Le travail consiste à articuler la question de l'amour avec celle de l'époque à partir de la catégorie de discours telle qu'elle a été proposée par Lacan. Ceci afin de repérer les incidences du lien social contemporain - dans sa double détermination par les logiques consuméristes et marchandes et par le discours de la science - sur les liens amoureux. / Based on the works of Jacques Lacan and Cornelius Castoriadis, we propose an articulation of structure and history in order to build a psychoanalytic approach of the impacts of our era — in its dual determination by consumerist market logic, and the scientific discourse — on loving relationships. We have been able to propose a psychoanalytic, structural and historical approach of the causes, the conditions and consequences of indifference to things of love induced by capitalist discourse structure and the socio-historical purview witch is linked to it.

Cette thèse examine les transformations du regard en poésie à travers les imaginaires photographiques de la période moderniste. Le rôle de la photographie est étudié chez Apollinaire, Cendrars, Reverdy, Fargue, Mac Orlan, Albert-Birot, Morand, Larbaud, Soupault, Levet, Segalen ou Roussel et dans les revues littéraires de la période 1905-1930. Les rapports des poètes aux images photographiques sont d’abord concrets : pratiques d’amateurs, pratiques ludiques, usages iconographiques, activités de collections, etc. La photographie est aussi présente dans les textes poétiques, comme un autre du langage tour à tour magique, exotique, technique ou documentaire. Elle est alors source de transformations en interne : avec la radicalisation de la description, les effets de vécu et les dispositifs optiques, le visuel en poésie est envisagé à l’aune d’une vision photographique. En insistant sur la continuité entre l’époque moderniste et l’époque surréaliste, cette thèse établit le rôle de la photographie dans la définition d’une esthétique moderniste en poésie. / This dissertation examines the transformations of the poetic gaze through the prism of the photographic imaginary in the modernist age. Literary reviews and works by Apollinaire, Cendrars, Reverdy, Fargue, Mac Orlan, Albert-Birot, Morand, Larbaud, Soupault, Levet, Segalen or Roussel enable us to examine the role of photography between 1905 and 1930. The influence of photography is tangible in the realms of amateur and recreational practices, iconography or collections. Photography appears in poems as an external model, alternately magic, exotic, technical or documentary. Photography thus informs poetry from within: descriptions, real-life effects and optical devices show the link between the representations of the visual and the photographic gaze. This dissertation emphasizes the continuity between Modernism and Surrealism and demonstrates how photography redefined the modernist aesthetic in poetry.

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Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:12:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissetacao_esdras_peixoto.pdf: 748933 bytes, checksum: 7fcb8b33d2598b452a4dfdd2b1bac849 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-06 / This dissertation attempts to investigate the discontinuities and continuities in the theology, mentality and world-vision of Brazilian pentecostals. To that end it has as its special object of study the musical repertoire of the pentecostal communities, evaluating the internal evolution of that which is sung in the worship services and other meetings. Music is the principal means by which the behavior of the faithful is moulded. Since it is a product derived from the surrounding culture, and so not completely controlled by the composer, pentecostal hymnology both reflects and inculcates symbols which direct the universe which its followers inhabit. Gilbert Durand's book, The Theory of the Imaginary, provides the hermeneutical basis for our interpretation of the symbolic as present in the hymn-books both of classic pentecostalism and of post-pentecostalism, and we apply Durand's methodology to the images present in the pentecostal hymns. As to its epistemology, this study is both transdisciplinary and comprehensive, as well as taking into account current sociological trends present in what is known as post-modernity / O presente trabalho procura investigar as rupturas e continuidades na teologia, mentalidade e visão de mundo dos pentecostais brasileiros.Para isso, assume como objeto privilegiado de investigação o repertório musical das comunidades pentecostais, contemplando as evoluções internas daquilo que é cantado em seus cultos e reuniões. A música é o vetor principal na modelagem do comportamento dos fiéis. Sendo produto derivado do ambiente cultural, portanto não completamente controlado pelo compositor, a hinologia pentecostal tanto reflete quanto incute símbolos que irão orientar o universo habitado pelos adeptos de uma crença.Toma a Teoria do Imaginário (Gilbert Durand) como mediador hermenêutico da leitura simbólica do cancioneiro pentecostal clássico e pós-pentecostal, empregando sua metodologia às imagens existentes nas canções pentecostais. O estudo se vale de uma epistemologia que prima pela compreensividade denominada Transdisciplinariedade. Outra importante filiação conceitual deste trabalho é á corrente sociológica que caracteriza o tempo presente como pós-modernidade

