Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Philosophy, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1987. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-77). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

In The Walls We Build, the wall acts as a metaphor for the walls we build within ourselves and outside of our selfs. Walls creating separation and alienation, leading to an increasingly polarized society. In this thesis I will be investigating the wall from a material as well as a non-material standpoint. By building a wall out of glass I hope to be able to activate thoughts about what a wall is and what it does to us, and how the inner and outer walls are influencing each other.

One way critical educators can understand and orient to Paulo Freire's work and the tradition he inspired is by turning their attention to the alienation and affirmation of what he describes as the "ontological vocation of being human." In this dissertation, I read across Freire's work in order to synthesize what I argue are three central commitments of his ontological vocation: 1) that the self/world are sociohistoric and 2) unfinished, and 3) that the human presence is historic. Next, I read Paulo Freire's more famous "banking" and "problem-posing" models of education through the lens of these commitments in order to demonstrate each as metonyms that stand in for his larger interests in alienating and humanizing cultural action. Finally, I argue that Deanna Fassett and John T. Warren's critical communication pedagogy can be a generative framework through which teachers and researchers can recognize and arrest the alienation of the ontological vocation.

In this thesis I develop an account of Marx's concept of "freedom" through its relation to other key concepts in Marx's work. First, I distinguish Marx's understanding of "freedom" from historical liberal conceptions of freedom, or "liberty," and show that Marx has a concrete understanding of freedom. This leads to a close analysis of Marx's concept of freedom primarily through two texts, the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, and the later Grundrisse. Although in both dimensions of the problem I utilize the relation of the concept of "freedom"' to the concepts of "alienation"-- which gives aspects of freedom through its obverse relation to freedom, and "human essence"--which underlies both concepts but is given through them as well, the problem is developed differently in each due the orientation of each text. I give further aspects of Marx's understanding of "freedom" through an analysis of Marx's account of capitalism and exchange value. After having developed an account of Marx's concept of "freedom," I explore avenues for developing a viable Marxism and the grounds of possibility for the realization of freedom.

I begin by discussing structural alienation in the United States and its relationship to the pursuit of romantic love. I argue that romantic love is idealized due the lack of community inherent in a competitive, individualistic society; the romantic partner becomes a replacement for the community individuals once relied on for material and psychological needs. Despite the allure of romantic love, the norms and values associated with it often undermine the development of intimacy, as does the larger society in which the relationship is situated. I refer to this phenomenon as the romantic contradiction. I then discuss some of the factors that contribute to the romantic contradiction, such as the commodification of relationships in a market-based economy, impression management in dating, and the role of gender in heterosexual relationships. Central to this dissertation, I investigate the dominant ideology of romantic love by conducting a textual analysis of the ten most popular romantic comedies and self-help books on romantic relationships from 2006-2010. My findings suggest the dominant ideology of romantic love promotes long-term, monogamous relationships as the primary way to meet a person’s psychological and physical needs. Furthermore, the ideal relationship is based on gendered needs and responsibilities: men are expected to provide material and physical protection, while women are expected to provide emotional support and sexual intimacy. The ideology encourages a dependency between women and men and various forms of inequality. It also reinforces individualism in relationships by placing greater emphasis on meeting needs rather than developing intimacy (e.g. knowledge, empathy) for its own sake. I conclude with a discussion of competitive individualism and romantic alienation, and suggest avenues for reducing gender dependency and alienation in relationships.

Submitted by Andrea Hayashi (deachan@gmail.com) on 2016-06-23T14:48:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao-joao-gilberto-turbiani-da-silva.pdf: 1109241 bytes, checksum: fe0dd11b583355512937bd3795a40224 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Andrea Hayashi (deachan@gmail.com) on 2016-06-23T14:49:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao-joao-gilberto-turbiani-da-silva.pdf: 1109241 bytes, checksum: fe0dd11b583355512937bd3795a40224 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-23T14:49:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao-joao-gilberto-turbiani-da-silva.pdf: 1109241 bytes, checksum: fe0dd11b583355512937bd3795a40224 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04 / O presente estudo tem por temática apresentar uma análise da Teoria do romance, de György Lukács, concentrando-se em um dos conceitos centrais dessa obra que é o de “homem cindido”, por meio do qual o autor realiza o diagnóstico do homem moderno: alienado diante de suas próprias criações e moralmente cindido. Lukács faz essa análise simultaneamente à análise literária do romance, ou seja, o autor realiza crítica literária, investiga as possibilidades estéticas da produção do romance e, ao mesmo tempo, esboça uma ética, uma teoria da história e elementos para um sistema filosófico. O tratamento teórico e crítico da produção romanesca é, na verdade, um meio que permite ao autor abordar questões mais existenciais do ser humano. Ao tratar das formas literárias, sobretudo do romance, Lukács aponta para as formas da vida, verificando de que maneira a “vida autêntica” se afastou da vida moldada pelas estruturas sociais. / This study is an introduction to the Theory of the Novel's review, by György Lukács, focusing on two central concepts of this work, which are "splitted man", wherewith the author has made a diagnose about the modern man: alienated by their own creations and morally split. Lukács makes his opinion with simultaneous literary analysis of romance, in other words, the author performs a critical investigation into the aesthetic possibilities of romance's production and, at the same time, outlines an ethical theory of the history and elements for a philosophical system. The theoretical and critic treatment of the romanesque production is, in truth, one medium that allows the author to approach more existential questions of the human being. When treating literary forms, specially romance, Lukács indicates the forms of the life, verifying how the "authentic life" is departed from the life shaped by social structures.

