The goal of this research is to map processes of political idealization and how images are used and understood within the waterboarding blogs included in the case study. Chapter One is designed to provide basic information about the waterboarding issue and elements of this research more generally. The first chapter provides the following: information regarding the background facts of the waterboarding issue, research methods, research limitations, general descriptions of the blogs included in the case study, information about the general findings/data, and a brief explanation of why the blogs were chosen to be included in the case study. Chapter Two maps how elements of political idealization operate in the waterboarding blog case study. The first section of this chapter outlines Wendy Brown's theories connected to the process of political idealization. The second section maps the process of political idealization within the context of the waterboarding blog case study. The second section is broken into three additional sub-sections each representing a stage in the political idealization process. Chapter Three uses Aaron Barlow's outline of the emergence of the "Celebrity Journalist" as the premise to provide a partial explanation of why some political subjects are looking to virtual publics to supplement news media. The main purpose of Chapter Three is to map how images are used in the CODEPINK and Kaj Larsen video clip. / Master of Arts

abstract: Research has demonstrated that intimate partner violence (IPV) plays an important role in relationship satisfaction. Consistently, the research has indicated a negative association between the prevalence of IPV and relationship satisfaction (Cano & Vivian, 2003; Hotaling & Sugarman, 1990; Vivian & Langhrinrichsen-Rohling, 1994); however, more recent research has provided evidence of higher relationship satisfaction when IPV is present (Frieze, 2005; Hamby & Gray-Little, 2000; Williams & Frieze, 2005). There has been less emphasis placed on uncovering possible explanations for this inconsistency. Some researchers have suggested that victims find ways to rationalize their offender's behavior (Ackerman & Field, 2011), do not consider themselves victims of violence (Hamby & Gray-Little, 2000), or even fail to identify physical violence as IPV (Ferraro & Johnson, 1983) in order to maintain their desire to feel satisfied in their relationship. There is a need for additional research to understand why an individual might report higher relationship satisfaction when IPV is present in her/his intimate relationship and attempt to uncover underlying, contributing factors of IPV. This study sought understanding of the potential mediating role that idealization, the overly positive illusions of a partner or the intimate relationship (Murray, Holmes, & Griffin, 1996a; 1996b), may play on the association between IPV and relationship satisfaction. Additionally, gender was examined as a potential moderator between the predictor and outcome variables as IPV research has consistently documented the need for greater gender symmetry within this topic. One hundred and fifty-two adults (75 males and 77 females) who were currently involved in an intimate relationship (e.g., dating, engaged, married) or had been within the past 12-months completed a survey that assessed IPV, idealization, and relationship satisfaction. Three types of IPV were measured for the purposes of this study (i.e., psychological aggression, physical assault, and sexual coercion), and each was analyzed separately. Results indicated that idealization served as a mediating variable in the relationship between IPV and relationship satisfaction for all three types of IPV. Gender was not found to moderate the relationships for any of the three types of IPV and relationship satisfaction. Limitations, implications, and future research are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Counseling Psychology 2018

O presente estudo investigou os sentimentos de mães em relação à maternidade adotiva. Participaram da pesquisa nove mães, cujos filhos haviam sido adotados ainda bebês e tinham em torno de dois anos no período da coleta de dados. Foi realizada uma entrevista semi-estruturada com as participantes, abordando questões referentes ao desenvolvimento do filho e à experiência da maternidade. Os dados foram analisados através da análise de conteúdo qualitativa. As mães demonstraram uma forte idealização tanto em relação à criança quanto à experiência da maternidade adotiva. Chamou a atenção que praticamente todas disseram sentir um amor imediato por seus filhos, logo no primeiro encontro. Além disso, verificaram-se sentimentos ambivalentes por parte das mães no que se refere a esta forma de filiação. Ao mesmo tempo em que o filho adotivo foi visto como sem nenhuma diferença em relação ao filho biológico, foi também retratado “como se fosse um filho”, “especial”, “diferente”. As implicações clínicas desses achados são discutidas. / The present study investigated maternal feelings regarding adoptive motherhood. Nine adoptive mothers who adopted their children when they were infants took part in the study. The children were around two years old when data were collected. A semistructured interview was used, focusing on themes such as their children’s development and the motherhood experience. The data were analyzed through qualitative content analysis. The mothers demonstrated a strong idealization both regarding their children and their motherhood experience. Almost all mothers said they felt an immediate love for their children, when they first met them. Besides the idealization, maternal ambivalent feelings were also observed. At the same time the adoptive child was seen as not being different from a biological child, he/she was also portrayed by mothers “as if” he/she was their child, as well as “special”, “different”. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

