Actor training, like the theatre in Brazil, has historically been a middle and upper class pursuit that followed European models, namely Stanislavski's system. Yet within Brazil there is a wealth of diverse cultures that are inherently theatrical and well suited for application in actor training. In this study I explore one such culture, the Afro Brazilian religion Umbanda. First, I examine its formation to illuminate how the religion itself performed (or served as a site for cultural interaction) throughout history. Then, I explore the practice of the religion both apart from and in relation to the theatre and Stanislavski's system. Using the archetypes of Umbanda as a base, I formulate a system of actor training that both allows access to a larger demographic of Brazilians, and also encourages cultural dialogue as an explicit part of acting process. I frame this study with two metaphors: anthropophagy, the notion of cannibalizing or consuming one culture by another; and, more specifically, the digestive tract. The anthropophagy movement in Brazil framed the country's thought throughout much of the 20th century; the digestive tract is a closer examination of the consuming process that epitomizes this system of actor training.

This thesis is an introduction to sophia-analysis and deals with the concepts and methods it offers the individual for the purpose of personal growth. The theoretical part of the thesis is devoted to defining the sophia-analytical psychotherapeutic school. It presents the conceptual references of sophia-analysis, its metapsychology and works through its theoretical underpinnings and specific anthropological concepts. It further describes the applied therapeutic forms as well as presents the organization and specifics of its training system. It concludes with a brief history of sophia- analysis and a short biography of its founder. The applied section of the thesis deals with the identification, classification and selection of the most distinctive psychotherapeutic processes found in 21 individual sessions of sophia-analytical therapy, using "psychotherapy process Q-test" methodology. The applied section also describes in detail the methodology used and the results of its application to sophia-analytical material. The applied methodology serves two purposes. First, it provides a picture of sophia-analytical practice from the point of view of psychotherapeutic process in the context of actual sophia-analytical sessions and so complements the introduction of this psychotherapeutic branch in the...

This thesis analyzes not only the book itself but also the development and transformation of main characters of the novel The House of the Spirits written by Chilean author Isabel Allende. The work deals with an introduction period of the Spanish-American fiction of the twentieth century, with emphasis on magic realism and related spirituality and historical events of the 20th century Chile. The text also focuses on the general theory of characters and plot outlines and structure of the novel. Furthermore, these findings are applied to the fictional character of this work. The conclusion summarizes the results of the investigation carried out and refuted the thesis of literature Isabell Allende. It is concluded that House of the Spirits clearly belongs to the literature of Latin American post - boom and it means much more than just a simple entertaining reading.

This work takes as its central issue the existential movement as it appears in the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard. There appears to be relatively little secondary literature on this topic, so it is a very fruitful area to explore. The texts explored include Kierkegaard's 'psychological' books, in particular Concept of Anxiety and Sickness unto Death. These provide our work with the crucial concepts of innocence, guilt, despair, anxiety, existence and spirit. From the more traditional philosophical works, Philosophical Fragments, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments and Johannes Climacus have been utilised. These texts inform the work mostly on the meaning of movement, doubt, contradiction and absolute paradox. From the more lyrical works, this work is informed by Fear and Trembling and Repetition. Inquiry into these texts combined will provide a picture of existential movement as it is presented by Kierkegaard. This work attempts to capture the 'becoming subjective' which is so central to Kierkegaard's thought, through the reconstruction of the existential stages. It is also the purpose of this work (in the process) to treat areas of Kierkegaard's thought that are usually left untreated. The latter are for example, the problematic of the leap of sin, the unclear status of the...

Why would a relatively normal eighteen year-old boy from New Orleans decide to dedicate his life to God as a Jesuit priest at the tail-end of the twentieth century? What obstacles would he meet along the way? What would sustain him in religious life? Why would he leave after seven years? Can one be sexually and emotionally healthy as a celibate? Is celibacy different for homosexuals than it is for heterosexuals? What is essential in the spiritual life?

