Orientador: Léa Maria Leme Strini Velho / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T07:05:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Goulart_FernandaLoureiro_D.pdf: 1592338 bytes, checksum: db946ff59d232c3d18f434016315f624 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta tese se propõe a discutir a demarcação científica por meio do estudo de um grupo acadêmico específico, O Inter Psi ¿ Laboratório de Psicologia Anomalística e Processos Psicossociais, localizado no Departamento de Psicologia Social e do Trabalho do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo. O grupo, ativo na parapsicologia há mais de duas décadas, tem defendido uma nova subdisciplina da psicologia, a psicologia anomalística. Informado pelos estudos sociais da ciência e da tecnologia, particularmente por conceitos vindos da teoria ator-rede, e com base em um estudo de observação participativa junto ao Inter Psi, o texto identifica as estratégias do grupo para construir a legitimidade científica dessa nova área, que incluem a criação de uma epistemologia, a definição das características e limites do grupo, a diferenciação em relação à parapsicologia tradicional brasileira e uma série de ações que buscam o aumento da institucionalização da área. Como conclusões, tem-se que a psicologia anomalística se caracteriza como uma estratégia específica de normalização do estudo do paranormal, mas é muito simplista classifica-la como uma mera repaginação da parapsicologia. A mudança de nome permite um espaço para negociar as fronteiras de diversas áreas, como a parapsicologia, a psicologia social, a psicologia da religião e a nova psicologia anomalística. Ainda, conclui-se que a psicologia anomalística se fortalece ao evidenciar lacunas nos conhecimentos psicológico e parapsicológico atuais. Partindo de uma visão das fronteiras da ciência como constantemente negociadas, esta história do Inter Psi descreve a demarcação científica como questão prática e performativa, apontando que para tornar-se ciência é necessário assegurar um nicho acadêmico, não o contrário. Por fim, a tese argumenta que o caso é de interesse para a política de ciência, tecnologia e inovação ao destacar o fato de que cientistas, gestores e analistas têm responsabilidade a respeito da demarcação científica. Defende-se que uma concepção ainda existente da ciência como neutra dificulta uma política mais consciente da importância de seu papel / Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to discuss scientific demarcation through the study of a specific academic group, Inter Psi ¿ Laboratório de Psicologia Anomalística e Processos Psicossociais (Inter Psi ¿ Laboratory of Anomalistic Psychology and Psychosocial Processes), situated in the Department of Social and Labour Psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo. The group, which has been active in the area of parapsychology for over two decades, has defended a new psychological sub discipline: anomalistic psychology. Informed by the social studies of science and technology, particularly by concepts of actor-network theory, and based on a participant observation study with Inter Psi, this text identifies the strategies undertaken by the group in order to build the scientific legitimacy of this new area, which include the creation of an epistemology, the definition of characteristics and scope of the group, the differentiation in relation to traditional Brazilian parapsychology and a number of actions seeking a deeper institutionalisation of the area. As conclusions, it is to note that anomalistic psychology is characterised as a specific strategy for the normalisation of studies on the paranormal, but it is much too simplistic to define it as a mere renaming of parapsychology. The change of terms allows for the renewed negotiation of different knowledge fields, such as parapsychology, social psychology, psychology of religion and the new anomalistic psychology. Moreover, it is concluded that anomalistic psychology claims become stronger when proponents stress gaps in the current psychological and parapsychological knowledge. Stemming from a perspective that sees the borders of science as constantly negotiated and redrawn, this story of Inter Psi describes scientific demarcation as a practical and performative matter, indicating that, in order to be science, there¿s a need for a group or an area to secure an academic niche, not the other way around. Finally, the thesis advances the idea that this case study is of interest to science, technology and innovation policy as it stresses the fact that scientists, managers, advisers and analysts are responsible, to a degree, for scientific demarcation. It argues that there is a still prevalent concept of science as neutral that hampers the possibility of policy that is more conscious of its relevant role / Doutorado / Politica Cientifica e Tecnologica / Doutora em Política Científica e Tecnológica

My thesis is that many of Tennyson's apparently paranormal experiences are explicable in terms of temporal lobe epilepsy; and that a study of the occurrence, in the work of art, of phenomena associated with these experiences, may be useful in elucidating the workings of the aesthetic imagination. A body of knowledge relevant to paranormal experience in Tennyson's life and work, assembled from both literary and biographical sources, is applied to a Subjective Paranormal Experience Questionnaire, compiled by Professor V.M. Neppe, in order to establish the range of the poet's apparently "psychic" experiences. The information is then analysed in terms of the symptomatology of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), and the problems of differential diagnosis are considered. It is shown, by means of close and comparative analyses of a number of poems, that recurring clusters of images in Tennyson's poetry may have their genesis in TLE. These images are investigated in terms of modern research into altered states of consciousness. They are found to be consistent with a "model" of the three stages of trance experience constructed by Professor A.D. Lewis-Williams to account for shamanistic rock art in the San, Coso and Upper Paleolithic contexts. My study of the relevant phenomena in the work of a nineteenth century English poet would seem to offer cross-cultural verification of the applicability of the model to a range of altered-state contexts. This study goes on to investigate some of the psychological processes which may influence the way in which pathology is manifested in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson. But, throughout the investigation, the possible effects of literary precursors and of other art forms are acknowledged. The subjective paranormal phenomena in Tennyson's poems are compared not only with some modern neuropsychiatric cases, but also with those of several nineteenth-century writers who seem to have had similar experiences . These include Dostoevsky and Edward Lear, who are known to have been epileptics, and Edgar Allan Poe. Similarity between some aspects of Tennyson's work and that of various Romantic poets, notably Shelley, is stressed; and it is tentatively suggested that it might be possible to extrapolate from my findings in this study to a more general theory of the "Romantic" imagination.

