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Investigating the moment when solutions emerge in problem solvingLösche, Frank January 2018 (has links)
At some point during a creative action something clicks, suddenly the prospective problem solver just knows the solution to a problem, and a feeling of joy and relief arises. This phenomenon, called Eureka experience, insight, Aha moment, hunch, epiphany, illumination, or serendipity, has been part of human narrations for thousands of years. It is the moment of a subjective experience, a surprising, and sometimes a life-changing event. In this thesis, I narrow down this moment 1. conceptually, 2. experientially, and 3. temporally. The concept of emerging solutions has a multidisciplinary background in Cognitive Science, Arts, Design, and Engineering. Through the discussion of previous terminology and comparative reviews of historical literature, I identify sources of ambiguity surrounding this phenomenon and suggest unifying terms as the basis for interdisciplinary exploration. Tracking the experience based on qualitative data from 11 creative practitioners, I identify conflicting aspects of existing models of creative production. To bridge this theoretical and disciplinary divide between iterative design thinking and sequential models of creativity, I suggest a novel multi-layered model. Empirical support for this proposal comes from Dira, a computer-based open-ended experimental paradigm. As part of this thesis I developed the task and 40 unique sets of stimuli and response items to collect dynamic measures of the creative process and evade known problems of insightful tasks. Using Dira, I identify the moment when solutions emerge from the number and duration of mouse-interactions with the on-screen elements and the 124 participants' self-reports. I provide an argument for the multi-layered model to explain a discrepancy between the timing observed in Dira and existing sequential models. Furthermore, I suggest that Eureka moments can be assessed on more than a dichotomous scale, as the empirical data from interviews and Dira demonstrates for this rich human experience. I conclude that the research on insight benefits from an interdisciplinary approach and suggest Dira as an instrument for future studies.
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O chamado do luar : As idas e voltas de três donas-de-casa nos contos de Clarice Lispector / The calling of the moon : The departures and arrivals of three housewives in Clarice Lispectors short-storiesBülow, Monica January 2009 (has links)
<p>Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar como são feitas as idas e voltas aos cotidianos das três donas-de-casa que são as protagonistas dos contos <em>Devaneio e Embriaguez duma rapariga</em>, <em>Amor</em> e <em>A fuga</em>, de Clarice Lispector e, sobretudo analisar o eventual valor simbólico que a presença dos fatores naturais e da lua exercem sobre estes contos.</p><p>Com apoio nos trabalhos de Ana Carolina de Araújo Abiahy (2006a, 2006b, 2008), Berta Waldman (1993) e Yudith Rosenbaum (2002) e dos conceitos-teóricos de gênero apresentados por Chatarina Edfeldt e Anabela Galhardo Couto (2008) em <em>Mulheres que escrevem Mulheres que lêem</em> procuram-se respostas à questões de como, por que e através de que as protagonistas fazem suas escapadas de seus cotidianos e como podem ser extraídos valores simbólicos denunciadores das causas das angústias das personagens.</p><p>Dentre as conclusões estão, que as protagonistas sentem um incômodo em suas vidas e são por isto, chamadas para fazerem suas “idas” pelo que a lua e a natureza simbolizam: um chamado para uma outra vida, livre de suas situações aprisionantes. Conclui-se também que após as suas idas as personagens voltam ao seu cotidiano normal por causa dos valores patriarcais internalizados, dentre os quais estão incluídas a culpa, amor à família e a impossibilidade destas mulheres de cuidarem autonomamente de sí mesmas. No entanto, percebem-se que após os questionamentos feitos em suas idas elas voltam conscientizadas, despertadas para uma nova maneira de olharem para si mesmas, suas situações e o papel de gênero que elas fazem.