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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2006. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2833. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as 1 leaf (iii). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 461-474).

This thesis examines the meanings and uses of the impression in the essays and late novels of Henry James. While James found fault with impressionism in French painting and literature, he repeatedly called the novel an ‘impression of life’, and used the term to figure important moments of perception and action for his protagonists. This thesis offers the first full-length study of the impression on its own terms, rather than through the lens of a wider artistic or philosophical movement, the most obvious example being impressionism. It locates James’s impression within an intertextual history comprising British empiricist philosophy (Locke and Hume), empiricist psychology (William James), British aestheticism (Pater and Wilde), and, looking forwards, twentieth-century theories of the performative (Austin, Derrida, de Man, Butler). It offers a series of close readings of James’s non-fictional and fictional treatments of the impression in his early criticism and travel writing (1872-88), his prefaces to the New York edition (1907-09), and the three novels of his major phase, The Ambassadors (1903), The Wings of the Dove (1902), and The Golden Bowl (1904). This exploration does not produce any unified definition of the impression in the work of James. It finds, rather, that the impression crystallizes one of James’s main themes, the struggle between art and life, a consequence of the competing empiricist and aesthetic tendencies that the thesis distinguishes within accounts of the impression available to James. The thesis goes on to show that impressions in James may be made as well as received, and so introduces a further distinction, between ‘performative’ and ‘cognitive’ impressions. It argues that what James does with these competing impressions – empiricist and aesthetic, cognitive and performative – is to make them the narrative focus of his late novels and their drama of consciousness.

O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir as histórias como experiência cultural facilitadora do desenvolvimento infantil e suas ressonâncias através do próprio processo em sala de aula: relação com o professor, interação no grupo, produções, histórias trazidas pelas crianças. Para tanto vamos considerar transicionalidade e espaço potencial no espaço institucional. A pesquisa parte de uma investigação psicanalítica que está para além dos muros do consultório e da escola regular e que considera como referência o conceito de espaço transicional, trazido por D. W. Winnicott, pediatra e psicanalista inglês (1896-1971). As indagações e as reflexões aqui levantadas visam contribuir para a prática de todos aqueles que trabalham com crianças, buscando novos olhares que contemplem o interrelacionamento e a posição estruturante do outro no desenvolvimento humano e na constituição da experiência cultural. As aventuras de Alice no País das Maravilhas são utilizadas como fio condutor. O tripé psicanálise, educação e cultura implica o encontro com outros autores/pensadores/interlocutores nesta caminhada. O material foi coletado em dois semestres, em dois grupos de 12 crianças da Escola Municipal de Iniciação Artística EMIA, sendo o primeiro uma classe de crianças de seis anos e o segundo uma classe de crianças de 9/10 anos. Observações in loco, anotações, registros em vídeo, fotos, gravações em fita cassete, registros escritos; coleta de desenhos, de histórias e outros materiais produzidos pelas crianças; encontros com os pais, além da experiência vivida são os instrumentos fundamentais deste processo de pesquisa. / The aim of this study is to discuss stories as cultural experience, facilitating childrens development and their effect in the process itself in the classroom -relationship with the teacher, interaction in the group, productions, stories brought by the children. Therefore let us consider transitionality and potential space in the institutional space. The research starts from a psychoanalytic investigation which is beyond the consulting office walls and the regular school. According to D. W. Winnicott, the English pediatrician and psychoanalyst (1896-1971), the concept of transitional space should be considered. The doubts and reflections brought up here aim to contribute to the practice of those who work with children, seeking new eyes that contemplate the interrelation and the structural position of others in human development and in constitution of cultural experience. The adventures of Alice in Wonderland are used as a consulting wire. The tripod psychoanalysis, education and culture, need to have other authors, thinkers, interlocutors in this process. The material was collected in two semesters from two groups of 12 children each, studying at Escola Municipal de Iniciação Artística EMIA. One class had 6-year-old children and the other had 10-year-old children. In loco observations, notes, records on video, photos, recordings on tape, written registers, drawing collections, stories and other materials (produced by the children), parents meetings, besides the experience are the fundamental tools of this research process.

