The critical component of this thesis, “Hitler Comedy”, is a dissertation on the intersection between comedy theory in general, and the specific practice of Hitler comedy. Focusing on Bertolt Brecht’s play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941; directed by Heiner Müller in 1995), and Dani Levy’s film Mein Führer: the Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler (2007), my argument critiques existing “instrumentalist” theories of comedy as didactic and morally reductive. Moving beyond prevailing conceptualisations of comedy as corrective and/or forgiving, my dissertation emphasises the centrality of pleasure, displeasure and disruption for audience members in the process of their experiencing Hitler comedies. / The creative component of this thesis is a script and a DVD recording of Hitlerhoff, a theatre and multimedia work that combines the characters of Adolf Hitler and David Hasselhoff into a single hybrid figure. Hitlerhoff is a spectacular black comedy that uses comedy to entertain and unsettle, and to disrupt audience members’ expectations. Hitlerhoff is a practical demonstration of the ability of “irresponsible” comedy to act as a potent catalyst for “responsible”, ethically engaged discussions.

The topic of this dissertation is the phemomenon of the dream, dreamy picture and their projection into the creation of surrealist artworks. The disertation tries to connect the basic knowledge of psychoanalysis and the history of art. The thesis attepmts to solve the questions of how the dream imagination is different from the imaginative art of the previous centuries and how the dream topics are involved in the artworks. One of the most important resources for the art work of surrealism was in the psychoanalysis and the knowledge of the work of Sigmund Freud. That is the reason why the first part of this thesis is dedicated to Freud?s The Interpretation of Dreams and the dream symbolism ? its origin, knowledge resources and reflection in the fine arts. The closing chapter uses the previously undiscovered knowledge to present the work of Jindřich Štýrský and tries to indicate how the dream imagination was projected to the artwork of this signifiant surrealist painter.

Este trabalho analisa, partindo de textos freudianos, o percurso do tornar-se mulher suas contribuições e impasses na Contemporaneidade. No encontro com o feminino, na tentativa de compreender o significado das fantasias e sintomas histéricos, Freud descobriu o inconsciente, o trauma, o sexual, que remetiam às experiências sexuais infantis. Ao estudar a sexualidade nas perversões, depara- se com a sexualidade infantil e sua natureza perverso- polimorfa. A sexualidade deixa, então, o campo da perversão para se inscrever no campo pulsional e do desejo. Nesse contexto, Freud desenvolve uma teoria da sexualidade feminina referenciada à castração e à primazia fálica, único caminho para a aquisição de uma feminilidade normal. Reflete-se e analisa-se o tornar-se mulher em Freud, remetendo-o à sociedade do espetáculo e à cultura do narcisismo. A mulher, nesta travessia, conquistou vários espaços, criando novos laços sociais: abandonou o espaço privado representado pelo casamento e a maternagem, para ocupar a cena do espetáculo. Ao contextualizar-se à cena do espetáculo no universo da sociedade de consumo e suas conseqüências na subjetividade feminina, passa-se a analisar mais detalhadamente a relação da mulher com o seu próprio corpo e com a sua sexualidade, marcada pelo excesso sexual e escravizada a um corpo idealizado, fonte de angústia e sofrimento. Na Contemporaneidade, é a imagem da mulher-corpo-sexo que se apresenta, com as máscaras e os adereços tecnológicos, na busca do corpo perfeito e desejado, na tentativa de tamponar a falta, a incompletude, a morte. É o corpo-sexo, enquanto objeto de desejo e de consumo, que vende qualquer coisa e se constitui em objeto de gozo do outro. Revela-se uma sexualidade escancarada, primitiva, sem nenhum limite. Passa-se da mulher- histérica para a mulher corpo-sexo, aquela que ocupa o lugar da prostituta na fantasia masculina, legitimada pelo social, idealizada e modelo de feminilidade. A feminilidade significada naquilo que o jogo de sedução e erotismo possui de mais sublime, misterioso e belo --- expresso na delicadeza de um gesto erótico, de um decote e de uma revelação encontra-se destituída de seu valor na Contemporaneidade. A mulher evidencia, através do corpo excessivamente erotizado, a necessidade de se buscar outros saberes, frente às novas formas de erotização , que se apresentam / This work analyzes, according to Freudian