L’écriture de Marguerite Duras est foncièrement mythique ; son imaginaire puise dans les schémas les plus fondamentaux et les plus primitifs de la psyché humaine, puis les redispose dans l’athanor créatif intérieur, engendrant des œuvres protéiformes, à la fois extrêmement novatrices et nourries d’images archaïques fidèlement reprises ou revisitées, voire déformées ou renversées totalement. A la croisée de l’exégèse littéraire et phénoménologique (à l’image de l’herméneutique de Gaston Bachelard), de l’anthropologie (les travaux de Mircea Eliade), de la mythodologie développée par Gilbert Durand et de la psychologie des profondeurs (Carl Gustav Jung et Marie-Louise von Franz), nous proposons une étude précise et la plus complète possible des archétypes qui constellent cet imaginaire ainsi que de leur résonnance symbolique dans les textes ou les films durassiens. Cette analyse nous permettra de présenter une lecture nouvelle de l’univers scriptural, avec des outils efficaces et efficients. Il s’agira de repérer au fil des livres les symboles, de les confronter au plus grand nombre d’occurrences dans les pensées, les rites et les récits de toute culture, afin de laisser affleurer leur spécificité dans les œuvres. Si la quête de Marguerite Duras peut être assimilée à une tentative désespérée d’unir les contraires et résorber tout antagonisme, nous verrons que le style et l’univers se tournent progressivement vers un appel radical à la destruction absolue, qui modifie profondément la vision interne et la forme de l’écrit. Par l’analyse minutieuse des images dans un double corpus (le cycle indien puis la trilogie politique), nous souhaitons laisser remonter ces images fondatrices, observer leur signification tout en repérant leurs modifications essentielles au long de la production littéraire, théâtrale et cinématographique de l’artiste. / Marguerite Duras’s writing is deeply mythical; her imaginary world is rooted in the most fundamental and primitive patterns of the human psyche. She reorganizes it in the inner crucible of her creation, thus creating multifaceted works, simultaneously extremely innovative and filled with archaic images that the author uses faithfully, rewrites, twists or completely flips over. In between literary and phenomenological exegesis (like Gaston Bachelard’s hermeneutics), anthropology (Mircea Eliade’s works), Gilbert Durand’s mythodology and Carl Gustav Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz’s depth psychology, we offer a precise study, as thorough as possible, of the archetypes scattered throughout Marguerite Duras’s imaginary world as well as their symbolical echo in her texts and filmography.This analysis will enable us to present a new interpretation of her writing with efficient and effective tools. Book after book, we will spot the symbols and confront them with as many cultural rituals, thoughts and tales as possible in order to grasp their meaning in each of her works. If Marguerite Duras’s quest can be considered as a desperate attempt to bring together opposites and absorb any antagonisms, her style and her artistic world gradually turn to a radical call for complete destruction that deeply changes the inner vision and the nature of her writing. Through the careful analysis of the images in a double corpus (the Indian cycle then the political trilogy), we wish to let these founding images reach the surface, examine their meaning while underlining their crucial modifications during the author’s production in literature, theatre and cinema.

