[pt] Nesta tese, o texto de Freud intitulado Sobre a transitoriedade (1916a, [1915]) ganha uma nova leitura que permite rediscutir o conceito de consciência e suas relações com a percepção e o desenvolvimento do eu. Na sua transitoriedade a consciência valoriza o caráter passageiro do estímulo, gerando a concentração da iluminação. Este caminho lhe é imposto tanto pelo desejo inconsciente quanto pela percepção. Nas neuroses narcísicas, o enrijecimento da transitoriedade da consciência assume formas distintas, tornando a transferência um trabalho de difícil construção. A possibilidade de pensar o tratamento levando em consideração a transitoriedade da consciência em suas relações com a cultura abre perspectivas para o re-entendimento da clínica psicanalítica. / [en] In this thesis Freud`s text named On transience (1916a [1915]) gets a new reading that allows a new discussion of the concept of consciousness and its relations to perception and to the development of the ego. In its transience the consciousness increases the value of the stimulus` ephemeral character, originating a concentration of enlightening. This path is imposed to it both by the unconscious wish and the perception. In narcissistic neuroses the stiffening of the transience of the consciousness takes on many forms, and the transference becomes a difficult work. The possibility to think therapy taking into account the transience of the consciousness in its relations to culture opens up new perspectives for a new understanding of psychoanalytic clinic.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-03-27T10:41:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 924488 bytes, checksum: 32ccbaf3c96489184f6f4926f7e390c3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-27T10:41:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 924488 bytes, checksum: 32ccbaf3c96489184f6f4926f7e390c3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-07-18 / This dissertation work sought, through the distinctive language of paranoia, a dialogue between the language on psychoanalysis and the language on linguistics. For do this, emphasized the saussurian concepts were important to comprehend the core theme of the subject of a foreign language as absolut, associative relations, syntagmatic, significant language as the social part of language and speech as the distinctiveness of being verbose. Was made a counterpoint to these concepts to the Lacan‘s theory – the unconscious is structured like a language – that identifies the highest primacy the clinic with symbolic as wel as the Lacan‘s last teaching, which speculates about the lalangue, the language of the unconscious. From the delirium, from the perspective of psychoanalysis, was tried to comprehend the constitution of language assomethig external to the subject, and what the outline made by paranoid to do short excursions on their social connections, what is the status of invention and how it‘s thought, being based on saussurean linguistics. / Esta dissertação buscou, através da linguagem particular da paranoia, um diálogo entre a linguagem na psicanálise e a linguagem na linguística. Para isso, enfatizou os conceitos saussurianos que foram importantes para uma compreensão do tema central O sujeito de uma língua estrangeira como arbitrariedade, relações associativas, sintagmáticas, significante, língua como a parte social da linguagem e fala como a particularidade do ser falante. Foi feito a esses conceitos um contraponto com a teoria de Lacan - o inconsciente é estruturado como uma linguagem - máxima que identifica a clínica com primazia no simbólico, como também a clínica do último ensino de Lacan, onde teoriza sobre a lalangue, língua do inconsciente. A partir do delírio, sob a ótica da psicanálise, procurou-se compreender a constituição da língua como algo exterior ao sujeito, e qual o contorno feito pelo paranoico para fazer suas pequenas excursões sobre os laços sociais, qual o estatuto desta invenção e como ela é pensada, tendo base a linguística saussuriana.

[pt] Esta dissertação tem como objetivo demonstrar a proposição lacaniana segundo a qual todo conhecimento é paranóico. Com o intuito de atendermos a esse propósito abordamos tanto o termo conhecimento quanto a razão pela qual Lacan o caracteriza como paranóico. Portanto, examinamos as principais características da paranóia tal como formulada por Freud e por Lacan, bem como a noção de narcisismo e do estádio do espelho. Também apresentamos a descrição fenomenológica de conhecimento como adequação entre o sujeito e o objeto a fim de destacar a dimensão imaginária e especular que lhe constitui, permitindo a Lacan considerá-lo como paranóico. / [en] The intent of this paper it is to demonstrate the lacanian’s proposition that every knowledge is paranoiac. In order to reach this proposition, we studied the term knowledge and the reason why Jacques Lacan defined it as paranoiac. Therefore, we examined the main characteristics of the paranoia described by Freud and Lacan, as well as the notion of narcissism and the state of the mirror. The paper presents the phenomenological description of knowledge as the adequacy between subject and object. According to this proposition, we aim to highlight the imaginary and specular dimension that constitute the knowledge and enabled Lacan to consider it as paranoiac.

