In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to constitute, construct, and maintain subject identity. Such mechanisms include repetition, performativity, identification, and interpellation. I incorporate structuralist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytic theories as a means to discuss the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity are performative masquerades. Furthermore, these ideological mechanisms and heteronormative paradigms have the paradoxical power to produce both incurable melancholia and unrealized possibilities alike. Given this conversation, I turn to theorists such as Louis Althusser, Slavoj ��i��ek, and Judith Butler; these theorists employ different theoretical approaches and consequently their explanations regarding how and why identity is manufactured frequently differ. From this productive point of difference, I apply the theories to a literary analysis of Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden. Paired together, the critical theories and literary works act to complicate and nuance each other, and collectively introduce valuable insights regarding who or what is subject. / Graduation date: 2013

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo, a partir do referencial teórico e metodológico da Análise do discurso e da Psicanálise, correlacionar o papel social da televisão ao funcionamento subjetivo. Para isso enfoca um dos discursos que é mais predominante na televisão: a publicidade de autopromoção. Quando a televisão brasileira surgiu ela promovia um imaginário nacional/nacionalista, evidenciado no presente texto através da análise discursiva do Hino da Televisão, executado na inauguração da TV Tupi em 1950. Análise que partiu de um paralelo entre a função ideológica do nacionalismo e a função do estádio do espelho e, consequentemente da dimensão imaginária do Eu para a constituição dos sujeitos. Atualmente, o imaginário globalizado/globalizante promovido pela televisão nacional está marcado pela trajetória do poder hegemônico da emissora que é a metáfora desse ideário: a Rede Globo. A partir de uma revisão bibliográfica fez-se o histórico do percurso que levou a Rede Globo a ser uma das principais beneficiárias do projeto de integração nacional promovido pela Ditadura Militar; bem como o desenvolvimento das pesquisas de opinião/audiência pela emissora, que impulsionaram a pesquisa de mercado e a publicidade nacionais. O trabalho propõe uma análise discursiva da publicidade de autopromoção da Rede Globo a partir dos seguintes slogans institucionais da emissora: Globo e você, tudo a ver (1991-1997), Um caso de amor com o Brasil (1998), Um caso de amor com você (1998), A gente se vê por aqui (2001-2011) e A gente se liga em você (2011-atual). Desde o início, e nos mais diferentes momentos históricos, a propaganda de autopromoção buscou propagandear as emissoras (e, por consequência, a própria televisão) como representantes do Brasil, como espelho no qual o Brasil pode (ou deveria) se reconhecer. No caso dos dois slogans utilizados durante o ano de 1998 pela Rede Globo, busca-se estabelecer uma relação tanto metafórica, quanto metonímica, entre você (telespectador) e Brasil. A análise proposta busca evidenciar o que isso pode significar para a economia psíquica do sujeito, uma vez que a metáfora e a metonímia, tal como as entende a psicanálise lacaniana, são os mecanismos pelos quais o desejo inconsciente funciona. Por fim, aprofunda-se a análise do slogan Globo, A gente se vê por aqui, propondo que esse slogan foi usado ao longo de uma década inteira porque conseguiu condensar no mesmo enunciado, por um lado, a forma como se dá a interpelação ideológica no âmbito específico de espetáculo; e por outro, a fantasia na qual os sujeitos colocam a si mesmo em sua própria transparência, vendo-se e mostrando-se uns aos outros através do espelho do espetáculo, e que fundamenta a ligação libidinal dos sujeitos nessas sociedades. O aqui, de A gente se vê por aqui visa apagar a diferença entre estar aqui e aí, como se Globo e você pudessem estar no mesmo plano. Tornando-se o semblante que ocupa o lugar do Outro nas sociedades do espetáculo, a televisão busca estratégias que (imaginariamente) eliminem a distância do sujeito em relação ao Outro, reforçando a ilusão de autonomia dos sujeitos. / The present study aims to correlate the social role of television with the subjective functioning, based on theoretical and methodological background of Discourses Analysis and Psychoanalysis. For this purpose, this work focuses on one of the most prevailing discourses in television: self-promotion advertising. When Brazilian television arrived, it used to promote a nationalist imaginary. This is highlighted in this text through discourse analysis of Hino da Televisão, performed on the inauguration of TV Tupi in 1950. Analysis are based on a parallel between nationalism and the mirror stage function and, consequently, the imaginary dimension of the Self