Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Comparative Religion, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p.57-61).

[pt] Este estudo parte de dois movimentos argumentativos principais. O primeiro articula o entrelaçamento de dois discursos, aqui descritos como o desenvolvimento e o internacional, na construção de uma narrativa sobre um precário lugar de periferia do sistema de Estados. O segundo, intimamente relacionado ao primeiro, investiga como a marca da subalternidade discursiva desse lugar de periferia incide sobre um lócus de enunciação chamado Brasil e sobre a construção de suas narrativas de política externa ou, propriamente, sobre sua política diante do internacional. Para avançar este objetivo, este trabalho debruça-se sobre uma literatura acadêmica e contemporânea de política externa brasileira e sobre o tema da aspiração internacional do Brasil (LAFER, 2009; LIMA, 2004, 2005; LIMA; HIRST, 2006; PINHEIRO, 2000, 2004). Diferentemente das escolas de análise de política externa tradicionais, preocupadas, a maior parte do tempo, com o lado mais empírico e policy-oriented da diplomacia, este trabalho enfatiza a construção de um imaginário simbólico que anima a possibilidade de pensar-se estrategicamente a inserção ‘internacional’ do Brasil. Partindo de diversos trabalhos de influência pós-colonial (BHABHA, 1998; CHAKRABARTY, 2000; INAYATULLAH; BLANEY, 2004), argumenta-se que a aspiração internacional do Brasil emerge da constante negociação da referida precariedade de sua posição na política internacional. A ambivalência, por fim, é introduzida como uma força desestabilizadora da fixidez do encontro do Brasil com o desenvolvimento e o internacional e, igualmente, da precariedade com a qual se engaja o seu lugar de periferia. / [en] This study arises from two main argumentative moves. The first articulates the intertwining of two discourses, here described as development and the international, in the construction of a narrative about a precarious place of the periphery in the state system. The second, closely related to the first, investigates how the sign of the discursive subalternity of this peripheral place relates to a locus of enunciation called Brazil and how it helps to construct its foreign policy narratives or, specifically, its politics in face of the international. In order to put forward this objective, this research turns to the contemporary academic Brazilian foreign policy literature and also to the subject of Brazil’s international aspiration (LAFER, 2009; LIMA, 2004, 2005; LIMA; HIRST, 2006; PINHEIRO, 2000, 2004). Unlike most foreign policy analysis schools, which have been concerned, most of the time, with the more empirical and policy-oriented side of diplomacy, this work emphasizes the construction of a symbolic imagination that illuminates the very possibility of thinking strategically about Brazil’s insertion in the international scene. Based on several studies of post-colonial influence (BHABHA, 1998; CHAKRABARTY, 2000; INAYATULLAH; BLANEY, 2004), I argue that Brazil’s international aspiration emerges from a constant negotiation of the precariousness of its position in international politics. Ambivalence is finally introduced as a destabilizing force against the fixity of Brazil’s encounter with both development and the international and also as a way to resist the precariousness of its place of periphery.

Orientador: Jorge Luís Ferreira Abrão / Banca: Inês Amosso Dolci / Banca: Diana Pancini de Sá Antunes Ribeiro / Resumo: A maternidade é conhecida como um momento sublime na vida da mulher, mesmo em meio às transformações ocorridas no mundo contemporâneo, essa visão idealizada da maternidade é composta de fatores: sociais, culturais e históricos. A psicanálise também contribuiu na construção desta visão, tanto para uma responsabilização das mães pela estruturação psíquica das crianças, quanto para a naturalização da maternidade caracterizado-a como própria da feminilidade. Porém, inúmeros autores apontam para as dificuldades e pressões vivenciadas pelas mães da gestação ao pós-parto na relação com seu bebê, pois a vivência da maternidade sempre vem acompanhada de sentimentos conflitantes, ou seja, ambivalências. A literatura aponta também que a ambivalência se torna mais intensa quando o encontro com o bebê real é marcado por uma doença. No caso do presente trabalho, estudamos os efeitos da alergia à proteína do leite de vaca (APLV), na relação mãe-bebê, uma vez que essa doença, que vem ganhando importância no contexto pediátrico, apresenta uma particularidade: ao atingir o bebê em aleitamento, quem realiza uma dieta livre de qualquer produto lácteo é a mãe; devido à essa particularidade acreditamos que essa doença ao atingir bebês cria uma condição especial ao desenvolvimento da relação mãe-bebê. Com o objetivo de compreender as manifestações do sentimento de ambivalência em mães de bebês com a referida alergia realizamos uma investigação qualitativa psicanalítica, tendo como ponto de partida um estudo sobre os cuidados maternos ao longo da história, seguido de revisão... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Motherhood is known as a sublime moment in the life of a woman, even with the changes in the contemporary world, this idealized vision of motherhood is composed by some factors: social, cultural and historical. Psychoanalysis has also contributed in building this vision, not only the responsibility of these mothers for the psychic structure of these children, but also for the naturalization of motherhood characterized it as their own femininity. However, many authors pointed out the difficulties and pressures experienced by the these mothers from pregnancy to post partum relate to their babies, because the experience of motherhood always comes along with a conflicted feelings, and this is called ambivalence. The literature also indicates that ambivalence becomes more intense when the encounter with the real baby is marked by a disease. In the present work, we studied the effects of allergy to the protein in cow's milk (APLV) in mother-infant relationship, once that this disease which has become importance in the pediatric context ,it shows an particularity: when it get to the baby who is breastfeeding, who carries on a free diet of any dairy product is the mother because of this particularity we believe that whenever this disease reaches the baby it creates a special condition between the development of mother-infant relationship. In order to understand the manifestations of ambivalence feelings in mothers who have allergic babies , we carried out a qualitative investigation of psychoanalysis, and as a starting... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