Background: Current psychological theories of persecutory delusions appear limited in being able to explain their interpersonal nature. Unanswered questions include why the content of delusions mostly involves persecution by other people. Research into rejection including rejection sensitivity may provide a rational for delusion personalisation and also may indicate how rejection may be implicated in the maintenance of delusions. The aim of this study was to investigate responses to rejection for individuals with a psychosis that includes persecutory delusions compared with controls. Methodology: Participants (22 with psychosis with persecutory delusions, 18 with an anxiety disorder and 19 healthy individuals) played a computerised game of catch (Cyberball). Half of each group was either included or excluded, inducing a mood change in those rejected. Questionnaires were completed to measure mood change, indicating rejection sensitivity. A second task was completed enabling participants to react either antisocially or neutrally towards the game characters. Measures of psychological and demographic variables were also collected. Results: There was a large effect between the excluded and included participants. There was a null finding for the hypothesis that the psychotic group would have higher levels of rejection sensitivity than the anxious and healthy groups. There was also a null finding for the hypothesis that the psychosis group will be more likely to respond antisocially after rejection and make more negative attributions about the game character’s personalities. However, there was a trend for a the psychotic group to be more antisocial after inclusion. Conclusions: The results obtained in the study were contrary to those expected. Rejection appears to be a similarly negative experience for all participants, but differences may be observed behavioural responses with those with psychosis appearing ambivalent to inclusion or exclusion.

A growing body of research demonstrates that paranoia is common in the general population. Four studies are presented that investigate factors associated with paranoia and naturalistic change in non-clinical groups. First, two experimental studies examine paranoia in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma Game (PDG), an interpersonal research paradigm, where two players have the choice to cooperate or compete with each other. The dominant and rational choice for both players is to compete, however each players' individual reward would be greater if they both played cooperatively. Study 1 found that higher state paranoia was associated with the choice to compete. However the competitive choice can be selected due to distrust of the other player, or in order to maximise personal gain. The second experimental study employs a Three-Choice version of the PDG (PDG-Alt) that includes the option to withdraw, the rational choice when distrust of the other player is high. Higher state paranoia was associated with the withdrawal choice. These studies conclude that the withdrawal choice in the PDG –Alt provides a potential behavioral marker of state paranoia. Second, two studies examine naturalistic change in nonclinical paranoia. Idiosyncratic accounts of a single past paranoid experience are elicited and variations in dimensions known to be important in clinical paranoia are examined. Results show that levels of preoccupation, distress, impact on well being and conviction that harm was intentional significantly reduce over time. However the amount of time passed since the experience occurred is not significantly associated with level of change. Finally, in Study 4 a qualitative investigation is presented that identifies themes associated with change in nonclinical experiences of paranoia. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the theoretical, clinical and research implications of the findings.

"Blue & Red" is about sound, sense, paranoia, and experience. When intuition goes awry and projections are shot in all directions the camera and eye can go, poems are bound to be nearby. From beginning to end, the reader may wonder what landscape the wanderlust traveler walks on. Where he may settle. Is he a boy? What is manhood? Has the prince stolen the key from the queen? "Blue & Red" has tautological hair, performance anxieties, and actualizations. Sentimental at times, we remember. Some traumas are daily. "Blue & Red" stands on the argument that if you put all of your heart, soul, spirit, body, and mind, into a poem, the process will yield an art/entertainment for the thinking person. It rests on the fact that love and gratitude are not lost. It rests on intangible things we must agree on. It lastly rests on the autonomy of the free mind.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-74). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-74). Also available on the Internet.

