Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, The Dept. of English Language and Literature, Jun. 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-190). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006. / Title from title page screen (viewed on June 1, 2006). Thesis advisor: James A. Black. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This study explores the theoretical consequences of Freud's renunciation of the seduction theory. The dissertation defends the thesis that the seduction theory was shaped as much by Freud's adherence to the nomonological model as by the empirical evidence of child sexual abuse. A renunciation of the seduction theory was inevitable, not because the accounts of the daughters were lies, but because the methodology was inappropriate. The nomonological model obscured the emotional structure of the nuclear family in which the structure itself, through which sexuality emerged, directed the girl's entrance into womanhood and caused the woman's dis-ease. Freud's methodology forced him to isolate an event as cause of an illness and to attribute the event to an agent. The universal perversity of the Victorian father thus became the central theme around which an explanation of a female disease was built. When this theme became theoretically untenable, Freud renounced the seduction theory and, still using the nomonological model, built up the construct of the Oedipus complex in which the father was vindicated. In order to exonerate the father, the transactions through which the child's libido developed were represented as originating in inherent tendencies. As a result, the hierarchical nature of the interaction between parent and child was distorted, and this led to the formulation of the distinction between real events and fantasies as a basic premise on which the difference between the pleasure principle and the reality principle rests. This formulation gave rise to the sharp duality between fantasy and reality which eventually compelled him to separate psychic reality and social reality. The theoretical structure built on this duality could not but fuse hysteria, masochism and "normal" femininity into an explanation of the female state, and obscure the essential social relations between men and women which were structured in terms of dominance and submission. The thesis traces the journey from the perverted father as cause of a female disease, hysteria, to the theoretical conjunction of masochism and hysteria. It comes to the conclusion that Freud's model is unable to explain the self-mutilation of the hysteric; nor is it capable of explaining the hysteric's refusal to participate in the circuit of symbolic exchanges which constituted Victorian society. The study further attempts to understand hysteria in terms of the complex interlacing of fact and fantasy and tries to show that fantasy was rooted in the facts of Victorian culture.

George Lippard, a name scarcely recognized in today's American literature classrooms, was the author of the most popular American novel prior to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 - The Quaker City; or, the Monks of Monk Hall. Despite producing such a popular and risqué novel, Lippard and his work have been curiously absent from the American literary and historical canon. In this paper I have chosen to focus on three aspects of the novel that I believe to be important for analysis - Biblical parallels, narrative structure, and female characters. Lippard uses the narrative structure and plot to incite curiosity in his readers and to appeal to audiences' instincts of sexual curiosity, pleasure in revenge, and the punishment of "evil." I will explain how Lippard uses two of the themes to reflect major issues of the time period and one as a metaphor for the plot of the novel. / Master of Arts

My work seeks to reveal the relationships between woman and man, woman and self, and woman and the space which she inhabits. Through personal memoirs and everyday observations the private becomes public, and moments of intimacy transpire. Intimacy requires dialogue, transparency, reciprocity, and self-disclosure, all things that I have been reflecting upon in my work over the last two years. Relationships are formed within the works and through the experience of the viewer with the art. Figures and abstraction coexist next to one another informing the viewer of things familiar, creating closeness, while also spatially confusing the viewer, creating a distance. Moments are filtered through abstraction and illuminated through touch. These moments, while often small and fractured, combine together to create a full and complete reflection of the self and the other.