This paper proposes to investigate the place occupied by money in the psychic economy, given its supreme status acquired in most societies and times when human life began in civilization. This is an investigation of social phenomena by psychoanalytical bias, featuring in a research in psychoanalysis bibliographic method and interpretive reading, from the theoretical perspective of Freud and psychoanalytical productions in the field. It is dedicated to the study of money from a point of view of originating the subject drives, with explanation of the history, origin and practical evolution of money and its role of supremacy in industrial civilizations, passing the meanings and representations common sense already studied the psychological science and being analyzed by the interpolation of the subject of the unconscious, driven by instincts and desire. It reads that the money is not only as an object with instinctual and representational effects of the subject, but it is holder of a structural capacity of the psyche, constituting as Cipher own constitution of being. The presence of an ambivalent relation of the subject to money, where money is links the domination scenarios and human exploitation is consistent with the impossible harmony between human and civilized life. The handles of the psychoanalytic subject with money does not make appropriate balance and harmony since money amoeda also instinctual antagonisms originate. / Este trabalho propõe investigar o lugar ocupado pelo dinheiro na economia psíquica, considerando seu estatuto supremo adquirido na maior parte das sociedades e épocas em que a vida humana se pôs em civilização. Trata-se de uma investigação de fenômenos sociais pelo viés psicanalítico, caracterizando-se numa pesquisa em psicanálise de método bibliográfico e leitura interpretativa, a partir da perspectiva teórica de Freud e de produções psicanalíticas no campo. Dedica-se ao estudo do dinheiro de um ponto de vista das pulsões originárias do sujeito, com explanação sobre a história, origem e evolução prática da moeda, bem como seu papel de supremacia nas civilizações industriais, perpassando os significados e representações no senso comum já estudados pela ciência psicológica e sendo analisados pela interpolação do sujeito do inconsciente, movido pelas pulsões e pelo desejo. Lê-se que o dinheiro não se constitui somente enquanto objeto com efeitos pulsional e representacional do sujeito, mas é detentor de uma capacidade estruturante sobre o psiquismo, se instituindo como cifra da própria constituição do ser. A presença de uma relação ambivalente do sujeito para com o dinheiro, em que o dinheiro se atrela a cenários de dominação e exploração humana é coerente com a impossível harmonia entre o humano e a vida civilizada. A lida do sujeito psicanalítico com o dinheiro não se faz cabível de equilíbrio e harmonia já que o dinheiro amoeda também os antagonismos pulsionais originários.

