This study attempts to interpret Virginia Woolf¡¦s works by appropriating Jacques Lacan¡¦s theoretical concepts, especially the concept of ¡§psychic structure.¡¨ I argue that Virginia Woolf¡¦s psychic structure belongs to the category of hysteria and her psychic structure is revealed in both the form and content of her writing: her writing exemplifies ¡§the hysteric¡¦s discourse,¡¨ one of the four discourses conceptualized by Lacan. I want to further argue that, in her works, the hysterical Woolf can transform herself into the analyst, transforming the hysteric¡¦s discourse into the analyst¡¦s discourse. The thesis is structured in four parts. In the introduction, I will introduce the author Virginia Woolf, Jacques Lacan, review relevant criticisms, construct the theoretical framework, and present the thesis structure as well as my arguments. In the first chapter I examine Woolf¡¦s essay A Room of One¡¦s Own, arguing that, in this text, Woolf hysterically questions women¡¦s lacks in the phallic symbolic order and experiments with her writing to subvert the hierarchal patriarchal society that oppresses women. Woolf, moreover, turns herself from being a hysteric into an analyst, adopting the analyst¡¦s discourse to guide women to explore their desire repressed by the patriarchal society. In the second chapter I examine Woolf¡¦s novel To the Lighthouse, arguing that when writing the novel, Woolf unconsciously betrays her desire to withdraw from the Symbolic and regress into the maternal Imaginary order. Although, on the one hand, Woolf attempts to re-evoke the lost Imaginary mother-child dyad¡¦s unity, on the other hand she unconsciously acknowledges that she cannot paper over the lack and void of being, and this recognition greatly traumatizes Woolf. To understand the fundamental cause of her trauma, Woolf splits herself into both a hysterical analysand and an analyst, adopting the analyst¡¦s discourse to question and explore her repressed desire for the maternal Imaginary order. In the concluding chapter I restate the thesis statement and summarize the analyses of the two previous chapters.

The diploma dissertation involves dilemma of self-perception of one´s body in teenagers related to their self-concept. It consists of the theoretical and the practical part. The theoretical part of dissertation defines personality in general and it also describes the teenage period and its typicall physical and psychical characters including the point of view of some theories of evolution. It also describes dilemma of changes of the body and different points of view of slef-perception of one´s body. The practical part of dissertation demonstrates results of evaluation of self-perception one´s body as well as information about content with physiognomy of one´s body and outer effects which influence the self-perception of one´s body mainly by using the quantitative method. The conclusions pointed to that evaluation of one´s body in connection with self-concept is notable and demonstrate differences and specificities between girl´s and boy´s self-perception of one´s body.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:18:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Flavia Henriques Baiao de Azevedo.pdf: 1230648 bytes, checksum: 9efd5e88e6b1fdbcc295ae7c74385a9b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-08 / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo / This study investigated the effectiveness of a teaching procedure for the acquisition and maintenance of descriptions of two children s own behaviors. These have atypical development and delayed language, but have emited basic verbal operants such as mands, echoics, intraverbals and tacts of objects. The procedure consisted of installing echoing responses of descriptions of actions performed by the participants after the question, What are you doing? . The actions included the handling of selected material as reinforcers in structured situations at school. Eight responses of descriptions of actions for each participant were selected. The descriptive responses involved a description of the action, of the action and of the handled object or of the action and the product of the action. Some responses were similar as they were descriptions of the same action, but with a different product. The presentation of a verbal prompt for each response and the fading out of this prompt were necessary for the teaching of these verbal responses. The fading out was composed of three levels in wich parts of the prompts were gradually withdrawn until the entire prompt was no longer necessary. A multiple baseline design across responses was used. After training each response, a session alternating the trained responses was done to verify if this alternating would interfere in the maintenance of some responses. Tests were applied to verify the occurence of trained responses and new responses to new stimuli and of new responses during new actions. Generalization tests were also used to assess reaction to new settings and new people. A follow-up was done with one of the participants. With the procedure completed, both participants began using the eight responses of description. One of the eight responses selected for each participant did not require training, but were generated during training of similar responses. During the tests, both participants gave trained responses as well as new responses with some new stimuli. During the execution of actions not performed during training, the participants did not give responses of description of their own behavior indicating the need to train for the production of new responses, except when the responses are