Submitted by PPGE PPGE (pgedu@ufba.br) on 2015-01-09T16:55:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dossertação de Mestrado.pdf.pdf: 1904618 bytes, checksum: c791e3a6e73aa6c2284c81353226c1a9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora da Silva Lopes (silopes@ufba.br) on 2015-01-27T17:56:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dossertação de Mestrado.pdf.pdf: 1904618 bytes, checksum: c791e3a6e73aa6c2284c81353226c1a9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-01-27T17:56:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dossertação de Mestrado.pdf.pdf: 1904618 bytes, checksum: c791e3a6e73aa6c2284c81353226c1a9 (MD5) / Se configurando como ponto de partida da pesquisa, definimos enquanto pergunta síntese: como se manifesta o fenômeno da alienação e estranhamento em uma produção humana de ordem não material, neste caso, na cultura corporal? Destacamos que não se trata de uma questão que surge de nossa cabeça; antes, está ancorada em uma realidade empírica de falta de acesso às produções humanas da cultura corporal. Nosso desafio foi o de entender como uma produçãoque incialmente o produto énão separável do produtor, pode se estranhar deste. Em definindo a pergunta síntese, identificamos que uma revisão bibliográfica nos ofereceria a instrumentalização necessária na busca pela resposta. Para tal, inicialmente recorremos aos clássicos marxianos – notadamente Manuscritos Econômicos de 1844, Sagrada Família e Ideologia Alemã-e textos marxistas por reconhecer que aí encontramos a definição de alienação/estranhamento por excelência. Coube uma análise diferenciada entre os fenômenos da alienação (Entausserung) e estranhamento (Entfremdung) entendendo-os a partir da determinação de um pelo outro. Após, a partir de um estudo ontológico, definimos a cultura corporal como atividade humana de caráter não material em que o produto é, inicialmente, não separável do produtor; afasta-se aparentemente do trabalho enquanto intercâmbio orgânico sem deixar de ser determinada pelo modo de produção. No terceiro e último capítulo sintetizamos a discussão relacionando o fenômeno do estranhamento no campo da cultura corporal. Apontamos as expressões objetivas e subjetivas do fenômeno. Ao fim destacamos que aquilo que inicialmente é não separável do produtor, por conta das determinações históricas, tem sua estrutura modificada, transita para o campo das produções separáveis onde o sentido passa a não corresponder com o significado e passa a se constituir enquanto mais uma das mercadorias a serem trocadas no grande mercado. Isto inevitavelmente causa uma limitação no acesso. O produtor se estranha do produto, do processo e do gênero humano. Esta expressão objetiva encontra correspondência no campo da subjetividade onde o processo de apropriação da cultura corporal se dá a partir de uma apropriação em-si, uma identificação espontânea, tendo-as não como suas produções, mas sim como pressupostos de sua atividade, ou seja, a cultura corporal se estranha ao produtor. / ABSTRACT As the starting point of this research defined as the synthesis question: how does the phenomenon of alienation and estrangement manifest itself in a non-material culture, in that case, in the body culture? We have distinguished that it is not about a question that sprouts up from our mind; otherwise, it is built on an empirical reality related to the absence of access to the human productions of the body culture. Our challenge was to understand how a production, which initially its result is non-separable from its producer, might estrange itself from the other one. Having defined the synthesis question we identified that a bibliographic review would offer us the necessary apparatus in search of this answer. For this, at the very beginning, we resorted to the Marxian classics – especially The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, The Holy Family and The German Ideology – and other Marxist texts for recognizing that there we found the definition of the phenomena of alienation (Entäußerung) and estrangement (Entfremdung) understanding them from the determination of each other. After that, as of an ontological study, we defined the body culture as a human activity featuring a non-material aspect in which the product is, initially, non-separable from the producer; put itself apparently away from the labor as an organic exchange shall not long be determined by the mode of production. In the third and in the last chapter we summarized the discussion relating the phenomenon of estrangement in the field of the body culture. We pointed to the objective and subjective expression of the phenomenon. Lastly, we highlighted that what primarily is not separable from the producer, due to the historical determinations, has its structure modified, and shifts itself to the field of the separable productions in which the sense does not correspond with the meaning and constitutes itself as one more commodity to be changed in the great market. This unavoidably causes a limitation in the access. The producer estranges himself from the product, from the process and from the human gender. This expression aims to meet a correspondence in the subjectivity field in which the process of appropriation of the body culture takes place from an appropriation itself, a spontaneous identity understanding them not as your productions but so as a presumption of his activity, it means, the body culture estranges itself to the producer.