Submitted by Simone Maisonave (simonemaisonave@hotmail.com) on 2016-11-30T15:11:05Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Valeria Cabreira Cabrera_Dissertacao.pdf: 1771696 bytes, checksum: b5d4b1b9886bbd648ea37744768fb0ab (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-30T15:11:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Valeria Cabreira Cabrera_Dissertacao.pdf: 1771696 bytes, checksum: b5d4b1b9886bbd648ea37744768fb0ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-11 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul - FAPERGS / A literatura da área da Ciência Política aponta para a existência de uma cultura política híbrida no Brasil, ou seja, para a convivência de crenças, valores, atitudes e comportamentos autoritários e democráticos entre os cidadãos. Além disso, a crescente desconfiança do brasileiro nas instituições políticas tem sido considerada um sinal de alerta no que tange à legitimidade da democracia no país. Esse é um fenômeno aparente na cultura política de vários países da América Latina, o que tem fomentado o estudo do regime democrático sob a premissa de que esse não é um sistema político único e acabado, mas sim multidimensional e em permanente evolução. Nesse sentido, esta dissertação busca a analisar a relação entre a percepção do cidadão brasileiro sobre direitos humanos e a adesão à democracia no Brasil. Por meio do método estatístico, analisaram-se dados coletados em pesquisa survey, a partir dos quais se pode verificar o perfil da percepção sobre direitos humanos no Brasil, traçar a conexão dessa percepção à desconfiança do brasileiro no Poder Judiciário e na Polícia e, ainda, relacionar variáveis atinentes ao apoio à democracia no país a outras sobre os direitos humanos. Como resultado, em suma, descobriu-se que, embora o brasileiro apoie em maioria a democracia, tal apoio não se dá em relação aos direitos humanos. / The literature of Political Science points to the existence of a hybrid political culture in Brazil, that is, to the coexistence of beliefs, values, attitudes and authoritarian and democratic behavior among citizens. In addition, the growing distrust of Brazilians in the political institutions has been considered as a warning sign regarding the legitimacy of democracy. This is an apparent phenomenon in the political culture of several countries in Latin America, which has fostered the study of democratic rule under the premise that this is not a single nor an accomplished political system, but multidimensional and evolving. In this sense, this work tries to analyze the relationship between the perception of Brazilian citizens on human rights and adherence to democracy in Brazil. Through statistical method, analyzed data collected in survey research, from which one can see the profile of the perception of human rights in Brazil, trace the connection of this perception distrust of the Brazilians in the judiciary and in the police, and also , relate variables pertaining to support for democracy in the country to other human rights. As a result, in short, it was found that, although the Brazilian support in most democracy, such support does not occur in relation to human rights.

Le présent travail propose une interprétation psychanalytique de l’œuvre de l’écrivain réaliste allemand Theodor Fontane (1819 1898). À la lumière de la théorie freudienne et des thèses de Béla Grunberger sur le narcissisme, nous montrons ce que sont les ressorts et les enjeux inconscients de la création littéraire, chez cet auteur, laquelle, dans son principe, reproduit le schème de la position fantasmatique régressive que ménageait la grande passion ludique de l’enfant, le jeu de cache cache selon un mode spécifique. Partant du constat de la structure obsessionnelle des romans, notre étude met en évidence, dans un premier livre, l’existence, « sous » la fable sociale récurrente de la liaison amoureuse illicite, sanctionnée (adultère et relations équivalentes), d’un singulier scénario s’articulant autour de la dynamique du « pseudo Œdipe », que décrit Grunberger (procédure d’évitement, à des fins de régression), et du mécanisme de la défense masochique. L’analyse de ce « mythe personnel » (Mauron), comme situation dramatique interne, nous amène à dégager les traits particuliers des éléments constitutifs de la personnalité psychique de Fontane (imagos et instances), puis à établir la genèse de sa position « pseudo œdipienne » et à faire ressortir le rapport qui la lie au processus de création (« rétablissement narcissique »). Les résultats acquis sont passés au révélateur de la vie de l’écrivain. Dans un second livre, nous nous penchons, tour à tour, sur les divers aspects essentiels de l’œuvre, réexaminés sous le nouvel éclairage apporté : fonctionnalité de l’ambivalence, conception du réalisme « poétique » (transfigurateur), recherche de la conciliation des principes contraires, écriture comme la pratique d’un jeu de cache cache (questions du dialogisme, de la stratégie narrative, du symbolisme). La dernière partie est consacrée à l’étude de la problématique cardinale de la régression narcissique, à laquelle tout mène, ici : instrumentalisation du complexe de la faute et de la sanction, à visée autodestructrice, dans une tension vers la mort fantasmée comme le retour à l’état de félicité du séjour au sein originel. / This study offers a psychoanalytical interpretation of the works of Theodor Fontane (1819 1898), the German realist writer. In the light of the Freudian theory and of Béla Grunberger’s theses on narcissism, we show the unconscious motivations which gave rise to this author’s literary creation and what is at stake in this process for him. The act of writing is based here on the principle of reproducing the scheme of the fantastical regressive position which was generated by Fontane’s strong passion as a child for the game of hide and seek, which he played in his own specific way. Considering the obsessive structure of his novels, in our first book we demonstrate the existence — “beneath” the ever present social dictum of the forbidden love affair that is always to be punished (adultery and similar relationships) — of a particular scenario revolving around the dynamic of the “pseudo Oedipus”, as described by Grunberger (avoidance procedure aiming at regression) and the mechanism of masochistic defense. The analysis of this “personal myth” (Mauron), as an inner dramatic situation, leads us, first, to unearth the specific features of the elements which make up Fontane’s psychic personality (imagoes and agencies), and then to establish the genesis of his “pseudo oedipal” position and to highlight its link with the creative process (“narcissistic restoration”). Our results are substantiated through the writers’s biography. In the second book we deal with the essential aspects of Fontane’s work, which we re examine thanks to what we have brought to light: the functionality of ambivalence, the conception of transfigurating “poetic” realism, the attempt to reconcile opposite principles and writing as a game of hide and seek (dialogism, narrative strategy, symbolism). The last part of our study is devoted to the cardinal issue of narcissistic regression to which everything leads: mainly the instrumentation of the complex of guilt and retribution with a self destructing aim in a tropism towards death fantasized as a return to the original state of bliss in the womb.

