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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware, 2008. / Principal faculty advisor: J. Ritchie Garrison, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.R.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, Johnson City, Tennessee, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-90).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / O objetivo da nossa investigação é a ideia de identidade, a partir do lugar central que ocupa nas discussões sobre a experiência subjetiva na contemporaneidade. Partindo inicialmente das formulações de Giddens em torno da identidade como narrativa do eu, procuramos indicar os vínculos entre tal noção e o que chamamos racionalidade moderna, destacando assim a própria identidade como ideia especificamente moderna e vinculada a determinadas categorias fundamentais ao pensamento ocidental a partir do século XVIII, como indivíduo e estado-nação. Nesse percurso, introduzimos ainda uma discussão sobre a vinculação no modelo identitário, entre a afirmação de si e a sujeição às instâncias de poder e soberania. Em seguida, trabalhamos com a ideia de initeligível, que parece percorrer de modo fundamental a lógica identitária interrogando o seu poder mortífero frente ao que, sendo estrangeiro, e escapando aos padrões de inteligibilidade dessa racionalidade moderna, se apresenta como impossível de ser absorvido pelo sistema e pelos identitários vigentes. A partir dais, procuramos vislumbrar modos alternativos para a enunciação de si, fora de uma lógica identitária e não submetidos a essa racionalidade moderna. Para isso, recorremos sobretudo ao pensamento de Freud em torno das categorias de desejo e fantasia. / The object of our investigation is the idea of identity, from the central position it occupies on the discussions about the subjective experience nowadays. Beginning with Giddens formulations about identity as a narrative of the Ego, we aim to indicate the links between this notion and what we call modern rationality, thus emphasizing identity itself as a specifically modern idea and likes to some fundamental categories of the accidental thought from the eighteen century on, such as individual and statenation. In this path we introduced yet a discussion about the bond, in the model of identity, between the self-affirmation and the subjection to the instances of power and sovereignty. Afterwards, we worked with the idea of unintelligible, that seems to go through, in fundamental way, the logic of the identities, questioning its deathly power in front of which, being foreigner, and eluding the patterns of intelligibility of this modern rationality, presents itself as impossible of being absorbed by the system and by the actual models of identity. From this point, we tried to glimpse alternative ways for the self-enunciation, away from this logic and non-submitted to this modern rationality. For this purpose, we made use of, above all, Freuds thought about the categories of desire and fantasy.

Orientador: Karin Volobuef / Banca: Álvaro Luiz Hattnher / Banca: João Batista Toledo Prado / Resumo: J. R. R. Tolkien afirmou que o tema central de sua principal obra, O Senhor dos Anéis, é a tensão provocada entre a morte inevitável e a busca pela imortalidade. Diante disso, procurase nesse trabalho verificar de que maneira essa temática influencia a forma do romance e desenvolve uma crítica acerca do papel da arte e da técnica enquanto artigo de valor e fonte memória para seres cuja existência é finita ou seres ligados a um universo em constante transformação. Por um lado, há seres como os elfos que estão ligados diretamente à natureza de Arda e são fadados a não deixá-la até que chegue o seu fim. Esses seres, aparentemente imortais, sofrem com as constantes mudanças no planeta e tentam, através da técnica, agir diretamente sobre o mundo, tentando conservá-lo tal como ele é. Por outro lado, há os homens mortais, que, diante de sua própria mortalidade, buscam ter seus feitos eternizados em obras de arte, como esculturas, tapeçarias ou textos literários. / Abstract: J. R. R. Tolkien declared that the central issue of his major work, The Lord of the Rings, is the tension emerging between the unavoidable death and the search for immortality. Therefore, this study is a research about how that aspect affects the structure of the novel and how it discusses the role of art and technique as a piece of value and a resource of memory available for finite or "immortals" beings, whose existence is linked to a continuously changing world. On the one hand, there are in novel beings such as elves that are directly connected to the nature of Arda and are doomed to remain there until its end. These apparently immortal beings can't bear such constant changes on the planet and employ technical means in order to have an affect on the world and keep it as it is. On the other hand, mortal men, faced with their own mortality, seek out art as a way to have their deeds registered and so kept alive forever in works such as sculptures, tapestry or literary texts. / Mestre

La thèse examine les effets du fantasme sur la sexualité féminine de certaines femmes névrotiques rencontrées à l’occasion de ma pratique clinique. Le fantasme est une structure axiomatique singulière de rapport avec l'Autre, qui a une dimension réelle, symbolique et imaginaire. Freud, (1908a/2006), dans Fantasmes hystériques et ses relations avec la bisexualité, avait déjà indiqué que la satisfaction sexuelle est composée par l'activité physique fusionnée à l´évocation d'un fantasme. Dans 1919a/2006, il annonce qu´il y a un fantasme qui permet l´avenir de la jouissance. Le surprenant est que cette jouissance est masochiste. Lacan prend les coordonnées de cette structure grammaticale qui se répète et propose le mathème du fantasme, $ <> a, qui résume le berceau du sujet du désir devant l´objet a dans un rapport spécifique avec l'Autre. Cela est la structure perverse et axiomatique du sujet, puisque qu´elle décrit, pour les femmes névrotiques écoutées, leurs positions inconscientes constantes de jouissance par rapport à l'Autre. Lacan appelle ce fantasme de "celui qui reste", parce qu’il manifeste "un rapport essentiel du sujet au signifiant" (LACAN, 1957-1958, Leçon de 12 Févr. 1958, Séminaire 5: 243fr). Jacques-Allan Miller dit que ce fantasme "nous amène à la dimension éthique de la psychanalyse" (MILLER, 1983/1987: 96). Cette recherche étudie donc des effets de cette position fantasmatique unique de jouissance sur la sexualité féminine et sur les autres domaines de la vie - l'amour, le travail. / The thesis examines the effects of fundamental fantasy in female sexuality in the field of neurosis. The fundamental fantasy is an axiomatic structure of relationship with the Other, which has a real, symbolic and imaginary dimension. Freud (1908a/ 2006), in Hysterical fantasies and their relation to bisexuality, had already indicated that sexual satisfaction is composed of physical activity fused to the evocation of a fantasy. In 1919a / 2006, he announced the discovery of a specific fantasy that allows access to the female and male sexual satisfaction. The most surprising, revealed to him during analysis, was that the sexual satisfaction in question was masochistic. Lacan takes the coordinates of this fantasy structure, and proposes the fantasy matheme, $ <> a. This structure summarizes the coordinate singularities of sexual satisfaction and desire. Lacan calls this fantasy of "that which stays", once it expresses "an essential relationship of the subject to the signifier" (LACAN, 1957-1958 / 1999: 252). Jacques-Allan Miller says that this fantasy "brings us to the ethical dimension of psychoanalysis" (Miller, 1983/1987: 96). This research studies the effects of this fantasy in female sexuality, love and work after listening women in the field of neurosis.