Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ENCRUZILHADAS E TRAVESSIAS.pdf: 1409576 bytes, checksum: dbca54edfc328d3027e24e7fb3474205 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-05-20 / This work is based both on specialized literature and field research at Ilê Axé Kalamu Funfum. Its main focus is Candomble, an African-Brazilian initiatic religion based on rituals structured around myths and transmitted orally. In order to study Candomble it is important to define what myths are as well as their meaning in the present time; to define the differences between oral culture and culture transmitted in writing; to define what mythical time is and to shed light on rites that underpin such a religion. Without such definitions, it is not possible to define the followers. The definition of such a person is made possible only by resorting to theoretical tools defined by both anthropology and psychology. It also requires the adoption of a psychological theory that sees spirituality as an integral part of the human psyche. After comparing various approaches and after a discussion about interdisciplinarity as proposed by the bootstrap approach to culture, it is possible to conclude that Stanislav Grof and Ken Wilber s Transpersonal Psychology caters for such needs. Using such a theoretical tool it was possible to analyze trance, the cornerstone of Candomble. In order to reach such a state, its followers go through initiation rites aiming at reconnecting them to primal energies (Orishas). Being the generative energies of all things, Orishas are the transcendent archetypes, in a more platonic sense of the word. They are the building energy of all things and are also the prototypes that exist in the unconscious, and therefore transmit characteristics that are understood by the followers as psychological types. During the rites of initiation, the follower s identity is reconstructed. It remains unique although the connection with the Orishas who form the follower s essence causes the follower to acquire the characteristics of these Orishas. The path of initiation unveils a spiritual, cosmic and primordial essence, always present but ignored, thanks to the rupture between Orum (the world of the Orishas) and Aiyé (the created world). The trance is the moment of reconnection and unity: The Orishas manifest themselves trough their followers and dance and spread their axé. From this point of view, the human being can be defined as a centre of relations, as an individual that is part of a religious group and the Cosmos, as a link in an infinite chain of interrelated events. / Esse trabalho, baseado tanto em literatura especializada quanto na pesquisa de campo realizada no Ilê Axé Kalamu Funfum, enfoca o Candomblé, religião afro-brasileira iniciática baseada em rituais estruturados por mitos transmitidos de forma oral. Para estudá-la, precisamos definir o que são mitos e seu significado nos dias atuais; as diferenças entre cultura oral e cultura literária; definir o que é tempo mítico e esclarecer os ritos que sustentam a religião, sem o que não estaremos aptos a definir quem é o adepto que freqüenta as casas-de-santo . A definição dessa pessoa só é possível pelo cruzamento de instrumentais teóricos definidos pela Antropologia e pela Psicologia; também necessita a adoção de uma teoria psicológica que entenda a espiritualidade como parte integrante da psique humana. A partir do diálogo entre diversas abordagens e da discussão sobre interdisciplinaridade tal como proposta pela abordagem bootstrap da cultura, concluímos que a Psicologia Transpessoal de Stanislav Grof e Ken Wilber atende a essas necessidades. De posse desse instrumental teórico, analisamos o transe, momento axial no Candomblé. Para atingi-lo, seus adeptos submetem-se a ritos de iniciação com o objetivo de religá-los às energias primordiais (os Orixás). Energias geradoras de todas as coisas, os Orixás são arquétipos transcendentes, no sentido platônico do termo; energias constituintes de todas as coisas, são também protótipos existente no inconsciente, transmitindo características entendidas pelos adeptos como tipos psicológicos. Durante os ritos de iniciação, a subjetividade do adepto se reconstrói; apesar de manter-se singular, a conexão com os Orixás que formam sua essência fazem com que adquira as características desses Orixás: todo o trajeto das iniciações revela uma essência espiritual, cósmica, primordial, sempre presente mas ignorada, graças à fratura entre Orum (o mundo dos Orixás) e Aiyé (o mundo criado). O transe é o momento de religação e unidade: os Orixás manifestam-se em seus adeptos, dançam e espalham seu axé. Nessa perspectiva, o ser humano pode ser definido como um centro de relações, um indivíduo parte de um grupo religioso e do Cosmo, um dos elos numa cadeia de eventos intercomunicados e infinita.

