Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 39-03, Section: A, page: 1627. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1978.

The aim of my thesis is to contribute a greater understanding to the psychosocial study of emotion, by specifically developing a psychosocial approach to love and intimacy. I provide examples of how to define Psychosocial Studies and I discuss the intellectual challenges that this interdisciplinary approach raises. I also offer personal reflections on the dilemmas that this subject area and an academic thesis on love catalysed. I detail the deconstruction of romantic love in sociology, feminism, existentialism, Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. I refer to this as an 'impossibilist' paradigm of romantic love. I situate this deconstruction of love in the context of contemporary debates regarding the identity crises of late modernity. I compare this impossibilist paradigm of romantic love with a new conceptualisation of love and intimacy in sociology. I argue that sociology, Freudian and object relations psychoanalysis provide us with re-worked definitions of love, which deconstruct the narrative of romance, without declaring love to be impossible. I look at the similarities and differences between what I refer to as these possibilist discourses of love and intimacy. While both sociological and psychoanalytic discourses present possibilist views of love, I argue that object relations psychoanalysis is better able to acknowledge impossibilist views of love and intimacy. Nevertheless I show that sociology is an indispensable tool for critically questioning the ahistorical conceptualisation of intimacy found in object relations psychoanalysis. A discursive dialogue is created between the sociological, philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives presented and their theories of love are applied to and, in some cases, interrogated by empirical material collected by means of a narrative method. To explore the relationship between discourses of love and changing social formations, I have used a methodological approach that combines existing modes of biographical research with new psychosocial modes of analysis. My work therefore provides an exemplification of a psychosocial approach in both theory and method, through the study of love and intimacy. My work specifically develops a psychosocial approach to biographical studies and uses insights from the psychoanalytic method of infant observation. I offer reflections on points of comparison and difference in psychoanalytic and sociological interpretive methods. At the same time the thesis contributes towards contemporary debates about the nature of modernity, by specifically focusing on conceptualisations of love and new cultural discourses of intimacy.

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Este estudo pretende percorrer o espaço que concilia as relações existentes entre o romance enquanto género e a história como fenómeno capaz de ser textualmente representada. A questão sobre a qual pretendemos reflectir baseia-se justamente, nas relações aparentemente divergentes a nível dos objectivos desse discurso situado entre a verdade e a ficção. Parimos do pressuposto de que o romance não é um texto que enquanto ficção se aproxima do histórico porque se serve de informações verídicas que poderão ser objecto da história, mas um discurso que tem como princípio e fim organizar a história através do ficcional. Na parte I falaremos do romance histórico e na Parte II da leitura do discurso intertextual que fizemos

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 36-06, Section: A, page: 3754. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1975.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 36-06, Section: A, page: 3754. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1975.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 36-08, Section: A, page: 5341. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1975.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 37-10, Section: A, page: 6539. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1976.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 22-08, page: 2787. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1961.

The purpose of this study was to create an instrument for research and to present a semantic and literary application to illustrate its use. / The instrument is comprised of a computer tape containing the text of Les Liaisons dangereuses de Laclos and a limited concordance developed from selected terms from the novel's two predominant semantic fields, power and knowledge, and two inter-related fields, stratagem and divinity. / The concordance constitutes in itself a partial verification of the beginning hypothesis that the novel is generated in large part by its two predominant semantic fields. The computer output of over 200,000 lines was so voluminous that it was only possible to include a much reduced concordance in this work. / The reduced concordance permits the establishment of partial statistics. The co-occurrences of terms from the four selected semantic fields is very high. It is of particular importance to note that the reduced concordance reveals that approximately 10% of the total words in the novel (one word per line of text) is generated by the two predominant semantic fields, power and knowledge. / The analysis attempts to classify the terms found in the reduced concordance according to the principles of Greimas and Blanche and to study the use of the terms and the context in which they are used by the novel's principal characters. / The reduced concordance allows the comparison of the vocabulary and style of the characters to occur in a more systematic manner. It illustrates the fact that the language and style of the characters are very personalised. For example, certain words appear only in the vocabulary of particular characters. The reduced concordance also permits the comparative study of the varying contexts that can be applied to a given word throughout the text by characters on both sides of the aggressor/aggressee axis. / This study illustrates one use of the research instrument that has been created. There are numerous other possibilities limited only by the imagination of a researcher. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-10, Section: A, page: 3049. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.