texts, the route to become a woman, its contributions and impasses today. Its in the encounter with the feminine, attempting to understand the meaning of fantasies and hysterical symptoms, that Freud found out the inconsciousness, the trauma, sex, that drove to childhood sexual experiences. Studying sexuality in perversion, we face childhood sexuality and its many-formed perverted nature. Sexuality leaves then, perversion field to come into impulse and desire field. In this context, Freud develops a theory of feminine sexuality referred to castration and phallic primacy, only way to the acquisition of a normal feminism. Reflecting and analyzing to become a woman according to Freud, sent it to the society of spectacle and narcissism worship. Woman, through this path, has conquered many spaces, creating new social links: has left private space, meant by marriage and motherhood, to be at the spectacle scenery. Viewing this scenery in the consumers universe society and its consequences in the feminine subjectivity, tending to analyze in details womans relation with her own body and sexuality, stressed by sexual excess and tied to an ideal body, source of sorrow and pain. At present-day, thats the image of woman-body-sex that comes up with masks and technological devices, searching the desired-perfect body, trying to deceive failure incompleteness, death. Its body-sex as object of desire and consumption, that sells anything and becomes others object of pleasure. It shows an open-wide sexuality, primitive, without limits. It changes from a hysterical to a body-sex woman, the one that plays the whore in the masculine fantasy, legitimated by the social, idealized and feminine model. Feminism meaning what the seduction and erotism game owns as the most sublime, mysterious and gorgeous-showed in a subtle erotic gesture, a neckline,a revelation has no value today. The woman shows, through her highly erotized body, the necessity of searching other knowledges, before new forms of erotization she faces

This work, as its title suggests, aims to discuss the relationship between modernity and helplessness, from the freudian theory of the social, that is, from the so-called sociological or anthropological texts that comprise the works of Freud. Initially, we will make a presentation about modernity, from different perspectives, and, moreover, we will formulate a brief description of what we understand as modern ideas, that is, the set of key assumptions that define modernity. After we discuss the relations between psychoanalysis, modernity and modernism, understood as a movement of criticism of modern assumptions. We will try, indeed, to question the argument for which there would be a shift in the freudian reading of modernity that produces a radical break with the modern ideas. As we want to demonstrate, perhaps it might be more appropriate to state the hybrid character of the freudian theory, according that it combine antagonistic tendencies, inextricably intertwined. Henceforth, we will investigate the statute of helplessness in freudian discourse. Our starting point is the discussion of helplessness in the biological registry from the Project of 1895. Moreover, we will consider the helplessness in the social registry, emphasizing how this condition would be consequent of the collapse of tradition and pre-modern conceptions, notably regarding the decline of a protective figure. In this conception, the helplessness would be structural and inherent to the inclusion of the subject in modernity. We will also explore the question of the destinies of helplessness. On the menu of the procedures to regulating the malaise indicated by Freud, the illusions appear as one of the possible alternatives, that is, as one of the ways to search for salvation. We will seek, finally, to show that the illusions comprise not only the framework of religious ideas, but also statements characteristics of other forms of worldview (Weltanschauung), highlighting some philosophical systems. / Este trabalho, como o próprio título sugere, tem como escopo discutir as relações entre a modernidade e o desamparo, à luz da teoria freudiana do social, isto é, a partir dos chamados textos antropológicos ou sociológicos que compõem a obra freudiana. Inicialmente, faremos uma apresentação acerca da modernidade, a partir de diferentes perspectivas, e, ademais, formularemos uma breve descrição do que compreendemos como o ideário moderno, isto é, o conjunto dos principais pressupostos que definem a modernidade. Em seguida, discutiremos as relações estabelecidas entre a psicanálise, a modernidade e o modernismo, entendido