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In this paper I will discuss the personal process of making a film, specifically as it relates to my thesis Galatea. I will do this be examining the individual aspects of filmmaking, including but not limited to: writing, directing, production design, cinematography, editing, and visual effects.

Ce travail de recherche explore les processus de liaisons conduisant à l’émergence des liens fraternels dans les groupes thérapeutiques et les groupes de formation. A partir d’une approche psychanalytique, nous cherchons à définir le fraternel en tenant compte des trois espaces intra-, inter- et trans- subjectifs. Les études menées au sujet des liens familiaux nous permettent de postuler que la fratrie peut servir de modèle pour décrire les processus groupaux par lesquels des liens fraternels se tissent entre des enfants qui ne sont pas familiers. Dans une première partie, les propositions théoriques exposées sont illustrées par différents objets culturels tels que des mythes et des contes. Dans une deuxième partie, nos hypothèses sont mises à l’épreuve des dispositifs de groupes de formation à l’université et d’un dispositif de groupe thérapeutique. Le traitement des observations à l’aide de « la méthode des quatre colonnes » permet d’explorer notre matériel clinique de recherche. D’une façon transitoire, nous avons vu apparaître quatre registres différents du processus de liaisons conduisant à la formation de liens fraternels. Ces registres sont organisés par des mécanismes inconscients. Ils mettent en jeu des fantasmes originaires et les défenses psychiques présidant une transition des registres archaïques vers un registre intermédiaire puis un registre fraternel. Dans une troisième partie, nos hypothèses sont discutées sur trois niveaux (culturel, théorique et clinique) et reprises pour définir les quatre registres des liens fraternels dans les différents dispositifs de groupe. / The presented research explores the processes of links leading to the emergence of fraternal bonds in therapeutic groups and training groups. From a psychoanalytic approach, we seek to place the issue in a fraternal definition which takes into account the intra-, inter- and trans- subjective space. Drawing on studies of family ties, we postulated that siblings can serve as a model for describing group processes by which fraternal links forged between children who are not familiar. In the first part, exposed theoretical propositions are first compared to the results of analyzes made upon different cultural objects such as myths and tales. In the second part, our hypotheses are tested by a setting of groups of university training and a therapeutic group. Treatment of observations using "the method of the four columns" allows the exploration of our clinical research material. On a transitional basis, we saw the emergence of four different registers of the process of connections leading to the formation of fraternal ties. These records are organized by unconscious mechanisms. These involve primal fantasies and psychic defenses presiding over a transition of archaic records towards an intermediate register and finally to a fraternal register.

Extending the sSkin(s) is concerned with the adaptive re-use of the Capitol Theatre in the Pretoria into an existing building which has been abused and neglected, not only gives the building a new lease on life, but brings about the rejuvenation of the surrounding areas too. The design attempts to blur the boundaries between interior and exterior, and to extend the fantastic nature of the interior out onto the street. In this way, the original function of the building as a theatre becomes more accessible to the general public. The theatre as a whole becomes a mysterious fantasy realm drawing in passers-by, and thereby functioning as a platform for performance. When people enter the space, they become performers in their own right - their performance is mapped out by how they interact with the spaces and each other. The existing character has been reinterpreted allowing the Capitol to regain its former elegance and sense of mystery. The Capitol is brought into the here and now; the same but changed; a new energy for an existing building… Copyright / Dissertation (MInt(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Architecture / unrestricted

All Priella wanted was to find love. She roamed the fields of the Garden of Earthly Delights, day by day, in the hopes of finally attaining it. But, it wasn't that simple. In the midst of an existential crisis, unable to understand her difficulty in relating to others and achieving happiness, Priella meets the Archangel Michael who offers her a chance at salvation. Venturing into the unknown, Priella is forced to face the distorted ways of thinking that kept her hostage.

Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Afghan women suddenly gained high visibility all over the world. Since then, representations of Afghan women in the Western media and notably in the U.S. news media provide a critical concern to scholars. Much of the relevant literature on this topic speaks to the fact that the dominant portrayal of Afghan women in the Western media has shown them as passive victims of war and violence, to be liberated only by the Western military intervention. However, the question remains as to how the popular fictional narratives, as another vivid source of information, represent Afghan women to the Western readers. To address this question, A Thousand Splendid Suns, as a popular novel authored by Khalid Hosseini, an Afghan novelist, was selected. Bormannian fantasy theme analysis of this novel conveys the passivity of women in the context of Afghanistan. The findings reveal that the portrayals of Afghan women in the novel correspond with the images of Afghan women in the Western media. Moreover, an examination of a sample of book reviews of the novel unveils the important contribution of Khalid Hosseini to the Orientalist discourse.

