Most researchers who study rock image sites tend to be interested in the meaning of images, even though they could obtain more empirical information about these images and their physical location. Furthermore, very little of the work done in the past on rock image sites has been systematic. In this thesis I address the dearth of detailed information on the images and their context. This thesis presents a thorough examination of the images of the twenty-seven pictograph sites in the Lake of the Woods, in the Canadian Shield. These pictograph sites were selected because they exhibit traits evident in rock image studies in other parts of the world. / This study is based on data collected during three months of fieldwork conducted in 2001. Images were found on cliff faces and inside caves. New images and new sites were found and identified. / Here, as elsewhere, the choice of theoretical approach influences the fieldwork, analysis, and search for meaning. Each prescribes the types of questions asked and determines the levels of understanding obtained about whichever form of archaeological evidence is being considered. The different but complementary theoretical approaches should be employed in a definite order. The same data must be examined in sequential order using these different approaches to increase the potential quantity and quality of information gained. Archaeologists should use the following sequence of approaches: culture-historical, contextual, followed by either the homological, or analogical approaches, or a combination of the latter two. / Classifying and describing any image is very difficult, since the level of description given to an image affects the way in which it can be analysed, and heavily influences the possible outcome of any discussion of perceived meaning. A rigorous examination of the images of these sites was conducted to (a) identify the possible vocabulary of images, (b) determine whether combinatory, rules exist, (c) reconstitute the life history of each site, and (d) ascertain whether the images can be related to other indigenous images to determine if this can provide information about the meaning(s) of the rock images. In assessing the meaning of the rock images, the images of a few birch bark scrolls were considered, since it was posited that a detailed investigation of the scrolls, the ethnographic record, and their pictographs might provide some answers regarding the meanings of the images found on the rock faces.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Tana French’s work has been the subject of a number of recent scholars. Scholarship on French ranges from theories of liminality, to meditations on how French’s work explores the “Celtic Tiger” phenomenon in Ireland, to looking at her stories as new takes on old fairy tales. French’s work straddles the line between popular detective fiction and literary fiction, upending popular tropes and creating something wholly new. One issue that has not been explored is how French’s work fits into a Lacanian framework. The six novels in her Dublin Murder Squad detective stories are rife with issues of psychological mirroring, or doubling. As such, they take the typical mystery trope of pairing a detective with a case that alters and reflects back their own psychological traumas, and takes them to a new level. This work will address issues of French’s characters and how they fit into the theories of Lacan’s Mirror Stage, as well as the “Real,” “Symbolic,” and “Imaginary” realms that we human beings unconsciously construct for ourselves. This writing examines the first two novels of the series, In the Woods, and The Likeness, and analyzes them in light of these theories, showing how mirroring exists in nearly every aspect of each text.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), February 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. / Compound-specific carbon isotopic (613C and A14C) data are reported for lipid biomarkers isolated from Santa Monica Basin (SMB) and Santa Barbara Basin (SBB) surface sediments. These organic compounds represent phytoplanktonic, zooplanktonic, bacterial, archaeal, terrestrial, and fossil carbon sources. The lipids include long-chain n-alkanes, fatty acids (as FAMEs), n-alcohols, C30 mid-chain ketols and diols, sterols, hopanols, and ether-linked C40-biphytanes of Archaea. The data show that the carbon source for most of the biomarkers is marine euphotic zone primary production or subsequent heterotrophic consumption of this biomass. Two lipid classes represent exceptions to this finding. A14C values for the n-alkanes are consistent with mixed fossil and contemporary terrestrial plant sources. The archaeal isoprenoid data reflect chemoautotrophic growth below the euphotic zone. The biomarker class most clearly representing marine phytoplanktonic production is the sterols. It is suggested, therefore, that the sterols could serve as paleoceanographic tracers for surface-water DIC. The isotopic data are used to construct two algebraic models. The first calculates the contributions of fossil and modern vascular plant carbon to SMB n-alkanes. This model indicates that the A14C of the modern component is +235%o (post-bomb) or 0%o (pre-bomb). The second model uses these values to determine the origin of sedimentary TOC. The results are comparable to estimates based on other approaches and suggest that -60% of SMB TOC is of marine origin, modern terrestrial and fossil sources contribute -10% each, and the remaining -20% is of unknown origin. / by Ann Pearson. / Ph.D.

Thesis (Sc. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanographic Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1987. / Bibliography: p. 164-171. / Vita. / by James Henry Miller. / Sc.D.

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Ao longo da dissertação, para dar forma e legitimidade à intuição e à experiência emocional e intelectiva que a autora teve com a obra do psicanalista brasileiro Gilberto Safra, foi empreendido o esforço de fabricar uma interpretação que acontecesse como reposta a esta obra. Para tanto, propusemos uma leitura pormenorizada (o que inclui a leitura sistemática e a leitura próxima desconstrutiva) de dois livros de Safra: Momentos Mutativos em Psicanálise, sua tese de doutorado e A Face Estética do Self, sua tese de livre docência. Este recorte da obra se ancorou na hipótese de que haveria algo na construção do pensamento psicanalítico de Safra que se modificou consideravelmente entre estes dois momentos de sua trajetória pessoal, autoral e na sua formação como analista. Em resposta a estas questões, uma leitura entrelaçada das teses que compõem seu pensamento psicanalítico com suas condições de possibilidade nos levou a compreender que a escrita de Safra deixa entrever o tortuoso movimento de busca de um analista por sua morada conceitual, ética e estética. O que está em jogo é sempre o processo de singularização: do analista, do paciente e das possibilidades de se fazer teoria e clínica psicanalíticas nos tempos atuais / This dissertation, in order to shape and legitimize the authors intuition, and emotional and intellectual experience with the works of Brazilian psychoanalyst Gilberto Safra, strived to create an interpretation that could stand as answer to said works. As such, we proposed a detailed reading (which includes a systematic and then deconstructive reading) of two of Safras books: Mutative Moments in Psychoanalysis, his doctoral thesis, and The Aesthetic Face of the Self, his associate professorship thesis. This partial selection of his work is anchored on the hypothesis that there would be something in the construction of Safras psychoanalytical thinking which had been considerably altered between these two points in his personal and authorial trajectory, and his training as an analyst. In response to these questions, an interwoven reading of these theses which make up his psychoanalytical thought, with their conditions of possibility, led us to understand that Safras writing allows us to glimpse an analysts tortuous path in search of his conceptual, ethical and aesthetic references. Whats at stake is always the singularization process: of the analyst, the patient and the possibilities of creating psychoanalytical theory and doing psychoanalytical clinic work in current times