como um movimento de crítica aos pressupostos modernos. Tentaremos, com efeito, problematizar o argumento segundo o qual haveria uma inflexão na leitura freudiana sobre a modernidade que produziria uma ruptura radical com o ideário moderno. Como queremos demonstrar, talvez fosse mais apropriado afirmar o caráter híbrido da teoria freudiana, na medida em que nela se misturam tendências antagônicas, indissociavelmente entrelaçadas. Doravante, investigaremos o estatuto do desamparo no discurso freudiano. O nosso ponto de partida é a discussão do desamparo no registro biológico, a partir do Projeto de 1895. Ademais, trataremos do desamparo no registro social, enfatizando como tal condição seria resultante da falência da tradição e das concepções pré-modernas, notadamente no que tange ao declínio de uma figura protetora. Nessa concepção, vale dizer, o desamparo seria estrutural e inerente à inscrição do sujeito na modernidade. Abordaremos também a questão dos destinos do desamparo. No cardápio dos procedimentos de regulação do mal-estar indicados por Freud, as ilusões aparecem como uma das possíveis alternativas, ou seja, como um dos caminhos para a busca da salvação. Buscaremos, por fim, evidenciar que as ilusões compõem não apenas o arcabouço das ideias religiosas, mas também enunciados característicos de outras formas de visão de mundo (Weltanschauung), com destaque para alguns sistemas filosóficos.

Nossa proposta consiste em realizar uma investigação teórica em torno do conceito de trauma na obra freudiana, assim como das problemáticas a que responde. Objetivamos pesquisar se a teoria do trauma teria de fato desaparecido no período situado entre o abandono da teoria da sedução e os construtos de 1920, como defendem alguns autores na literatura psicanalítica. Nossa hipótese é que a noção de trauma teria continuado a sustentar a teoria freudiana do sofrimento psíquico, não só por meio de aparições esporádicas do conceito nesse período, mas também, implicitamente, por meio das problemáticas a ele relacionadas como a da etiologia das neuroses e dos grandes casos clínicos de Freud: Dora, Homem dos Ratos e Homem dos Lobos. Assim, primeiramente rastreamos a noção de trauma e suas ramificações ao longo da obra e, em seguida, fizemos um estudo desses três casos clínicos, em busca de possíveis configurações traumáticas na história de seus protagonistas. Chegamos ao entendimento de que Freud não trata sempre do mesmo tipo de trauma ao longo dos seus escritos: o termo se mantém, mas com acepções diferentes. Haveria, assim, subtipos do trauma implícitos no discurso freudiano trauma por efração, trauma como falta de mediação entre fantasia e realidade e, ainda, pistas para se pensar um trauma como falha narcísica. A partir desses subtipos, abordamos as consequências clínicas da releitura desse conceito, do ponto de vista do diagnóstico diferencial. Em seguida, apontamos como o aspecto eminentemente econômico que permeia a categoria de trauma influiu na visão de Freud sobre os dispositivos utilizados pelo analista na clínica. Acompanhar as ramificações, assim como o alcance clínico da noção de trauma, consiste em uma tarefa que pode nos oferecer ferramentas teóricas para compreensão dos tipos de constelações traumáticas subjacentes aos sofrimentos intoleráveis daqueles que procuram a clínica psicanalítica / Our proposal is to perform a theoretical investigation regarding the concept of trauma in Freuds work, as well as the set of problems it responds to. We aimed to research if the theory of trauma would have in fact disappeared in the period between the abandon of the seduction theory and the constructs of 1920, as defended by some authors in the psychoanalytic literature. Our hypothesis is that the notion of trauma would have continued to sustain the Freudian theory of psychic suffering, not only through sporadic appearances of this concept during this period, but also, implicitly, by means of the set of problems related to it as the etiology of neurosis and of the major clinical cases of Freud: Dora, Rat Man and Wolf Man. Thus, primarily we searched for the notion of trauma and its ramifications throughout the wok and, afterwards, we performed a study of these three clinical cases, looking up for possible traumatic configurations in the history of their protagonists. We came to the understanding that Freud does not always treat the same kind of trauma throughout his writings: the term remains, but with different meanings. There would be, therefore, implicit subtypes of trauma in the Freudian discourse trauma by rupture, trauma as lack of mediation between fantasy and reality and, yet, clues to think of a trauma as a narcissistic fault. From these subtypes, we approached the clinical consequences of the reinterpretation of this concept, from the differential diagnosis viewpoint. Next, we pointed out how the eminently economic aspect that permeates the category of trauma influenced in Freuds view about the devices used by the analyst in the clinic. Following the ramifications, as well as the clinical scope of the notion of trauma, consists in a task that may offer us theoretical tools for the understanding of the types of traumatic constellations underlying the intolerable suffering of those who look for the psychoanalytic clinic

