Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation sets out from the assumption that there is a phenomenon one can call literature of impasse. By this is meant that there is a body of literature that can be defined as a literature of impasse because of the specific time of writing or of its setting. The definition used in this exploration is based upon the historical, social, political and psychological forces that shape literature of impasse. Broadly speaking the term refers to works of literature of which the authors are considered to be fully aware that what they were describing, analysing and exploring was the impasse which the Western individual had to navigate in order to arrive at any coherent sense of self. The authors in this study – Joseph Roth (1894-1939), Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) and Henri Fauconnier (1879-1973) – can be regarded as three such authors, and the aim of this dissertation is to demonstrate in what way they are indeed authors of impasse in the works under discussion and what the devices are that they have employed to convey their vision. Far from being a vision that (myopically) sees no resolution, the authors demonstrate a need to identify the impasse itself and its causes and consequences in a narrative style. As part of the acknowledgement of impasse, the description of the ontological impasse of the protagonists is also explored as is the central discussion of modernity and Modernism and how modernity appears to exacerbate the sense of impasse. The position of the protagonists in these works leads in turn to the exploration of individual attempts to overcome the impasse and, in so doing, the study inevitably has to explore the philosophical attributes reflected in each of the works. The comparative nature of this analysis, straddling three languages and literary traditions, and the complex contexts of “impasse”, necessitates studies in other disciplines. The works of Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) seemed particularly suited to this exploration as an analytical springboard inasmuch as his works examine the anthropological and philosophical aspects which have determined the historical forces and milieux with which the three novelists have to contend in the formulation of their respective visions. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie proefskrif berus op die veronderstelling dat daar ‘n fenomeen bestaan wat letterkunde van impasse oftewel van die dooie punt genoem kan word. Dit beteken dat daar ‘n korpus van letterkundige werke is wat gedefinieer kan word as letterkunde van impasse op grond van die spesifieke tydperk waarin dit tot stand gekom het of die narratiewe agtergrond daarvan. Die definisie wat in hierdie studie gebruik word is gegrond op die geskiedkundige, sosiale, politiese en sielkundige kragte waardeur letterkunde van impasse gevorm word. Die term verwys in die breë na werke wat geskep word deur skrywers wat ten volle daarvan bewus is dat dit wat hulle beskryf, ontleed en verken die dooie punt is waardeur die Westerse individu moet beweeg om enige koherente sin van die self te bereik. Die skrywers in hierdie studie – Joseph Roth (1894-1939), Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) en Henri Fauconnier (1879-1973) – kan beskou word as drie sodanige skrywers en die doel van hierdie proefskrif is om aan te toon waarom hulle inderdaad skrywers van impasse is in die werke wat bespreek word en op watter maniere hulle hierdie persepsie oordra. Dit handel hoegenaamd nie oor ‘n persepsie wat stiksienig geen uitkoms sien nie en die skrywers toon veral ‘n behoefte om die impasse, sowel as die oorsake en gevolge daarvan, in ‘n narratiewe styl te identifiseer. As deel van die erkenning van impasse, word die beskrywing van die ontologiese impasse van die protagoniste ook ondersoek sowel as die sentrale bespreking van moderniteit en Modernisme en die wyse waarop moderniteit die gevoel van impasse blyk te vererger. Die posisie van die protagoniste in hierdie werke lei weer na die verkenning van individuele pogings om die dooie punt te oorkom en gevolglik moet die studie noodwendig ook die filosofiese standpunte ondersoek wat in die werke gereflekteer word. Die vergelykende aard van hierdie ontleding wat strek oor drie tale en literêre tradisies en die komplekse konteks van “impasse” maak verwysing na ander dissiplines noodsaaklik. Die werke van Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) het besonder geskik voorgekom vir hierdie verkenning as analitiese wegspringplek aangesien sy werk die antropologiese en filosofiese aspekte ondersoek van die geskiedkundige kragte en omgewings waarmee hierdie drie romanskrywers te kampe gehad het in die formulering van hulle onderskeie sienings.

