The essays featured in this collection highlight the gaps, as well as parallels, between mental illness and the human condition. In "Appearances," the narrator struggles with her own visual identity especially after reflecting on her Mom's own lengthy history with the mirror. In "Migrations," the lyrical voice of the narrator carries the reader through the typical day of a clinically depressed female character. Lastly, "Attempting the Fall," addresses the issues society has with mental illness by following the narrator from her suicide attempt to the mental ward.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

This Must Be the Place is a collection of short stories that take place in Massachusetts, America. Each story exists as a subtle celebration of the ordinary moments of our lives that softly, and gradually, shape us over time. This testament to the every-day is characterized by detailed, tender depictions of brief conversations, picnics in parks, afternoon car rides, and trips to the grocery store with past lovers. Although the narrators and other orbiting characters in the stories are all different, they are bound together by an insatiable curiosity and fascination with the world and the human condition. Inspired by works from authors such as Raymond Carver, Richard Brautigan, William Trevor, Carrie Fountain, and Andre Dubus, This Must Be the Place is a comment on how we, as people, are as defined by the decisions we do not make as the ones that we do. The characters in each piece confront choices and the invariable emotional consequences that will follow them, either temporarily or for the foreseeable future. These consequences propel the narratives, causing anxiety, uncertainty, and at times even excitement for all of those involved. Similarly, and perhaps more importantly, because of these consequences, the gears of the characters’ hearts shift, ever so slightly, in new, unexplored directions. As a whole, This Must Be the Place is about the understated importance embedded in every connection, misconnection, beginning, and ending.

This thesis is a description and critical analysis of the processes, concepts and imagery of my artwork. I am interested in creating visual narratives, often figurative, in the form of sculpture, collage, and installation. In my work I attempt to call attention to the human condition, specifically addressing sexuality, mortality, psychological issues and power struggles. I incorporate both cultural and personal references and use traditional and non traditional materials and processes that are intended to conceptually inform the viewer further. My intention is to create distinct embodiments that provoke contemplative emotion and in which the object and the aesthetic experience allow us to consider and reconsider who we are and how we progress as a culture.

O presente estudo procura sistematizar literatura, dados e informações sobre o processo da comunicação no contexto da sociedade contemporânea em mutação e relacioná-lo com as indicações que apontam as mudanças no sentido do trabalho na organização da vida atual. Assume-se aqui a hipótese de que o processo comunicacional contemporâneo reflete hoje mudanças de valores que se dão na crescente retomada da centralidade da vida humana, ao mesmo tempo em que deslocam e rearticulam os sentidos de compreensão do trabalho. / This study aims at reviewing the literature, data and information on communication process in the context of contemporary society in transformation and relates it to indications that point towards changes in the meaning of work in the organization of current life. It is assumed here the hypothesis that contemporary communication process reflects modifications in values that happen in the human life centrality increase, while moves and readjusts the meanings of work understanding.