This essay focuses on psychoanalytical notions in Robert Bloch’s novel Psycho. The theoretical framework is based on Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. Slavoj Žižek’s idea that the house serves as a symbol of Freud’s concept of the Super-Ego, Ego and Id is presented and further developed. Moreover, it is exemplified how the idea of repression as a defense mechanism can be traced in the novel. It is then explained that repression is used as a tool for making the reader feel sympathy for Norman Bates. In addition, Wolfgang Iser’s reception theory is used to explain how Bloch uses gaps and pre-intentions in order to create anticipation and retrospection in the reader to produce suspense and horror. The intention is to prove that the attention to the psychological issues is what makes the monster of the novel more sympathetic and recognizable to us as readers. Thus, the result is that we position ourselves closer to the monster, which leaves us wondering if we could, due to our shared psychology, be monsters as well.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:08:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Araujo.pdf: 667357 bytes, checksum: f60127390e48fbadda923c3d53fd0613 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-03-28 / This work analyzes, according to Freudian texts, the route to become a woman , its contributions and impasses today. It s in the encounter with the feminine, attempting to understand the meaning of fantasies and hysterical symptoms, that Freud found out the inconsciousness, the trauma, sex, that drove to childhood sexual experiences. Studying sexuality in perversion, we face childhood sexuality and its many-formed perverted nature. Sexuality leaves then, perversion field to come into impulse and desire field. In this context, Freud develops a theory of feminine sexuality referred to castration and phallic primacy, only way to the acquisition of a normal feminism. Reflecting and analyzing to become a woman according to Freud, sent it to the society of spectacle and narcissism worship. Woman, through this path, has conquered many spaces, creating new social links: has left private space, meant by marriage and motherhood, to be at the spectacle scenery. Viewing this scenery in the consumers´ universe society and its consequences in the feminine subjectivity, tending to analyze in details woman s relation with her own body and sexuality, stressed by sexual excess and tied to an ideal body, source of sorrow and pain. At present-day, that s the image of woman-body-sex that comes up with masks and technological devices, searching the desired-perfect body, trying to deceive failure incompleteness, death. It s body-sex as object of desire and consumption, that sells anything and becomes other s object of pleasure. It shows an open-wide sexuality, primitive, without limits. It changes from a hysterical to a body-sex woman, the one that plays the whore in the masculine fantasy, legitimated by the social, idealized and feminine model. Feminism meaning what the seduction and erotism game owns as the most sublime, mysterious and gorgeous-showed in a subtle erotic gesture, a neckline,a revelation has no value today. The woman shows, through her highly erotized body, the necessity of searching other knowledge s, before new forms of erotization she faces / Este trabalho analisa, partindo de textos freudianos, o percurso do tornar-se mulher suas contribuições e impasses na Contemporaneidade. No encontro com o feminino, na tentativa de compreender o significado das fantasias e sintomas histéricos, Freud descobriu o inconsciente, o trauma, o sexual, que remetiam às experiências sexuais infantis. Ao estudar a sexualidade nas perversões, depara- se com a sexualidade infantil e sua natureza perverso- polimorfa. A sexualidade deixa, então, o campo da perversão para se inscrever no campo pulsional e do desejo. Nesse contexto, Freud desenvolve uma teoria da sexualidade