This thesis considers mid-20th century portrayals of working-class longshoremen’s masculinity within the context of emerging middle-class gender constructions. I argue that although popular culture presents a roughly standardized depiction of longshoremen as “manly men,” these portrayals are significantly nuanced to demonstrate the difficulties working-class men faced as they attempted to navigate socio-cultural and socio-economic shifts related to class and the performance of their male gender. Specifically, I consider depictions of longshoremen’s disruptive masculinity, male identity formation, and masculine-male growth as reactions to paradigmatic shifts in American masculinity. Using three aspects of longshoremen’s non-work lives presented in A View from the Bridge, “Edge of the City,” and “On the Waterfront”—the house, the home, and leisure/recreational activity—I ground discussions of the longshoremen’s negotiation of masculinity within a conceptual framework based in masculinity studies, social construction, and psychoanalytic criticism. To both complement and supplement the core literary and cultural analyses presented in this text, oral history interviews have been included to provide a contextual basis for understanding longshoremen culture in the 1950s.

Although psychoanalytic theory can provide a large number of testable hypotheses concerning personality development, scientific psychology has been slow to realize this potential. The concept of character type is one aspect of Freudian theory which merits further investigation. It is believed that certain traits occur together in adult personality because they arise at the same level of psychosexual development. The present study tested the empirical validity of the oral, anal and hysterical character constructs in a normal sample. Relationships between character type and perceptions of parental attitudes and behavior were also explored. 143 psychology students completed a personality questionnaire, which provided scores for traits relevant to the character typology, and the Parental Role Patterns questionnaire (PRP), a measure of adult's perceptions of their own childrearing. Subjects also provided information about birth order, number of siblings, parents' marital status and other demographic variables thought to be relevant to the personality types. It was hypothesized that those traits which have been attributed to the oral, anal and hysterical types would form correlation clusters. Factor analysis was used to test the nature of these intercorrelations. Several hypotheses concerning relationships between personality and childrearing were also advanced. These were tested by computing correlations between personality factor scores and PRP scores. For both male and female subjects, factors identifiable as the oral, anal and hysterical emerged, although the results did not support a view of the oral character as a unitary construct. The anal character emerged most clearly. These findings were discussed in relation to published studies in which the same personality questionnaire was used in a psychiatric population. The majority of the hypotheses pertaining to relationships between personality and childrearing also received support. The oral character was associated with perceptions of low parental warmth and high control, the anal character with high warmth (for females), and the hysterical character with low warmth. A multivariate analysis of variance performed on groups of subjects typical of one of the three character types failed to indicate significant differences in childrearing perceptions. Since an adequate typology should enable researchers to make predictions on the basis of subject assignment to type, the usefulness of the psychoanalytic character typology remains in question. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate

This work examines the use of psychoanalytic terms and concepts in postcolonial theory, with attention to the social and historical contexts in which those terms and models originated. The thesis provides an overview of the different academic and political contexts out of which postcolonial theory evolved, focusing on how identity came to be a central term within postcolonial debates. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Anne McClintock, it critiques the current use of psychoanalytic models by postcolonial theorists, arguing that psychoanalysis is itself implicated in the history of European imperialism and brings with it concomitant assumptions about the nature of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The thesis provides an overview of the work of Charcot, Freud and Lacan. It takes up some of their major contributions to psychoanalysis, and discusses the social and political contexts in which those works were developed. The thesis goes on to provide a detailed analysis of the intersection of postcolonial theory and psychoanalysis in the work of Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha and Helene Cixous. The thesis concludes by discussing what I view as the two major ethical and intellectual problems that arise from the use of psychoanalysis in postcolonial theory. I argue, first, that psychoanalysis developed within the same cultural and political context as European colonialism. In spite of its moments of self-consciousness, psychoanalysis, nonetheless, reproduces some of the models of identity that supported European imperialism, both in Europe and abroad. Secondly, I argue that psychoanalysis takes, at root, a pessimistic view of human nature and this pessimism is fundamentally at odds with the emancipatory motives of postcolonial theory. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Magister Artium (Psychology) - MA(Psych) / The focus of this thesis is preschool teachers' talk about childhood sexualities. A literature review of empiricist, psychoanalytic, feminist, social constructionist and post-structural approaches to childhood sexuality suggests that it is a marginalized research topic. Moreover, emphasis tends to fall on the problems associated with childhood sexuality, rather than regarding it as part of everyday life. In this study, I facilitated a focus group discussion with eight preschool teachers. The complexities of analyzing a text produced by participants with multiple identities are acknowledged: The discussion was hinged around vignettes and questions about childhood sexuality, and was transcribed into a written text. Using discourse analysis, I explore some of the 'taken-for-granted' assumptions about childhood sexuality, within 15 extracts from the text. I argue that multiple, paradoxical constructions of childhood sexuality position children 'astride a dangerous dividing line', which can be read on many levels. This unstable positioning both creates and is created by multiple discourses of 'taking charge'. The discourses of 'taking charge' impel preschool teachers to police 'dangerously' sexual children and protect 'innocent' children from corruption. These discourses are gendered: girl children are constructed as more vulnerable to corruption; boy children tend to be constructed with 'sexdrives' needing to be tamed; and adult women are constructed as the monitors of childhood sexuality. Furthermore, silences or taboos about childhood sexuality are integral to these discourses. Although there are hints of childhood agency, I suggest that the teachers themselves have limited access to or use for feminist and other liberatory discourses. More subtle resistance may be evident in many examples of laughter in the text. While this is project situated on the margins of psychology, by virtue of its subject, epistemology and methodology, I conclude by discussing various limitations .