Prior study of Craiglockhart War Hospital has focused on the hospital's two most famous patients, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, along with the work of the psychotherapist W. H. R. Rivers. Craiglockhart's literary culture is studied in detail for the first time in this thesis and the hospital's therapeutic ethos used as a framework by which the creative work produced at the hospital can be examined. This thesis argues that the British Army's lack of consensus regarding the best treatment of war neuroses facilitated the development of Craiglockhart's expressive culture, in which patients were encouraged both to articulate their wartime memories and return to purposeful activity. The hospital's magazine, The Hydra, is examined at length; both in terms of its links to the wider genre of wartime soldier publications and as a telling document of the hospital's therapies in action. Owen and Sassoon's time at the hospital is also discussed, with particular emphasis on the hospital's central importance in Owen's poetic development and its troubling legacy in the post-war life of Sassoon. Finally, readers are introduced to George Henry Bonner, a patient of the hospital whose creative work is discussed here for the first time. This study makes clear the fact that, for the hospital's literary-minded patients, creative endeavour was an ideal means by which to negotiate the movement away from repression to the articulation of their wartime experiences.

Thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Duisburg-Essen, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir as histórias como experiência cultural facilitadora do desenvolvimento infantil e suas ressonâncias através do próprio processo em sala de aula: relação com o professor, interação no grupo, produções, histórias trazidas pelas crianças. Para tanto vamos considerar transicionalidade e espaço potencial no espaço institucional. A pesquisa parte de uma investigação psicanalítica que está para além dos muros do consultório e da escola regular e que considera como referência o conceito de espaço transicional, trazido por D. W. Winnicott, pediatra e psicanalista inglês (1896-1971). As indagações e as reflexões aqui levantadas visam contribuir para a prática de todos aqueles que trabalham com crianças, buscando novos olhares que contemplem o interrelacionamento e a posição estruturante do outro no desenvolvimento humano e na constituição da experiência cultural. As aventuras de Alice no País das Maravilhas são utilizadas como fio condutor. O tripé psicanálise, educação e cultura implica o encontro com outros autores/pensadores/interlocutores nesta caminhada. O material foi coletado em dois semestres, em dois grupos de 12 crianças da Escola Municipal de Iniciação Artística EMIA, sendo o primeiro uma classe de crianças de seis anos e o segundo uma classe de crianças de 9/10 anos. Observações in loco, anotações, registros em vídeo, fotos, gravações em fita cassete, registros escritos; coleta de desenhos, de histórias e outros materiais produzidos pelas crianças; encontros com os pais, além da experiência vivida são os instrumentos fundamentais deste processo de pesquisa. / The aim of this study is to discuss stories as cultural experience, facilitating childrens development and their effect in the process itself in the classroom -relationship with the teacher, interaction in the group, productions, stories brought by the children. Therefore let us consider transitionality and potential space in the institutional space. The research starts from a psychoanalytic investigation which is beyond the consulting office walls and the regular school. According to D. W. Winnicott, the English pediatrician and psychoanalyst (1896-1971), the concept of transitional space should be considered. The doubts and reflections brought up here aim to contribute to the practice of those who work with children, seeking new eyes that contemplate the interrelation and the structural position of others in human development and in constitution of cultural experience. The adventures of Alice in Wonderland are used as a consulting wire. The tripod psychoanalysis, education and culture, need to have other authors, thinkers, interlocutors in this process. The material was collected in two semesters from two groups of 12 children each, studying at Escola Municipal de Iniciação Artística EMIA. One class had 6-year-old children and the other had 10-year-old children. In loco observations, notes, records on video, photos, recordings on tape, written registers, drawing collections, stories and other materials (produced by the children), parents meetings, besides the experience are the fundamental tools of this research process.

I do not purport to give a definitive argument for or against the influences of the unconscious, for the necessary realm of expertise lies within other fields: psychiatry and psychology. However, the application of psychoanalytic literary theory of the unconscious to the lives, words, and characters of selected female authors in order to explore a richer, more meaningful purpose of their art will be the subject of this literary journey. Specifically, the intent will be an analysis of the relation between the manifest content of three classic works of literature to the unconscious intent relative to the author’s biographical perspective, or the psychology of literature.