O presente estudo investigou os sentimentos de mães em relação à maternidade adotiva. Participaram da pesquisa nove mães, cujos filhos haviam sido adotados ainda bebês e tinham em torno de dois anos no período da coleta de dados. Foi realizada uma entrevista semi-estruturada com as participantes, abordando questões referentes ao desenvolvimento do filho e à experiência da maternidade. Os dados foram analisados através da análise de conteúdo qualitativa. As mães demonstraram uma forte idealização tanto em relação à criança quanto à experiência da maternidade adotiva. Chamou a atenção que praticamente todas disseram sentir um amor imediato por seus filhos, logo no primeiro encontro. Além disso, verificaram-se sentimentos ambivalentes por parte das mães no que se refere a esta forma de filiação. Ao mesmo tempo em que o filho adotivo foi visto como sem nenhuma diferença em relação ao filho biológico, foi também retratado “como se fosse um filho”, “especial”, “diferente”. As implicações clínicas desses achados são discutidas. / The present study investigated maternal feelings regarding adoptive motherhood. Nine adoptive mothers who adopted their children when they were infants took part in the study. The children were around two years old when data were collected. A semistructured interview was used, focusing on themes such as their children’s development and the motherhood experience. The data were analyzed through qualitative content analysis. The mothers demonstrated a strong idealization both regarding their children and their motherhood experience. Almost all mothers said they felt an immediate love for their children, when they first met them. Besides the idealization, maternal ambivalent feelings were also observed. At the same time the adoptive child was seen as not being different from a biological child, he/she was also portrayed by mothers “as if” he/she was their child, as well as “special”, “different”. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

O presente estudo investigou os sentimentos de mães em relação à maternidade adotiva. Participaram da pesquisa nove mães, cujos filhos haviam sido adotados ainda bebês e tinham em torno de dois anos no período da coleta de dados. Foi realizada uma entrevista semi-estruturada com as participantes, abordando questões referentes ao desenvolvimento do filho e à experiência da maternidade. Os dados foram analisados através da análise de conteúdo qualitativa. As mães demonstraram uma forte idealização tanto em relação à criança quanto à experiência da maternidade adotiva. Chamou a atenção que praticamente todas disseram sentir um amor imediato por seus filhos, logo no primeiro encontro. Além disso, verificaram-se sentimentos ambivalentes por parte das mães no que se refere a esta forma de filiação. Ao mesmo tempo em que o filho adotivo foi visto como sem nenhuma diferença em relação ao filho biológico, foi também retratado “como se fosse um filho”, “especial”, “diferente”. As implicações clínicas desses achados são discutidas. / The present study investigated maternal feelings regarding adoptive motherhood. Nine adoptive mothers who adopted their children when they were infants took part in the study. The children were around two years old when data were collected. A semistructured interview was used, focusing on themes such as their children’s development and the motherhood experience. The data were analyzed through qualitative content analysis. The mothers demonstrated a strong idealization both regarding their children and their motherhood experience. Almost all mothers said they felt an immediate love for their children, when they first met them. Besides the idealization, maternal ambivalent feelings were also observed. At the same time the adoptive child was seen as not being different from a biological child, he/she was also portrayed by mothers “as if” he/she was their child, as well as “special”, “different”. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

a abstrakt vAJ Burjanová, Z.: Portraits of Ancestors [Diploma Thesis] Praha 2013 - Charles University, Faculty of Education, Art Education Department, 94 p. This thesis deals with a portrait and its significance for a present human. It treats different conceptions of our ancestors. A research sample about the way how people handle family photographs and how they perceive the heritage of their ancestors is an integral part of the thesis. Some fine arts problems were proposed resulting in finding the way how pupils of primary schools and students of secondary schools were able to cope with a human face illustration. Key words: Identity, expression, appearance, rootage, family, genetics, heritage Burjanová, Z.: Portraits of Ancestors [Diploma Thesis] Praha 2013 - Charles University, Faculty of Education, Art Education Department, 94 p. This thesis deals with a portrait and its significance for a present human. It considers the relation between paintings and photographs. It treats similarities and differences within a family. One of the topics are family photographs and their form. It analyses differences between digital and physical sources. It treats different conceptions of our ancestors (family concept, historical-family, historical-cultural and biological concepts). A research sample about the way...

yes / This paper critically analyzes the fiction-view of scientific modeling, which exploits presumed analogies between literary fiction and model building in science. The basic idea is that in both fiction and scientific modeling fictional worlds are created. The paper argues that the fiction-view comes closest to certain scientific thought experiments, especially those involving demons in science and to literary movements like naturalism. But the paper concludes that the dissimilarities prevail over the similarities. The fiction-view fails to do justice to the plurality of model types used in science; it fails to realize that a function like idealization only makes sense in science because models, unlike works of fiction, can be de-idealized; it fails to distinguish sufficiently between the make-believe (fictional) worlds created in fiction and the hypothetical (as-if) worlds envisaged in models. Representation characterized in the fiction-view as a license to draw inferences does not sufficiently distinguish between inferences in fiction from inferences in scientific modeling. To highlight the contrast the paper proposes to explicate representation in terms of satisfaction of constraints

