tem como objetivo explorar os elementos constituintes da teoria sobre a afetividade humana conforme desenvolvida por Espinosa na Ética, analisando seus pressupostos metafísicos bem como a relação dos afetos com o intelecto humano. Serão enfatizadas as particularidades desta teoria mediante análise e exposição dos conceitos centrais que a compõem, identificando as características estruturais do universo conceitual espinosista. A análise crítica utilizada conta também com a avaliação sobre um dado posicionamento interpretativo que pretende destacar a existência de um enfraquecimento do naturalismo espinosista. Destacando-se assim a necessidade de negar certas noções sobre a afetividade humana que a colocam como sendo composta por traços contrários ao conatus. O propósito da dissertação repousa na busca por evidências onde a forma de naturalização, como encontrada na Ética, revele seu caráter constitutivo na teoria afetiva de Espinosa, destacando assim duas formas pelas quais o conceito de ação pode ser entendido nesta obra. Por fim, pretende-se determinar a origem das paixões humanas em Espinosa, expondo o interior da problemática por elas imposta à empreitada medular da Ética, em um tratamento onde a afetividade é vista como caráter fundamental da existência humana. / The aim of this study is to present the constituent elements of Spinoza's theory of human affects in Ethics, through a study of its metaphysical presuppositions and their involvement as a full part of the human intellect. The particularities of this theory will be emphasized and its central concepts will be analyzed in terms of the structural characteristics of Spinoza's conceptual framework. An interpretation that objects to Spinoza’s alleged naturalism will also be evaluated, arguing that some of our affective experiences cannot be explained by the concept of conatus, as is proven in the beginning of the third part of Ethics. Some evidence will be provided against this interpretation, and hence, in favor of Spinoza’s naturalism as it is found in Ethics, highlighting two ways in which the concept of action can be understood in this work. Finally, we aim to determine the origin of human passions, according to Spinoza, in order to elucidate the sense in which they are problematic from the perspective of ethical theory, whilst preserving the view that affectivity is a fundamental character of human existence.

The present essay deals with the Charles Le Brun's theory of the representation of passions. It summarizes the most important publications about Le Brun's lecture on expression ("Conference generale et particuliere) and mention some neglected aspects, for example its relation to the tradition of ancient rhetoric or period manners. The lecture is set in the context of period quarrels (quarrel about the importance of drawing or colour, quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns) and a special attention is given to the sources wich were used by Le Brun to develop his theory (philosophical, rhetorical, medical and physiognomical studies, book of manners) It follows from the study of literature and sources that the Le Brun's theory was innovative in many aspects but still depended on the older tradition, probably more than was recently supposed.