Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. / The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between art and religion as found int he thought of Jacques Maritain and Paul Tillich in order to throw light upon the problems of the emergence of tensions and conflicts when art and religion confront each other. Tillich and Maritain are considered separately in the first two parts; in the last part they are brought together for comparison and evaluation. Tillich's position is considered in relation to his notion of the symbol since it is this notion which permeates the whole of his thought and provides the key to his entire system. Religion provides the most significant meaning of, and types of, symbolism; art is one of the most illuminating of all cultural creations in providing insights into ultimate reality. Maritain's concept of art is related especially to his consideration of infused contemplation although other facets of religion are included. Infused contemplation and art are alike in their mode of knowledge (connaturality), superiority, self-sufficiency, and operation by love [TRUNCATED]

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy / In 1990, Derrida added an introduction to his earliest long work, his student mémoire of 1954, which explained that he found in that work a “law” that had continued to impose itself across his oeuvre. This dissertation investigates selected works of the early Derrida, from that first student work of 1954 up to segments of Of Grammology, to demonstrate how Derrida’s “law” developed at least as far as his early system in 1967, as a basis for approach to Derrida’s overall oeuvre. / XL2018

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Esta tesis propone una lectura y evaluación crítica de la propuesta de Jacques Rancière de dar una solución a las tensiones históricas y actuales entre el arte y la política. Para esto Rancière ofrecerá el concepto de régimen estético del arte, que definirá lo estético ya no como belleza o sensibilidad, sino como la indeterminación de lo que es propio del arte que caracteriza a la modernidad. Este concepto servirá para realizar una relectura de la historia del arte moderno y contemporáneo, así como para entender la politicidad del arte de tal manera que no implicará ni una renuncia a la calidad y búsquedas formales de un arte puro, ni tampoco un alejamiento de las contradicciones y antagonismos sociales. Mi objetivo es evaluar esta “solución” investigando más precisamente qué se quiere solucionar, cómo se soluciona y si esta solución está a la altura del problema que se plantea. Para esto divido mi tesis en tres capítulos. El primero es una reconstrucción del debate moderno sobre las relaciones entre arte y política; que me servirá para comprender el estado del problema del arte político al que se enfrenta Rancière. El segundo es una lectura cercana de la obra de Rancière que concluye que su solución se basa en las relecturas gemelas de los conceptos de la estética y de la política, que se relacionan a través de una lógica de la indeterminación. El tercer capítulo plantea una evaluación a este principio de la indeterminación, donde se visibilizan dos problemas teóricos en el pensamiento de Rancière que lo llevan a generalizar el principio de la indeterminación tanto en el arte y la política, lo que termina ocluyendo dimensiones de lo estético y lo político que son importantes para pensar la historia del arte moderno, así como la transformación social. El primero de estos problemas es la deshistorización de las temporalidades específicas que operan en el marco temporal e institucional del régimen estético (la vanguardia, el modernismo y lo contemporáneo) en un solo principio que es, además, políticamente inocuo respecto a la temporalidad del capitalismo contemporáneo. El segundo es un sesgo antisociológico que impide una mayor profundidad sociohistórica a sus conceptos estéticos, así como lo lleva a ignorar la dimensión estética existente en los proyectos políticos. Finalmente, estos problemas también lastran la operatividad política del arte político “ranciereano”, así como la justificación normativa de su teoría de la emancipación. / Tesis

Made available in DSpace on 2019-03-30T00:21:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-12-22 / The present work intends to carry out a historical-philosophical analysis of the doctoral thesis of Jacques Lacan, "Of the psychosis paranoic in its relations with the personality". By choosing as its theoretical-clinical object the paranoia, the author prints an investigation about its conceptual and diagnostic bases proposing a research model that does not involve an organic reductionism as an explanation of the psychopathological phenomena. To this end, he criticizes the notion of personality and the way it is used by medical-psychiatric knowledge of the time. That said, our study intends to investigate before the history of paranoia itself what Lacan's need to rethink the notion of personality to investigate it. Thus, we will first make a historical-philosophical reflection on the foundations of psychiatry, seeking to delimit elements that explain the type of specific investigation of this medical science and how these condition the elaboration of a concept of psychosis. This will be done in the history of the conceptualization of paranoia, pointing out the specificities of this condition and trying to identify which of its characteristics are the object of Lacanian reflection. From this point on, we will discuss the author's needs to rethink the notion of personality in order to investigate paranoia by proposing a theory of the "social genesis of personality", and finally rehearsing the philosophical reach of these propositions. Keywords: Jacques Lacan; Paranoia; Personality; Psychiatry; Medicine / O presente trabalho pretende realizar uma análise histórico-filosófica da tese de doutorado de Jacques Lacan, ¿Da psicose paranoica em suas relações com a personalidade¿. Ao eleger como seu objeto teórico-clínico a paranoia, o autor imprime uma investigação sobre suas bases conceituais e diagnósticas propondo um modelo de investigação que não incorra num reducionismo organicista como explicação dos fenômenos psicopatológicos. Para tanto ele realiza uma crítica à noção de personalidade e ao modo como ela é utilizada pelo saber médico-psiquiatrico da época. Isso posto, nosso estudo pretende investigar diante da própria história da paranoia qual necessidade de Lacan repensar a noção de personalidade para investigá-la. Assim, faremos a princípio uma reflexão histórico-filosófica sobre os alicerces da psiquiatria, buscando delimitar elementos que expliquem o tipo de específico de investigação dessa ciência médica e como estes condicionam a elaboração de um conceito de psicose. Feito isso adentraremos na história da conceitualização da paranoia, apontando as especificidades dessa afecção tentando identificar quais de suas características são objeto da reflexão lacaniana. A partir dai, discutiremos quais as necessidades do autor de repensar a noção de personalidade para investigar a paranoia, mediante sua proposta de uma teoria da ¿gênese social da personalidade¿, ensaiando, ao final, o alcance filosófico dessas proposições. Palavras-chave: Jacques Lacan; Paranoia; Personalidade; Psiquiatria; Medicina