Este trabalho se inscreve entre os muitos que configuram a obra coletiva que têm sido os desenvolvimentos da psicanálise desde Freud e de sua posta em público por Lacan sob a forma de ensino. Trata-se de um exercício de pensamento, acerca do que está sendo denominado condição humana, que incide sobre algumas idéias ou noções em torno das quais, ou no contexto das quais, a noção de autoridade em educação é um elemento a ser considerado. As idéias e noções propostas ao pensamento autoridade, verdade e as esferas pública e privada da vida vêm do campo da política ou, mais precisamente, do pensamento arendtiano sobre política, consistindo assim, uma leitura possível de parte da obra de Hannah Arendt, leitura essa feita da perspectiva da psicanálise. O processo de pensamento sobre tais idéias marcou a direção do trabalho de pesquisa como um encadeamento de articulações entre as noções de autoridade, política, verdade, realidade, impossível, desejo, ética e espaços publico e privado. O fio norteador do pensamento proposto foi uma hipótese acerca do que problematiza a autoridade e, portanto não só a educação, mas talvez mais agudamente a educação é algo que gravita em torno da noção de impossível que Lacan trouxe da lógica para o campo da psicanálise: o que problematiza a autoridade é um desarranjo ou, talvez, um re-arranjo moderno em relação ao impossível convocado pela linguagem. / This work fits into the many works configuring the collective work which has been the developments of Psychoanalysis from Freud and his work put to public by Lacan under the form of teaching. It is an exercise of thinking, about what has been given the name of human condition, incident upon some ideas or notions around which or in the context of which the notion of authority in education is an element to be taken into consideration. The ideas and notions proposed to thinking authority, truth, and the public and private spheres of life come from the field of politics, or, more precisely, from the Arendtian thought about politics, thus consisting of one possible reading of part of Hannah Arendts work, such reading done from the perspective of psychoanalysis. The process of thought about such ideas marked the direction to the research work as a chaining of articulations among the notions of authority, politics, truth, reality, the impossible, desire, ethics, and public and private spaces. The guiding thread to the proposed thinking was a hypothesis around what problematizes authority and, therefore, not only education, but maybe education more acutely is something which orbits around the notion of impossible which Lacan brought from logic to the Field of psychoanalysis: what problematizes authority is a disarrangement, or maybe a modern rearrangement towards the impossible called in by language.

Esta tese é uma reflexão sobre os arranjos institucionais que compõem as ordens jurídicas e políticas de nossas democracias ocidentais. Queremos mostrar a urgência de uma virada na perspectiva antropológica, como alternativa para superação da imensa crise pela qual passamos, e, para tanto, a filosofia política de Hannah Arendt foi a inspiração certa. Com a Filósofa, aprendemos que é somente na interação do “eu com os outros” que se concretiza a realidade do mundo humano, garantindo a vitalidade do espaço público, sede, por excelência, da ação política. Enquanto permanecermos presos ao individualismo solipsista, reproduzindo o padrão comportamental daquele a quem Hannah Arendt chama de animal laborans, não poderá existir uma esfera verdadeiramente pública, mas, tão-somente, atividades privadas exibidas em público. O que queremos demonstrar é que a possibilidade de superação dos atuais problemas passa pelo afastamento da violência que destrói o poder e esvazia a autoridade, pelo resgate da confiança dos cidadãos e pela afirmação do compromisso entre governantes e governados. Trata-se de uma concreta mudança na perspectiva antropológica subjacente às estruturas institucionais da comunidade política. Sai de cena o animal laborans, dando lugar ao amável zôon politikón, o ser humano, na sua condição plena, que sabe que a liberdade real só existe neste “estar um com o outro” no espaço público, onde há a necessária confiança e o essencial consentimento dos cidadãos para construir e fazer funcionar as ordens jurídicas e políticas. Voltamos os nossos olhos para o passado, examinando os contornos políticos, jurídicos e sociais dos respectivos espaços públicos, antigo, medieval e moderno, avaliando as consequencias no desenvolvimento de nossa compreensão sobre a cidadania. A alternativa de solução que propomos investe no valor da argumentação jurídica, pois acreditamos que a compreensão humana é o outro lado da nossa capacidade de agir. Sendo assim, defendemos, neste trabalho, a máxima importância da argumentação jurídica como um dos componentes da cidadania ativa capaz de recuperar as densidades éticas, jurídicas e políticas do espaço público, dando legitimidade democrática às suas regras de regência. / The thesis is a careful thought about the political, social and legal system of our western democracies. It shows how we need, as soon as possible, to make na anthropological overturn, like an alternative to get over the immeasurable crisis we are suffering now. In this task, we are supported by Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy. This wonderful thinker taught that we need to treat the others like equals. At least, if we want to build a human life in the world with a real public space where the political action can happen. If animal laborans keeps the control over the public arena, it will not be a truly public sphere, but only a place where private activities are showed. We will get over the problems if we realize that violence destroys the power and the authority. So, we need to rescue the citizen’s trust and the compromise between the Government and people. It is a real change in the anthropological perspective that deeply affects the political, legal and social orders. Aninal laborans gets out of the public scene. He is replaced by a lovely newcomer: zôon politikón, who lives a truly Human Condition. Actually, he lives in a democratic society in which citizens have access to political debate and can themselves be heard in it. He knows that only in this special place, where we are together, a sphere of open and free discussion is possible. The public space is the place where exists the much-needed trust and the common consent of citizens for build and do work the political and legal orders. We outline a historical retrospect scenery of the western political organizations and their public spheres in order to point out the evolution that happened in the societies in face of the several political, legal and social facts that permeated the last centuries. Especially, we emphasize the effects and consequences of that facts in the citizens’s behavior and citizen’s understanding. We consider that it is quite indispensable to enable and improve the legal reasoning, especially the pratical reasoning, because we believe that the human understanding is the other side of our capacity of action. In this way, we defend the great value of legal reasoning for active citizenship. Actually, we believe in this alternative to recover the ethical, legal and political density of public space, legitimating its rules.

