Reproduction de : Thèse d'exercice : Médecine : Nancy 1 : 2004. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre.

Th.--Faculté de médecine--Paris, 1882.

Relationship satisfaction often declines after marriage or cohabitation and between 40-50% of marriages end in divorce. Furthermore, many couples who stay together report feeling unsatisfied in their relationships. Thus, it is important to examine factors that contribute to enduring and satisfying relationships. One factor that has been closely linked to relationship satisfaction is the sexual relationship of the couple. One aspect of the sexual relationship that has received little attention is masturbation. Although most psychologists hold positive views about masturbation, and recommend masturbation in many instances, the empirical data examining the association between masturbation and relationship satisfaction has mixed findings, with the majority of studies reporting a small negative relationship between these variables. The purpose of the present study was to further explore the association between masturbation and relationship satisfaction, focusing on possible moderators and mediators of this relationship including: masturbation guilt, openness with an individual's partner about masturbation, gender, object of arousal during masturbation, and reason for masturbating. Overall, masturbation frequency did not have a significant association with relationship satisfaction. However, the object of arousal during masturbation and openness about masturbation moderated the association between masturbation frequency and relationship satisfaction. Specifically, individuals who (a) used objects of arousal other than the partner when masturbating and (b) were less open about the masturbation reported a more negative association between masturbation frequency and relationship satisfaction.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2000. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on June 4, 2006). Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-76).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 293-300). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

Le Monde a couvert un dossier sur la proximité d'un 'love-shop', "1969 Curiosités Désirables", à une école le printemps 2012. La Confédération nationale des associations familiales catholiques (CNAFC) et l’association CLER Amour et Famille avaient poursuivi le « love-shop » dans le 4e arrondissement à Paris, plaignant que la vente des sex-toys à 90 mètres d’un collège est une infraction de la loi de protection de l’enfance (2007) qui interdit à la vente des objets à caractère pornographique à moins de 200 mètres d’un ‘établissement d’enseignement'. Le dossier se concentrait sur la signification des termes qui définies les lois aussi que le genre des jouets : ce qui est pornographique, lubrique, etc. La défense, à travers un sexologue, une militante féministe, et le gérant, insiste sur la nature pragmatique et l’espèce créatif de leurs objets, insinuant que le public général et sain – les jeunes aux vieux – profite de leur industrie. « ‘Nous sommes dans une action idéologique’, a expliqué le défenseur, exprimant que « la définition de la pornographie faite par ces associations condamne en filigrane la masturbation ». Ce dossier a inspiré une enquête du plaisir de la vie privée qui, normalement clandestin, tient l’attention du public. Les sex-shops du monde ont subis une grande évolution au cours de la dernière décennie par l’obscène lubrique et vers le pudique, et même le chic. Les patrons ont changé leurs jouets, leur langage, leurs services supplémentaires, même l’emplacement de leurs magasins, tout en effet d’un nouveau sentiment de viabilité. Il semble – et ils disent – que leur but soit de recréer la sexualité féminine en haute voix de la révolution sexuelle et la libération des femmes en France. Et en réponse, ils ont gagné un fort soutient et une nouvelle clientèle par des femmes jeunes et âgées.