Tendo em conta o contexto de preparação dos Jogos Olímpicos de 2016, em que parte do espaço físico da cidade do Rio de Janeiro é redesenhado a partir de intervenções arquitetônicas e urbanísticas, este estudo se interessa pela atuação de um sujeito específico: o arquiteto. Mais especificamente, investigo as visões deste profissional sobre o Rio de Janeiro no contexto referido, tornando presentes imagens sobre o passado, o presente e o futuro dessa cidade. O objetivo teórico é apreender sociologicamente o imaginário dos arquitetos sobre a cidade em questão, procurando indícios da base social que subjaz às representações que medeiam esse imaginário. Para tanto, os projetos arquitetônicos e urbanísticos premiados pelo Concurso Porto Olímpico e pelo Concurso Sede do Campo Olímpico de Golfe são objetos de uma análise documental e seus respectivos autores e coautores, entrevistados. Como resultado, chega-se a um imaginário que parece se alimentar ora de imagens de espaços empiricamente existentes (bairros e logradouros cariocas e cidades estrangeiras), ora de imagens que não encontram lugar no mundo empiricamente existente. As representações de cidade reveladas por esse imaginário podem ser relacionadas com duas dimensões da vida social dos arquitetos em questão: sua vivência cotidiana nessa e em outras cidades e sua formação acadêmica. Orientado teoricamente pelos escritos de Henri Lefebvre sobre a produção do espaço e as representações, este estudo busca alargar as possibilidades interpretativas do arcabouço conceitual produzido pelo sociólogo francês e, ao mesmo tempo, dar voz aos arquitetos nos estudos urbanos brasileiros, em que ele raramente aparece como protagonista. / Considering the arrangements for the 2016 Olympic Games, where part of the physical space of the city of Rio de Janeiro is redesigned by architectural and urban interventions, this study is concerned with the performance of a very specific character: the architect. More specifically, I explore the conception of architects about the city within the above-mentioned context, bringing to light images of past, present and future of this city. The theoretical purpose herein is to sociologically understand the (Lefebvrean) imaginary of architects about Rio, seeking evidence of the social basis underlying the representations mediated by such imaginary. For that purpose, the architectural and urban designs that won the Porto Olímpico Contest (Concurso Porto Olímpico) and the Olympic Golf Course Clubhouse Contest (Concurso Sede do Campo Olímpico de Golfe) are subject to a document analysis. In addition, their respective authors and co-authors were also interviewed. As a result, such approach enabled discovering an imaginary that seems to be sustained either by images of empirically existing spaces (neighborhoods and public sites of Rio and foreign cities) or images that do not find their places in the empirically existing world. This imaginary revealed representations of the city that can be associated with two dimensions of the social life of these architects: their life experience in Rio de Janeiro and other cities, and their academic background. Theoretically guided by the concepts of Henri Lefebvre on the production of space and its representations, this study aims to extend the interpretative possibilities of the conceptual framework of the French sociologist, while giving voice to architects in Brazilian urban studies, a field where such subjects are rarely seen as protagonists.

El hedonismo y los Centennials son dos palabras que convergen para crear una actualidad en la que se ha banalizado el sexo y se han creado diversas nuevas formas de comunicación que se basa en características fijas de los adolescentes de hoy. Este trabajo pretende dar a entender la manifestación del hedonismo en la construcción de los personajes Centennial, retratado por la serie Sex Education, y justificada en las bases del imaginario social de sus personajes y la evolución de los mismos. En este sentido los objetivos específicos apuntan, en primer lugar, a la identificación de los personajes centennials y su relación con el hedonismo; en segundo lugar, la identificación de la construcción del personaje con respecto a su identidad y su contexto. La investigación aporta diferentes perspectivas sobre la presencia del hedonismo en la nueva generación y los efectos que genera en sus relaciones sociales y su mundo imaginario. Se analizan 5 de 8 capítulos de la primera temporada de la serie Sex Education, escogidos según los criterios estudiados como la utilización de estereotipos para la construcción de personajes y la evolución de personajes según proceso evolutivo y relación con un problema sexual. / Hedonism and Centennials are two words that converge to create an actuality in which sex has been trivialized and diverse new forms of communication have been created based on fixed characteristics of today's adolescents. This work aims to show the manifestation of hedonism in the construction of the Centennial characters, portrayed by the Sex Education series, and justified on the basis of the social imaginary of characters and their evolution. In this sense, the specific objectives are, firstly, the identification of the centennial characters and their relationship with hedonism; secondly, the identification of the character's construction with respect to its identity and context. The research provides different perspectives on the presence of hedonism in the new generation and the effects it generates in their social relations and their imaginary world. Five out of eight chapters of the first season of the Sex education series are analysed, chosen according to the criteria studied, such as the use of stereotypes for the construction of characters and the evolution of characters according to the evolutionary process and their relationship with a sexual problem. / Trabajo de investigación