Men and women have been represented in different ways in media for a long time. Images and visual documents are important tools for companies in marketing so that they can convey their messages in the most desirable and presentable way possible (Ekström, Ottosson & Parment 2017). Events are considered to be an effective communication tool (Jutbring 2016)and more events have begun to work with social issues. One of Sweden's largest festivals, Way Out West works extensively with ecological sustainability, but lately they have started to focus more on equality as well (Luger 2020).The purpose of the study is to analyze how the Way Out West festival represents women and men in their figurative marketing of a selection of this year's lineup of artists. To answer the purpose, two research questions have been developed and the authors have analyzed the images with the help of scientific articles and a qualitative study. It is a semiotic image analysis that is based on representation theory, where stereotypes, idealization and face-ism are used as analysis tools. The study is supplemented by an interview, with PR and marketing manager for Way Out West, who provided background information to the study. The result of the study shows that there are both differences and similarities in how female and male artists are represented in Way Out West’s figurative marketing. All images are interpreted based on the prevailing cultural norms where stereotypes, idealization and faceism contribute to how the viewer interprets the message with the image. The representation of women and men are asymmetrical and Way Out West has a great responsibility in portraying the festival's artists as the social story of gender is constantly shifted and transformed (Johansson och Lalander 2013). Based on the semiotic image analysis, it can be concluded that Way Out West contributes to maintaining and changing stereotypes, idealization and face-ism when portraying their artists. The study is written in swedish. Men and women have been represented in different ways in media for a long time. Images and visual documents are important tools for companies in marketing so that they can convey their messages in the most desirable and presentable way possible (Ekström, Ottosson &Parment 2017). Events are considered to be an effective communication tool (Jutbring 2016)and more events have begun to work with social issues. One of Sweden's largest festivals, Way Out West works extensively with ecological sustainability, but lately they have started to focus more on equality as well (Luger 2020).The purpose of the study is to analyze how the Way Out West festival represents women and men in their figurative marketing of a selection of this year's lineup of artists. To answer the purpose, two research questions have been developed and the authors have analyzed the images with the help of scientific articles and a qualitative study. It is a semiotic image analysis that is based on representation theory, where stereotypes, idealization and face-is mare used as analysis tools. The study is supplemented by an interview, with PR and marketing manager for Way Out West, who provided background information to the study. The result of the study shows that there are both differences and similarities in how female and male artists are represented in Way Out West’s figurative marketing. All images are interpreted based on the prevailing cultural norms where stereotypes, idealization and faceism contribute to how the viewer interprets the message with the image. The representation of women and men are asymmetrical and Way Out West has a great responsibility in portraying the festival's artists as the social story of gender is constantly shifted and transformed (Johansson och Lalander 2013). Based on the semiotic image analysis, it can be concluded that Way Out West contributes to maintaining and changing stereotypes, idealization and face-ism when portraying their artists. The study is written in swedish. / Män och kvinnor har under en lång tid blivit representerade på olika sätt i media. Bilder och visuella dokument är viktiga redskap för företag i marknadsföring för att de ska kunna förmedla sina budskap på ett så eftersträvansvärt och presentabelt sätt som möjligt (Ekström, Ottosson & Parment 2017). Evenemang anses vara ett effektivt kommunikationsverktyg(Jutbring 2016) och fler evenemang har börjat arbeta med sociala frågor. En av Sveriges största festivaler, Way Out West, som arbetar mycket med ekologisk hållbarhet har även börjat fokusera på jämställdhet (Luger 2020).Studiens syfte är att analysera hur festivalen Way Out West representerar kvinnor och män i sin bildliga marknadsföring för ett urval av årets lineup av artister. För att besvara syftet har två forskningsfrågor tagits fram och författarna har med hjälp av vetenskapliga artiklar och en kvalitativ undersökning analyserat bilderna. Det är en semiotisk bildanalys som utgår ifrån representationsteorin där stereotyper, idealization och face-ism används som analysverktyg. Studien kompletteras med en intervju, med PR och marknadsföringsansvarig för Way Out West, som gav bakgrundsinformation till studien. Resultatet för studien påvisar att det finns både skillnader och likheter i hur kvinnliga och manliga artister representeras i Way Out West’s bildliga marknadsföring. Samtliga bilder tolkas utifrån de rådande kulturella normerna där stereotyper, idealization och face-ism bidrar till hur betraktaren tyder budskapet med bilden. Representationen av kvinnor och män är asymmetrisk och Way Out West har ett stort ansvar vid porträtteringen av festivalens artister då den sociala berättelsen gällande genus ständigt förskjuts och omskapas (Johansson & Lalander 2013). Utifrån den semiotiska bildanalysen går det alltså att dra slutsatsen att Way Out West både bidrar till att stereotyper, idealization och face-ism upprätthålls och förändrasvid porträtteringen av deras artister. Studien är skriven på svenska.