on subject constitution. Currently, the globalized/globalizer imaginary promoted by national television is marked by the trajectory of hegemonic power of the station which is a metaphor for this ideology: Rede Globo. A historical path was traced from a review of literature, showing how Rede Globo became one of the main beneficiaries of the national integration project promoted by the military dictatorship and how the stations audience and opinion polls propelled market research and national advertising. This study proposes a discursive analysis of self-promotion advertising of Rede Globo, based on the stations institutional slogans: Globo e você, tudo a ver (Globo and you, everything in common; 1991-1997), Um caso de amor com o Brasil (A love affair with Brazil; 1998), Um caso de amor com você (A love affair with you; 1998), A gente se vê por aqui (We meet up here; 2001-2011), A gente se liga em você (We are linked to you; 2011-present). Since its beginning and in different moments in history, self-promotion advertising and, consequently, television itself intended to show the stations as Brazils representatives, as a mirror in which Brazil could (or should) recognize itself. In both slogans Rede Globo used in 1998, they intend to establish a metaphorical and metonymical relationship between you (viewer) and Brazil. The proposed analysis aims to evince what it may imply to psychical economy of the subject, once metaphor and metonymy (as lacanian psychoanalysis understands them) are the mechanisms through which the unconscious desire works. Lastly, going further on the analysis of the slogan A gente se vê por aqui (We meet up here), the study suggests it was used for a whole decade because it could condense two aspects in the same wording. On the one hand, the way ideological interpellation comes about in the specific scope of spectacle. On the other hand, the fantasy in which subjects put themselves in their own transparency (seeing and showing themselves to each other through the spectacle mirror) and that underlies libidinal bounding of subjects in these societies. The here in We see each other here intends to erase the difference of being here and there, as if Globo and you could be in the same plan. Television seeks strategies to (imaginarily) eliminate the distance of the subject in relation to the Other, becoming the face that fills the place of the Other in societies of the spectacle, thus reinforcing the illusion of subjects autonomy.

Studien syftade till att undersöka skillnader i framställning i två militära rekryteringsfilmer från Tyskland och Sverige. Syftet uppfylls genom multimodala analyser av filmerna och genom en fokusgruppsintervju beståendes av tyska och svenska studenter. I den multimodala analysen kartlades relevanta meningsbärande modaliteter för att ta reda på hur organisationerna framställer sig själva i filmerna. Fokusgruppsintervjun gav underlag till en kvalitativ innehållsanalys där publikens tolkning av filmerna kartlades med ett särskilt fokus på hur kultur har för betydelse för tolkningen. Studiens teoretiska bakgrund utgörs dels av Althussers teori kring ideologier och statliga anordningar och interpellationskonceptet som det vidareutvecklas av Judith Williamson. För tolkning av fokusgruppsintervjun applicerades Stuart Halls teori om Encoding/Decoding och Kim Schröders multidimensionella mottagarmodell. Studien kommer fram till att filmerna syftar till att interpellera, tilltala, publiken på skilda vis vilket leder till att två olika ideologier reproduceras. Innehållsanalysen av fokusintervjun pekade på att den kulturella bakgrunden kan vara en central faktor som förklarar varför filmerna tolkades olika av deltagarna. Ur ett samhälleligt perspektiv är studien relevant då den påtalar militära organisationers reproduktiva makt över ideologier i samhället. Förslagsvis kan framtida forskning undersöka kulturens roll för avkodning av militära rekryteringsfilmer på en mer detaljerad nivå. Till exempel skillnader i mottagande mellan landsorts- och stadsbefolkning. Studiens begränsningar utgörs främst av den korta tidsram inom vilken den genomförts och bristen på triangulering av data

Employable humanists. A qualitative study on humanist students' views on employability. The crisis of the humanities is a controversial debate in the media and within academic settings. Because of lack of request for humanists in the labor market, the question of humanistic skills and employability is becoming increasingly important. The concept of employability importance not only echoes within the economic discussions, but also on everyday agenda in the academic world and takes a large part in the communication between the university and the students. It is therefore important to get answers to the question whether there is conformity in the interpretation of this concept between the university and the students. The aim of this desk study is to examine how the concept of employability has its significance