Cette thèse propose un parcours biographique et littéraire autour de la vie et de l’oeuvre de Nikos Kazantzaki (1883-1957), ses contacts avec la langue et la culture françaises et leur influence sur sa vision du monde. C’est une recherche des éléments de la culture française dans l’oeuvre de Kazantzaki et plus précisément dans les deux ouvrages écrits directement en français, Toda-Raba et Le Jardin des Rochers. Kazantzaki, tel un Ulysse contemporain, voyage émerveillé dans l’oecoumène, afin de découvrir les richesses de la réalité humaine, pour agir au lieu d’être agité par elle! Ouvrier insatiable de l’esprit, il ne cesse de proclamer, jusqu’à la fin de ses jours, les belles vertus universelles: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, Dignité Humaine! Sa préoccupation primordiale : transformer la chair en esprit, transmettre la semence de ses écrits, riche héritage d’amour, à la postérité, ne rien laisser à Charon si ce n’est quelques os! Il tisse le cocon de sa poésie, pareil à un ver de soie, laissant la semence d’une création immortelle, trait d’union entre le passé et le futur. La joie d’apprendre, l’amour des langues, la beauté, l’art, la grâce, la tendresse, se rejoignent dans ce bijou multiculturel kazantzakien, pour danser au rythme du souffle de la vie! Bergson est la colonne dorsale de la création kazantzakienne. Ses théories de la durée réelle, de la matière et de l’esprit, de l’évolution créatrice et de l'élan vital, du langage, de l'art comme moyen de communication entre la nature et Dieu, forment le fleuve de la culture française qui traverse l’oeuvre kazantzakienne pour la conduire à la liberté : à Dieu! Le dieu de Kazantzaki évolue et est réinventé dans les fables humaines. C’est un Dieu qui attend l'homme pour le sauver, afin qu’ensemble ils puissent créer la vie ! / This thesis proposes a bibliographic and literary journey in the life and work of Nikos Kazantzaki (1883-1957), his relation to the French language and culture, their influence on his vision of the world and his creation. It is a research on the elements of French culture in the work of Nikos Kazantzaki and more specifically in the two novels written directly in French, Toda-Raba and The Rock Garden. Kazantzaki, a contemporary Ulysses, travels in the world with amazement, discovering the richness of the human reality, acting instead of being acted by it! An insatiable worker of the spirit, he does not stop proclaiming the beautiful universal virtues: Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood, and Human Dignity! His essential concern: to transform the flesh into spirit; to transmit the seed of his writings, that rich inheritance of love, to the posterity, leaving nothing to Charon, except a few bones! He weaves his cocoon of poetry, similar to a silk worm, and leaves the seed of its immortal creation as a link between past and future. The joy of learning, the passion for languages, beauty, art, grace and tenderness, join in that multicultural jewel , Kazantzaki’s work, to dance on the rhythm and breath of life! Bergson is the central figure of the French culture in Kazantzaki’s creation. His theories on real duration, on matter and spirit, on creative evolution and the élan vital, on language and art as a means of communication between nature and god, a god who changes and is reinvented in the human fables, a god who waits for men in order to save them, to create life together with them, will be the river of French culture crossing Kazantzaki’s work and leading him to freedom, to God!