Este trabalho se inscreve entre os muitos que configuram a obra coletiva que têm sido os desenvolvimentos da psicanálise desde Freud e de sua posta em público por Lacan sob a forma de ensino. Trata-se de um exercício de pensamento, acerca do que está sendo denominado condição humana, que incide sobre algumas idéias ou noções em torno das quais, ou no contexto das quais, a noção de autoridade em educação é um elemento a ser considerado. As idéias e noções propostas ao pensamento autoridade, verdade e as esferas pública e privada da vida vêm do campo da política ou, mais precisamente, do pensamento arendtiano sobre política, consistindo assim, uma leitura possível de parte da obra de Hannah Arendt, leitura essa feita da perspectiva da psicanálise. O processo de pensamento sobre tais idéias marcou a direção do trabalho de pesquisa como um encadeamento de articulações entre as noções de autoridade, política, verdade, realidade, impossível, desejo, ética e espaços publico e privado. O fio norteador do pensamento proposto foi uma hipótese acerca do que problematiza a autoridade e, portanto não só a educação, mas talvez mais agudamente a educação é algo que gravita em torno da noção de impossível que Lacan trouxe da lógica para o campo da psicanálise: o que problematiza a autoridade é um desarranjo ou, talvez, um re-arranjo moderno em relação ao impossível convocado pela linguagem. / This work fits into the many works configuring the collective work which has been the developments of Psychoanalysis from Freud and his work put to public by Lacan under the form of teaching. It is an exercise of thinking, about what has been given the name of human condition, incident upon some ideas or notions around which or in the context of which the notion of authority in education is an element to be taken into consideration. The ideas and notions proposed to thinking authority, truth, and the public and private spheres of life come from the field of politics, or, more precisely, from the Arendtian thought about politics, thus consisting of one possible reading of part of Hannah Arendts work, such reading done from the perspective of psychoanalysis. The process of thought about such ideas marked the direction to the research work as a chaining of articulations among the notions of authority, politics, truth, reality, the impossible, desire, ethics, and public and private spaces. The guiding thread to the proposed thinking was a hypothesis around what problematizes authority and, therefore, not only education, but maybe education more acutely is something which orbits around the notion of impossible which Lacan brought from logic to the Field of psychoanalysis: what problematizes authority is a disarrangement, or maybe a modern rearrangement towards the impossible called in by language.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Teresa Cristina Roberto Farah.pdf: 8053575 bytes, checksum: fcbd622ca0bc7ad629104b12cab8e832 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / From the author's career as a speech therapist and psychopedagogist, in clinical experience that spans over thirty years working in private practice, in the care of children, adolescents and adults, it was recognized in her practice characteristics traditionally referred to psychotherapy. From this experience, the researcher realized the importance of conceiving clinic primordially on empathy. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to describe this course of construction. Through this presentation, the author intends to discuss the clinical situation in terms of the empathy experienced by both the therapist and the patient. To this end, lt will be presented a synthesis of Edith Stein's contribution on the subject of empathy. Stein conceives the empathic phenomenon as originating, previous to the psychic event. Will also be brought in this research, syntheses of the theoretical contributions of Gilberto Safra, and Clare B. Winnicott, as well as some of Donald Winnicott's concepts. These authors converge with regard to the importance attached to issues peculiar to the human condition, and their theories are, in some ways, similar to Edith Stein's contribution on the empathic