generated from training of similar responses. Generalizations were assessed in a different setting, to new person and in a different setting with a new person. In the follow-up with one participant held eighty days after the experiment, there was a one hundred percent maintenance of six of eight responses / Este estudo investigou a efetividade de um procedimento de ensino na instalação e manutenção de descrições do próprio comportamento para duas crianças com desenvolvimento atípico e atraso de linguagem que já emitiam operantes verbais básicos como mandos, ecóicos, intraverbais e tatos de objetos. O procedimento consistiu em instalar respostas ecóicas de descrições de ações executadas pelos participantes após a apresentação da pergunta O que você está fazendo? . As ações incluíam a manipulação de materiais selecionados como reforçadores em situações estruturadas em uma escola. Foram selecionadas oito respostas de descrição das ações para cada participante. As respostas de descrição envolviam a descrição da ação, da ação e do objeto manipulado ou da ação e do produto da ação. Algumas respostas eram semelhantes, pois descreviam a mesma ação, mas um produto diferente. A apresentação do modelo verbal de cada resposta e um fading out desse modelo foram realizados para o ensino dessas respostas verbais. O fading era composto por três níveis em que partes do modelo eram retiradas gradualmente até a sua retirada total. Um delineamento de linha de base múltipla entre respostas foi utilizado. Após o treino de cada resposta, foi feita uma sessão de alternância entre respostas treinadas para verificar essa alternância interferia na manutenção de algumas respostas. Testes foram realizados para verificar a ocorrência de respostas treinadas e respostas novas com novos estímulos e de respostas novas durante a realização de novas ações. Fez-se também testes de generalização para novos ambientes e novas pessoas. Um follow-up foi realizado com um dos participantes. Com o procedimento realizado, ambos os participantes passaram a emitir as oito respostas de descrição. Uma das oito respostas selecionadas para cada participante não necessitaram de treino, elas foram geradas durante treino de respostas semelhantes. Nos testes, ambos os participantes emitiram respostas treinadas e respostas novas com alguns novos estímulos. Durante a execução de ações diferentes das realizadas nos treinos, os participantes não emitiram respostas de descrição do próprio comportamento, indicando a necessidade do treino para a produção de novas respostas, exceto quando essas respostas são geradas com treino de respostas semelhantes. Foram observadas generalizações para outro ambiente e para outras pessoas. No follow-up realizado oitenta dias após o experimento com um participante, houve cem por cento de manutenção de seis de oito respostas

Den här studien syftar till att lyfta fram, belysa, tolka och öka förståelsen om hur människan i det senmoderna samhället lever med en medvetenhet om sin ändlighet och vilken mening livet får för dem. Som teoretisk och begreppslig referensram ligger den existentiella traditionen. Empirin utgörs av fem självbiografier som tolkas och analyseras utifrån en hermeneutisk metodansats. Självbiografierna är skrivna av personer som diagnosticerats med en obotlig sjukdom och inträtt i evigheten. Resultatet av studien utmynnade i tre faser. Livet rasar samman handlar om de oerhörda olustkänslor som personerna upplever efter vetskapen om att de ska dö. Här behandlas också de svåra prövningar som kroppens svek, nedbrytning och förändring bidrar till. Sökandet efter ett sätt att leva handlar om hur man efter diagnosen försöker finna ett sätt att leva mot ändligheten. Personerna upplever en grundtrygghet av att få leva så normalt som möjligt, få vistas i sitt eget hem och i betydelsefulla omgivningar. Det mest värdefulla för deras välbefinnande är kärleken, stödet och samhörigheten med nära och kära. Med medvetenheten om sin ändlighet fann personerna livet och det viktigaste blev att leva. Att finna livet i dess slutskede belyser de existentiella tankar och upplevelser som uppstår i livets slutfas. I denna fas försöker personerna finna en väg och tillhörighet in i evigheten. / The aim of this study is to highlight, illuminate, interpret and increase understanding of how humans in the late modern society lives with an awareness of their finitude and what the meaning of life will be for them. As a theoretical and conceptual framework is the existential tradition. The empirical data consists of five autobiographies which will be interpreted and analyzed from a hermeneutic methodology. The autobiographies are written by people who have been diagnosed with an incurable disease and entered eternity. The result of the study led to three phases. Life falls apart is about all the incredible feelings of discomfort the persons experience after the knowledge of their forthcoming death. This phase also addresses the difficult trials that body´s betrayal, degradation and change are contributing to. The search for a way to live is about how one after diagnosis is trying to find a way to live against the finitude. The persons experience a fundamental security in living as normally as possible, reside in their own home and in significant surroundings. The most valuable for their wellbeing is the love, support and affinity with friends and loved ones. With the awareness of their finitude the persons found life and the most important thing was to live. Finding life in its final stage highlights the existential thoughts and experience that occurs in life´s final phase. In this phase the persons tries to find a way and belonging into eternity.