</p> / <p>This work has the purpose to analyze how the departures and arrivals to the daily life are made by the three housewives who composes the main characters in the short-stories <em>Devaneio e Embriaguez duma rapariga,</em> <em>Amor</em> and <em>A fuga</em>, by Clarice Lispector and, above all analyze the eventual symbolic value that the presence of the natures elements and the moon exerts over these short-stories.</p><p>With the support of Ana Carolina de Araújo Abiahy (2006a, 2006b, 2008), Berta Waldman (1993) and Yudith Rosenbaums (2002) works and of the theoretic concepts of gender presented by Chatarina Edfeldt and Anabela Galhardo Couto (2008) in <em>Mulheres que escrevem Mulheres que lêem</em>, answers are sought to the questions of how, why and through what, the main characters make escapes from their everyday lives and, how it is possible to extract symbolic values that denunciates the causes of the main characters anxieties.</p><p>Within the conclusions are that the main characters feel a discomfort with their lives and are because of that, called to make their “departures” through what the moon and the nature symbolizes: a calling to another life, free from their imprisoning situations. Another conclusion is that they come back because of the internalized patriarchal values, among which are included the guilt, the love to the family and the impossibility of these women to take care of themselves. However, it is noticeable that after the questionings made in their departures and arrivals they return with awareness, awakened to a new way to look at themselves, their situations and the gender roles that they play.</p> / <p>Detta arbete har som syfte att analysera hur turerna och returerna till vardagen görs av de tre hemmafruar som utgör huvudpersonerna i berättelserna <em>Devaneio e Embriaguez duma rapariga</em>, <em>Amor</em> och <em>A fuga</em>, av Clarice Lispector och, framförallt analysera det eventuella symboliska värdet som närvaron av naturens faktorer och månen utövar över dessa berättelser.</p><p>Med stöd av Ana Carolina de Araújo Abiahy (2006a, 2006b, 2008), Berta Waldman (1993) och Yudith Rosenbaums (2002) arbeten samt av genus-teoretiska begrepp som pressenteras av Chatarina Edfeldt och Anabela Galhardo Couto (2008) i <em>Mulheres que escrevem Mulheres que lêem</em>, sökes svar till frågeställningarna hur, varför och genom vad, huvudpersonerna flyr från sina vardagsliv och, hur det är möjligt att utvinna symboliska värden som anger anledningarna till huvudpersonernas ångest.</p><p>Bland slutsatserna finnes att huvudpersonerna känner ett obehag med sina liv och blir därför, kallade till att göra sina ”turer” genom det som månen och naturen symboliserar: en kallelse till ett annat liv, fritt från sina fängslande situationer. Ytterligare en slutsatts är att de färdas tillbaka på grund av de internaliserade patriarkaliska värderingar, som inkluderar skulden, kärleken till familjen samt omöjligheten för dessa kvinnor att klara sig själva. Emellertid, märks det att efter de diskussioner som de gjort i sina turer kommer de tillbaka medvetandegjorda, uppväckta till ett nytt sätt att se på sig själva, sina situationer och de genusroller som de spelar.</p>
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O chamado do luar : As idas e voltas de três donas-de-casa nos contos de Clarice Lispector / The calling of the moon : The departures and arrivals of three housewives in Clarice Lispectors short-storiesBülow, Monica January 2009 (has links)
Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar como são feitas as idas e voltas aos cotidianos das três donas-de-casa que são as protagonistas dos contos Devaneio e Embriaguez duma rapariga, Amor e A fuga, de Clarice Lispector e, sobretudo analisar o eventual valor simbólico que a presença dos fatores naturais e da lua exercem sobre estes contos. Com apoio nos trabalhos de Ana Carolina de Araújo Abiahy (2006a, 2006b, 2008), Berta Waldman (1993) e Yudith Rosenbaum (2002) e dos conceitos-teóricos de gênero apresentados por Chatarina Edfeldt e Anabela Galhardo Couto (2008) em Mulheres que escrevem Mulheres que lêem procuram-se respostas à questões de como, por que e através de que as protagonistas fazem suas escapadas de seus cotidianos e como podem ser extraídos valores simbólicos denunciadores das causas das angústias das personagens. Dentre as conclusões estão, que as protagonistas sentem um incômodo em suas vidas e são por isto, chamadas para fazerem suas “idas” pelo que a lua e a natureza simbolizam: um chamado para uma outra vida, livre de suas situações aprisionantes. Conclui-se também que após as suas idas as personagens voltam ao seu cotidiano normal por causa dos valores patriarcais internalizados, dentre os quais estão incluídas a culpa, amor à família e a impossibilidade destas mulheres de cuidarem autonomamente de sí mesmas. No entanto, percebem-se que após os questionamentos feitos em suas idas elas voltam conscientizadas, despertadas para uma nova maneira de olharem para si mesmas, suas situações e o papel de gênero que elas fazem. / This work has the purpose to analyze how the departures and arrivals to the daily life are made by the three housewives who composes the main characters in the short-stories Devaneio e Embriaguez duma rapariga, Amor and A fuga, by Clarice Lispector and, above all analyze the eventual symbolic value that the presence of the natures elements and the moon exerts over these short-stories. With the support of Ana Carolina de Araújo Abiahy (2006a, 2006b, 2008), Berta Waldman (1993) and Yudith Rosenbaums (2002) works and of the theoretic concepts of gender presented by Chatarina Edfeldt and Anabela Galhardo Couto (2008) in Mulheres que escrevem Mulheres que lêem, answers are sought to the questions of how, why and through what, the main characters make escapes from their everyday lives and, how it is possible to extract symbolic values that denunciates the causes of the main characters anxieties. Within the conclusions are that the main characters feel a discomfort with their lives and are because of that, called to make their “departures” through what the moon and the nature symbolizes: a calling to another life, free from their imprisoning situations. Another conclusion is that they come back because of the internalized patriarchal values, among which are included the guilt, the love to the family and the impossibility of these women to take care of themselves. However, it is noticeable that after the questionings made in their departures and arrivals they return with awareness, awakened to a new way to look at themselves, their situations and the gender roles that they play. / Detta arbete har som syfte att analysera hur turerna och returerna till vardagen görs av de tre hemmafruar som utgör huvudpersonerna i berättelserna Devaneio e Embriaguez duma rapariga, Amor och A fuga, av Clarice Lispector och, framförallt analysera det eventuella symboliska värdet som närvaron av naturens faktorer och månen utövar över dessa berättelser. Med stöd av Ana Carolina de Araújo Abiahy (2006a, 2006b, 2008), Berta Waldman (1993) och Yudith Rosenbaums (2002) arbeten samt av genus-teoretiska begrepp som pressenteras av Chatarina Edfeldt och Anabela Galhardo Couto (2008) i Mulheres que escrevem Mulheres que lêem, sökes svar till frågeställningarna hur, varför och genom vad, huvudpersonerna flyr från sina vardagsliv och, hur det är möjligt att utvinna symboliska värden som anger anledningarna till huvudpersonernas ångest. Bland slutsatserna finnes att huvudpersonerna känner ett obehag med sina liv och blir därför, kallade till att göra sina ”turer” genom det som månen och naturen symboliserar: en kallelse till ett annat liv, fritt från sina fängslande situationer. Ytterligare en slutsatts är att de färdas tillbaka på grund av de internaliserade patriarkaliska värderingar, som inkluderar skulden, kärleken till familjen samt omöjligheten för dessa kvinnor att klara sig själva. Emellertid, märks det att efter de diskussioner som de gjort i sina turer kommer de tillbaka medvetandegjorda, uppväckta till ett nytt sätt att se på sig själva, sina situationer och de genusroller som de spelar.
