Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is among the most troubling Personality Disorders. Individuals with the disorder have exaggerated fears of abandonment, distorted self-identity and problems in interpersonal relationships, and are prone to self-abuse, suicide ideation and attempts, rage and aggression. Furthermore, these individuals have an exceptional aversion to admitting that these problematic behaviours are symptomatic of an underlying disorder, and therefore in accepting responsibility for their behaviour. Using a Spinozist approach, I analyze that we the public share in the responsibility for having a population with BPD. Under the guidance of Hasana Sharp’s Politics of Renaturalization, I argue that the individual with BPD resists accepting responsibility because she is not completely to blame. Spinoza’s radically relational ontology shows that no individual can act without affecting and having been affected by the myriad of other beings, especially other humans. We the public share in the blame for having a population with BPD, and I argue that admitting so will help the individuals with BPD gain self-knowledge and accept their respective share of the responsibility for these problematic behaviours. This will serve the best interests of the public by affording more credence and adding new voices from these personalities in collective conversation

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is among the most troubling Personality Disorders. Individuals with the disorder have exaggerated fears of abandonment, distorted self-identity and problems in interpersonal relationships, and are prone to self-abuse, suicide ideation and attempts, rage and aggression. Furthermore, these individuals have an exceptional aversion to admitting that these problematic behaviours are symptomatic of an underlying disorder, and therefore in accepting responsibility for their behaviour. Using a Spinozist approach, I analyze that we the public share in the responsibility for having a population with BPD. Under the guidance of Hasana Sharp’s Politics of Renaturalization, I argue that the individual with BPD resists accepting responsibility because she is not completely to blame. Spinoza’s radically relational ontology shows that no individual can act without affecting and having been affected by the myriad of other beings, especially other humans. We the public share in the blame for having a population with BPD, and I argue that admitting so will help the individuals with BPD gain self-knowledge and accept their respective share of the responsibility for these problematic behaviours. This will serve the best interests of the public by affording more credence and adding new voices from these personalities in collective conversation

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:00:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4289.pdf: 11544046 bytes, checksum: 0f3759be3d930212876cbbaf08c351e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-12 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The interactions of man with nature begin a journey of constant changes in space. Cities as principal product of this process of deconstruction that seeks to analyze and understand in order to establish new forms of interventions concerned with the quality of the place. This practice of deconstruction space is still not understood which ensures the production of spaces marked by the use of the technique. Thus, if one replaces existing nature artificialized by nature. The present study aimed to analyze the perspective of the concepts of deconstruction minimum and the renaturation of Aleixo Stream, the city of Barretos-SP, because it has the attributes necessary to characterize the deconstructions, techniques and common problems that occur in urban streams . To develop the research, the stream in question was divided into five sections, from its source to its encounter with the treatment plant in the city, where aspects of deconstruction were evaluated from the perspective of land use, water and border areas green. Other aspects evaluated were the interventions proposed by the Municipality, with the design of Vale Avenue Fund, that instead of proposing a renaturation replace part of the heritage and border water, with foreclosures, such as point solutions to the problems of urban drainage the municipality. These flooding problems are perhaps an 'alert', instituted by nature, and that can be solved, provided that the anthropic action applied to these spaces is done in a more conscious and socially engaged. To do so, the application of the concepts of deconstruction is the minimum that can ensure the production of balanced spaces. And in cases where the "works" engineering is already consolidated, the use of instruments of intervention as the renaturation becomes essential in the design of more natural environments. / As interações do homem com a natureza dão início a uma caminhada de constantes transformações no espaço. As cidades como produto importante desse processo de desconstrução espacial é o que se procura analisar e entender, com o intuito de estabelecer novas formas de intervenções preocupadas com a qualidade do lugar. Essa prática de desconstrução espacial ainda incompreendida é o que garante a produção de espaços marcados pelo uso da técnica. Assim, substitui-se uma natureza existente por uma natureza artificializada. O presente estudo se propôs a analisar sob a ótica dos conceitos de desconstrução mínima e renaturalização o Córrego do Aleixo, do município de Barretos-SP, pois este apresenta os atributos necessários para caracterizar as desconstruções, as técnicas e problemas comuns que ocorrem em córregos urbanos. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, o córrego em questão foi dividido em cinco trechos, da sua nascente até seu encontro com a estação de tratamento do município, onde foram avaliados aspectos de desconstrução sob a ótica do uso do solo, fronteiras d água e áreas verdes. Outros aspectos avaliados foram as intervenções propostas pela Prefeitura Municipal, com o projeto Avenida Fundo de Vale, que ao invés de propor uma renaturalização substituirá parte do patrimônio histórico e das fronteiras d água, com desapropriações, como soluções pontuais para os problemas de drenagem urbana do município. Esses problemas de enchentes talvez sejam um alerta , instituído pela própria natureza, eque pode ser resolvido, desde que, a ação antrópica aplicada a esses espaços seja realizada de forma mais consciente e engajada socialmente. Para tanto, a aplicação dos conceitos de desconstrução mínima é o que pode garantir a produção de espaços equilibrados. E nos casos, onde as obras de engenharia já se encontram consolidadas, a utilização de instrumentos de intervenção como a renaturalização passa a ser indispensável na concepção de ambientes mais naturais.