The Roman de Thèbes and Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide are romances of an Anglo-Norman tradition, which were crafted during the second half of the 12th-century. The Roman de Thèbes, most probably created during the 1150s, is an anonymous reworking of Statius' first-century Thebaïd and relates the story of the battle between Greeks and Thebans, which breaks out because Oedipus' sons fight over their inherited lands. Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide, an Arthurian romance, was created in ca. 1170 and culminates with the coronation of Erec as the new king of his lands. Both of these texts therefore deal with questions of land inheritance and were, very significantly, written during important stages in Henry II's career, as it was during this time frame that Henry II (1133-1189) gained dominance in the British Isles as well as in western continental Europe. My thesis will discuss these works separately, devoting the subsequent section to the ekphrastic accounts featured in the Roman de Thèbes. This chapter will focus on mappa mundi and Amphiareus' chariot and will discuss how these moments mirror the ambitions of Henry II during the early stages of his reign. Moreover, the penultimate section will then move on to discuss the coronation scene featured in Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide, with a special emphasis on Erec's robe. This discussion will also examine how this scene mirrors the historical occurrences in of the late 1160s, during which time Henry tried to establish his authority in Brittanny. Ultimately, I will attempt to weave these moments together to provide a comprehensive reading of these ekphrastic accounts.

L’œuvre de Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) est profondément transgressive, autant par les procédés élaborés que par les thèmes investis. Le réseau d’influences nourrissant les expérimentations plastiques de l’artiste est com-plexe et nous verrons comment certains de ses points nodaux tel que le fétichisme sont métaphorisés au sein de ses techniques photographiques et picturales. Il s’agira également de comprendre pourquoi les images et les discours qu’elles produisent apparaissent aujourd’hui comme précurseurs d’une conception queer de l’identité, du corps et des sexualités. Par ailleurs, une telle recherche pose la question du regard porté sur ses œuvres et de la contextualisation de celui-ci. Nous avons eu recours à une méthodologie d’analyse similaire à celle employée par William F. Edmiston dans Sade Queer Theorist et reposant sur de réguliers retours aux œuvres et aux textes issus des notes et des correspondances de l’artiste. Nous avons choisi d’articuler notre thèse selon deux mouvements, similaires à ceux structurant le processus créatif de l’artiste. La première partie repose sur l’analyse d’une extension au-delà du corps de l’artiste. Masques et prothèses sont employés en tant qu’outils de modification corporelle et participent à l’expression d’une authenticité dans l’artifice. Les créa-tures que Molinier compose à partir de photographies de lui- même et de ses modèles traduisent le passage de la multiplicité à l’unité et donnent à voir des anatomies dissidentes. La seconde partie, répondant à la précédente, correspond à un mouvement de contraction. D’une part, son rapport à l’autre s’établit sur le mode de l’absorption, l’artiste conçoit le caractère ductile des corps et les emploie comme matériaux de création. D’autre part, les expérimentations autoérotiques occupent une place primordiale dans le paradigme molinien qui s’approprie le vocabulaire visuel du Bdsm. Chez Molinier, le corps se révèle dans une matérialité créatrice à partir de laquelle l’artiste- alchimiste donne naissance à des créatures hybrides, incarnant son idéal de fluidi-té de l’identité et des sexualités. Pierre Molinier vient perturber des systèmes binaires et normatifs tant dans ses pratiques autoérotiques que dans leur mode de représentation. Construisant un langage de l’intime et du corps, il en reconfigure la forme et les fonctions, alliant mascarade et transgression vers de nouvelles corpo-réités / Pierre Molinier's (1900-1976) art is fundamentally transgressive, regarding as much the process he elaborates as the topics he addresses. The artist's experiments are built on a complex network of influences, and we will explore how some of its nodal points - such as fetishism - are metaphorized in his photographic and pictorial techniques. This thesis deals with an understanding of how the images and the discourses they produce nowa-days appear to us as a proto-queer idea of identity, embodiment and sexualities. Furthermore, our research interrogates the perception of his works and their contextualization. Our analysis methodology is quite similar to the one that William F. Edmiston develops in Sade Queer Theorist, and is based on a deep look inside of the works and texts taken out of the artist's mail. Our thesis is articulated in two parts, looking alike the artist's creative process. The first part aims to develop the analysis of an outgrowth beyond the artist's body. Masks and prostheses are employed as body modification tools and participate in expressing a kind of authenticity in trickery. The creatures that Molinier builds based on his own photographs point out the path from multiplicity to unity and offer us to look at dissenting anatomies. The second part answers to the first and matches a movement of contraction. On the one side, the artist's relationship with the other is established on an absorp-tion mode, he understands the bodies ductile nature and uses them as creation materials. On the other side, auto- erotical experimentations take a firsthand place in the molinian paradigm, which reclaim the visual vo-cabulary of BDSM. In Molinier’s work, the body is shown as a creative materiality, on which the artist-alchemist builds in order to give birth to hybrid creatures, that embody his ideal of identity and sexualities fluidity. Pierre Molinier disrupts binaries and normativity, through both his auto-erotical practices and their mode of representation. Developing a language of the intimacy and the body, he redesigns their form and functions, combining masquerade and transgression, toward new embodiments