La tesi include tre studi indipendenti che hanno come tema comune la Consumer Ambivalence nella Shopping Experience. Il punto di partenza è che la Consumer Ambivalence è sempre stata percepita come un qualcosa da evitare in quanto impatta negativamente sul comportamento del consumatore (es. soddisfazione e fedeltà). La letteratura però evidenzia come in alcune service experience questo costrutto risulti banalizzato. L’obiettivo della ricerca è quindi esplorare il ruolo della Consumer Ambivalence in diverse shopping experience attraverso le percezioni, i discorsi, le emozioni e le esperienze sia degli shopper sia del personale di contatto. Ho scelto due contesti di analisi: le esperienze di shopping di lusso e di shopping etico. Entrambi i settori sono in continua crescita nonostante il periodo di crisi economica e le emozioni negative (e positive) vissute dagli shopper e riconosciute dalla letteratura. Attraverso un approccio costruttivista i miei risultati principali dimostrano come la Consumer Ambivalence non sia sempre uno stato emotivo da rifuggire ma qualcosa a cui tendere e sfruttare. Concludo affermando come questo stato emozionale multiplo sia spesso inevitabile e parte intrinseca nelle esperienze di shopping ad elevata connotazione emotiva. / My thesis is composed by three papers that have a common theme: Consumer Ambivalence in Shopping Experience. The general starting point is that Consumer Ambivalence has always been perceived as something to avoid because it decreases relevant consumer outcomes (e.g. satisfaction and loyalty). However, some evidences in literature suggest that, particularly in some service experiences, this construct is trivialized. The main research goal is to explore the role of Consumer Ambivalence in different shopping experiences, investigating how this construct can impact on shopping behaviors, considering perceptions, discourses, emotions and experiences of both shoppers and company personnel. I chose two settings of investigation which are favorable contexts to identify different mixed emotions: luxury shopping experience and ethical shopping experience. Both industries are particular relevant because their consumer market value is still increasing despite the current period of economic crisis and literature evidences of negative (and positive) emotions felt by shoppers. Through a constructivist epistemological approach, my main findings elicit that Consumer Ambivalence can be an emotional state which has not to be rejected, but rather be something to aim for. Moreover, I argue that this mixed emotional state is essentially unavoidable and is intrinsically part of high affect shopping experiences.

This thesis studies Chinua Achebe’s novel No Longer at Ease from a postcolonial perspective, specifically concentrating on its protagonist, the colonized Obi Okonkwo, and his antagonist, the colonizer Mr Green, using the theories of the literary critic Homi Bhabha. It argues that these two characters are hybrids in their ambivalent contact zone by demonstrating firstly, the coinciding presence of reciprocal feelings of sympathy/admiration and contempt, and secondly, that they are culturally cross-bred individuals. Additionally, this thesis examines the mimicry of Obi and reveals that it can be either strategic or subconscious in nature. It concludes that both mimicry and mockery have the potential to destabilize the structural power-imbalance between colonizer and colonized, thereby challenging colonial authority.