This dissertation examines literary modernism as foremost an endeavor that concerns the imagination. Gaston Bachelard, whose studies on material and dynamic imagination provide the theoretical underpinning for the dissertation, defined the imagination as "nothing other than the subject transported inside the things." Reformulation of subject-object relations, clearly suggested in that definition, is indeed an important element in the aesthetics of Bachelard and that of Adorno, another thinker whose thought informs the dissertation. As the principle behind modernist responses to the crisis of the modern world, the crisis Georg Lukács captured in the phrase "transcendental homelessness," reformulation of subject-object relations impels the mobilization of creative energies in the way that may very well be called "the modernist imagination." I first state the premise for the dissertation and situates it in the present landscape of modernist scholarship. Then I examine Adorno and Bachelard at the intersections of their thoughts, in preparation for a theory of the modernist imagination. Next I consider Mrs. Dalloway as a modernist probing of the sensual, in which familiar dualisms – subject vs. object, the external vs. internal, life vs. death, mind vs. body – collapse. Following this, I examine The Magic Mountain as an attempt at what Adorno calls materialist metaphysics. The novel's preoccupation with death in all its aspects, its problematizing of the human body and the imagination of cold are examined in light of Adorno's view on reviving metaphysics in modernity. Then I read in Ulysses water's lyricism, a lyricism learned from water, into which important modernist themes (not least the ones considered previously in the dissertation) converge. Lastly I look at a film – Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris – and a science fiction novel from the 1950s – Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 – in light of what may be called the "philosophy" of modernism. The spirit of modernism – the primacy of the object as a modernist dictum, modernism‘s resistance to identity thinking and its dismantling of dualisms – is shown to continue in genres other than literature and in the period now called "post"-modern.

Le déséquilibre et le désordre du réel ont modifié chez l’homme baroque la vision de son être; leur présence écarte la gratuité de ses actes. Ses fascinations sont des indices révélateurs, ses rejets et ses attachements représentent des témoignages et des messages à déchiffrer. Notre étude essaie d’expliquer les raisons de la fascination de la génération baroque pour l’élément liquide à travers l’examen de l’imaginaire de ses aspects dans l’oeuvre baroque. L’imaginaire ou ce que Gilbert Durand appelle ‘’le capital pensé’’ de l’homme est une entité stratifiée dans la durée, plusieurs facteurs participent à sa structuration. Par conséquent, son examen exige une approche pluridisciplinaire et interdisciplinaire. Grâce aux sciences cognitives qui représentent la voie par laquelle passe l’avenir des recherches sur l’imaginaire selon Philippe Walter, la présente étude essaie d’éclairer l’Imaginaire baroque à travers l’examen de la valeur de l’élément de l’eau dans des textes publiés entre 1580 et 1640. Notre travail utilise quatre des six sciences cognitives qui sont désignées par Georges A. Miller et qui instaurent à travers leurs corrélations des domaines interdisciplinaires. Pour explorer les représentations de cet élément dans le texte baroque avec un objectif qui consiste à leur proposer des explications causales sont indispensablement mobilisées l’anthropologie, la philosophie, la psychologie, et la linguistique. L’imaginaire baroque est reconstitué dans notre recherche grâce aux 5 croisements établis entre les sciences précédentes et les disciplines de l’histoire de l’art, de la critique littéraire, du folklore, de l’ethnologie, de la mythologie, de la sociologie, et de l’histoire des religions. Notre travail examine l’un des aspects de la nature dans l’imaginaire baroque. A travers nos analyses, nous essayons de retracer l’être et l’existence de l’homme baroque grâce aux présences de l’un de leurs constituants dans l’oeuvre de ce dernier. L’élément de l’eau est ce constituant qui représente l’un des aspects de la nature. La problématique dans notre travail, est composée d’un volet qui porte sur la valeur de l’élément de l’eau dans l’oeuvre baroque. Il y a un second volet visant à prouver que l’examen de l’imaginaire représente un outil permettant de cerner les reliefs et les complexités d’un texte baroque et un texte ayant une structure similaire avec celle que possède ce dernier, c’est-à-dire une structure incohérente et non linéaire. Notre recherche aimerait proposer une lecture de l’imaginaire de la matière dans le texte baroque et dans le texte littéraire en général. Elle aimerait démontrer que l’examen