À l'île de La Réunion, les mouvements pentecôtistes-charismatiques se développent depuis une quarantaine d’années. L'importance particulière qu'ils accordent à l'émotion religieuse exerce un rôle pivot dans leur capacité d'attraction. Favorisant les preuves tangibles de l'agir divin au détriment des dogmes, ils concourent à l'imprécision des croyances et à la fluidification des itinéraires religieux, ils contribuent à la poussée des individualismes religieux, ils encouragent la scissiparité ecclésiale. En ces différents éléments, ils mettent l'Église à l'épreuve. Néanmoins, une analyse fouillée de cette mouvance en société créole conduit à interroger cette relativisation des institutions, de la tradition, des médiations, dont elle se prévaut. Une enquête de terrain et le recueil d'entretiens mettent en lumière plusieurs facteurs paraissant construire l'expérience religieuse de type émotionnel : - la situation socio-historique insulaire tout d'abord, ainsi que les dynamiques religieuses qui ont contribué à la formation de groupements pentecôtistes et charismatiques concurrents suffisamment distincts pour ne pas être assimilés à un même milieu ; - les groupes auxquels les fidèles adhèrent ensuite qui codifient leurs pratiques et fabriquent leur « virtuosité » religieuse ; - le temps enfin, en vertu duquel l'itinéraire des individus enregistre différentes phases d'intensité variable. De ce fait, l'expérience religieuse est loin de rimer exclusivement avec effervescence, immédiateté, malléabilité. Elle comporte aussi sa part de régulation, de socialisation, de transmission. C'est au cœur de cette dialectique que s'inscrit cette étude en terre réunionnaise. / In Reunion Island, pentecostal and charismatic movements have been developing for forty years and their emotional aspect plays a pivotal role in their power of attraction. Encouraging tangible evidence of God’s actions at the expense of dogmas, they contribute to the imprecision of beliefs and the dispersion of religious itineraries, lead to an increase in individualism and encourage a tendency to scission in the Church. Because of all this, they put the church to the test. Nevertheless, an in-depth analysis of these movements in Creole society leads us to question the erosion of institutions, traditions and mediations it relies on. Organising a field survey and conducting interviews has made it possible to highlight several factors which seem to inspire religious experience of an emotional kind.- First, the socio-historical situation of the island, and the religious dynamics that have contributed to the formation of competing pentecostal and charismatic groups which are too different to be treated as part of the same environment.- Then, the groups joined by the faithful, which codify their practices and create their religious « virtuosity »- Finally time, because of which individuals itineraries show different phases of varying intensity. So, religious experience is far from being synonymous exclusively with excitement, immediacy and malleability. Control, socialization and transmission are also important part of it. This study conducted in Reunion Island is at the very heart of this dialectic.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-13T14:10:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Angelina Sinato.pdf: 4423636 bytes, checksum: d730b2743c12cd1b2ea763288de39597 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-29 / The objective of this study t is to analyze the global discourse of the social entrepreneurship scene. Therefore, we use the methodology of critical discourse analysis (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001) and (VAN DIJK, 2003) on social entrepreneurs life narratives to understand their social role in contemporary society. The object is the narratives present in digital media, which constitute the image of social entrepreneurs worldwide institutions: Ashoka, Skoll Foundation and Schwab. These organizations articulate new possible worlds (LAZZARATO, 2006) and represent in an emblematic way the new spirit of capitalism (BOLTANSKI and CHIAPELLO, 2009). Moreover, attribute legitimacy to social entrepreneurs, who are seen as modern Olympians, true culture models (MORIN, 2011). The social entrepreneur, in summary, joins the competence as a regular entrepreneur with dedication to work for the "common good". The pragmatism of the entrepreneurial figure combines heroic characteristics, which are the symbolic power (BOURDIEU, 2005). This process occurs through a complex network of production, circulation and consumption of these globalized symbolic heroic narratives. From the spread of the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship, we seek to understand their origin, their rhetoric constitution and how the social and cultural aspects are linked to it, as the process of celebritization (TORRES, 2014) the figure of the social entrepreneur. / O objetivo desse estudo é analisar o discurso globalizado da cena do empreendedorismo social. Para tanto, utilizamos a metodologia da análise crítica do discurso (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001) e (VAN DIJK, 2003) de narrativas de vida de empreendedores sociais para compreender seu papel social na contemporaneidade. Tomamos como objeto as narrativas, presentes na mídia digital, que constituem a imagem dos empreendedores sociais em instituições de abrangência mundial: Ashoka, Skoll Foundation e Schwab. Essas organizações articulam novos mundos possíveis (LAZZARATO, 2006), e