Feederism is a fat fetish subculture that eroticizes eating, feeding, and gaining weight. This thesis attempts to explain the practice of Feederism using an evolutionary approach. Chapter one examines the historical and cross-cultural meaning of fat and its association with fertility, health, and beauty. Chapter one also reviews the current literature on fat admiration and Feederism, and introduces some possible explanations for what Feederism is, and how it can be conceptualized. Chapter two describes a case study that was conducted on a female member of the Feederism community. The results of this case study add support to the hypothesis that Feederism is paraphilic. Chapter three describes a psychophysiological study that tested how members of the general population respond to and rate feeding stimuli. This study was conducted to determine whether Feederism is an exaggeration of a more normative and functional mate selection strategy. The results of this study demonstrate that males and females both respond to and rate feeding stimuli similarly. No definitive conclusions were drawn with respect to the exaggeration hypothesis, because, although participants did subjectively rate the feeding stimuli as more sexually arousing than neutral stimuli, they did not genitally respond to the feeding stimuli significantly more than to the neutral stimuli. Chapter four summarizes the results of the two studies and discusses how these finding might inform future research on paraphilias, courtship, and intimacy. / viii, 128 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm

A report on social consequences of neoliberal trade policies and the commodification of food, and the international efforts of small farmers to counteract the worst of these consequences. Social justice movements like fair trade and local food have emerged with the aim to expose the direct impacts on food producers. These movements co-exist while achieving their respective and mutual goals. Themes explored are: the fight against neoliberal globalization and mainstream trade, labour practices (workers' rights, fair wages, safe work environments,) sustainability (environmental practices, food security,) community and economic development and consumer awareness of aforementioned issues. Although these are global issues, close attention is paid to recent mobilization efforts in Canada and Manitoba among small food producers, farmers’ unions and related non-government organizations.

This thesis conducts a conceptual genealogy of love in sociological thought. It traces the passage of a positive logic of love: a disappearing logic conceived in Goethe's art, cultivated from the social science of Comte and Marx to classical non/Marxist sociology, and finally extinguished by late/modern reflexive sociology. Recovering the lineage of Comte, Durkheim and Parsons, it defends an economic politics of love in the positivist tradition against the political culture of classical sociology and the bio-politics of current sociology. After the demise of Marxist political economy, it examines a new order of love transversal to the socialist and capitalist organizations. The tripartite thesis argues that the sociological tradition has been tarrying with a social order of love evolved from Goethe's ethic of death and renunciation. This order expresses a disorganizing phenomenology of fate as the modern world traverses from the fated causes. to fatal consequences of love. In the causal loop, the fated-fatal order of love encounters the act, freedom and risk in a multiple unfolding of reality with minimal difference. Part I explores how a religious-political belief of fetishism practiced by Comte and Marx comes across its fate in the historical act. Part 11 explicates why a cultural-political calling for fraternity theorized by classical non/Marxist sociologists runs up against its fate in sexual freedom. Part Ill reveals that a bio-political interest in reflexivity methodized by late/modern sociologists tumbles upon its fate in social risk. In conclusion, however, the thesis suggests that an event of posthumous life after the liberation of humanity continues to occur in a state of emergency because the passion for fate escalating from social science to sociology is driven by an unrequited love of Humanity.