feminina referenciada à castração e à primazia fálica, único caminho para a aquisição de uma feminilidade normal. Reflete-se e analisa-se o tornar-se mulher em Freud, remetendo-o à sociedade do espetáculo e à cultura do narcisismo. A mulher, nesta travessia, conquistou vários espaços, criando novos laços sociais: abandonou o espaço privado representado pelo casamento e a maternagem, para ocupar a cena do espetáculo. Ao contextualizar-se à cena do espetáculo no universo da sociedade de consumo e suas conseqüências na subjetividade feminina, passa-se a analisar mais detalhadamente a relação da mulher com o seu próprio corpo e com a sua sexualidade, marcada pelo excesso sexual e escravizada a um corpo idealizado, fonte de angústia e sofrimento. Na Contemporaneidade, é a imagem da mulher-corpo-sexo que se apresenta, com as máscaras e os adereços tecnológicos, na busca do corpo perfeito e desejado, na tentativa de tamponar a falta, a incompletude, a morte. É o corpo-sexo, enquanto objeto de desejo e de consumo, que vende qualquer coisa e se constitui em objeto de gozo do outro. Revela-se uma sexualidade escancarada, primitiva, sem nenhum limite. Passa-se da mulher- histérica para a mulher corpo-sexo, aquela que ocupa o lugar da prostituta na fantasia masculina, legitimada pelo social, idealizada e modelo de feminilidade. A feminilidade significada naquilo que o jogo de sedução e erotismo possui de mais sublime, misterioso e belo --- expresso na delicadeza de um gesto erótico, de um decote e de uma revelação encontra-se destituída de seu valor na Contemporaneidade. A mulher evidencia, através do corpo excessivamente erotizado, a necessidade de se buscar outros saberes, frente às novas formas de erotização , que se apresentam

Sylvia Plath’s poetry continues to receive considerable attention from a variety of groups and has been the target for such diverse critical approaches as Feminism, Ecocriticism, and Marxism, to name but a few. My paper focuses on a less investigated area of her poems: Space, and more specifically uncanny space in her later poetry. Here, I take a closer look at seven of her poems using as my preferred methods deconstruction and psychoanalytical theory.

I have come to a point where I feel a need to understand more about my own work methods and my motivations. Departing from a process diary written during my master studies, I take a closer look at my own artistic process — the questions which inform my work, the questions that arise in it, and how my work is an attempt to understand those questions. Wherein lies the urgency for me to work with art in the way that I do?  This is an essay about a search, about trying to make sense of something, about not knowing. It is also an exploration of how my work in the non-verbal domain transforms my not knowing, how working with art is a tool for thinking and understanding.

This study employs psychoanalytical theories to explore how the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious workings of the mind, combined with a search for identity, are presented and dealt with in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987). It is done through a close reading and in-depth textual analysis of thematic concerns raised in the work. Previous research has primarily relied on some specific aspects of psychoanalytic theory and applied it to Beloved. The theoretical framework provides a rationale for this paper to research two events in particular that highlight the mother-daughter relationships between Sethe and her Ma’am and between Sethe and her daughter Beloved. These relationships are consequently analyzed by employing psychoanalytical concepts offered by Freud, Lacan and Kristeva. By utilizing psychoanalytical criticism, the characters’ conscious and unconscious motives and feelings are revealed and explained, as well as the meanings and the undercurrents that lie underneath the text’s consciousness. The results suggest that Sethe murdered her daughter Beloved to keep her from becoming a slave and enduring the dreadful and traumatic consequences of slavery, which was similar to what Sethe went through when she was abandoned by her Ma'am. Sethe’s childhood psychological principles and trauma shaped her identity as a mother as she witnessed her mother abandoning her at a young age by being tortured and killed. The events around Sethe’s mother’s death and the fact that Sethe never identifies her mother’s dead body, scar Sethe for life and instill in Sethe a sense of “lack” and an abnormal feeling of maternal love where she is ready to kill her children to save them from the horror of slavery.