Thesis--Uppsala. / Scandinavian University books. Bibliography: p. 204-218.

Thesis--Uppsala. / Scandinavian University books. Bibliography: p. 204-218.

This thesis is an examination of sound and lived space in Janet Cardiff's audio walks, Missing Voice, and Conspiracy Theory. Its aim is to contextualize Cardiff's project in terms of how it reverses the logic of the conventional museum audio guide; taking the user on an unexpected tour of the back spaces, and by providing an audio track of soundscapes which are not about the art exhibition but rather point to the social relations constituted in each audio walk environment. Paradoxically, it is the non-synchronous elements of Cardiff's audio walks that point to the embedded nature of expectations produced by body technique. It is through the disjunction of the experiential moment between sensorial input and our awareness of it (an incongruent relationship between what is expected and what is experienced) that, Gilles Deleuze's concept of the pre-individual is actualized for the lived body. The actualized pre-individual lies at the core of an analysis, of how Cardiff's audio walk transgresses the limits of a single art work and reopens living as an emergence for the interconnectedness of the actual-virtual.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-196).

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Focusing on four novels by Janet Frame in dialogue with texts by Freud, Zizek, Lacan, and Silverman, my project theorizes trauma as the basis for both an ethical and an interpretive practice. Frame's fiction develops a cultural psychology, showing how the factors of narcissistic fantasy and the incapacity to mourn contribute to physical and epistemic aggression committed along divides of ethnicity, gender, and linguistic mode of expression. Employing trauma as a figure for an absolute limit to what can be remembered or known, I suggest that reconciliation with whatever is inaccessible, lacking, or dead within an individual or collective self fosters a non-violent relation with others. I begin by querying the place of "catharsis" within hermeneutic literary interpretation, focusing on the construction of Frame within the New Zealand literary industry. With Erlene's adamantine silence at its centre, Scented Gardens for the Blind (1964) rejects the hermeneutic endeavour, exemplified by Patrick Evans' critical work on Frame, to make a text "speak" its secrets. My readings of Intensive Care (1910) and The Adaptable Man (1965) address inter-generational repetitions of violence as the consequences of the failure to recognise and work through the devastations of war. The masculine fantasy of totality driving the Human Delineation project in Intensive Care has a linguistic corollary in Colin Monk's pursuit of the Platonic ideality of algebra, set against Milly's "degraded" punning writing. In The Adaptable Man, the arrival of electricity ushers in a new perceptual regime that would obliterate any "shadow" of dialectical negativity or internal difference. The thesis ends with a swing toward conciliation and emotional growth. The homosexual relationship depicted in Daughter Buffalo (1972) offers a model of transference, defined as a transitional, productive form of repetition that opens Talbot to his ethnic and familial inheritance. Working from within a radical form of narcissism, the novel reformulates masculinity by embracing loss as "phallic divestiture" (Kaja Silverman).

Focusing on four novels by Janet Frame in dialogue with texts by Freud, Zizek, Lacan, and Silverman, my project theorizes trauma as the basis for both an ethical and an interpretive practice. Frame's fiction develops a cultural psychology, showing how the factors of narcissistic fantasy and the incapacity to mourn contribute to physical and epistemic aggression committed along divides of ethnicity, gender, and linguistic mode of expression. Employing trauma as a figure for an absolute limit to what can be remembered or known, I suggest that reconciliation with whatever is inaccessible, lacking, or dead within an individual or collective self fosters a non-violent relation with others. I begin by querying the place of "catharsis" within hermeneutic literary interpretation, focusing on the construction of Frame within the New Zealand literary industry. With Erlene's adamantine silence at its centre, Scented Gardens for the Blind (1964) rejects the hermeneutic endeavour, exemplified by Patrick Evans' critical work on Frame, to make a text "speak" its secrets. My readings of Intensive Care (1910) and The Adaptable Man (1965) address inter-generational repetitions of violence as the consequences of the failure to recognise and work through the devastations of war. The masculine fantasy of totality driving the Human Delineation project in Intensive Care has a linguistic corollary in Colin Monk's pursuit of the Platonic ideality of algebra, set against Milly's "degraded" punning writing. In The Adaptable Man, the arrival of electricity ushers in a new perceptual regime that would obliterate any "shadow" of dialectical negativity or internal difference. The thesis ends with a swing toward conciliation and emotional growth. The homosexual relationship depicted in Daughter Buffalo (1972) offers a model of transference, defined as a transitional, productive form of repetition that opens Talbot to his ethnic and familial inheritance. Working from within a radical form of narcissism, the novel reformulates masculinity by embracing loss as "phallic divestiture" (Kaja Silverman). / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Janet Taylor made major contributions to Victorian navigational practices. She did so through creating business opportunities for herself as an educator, author, and inventor of nautical instruments. / Master of Arts / Janet Taylor, a woman who made major contributions to Victorian navigation, is representative of a large historiographical gap in maritime and nautical histories. In these fields historians are typically inclined to look at famous men in navigation: John Hadley, John Campbell, and others who invented nautical instruments such as the octant and sextant. However, we have failed to contextualize the significant women who have innovated maritime practices throughout history. Taylor, for example, adjusted calculations for locating positions at sea according to the realization that the shape of the earth is not spherical, but spheroidal. She conveyed this new mathematical principle to the maritime community of London through the classes she taught at her nautical academies, the dozens of books she would publish, and the navigational tools she invented or innovated. Her multiple careers, and her success in each of them, were varied and far-reaching, making her truly a Jane of all trades. Her success as a woman in a male-dominated field was largely dependent on the industrial spirit of the nation and time in which she lived. As the industrial revolution created a need for advancement in technology and navigation, gender norms and the public/private dichotomy of Victorian England began to blur.

