This thesis is a biography of Henry Louis Rey (1831-1894), a member of one of New Orleans' most prominent Creole of Color families. During the Civil War, Rey was a captain in both the Confederate and Union Native Guards. In postbellum years, he served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representative and in appointed city offices. Rey became heavily involved with spiritualism in the 1850s and established séance circles in New Orleans during the early 1870s. The voluminous transcripts of these séance circles have survived into the twenty-first century; however, scholarly use of these sources has been limited because most of the transcripts and all marginal annotations later written by René Grandjean are in French. The author's translations of the spirit communications through their entire run reveal insight into the spiritual and material realms negotiated by New Orleans Black Creoles as they weathered declining political and economic fortunes.

Orientador: Francisco Hashimoto / Co-orientador: Luiz Eduardo Prado de Oliveira / Banca: Maria Inês Assumpção Fernandes / Banca: Manoel Antônio dos Santos / Banca: Mareike Claudia Wolf-Fédida / Resumo: Tendo em vista a crescente importância dos estados depressivos na atualidade, e a conjuntura de relativa falta de consenso em torno do assunto no meio psicanalítico, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo explicitar os fundamentos que permitiram a formulação da teoria da melancolia apresentada no artigo Luto e melancolia (FREUD, 1917[1915]). Tratou-se, aqui, de analisar a formação da teoria freudiana da melancolia a partir de seus fundamentos, a fim de fornecer elementos conceituais mais precisos que contribuam a clarificar os problemas existentes em torno do assunto. A metodologia deste trabalho baseou-se na leitura, pesquisa e análise textual e conceitual do tema delimitado, nas obras selecionadas por meio de levantamento bibliográfico. O trabalho revelou que os fundamentos da teoria freudiana da melancolia são estabelecidos sobre um tripé formado pelo modelo etiológico das neuroses de transferência, pela aplicação de tal modelo às neuroses narcísicas (por meio da formulação do conceito de narcisismo e seus derivados) e pelo diálogo de Freud com seus discípulos, que contribuíram diretamente para construção de uma série de elementos que conformaram as proposições freudianas. Frente a isso, a teoria freudiana da melancolia está situada no entrecruzamento de um caminho teórico e clínico que leva das neuroses de transferência às neuroses narcísicas, e que culmina no estabelecimento da segunda tópica do aparelho psíquico. Os resultados desta pesquisa mostram que a formulação de Luto e melancolia, além de se dever ao desenvolvimento teórico da teoria freudiana, resultou, também, dos diálogos e intercâmbios advindos das contribuições teóricas entre os psicanalistas da época, e que possivelmente as divergências atuais podem ser o reflexo dos debates ocorridos naquele período. Finalmente... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: From a consideration of the increasing importance of depressive states of mind today, and the finding of relative lack of consensus on this topic in the psychoanalytic milieu, this research proposes to recover the theoretical context that allowed the formulation of the melancholy's theory presented in the article Melancholy and Mourning (FREUD, 1917[1915]). It is to analyze the foundations of Freud's theory of melancholia, in order to provide more accurate conceptual elements that contribute to clarify the problems that exist around the subject until today. The research methodology is based on reading and textual and conceptual analysis of the subject delimited in selected works from a bibliographical review. The study revealed that the foundations of Freud's theory of melancholia are set on a tripod formed by the etiological model of the transference neuroses, by applying this model to the narcissistic neuroses (through the formulation of the concept of narcissism and its derivatives), and by the dialogue between Freud and his followers, who have directly contributed to the construction of several elements that have shaped the Freudian propositions. Faced with this, it seems that the Freudian theory of melancholia lies at the intersection of a theoretical and clinical path that leads from transference neuroses to narcissistic neuroses, and culminating in the establishment of the second topical theory of the psychic apparatus. The results of this research show that the formulation of Mourning and Melancholia is due to the theoretical development of Freudian theory, and also resulted from the dialogues and exchanges between theoretical contributions coming from the psychoanalysts of his time, and the current controversies reflect the discussions that occurred during this period. Finally, it is expected that this research offers elements... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Submitted by Jadson Francisco de Jesus SILVA (jadson@uefs.br) on 2018-01-24T23:22:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissertacaoRuiMarcos.pdf: 2596662 bytes, checksum: 63a7764bbf6dd0d1c2f091b034d2cb89 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-24T23:22:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissertacaoRuiMarcos.pdf: 2596662 bytes, checksum: 63a7764bbf6dd0d1c2f091b034d2cb89 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-31 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / The purpose of this paper is to analyze the trajectory of Albertino Marques Barr?to in the city of Brumado, in southwestern Bahia. The time frame for this work begins in 1954 when Albertino and a group of ?brothers? founded the Spiritual Center Fellowship (CEF) and ends in 1974, when not only can we envision his role in the ?religious field,? but also as a politician during his participation in the founding of the Union of Rural Works of Brumado. This paper also endeavors to comprehend the defense of Albertino?s disputed political project in the different political spaces in which he acted over the course of this twenty-year period. This research alos uncovers that Albertino?s activity was always based on ideas of spiritualism, including his design for education, which had the basic principle of taking the man out of ?ignorance? to form a ?new man.? / Na disserta??o analisamos a trajet?ria de Albertino Marques Barr?to, na cidade de Brumado, no sudoeste baiano. O recorte temporal que abarca a pesquisa tem in?cio em 1954, quando Albertino e um grupo de ?confrades? fundaram o Centro Esp?rita Fraternidade (CEF) e se encerra no ano de 1974, quando podemos vislumbrar sua atua??o n?o somente no ?campo religioso? mas tamb?m pol?tico, como a participa??o na funda??o do Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Rurais de Brumado. Tratamos de compreender o projeto pol?tico defendido por esse personagem ao longo desses vinte anos, pretens?es disputadas nos diferentes espa?os que o esse sujeito atuou. Ao longo da pesquisa, verificamos que a atua??o de Albertino sempre foi pautada nas concep??es do Espiritismo, inclusive seu projeto para a Educa??o, que tinha como princ?pio b?sico tirar o homem da ?ignor?ncia? para formar um ?homem novo?.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:46:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WELTHON RODRIGUES CUNHA.pdf: 8617285 bytes, checksum: 597e9e9a788c2e3a1cf4865ce24020a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-18 / This paper makes an analysis of psychic phenomena within the Spiritualist religion Kardecist. Mediumship is addressed as a symbolic system, which is articulated in a religious field itself, the psychic field and on which transit other forms of religiosity, such as Umbanda and Candomblé. Mediumship is regarded as a symbolic system complex and multifaceted, from four dimensions, namely the social level, the social group or micro, the individual and the paranormal. The paper focuses its analysis on the paranormal dimension, establishing a process of legitimation of science by spiritualism, mediated by science or parascience of parapsychology, which is appropriate and re-signified by intellectuals and researchers Brazilian spiritists, to the point of forming a field paranormal Brazilian where it is possible to establish a dialogue between science and religion spiritualist. The author of five chapters trace the entire route of the historical and ideological religiosity Spiritualist Kardecist and parapsychology, as well as what he calls the Brazilian paranormal field. Indicates the existence of a Brazilian spiritism, with religious connotations and different from the original French, which has a more scientific connotation. In the last chapter conducts a description and analysis of how the speech supposedly scientific parapsychology and science spiritualist and psychic interprets the phenomenon which the social function that interpretation plays for unification and institutionalization of spiritualism as a religion systematized. / O presente trabalho realiza uma análise do fenômeno mediúnico, dentro da religiosidade espírita kardecista. A mediunidade é abordada enquanto um sistema simbólico, que se articula dentro de um campo religioso próprio, o campo mediúnico e sobre o qual transitam outras formas de religiosidade, como a umbanda e o candomblé. A mediunidade é considerada como um sistema simbólico complexo e multifacetado, a partir de quatro dimensões, a saber, a dimensão social ampla, a social grupal ou micro, a individual e a paranormal. O trabalho centra a sua análise na dimensão paranormal, que estabelece um processo de legitimação do espiritismo pela ciência, mediatizada pela ciência ou paraciência da parapsicologia, que é apropriada e ressignificada por intelectuais e pesquisadores espíritas brasileiros, ao ponto de formar um campo paranormal brasileiro, onde é possível o estabelecimento de um diálogo entre ciência e religião espírita. O autor em cinco capítulos traça todo o itinerário histórico e ideológico da religiosidade espírita kardecista e da parapsicologia, bem como do que ele denomina de campo paranormal brasileiro. Aponta a existência de um espiritismo brasileiro, com conotação religiosa e diferente do original francês, que tem uma conotação mais científica. No último capítulo realiza uma descrição e análise de como o discurso pretensamente científico da parapsicologia e da ciência espírita interpreta o fenômeno mediúnico e qual a função social que esta interpretação desempenha para a institucionalização e unificação do espiritismo enquanto religião sistematizada.