Responding to growing efforts to bring philosophy into K-12 schools in the U.S., this dissertation takes up pedagogical and political concepts used by Jacques Rancière in order to reflect on the motivating principles and limitations of bringing philosophy to schools. Rancière critiques schooling as a mechanism by which socio-economic inequality is justified and argues that academic philosophy, following the rationalist tradition attributed to Plato, is in fact complicit in this justificatory process. Given his staunch position, it might seem that it is impossible to implement philosophy in schools using Rancièrian principles. I argue that there is a practice of philosophy in schools to which Rancière may be sympathetic on a theoretical level. In order to support my position, the principle aim of this work is to provide evidence that Rancière’s works reflect specific critiques and alternative values of both schooling and philosophy that are also represented in the principled pedagogical practice of community of philosophical inquiry (CPI). I begin to think through the possibility of CPI in new and existing schools, as well the way that the notion of possibility itself figures into this line of inquiry. My thesis is that CPI is the philosophical practice most appropriate for schools given the critiques and alternative values of schooling and philosophy shared by Rancière and CPI, but that Rancière may help to inform the way the practice is implemented.

This thesis examines how the fiction of Joseph Conrad anticipates and enacts the elaborate model of subjectivity that is later formalised in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. While modernist criticism has often utilised the work of post‐structuralism in reading key texts of modernism, the complexity and profundity of the conceptual relationship between Conrad and Lacan has not yet been explored in depth. Conrad’s work captures the impact and influence of emerging transnational capital upon forms of the subject in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Further, his fiction is also sensitive to how nascent global capital structures forms of space that the subject is embedded within in their daily experience. I argue that it is the intricate and finely woven theories of Lacan that are necessary in identifying this area of the novelist’s work, as Lacan’s model contends with both the individual psychic structure of the subject, and, crucially, how the individual is located and constituted within the broader matrix of social reality. Using four of Conrad’s novels from his early period to the end of his major phase, the thesis traces the evolution of the various fundamental modalities of Lacan’s subject across Conrad’s fiction. I examine how Almayer’s Folly offers the key tenets of Lacan’s primary model of the subject of desire, while Lord Jim presents the transition of the subject of desire into Lacan’s later mode of the subject of drive. Subsequently, The Secret Agent is shown to critique the role of rationalism in the structuring of the subject’s consciousness, while, finally, I read Under Western Eyes as a tour de force of Lacan’s four discourses. The deep and fundamental relationship between the two figures’ work attests to their acuity in observing the development of the subject in the twentieth century, while the method of theoretical analysis also, on a wider disciplinary level, suggests and helps to confirm the continued validity of the mode of deep reading in literary interpretation.

El objetivo de esta investigación es describir las construcciones teóricas de Jacques Lacan y André Green sobre la transferencia en la cura psicoanalítica. Ambos autores tienen un origen teórico común en tanto sus constructos están basados en la obra de S. Freud. Sobre este punto de partida encuentro dos usos muy distintos de la transferencia en la búsqueda de una cura que mantiene características comunes. La principal diferencia está en que A. Green usa la contra transferencia como parte de su interpretación en transferencia. Mientras Lacan, en el sentido indicado por Freud, descarta el uso de la contra transferencia atribuyéndosela al propio analista. En estos dos usos de la contra transferencia encuentro que para Green el analista reconoce la tremenda influencia que tiene sobre el analizado y la utiliza para buscar su cura, mientras que Lacan propone un psicoanálisis que se sustenta en no usar este poder y orienta su final, su cura, a un analizante que se libera de la influencia del psicoanalista. / The objective of this research is to describe the theoretical constructs of Jacques Lacan and André Green on transfer in psychoanalytic cure. Both authors find a common origin in both their theoretical constructs are based on the work of S. Freud. On this point I find two very different uses of the transfer in the search for a cure that maintains common characteristics. The main difference is that A. Green uses to transfer as part of his performance in transfer. While Lacan, in the direction indicated by Freud, discarded the use of transfer against attributing the analyst himself. In these two uses of the transfer contract I find that for Green analyst recognizes the tremendous influence it has on the analyzed and La transferencia en la cura de Lacan y Green used to find a cure. While Lacan proposes a psychoanalysis that is based on not use this power and orients its end, its cure, an analizante released from the influence of the analyst / Tesis

Tesis para optar al grado de Magister en Axiología y Filosofía Política

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