A report on social consequences of neoliberal trade policies and the commodification of food, and the international efforts of small farmers to counteract the worst of these consequences. Social justice movements like fair trade and local food have emerged with the aim to expose the direct impacts on food producers. These movements co-exist while achieving their respective and mutual goals. Themes explored are: the fight against neoliberal globalization and mainstream trade, labour practices (workers' rights, fair wages, safe work environments,) sustainability (environmental practices, food security,) community and economic development and consumer awareness of aforementioned issues. Although these are global issues, close attention is paid to recent mobilization efforts in Canada and Manitoba among small food producers, farmers’ unions and related non-government organizations.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Communication, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-51).

SILVA, Pedro Rogério Sousa da. Fetichismo, ideologia e educação em Theodor Adorn. 2016. 150f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2016. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-08-04T14:53:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_prssilva.pdf: 838853 bytes, checksum: 9ee29441a72d1b385ea6953923aaa06f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-08-04T16:37:26Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_prssilva.pdf: 838853 bytes, checksum: 9ee29441a72d1b385ea6953923aaa06f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-04T16:37:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_prssilva.pdf: 838853 bytes, checksum: 9ee29441a72d1b385ea6953923aaa06f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / This paper investigated the concepts of fetishism, ideology and education in Adorno. For so, it is made a support in the theoretical and bibliographical literature and more specifically around the work and the different philosophical, sociological and educational categories of the above mentioned thinker, as well as his interlocutors and commentators. It is outlined, this way, the emergence and spread of the concept of fetishism by several authors such as Charles de Brosses, Marx, Freud and Adorno, among others. It is sketched, then Marx's point of intersection with Adorno about fetishism. It is argued, as well, fetishism in classical music and the dualism between two composers - Schoenberg and Stravinsky - as well as the musical element and their correlation with the Fetishism of Cultural Goods in Adorno, showing that the investigation of the music is a major problem which means contradiction to the Adornian thought. It is researched, moreover, the concept of beauty, showing, in a summary form, its spread in the course of the history of philosophy as well as contemporary aesthetic in Adorno, outlining some artistic currents, their impacts and purposes. We point out another appropriation of Adorno`s made against the author of Capital, namely, the concept of ideology, however, made in a divergent, and distinct way compared to the understanding of Marx. Besides that, it is analyzed the link between Adorno and Benjamin, that means, the convergences and divergences of the German philosophers about some concepts. They ascertain promptly the torment of Auschwitz, showing their origin, social and educational consequences. It is argued, moreover, how education can prevent in order to avoid that the case of Auschwitz is not repeated. It is examined, afterthought, the criticism made by Adorno to an instrumental, technical and quantitative education. Conversely, based on Adorno, it is thought to be a non-identical education at the prevailing logic, recovering the aspect of autonomy and human emancipation. They talk, finally, about the conflict between two concepts in the educational context, namely, training and semi training. / Investigam-se os conceitos de fetichismo, ideologia e Educação em Adorno. Para tanto, este escrito é apoiado na pesquisa teórica e bibliográfica, mais especificamente, em torno da obra e das diversas categorias filosóficas, sociológicas e educacionais do Pensador supracitado, como também de seus interlocutores e comentadores. Delineiam-se, por essa via, o surgimento e a difusão do conceito de fetichismo por diversos autores, tais como Charles de Brosses, Marx, Freud e Adorno, entre outros. Esboça-se, em seguida, o ponto de interseção de Marx com Adorno acerca do fetichismo. Discutem-se, com efeito, o fetichismo na música erudita e o dualismo entre dois compositores – Schoenberg e Stravinsky – bem como o elemento musical e suas correlações com o Fetichismo da Mercadoria Cultural em Adorno, mostrando que a investigação acerca da música constitui um problema importante, que implica a contradição para o pensamento adorniano. Pesquisa-se, ademais, o conceito de belo, mostrando, de modo sintético, sua propagação no curso da História da Filosofia, bem como a estética contemporânea em Adorno, delineando algumas correntes artísticas, seus impactos e propósitos. Aponta-se outra apropriação de Adorno feita em relação ao escritor de O Capital, qual seja, o conceito de ideologia, porém, feita de modo divergente, e distinta, comparativamente à compreensão de Marx. Analisa-se, além disso, o elo entre Adorno e Benjamin, isto é, as convergências e as divergências dos filósofos alemães a respeito de algumas conceituações. Averigua-se, prontamente, o tormento de Auschwitz, mostrando sua origem, consequências sociais e educacionais. Discute-se, outrossim, de que modo a Educação pode evitar para que Auschwitz não se repita. Examina-se, a posteriori, a crítica feita por Adorno à Educação portadora de um caráter instrumental, técnico e quantitativo. De modo contrário, com base em Adorno, pensa-se uma educação não idêntica à lógica vigente, recuperando o aspecto da autonomia e da emancipação humana. Reporta-se, por fim, ao conflito entre dois conceitos, no âmbito educacional – formação e semiformação.