As pesquisas que estudam a relação entre fenômenos mediúnicos e saúde mental, embora tenham aumentado nas últimas décadas, ainda não produziram informações suficientes para a consolidação de práticas alternativas às tradicionais. Entretanto, a literatura aponta a necessidade de ampliar os dados por meio de pesquisas que aprofundem nessa temática. Realizou-se um estudo transversal de natureza exploratório-descritiva com abordagem qualitativa dos dados, com objetivo de investigar os significados de alucinação e mediunidade por médiuns de um centro espírita e profissionais da saúde mental de um hospital psiquiátrico de um município paulista. Foram entrevistados 10 médiuns e 10 profissionais de saúde. Utilizou-se como referencial teórico metodológico a abordagem Histórico-Cultural baseada na obra de Vigotski e os Núcleos de Significação de Wanda Aguiar e Sérgio Ozella baseados no referido autor. Foram construídos de três núcleos de significação: \"Entre o real e o imaginário: alterações e perturbações\"; \"Entre o fenômeno e a religião: razão ou loucura\"; e \"Entre o patológico e o espiritual: fenômenos que se relacionam, mas são distintos\". Os resultados demonstram que os médiuns significam a mediunidade com mais precisão do que os profissionais da saúde mental enquanto estes significam a alucinação conceitualmente com mais exatidão. Contudo os significados de alucinação para os médiuns e o de mediunidade para os profissionais não destoam, o que demonstra a disseminação cultural dos conceitos. A maioria dos médiuns e profissionais relataram ter dificuldade para distinguir os fenômenos pesquisados e referiram desconhecer a literatura produzida sobre o tema / Although research about the relationship of mediumic phenomena and mental health has grown in the past decades, it has yet to produce sufficient information for the consolidation of practices alternative to traditional ones. However, literature shows the need to expand data through research that can dive deeper into this topic. This work makes a transversal study of exploratory-descriptive nature, with qualitative approach of data, aiming to explore the meaning of hallucination and mediumship for mediums in a spiritist center and mental health professionals from a psychiatric hospital, in a city in the state of São Paulo. Ten mediums and ten health professionals have been interviewed. As theoretical reference, the Historic-Cultural approach based on Vigotski and the Nuclei of Meanings of Wanda Aguiar and Sérgio Ozella, based also on the said author, have been employed. Three Nuclei of Meanings have been developed: \"Between real and imaginary: alterations and perturbations\"; \"Between phenomenon and religion: reason or insanity\"; and \"Between pathological and spiritual: related but distinct phenomena\". Results show that mediums signify mediumship with more precision when compared to mental health professionals, while the latter signify hallucination conceptually with more accuracy. However, the meanings of hallucination for mediums and mediumship for mental health professionals do not diverge, showing the cultural dissemination of these concepts. Most mediums and mental health professionals report difficulty to distinguish the researched phenomena and claimed to ignore the literature produced about the topic

As pesquisas que estudam a relação entre fenômenos mediúnicos e saúde mental, embora tenham aumentado nas últimas décadas, ainda não produziram informações suficientes para a consolidação de práticas alternativas às tradicionais. Entretanto, a literatura aponta a necessidade de ampliar os dados por meio de pesquisas que aprofundem nessa temática. Realizou-se um estudo transversal de natureza exploratório-descritiva com abordagem qualitativa dos dados, com objetivo de investigar os significados de alucinação e mediunidade por médiuns de um centro espírita e profissionais da saúde mental de um hospital psiquiátrico de um município paulista. Foram entrevistados 10 médiuns e 10 profissionais de saúde. Utilizou-se como referencial teórico metodológico a abordagem Histórico-Cultural baseada na obra de Vigotski e os Núcleos de Significação de Wanda Aguiar e Sérgio Ozella baseados no referido autor. Foram construídos de três núcleos de significação: \"Entre o real e o imaginário: alterações e perturbações\"; \"Entre o fenômeno e a religião: razão ou loucura\"; e \"Entre o patológico e o espiritual: fenômenos que se relacionam, mas são distintos\". Os resultados