Orientador: Paulo Ricardo da Silva / Banca: João Carlos da Rocha Medrado / Banca: Fernando de Osório Mello / Banca: Claudio Aguinaldo Buzzi / Banca: Vanderlei Minori Horita / Resumo: Neste trabalho estudamos sistemas diferenciais forçados, também conhecidos como sistemas de equações com impasse. Estudamos os casos onde tais sistemas são suaves e os casos onde são possivelmente descontínuos. Usando técnicas de perturbação singular obtemos alguns resultados sobre a dinâmica destes sistemas em vizinhanças dos conjuntos de impasse. No caso suave, a Teoria de Fenichel clássica e crucial para o desenvolvimento dos principais resultados. Para o caso com descontinuidades, uma teoria similar a Teoria de Fenichel 'e desenvolvida. Além disso, estudamos a bifurcação de ciclos limites das órbitas periódicas de um centro diferencial linear quando perturbamos tal centro dentro de uma classe de sistemas diferenciais lineares por partes com impasse / Abstract: In this work we study constrained differential systems, also known as systems of equations with impasse. We study the cases where such systems are smo oth and the cases where they are p ossibly discontinuous. Using singular p erturbation techniques we obtain some results on the dynamic of these systems in neighb orho o ds of the impasse sets. In smo oth case, the classical Fenichel's Theory is crucial for the development of the main results. For the case with discontinuity, a similar theory to Fenichel's Theory is develop ed. Moreover, we study the bifurcation of limit cycles from the p erio dic orbits of a linear differential center when we p erturb such center inside a class of piecewise linear differential systems with impasse / Doutor

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-03-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:07:15Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cardin_pt_dr_sjrp.pdf: 479456 bytes, checksum: 52785d20631e0d11a14a241fde1ae7c9 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Neste trabalho estudamos sistemas diferenciais forçados, também conhecidos como sistemas de equações com impasse. Estudamos os casos onde tais sistemas são suaves e os casos onde são possivelmente descontínuos. Usando técnicas de perturbação singular obtemos alguns resultados sobre a dinâmica destes sistemas em vizinhanças dos conjuntos de impasse. No caso suave, a Teoria de Fenichel clássica e crucial para o desenvolvimento dos principais resultados. Para o caso com descontinuidades, uma teoria similar a Teoria de Fenichel ´e desenvolvida. Além disso, estudamos a bifurcação de ciclos limites das órbitas periódicas de um centro diferencial linear quando perturbamos tal centro dentro de uma classe de sistemas diferenciais lineares por partes com impasse / In this work we study constrained differential systems, also known as systems of equations with impasse. We study the cases where such systems are smo oth and the cases where they are p ossibly discontinuous. Using singular p erturbation techniques we obtain some results on the dynamic of these systems in neighb orho o ds of the impasse sets. In smo oth case, the classical Fenichel’s Theory is crucial for the development of the main results. For the case with discontinuity, a similar theory to Fenichel’s Theory is develop ed. Moreover, we study the bifurcation of limit cycles from the p erio dic orbits of a linear differential center when we p erturb such center inside a class of piecewise linear differential systems with impasse

Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2010-2011 / En plus de proposer une première étude critique de l'œuvre d'André Benchetrit, ce mémoire vise à saisir comment les non-lieux, s'ils constituent des figures spatiales prégnantes dans le roman contemporain, sont susceptibles de signifier autre chose que des espaces anonymes et vidés de sens. Le recours aux notions d'hétérotopie et de rhizome permettra de nuancer les sens et les fonctions impartis aux non-lieux dans le discours critique sur la spatialité dans le roman contemporain. Ultimement, notre méthode, en interpellant des philosophes (Foucault, Deleuze) et anthropologue (Auge) contemporains, s'inscrit comme une tentative de typologie des nouvelles spatialités romanesques. Les romans Le Ventre, Impasse Marteau et Très-Grande Surface d'André Benchetrit s'avèrent tout désignés pour étudier les brouillages et oscillations d'un territoire de la fiction qui ne se donne jamais pour acquis, un territoire où se confrontent dans un mouvement perpétuel les figures du non-lieu, de l'hétérotopic et du rhizome.