My Thesis occupy the beauty and faulty of the human/s soul according to st. John from Cross and st. Terezie from the Jesus. They write, that for man is important, to his soul united with God and created matrimony. Futher is important, to the man can to pray, can to intimate speak with God. Because God is Lowe and True. Thesis describe, that all humans powers and abilities have to turn to God. And than art of intimate conversation and relation with God isn/t easy, first of all because of largely plenty obstacles of ours world. Futher thesis deal with submission. Each man have to have the submission and then will be id good relation with God. In the next part they write about this, that we have to look (in all things) on the others and help him. I would like to summarize all my work into the one sentence : the man, who live in lowe of God and others and in respekt for God overcome all temptations and obstacles

Eating disorders have been studied from different points of view lately. They have occured in the centre of various psychiatric and psychologic diagnostics and therapy surveys and they have also been analysed as a sociocultural element of our lifestyle norms, our values and image standards. The number of men and women suffered from these disorders cannot be neither compared nor omitted. It is statistically clear that about ten per cent of anorexics and bulimics are male patients. Going West, the number of male patients is increasing. These disorders in men are usually connected with jobs, mostly those such as jockeys, gymnasts and dancers. Bulimia and anorexia are reported as typically women disorders therefore men hardly any time concede they can suffer from this problem and need a specialist´s advice.. The aim of the work has been to map eating behaviour, a lifestyle, physical activities and risk factors responsible for eating disorder incidence such as a distorted view of the body and being on a diet among men between the ages of 15 to 30. A quantitative technique approach using questionnaires was applied. There were stated four hypotheses concerning the relation between body acceptance and physical activities, methods used for body weight control and differences in lifestyles of secondary school students.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:47:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GER - SILA ZUGMAN CALDERONI.pdf: 4541296 bytes, checksum: 5c4af17a5a9270efacb3e402c9cded1d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-09 / The contact with someone s old age mobilizes personal contents in middle-aged professionals dealing with the elderly, which produces effects on these professionals´ own lives. This research aimed at examining in what ways Masters in Gerontology conceive and perceive their own ageing process and future old age in the light of their personal and professional experiences. Interviews were carried out with Masters from the Post-graduate Studies Program in Social Gerontology, at PUC-SP, in the 40-60 age group and working in the area of Gerontology. Through a qualitative approach, the interviews were open and organized in a matricial reading for subsequent interpretation. This study has shown that the interviewees contact with the ageing process and the perspective of their own old age is a source of tension. Although they can already notice signs of ageing in themselves, they have not yet fully realized any limitations in their daily lives, despite half of the professionals interviewed having referred to a feeling of discomfort as a result of the awareness that they will eventually move into the aged population group themselves. Personal and professional experiences, all sorts of crises and suffering which these Masters in Gerontology have been through play a major role in the views and feelings they have towards their own ageing process. Paradoxically, they imagine themselves growing old, but without the limitations that old age brings. The knowledge acquired by the professionals interviewed associated with professional work contributed not only to reduce anguish in relation to their own future but also to produce changes in their daily practices, consequently helping improve their present life and future old age / O contato com a velhice do outro mobiliza conteúdos pessoais naqueles que se encontram na meia-idade e trabalham com idosos, o que repercute sobre suas vidas. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo verificar como os Mestres em Gerontologia pensam e sentem o próprio processo de envelhecimento e futura velhice à luz de seu percurso pessoal e profissional. Entrevistei Mestres, titulados pelo Programa de Estudos Pós Graduados em Gerontologia Social, da PUC-SP, que atuam profissionalmente na área da Gerontologia e se situam na faixa etária entre 40 e 60 anos. Numa abordagem qualitativa, utilizei entrevistas abertas, organizadas numa leitura matricial para posterior interpretação. O estudo revelou que o contato dos entrevistados com o processo de envelhecimento e a perspectiva da própria velhice constitui-se em fonte de tensão. Reconhecem em si sinais de envelhecimento, mas ainda não percebem, em sua plenitude, restrições em seus cotidianos, embora a metade dos entrevistados já refira a sensação de incômodo em face dessa consciência. O percurso pessoal e profissional, as crises e os sofrimentos vividos, permeiam as visões e sentimentos que os Mestres em Gerontologia, na meia-idade, têm em relação ao seu próprio processo de envelhecimento e futura velhice. Paradoxalmente, sem perceber, imaginam-se idosos, até longevos, mas sem as limitações da idade avançada. Os conhecimentos adquiridos pelos estudos agregados ao trabalho profissional contribuíram para acalmar angústias em relação ao próprio futuro e modificar práticas quotidianas, tendo a função de contribuir para melhorar o presente e a futura velhice