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SOUS LE SPECTRE DU PÈRE: POÉTIQUE ET POLITIQUE DE LA DÉPENDANCE ET DU SEVRAGE DANS LE ROMAN POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAINSHAMBA, MBUMBURWANZE N 27 June 2011 (has links)
This thesis analyzes the major theme of ‘postcolonial genealogy’ in portraying the African bending under the weight of colonial history in Le vieux nègre et la médaille, Une vie de boy of Ferdinand Oyono and Le Chercheur d’Afriques of Henri Lopes. Being a product of a colonial Genesis, the African character runs behind the colonizer’s mirror through his Civilizing Mission. René Girard’s ‘double bind’ theory explains how this cultural assimilation is, in Le vieux nègre et la médaille and Une vie de boy, a dead end because the colonizer needs a subordinate and not an equal. The cohabitation of a black housewife with the French Commander in Le Chercheur d’Afriques should be seen as simply an allegory of postcolonial Africa’s dependency on the West. The consequences of the feminization of the African continent are enormous in the post-colonial imaginary. While the colonizer had conquered Africa with his Herculean body, in Oyono’s novels, his Fall is obtained through the aesthetics of Bakhtinian ‘rabaissement’ which degrades his ‘grotesque body’ to that of the colonized. The colonizer and the colonized are neutralized and leveled in their perishable bodies, thus, making futile the Civilizing Mission that operated by ranking races. Power is never total. It is always imperfect, and can never destroy a subjectivity that resists it. In Oyono’s novels, the Fall of the colonial Father is also obtained through the inquisitive gaze that the colonized return back to the colonizer, and through their ‘subversive mimicry’ that parodies his codes. In Une vie de boy and Le Chercheur d’Afriques, the ‘son-Father’ relationship between the hero and the colonial Father, is also symbolic of the ‘Africa-West’ rapports. Living under the specter of the Father, the son has to negotiate his survival between weaning and parricide. The biological miscegenation in Le Chercheur d’Afriques is a metaphor of the ‘rhizome identity’ of the postcolonial African who renounces both the Fathers of Negritude and those of the Civilizing Mission. / Thesis (Ph.D, French) -- Queen's University, 2011-06-24 12:43:30.006
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Making sense of sudden personal transformation: a qualitative study on people’s beliefs about the facilitative factors and mechanisms of their abrupt and profound inner change.Ilivitsky, Susan 21 June 2011 (has links)
Sudden personal transformation (SPT) was defined as a subjectively reported,
positive, profound, and lasting personal change that follows a relatively brief and
memorable inner experience. Although such change has been described in numerous
biographies, works of fiction, and religious and scholarly texts, a consistent definition
and systematic program of research is lacking in the psychological literature. Moreover,
almost nothing is known about what causes such change from the subjective point of
view of individuals who have experienced it first hand. This study used semi-structured
interviews and thematic analysis to explore the common beliefs of three participants
about the factors that facilitated and the mechanisms that caused their SPT. Findings
reveal that all participants reported a life transition, feeling miserable, feeling exhausted,
feeling unable to resolve adverse circumstances, reaching a breaking point, and support
from others facilitated their individual SPT’s. All participants also indicated that a
formalized activity or ceremony as well as a process outside of their conscious control
(either a higher power or a deep inner wisdom) produced or caused their SPT’s.
Implications for future research and counselling practice are discussed. / Graduate
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De l'invention du mourant à la figure de l'agonie. Recherche sur l'ultime épiphanie de la personne incarnée / From the invention of the dying, to the figure of agony : research on the final epiphany of the incarnated personTranchant, Blandine 11 January 2017 (has links)
A l’heure où la prise en charge médicale s’avère de plus en plus nécessaire pour accompagner la fin de vie, il nous apparait que sa place est de plus en plus importante et de moins en moins questionnée. Or, réduire la fin de vie à la question du mourant et de sa prise en charge est pour le moins problématique. L’arrêt d’hydratation et d’alimentation, les différentes formes de sédation, l’euthanasie, le suicide assisté, les soins palliatifs résument-ils à eux seuls ce que l’on peut dire de la fin de vie ? Peut-elle se résumer uniquement à une question d’ordre médical ? N’est-elle pas avant tout une question d’ordre existentiel où, à l’heure de notre déclin, nous sommes confrontés à l’agonie ? Souffrance et finitude se trouvent au cœur de notre interrogation et nous poussent à nous confronter au pâtir de la vie, nous dévoilant ainsi comme être de chair. Grâce à la philosophie henryenne, l’agonie va peu à peu se dévoiler comme une occasion ultime de révélation de soi à soi en tant que soi. Face à l’aporie du mal qui frappe, nous découvrons les hommes capables toujours d’y faire face par un effort de repersonnalisation. C’est cet effort nécessaire qui va se dévoiler tant dans le champ métaphysique, que dans le champ éthique, et que dans le champ politique. C’est ce même effort qui amène l’homme à prendre ses responsabilités et à répondre aux questions existentielles. La subjectivité de chacun se doit alors de devenir le centre de l’institution soignante. L’agonie devient possibilité de repenser la place