Made available in DSpace on 2009-11-18T18:56:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004 / The present paper has the proposal to assess the management process of complex negotiation of the 5th OMC that took place at Cancun from September 10th until the 14th , 2003. This thesis points out the problems and questions that resulted on the collapse of a possible agreement, it also suggest proposal to solve these issues. The future of OMC is uncertain and traumatic changes suffered by many countries that live under the rules of OMC shows that something at OMC will have to change, principally on the process of complex negotiation, such as the integrity of the organization to avoid having to compromise and being damaged. There were searches for answers on the analysis and assessment of the negotiation process, studying and researching the bargain positional concepts, giving full details on the negotiation process based on principIes, exploring profusely the state of art for the management of difficult conversation. This thesis also tackles the sources of conflicts and the building of coalitions such as the G20, showing the difficulty existing in the resolution of public disputes and in the use of instruments to break the impasses. We also defined theoretical instrumental, which allowed the diagnostic ofthe actual situation at OMe. It was recommend to explore the valuation of conflicts, based on justice and equitant, the best form of negotiation by principIes, of management demanding public, on the multi stakeholder dialogue and the importance of informal parallel conversation. The environment of complexity and the extensive vision that it provides to adjust the functioning of autopoietics systems. / Pretende-se no presente trabalho avaliar a gestão do processo de negociação complexa da 5ª Conferência Ministerial da Organização Mundial do Comércio em Cancún, ocorrida entre os dias 10 e 14 de setembro de 2003, no México, apontando os problemas e questões que resultaram no colapso de um possível acordo. O futuro da OMC é incerto e mudanças traumáticas sofridas por muitos países que vivem sob as regras da OMC indicam que alguma coisa na OMC terá que mudar, principalmente nos processos de negociação complexa, de forma que a integridade da organização não seja comprometida. Buscou-se respostas na análise e avaliação da gestão do processo de negociação, estudando e pesquisando os conceitos de barganha posicional, detalhando o processo de negociação baseado em princípios, explorando em profundidade o estado da arte para gestão de conversas difíceis. Dissecando a questão dos conflitos e das coalizões, mostrando a dificuldade existente na resolução de disputas públicas e no uso de instrumentos para quebrar o impasse nas negociações buscou-se estabelecer o instrumental teórico que possibilitasse aprofundar o diagnóstico da situação atual na OMC. Como recomendação explorou-se a avaliação de conflitos, com base na eficiência - teoria dos jogos-, justiça e na eqüidade, a melhor forma de negociação baseada em princípios, de gestão de público demandante, no diálogo dos multistakeholders, a importância das conversas informais paralelas, o ambiente da complexidade e a visão ampla que proporciona o enfoque do funcionamento de sistemas decisórios autopoiéticos.

Text in Afrikaans / The utilization value of the paradoxical theory of change in Gestalt Play Therapy with adolescents Adolescents undergo significant changes on physical, emotional, and cognitive levels during this development stage. These changes have a great influence on their self-awareness. Most adolescents experience great problems with who they are and who they should be according to the expectations of others. This causes a never-ending process of efforts to change. Change can only take place if the adolescent is who he is, but not if he tries to be what he is not. The consequence hereof is that change cannot take place in the adolescent, because he should first become aware of who he is. The awareness of who he is leads to change. The paradoxical theory of change is all about being who one is and not about trying to be what others expect one to be. The adolescent should be accompanied to become aware of who he is, by utilization of the paradoxical theory, in order to be able grow and change. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the utilization value of the paradoxical theory of change in Gestalt Play Therapy with adolescents. In order to achieve this goal, the research process was directed by qualitative research, and triangulation was utilized as a technique for gathering information. Out of the processing and integration of conclusions drawn during the empirical investigation, data could contribute to exploration and description of the assessment of the paradoxical theory of change in Gestalt play therapy with adolescents. The aim of the investigation was therefore achieved, namely the exploration and description of the utilization value of the paradoxical theory of change in Gestalt Play Therapy with adolescents. / Play thearapy / M.Diac.