This thesis, which supports an exhibition of visual art, develops from Jean Baudrillard's philosophy of seduction. I have focused on the representation of the bachelor and his pad in American men's magazines from the mid-twentieth century. During this period, magazines such as Playboy, Escapade and Rogue created features on modern living to reassure an independent and affluent man that a dwelling with style and taste would ensure a happy bachelor life and facilitate intimacy. My photographs and collages add complexity to this portrait by framing this unique space as a stage where an unmarried man encircled by his lusty decor acted to entrance a woman.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:39:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Laerte Alves de Paula Junior.pdf: 894497 bytes, checksum: 8e072048848aeb2d7616a752d0462139 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The following paper proposes a dialogue between psychic constitution, based on the paradigm of the experience of satisfaction, developed by Freud in his early works, and the phenomena of seduction and eroticism, which can be read in association with the transference effect, therefore within the clinical setting. The material on which this research is based is a clinical case in which the interventions made by the psychoanalyst, during many months of the treatment, seemed to be entirely ignored by the patient. In addition, the common thread for such dialogue lies on the idea of language and its role on psychic development, the social bonds and, most of all, its erotic and seductive properties. The text performs a thorough review and contextualization of Freud s key texts. It also takes Freud s insights as the starting point for a dialogue with several other authors from both the psychoanalytical field and other areas of knowledge, thus gathering some parameters for a reflection that considers the clinical setting and its invitation towards free association a trigger for erotic and seductive phenomena / A presente dissertação realiza uma articulação entre a constituição psíquica, pensada a partir do paradigma da experiência de satisfação, conceituada por Freud já em seus primeiros trabalhos, e os fenômenos de sedução e erotismo, tal como pensados a partir da relação transferencial, portanto, dentro do contexto clínico. O material que funda esta pesquisa é um caso clínico no qual as intervenções feitas pelo analista, durante diversos meses do tratamento, pareciam ser sumariamente ignoradas pela paciente. Também, o fio condutor para este diálogo repousa sobre a noção de linguagem e seu papel no desenvolvimento psíquico, no laço com o outro e, principalmente, em suas propriedades eróticas e de sedução. O texto realiza uma minuciosa leitura e contextualização dos textos de Freud e os toma como ponto de partida para o diálogo com diversos outros autores do campo psicanalítico e de outros campos do saber, permitindo assim reunir alguns parâmetros para uma reflexão sobre o espaço clínico e seu convite à associação-livre como provocador de fenômenos eróticos e de sedução

This thesis examines the evolving gender relationships exposed by and contested through the Senegalese art of seduction, mokk pooj. The Wolof expression encompasses a set of feminine attitudes and actions (culinary prowess, docility, eroticism) that reflect values such as teraanga (hospitality), sutura (discretion), and muñ (patience, endurance). These beliefs and the discursive practices that perpetuate them are central to the reproduction of a gendered, normative, patriarchal, polygamous Senegalese sexual imaginary, but are framed within the playful and pleasurable realm of seduction and sexuality. Indeed, mokk pooj implies a satisfying sexual life based on a religiously-­‐informed sexual ethics: in a country where 95% of people identify as Muslim, marriage and procreation are divine recommendations, and sexual pleasure is said to make a married couple feel closer to Allah. In consequence, objects and strategies that enhance sexual satisfaction are an integral part of the Senegalese seduction toolkit. Each chapter pays attention to a specific element of the material culture of seduction and explores how it exposes larger gender dynamics. By taking potions and amulets, money, aphrodisiacs, food, and lingerie as the starting point of each chapter, I explore how these objects relate to concepts of social conformity and normativity, love, anxiety, complementarity and agency. In doing so, I analyse the gendered labour – the art/work of seduction – that goes into mokk pooj. David Graeber (2012) suggests that within hierarchical relationships, individuals in an inferior position (women) have to constantly imagine, understand, manage and care about the egos, perspectives and points of view of those on the top (men) while the latter rarely reciprocate. While Graeber contends that this ‘interpretive labor’ or ‘imaginative identification’ reproduces an internalised structural violence, I analyse mokk pooj as an affective economy in which women’s emotional, interpretive labour, becomes an agentive, albeit conservative, tool of negotiation and power (Mahmood 2005). In imagining and interpreting men’s needs and desires, Senegalese women uphold the Senegalese sexual imaginary that portray them as docile and submissive. However, it is through the apparent conformity and subdued demeanour that mokk pooj requires of them that Senegalese women manage to portray themselves as good women and consequently enhance their agentive power of negotiation.

