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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Lidelsefullt lidande : En problematisering av njutningens och smärtans dikotomi / Pleasure and unpleasure

Eldnatt, Frida January 2009 (has links)
Smärta har en historisk tradition av att uppfattats som njutningens motsats. Smärtans ställning som alltigenom negativ ses ofta som en ”sanning” som inte kan motsägas. Dock finns det individer som njuter av smärta på ett sexuellt plan, så kallade masochister. I denna studie undersöker författaren hur masochisterna själva beskriver relationen mellan smärta och njutning. Den tidigare forskningen fokuserar mestadels på den dominante partens problematiker och upplevelser i en sadomasochistisk situation och utelämnar därmed masochistens syn på smärta, njutning och risker. Genom att använda sig av Grundad Teori försöker författaren att förutsättningslöst kartlägga den masochistiska upplevelsen av smärta och njutning och utarbetar en teori om masochistens syn på sin egen avvikelse och utveckling, på förstärkning av känsla och den personliga förhöjningen och känslan av att befinna sig i ett ”tillstånd” i den masochistiska leken, den fullständiga tilltron till partnern och på den ömsesidiga kommunikationen, de egna avvägningarna och gränsdragningarna och hur de ser njutning och smärta som i symbios. Alla dessa aspekter leder fram till en känsla av frihet. I diskussionen används Mays teorier om frihet och öde tillsammans med Eberhards teorier om riskbedömningar, vilka bägge innefattar tankar kring ”negativa” förnimmelser som ångest, rädsla och vrede. Det blir klart att alla negativa förnimmelser har både ”skadliga” och ”normala” former. Det masochisterna upplever i leken är en form av ”normal smärta” som inte har några negativa beståndsdelar utan som fungerar som en utvecklingsmekanik och en språngbräda för att uppnå frihet.
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Why Do People Seek Negative Emotions? A Solution to Hume's Puzzle

Brady, William J 01 August 2012 (has links)
In his 1757 essay “Of Tragedy”, Hume reflected on a curious puzzle about emotions. Sometimes people seek out emotions or experiences that are typically negative and associated with displeasure or pain. People often desire to watch horror films that will make them scared or listen to music that will make them sad. Some people even engage in the pursuit of negative emotions on a regular basis such as in the case of thrill-seeking. In this paper my goal is to update Hume’s puzzle with empirical evidence from the affective sciences and argue for two conclusions. First I will argue that Hume’s puzzle still runs deep. Though some recent scientific and philosophical accounts of emotions have tried to solve it, they have thus far failed. Second I attempt to construct a psychological account that solves the puzzle. Instead of focusing on how emotions are generated as previous theories have done, I argue that what is important is how emotions are regulated.
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Semiotique du plaisir dans les Fleurs du mal

Cabello-Chauveau, Inti Jean-Christophe. January 2001 (has links)
This thesis is dedicated to a in depth study of the notion of pleasure such as it appears in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. Focusing upon a very restraint core of poems, the analysis unfurls according to the methodic tools provided by Michael Riffaterre, literary theorician and critic, in his Semiotics of poetry. Basing myself on a shrewd selection of texts, number of which were almost completely left out by baudelairean studies, my goal was to highlight the semiotical span owned by the different illustrations of pleasure in our poet's work. Weaving significant threads, first between signs and then between the text and its intertextuality, I achieved a detailed and global canvas of pleasure's descriptive system as it underlies Les Fleurs du Mal. The analysis defines pleasure's expression as a dichotomic construction. First opposing itself to reality, then to illusion and then to danger and others, it eventually builds itself against the notion of grief through bipolarization, caught into an insolvable cycle overhung by its evanescence. Interpretation allows us to draw interesting perspectives concerning the poet's epistemological choices.
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Nigerian and Sierra Leonean young women, sex, and sexuality: a study in a prairie city in Western Canada

Dutfield-Wilms, Katie J. 08 September 2011 (has links)
Through an examination of how culture and cultural difference affect sexual norms and practices this thesis explores the sexual subjectivities of ten Nigerian and Sierra Leonean young women living in Winnipeg. The theoretical framework deployed in this thesis is the social constructionist approach to sexuality. This approach involves an understanding that social processes affect the meanings and performances of sexuality and will be deployed to underscore the varying ways Nigerian and Sierra Leonean young women develop sexual beliefs and practices enmeshed in dating and economic exchange, connections to “home”, pleasure, and the body. The methodological approach is ethnographic and uses focus groups, interviews, and participant observation. I argue that the Nigerian and Sierra Leonean young women’s sexual subjectivities are influenced by their social locations as straddling two different social worlds and sets of cultural and sexual norms. Media, race and religion influence these young women’s sexual subjectivities.
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Nigerian and Sierra Leonean young women, sex, and sexuality: a study in a prairie city in Western Canada

Dutfield-Wilms, Katie J. 08 September 2011 (has links)
Through an examination of how culture and cultural difference affect sexual norms and practices this thesis explores the sexual subjectivities of ten Nigerian and Sierra Leonean young women living in Winnipeg. The theoretical framework deployed in this thesis is the social constructionist approach to sexuality. This approach involves an understanding that social processes affect the meanings and performances of sexuality and will be deployed to underscore the varying ways Nigerian and Sierra Leonean young women develop sexual beliefs and practices enmeshed in dating and economic exchange, connections to “home”, pleasure, and the body. The methodological approach is ethnographic and uses focus groups, interviews, and participant observation. I argue that the Nigerian and Sierra Leonean young women’s sexual subjectivities are influenced by their social locations as straddling two different social worlds and sets of cultural and sexual norms. Media, race and religion influence these young women’s sexual subjectivities.
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Bliss Delight and Pleasure in Paradise Lost