in the academic communication and how the responsibility for employability is portrayed. This is done by studying how the concept of employability is formed and how the responsibilities outlined in texts from Career Center at the University of Umeå, and by comparing study results with the students' perceptions of the concept of employability and responsibility. The study has a qualitative disposition and consists of two main methods: qualitative interviews with focus groups to explore students' views, and critical linguistic analysis of texts with a focus on metaphor analysis and syntax analysis which are also supplemented by the multimodal text analysis. Results of this study indicate that the concept of employability takes a central part of the university’s communication. There are many common starting points in the interpretation of the concept and the responsibility between the university and students. Both the Career Center at Umeå University and students believe that actual knowledge, skills, experience as well as network forms the meaning of the concept of employability, and has a big importance in the student’s position on the job market. However, because the students look at the use of the concept of employability in the texts as acceptance to the social ideological perception of the individual as objects, there is some criticism of the use of the term employability in the university’s communications.

This MA thesis analyzes how the protagonists and the narrative structure relates to “the Child” as a linguistic/cultural construction in Mare Kandre’s early authorship (1984-1991). A thematic of children portraits defines this period of Kandre’s writing, which consits of the following works: In a Different Country (1984), The Annunciation (1986), Bübin’s Kid (1987), The Burning Tree (1988) and Aliide, Aliide (1991). Linguistic components, such as the word “child”, the name “Kid” and a reconstruction of the concept of childhood, holds an actuate position in these narratives when they first appear in direct relation to the protagonists. This suggests how generally accepted categories and concepts consciously are at work in Kandre’s writings. Consequently, a category such as “child” can not unproblematically serve as a definition of any of the protagonists, irrespective of their presumptive age. Combining philosopher Judith Butler’s theory of name-calling with theories in the field of Childhood Studies as presented by Susan Honeyman, “the Child” in Kandre’s works is explored through the hypothesis of its function as a name. Close readings reveal how the protagonists, in the encounter with an explicitly cultural or narrative context, are constituted as subjects through the linguistic category “child”. The protagonists can be considered both as subordinated by the conventionally manifested notion of life development as a linear, measurable progress and as introduced to the means which make possible a critical response to that same notion. Since the main protagonists strongly refuse to be defined by the conventions supporting “the Child” as a category, a dialogue is created which gives the narrative its force. That dialogue corresponds to different aspects of the concept of childhood, which place “the Child” as a construction at the heart of Kandre’s narrative composition.

Various researches across the world have established that graffiti writing is a universal social practice. The actual occurrence or manifestation of graffiti is however far from being universal cross-culturally. It varies based on a wide array of social variables. This research therefore set out to interrogate the occurrence of graffiti writing as a unique social practice in Zimbabwean urban areas. Three Zimbabwean urban areas (Harare, Chitungwiza and Gweru) were specifically sampled for the collection of graffiti inscriptions on various surfaces which included toilet walls, durawalls as well as road signs. Graffiti data collected from the various surfaces was complemented by reader feedback contributions from The Herald and Newsday. Focus group discussions provided a third tier of data aimed at establishing participants’ multiple reactions towards the practice of graffiti. Analysis of data was done based on three significant sections of participants’ attitudes towards graffiti, urban street protest graffiti as well as educational graffiti collected from various toilet surfaces in urban areas. Participants’ attitudes towards graffiti revealed varied reactions towards the practice of graffiti. The reactions were partly influenced by the participants’ ages as well as levels of education and maturity. Age and maturity proved to be predictors of the extent to which participants were willing to be pragmatic in so far as the appreciation of graffiti writing is concerned. Older and more experienced and mature participants were thus willing to look past the ‘deviant’ nature of graffiti writing to consider the various pressures that force writers