demonstram que os médiuns significam a mediunidade com mais precisão do que os profissionais da saúde mental enquanto estes significam a alucinação conceitualmente com mais exatidão. Contudo os significados de alucinação para os médiuns e o de mediunidade para os profissionais não destoam, o que demonstra a disseminação cultural dos conceitos. A maioria dos médiuns e profissionais relataram ter dificuldade para distinguir os fenômenos pesquisados e referiram desconhecer a literatura produzida sobre o tema / Although research about the relationship of mediumic phenomena and mental health has grown in the past decades, it has yet to produce sufficient information for the consolidation of practices alternative to traditional ones. However, literature shows the need to expand data through research that can dive deeper into this topic. This work makes a transversal study of exploratory-descriptive nature, with qualitative approach of data, aiming to explore the meaning of hallucination and mediumship for mediums in a spiritist center and mental health professionals from a psychiatric hospital, in a city in the state of São Paulo. Ten mediums and ten health professionals have been interviewed. As theoretical reference, the Historic-Cultural approach based on Vigotski and the Nuclei of Meanings of Wanda Aguiar and Sérgio Ozella, based also on the said author, have been employed. Three Nuclei of Meanings have been developed: \"Between real and imaginary: alterations and perturbations\"; \"Between phenomenon and religion: reason or insanity\"; and \"Between pathological and spiritual: related but distinct phenomena\". Results show that mediums signify mediumship with more precision when compared to mental health professionals, while the latter signify hallucination conceptually with more accuracy. However, the meanings of hallucination for mediums and mediumship for mental health professionals do not diverge, showing the cultural dissemination of these concepts. Most mediums and mental health professionals report difficulty to distinguish the researched phenomena and claimed to ignore the literature produced about the topic

Issues which faced Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include the effects of new scientific theories on traditional religious belief, the impact of technological innovation, the implications of mass literacy and the changing role of women. This thesis records how such issues are reflected in contemporary literature, focusing on the emergence of popular culture and the best seller, a term which conflates author and novel. The first English best seller was Marie Corelli and, by way of introduction, Part I offers a summary of her life and her novels and a critical overview of her work. Part II of the thesis examines how the theory of evolution undermined traditional religious belief and prompted the search for a new creed able to defy materialism and reconcile science and religion. Contemporary literature mirrors the consequent interest in spiritualism during the 1890s and the period immediately following the Great War, and critical readings of Corelli�s A Romance of Two Worlds and The Life Everlasting demonstrate that these novels - which form the nucleus of her personal theology, the Electric Creed - are based on selections from the New Testament, occultism and, in particular, science and spiritualism. Part III of the thesis looks at the emergence of �the woman question�, the corresponding backlash by conservatives and the ways in which these conflicting views are explored in the popular literature of the time. A critical examination of the novella, My Wonderful Wife, reveals how Corelli uses social Darwinism in an ambivalent critique of the New Woman. Several of Corelli�s essays are discussed, showing that her views about the role of women were complex. A critical analysis of The Secret Power engages with Corelli�s peculiar kind of feminism, which would deny women the vote but envisages female scientists inventing and operating airships in order to secure the future of the human race. Interest in Marie Corelli has re-emerged recently, particularly in occult and feminist circles. Corelli�s immense popularity also makes her an important figure in cultural studies. This thesis adds to the body of knowledge about Corelli in that it consciously endeavours to avoid spiritualist or feminist ideological frameworks, instead using contemporary science as a context for examining her work.