Studiens syfte är att undersöka fenomenet föräldraalienation ur ett professionellt perspektiv. Fokuset är på hur professionella som arbetar med barn och familjer kan se en distinktion mellan konsekvenserna och beteendet hos barn, vid berättigat avståndstagande och föräldraalienation, samt dilemmat som finns i användandet av föräldraalienation. Studien undersöker även hur dessa professionella kan hantera ärenden där föräldraalienation förekommer. För att besvara de två övergripande frågeställningarna har fem semistrukturerade intervjuer genomförts. I studien har bekvämlighetsurval, målinriktat urval samt snöbollsurval använts för att finna intervjupersonerna. Intervjuerna har sedan tematiseras och analyserats med ett abduktivt tillvägagångssätt. Resultatet diskuteras även i relation till generell systemteori och ekologisk systemteori.   Resultatet av studien visar att det saknas en kunskapsgrund kring fenomenet och att det därmed finns en brist i strategier över hur professionella arbetar med dessa typer av ärenden. Däremot finns en kunskap kring barns agerande vid konflikter och våld. Denna kunskap kan överföras till arbetet med föräldraalienation, då de beteenden som skiljer sig kan skapa en distinktion. / The aim of this study was to examine the phenomenon of parental alienation from a professional perspective. The focus was on how professionals that work with children and families can see a distinction between the consequences and actions of children when there is estrangement and parental alienation, as well as the dilemma in using parental alienation. The study also examines how professionals handle cases when there is parental alienation. Five semi-structured interviews have been conducted to answer the studies two main questions. A convenience sample, a goal-oriented sample, and a snowball sample were used to find the participants. The interviews were then thematized and analysed with an abductive approach. The results are also discussed in relation to general systems theory, and ecological systems theory.   The study's results show a lack of knowledge surrounding the phenomenon, and therefore there is a deficiency in strategies on how professionals work with these kinds of cases. However, there is knowledge about how children act in conflicts and when there is domestic violence. This knowledge is assumed to be transferable in working with alienated children, since the actions that differentiate can create a distinction.

The covid-19-pandemic has affected many companies and businesses in society, the retail business being one of them. The pandemic has caused a decrease in sales and many stores have had to make staff reductions. The responsibility of managing the store, as well as managing the changing work conditions, lands in the hands of the store managers. Previous research shows that the middle management position is a vulnerable position where they constantly have to adapt to and handle different interests, particularly during a time full of change. The purpose of the study is to contribute to knowledge about how the covid-19-pandemic affect the store managers work role and leadership, focusing on the conflicting demands and expectations that are integral parts of the middle management position. The empiric material has been gathered through qualitative interviews with store managers in retail, specifically within clothing,cosmetics and shoe retail. The basis for the analysis of the data is a collective theoretical framework regarding sociological ambivalence and sociological coping. The result of the studyshows that the pandemic has resulted in changed work conditions mainly due to temporary and permanent staff reductions. The changed work conditions has led to intensified conflicting demands for the store managers causing them to experience a role conflict, a conflict of values, and conflict between goals and means. Moreover, the study shows that the store managers have handled the conflicting demands and expectations by switching between roles, accepting the intensified demands, seeking support from upper management and co-workers, and to some extent by attempting to make change and set boundaries. The study indicates that the storemanagers work involves incompatible demands and expectations that they are attempting to meet, as a result the store managers feel that they are stretched to their limit. / Den rådande covid-19-pandemin har påverkat många företag och branscher i samhället, däribland handelsbranschen. Pandemin har resulterat i minskad försäljning och många butiker har behövt göra personalneddragningar. Ansvaret för att driva butiken och hantera de förändrade arbetsförhållandena hamnar i knät på butikscheferna. Tidigare forskning visar att mellanchefspositionen är en utsatt position där de ständigt måste förhålla sig till och hantera olika intressen, särskilt under en tid av förändring. Studien syftar därmed till att bidra med kunskap om hur covid-19-pandemin påverkar butikschefens yrkesroll och ledarskap, med ett fokus på de motstridiga krav och förväntningar som inbegrips i mellanchefspositionen. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom kvalitativa intervjuer med butikschefer inom sällanköpshandeln. Grunden för analysen av datamaterialet är ett samlat teoretiskt ramverk om sociologisk ambivalens och sociologisk coping. Studiens resultat visar att pandemin har resulterat i förändrade arbetsförhållanden främst i form av permitteringar och personalneddragningar. De förändrade arbetsförhållandena har lett till en intensifiering av motstridiga krav och förväntningar på butikscheferna vilket gör att de upplever rollkonflikt, värderingskonflikt och konflikt mellan mål och medel. Vidare visar resultatet att butikscheferna hanterat motstridiga krav och förväntningar genom att växla mellanrollfunktioner, acceptera intensifieringen av kraven, söka stöd från ledning och kollegor samt till viss del försöka förändra och sätta gränser. Studien indikerar att butikschefernas arbete präglas av yttre inkompatibla krav och förväntningar som de försöker möta, vilket resulterar i butikschefernas upplevelse av att de vänder ut och in på sig själva.