Au cours de la traversée du cancer, et parfois bien après, certains patients se mettent à écrire à propos de leur maladie. Et avec internet, il n’est plus nécessaire d’être un écrivain professionnel pour publier en ligne le récit de cette épreuve. C’est ce recours à l’écriture dans le cadre du cancer que cette thèse a choisi d’examiner dans une optique psychanalytique : le cancer et la mort sont pour le sujet des rencontres avec ce que Lacan qualifie de "réel". Nous posons que cette rencontre vient parfois déchirer la réalité psychique, faisant alors trauma, et pousse le sujet à tenter de réparer l’accroc ainsi formé. Quelle place prend l’écriture dans ce traitement du réel traumatique ? Bien que la littérature scientifique, à travers les protocoles d’"expressive writing", ne retrouve pas de bénéfice clairement démontré de la pratique d’écriture dans le champ de l’oncologie, les patients écrivent, pourtant, parfois au-delà de toute recherche de bien-être. Qu’est-ce qui les pousse à écrire quand même ? Qu’est-ce que leur écriture vise ? A qui s’adressent-ils quand ils écrivent ? Pourquoi s’arrêtent-ils d’écrire, ou ne peuvent-ils pas s’arrêter d’écrire ? A travers la lecture de productions écrites de patients, de blogs, de sites de témoignages et d’entretiens avec des patients engagés dans une pratique d’écriture, nous verrons que l’écriture est multiple dans ses formes et dans les fonctions qu’elle occupe pour chacun. Elle nous enseigne sur la manière dont le sujet répond du réel rencontré : en le revoilant, ou parfois, plus rarement, en s’y affrontant sans le recouvrir, usant de la fonction de la lettre, concept dont Lacan a montré le lien avec le réel. Plusieurs conséquences pratiques sont formulées dans le champ de l’oncologie, et plus globalement sur la place de l’écrit dans le champ clinique. / Upon occurrence of cancer, or sometimes even after, it’s frequent that patients start writing about their disease. And with internet, it is no more necessary to be a professional writer to publish on line the history of this trial. This thesis has chosen to examine this resort to the writing, in a psychoanalytic approach: cancer and death are for the subject some encounters with what Lacan defined as the « real ». We assume that this encounter, sometimes, comes to tear the psychic reality, like a trauma, and leads the subject to repair the tear which has been made. What is the place of writing, in this treatment of the traumatic real? Although scientifical studies, through expressive writing protocols, do not show evidence for benefits in writing in oncology, patients nevertheless do write, sometimes beyond all search of wellness. What leads them to write? What is the aim of their writing act? Who do the write to? Why do they stop writing, or cannot stop writing? Through the reading of written productions of patients, blogs, sites of testimonies and interviews with patients committed in a practice of writing, we will see that writing has many forms and functions for each one. It teaches us the way the subject answers to the real encountered: veiling it again; or quite rarer, it deals with the real without veiling it, using the letter, a concept Lacan showed the links with the real. Some practical consequences are drawn for oncology, and more widely for the function of the written in the clinical practice.

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This study evaluated the rape fantasies of a female undergraduate sample (N = 355) using a sexual fantasy checklist, a sexual fantasy log, a rape fantasy scenario presentation, and measures of personality. Results indicated that 62% of women have had a rape fantasy. For these women, the median rape fantasy frequency was about four times per year, with 14% of participants reporting that they had rape fantasies at least once a week. Further, rape fantasies exist on a continuum between erotic and aversive, with 9% completely aversive, 45% completely erotic, and 46% both erotic and aversive. Women who are more erotophilic, open to fantasy, and higher in self-esteem tended to have more frequent and erotic rape fantasies than other women. The major theories that have been proposed to explain why women have rape fantasies were tested. Results indicated that sexual blame avoidance and ovulation theories were not supported. Openness to sexuality, sexual desirability, and sympathetic activation theories received partial support.

This dissertation considers why fantasy has been so slow to be valued in literary circles, how those conditions are changing, and the implications of these changes for the broader topic of literary value. What makes literature worthy of study? It has become commonplace to observe, on the one hand, the increasing significance and ubiquity of cultural productions, and on the other hand, the waning significance of the humanities in higher education. Literary study, in particular, has seemed to be in danger of losing the basis for its justification. Over the last several decades, critique has become one of the most popular means of justifying the study of literature, as a practice of awakening resistance to ideological forces. And yet, literature has much more to offer besides critique, such as the affirmative values of communication, integration, and well-being. This dissertation seeks to enhance the relevance of literary study by outlining ongoing revisions to literary value through interpretations of contemporary fantasy. Previously, under modernism, literary value was defined as autonomy from the marketplace. However, following the rise of postmodernism, this ontological definition of literary value became questionable, legible only as a cultural construction. Critique functions as a means of preserving the movement towards, if not the content of, ideals of autonomy. The method of critique locates value in the insights of the critic or the author who demystifies, debunks, or otherwise criticizes social and cultural structures. To the extent that literary value has become identified with the aims of critique, these practices of negation offer an apparent certainty that glosses over the fact that constructions of value continue to require acts of faith from both readers and authors. Recent shifts in literary value point towards the inclusion of affirmative practices of construction, in addition to negative practices of deconstruction. Taking up these trends, this dissertation interprets how recent fantasies work to reconstruct the grounds for faith in literary value. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, especially, fantasists have begun to experiment with new ways of combining the values of critique with the values of affirmation. A postcritical approach to fantasy re-opens avenues in academic valuing for discussing the positive, embodied elements of literary value—particularly the value of escaping into a different world in order to understand, and to cope with, one’s own world better. As a form of genre fiction involving the mode of enchantment, fantasy has long been devalued along gendered lines, criticized for its supposed positioning of readers as passively manipulated. Part One, “Recovering Enchantment,” considers how fantasists have built on the growing recognition of the role of genre as a mode of communication; through enchanted reading, both authors and readers engage in relatively passive acts of absorption, which can be constructed to be more nourishing than other acts of consumption. Building on the substance of enchantment, Part Two, “Integrating the Values of Critique and Affirmation,” interprets how recent fantasies overcome the theoretical divergence that associates critique with literary autonomy and affirmation with popular manipulations, moving towards solutions for re-enchanting literary value. The methodology emphasizes the contributions of individual texts in the context of emerging and established uses of fantastic genres. Because reading fantasy involves an encoded act of faith, this literature is particularly suited for investigating new directions in literary value, and for producing literary artifacts that both recall and progress the inquiry into what it might mean to ‘believe in books.’