representam de maneira emblemática o novo espírito do capitalismo (BOLTANSKI e CHIAPELLO, 2009). Além disso, atribuem legitimidade aos empreendedores sociais, que passam a ser vistos como olimpianos modernos, verdadeiros modelos de cultura (MORIN, 2011). O empreendedor social, em síntese, une a competência para empreender com a dedicação ao trabalho pelo bem comum . O pragmatismo da figura empreendedora se alia a características heroicas, que constituem o poder simbólico (BOURDIEU, 1989) desses atores sociais. Esse processo se dá por meio de um complexo circuito de produção, circulação e consumo simbólico dessas narrativas heroicas globalizadas. A partir da difusão do fenômeno do empreendedorismo social, buscamos entender sua origem, sua constituição retórica e quais são os aspectos sociais e culturais a ele atrelados, como o processo de celebrização (TORRES, 2014) da figura do empreendedor social.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-13T14:10:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Manente Batista.pdf: 4649864 bytes, checksum: c666dfe73d91b1e9578186467c15d93b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-14 / This research aims to discuss the social entrepreneurship involved the in the crowdfunding platforms, researched from its communicational aspect. The social entrepreneurship configures itself as the new spirit of capitalism (BOLTANSKI; CHIAPELLO, 2009) adjusting its projects within the commodity aesthetics (HAUG, 1997) to convince the public to consume/investment in its cause. We consider the crowdfunding platforms as a discursive market (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001), whose commodities are the projects launched for funding purposes, constituting its forms of symbolic consumption. In that way, we pursue to comprehend the meanings of discursive strategies of social entrepreneurship on these platforms. The research methodology is based on the Critical Analysis of Discourse of Fairclough (idem). / Esta pesquisa tem como tema o empreendedorismo social nas plataformas de financiamento coletivo, também conhecidas como crowdfunding, investigado sob seu aspecto comunicacional. O empreendedorismo social configura-se como o novo espírito do capitalismo (BOLTANSKI; CHIAPELLO, 2009) adequando seus projetos com a estética da mercadoria (HAUG, 1997) para convencer o público ao consumo-investimento de sua causa. Consideramos as plataformas de crowdfunding como um mercado discursivo (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001) cujas mercadorias são os projetos lançados para o financiamento, constituindo suas formas de consumo simbólico. Por isso, buscamos compreender os significados das estratégias discursivas do empreendedorismo social nestas plataformas. A metodologia de pesquisa é fundamentada na Análise Crítica do Discurso de Fairclough (idem).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:34:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silvia Asam da Fonseca.pdf: 6431703 bytes, checksum: 7651744a96a753189d55ac575c495056 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work studies the history of the colection "Biblioteca do Espirito Moderno"(Modern Spirit Library) edited by Companhia Editora Nacional. It had four series (Philosophy, Sciences, History and Biography and Literature), and tried to put together a Library of civilization and culture aimed at the average Brazilian Reader . It was organized in two diferent times by the educator Anísio Teixera, this colection was one of the great non-didactical successes of "Companhia Editora Nacional" and had a fairly long longevity" The thesis investigates both editorial choices and the comparison between titles brought to Brazil by Companhia Editora Nacional and other colections ;present both in the national Market and in the English, French and US markets. Making use of international correspondency from the Historical archive of the publisher, the research revealed a series of conditions in the tittles negotiation as well as the titles selection process from a viewpoint focused on the everyday choices of the publishing house (not onlyof the editor), with all its hurdles: Exchange rate problems, deadlines, translator selection, negotiation with authors, publishers and literary agents, copyrights, graphic selections and Production and distribution costs / Este trabalho estuda a história da coleção Biblioteca do Espírito Moderno editada pela Companhia Editora Nacional. Em suas quatro séries (Filosofia, Ciências, História e Biografia e Literatura), a coleção buscava compor uma biblioteca de civilização e cultura para o leitor médio brasileiro. Organizada em dois momentos pelo educador Anísio Teixeira, essa coleção foi um dos sucessos não didáticos da Companhia Editora Nacional e teve longevidade bastante grande. A tese investiga os tipos de escolha editorial, a interlocução dos títulos traduzidos com outras coleções presentes tanto no mercado nacional quanto nos mercados inglês, francês e estadounidense. Utilizando a correspondência internacional do arquivo histórico da editora, a pesquisa revelou uma série de condicionantes na negociação dos títulos e, também, o processo de seleção dos títulos de um ponto de vista focado no cotidiano da editora (e não apenas do editor), com os obstáculos que o compõem: problemas de câmbio, prazos, seleção de tradutores, negociação com autores, editoras e agentes literários, prestação de contas e pagamentos de direitos autorais, seleção de gráficas e custos de produção e distribuição