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This dissertation offers critical and theoretical approaches for understanding depictions of Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian fiction. Spiritualism has fascinated and repelled writers since the movement's inception in Hydesville, New York, in 1848, and continues to haunt writers even today. The conclusion of this dissertation follows Spiritualist fiction as it carries over into the Neo-Victorian genre, by discussing how themes and images of Victorian Spiritualism find "life after death" in contemporary work. Spiritualism, once confined to the realm of the arcane and academically obscure, has begun to attract critical attention as more scholars exhume the body of literature left behind by the Spiritualist movement. This new critical attention has focused on Spiritualism's important relationship with various elements of Victorian culture, particularly its close affiliation with reform movements such as Women's Rights. The changes that occurred in Spiritualist fiction reflect broader shifts in nineteenth-century culture. Over time, literary depictions of Spiritualism became increasingly detached from Spiritualism's original connection with progressive reform. This dissertation argues that a close examination of the trajectory of Spiritualist fiction mirrors broader shifts occurring in Victorian society. An analysis of Spiritualist fiction, from its inception to its final incarnation, offers a new critical perspective for understanding how themes that initially surfaced in progressive midcentury fiction later reemerged--in much different forms--in Gothic fiction of the fin-de-siécle. From this, we can observe how these late Gothic images were later recycled in Neo-Victorian adaptations. In tracing the course of literary depictions of Spiritualism, this analysis ranges from novels written by committed advocates of Spiritualism, such as Florence Marryat's The Dead Man's Message and Elizabeth Phelps's The Gates Ajar, to representations of Spiritualism written in fin-de-siécle Gothic style, including Bram Stoker's Dracula and Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. My analysis also includes the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who conceived of Spiritualism as either "the birth of a new science or the revival of an old humbug." Hawthorne's ambivalence represents an important and heretofore completely overlooked aspect of Spiritualist literature. He is poised between the extremes of proselytizing Spiritualists and fin-de-siécle skeptics. Hawthorne wanted to believe in Spiritualism but remained unconvinced. As the century wore on, this brand of skepticism became increasingly common, and the decline of Spiritualism's popularity was hastened by the repudiation of the movement by its founders, the Fox Sisters, in 1888. Ultimately, despite numerous attempts both scientific and metaphysical, the Victorian frame of mind proved unable to successfully reconcile the mystical element of Spiritualism with the increasingly mechanistic materialist worldview emerging as a result of rapid scientific advances and industrialization. The decline and fall of the Spiritualist movement opened the door to the appropriation of Spiritualism as a Gothic literary trope in decadent literature. This late period of Spiritualist fiction cast a long shadow that subsequently led to multiple literary reincarnations of Spiritualism in the Gothic Neo-Victorian vein. Above all, Spiritualist literature is permeated by the theme of loss. In each of the literary epochs covered in this dissertation, Spiritualism is connected with loss or deficit of some variety. Convinced Spiritualist writers depicted Spiritualism as an improved form of consolation for the bereaved, but later writers, particularly those working after the collapse of the Spiritualist movement, perceived Spiritualism as a dangerous form of delusion that could lead to the loss of sanity and self. Fundamentally, Spiritualism was a Victorian attempt to address the existential dilemma of continuing to live in a world where joy is fleeting and the journey of life has but a single inexorable terminus. Writers like Phelps and Marryat admired Spiritualism as it promised immediate and unbroken communion with the beloved dead. The dead and the living existed together perpetually. Thus, the bereaved party had no incentive to progress through normative cycles of grief and mourning, as there was no genuine separation between the living and the dead. In the words of one of Marryat's own works of Spiritualist propaganda, there is no death.

Issues which faced Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include the effects of new scientific theories on traditional religious belief, the impact of technological innovation, the implications of mass literacy and the changing role of women. This thesis records how such issues are reflected in contemporary literature, focusing on the emergence of popular culture and the best seller, a term which conflates author and novel. The first English best seller was Marie Corelli and, by way of introduction, Part I offers a summary of her life and her novels and a critical overview of her work. Part II of the thesis examines how the theory of evolution undermined traditional religious belief and prompted the search for a new creed able to defy materialism and reconcile science and religion. Contemporary literature mirrors the consequent interest in spiritualism during the 1890s and the period immediately following the Great War, and critical readings of Corelli�s A Romance of Two Worlds and The Life Everlasting demonstrate that these novels - which form the nucleus of her personal theology, the Electric Creed - are based on selections from the New Testament, occultism and, in particular, science and spiritualism. Part III of the thesis looks at the emergence of �the woman question�, the corresponding backlash by conservatives and the ways in which these conflicting views are explored in the popular literature of the time. A critical examination of the novella, My Wonderful Wife, reveals how Corelli uses social Darwinism in an ambivalent critique of the New Woman. Several of Corelli�s essays are discussed, showing that her views about the role of women were complex. A critical analysis of The Secret Power engages with Corelli�s peculiar kind of feminism, which would deny women the vote but envisages female scientists inventing and operating airships in order to secure the future of the human race. Interest in Marie Corelli has re-emerged recently, particularly in occult and feminist circles. Corelli�s immense popularity also makes her an important figure in cultural studies. This thesis adds to the body of knowledge about Corelli in that it consciously endeavours to avoid spiritualist or feminist ideological frameworks, instead using contemporary science as a context for examining her work.