La notion freudienne « Das Unheimliche » nous parvient dans la philosophie de Lacan comme « le Réel » qui revient dans le monde. C'est parce que « le stade du miroir », qui rend possible d'entrer dans l'ordre, en réalité, n’est jamais inachevé. L'expérience de morcellement apparaît dans un événement ordinaire et dévoile ce qui est monstrueux et pathologique, ce qui, dans la culture de l'Occident, n’est pas représentable. L'inquiétante étrangeté dans la littérature est un terme qui nous renvoie aux expériences échappant à l'ordre symbolique. Cette expression consiste à ramener à la surface du texte ce que le discours dominant de la puissance et de la connaissance rejette, en le plaçant à la marge de représentation comme quelque chose qui semble être dégoûtant et répugnant (voir l'abjecte chez Kristeva, le maudit chez Bataille ou le monstrueux chez Foucault). Ces avatars ultérieurs de l'inquiétante étrangeté sont présentés avec l'aide de la notion du regard (présente déjà dans l'essai de Freud) afin d’atteindre le point où la scène fantasmatique (de regarder et d'être observé) devient la condition de l'écriture. C'est aussi le moment où le sujet amoureux (décrit par Barthes) permet à son Bien-Aimé d’apparaître dans le geste de l’écriture, lorsque l'objet lui-même dans la logique de l'économie du désir, garde pour toujours une certaine distance. La thèse en question est basée sur les œuvres de Jean Genet et Witold Gombrowicz, deux écrivains qui sont « unheimliche » par excellence. C’est la comparaison psychanalytique de biographies et d'écritures et en même temps la déconstruction de différences et de similitudes présentent dans leurs œuvres. / The Freudian notion of Das Unheimliche comes back to us in Lacan’s philosophy as the Real that returns (to the world). The experience of a fragmented subject appears in an ordinary event, and it shows the monstrous, the pathological, which, in the culture of the West, is always unrepresentable. The uncanny in literature is another term with which we can describe experiences that are incompatible with the symbolical order, and consist in bringing back to the surface of the text what the dominant discourse of power and knowledge consigned to oblivion, placed on the margins of representation, as something that is disgusting and repulsive (see Kristeva’s category of the abject, or Bataille’s the accursed, or Foucault’s the monstrous). These subsequent avatars of the uncanny I show with the help of the notion of the glance (strongly present already in Freud’s essay) so as to reach the moment in which a phantasmatic scene (of looking and being observed) becomes the condition of writing. This is also the moment in which the loving subject (as described by Barthes) makes the Beloved appear in the gesture of writing, whereas the object itself (as something shameful, suppressed), in keeping with the economy of desire, is supposed to remain forever at a distance. The thesis in question is based on the works by Jean Genet and Witold Gombrowicz, that is, the writers who are uncanny par excellence. This is psychoanalytical comparison of biographies, styles of writing, philosophy of life and the deconstruction of differences and similarities of these two writers.

Whereas male masturbation has generally been normalized by being the butt of friendly jokes and a popular subject in romantic comedies, the predominant discourse surrounding female masturbation, both in society and the movies, is silence and stigmatization. However, female masturbation is symbolically powerful because it signifies a female sexuality that is not dependent on male presence. This thesis seeks to explore depictions of female masturbation, specifically looking at how female characters who engage in autoeroticism are stigmatized, controlled or silenced. This thesis will also explore the minority of depictions that show the act as liberating in films like Pleasantville (1998) and Better than Chocolate (1999). / by Megan Tomei. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.

<p>The aim of this study was to investigate the emotions among the staff at the group housings when they observe the caretakers expressions of masturbation and how the staff handles these expressions in their daily and long-term work. The theoretical concepts that were used in this study are group housing as a public and private arena, occupational role, relation, humanistic effort, pedagogical effort, empowerment, care ethic and emotions. The concepts are related to each other and constitutes the foundation for the analysis of the empirical data used in this study. A qualitative study was carried out, in forms of half structured interviews with six informants, of which the majority was women. It came to light that the interviewees only had positive feelings for the caretaker’s expressions of masturbation. The interviewees had different procedures in their daily work, while there were more similarities in how the staff worked in a long-term perspective with the caretaker’s expressions of masturbation.</p>

The aim of this study was to investigate the emotions among the staff at the group housings when they observe the caretakers expressions of masturbation and how the staff handles these expressions in their daily and long-term work. The theoretical concepts that were used in this study are group housing as a public and private arena, occupational role, relation, humanistic effort, pedagogical effort, empowerment, care ethic and emotions. The concepts are related to each other and constitutes the foundation for the analysis of the empirical data used in this study. A qualitative study was carried out, in forms of half structured interviews with six informants, of which the majority was women. It came to light that the interviewees only had positive feelings for the caretaker’s expressions of masturbation. The interviewees had different procedures in their daily work, while there were more similarities in how the staff worked in a long-term perspective with the caretaker’s expressions of masturbation.