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gina Tamburrino.pdf: 815895 bytes, checksum: 86f20820850cb0fbeab1d4f5ee52fe5a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-25 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This thesis results from an effort to penetrate questions regarding impasse that is formed and transformed in the relationship between the analyst and the analysand. The clinical work is understood and organized taking into consideration an intersubjective vertex, thus the concept of analyzing field is forged to demonstrate the analyst s implication in the formation and transformation of the shared unconscious fantasy. The highlight of the research is the presentation of the hypothesis that, in certain moments, the analyst s mind presents a dysfunctional quality in order to receive, to sustain and to prepare the field for the production of the analyzing pair. In these moments, the shared unconscious fantasy transforms itself into shared resistance: bulwarks , chronic enactments and acute enactments; the important thing to be investigated is how this kind of configuration is formed and how it transforms itself, always considering the dialectic impasse ↔ possible transformations. Besides it interests us the fact that the dysfunction in the analyzing field isn t always generated by the difficulties of a disturbed patient, it can also be caused by a disturbed analyst that, in such cases, becomes the main responsible for the functional inversion of the field to the detriment of the analysand. The main focus of this study is, above all, how the analyst wanders in the analyzing field beyond the non-analyzed questions / Esta tese resulta de um esforço no sentido de penetrar questões em torno dos impasses que se formam e transformam no encontro entre analista e analisando. O trabalho clínico é considerado e organizado dentro de um vértice intersubjetivo, de modo que o conceito de campo analisante é forjado para abordar a implicação do analista na formação e transformação da fantasia inconsciente compartilhada. Um ponto de grande importância, auge desta pesquisa, é a apresentação da hipótese de que em certos momentos a mente do analista apresenta uma qualidade disfuncional para receber, conter e elaborar a lavoura do campo, e, portanto, as produções da dupla analisante. Nesses momentos a fantasia inconsciente compartilhada se transforma em resistências compartilhadas: baluartes, enactments crônicos e enactments agudos. Importa investigar como essas formações se dão e como se transformam, sempre atentando para a dialética impasses↔transformações possíveis. Para além disso, há um interesse sobre o fato de que o disfuncionamento do campo analisante nem sempre está revestido das dificuldades impostas por um paciente perturbado, mas que o analista é que se encontra perturbado e determina, em grande medida, a inversão do funcionamento do campo em desfavor do analisando. É, sobretudo, sobre esse aspecto que este desenvolvimento se debruça, isto é, como se move o analista no campo analisante para além das questões não analisadas

Text in Afrikaans / The utilization value of the paradoxical theory of change in Gestalt Play Therapy with adolescents Adolescents undergo significant changes on physical, emotional, and cognitive levels during this development stage. These changes have a great influence on their self-awareness. Most adolescents experience great problems with who they are and who they should be according to the expectations of others. This causes a never-ending process of efforts to change. Change can only take place if the adolescent is who he is, but not if he tries to be what he is not. The consequence hereof is that change cannot take place in the adolescent, because he should first become aware of who he is. The awareness of who he is leads to change. The paradoxical theory of change is all about being who one is and not about trying to be what others expect one to be. The adolescent should be accompanied to become aware of who he is, by utilization of the paradoxical theory, in order to be able grow and change. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the utilization value of the paradoxical theory of change in Gestalt Play Therapy with adolescents. In order to achieve this goal, the research process was directed by qualitative research, and triangulation was utilized as a technique for gathering information. Out of the processing and integration of conclusions drawn during the empirical investigation, data could contribute to exploration and description of the assessment of the paradoxical theory of change in Gestalt play therapy with adolescents. The aim of the investigation was therefore achieved, namely the exploration and description of the utilization value of the paradoxical theory of change in Gestalt Play Therapy with adolescents. / Play thearapy / M.Diac.