My thesis investigates the theories·proposed by three popular psychoanalysts-Sigmund Freud, Carl G. Jung, and Jacques Lucan. Their theories are then applied to well-known literary works in the genres of fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. I analyze portions of selected writings to serve as literary microcosms that demonstrate a practical application of psychoanalytic literary theory. The conclusion of my application is an interpretation of the selected literature from a psychoanalytic viewpoint. This thesis not only explains and demonstrates the application of the theories, but also presents various methods and precise directions for any college-level English student to use as a supplemental resource for psychoanalytic textual interpretations. This thesis combines into a single document my studies from all three English degree track options offered at the University of Central Florida-- Technical Documentation, Creative Writing, and Literature. I use first person narration as the voice of my thesis to relate my own experiences as an English major to my audience and to offer. practical solutions tp sp'tcific problems many literary theory students encounter during their studies. Classical and modem literature selections serve as models for my analysis, interpretations, and applications. My research is designed as a "how-to" manual directed towards English majo~s; this format enables me to convert complex theoretical concepts into straightforward e~pressions and easy application guidelines, resulting in a useful and practical psychoana1ytic literary theory guide for college-level literature students.

The purpose of this work is to explore how Luigi Pirandello’s Enrico IV (1922) and Miguel de Unamuno’s El hermano Juan o el mundo es teatro (1929) utilize metatheatrical strategies to create plays that constantly question the juxtaposition, and yet the fluidity, of reality and fiction. Through a similar existential search, which is guided by a Sartrean psychoanalytic approach, the protagonists endure a transformation that reveals contrasting results: Enrico remains entrapped in his theatrical portrayal of Henry IV. Conversely, Don Juan frees himself from societal restraints that had portrayed him as a trickster through centuries of literary tradition. In these plays, authority becomes an ever-shifting device that persistently moves from the author, to the characters, and finally to the audience, affecting their own freedom, intended in the Sartrean sense, and being.

Terms such as "fascist" and "nazi" retain light and even comical currency in contemporary pop culture despite the gravity of the events that produced them. Departing from this common usage, I consider within political and psychoanalytic frameworks the normative effects common understandings of fascism and totalitarianism exercise vis-a-vis collective attachments (patriotism, nationalism), and specifically how this discourse shapes notions of citizenship. Working within this political-psychoanalytic model, I analyze the substance behind Barack Obama's Presidential campaign themes of hope and change by way of his Inaugural Address in relation to that of George W. Bush. I conclude by engaging the discourse on cosmopolitan citizenship, considering both how it fits into the framework developed for this project and the relation of Obama's understandings of citizenship and foreign policy to cosmpolitanism. / Master of Arts