O presente trabalho apresenta uma reflexão crítica sobre a Nova República, período que se inicia com o fim do regime ditatorial em 1985. A partir de uma análise estrutural do capitalismo dependente brasileiro e das mudanças internacionais causadas pelo neoliberalismo e a globalização, demonstro como o período atual da história brasileira aprofundou as desigualdades sociais e a dependência econômica, inviabilizando a construção de um regime verdadeiramente democrático. A partir das reflexões de pensadores como Ruy Mauro Marini, Darcy Ribeiro e Atílio Boron traço um quadro teórico sobre a reestruturação capitalista no Brasil com a implementação das políticas neoliberais, o fetichismo democrático e o caráter conservador que domina as decisões políticas do período entre 1985 e 2002. / The present work presents a critical reflection about the New Republic, historical period in Brazil that starts with the dictatorial regime collapse in 1985. From a structural analysis of the Brazilian dependent capitalism e and the international changes made by neoliberalism and globalization, I demonstrate how the current period of Brazilian history deepened social inequality and economic dependence, preventing the construction of a truly democratic regime. From the reflections of thinkers like Ruy Mauro Marini, Darcy Ribeiro and Atilio Boron trace a theoretical framework of capitalist restructuring in Brazil with the implementation of neoliberal policies, fetishism democratic and conservative character who dominates the political decisions of the period between 1985 and 2002.

O objeto desta pesquisa é a estrutura perversão e seus desdobramentos na relação com o gozo, abarcando o fetichismo e o masoquismo como os dois paradigmas dessa estrutura. Seu objetivo central é investigar como a Verleugnung e o gozo se conjugam para manter as duas modalidades de gozo perverso acima descritas. Seus objetivos complementares procuram estabelecer a genealogia do pai em Freud e a intrínseca relação que o Urvater possui com a fantasia perversa. A primeira parte da dissertação versa sobre a perversão como estrutura clínica, elaboração proposta por Jacques Lacan. Nela é discutida a questão do simbólico, onde uma lei opera para que o discurso seja o veículo através do qual um diagnóstico em psicanálise seja proposto. Do simbólico, a dissertação concentra-se no gozo, no capítulo seguinte, a fim de elaborar de uma diferença estrutural mais fidedigna entre neurose, psicose e perversão. Em seguida, a pesquisa entra na questão da Verleugung do gozo como uma possível aproximação entre o fetichismo e o masoquismo como paradigmas da estrutura perversa. / The object of this research aims to investigate perversion and its implications in its relation to jouissance, encompassing fetishism and masochism as the two paradigms of perversion. Its main objective centers upon the investigation of how Verleugnung and jouissance, combined, act to keep the two paradigms, aforementioned, the key references to perversion. Its second objective relies upon the establishment of the genealogy of the father in Freuds work as well as its intrinsic relation to what role Urvater plays in the perverse fantasy. In the first part of the research, emphasis is given to perversion as a structure, a theory proposed by Jacques Lacan. Still in this part of the investigation, the realm of the symbolic is depicted in order to enhance the law that operates in a discourse, a vehicle by which a psychoanalytic diagnosis is proposed. From the symbolic realm, the research centers upon Jouissance, in chapter two, so as to elaborate a more accurate strucutural diagnosis among neurosis, psychosis and perversion. Last but not least, the research investigates the Verleugnung of Jouisance as a possible approach to place both fetishism and masochism under the same paradigm of perversion.