distant et interactif des actes de l’homme aide à leur trouver des explications; et que l’examen de l’imaginaire d’une oeuvre qui représente un acte de l’imaginaire de l’homme, aide à cerner ses implicites, les raisons de sa création, et la psychologie qui a dominé les circonstances de sa production. / The imbalance and the chaos in which Baroque man lived, changed his vision of his entourage and at the same time they excluded the gratuitousness of his actions. His fascinations are messages to be deciphered, his rejections and attachments represent revealing clues and testimonials. Our study tries to explain the reasons of the fascination of the baroque generation for the liquid element through the examination of the imaginary of its aspects in the baroque work. The imaginary or what Gilbert Durand calls "thought capital" of man is a hybrid organism, several factors participate in its structuring therefore its examination requires an interdisciplinary approach. Through cognitive science, that represent the future of research on the imagination according to Philippe Walter, this study tries to illuminate the Baroque Imagination through the examination of the value the element of water in the works published between 1580 and 1640. Our work uses four of the six cognitive sciences which are designated by Georges A. Miller and which establish interdisciplinary fields through their correlations. To explore the representations of this element with the Anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and linguistics are indispensable to the objective of offering them causal explanations. The baroque imagination is reconstituted in our work by combining these sciences with the disciplines of the history of art, literary criticism, folklore, ethnology, mythology, sociology, and the history of religions. Our work examines one of the aspects of nature in the baroque work. Through our analyzes we try to trace the being and the existence of baroque man through the manifestations of one of their components in the work of the latter. The element of water which is this component and it represents one of the aspects of nature. The problematic in our work is composed of a component that deals with the value of the element of water in the baroque work. The second part aims to prove that the 7 examination of the imaginary represents a tool that helps to identify the reliefs of a baroque text and a text with a similar structure with the latter, that is to say an incoherent structure and complex. Our research proposes a reading for the imaginary of the material in the literary text. Our study would like to demonstrate that distant and interactive examination of human acts and his works serves to identify their explanations; and that the examination of the imaginary of a work which represents an act of the imaginary of man serves to identify its implicit and the reasons for its creation, and the psychology that dominated the circumstances of its production.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:17:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Simoes Goncalves.pdf: 1489853 bytes, checksum: e3349f2df55540a9fe6d05dfb91010f1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-24 / The purpose of this essay is to investigate the existing tension between the tradition and the modernity within the caipira way of life, by using two basic and complementary methods: the bibliographic research and the field research. The theoretical basis is built on an approximation between the reflection on Brazilian modernity, by the sociologist José de Souza Martins, and the phenomenology of the imagination, by Gaston Bachelard. The field research took place in São Luís do Paraitinga and resulted in the conduction, transcription and analysis of four interviews, all included in this work. The choice of the research subjects, the issues of the interviews and the eventual use of those accounts have been based in the fundamentals of Oral History. The modern Brazilian consciousness is like a path in between two boundaries. Our double consciousness, divided between the modern and the traditional, results on the conjugation of the different life styles which got together to form our own identity. The modern Brazilian consciousness takes place in a game of power in which are summed up customs and values, that are rationalized and urbanocentrics , with the tribality and the rural magic universe. Logic and Poetic Imagination are seen here as symbols of these two distinct ways of being together with reality. This essay is an effort to reach the understanding of the fundamental dynamics existing within our culture, revealed through the subjectivity and the daily caipira style of living, as well as, to perceive how these dimensions are related basing on the so called great lines of History . Built in a direct interaction with some of the residents of São Luís do Paraitinga, these