La Psychologie admet que la volonté puisse être posée comme un point de vue particulier de la vie consciente. Certes, elle est intimement liée à toute la nature de la vie consciente dans des actions synthétiques du vouloir. Mais, si la volonté consciente est l’expression la plus nette de la synthèse, et si d’autre part, la synthèse est une activité, une fonction, nous sommes en droit de penser qu’elle contient dans son essence une part inconsciente. La Volonté est un concept tragique, dans le sens où elle confronte le Sujet avec l’impossible. Elle désigne la part la plus intime du sujet, ce qu’il y a de plus subjectif. En effet, elle n’est pas intégralement délibérative, dans le cas où elle s’articule au symptôme, elle est liée non à la sélection des possibles, mais à l’instauration d’un impossible. Elle est liée à des points de lacune de la structure du sujet, à des points d’interruptions de la répétition dont le Sujet n’a pas conscience. La volonté est le vecteur du désir, il peut y avoir une articulation du désir à la volonté sans pour autant que la volonté soit le Désir. Partant de ces hypothèses nous défendrons l’idée qu’il y a donc des règles et des mécanismes, des processus psychiques qui régissent ce fonctionnement permettant de fait de lui octroyer une assise inconsciente. / The Psychology admits that the will can be raised as a particular point of view of conscious life. It is, of course, intimately connected with the whole nature of conscious life in some synthetic actions of the will. Thus, if the conscious will is the clearest expression of synthesis, and if, on the other hand, synthesis is an activity, a function, we are entitled to deliberate that it deeply encloses an unconscious part. The Will is a tragic concept, in the sense that the Subject faces the impossible. The Will designates the most intimate part of the subject, so the most subjective one. It is not fully deliberative indeed, in the sense that it is anchored to the symptom, it is not related to the selection of the possible, but to the establishment of an impossible. It is connected with some lacunae in the subject’s structure, with some break points of reiteration whose Subject is unaware. The will is the vector of the desire. There may be an articulation of the desire to the will, without implying the will being the Desire. Starting from these hypotheses, we will defend the idea that there are rules and mechanisms, psychic processes that govern this functioning allowing us to grant it an unconscious basis.

The intention of this dissertation is to reprogramme dead or underused urban space in order to create an interactive economic and educational facility. This is achieved by the use of food and architecture acts as the catalysts which activates the dead or underused space. The growth and expansion of cities are uncontrollable, the border between urban and landscape becomes increasingly unclear. Architecture becomes an exhibition of the proposed interventions, between urban and landscape. An existing parking lot in the Pretoria CBD is used to prove that, if an architectural intervention is attached to the existing urban fabric, a space were people can interact and experience the city can be activated. This is a place where the ritual of food and of architecture can be explored. This project revolves around the debate over the impact of the ritual of eating and how architecture is an ingredient in the ritual of eating. The design borrows from the predominant principles of the chef to satisfy the hunger of consumers. The project responds to the context, the conscious and the subconscious. Like a meal, a poem, or a piece of music, it aims to create a feast for the senses. / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Architecture / unrestricted

Computer gaming is an important and growing form of popular media that has many cognitive and social benefits for players. It has also developed a reputation for being a white-male pastime and barring access for people who fall outside of that social grouping. While statistics show that this is increasingly not the case, certain games, particularly those that fall under the category of eSports, do attract largely male player bases. League of Legends is one such game. With Butler's Performativity Theory as a theoretical starting point, a qualitative sociolinguistic study was undertaken into the gendered dynamics of a male-dominated clan of League of Legends players. The data, collected primarily via audio-recordings of player interactions between games, is used as the basis for a sociolinguistic case study that looks at how performativity plays itself out in an environment that is characterised by a strong gender bias. With a focus on a Coloured female gamer in a League of Legends team, this paper explores the ways in which she and her teammates construct their own genders within this particular sociolinguistic context. The relationship between identity and desire, which has been a point of debate in sociolinguistics, is discussed in the context of the clan's interactions. Here I focus on the debate between Cameron and Kulick on the one hand and Bucholtz and Hall on the other. The paper looks into ways in which desire and identity interact with each other during sociolinguistic interaction. Moreover, issues around the construction of gender, race and sexuality are central to the study. The paper uses the data collected to look into the ways that social identities are collaboratively constructed, and contested. The discussion shows that while the team members replicate the gender binary, they do so by simultaneously reifying and challenging gendered norms. The study provides a compelling look into the ways in which gender identities are played with in interaction, and sheds some light on the fluidity of performative identity while simultaneously sketching out the ways that such performance is limited by its environment.