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:08:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 tavares_lat_me_assis.pdf: 632673 bytes, checksum: b47154225f79730c91b3e782980521b9 (MD5) / Atualmente, ouvimos demasiadamente o significante “depressão” ecoar nos mais variados contextos e, em especial, naqueles que se dedicam ao atendimento de questões relacionadas à saúde mental. Diante disso, torna-se relevante o contínuo pensar e repensar a respeito dessa modalidade de subjetivação e/ou “mal-estar” contemporâneo. O interesse pelo tema proposto nasceu da prática clínica cotidiana em Saúde Pública, realizada num Centro de Saúde (CS-III) de uma cidade do interior de São Paulo. Nossa problemática assentou-se no intuito de compreender a exacerbada medicalização da depressão na atualidade, especificamente os impactos subjetivos provocados por tais intervenções. Utilizamos de uma metodologia qualitativa cujo método clínico psicanalítico nos permitiu trabalhar no resgate de fragmentos clínicos, sendo estes constituídos com base nas reminiscências do próprio pesquisador, de maneira que selecionamos para a pesquisa aqueles casos em que o paciente se dizia depressivo e insatisfeito com relação ao tratamento medicamentoso. O interesse por tais casos deve-se ao fato destes apresentarem evidências que contradizem as perspectivas amplamente disseminadas na atualidade, que atestam um diagnóstico necessariamente patológico acompanhado das prescrições medicamentosas, na mesma medida em que este “mal-estar” se mostrou como um fator significativo capaz de impulsionar a busca de psicoterapia por parte dos pacientes. Nossa constatação na prática clínica cotidiana de que a maioria dos casos diagnosticados como “depressão” sempre está acompanhada da indicação do uso cotidiano de psicofármacos, e que ainda... / At present, we can hear too much the meaning “depression” echoes on several contexts, including, in that devotes themselves to the treatment of questions relating to the mental healthy. Faced with this kind of situation, it becomes relevant the continuous thought about this form of subjective and/or contemporary “uncomfortable”. The interest about this subject was born from the clinical day-to-day practice in Public Healthy, done in a Health Center (HC-III) from a small city of the country of São Paulo. Our meanly problem took place of having felling to understand the excessive “use of medicines” about depression at the moment, specifying the subjective impacts caused by the mentioned interventions. We used a quality methodology that psychoanalysis clinic method allowed us to work on the rescue of clinic fragments, where they are made based on things that left over by the own searcher, in a way that it was selected for the search that cases where the patient told about himself in a depressive and dissatisfaction related to the medicine treatment. The interest by this kind of cases comes into because this situation presents some clearness that contradict the perspectives largely publicized in the present time, that claim a diagnosis essentially pathologic followed by medicines prescriptions compared to the uncomfortable showed itself like a manfully fact that is able to impulse the search for the psychotherapy by the patients. Our verification related to the day-to-day practice about the most of the cases verified like depression is always followed by the indication of the day-to-day... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Defendemos nesta dissertação que formas radicais de controle de si pela superação do sofrimento físico e das necessidades corporais são respostas subjetivas à configuração do modo de vida social contemporâneo. Modo de vida cujo núcleo está no que autores marxistas chamam de alienação e de fetichismo da mercadoria. Procuraremos examinar o fenômeno que em psiquiatria ganhou o nome de anorexia nervosa ou anorexia mental como uma dessas respostas que, ao mesmo tempo em que renega esse modo de vida, acaba por reafirmar algumas de suas premissas centrais. / We intend to defend that radical forms of self-control by overcoming physical suffering and bodily needs are subjective responses to the contemporary form of life. Form of life which core lies in what Marxist authors call alienation and commodity fetishism. We will seek to examine the phenomena in psychiatry called \"anorexia nervosa\" or \"anorexia mental\" as one of those responses that, at the same time denies this form of life, and, on the other hand, reaffirms some of its central assumptions.