Orientador: Mériti de Souza / Banca: Caterina Koltai / Banca: Áureo Busseto / Resumo: No alvorecer da psicanálise, Freud estabelece a noção da natureza humana como fendida, clivada, fundando uma nova noção de realidade psíquica, na qual a descoberta da verdade está relacionada à verdade do desejo inconsciente, e a religião seria uma ilusão desejante, a transformação de um passado idealizado num futuro cambiante, prenhe de um desejo em constante metamorfose. No patamar da religião, essa supervalorização do ideal, diante da desvalorização do real, remete o sujeito a um estado de infantilização pelo pensamento mágico-infantil. Na presente pesquisa, foram analisados quatro sujeitos, estudantes de teologia protestante, em cujas entrevistas foram analisados alguns aspectos relacionados ao desamparo e à idealização religiosa, integrantes basilares da sua dinâmica vocacional /profissional, no contexto de um Seminário Teológico protestante. As análises nos permitem afirmar que o sentimento religioso se mantém por seus vínculos com as figuras paternas idealizadas, que confirmam a fantasia infantil de plenitude que diminuem o sofrimento imediato, mas infantilizam o sujeito, ao invés de buscarem sua superação, como proposto pela psicanálise. Supõe-se que a superação dessa condição humana não implica necessariamente na remissão total do sofrimento psíquico, mas na capacidade do sujeito em adquirir uma suportabilidade capaz de tolerar a falha... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: At the dawn of psychoanalysis, Freud determines the notion of human nature as split, creating a new notion of psychic reality in which the truth discovery is related to the truth of unconscious desire and the religion would be a desirable illusion, the change of an idealized past into a convertible future, full of desire in constant metamorphosis. According to religion, this overestimate of ideal, beside the depreciation of reality, refers the person to a state of infantilism through the magic-infantile thought. Four students of Protestant Theology were analyzed in this study. The data were collected through interviews and some aspects related to both helplessness and religious idealization, which ones can be considered basilar integrants of their vocational/professional dynamics, in the context of a Protestant Theological Seminary were analyzed. The results showed that the religious feelings are supported by their ties with the idealized paternal figures that confirm the child fantasy of completeness through which the immediate suffering is decreased, but they make the person a child rather than seeking their overcoming as proposed by psychoanalysis. It is assumed that the overcoming of this human condition does not mean the person is protected against the total psychic suffering, but it results in person's capacity of supporting, being able of tolerating the fault, failure and helplessness without them representing a very hard threat to their psychic structure. Therefore, the constitution of religious feelings follows both given intra-psychic and external social determinism that... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below) / Mestre

[pt] Esta dissertação tem o objetivo de realizar, a partir do ponto de vista da psicanálise, uma investigação a respeito das conseqüências subjetivas trazidas pelas recentes transformações no mundo do trabalho. Na psicanálise, identificamos uma associação entre trabalho e sublimação, considerada elemento central para a produção de cultura e para o funcionamento psíquico. Um exame acerca da construção do conceito de sublimação na obra de Freud permite destacar como seus traços distintivos o caráter assexual, a produção de cultura derivada de sua realização, além de uma forma de proteção psíquica. No entanto, a avaliação do trabalho na atualidade põe em questão a relação entre trabalho e sublimação, especialmente no que se refere à função protetora da atividade sublimatória. Considerando, então, que a idealização também pode estar envolvida na construção da cultura, a partir da inibição da meta pulsional em que se sustenta, sugerimos que esta desempenha um papel central na composição do cenário atual do trabalho, sobrepondo-se à importância tradicionalmente atribuída à sublimação. / [en] This dissertation has the objective of accomplishing a psychoanalytical investigation about the subjective consequences of changes in the field of work. In psychoanalysis there is an association between work and sublimation which is considered central to the production of culture and the psychic functioning. A review on the construction of the concept of sublimation in Freud s texts points at its distinctive features such as its asexual character, the production of culture and a form of psychic protection. However, the evaluation of the work field today calls into question the relationship between work and sublimation, especially when it comes to the protective function of sublimation. Considering that idealization can also be involved in the construction of culture, based on aiminhibited drives, we suggest that it plays a central role in the composition of the current work field, overriding the importance traditionally attributed to sublimation.