Esta pesquisa pretendeu abordar a relação que o psicanalista estabelece com as teorias psicanalíticas existentes para dar conta do que ocorre na clínica. Partindo do princípio de quea teoria psicanalítica possui a especificidade de se fundamentar na análise pessoal de quem a cria e de quem a lê, não é possível classificá-la dentro das disciplinas científicas clássicas, nem das hermenêuticas. Essa especificidade cria problemas para a sua transmissão, pois supõe o atravessamento de transferências e contratransferências que o psicanalista estabelece com seus pacientes, com seus pares e com as teorias que estuda. Esta dissertação consta de dois ensaios. O primeiro aborda a história do movimento psicanalítico e as modificações ocorridas em suas instituições de modo a se aproximarem da radicalidade teórica da psicanálise. Neste ensaio alguns conceitos são fundamentais, quais sejam, a transferência, a resistência que ela suscita, e a identidade clínica do psicanalista, fruto do trabalho com ambas. O segundo ensaio discorre sobre a trama própria da teoria psicanalítica e como esta se constrói a partir de metáforas que nunca abrangem completamente o fenômeno do inconsciente. A relação entre a teoria e a prática, ambas indissociáveis na psicanálise, também se torna presente neste texto, a partir de exemplos de como o psicanalista pensa enquanto teoriza ou clinica. / This research focus on the relationship the psychoanalysis establishes with the existing psychoanalytical theories in order to deal with the events of clinical practice. Based on the principle that a psychoanalytical theory stems from the personal analysis of both its creator ant its reader, it is not possible to classify such theories neither under the classical fields of science, nor of hermeneutics. This specifity interferes in the transmission of these theories because it passes through transferences and counter-transferences that the psychoanalyst establishes with his patients, his colleagues, and with the theories themselves. This dissertation is composed of two essays. The first broaches the history of the psychoanalytical movement and the changes observed in psychoanalytical institutions bringing them closer to the roots and more daring aspects of psychoanalytical theory. Some concepts are essential to this essay: transference, the resistance it evokes, and the clinical identity of the psychoanalyst, which results from working with the former two. The second essay is about the fabric of psychoanalytical theory itself and how it is built from metaphors that never quite fully encompass the phenomena of the unconscious. The relationship between theory and practice, both non-dissociable in psychoanalysis, is also present in this text in the form of examples of how the psychoanalyst thinks when theorizing of during clinical practice.

Esta pesquisa pretendeu abordar a relação que o psicanalista estabelece com as teorias psicanalíticas existentes para dar conta do que ocorre na clínica. Partindo do princípio de quea teoria psicanalítica possui a especificidade de se fundamentar na análise pessoal de quem a cria e de quem a lê, não é possível classificá-la dentro das disciplinas científicas clássicas, nem das hermenêuticas. Essa especificidade cria problemas para a sua transmissão, pois supõe o atravessamento de transferências e contratransferências que o psicanalista estabelece com seus pacientes, com seus pares e com as teorias que estuda. Esta dissertação consta de dois ensaios. O primeiro aborda a história do movimento psicanalítico e as modificações ocorridas em suas instituições de modo a se aproximarem da radicalidade teórica da psicanálise. Neste ensaio alguns conceitos são fundamentais, quais sejam, a transferência, a resistência que ela suscita, e a identidade clínica do psicanalista, fruto do trabalho com ambas. O segundo ensaio discorre sobre a trama própria da teoria psicanalítica e como esta se constrói a partir de metáforas que nunca abrangem completamente o fenômeno do inconsciente. A relação entre a teoria e a prática, ambas indissociáveis na psicanálise, também se torna presente neste texto, a partir de exemplos de como o psicanalista pensa enquanto teoriza ou clinica. / This research focus on the relationship the psychoanalysis establishes with the existing psychoanalytical theories in order to deal with the events of clinical practice. Based on the principle that a psychoanalytical theory stems from the personal analysis of both its creator ant its reader, it is not possible to classify such theories neither under the classical fields of science, nor of hermeneutics. This specifity interferes in the transmission of these theories because it passes through transferences and counter-transferences that the psychoanalyst establishes with his patients, his colleagues, and with the theories themselves. This dissertation is composed of two essays. The first broaches the history of the psychoanalytical movement and the changes observed in psychoanalytical institutions bringing them closer to the roots and more daring aspects of psychoanalytical theory. Some concepts are essential to this essay: transference, the resistance it evokes, and the clinical identity of the psychoanalyst, which results from working with the former two. The second essay is about the fabric of psychoanalytical theory itself and how it is built from metaphors that never quite fully encompass the phenomena of the unconscious. The relationship between theory and practice, both non-dissociable in psychoanalysis, is also present in this text in the form of examples of how the psychoanalyst thinks when theorizing of during clinical practice.