Cette thèse expose les caractéristiques formelles et substantielles d’un ensemble littéraire appelé « dramaturgies de la sidération ». Elle s’inscrit dans le prolongement des recherches de Jean-Pierre Sarrazac et de Catherine Naugrette sur la poétique du drame moderne et contemporain. Les pièces du corpus étudié ici ont pour point commun de présenter des situations fictionnelles bloquées où l’usage de la parole vient suppléer l’apparente inertie du corps des personnages. L’action dramatique y est mise en suspens, le temps et l’espace de la fiction y sont marqués par de multiples effets de clôture et les personnages y témoignent aussi bien de leur incapacité à agir que de leur difficulté de se sentir exister.A travers un cycle de création intitulé La crise du désir – états de suspension, espaces d’incertitudes et comprenant six mises en scène réalisées entre 2013 et 2016, Lena Paugam s’interroge sur le rapport entre sidération et désir dans les dramaturgies modernes et contemporaines. Envisageant la notion de présence comme un processus consistant à se projeter en permanence au-delà du présent, vers un futur immédiat, le désir est ici considéré comme un outil conceptuel au service de la mise en scène. Il permet de travailler sur le rapport de l’acteur à la temporalité de la représentation théâtrale. Depuis l’examen attentif des données littéraires des œuvres dramatiques de son corpus, jusqu’à la description de ses réalisations scéniques, en passant par l’exposé des problématiques nées au cœur des répétitions, cette thèse retrace le déploiement d’une démarche artistique qui s’appuie sur la notion de désir pour accompagner le travail technique des acteurs dans une approche musicale du jeu et de l’interprétation théâtrale. / Pas de résumé disponible.

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Within the pages of Eliza Haywood's novels, masquerade is often used by female characters as a means by which to gain control or power. More specifically, Haywood's female characters often misrepresent themselves as a means by which to achieve sexual power and even to obtain sexual gratification. Haywood also explores the theme of women's uses of deception and even disguise as methods by which to skirt the confines of a male dominated society and as modes devoted to escaping the boundaries they inflict upon themselves in trying to maintain their virtue.

The first chapter consists of an overview of the southern plantation as it survives in cultural imagination, especially in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind. The second chapter discusses A Streetcar Named Desire and how Williams reimagines the plantation in an urban setting through the New Orleans Marigny neighborhood. The third chapter examinesWilliams’s reinvention of the rural plantation in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The conclusion explores how Williams’s work is used as a blueprint in representing the plantation in postsouthern literature and culture.

Tinnitus is a common condition, characterized by the perception of ringing or noises in the head without an external source, that impacts numerous individuals worldwide, including those in Canada. The variability in tinnitus distress levels is thought to stem, at least in part, from diverse personality traits and the resulting emotional reactions to the condition. This study contributes to the growing body of research investigating the individuality of tinnitus sufferers and seeks to shed light on specific factors that contribute to their levels of associated distress. The investigation focused on two main factors: Desire for Control (an individual’s general inclination to assert control over life events) and Self-Efficacy for Tinnitus Management (confidence in effectively handling and managing tinnitus). The primary objective was to uncover any associations among these two factors and a patient's level of tinnitus distress. By understanding how these constructs interrelate, a deeper understanding of contributions to distress among those grappling with tinnitus can be gained. The significance of this research lies in its potential to enhance the support and interventions provided to tinnitus patients by healthcare professionals. An online survey collected responses from 130 Canadian adults regarding their health status and experiences with tinnitus. The study confirmed a robust correlation between the Self-Efficacy for Tinnitus Management Questionnaire (SETMQ) scores and the extent of distress experienced by individuals with tinnitus. The SETMQ, therefore, holds promise as a valuable instrument for identifying domains in which patients could benefit from additional support to alleviate their tinnitus-related distress. The study also revealed that there was no correlation between generalized desire for control and tinnitus-related distress. These results suggest the need for a new Desirability for Control scale similar in tinnitus-specificity to the SETMQ. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc) / Tinnitus comes from the Latin verb “tinnire” which means “to ring”. It is often described as a persistent ringing in the ears that has no external source. Some, but not all, people find their tinnitus debilitating. This study examined whether people who strongly desire control but lack confidence in managing their tinnitus, experience higher stress because of it, compared to those with lower control needs or higher self-confidence. The results showed that having confidence in managing tinnitus is correlated with having lower distress, but there is no definite conclusion regarding the need for control. The results of this study suggest that a new method to measure the desire for control in a context specific to tinnitus is needed.

This dissertation is structured in such a way as to gradually home in on the true theory of welfare. I start with the whole field of possible theories of welfare and then proceed by narrowing down the options in a series of steps. The first step, undertaken in chapter 2, is to argue that the true theory of welfare must be what I call a partly response independent theory. First I reject the entirely response independent theories because there are widely-shared intuitions suggesting that some psychological responses are indeed relevant to welfare. Then I reject the entirely response dependent theories because there are other central intuitions suggesting that our welfare is not determined solely by our psychological responses. Thus I reach the preliminary conclusion that welfare must involve some response independent (or objective) component. The next step is to consider the most promising theories in the partly response independent category. In particular, I formulate, refine and ultimately reject what seem to be the main monistic theories that have been proposed in this category. In chapter 4, I reject the Adjusted-Enjoyment Theories of Welfare because they cannot account for the claim that a life containing no pleasure or pain can still contain a positive amount of welfare (e.g. if it’s a particularly successful life). Then in chapters 5-7, I discuss Desire Satisfaction theories of welfare. I argue that even the most promising of these theories – e.g. Worthiness Adjusted Desire Satisfactionism – are problematic because they cannot accommodate the claim that a life containing no success with respect to worthwhile projects can still contain a positive amount of welfare (e.g. if it’s a particularly pleasant life). Finally, I suggest that in order to accommodate the intuitions that led to the rejection of all these other theories of welfare, what is needed is a multi-component theory. In the final chapter, I formulate a multi-component theory that is particularly promising. Not only does it avoid the problems of the monistic theories discussed earlier, but, by incorporating a number of novel mathematical devices, it avoids problems that undermine several other initially promising multi-component theories of welfare.