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. R. Bruce Bickley, Florida State University, college of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (Jan. 19, 2005). Includes bibliographical references.

Matière et mémoire de Bergson est largement inspirée des idées psychologiques du 19e siècle. Nous restituons le contexte psychologique afin de montrer que la psychologie contemporaine pousse Bergson à s’engage dans la lutte contre Kant et à développer sa propre pensée ; discerner et prolonger extrêmement les mouvements. Le premier chapitre porte sur la notion de « plans de conscience ». Nous montrerons dans quelle mesure Bergson reprend les discours des psychologues associationnistes et des psychologues pathologiques (notamment Pierre Janet) sur le déroulement des idées. Ce détour nous permettra de cerner les enjeux proprement bergsoniens de la notion de plans de conscience : il s’agira de discerner les mouvements sui generis de la mémoire.Les deux chapitres suivants essaient de pénétrer dans le domaine de la psychologie physiologique ; le développement de la notion d’action réflexe cérébrale modifie le problème du rapport entre le mouvement et le moi qui en est la cause, de sorte qu’il met en question la notion de la causalité (Carpenter Laycock et Ribot) ; Fouillée transforme le problème psychologique en celui de la condition de donnée. Tout cela met en lumière la polémique essentielle entre Bergson et Kant ; Bergson a tiré des conceptions psychologiques une implication philosophique qui destitue le fondement de la Déduction kantienne : il remplace la limitation kantienne de la réalité phénoménale par le prolongement démesuré d’un mouvement dans un fait, et ce jusqu’à une perception universelle en droit. Ce dernier point sera le cardinal de notre interprétation. Le dernier chapitre porte sur le sens de l’être dans la critique bergsonienne de l’idée de non-être de l’Évolution créatrice, qui éclaircira le rapport entre la détermination et l’existence et qui profile une conception bergsonienne de la réalité comme mouvements. / Matter and memory of Bergson is considerably inspired by psychological ideas of 19th century. We reproduce the psychological context to clarify how the psychology of the same period urges Bergson to entered into a struggle against Kant and to develop his own thought: discerning and prolong movements.The first chapter is concerned with a notion of “plans of consciousness”. We point out to what extent Bergson takes up views of assimilationists and the pathological psychology (especially that of Pierre Janet) about development of ideas. This detour allows us to define distinctively Bergsonian point of the notion of “plans of consciousness” : it consists in discerning different movements of memory.The next two chapters set about inquiring into a domain of physiological psychology. The development of a notion of reflex action modified the problem of relation between a movement and the I which is its cause and how the notion of causality constitutes the central difficulty (Carpenter, Laycock and Ribot). Fouillée transforms the problem of psychology into that of the condition of given. This detour clarifies a polemic between Kant and Bergson ; indeed, Bergson draws from psychological conceptions a philosophical implication which dismisses a necessity of the Kantian Deduction : he replaces Kantian limitation of phenomenal reality by prolongment of un movement in fact, and that to universal perception of right (en droit). This last point is the canonical of our interpretation.Finally, the last chapter inquires the question of the meaning of being in the critic of the idea of not-being in Creative evolution, that clarifies a relation between the determination and the existence, so that it outlines a Bergsonian conception of reality as movements.