Avin, Ittamar Johanan January 2001 (has links)
There have been many studies of keywords in Paradise Lost. Over the last fifty or so years words such as �wander�, �lapse�, �error�, �fruit�, �balmy�, �fall�, �hands�, among others, have attracted critics� attention. The present enquiry brings under scrutiny three linked keywords which have up to now escaped notice. These are the words �bliss�, �delight�, and �pleasure�. The fundamental proposition of the thesis is that Milton does not use these words haphazardly or interchangeably in his epic poem (though in other of his poetic productions he is by no means as fastidious). On the contrary, he self-consciously distinguishes among the three terms, assigning to each its own particular �theatre of operations�. Meant by this is that each keyword is selectively referred to a separate structural division of the epic, thus, �bliss� has reference specifically to Heaven (or to the earthly paradise viewed as a simulacrum of Heaven), �delight� to the earthly paradise in Eden and to the prelapsarian condition nourished by it; while �pleasure�, whose signification is ambiguous, refers in its favourable sense (which is but little removed from �delight�) to the Garden and the sensations associated with it, and in its unfavourable one to postlapsarian sensations and to the fallen characters. Insofar as the three structural divisions taken into account (Hell is not) are hierarchically organized in the epic, so too are the three keywords that answer to them. Moreover, in relating keywords to considerations of structure, the thesis breaks new ground in Paradise Lost studies.
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The role of endogenous opioids in hedonic homeostasis and incentive motivational processes

Maga, Matthew Thomas, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2009. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-202).
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The Thomistic concept of pleasure, as compared with hedonistic and rigoristic philosophies.

Reutemann, Charles, January 1953 (has links)
Abstract of Thesis--Catholic University of America. / Description based on print version record. Bibliography: p. 34-37.
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An A/r/tographic study of multicultural children's book artists : developing a place-based pedagogy of pleasure

Reisberg, Mira, January 2006 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, August 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-293).
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O sensível e o cruel: uma aprendizagem pelas performances sadomasoquistas / The sensible and the cruel: a learning by the sadomasochist performance

Gadelha, José Juliano Barbosa January 2016 (has links)
GADELHA, José Juliano Barbosa. O sensível e o cruel: uma aprendizagem pelas performances sadomasoquistas. 2016. 130f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Instituto de Cultura e Arte, Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes, Fortaleza (CE), 2016. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-27T13:19:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_jjbgadelha.pdf: 1460277 bytes, checksum: 9f4b65afccb41a71491f466366f178f9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-27T13:22:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_jjbgadelha.pdf: 1460277 bytes, checksum: 9f4b65afccb41a71491f466366f178f9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-27T13:22:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_jjbgadelha.pdf: 1460277 bytes, checksum: 9f4b65afccb41a71491f466366f178f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / This dissertation deals with the experimentation with sadomasochistic performances in an anthropologic and artistic process of thinking by constructing a poetics of cruelty. On that learning journey, the author will propose the actualization of a performative-installation that transmits sensitive signs (figurative and figural ones) of sadomasochism. The theoretical traverse lines come from Bruno Latour’s symmetrical anthropology, Antonin Artaud’s theatre of cruelty, Clarice Lispector’s literature, the philosophy of the sensible by Jacques Rancière with the nomadic philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, the Performance Studies, and the dissident knowledges from Queer Theory, specially the contrasexual thinking by Paul Beatriz Preciado. Taking sensation and representation during this learning, the lines of force will be sought by allowing the anthropologic and artistic knowledge to move through the simultaneity of cultural and natural agencies which, in the poststructuralist turn, soar towards new perspectives on what arts, genders, sexualities, the current machines of production-injunction-reappropriation of pleasures and the technologies of bodies could be. To sum up, this dissertation has affect as an axe whose sciences named methodology and the percept as an epistemology of the lived experience. / Esta dissertação trata da experimentação com as performances sadomasoquistas em um processo de pensamento e criação antropológico e artístico, construindo uma poética da crueldade. Nas aprendizagens desse trajeto, o autor vai propondo a realização de uma instalação-performativa que transmita os signos sensíveis (figurativos e figurais) do sadomasoquismo. Os atravessamentos teóricos vão da antropologia simétrica de Bruno Latour, o teatro da crueldade de Antonin Artaud, a literatura de Clarice Lispector, a filosofia do sensível de Jacques Rancière, a filosofia nômade de Deleuze e Guattari aos Performance Studies e os saberes dissidentes da Queer Theory, em especial com o saber da contrassexualidade de Paul Beatriz Preciado. Nas tomadas de sensação e representação das aprendizagens, buscar-se-á seguir as linhas de força que permitam ao conhecimento antropológico-artístico se movimentar pelas simultaneidades das agências culturais e das agências naturais que, na guinada pós-estruturalista, disparam rumo às novas perspectivas do que sejam as artes, os gêneros, os sexos, as sexualidades e as atuais máquinas de produção-injunção-reapropriação dos prazeres e das tecnologias dos corpos. Em suma, a dissertação tem o afecto como eixo daquilo que as ciências chamam de metodologia e o percepto como epistemologia do vivido.

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