reflections are a way to not only built a brief critical analysis of reality but also to register words and gestures of the ones who, historically, had their voices silenced the women and men from the countryside / A presente dissertação tem como objetivo principal investigar a tensão existente entre tradição e modernidade no interior do modo de vida caipira, a partir de dois pilares básicos e complementares: a pesquisa bibliográfica e a pesquisa de campo. O aporte teórico teve como principal fundamento uma aproximação entre a reflexão sobre a modernidade brasileira feita pelo sociólogo José de Souza Martins e a fenomenologia da imaginação de Gaston Bachelard. Já a pesquisa de campo se desenvolveu no município vale-paraibano de São Luís do Paraitinga e resultou na realização, transcrição e análise de quatro entrevistas, todas incluídas nesta dissertação. A escolha dos sujeitos, as temáticas abordadas nesses encontros e o posterior manuseio das narrativas tiveram como base metodológica os fundamentos da História Oral. A consciência moderna brasileira é uma travessia entre duas margens. Dividida entre o moderno e o tradicional, nossa dupla consciência é uma reunião dos diferentes modos de vida que se mesclaram na formação de nossa identidade. Sobrepondo costumes e valores urbanocêntricos e racionalizados à tribalidade e ao universo rural e mágico que também a constituem, a consciência moderna brasileira se realiza nesse jogo de forças. Razão e imaginação poética aparecem então como símbolos desses dois modos distintos de estar junto à realidade. Esta pesquisa expressa a busca de um início de compreensão sobre como essa dinâmica fundamental de nossa cultura se revela na subjetividade e na vida cotidiana do caipira e como estas dimensões se relacionam na discussão das chamadas grandes linhas da História . Produzida em meio a um convívio direto com o município de São Luís do Paraitinga e parte de seus moradores, o conjunto de reflexões que compõem esta dissertação buscou não só tecer uma breve análise crítica da realidade pesquisada como também deixar registradas palavras e gestos daqueles que, historicamente, têm sua voz silenciada as mulheres e os homens do campo

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Album 1.pdf: 3959290 bytes, checksum: 35e3890cac647623df133d99ce1411d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-23 / La imagen fotogr?fica la imagen despierta pulsiones, en una experiencia provocativa que acciona el campo m?tico-fenomenol?gico desc?frame o te devoro . El texto fotogr?fico no constituye s?lo un momento del real , es mucho m?s que un recorte g?lido del tiempo pasado. Sobretodo, porque la comprensi?n del lenguaje subyacente a la imagen fotogr?fica se coloca dentro y m?s all? de lo meramente dado y/o objetivado . En la comprensi?n de la imagen se disponen reg?menes de subjetivaci?n horadado por c?digos culturales, dominios del lenguaje, s?mbolos, experiencias est?ticas, creaci?n simb?lica, valores, memorias, imaginarios. En ese sentido, surge el estudio, el levantamiento y la sistematizaci?n del acervo fotogr?fico dejado por el fot?grafo autodidacta: Enoque Pereira das Neves (1918-2002), que produjo formas visuales reveladoras de orientaciones culturales colectivas y universos fotogr?ficos imaginarios. ?l fotografi? por medio siglo la vida cotidiana del campesino, en tierras potiguares y paraibanas. En la comprensi?n del acervo opte por subdividirlo en ?lbumes los cuales revelan las intimidades del fot?grafo con el lugar, una escrita de si, un estado del alma, del sujeto que observa la relaci?n sociedad y naturaleza, en una especie de simbiosis en que accionan potencias resonantes de creaci?n en el devaneo de la materia, sobresali?ndose a la pulsi?n terrestre, o enraizamiento, os rizomas del hombre unido a la tierra, las tradiciones, a rusticidad, laboral, bien como el apelo est?tico direccionado al agua: pulsi?n de vida en tierras ?ridas. La comprensi?n del inmenso acervo, evaluado en m?s de cincuenta mil fotograf?as es profundamente representativa de predilecci?n tem?tica circunstanciada por la ni?ez, la narrativa enfoca im?genes m?ticas como la del Eros nudo, la madona y el ni?o, y pr?cticas culturales del universo infantil, como el juguete y el juego. Mismo el acervo siendo un apelo est?tico a la vida surgi? la imagen fotogr?fica de la muerte, especialmente, la muerte en la ni?ez o ?ngel y la muerte de ancianos como o deseo de la ?ltima imagen de aquel entre los suyos. La investigaci?n es transversal por los siguientes objetivos: propongo un reconocimiento del acervo de Enoque Pereira das Neves en la intenci?n de comprender el universo imaginario presente en su obra fotogr?fica. Invisto tambi?n, en la posibilidad de hacer la lectura del acervo como ?lbum imaginario. / A imagem fotogr?fica desperta puls?es, numa experi?ncia provocativa que aciona o campo m?tico-fenomenol?gico decifra-me ou te devoro . O texto fotogr?fico n?o constitui apenas um instante do real , ? muito mais que um recorte congelado do tempo passado, sobretudo, porque a compreens?o da linguagem subjacente ? imagem fotogr?fica se coloca dentro e para al?m do meramente dado e/ou objetivado . Na compreens?o da imagem se disp?em regimes de subjetiva??o vazados por c?digos culturais, dom?nios da linguagem, s?mbolos, experi?ncias est?ticas, cria??o simb?lica, valores, mem?rias, imagin?rios. Nesse sentido, desponta o estudo, o levantamento e a sistematiza??o do acervo fotogr?fico deixado pelo fot?grafo autodidata Enoque Pereira das Neves (1918-2002), que produziu formas visuais reveladoras de orienta??es culturais coletivas e universos fotogr?ficos imagin?rios. Ele fotografou por meio s?culo a vida cotidiana do sertanejo, em terras potiguares e paraibanas. Na compreens?o do acervo, optei por subdividi-lo em ?lbuns os quais revelam as intimidades do fot?grafo com o lugar, uma escrita de si, um estado da alma, do sujeito que observa a rela??o sociedade e natureza, numa esp?cie de simbiose em que agem pot?ncias ressonantes de cria??o no devaneio da mat?ria, sobressaindo-se a puls?o terrestre, o enraizamento, os rizomas do homem ligado ? terra, as tradi??es, a rusticidade, laboral, bem como o apelo est?tico direcionado ? ?gua: puls?o de vida em terras ?ridas. A compreens?o do imenso acervo, avaliado em mais de cinquenta mil fotografias, ? profundamente representativo da predile??o tem?tica circunstanciada pela inf?ncia. A narrativa enfoca imagens m?ticas como a do Erus nu, a madona e a crian?a, e pr?ticas culturais do universo infantil, como o brinquedo e a brincadeira. Mesmo o acervo sendo um apelo est?tico ? vida, despontou a imagem fotogr?fica da morte, especialmente, a morte na inf?ncia o anjo e a morte de pessoas idosas como o desejo da ?ltima imagem daquele entre os seus. A pesquisa ? transversalizada pelos seguintes objetivos: proponho um reconhecimento do acervo de Enoque Pereira das Neves no intu?to de compreender o universo imagin?rio presente em sua obra fotogr?fica; invisto tamb?m, na possibilidade de fazer a leitura do acervo enquanto ?lbum imagin?rio.

Though born a century apart, American poets Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath share several similarities: Both were born in New England, both fought for their rights by writing, and both broke new poetic ground.          In this thesis, I look at their poetry through a movement in space, which begins with the poets’ precarious position as societal outliers and ends with ascension. I examine what crossing the threshold meant to them, physically and metaphorically, and how it is mirrored in their poems, I look at how the physical space in which they wrote color their poetry, I examine windows as a space of transit, and finally I take a closer look at the shape ascension takes in selected poems. I propose this road, this movement in space, is mirrored in both Dickinson’s and Plath’s poetry.      I use as my method deconstruction, to uncover hints and possibilities. I scan letters and journals, biographies and memoirs. As my theoretical framework, I use Walter Benjamin’s ideas about the threshold as a place of transit, as well as his thoughts about the flaneur as the observer of the crowd, both of which are presented in The Arcades Project. To further examine the threshold as a space for pause, reconsideration, retreat, or advance, I rely on Subha Mukheriji and her book Thinking on Thresholds: The Poetics of Transitive Spaces. I further use Gaston Bachelard’s seminal The Poetics of Spaceto investigate the poets’ response to the physical space in which they wrote. I look at ascension through the prism offered by the ideas of Mircea Eliade as presented in Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities.

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This paper interweaves narrativized readings and experiential narratives as personal and cultural resources for counterhegemonic cultural critique within our historical context of globalization and ecological crisis. Framed by perspectives on epistemology, everyday life, and place, these reflections seek to engage and revitalize our notions of community, creativity, and the individual, towards visioning the human art of community as a counternarrative to globalization. Such a task involves confronting the meanings we have come to ascribe to work and economy which so deeply determine our social fabric. Encountering the thought of key 19th and 20th century social theorists ranging from William Morris, Gregory Bateson, and Raymond Williams, to Murray Bookchin, Martin Buber, and Wendell Berry, these reflections mark the indivisible web of culture in the face of our insistent divisions, and further, iterate our innate creativity as the source for a vital, sustainable culture that might reflect, in Bateson’s terms, the pattern that connects.