Notre propos est d’interroger la place qu’elle tient dans les imaginaires des projets urbains exprimée en particulier dans leur mise en récit, formulée par les outils du marketing urbain et du storytelling. Notre hypothèse principale est qu’il y a une dialectique entre imaginaires de la mobilité, individuels et collectifs dans les projets urbains ; dialectique qui accompagne l’émergence de nouvelles manières de se déplacer et l’abandon de modèles marqués entre autres par l’usage de l’automobile. La mise en récit innovante et le déploiement des imaginaires, sont saisis au travers d’une étude de cas, le mégaprojet Bordeaux Euratlantique, nouvelle étape de la transformation de la métropole bordelaise. Opération d’Intérêt National, conduite par une maîtrise d’ouvrage ad hoc, elle est un laboratoire expérimental qui préfigure la mobilité de demain et qui en reconfigure les imaginaires. S’y articulent l’idée de vitesse (hypermobilité, connexion, réseau) et de lenteur (proximité et recherche de sobriété énergétique), combinaison soutenue par les experts et une partie des habitants. Le projet révèle aussi des imaginaires individuels, progressivement sédimentés à partir des pratiques et des expériences de chacun, que nous qualifions sous la forme de quatre figures, « opportuniste », « optimisé », « smart », « vertueux » : elles incarnent les tendances contemporaines de la mobilité. Selon nous, l’imbrication de ces imaginaires offre un angle original d’appréhension de la fabrication urbaine en soulignant l’importance des représentations et des discours pour tracer le futur des villes. D’un point méthodologique, notre thèse mobilise une variété de méthodes qualitatives : entretiens collectifs, entretiens individuels, revues de presse, analyse documentaire, figurative et archivistique, observations directes des sites de projet ; participation aux réunions de concertation.Notre démonstration s’organise en trois parties. La première synthétise un état de l’art qui cadre notre thématique et affine nos choix analytiques. La lecture d’une littérature pluridisciplinaire associe sociologie, science politique, urbanisme, géographie et paysage, pour montrer la valeur du concept de projet urbain et de l’idée de mise en récit centrée sur le thème de la mobilité. Nous précisons notre grille d’analyse sur la base d’une discussion de la notion d’imaginaire. Dans la deuxième partie, nous analysons l’expérience bordelaise et le mégaprojet Euratlantique, porteur d’une approche renouvelée de la mobilité. Dans la troisième partie, nous confrontons imaginaires individuel et collectif en œuvre dans le projet urbain pour saisir la dynamique complexe du changement des imaginaires. Nous détaillons en annexes les dispositifs d’enquête, le corpus iconographique et nous situons les projets et opérations citées via des documents cartographiques. / The mobility of men and women is a major issue in the manufacturing of contemporary territories. Long linked to technical issues and to the efficiency of public and individual transport, it becomes the basis for a redefinition of social and spatial practices in a context of metropolisation and shared values on the protection of the environment. In local public policies and urban projects, the organization of mobility, technical systems and services is a key element in the national and international attractiveness of cities to populations and businesses. It is also the significant support for daily change in lifestyles and aspirations.Our purpose is to question the place it holds in the imaginations of urban projects expressed in their narrative, formulated by the tools of urban marketing and storytelling. Our main hypothesis is that there is a dialectic between the imaginary of mobility, individual and collective, in urban projects; dialectic that accompanies the emergence of new ways of moving and the abandonment of models marked among others using the automobile. The innovative narrativization and unfolding of imaginaries are captured through a case study, Bordeaux Euratlantique megaproject, a new stage in the transformation of the Bordeaux metropolis. Operation of National Interest, led by an ad hoc project management, is an experimental laboratory that foreshadows the mobility of tomorrow and reconfigures the imaginary. There is the idea of speed (hypermobility, connection, network) and slowness (proximity and search for energy sobriety), a combination supported by experts and some of the inhabitants. The project also reveals individual imaginaries, gradually sedimented by the practices and experiences of each, that we qualify in the form of four figures, "opportunistic", "optimized", "smart", "virtuous": they embody the tendencies contemporary mobility. In our opinion, the interweaving of these imaginaries offers an original angle of apprehension of urban manufacturing, emphasizing the importance of representations and discourses to chart the future of cities. From a methodological point of view, our thesis mobilizes a variety of qualitative methods: collective interviews, individual interviews, press reviews, documentary, figurative and archival analysis, direct observations of project sites; participation in consultation meetings.Our demonstration is organized in three parts. The first synthesizes a state of the art that frames our theme and refines our analytical choices. The reading of a multidisciplinary literature combines sociology, political science, urbanism, geography and landscape, to show the value of the concept of urban project and the idea of narrative centered on the theme of mobility. We specify our analysis grid based on a discussion of the notion of imaginary. In the second part, we analyze the Bordeaux experience and the Euratlantique megaproject, which brings a renewed approach to mobility. In the third part, we confront imaginary individual and collective work in the urban project to grasp the complex dynamic of the change of the imaginary. We detail in appendices the survey devices; the iconographic corpus and we situate projects and operations mentioned via cartographic documents.

This essay argues, with the help of Lacanian psychoanalysis, that Dorian Gray, the protagonist in Oscar Wilde’s novel, fails to abide by the rules governed by the culture of society. It is argued that Lacan’s theories about the mirror stage develop Dorian’s character and his realizations of his true self as part of the culture which shapes him. The mirror is represented by the four characters Basil Hallward, Lord Henry Wotton, Sibyl Vane, and Sibyl’s brother James. Basil, Henry, and Sibyl are all representations of different aspects of the mirror explained by Lacan’s theories, and these three characters help Dorian realize his true identity and self.