Whether as a distinct cultural form, or as a problem exaggerated and imagined by a paranoid interpretive bent, “rumor” (al-ishāʿa) claims a place in the writings of many Egyptian intellectuals, littérateurs, journalists, and politicians in the twentieth century that has yet to be adequately addressed and theorized. At the intersection of cultural studies and Arabic literature, this dissertation investigates rumor as a fiercely contested mode of reading and writing public culture in Egypt since 1952. Eschewing the legislative trend in the modern social and clinical sciences that has positioned rumor as an object to be combatted, or reduced it to the mechanisms and motives of mass psychology, I examine some of the many ways in which it generates, animates, or interferes with scenes in the lives of social actors as they move between the centers and peripheries of power. Rumor possesses both affirmative and destructive powers, often inseparably, and in order to theorize its complex imbrications with character, community, and culture beyond the urge to evaluative critique, I develop a host of concepts – such as noise, play, paranoia, and parody – capable of bringing this oft-neglected ambivalence into view. Notoriously resistant to analysis, whether due to is conceptual vagueness or ephemeral phenomenological status, rumor and the scenes it makes require a rethinking of the modes of scholarly writing that dominate the humanities and social sciences. A degree of mobility and eclecticism, drawn from the object itself in its flight across history and culture, imbues the organization and style of this dissertation: rumor is the object, and inspires the mode, of my investigation. Each of the three Parts of the dissertation investigates a different field of public culture in post-1952 Egypt. Part 1 analyzes the rhetoric and interpretive practices deployed by state actors in their confrontation with what they call “rumors.” Three historical events are taken as significant: the rhetorical and dramatic performances of the Free Officers in the early revolutionary period (1952-1954), the social scientific celebration of “planning” (takhṭīṭ) in 1964, and the Mubarak death rumors of 2007. While here rumor comes into view as the object of state discipline and paranoid interpretation, the remaining two Parts investigate its role in the performances of artists, littérateurs, and bloggers. Part 2 analyzes the literary texts of Gamal al-Ghitani, which are unique in their simultaneous recording and performing of rumors in Egyptian cultural politics at the turn of the millennium. Finally, Part 3 examines intersections between play, parody, and the paranoid style of interpretation in cyberspace, including an investigation into the blogging campaign “Mubarak Mat” (“Mubarak has Died,” 2008) and Ashraf Hamdi’s response to rumors spun by the counterrevolution (2011-2012). While rumor, across these many contexts, is deplored as a destructive force, it also, I contend, salvages possibility from necessity, explores alternatives to the status quo, and serves as an unexpected catalyst for innovative cultural and political forms. As noise, it creates disorder and generates a new order. It is at once in public culture, and making public culture. / text

Inpatient aggression has been increasingly problematic in psychiatric facilities across the United States and around the world. Psychological assessment measures, such as the Rorschach Inkblot Method, are often used in psychiatric facilities to clarify a patient's diagnostic issues and assist in treatment planning. An assessment measure that could provide information about the type, intensity, and direction of a patient's aggressive impulses would therefore be clinically useful. The current method for scoring aggression on the Rorschach provides limited information about a patient's aggressive drives; Gacono & Meloy have proposed a broader system for scoring Rorschach aggressive content. Thus far, research on this new aggression scoring system has neglected to examine patients with Axis I disorders. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the differences between the types and frequencies of these newer aggression variables, as well as the utility of these scores in predicting aggression in an inpatient sample of depressed and paranoid patients. This sample was chosen based on psychoanalytic conceptualization of aggressive dynamics in these patients. Results of Poisson and negative binomial regressions indicated that there were no differences between the depressed and paranoid groups in terms of the types or frequencies of Rorschach aggressive content. Kruskal-Wallis tests indicated that there were some differences between the groups in terms of the type and severity of behavioral manifestations of aggression. Finally, a logistic binomial regression showed that Rorschach variables did not add significantly to the prediction of the presence of aggressive behavior in this population. Clinical implications, limitations of the study, and directions for future research are examined. / text