Submitted by Mario BC (mario@bc.ufrpe.br) on 2016-12-26T12:16:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Izabele de Souza.pdf: 2775082 bytes, checksum: 4879732c184313769294429e2dfdf431 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-26T12:16:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Izabele de Souza.pdf: 2775082 bytes, checksum: 4879732c184313769294429e2dfdf431 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study aims to understand the ways of seduction, dating and sexual-affective relations between men and women from the poorest sections of Recife city, between 1890-1914. This will be done using the built versions in criminal cases of deflowering. It is believed that these relationships are inventive and capable of creating living strategies of love, conflict resolution and opportunities for experience. Symbolic representations evoked by produced speeches will be emphasised. Love stories (or seduction stories) obtained from the deflowering processes do not make the style of novels based on romantic love heralded among the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some elements of these stories approach principles of romantic love and rules of traditional dating, while others distance themselves from the values idealised by the ruling classes. This allows a glimpse into a reality not compatible with bourgeois models. Thus, romantic relationships in the poorest and workers strata appear to be more flexible in relation to the rules of the bourgeois legal code. In conclusion, we believe that, despite a strong normative policy, several segments of society undertook resistance strategies to the imposed standards. This constituted singular forms of living, loving and constituting their households. / O presente trabalho busca compreender as formas de sedução, namoro e relações afetivo-sexuais entre homens e mulheres das camadas pobres da cidade do Recife entre os anos de 1890 e 1914, através das versões construídas nos processos criminais de defloramento e nos periódicos humorísticos O Periquito e O Papagaio. Apesar das estratégias de normatização e disciplinamento das camadas pobres, mas especificamente dos comportamentos sexuais e amorosos, em que foram forjados identidades e necessidades para os gêneros de forma binária e desigual, percebe-se que essas relações são inventivas e capazes de criar estratégias de vivência do amor, solução de conflitos e possibilidades de experiências e representações simbólicas evocadas nos discursos produzidos. As histórias de amor (ou sedução) retiradas dos autos dos processos de defloramento não fazem o estilo dos romances baseados no amor romântico tão propalado entre a literatura dos séculos XIX e XX. Nessas histórias encontram-se elementos que ora se aproximam dos princípios do amor romântico e das regras de um namoro à antiga, ora se distanciam, permitindo um olhar sobre uma realidade não compatível com os modelos burgueses. As relações amorosas nas camadas pobres e trabalhadoras foram mais flexíveis em relação às regras do código normativo burguês. Assim, pensamos que, apesar de uma forte política normativa, vários segmentos sociais empreenderam estratégias de resistências aos padrões impostos, constituindo formas singulares de viver, amar e constituir seus núcleos familiares.

[pt] Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão sobre o feminino,sobre os enigmas que flutuam o seu universo e que produzem uma imagem social relevante e sustentável . Essa imagem enuncia transformações decorrentes de aspectos sócio-culturais e vai revelando como o comportamento feminino está inserido em circunstâncias históricas e em que proporção a literatura desvela e influencia tais mudanças. Para esse olhar , tomamos A Moreninha, de Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, como fio condutor e o romance nos foi mostrando uma nova mulher, uma mulher que em sua morenice retrata brasilidade e apresenta nova matiz feminina. Conseqüentemente, visualizamos um novo Macedo, um Macedo que alinhava irreverência e equilíbrio, um Macedo que ousamos ver grande e anunciador de um universo feminino capaz de tecer novos conceitos e de produzir voz e tornar-se visível e representável. / [en] This work introduces a study about the feminineness, about the riddlesthat floatits universe and produce an important and sustainablesocial image. This image enunciates transformation originated from social- cultural aspects and keeps on showing how the feminine behavior is inserted in historical circumstances and in which proportion literature shows influences these changes. Concerning this point of view we consider A Moreninha, written by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo as the starting point and the novel began to show a new woman, a woman who with her brunetteness represents brazilian feelings and also a new female clour. For this reason we visualize a new Macedo. A Macedo that gathered inreverence and equilibrium. A Macedo we dare to consider a great announcer of a feminine universe able to create new concepts and producing voice, becaming visible and representative.