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:10:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacaoraquel.pdf: 595120 bytes, checksum: eff0bba70e787ac645555be77ddd9b7b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-02 / This highly bibliographical study is linked to the research line on Culture and Educational Processes in the Post-graduate Educational Program at FE-UFG. It questions the impasse generated in the ongoing formation of teachers, in which the guidelines are established by international organizations submissive to the liberal ideology. These guidelines had their origin in the operational changes of capitalism, and now respond to the demands of the theory of human capital both in what qualifies the teacher as worker, belonging to a working class, as well as the demand that the latter form his successors for the labor market. From the moment that education came to be considered an indispensable instrument in market expansion, its basis of political emancipation and personal expansion disappeared. To educate no longer means leading younger people to understand the laws of the world. According to the capitalist model, initial school education has to do with offering basic competencies which, throughout life, permit the subject to pursue his/her permanent formation which, in its turn, will allow him/her assimilate the latest knowledge and techniques demanded by the market. Caught up in the Capitalist Discourse, the teacher avoids acting subjectively as an adult responsible for the transition of young people to this world, because the founding rules of subjectivity are hidden under the false testimony that there is no law. However, linguistic laws are not subject to disguise and demand the interdiction of pleasure. This creates an impasse in the subject who hears the technoscientific discourse declare that there are no limits and therefore access to pleasure is free, but is faced with his/her own castration since s/he is unavoidably submitted to language / O presente trabalho, eminentemente bibliográfico, vincula-se à linha de pesquisa Cultura e processos educacionais do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da FE-UFG. Coloca em questão o impasse gerado na formação continuada de professores cujas diretrizes são lançadas por organizações internacionais submetidas à ideologia liberal, que, a partir das mudanças operacionalizadas no capitalismo, passam a responder às demandas da teoria do capital humano tanto no que qualifica o professor como trabalhador, pertencente a uma classe operária, quanto na exigência de que este forme seus sucessores para o mercado de trabalho. A partir do momento em que a educação passa a ser considerada como instrumento imprescindível na expansão do mercado vê-se desaparecer seus fundamentos de emancipação política e expansão pessoal. Educar já não se trata de conduzir os mais jovens em direção à compreensão das leis do mundo. Segundo o modelo capitalista, a educação escolar inicial diz respeito à oferta de competências de base que permitam ao sujeito buscar, no decorrer de sua vida, a sua formação permanente que, por sua vez, lhe propiciará incorporar os últimos conhecimentos e técnicas reclamadas pelo mercado. Capturado pelo discurso do capitalista, o professor deixa de agir subjetivamente de seu lugar de adulto, responsável pela transição dos mais jovens neste mundo, em função de que as leis fundantes da subjetividade passam a ser encobertas sob um falso testemunho de que não há lei. Contudo as leis da linguagem não são passíveis de ser dissimuladas e reclamam a interdição ao gozo. Com isso cria-se um impasse ao sujeito que ouve o anúncio do discurso tecnocientífico de que não há limite e que, portanto, o acesso ao gozo é livre, mas que se defronta com sua própria castração uma vez que inevitavelmente está submetido à linguagem

La Bosnie-Herzégovine est sous supervision internationale depuis 1995. Les principaux acteurs de cette communauté internationale soit l’Union Européenne (UE) et le Bureau du Haut-Représentant à la Communauté Internationale (OHR) ont exprimé à de nombreuses reprises leur intention de transformer la mission internationale en s’éloignant du pouvoir discrétionnaire du OHR en le remplaçant par la perspective d’intégration offerte par l’UE. Malgré les bonnes intentions, cette transition semble être dans une impasse. Depuis 2006, l’organisation et la distribution des responsabilités au sein de la communauté internationale sont restées inchangées. Ce mémoire s’intéresse à ces deux principaux acteurs et à leur rôle dans l’impasse. L’objectif est de tester trois cadres d’analyse soit le rationalisme, le constructivisme et la complexité des régimes pouvant expliquer cette impasse. En se basant sur des interviews avec des experts et des représentants des deux institutions, ce mémoire explore dans quelle mesure et dans quels contextes chaque cadre d’analyse est apte à expliquer le comportement des acteurs. / Bosnia and Herzegovina has been under international supervision since 1995. Key actors in the international community namely the Office of the High Representative (OHR) and the European Union (EU) have expressed a desire to change the focus of this mission from one led by the OHR to one led by the EU. Despite the strong will of the international community to carry out this transition, it seems to have reached a deadlock. In the last few years, the arrangement of the international community has remained unchanged. This thesis focuses on these two main actors in this transition and their responsibility in the deadlock. This thesis tests three frameworks in order to explain this deadlock, specifically rationalism, constructivism, and regime complexity. Drawing on interviews with experts and officials working in the European Union and in the Office of the High Representative, this thesis explores the suitability of these frameworks for explaining these actors’ behaviours.