phenomenon. The central element of the kind of clinic here addressed, is empathy, pre-sent in the human encounter as possibility of constitution and healing. The work is inserted in a form of qualitative research. The clinical method was necessary, since the construction of knowledge proposed is born in the author's proffessional experience. From this, the researcher develops a dialogue with the reader and with the authors in whose theories finds resonances with her experiences. Through this dialogue, presents a clinical case which was paradigmatic of the questions that guided this work and that may be found in the clinical work of other researchers / A partir do percurso profissional da autora, fonoaudióloga e psicopedagoga com experiência clínica que abrange mais de trinta anos de trabalho em consultório particular no atendimento a crianças, adolescentes e adultos, reconheceu-se em sua prática características tradicionalmente referidas às psicoterapias. Partindo de sua experiência, a pesquisadora percebeu a relevância de conceber uma clínica primordialmente na empatia. O objetivo deste estudo é discutir a situação clínica a partir do conceito de empatia em Edith Stein, por meio de uma reflexão sobre esse percurso profissional. Para tanto, será apresentada uma síntese da contribuição de Stein sobre o fenômeno empático, em cuja perspectiva é concebido como originário, fundante do acontecimento psíquico. Também serão trazidos os principais aspectos das contribuições teóricas de Gilberto Safra e de Clare B. Winnicott, bem como alguns conceitos da teoria do amadurecimento de Donald W. Winnicott. As ideias desses autores convergem no que se refere à importância atribuída às questões próprias da condição humana e suas concepções aproximam-se, em alguns aspectos, da contribuição de Edith Stein sobre o fenômeno empático. O elemento central da clínica explicitada na pesquisa é a empatia, presente no encontro humano como possibilidade de constituição e de cura. O trabalho insere-se numa modalidade de pesquisa qualitativa. Foi utilizado o método clínico, uma vez que a construção de conhecimento a que a autora se propõe nasce em sua experiência profissional, e a partir dela realiza um diálogo com os autores em cujas teorias encontra ressonâncias com suas experiências. Por meio desse diálogo, apresenta um caso clínico que se mostrou paradigmático das questões que orientaram a pesquisa e que poderão ser encontradas no trabalho clínico de outros pesquisadores

The purpose of this thesis is to ethnographically explore the social life of health reform policy. This thesis focuses on the Ponce Center, a safety net HIV clinic in Atlanta. The thesis engages with a fragmented healthcare world, and the inhabitants of these worlds who are charged with rectifying the fragmentation and make care possible. They are, in technical language, service providers, whether they are policy-makers, patients, or political activists. In order to make the healthcare and policy worlds functional, the AIDS community in Atlanta perceive their first task as attempting to connect aspects of the fragmented healthcare assemblage that are otherwise disparate. The core theme of this thesis is articulations, translations, and piecing together aspects of everyday life particularly with regard to various ways of contending with fragmentation. This thesis explores the relationship between the affective, ideological, physical and structural dynamics of inequality, poverty, vulnerability, identity, and a sense of community and belonging. This thesis is about the policy processes. It does not focus on policy-making, but policy interpretation, implementation, and enactment in Atlanta, Georgia. The thesis tracks the appropriation and contestation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a site of interaction between the experience of HIV as a pre-existing condition, inequitable access to treatment through health insurance, and larger social policy and poverty discourses. Finally, it considers the processes by which major policy reforms draw in disparate actors, who are embedded in complex networks of power and resource relations - assemblages - and inevitably play a role in reshaping society.