de la personne au sein du système hospitalier : place de la personne soignante, de la personne soignée, de ceux qui accompagnent, tout en développant une éthique de l’accompagnement qui doit ensuite se décliner dans une politique. Car si, métaphysiquement, vivre son agonie ne peut se justifier que par l’Amour, éthiquement, il nous faut construire une nouvelle poétique de l’action faisant place à la fraternité issue de la chair, à l’imagination de l’homme pour répondre à l’appel d’autrui et de la vie, et à la subsidiarité, afin que chacun soit respecté dans son agir et sa conscience. Politiquement, cela nous ouvre alors à un système hospitalier respectueux de chaque « Je Peux » qui se déploie en son sein. Le respect du consentement du patient reste ainsi la pierre angulaire du système hospitalier ; mais il ne peut se construire que dans une alliance avec les soignants. / In the context of today’s world, medical care is becoming increasingly necessary to assist patients at the end of life. It appears that this care is taking on more and more importance and is subject to fewer and fewer questions. is less and less questioned. However, confining the end of life to the state of dying and its medical support is problematic. Can the end of life be resumed as stopping hydration and artificial feeding, sedation in its different forms, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and palliative care? Can it be summed up as a simple medical question? Isn’t the end of life, first and foremost, linked to an existential question in which, at the time of our decline, we come face to face with agony? Finiteness and suffering are at the heart of our questioning as we confront life’s hardships, revealing the mystery of the flesh. With the help of Michel Henry’s philosophy, agony will gradually reveal itself as an ultimate opportunity for self-revelation. Faced with the paradox of evil, we find Man capable of coping with an effort of re-personification. This necessary effort will unfold in the metaphysical, ethical and political fields. This same effort allows Man to take responsibility for himself and to contemplate existential questions. The subjectivity of each person must become the center of the healthcare institution. Agony becomes the possibility to rethink the place of the individual person within the hospital system: the care giver, the care receiver and those supporting them, all while developing an ethical personal assistance which must then translated into policies. Because even if metaphysically, living out agony cannot be otherwise justified but by Love, ethically we must build a new way of operating. We must leave room for fraternity as a consequence of being of the flesh, to imagination in order to respond to our fellow man and our life’s calling, and to subsidiarity so that everyone is respected in his actions and consciousness. Politically, it opens up the possibility of a hospital system respectful of each "I Can" which is echoed within its walls. Respect for the patient's consent remains the cornerstone of the hospital system but can only be built with an alliance with caregivers.
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A promise kept: the mystical reach through lossCollins, Jody 04 October 2019 (has links)
The meaning of loss is love. I know this through attention to experience. Whether loss or love is experienced in abundance or in absence, the meaning is mystical with an opening of body, mind, heart and soul to spirit. And so, in the style of a memoir, in the way of contemplative prayer, I contemplate and share my soul as a promise kept in the mystical reach through loss. With the first, initiating loss, the loss of my nine-year-old nephew, Caleb, I experience an epiphany that gives me spiritual instructions that will not be ignored. I experience loss as an abundance of meaning that comes to me as gnosis, as “knowledge of the heart” according to Elaine Pagels or divine revelation in what Evelyn Underhill calls mystical illumination in the experience of “losing-to-find” in union with the divine. Then, with gnostic import, in leaving the ordinary for the extraordinary, I enter the empty room in the painful yet liberating experience of the loss of my self. In the embrace of emptiness, I proceed to the first wall, the second wall, the third wall, the dark corner of denial, the return to centre, and, finally, to breaking the fourth wall in the empty room so as to keep my promise to you. Who are “you”? You are God. You are Caleb. You are spirit. You are my higher soul or self. And, you are the reader. You are my dear companion in silence. And then, through a series of broken promises and more loss, within what John of the Cross calls, “the dark night of the soul,” I am stopped by the ineffability of the dark corner of denial, the horror of separation and the absence of meaning, which is depicted as the grueling gap between the spiritual abyss and the breakthrough. What does it mean to keep going through a solemn succession of losses? I don’t know. In going into the empty room, I simply put pain to work in order to reach you. Through loss, though there are infinite manifestations, there is only one way: keep going. And so, in a triumph of the spirit, I keep going so as to be: a promise kept in the mystical reach through loss. As for you, through my illumined and dark experiences of loss, what is my promise to you? I keep going to reach the unreachable you. In the loss of self, with embodied emptiness, in going into the dark corner of denial, with a return to the divine centre of my emptied self, in an invitation to you, I give my soul to you in union with you. / Graduate / 2020-06-25
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