O trabalho de análise não se encerra quando se encerra a sessão analítica. Não se encerra nem para o paciente - que segue em análise - nem para o analista que, a partir das sessões, pode seguir o trabalho na direção da construção do caso clínico. No entanto, o relato das sessões não faz o caso. Dessa inferência, surge nossa questão: o que é essa operação de construção realizada pelo analista que viabiliza essa transformação? E, mais ainda, quais os efeitos que essa construção possibilita? Dessa maneira, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a construção do caso clínico em psicanálise, de maneira a compreender essa operação e seus efeitos. Deste primeiro objetivo, desdobram-se três objetivos específicos, que correspondem aos objetivos de cada capítulo de nossa organização. O método utilizado foi a investigação da bibliografia específica da área. De cada capítulo, que organizam nossos resultados, temos que: 1) a noção de construção em psicanálise é uma noção que embasa a construção dos casos clínicos, 2) a noção de caso clínico em psicanálise corresponde a um depósito de tradições específicas, tornando o caso clínico escrito para publicação um gênero literário e 3) a construção do caso clínico em psicanálise pode ser organizada didaticamente em objetivos, funções e elementos que a compõem. Elaboramos ainda um quarto capítulo em que a experiência clínica é discutida, com base em nossos achados, a fim de elencar alguns efeitos clínicos que as noções investigadas implicam no tratamento e na clínica psicanalítica. Concluímos que, para que um paciente em psicanálise possa ser chamado de caso, é preciso que o material clínico passe pelo trabalho de construção, realizado por um analista, ou seja, um rearranjo dos elementos recolhidos das sessões analíticas e que possibilita a construção do caso. Apesar dos diversos objetivos, elementos e articulações que elencamos, possíveis na construção de um caso clínico, é dado que a maneira de construir é singular e é determinada pela prática de cada um e pelo destinatário da construção. No entanto, concluímos que se há uma construção, é possível um analista comunicar o caso para além de seu relato, trazendo elementos 10 clínicos, noções e conceitos psicanalíticos que formam a essencial dialética entre teoria e prática / The psychoanalytical work does not stop at the end of the psychoanalytical session. It does not end either for the patient - who keeps on going under analysis - nor for the analyst who, from the sessions, can continue the work in the direction of the construction of the clinical case. However, the report of the sessions does not mean the case. From this inference, our question arises: what is this construction operation carried out by the analyst that makes this transformation viable? And, what\'s more, what effects does this construction implies? Thus, this research aims to investigate the construction of the clinical case in psychoanalysis, in order to understand this operation and its effects. From this first objective, three specific objectives are defined, which correspond to the objectives of each chapter of our organization. The method used was the investigation of the specific bibliography of the area. From each chapter, which organizes our results, we have: 1) the notion of construction in psychoanalysis is a notion that bases the construction of clinical cases, 2) the notion of clinical case in psychoanalysis corresponds to a deposit of specific traditions, what makes the clinical case a literary genre and 3) the construction of the clinical case in psychoanalysis can be organized in objectives, functions and elements that compose it. We also elaborated a fourth chapter in which clinical experience is discussed, based on our findings, in order to list some clinical effects that have the construction of the case for the psychoanalytic clinic. We conclude that for a patient in psychoanalysis to be called a case, it is necessary that the clinical material goes through the construction work performed by an analyst, that is, a rearrangement of the elements collected from the analytical sessions and that allows the construction of the case. Despite the stated objectives of building the case, the way of building is unique and is determined by the practice of each and the recipient of the construction. However, if there is a construct, it is possible for an analyst to communicate the case rather than a report, bringing up psychoanalytical clinical elements, notions e concepts that make the constant dialogue and dialectic between theory and practice