to take to the wall. Urban street protest graffiti is a term coined in this research to capture the unique type of graffiti that is written on various surfaces along streets in urban areas. This highly textual graffiti is drastically different from the post-graffiti commonly found in Western urban cities and is aptly referred to as street art. Urban street protest mainly manifested itself in Zimbabwean urban areas in two main themes of protest inscriptions directed towards the operations of Zimbabwe’s electrical energy supplier (commonly referred to by its former name of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority - ZESA) as well as through political inscriptions. Political inscriptions expose a high degree of nuances that have not been hitherto discussed in literature on political graffiti inscriptions. The research analysed how graffiti writing can be employed for both pro-hegemonic and anti-hegemonic purposes. Inscriptions in high schools and tertiary institutions highlighted a differential construction of discourse on a gendered basis. Inscriptions in female toilets indicated a tendency of graffiti writers to perpetuate dominant educational, health, traditional and religious discourses which assert male dominance. The inscriptions show a major preoccupation with restricting or policing of female sexuality by fellow students mainly through the discursive usages of social corrective Shona labels such as hure (prostitute) and gaba ([big] tin). These are labels that are virtually absent in graffiti inscriptions in male toilets which is suggestive of a situation whereby female inscriptions are conservative. A consequence of such conservatism in inscriptions in female toilets is that no new sexualities are reconstructed and negotiated through discourses in discursive spaces provided by the inherently private nature of toilets in general. Thus, cultural and religious normative expectations are regarded as still weighing heavily on female high school writers in the construction and negotiation of sexuality and gendered behaviours, attitudes, norms and values through discourses constructed through graffiti. In contrast, male inscriptions highlight a major subversion of dominant discourses on abstinence and responsible sexual behaviours and attitudes. Corrective social labels such as ngochani (gay person) are mainly employed to pressure males into indulging and engaging in heterosexual behaviours. Discourses constructed through graffiti inscriptions in male toilets also demonstrate how sexuality is constructed through debate on the appropriateness of marginalised sexualities such as masturbation and homosexuality. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

Various researches across the world have established that graffiti writing is a universal social practice. The actual occurrence or manifestation of graffiti is however far from being universal cross-culturally. It varies based on a wide array of social variables. This research therefore set out to interrogate the occurrence of graffiti writing as a unique social practice in Zimbabwean urban areas. Three Zimbabwean urban areas (Harare, Chitungwiza and Gweru) were specifically sampled for the collection of graffiti inscriptions on various surfaces which included toilet walls, durawalls as well as road signs. Graffiti data collected from the various surfaces was complemented by reader feedback contributions from The Herald and Newsday. Focus group discussions provided a third tier of data aimed at establishing participants’ multiple reactions towards the practice of graffiti. Analysis of data was done based on three significant sections of participants’ attitudes towards graffiti, urban street protest graffiti as well as educational graffiti collected from various toilet surfaces in urban areas. Participants’ attitudes towards graffiti revealed varied reactions towards the practice of graffiti. The reactions were partly influenced by the participants’ ages as well as levels of education and maturity. Age and maturity proved to be predictors of the extent to which participants were willing to be pragmatic in so far as the appreciation of graffiti writing is concerned. Older and more experienced and mature participants were thus willing to look past the ‘deviant’ nature of graffiti writing to consider the various pressures that force writers to take to the wall. Urban street protest graffiti is a term coined in this research to capture the unique type of graffiti that is written on various surfaces along streets in urban areas. This highly textual graffiti is drastically different from the post-graffiti commonly found in Western urban cities and is aptly referred to as street art. Urban street protest mainly manifested itself in Zimbabwean urban areas in two main themes of protest inscriptions directed towards the operations of Zimbabwe’s electrical energy supplier (commonly referred to by its former name of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority - ZESA) as well as through political inscriptions. Political inscriptions expose a high degree of nuances that have not been hitherto discussed in literature on political graffiti inscriptions. The research analysed how graffiti writing can be employed for both pro-hegemonic and anti-hegemonic purposes. Inscriptions in high schools and tertiary institutions highlighted a differential construction of discourse on a gendered basis. Inscriptions in female toilets indicated a tendency of graffiti writers to perpetuate dominant educational, health, traditional and religious discourses which assert male dominance. The inscriptions show a major preoccupation with restricting or policing of female sexuality by fellow students mainly through the discursive usages of social corrective Shona labels such as hure (prostitute) and gaba ([big] tin). These are labels that are virtually absent in graffiti inscriptions in male toilets which is suggestive of a situation whereby female inscriptions are conservative. A consequence of such conservatism in inscriptions in female toilets is that no new sexualities are reconstructed and negotiated through discourses in discursive spaces provided by the inherently private nature of toilets in general. Thus, cultural and religious normative expectations are regarded as still weighing heavily on female high school writers in the construction and negotiation of sexuality and gendered behaviours, attitudes, norms and values through discourses constructed through graffiti. In contrast, male inscriptions highlight a major subversion of dominant discourses on abstinence and responsible sexual behaviours and attitudes. Corrective social labels such as ngochani (gay person) are mainly employed to pressure males into indulging and engaging in heterosexual behaviours. Discourses constructed through graffiti inscriptions in male toilets also demonstrate how sexuality is constructed through debate on the appropriateness of marginalised sexualities such as masturbation and homosexuality. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

This article discusses the use of the mechanism of parliamentary control of interpellation to ministers in the Peruvian case, with the objective of stablish which factors determine the effectives of opposition groups to approve the motions of interpellations they present during the post- Fujimori goverrnments of Alejandro Toledo, Alan García and Ollanta Humala (2001-2013). Taking into account the size, discipline and the number of motions presented, this research argues that the most effective parliamentary groups have high levels of discipline and present a reasonable number of motions, in relation to their capacity to approve them. The levels of discipline and effectiveness of each parliamentary group were calculate through the recompilation ofdata from 85 motions and 36 debates about the admission of the process. / Este artículo aborda el uso del mecanismo de control político parlamentario de interpelación a ministros en el caso peruano, con el objetivo de identificar cuáles son los factores que influencian en la efectividad de las bancadas de oposición para aprobar las mociones de interpe- lación durante los gobiernos post-Fujimori de Alejandro Toledo, Alan García y Ollanta Humala (2001-2013). Tomando en cuenta el tamaño, la disciplina y el número de mociones presentadas por cada bancada parlamentaria, se concluye que las bancadas más efectivas son aquellas que tienen un alto nivel de disciplina y que presentan un número de mociones razonable, de acuerdo a su capacidad para aprobarlos. Para hallar los niveles de disciplina del voto y efectividad se recopiló los datos de 85 mociones de interpelaciones y de 36 votaciones sobre su admisión.

Ce mémoire porte sur le terrorisme dans l’œuvre de Dostoïevski. Au travers d’une analyse s’appuyant sur la théorie mimétique de René Girard ainsi que sur ses contributions sur Dostoïevski, l’auteur dégage de l’œuvre du romancier russe certains des motifs et éléments de représentation pouvant constituer l’ébauche d’une analytique dostoïevskienne du terrorisme. Cette analytique dostoïevskienne réfute le paradigme de la violence religieuse et conteste la notion de violence découlant de la radicalisation (idéologique ou religieuse) pour rendre compte du terrorisme. Elle montre comment la religion ou l’idéologie sont superficielles et comment doivent plutôt nous intéresser un ensemble de déterminants et médiations psychologiques – les désirs, pulsions, émotions et fantasmes au fondement de la violence – pour rendre compte de la violence. L’analyse des trois figures dostoïevskiennes de Chatov (Les Démons), Raskolnikov (Crime et Châtiment) et Stavroguine (Les Démons) mettent chacune en lumière trois explications causales simplifiées des ressorts et motivations de la violence terroriste. L’étude de Chatov met de l’avant le désir mimétique frustré que sous-tend la violence ainsi que la blessure narcissique, la posture réactionnelle d’opposition et le désir de revanche qu’il produit. Celle de Raskolnikov expose les rêves prométhéens et les désirs d’élévation aux fondements de la violence, mais aussi le récit héroïque auto-mystificateur qu’elle sous-tend. Enfin, l’étude de Stavroguine démontre la centralité de la dimension sexuelle pour rendre compte de la violence terroriste. / This memoir focuses on terrorism in Dostoyevsky's work. Through an analysis based on René Girard's mimetic theory as well as his contributions to Dostoevsky, the author draws from the work of the Russian novelist some of the motifs and elements of representation that constitute the outline of a Dostoevskian analytics of terrorism. This Dostoevskian analytics refutes the paradigm of religious violence and challenges the notion of violence stemming from radicalization (ideological or religious) to account for terrorism. It shows how religion or ideology is superficial and how we should instead be interested in a set of psychological determinants and mediations – desires, impulses, emotions and fantasies at the root of violence - to account for violence. The analysis of the three Dostoevskian figures of Chatov (The Demons), Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment) and Stavrogin (The Demons) each bring to light three simplified causal explanations of the motives and dynamics of terrorist violence. Chatov's study puts forward the frustrated mimetic desire behind violence as well as the narcissistic wound, the reactionary posture of opposition and the desire for revenge it produces. Raskolnikov's analysis exposes Promethean dreams and desires of elevation to the foundations of violence, but also the heroic self-mystifying narrative that it underlies. Finally, Stavrogin's study demonstrates the centrality of the sexual dimension in accounting for terrorist violence.

Mémoire en recherche-création / L’essai Du désir dans l’écriture (ailleurs, une rencontre) propose une quête de décloisonnement – menée dans un contexte pandémique de confinement – pour les formes textuelles qui demandent de repenser les catégories définissant (et limitant) les modes d’existence et de circulation des objets culturels. Cette réflexion s’articule entre autres à travers une lecture de La nuit juste avant les forêts, œuvre de Bernard-Marie Koltès irréductible à ce qui s’appelle « théâtre » et qui tout de même invite au partage d’une expérience : malgré le flux intarissable de mots tirés à sens unique, la parole déborde de son média (la page, la scène) et une véritable communion happe qui est là, hors diégèse, pour l’accueillir. Par une approche du texte au-delà de sa médiation, ce mémoire propose alors une contribution intuitive, fondée sur la recherche-création, à la pensée de la communication (et de son impossibilité). Dans le prolongement de la théorie, Peut-être que dehors incarne cette quête de parole vivante dans la pratique. La proposition artistique et méditative prend la forme d’une série de fragments qui rendent de façon morcelée un récit de mémoire traumatique, fait de trous et de blancs. La configuration textuelle reflète d’une part le balbutiement du dire pour ce qui est généralement tu, et d’autre part la place qu’il manque pour respirer et guérir. Dans des conditions de solitude, d’isolement, la voix de l’écriture questionne ce qu’il faut pour créer de la confiance et de la rencontre, de la communauté peut-être, avec qui reçoit les mots. / The essay Du désir dans l'écriture (ailleurs, une rencontre) proposes a quest for decompartmentalization – carried out in a pandemic context of confinement – for textual forms that require a rethinking of the categories defining (and limiting) the modes of existence and circulation of cultural objects. This reflection is articulated, among other things, through a reading of La nuit juste avant les forêts, a work by Bernard-Marie Koltès that is irreducible to what is called “theater” and that nevertheless invites the sharing of an experience: despite the endless flow of words drawn in one direction, the word overflows its medium (the page, the stage) and a true communion catches whoever is there, outside the diegesis, to welcome it. By approaching the text beyond its mediation, this thesis proposes an intuitive contribution, based on research-creation, to the thought of communication (and its impossibility). As an extension of the theory, Peut-être que dehors embodies this quest for a living word in practice. The artistic and meditative proposal takes the form of a series of fragments that render in a fragmented way a narrative of traumatic memory, made of holes and blanks. The textual configuration reflects on the one hand the stammering of saying what is usually kept silent, and on the other hand the space that is missing to breathe and heal. In conditions of solitude, of isolation, the voice of writing questions what it takes to create trust and encounter, community perhaps, with whoever receives the words.