This thesis aims to establish Jessica Powers (1905 – 1988) as a metaphysical poet, to augment the composite definition of metaphysical poetry, and to add two emphases to Christian literary theory. A comprehensive library search on Powers reveals that no scholarly work has been written on her poetry since 2005. A meta-analysis of existing work on Powers demonstrates that the metaphysical aspect of her poetry has not yet been comprehensively examined. Though Powers wrote in a time commonly called ‘post-modern’, my contention is that it would be more accurate to describe her as a metaphysical poet in the traditional sense of that term, as used, for example, of George Herbert (1593 – 1633). I endorse the view that the central theme of all metaphysical poetry is the relation between body and soul (Tanenbaum 2002: 211). It will be seen that this relation is the central concern of Powers’ metaphysical poetry. My close reading of Powers’ work as metaphysical is according to a Christian literary theory which agrees with Hass ‘that the study of the text and textual hermeneutics in the twenty-first century will continue because of a particular resurgence of religion’ (2007: 856). It is augmented by two emphases, a scientific (based on Gallagher’s 2009 study of the neurophysiology of attention), and a philosophical (based on Fromm’s 1976 analysis of the ‘being mode’, and on Buber’s 1947 analysis of attentiveness to the present moment). My study thereby contributes to Christian literary theory. There are one hundred and eighty two poems in The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers. This thesis refers, to greater or lesser extents, to one hundred and seventy six of the poems, and comprehensive examination of their metaphysical aspect is the primary focus of the thesis. My examination of the poems demonstrates that Powers’ poetry can justly be described as metaphysical, which definition of her work serves to highlight an important and hitherto neglected aspect of her work, that she is a metaphysical poet of the finest calibre, and that renewed attention to her work is timely. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English studies)

S'inspirant de l'inconscient collectif jungien, « détaché des sphères personnelles, exist[e] en marge de celles-ci, [...] possède un caractère tout à fait général et [...] ses contenus peuvent se rencontrer chez tous les êtres1 », le concept de la psychosphère, tel que présenté dans la télésérie américaine True Detective (HBO, 2014), en est la trame de fond narrative. Décrire l'invisible et l'intangible n'est possible que par l'étude de ses manifestations. Ce mémoire s'intéresse donc aux phénomènes et aux concepts qui rendent possible la représentation de ce que Ralph Noyes décrit comme un « vast and complex cauldron of ideas, memories, volitions, desires and all the other furniture of conscious experience and unconscious mental functioning2 ». Outre les questions plus larges de la généalogie du récit, la poétique narrative de la psychosphère relève essentiellement de l'archive: True Detective fait maintes allusions à la fiction gothique américaine. Celles-ci désignent à leur tour une explication transhistorique d'un retour à la violence ritualisée. Toutefois, cette explication, s'il en est une, demeure fragmentée, incohérente et ultimement différée. / Inspired by Jung's collective unconscious, the concept of a psychosphere, as seen in HBO's hit series True Detective (2014), underlines the narrative structure of the show. Describing the invisible and the intangible is only made possible by the study of its manifestations. This thesis analyses the phenomena and concept which enable the representation of what Ralph Noyes describes as a « vast and complex cauldron of ideas, memories, volitions, desires and all the other furniture of conscious experience and unconscious mental functioning3 ». Apart from broader questions of genealogy, the narrative poetics of the psychosphere are essentially archival: True Detective contains many allusions to previous Gothic fictions, which point toward an trans-historical explanation for the return of ritualized violence. However, any such explanation is fragmented, incoherent, and ultimately deferred.

This dissertation explores the integration of Buddhism and the practice of mindfulness into Western psychotherapy, starting with a sketch of the cultural and historical factors that shaped the beginnings of these institutions, and gives consideration to some of the major themes that have influenced the development of both psychotherapy and Buddhism which have given rise to the current proliferation of interest in Buddhism and mindfulness in the West. A secondary objective is to give voice to the obstacles, criticisms and concerns that have challenged the integration of Buddhism in the West, particularly in the amplification of mindfulness practices, which in having been appropriated into Western culture, have met with consumerism, competition and a culture of narcissism, all of which have subjected the practice of mindfulness to commodification and commercialisation. A revisiting of the original practices of Theravāda Vipassanā meditation to gain a deeper understanding of its original practices opens discussion around how Buddhism could then be selectively adapted, modified and reinterpreted to fit in with mainstream Western psychology, not as a religion, or as a philosophy, but rather as psychotherapy with a defined model and categorisation within a constructivist postmodernist epistemology. A third objective is to critically explore a detailed application of mindfulness as it is currently being applied alongside existing Western psychotherapy to ascertain its true efficacy in a clinical therapeutic context. Finally this dissertation highlights the need to move beyond the Eurocentrism in psychoanalysis by the automatic, unquestioning pathologising and marginalisation of religion and spirituality on the one hand; to the other of Orientocentrism as deification and idealisation of religion and the spiritual quest, on the other hand. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M.A. (Religious Studies)

This thesis aims to establish Jessica Powers (1905 – 1988) as a metaphysical poet, to augment the composite definition of metaphysical poetry, and to add two emphases to Christian literary theory. A comprehensive library search on Powers reveals that no scholarly work has been written on her poetry since 2005. A meta-analysis of existing work on Powers demonstrates that the metaphysical aspect of her poetry has not yet been comprehensively examined. Though Powers wrote in a time commonly called ‘post-modern’, my contention is that it would be more accurate to describe her as a metaphysical poet in the traditional sense of that term, as used, for example, of George Herbert (1593 – 1633). I endorse the view that the central theme of all metaphysical poetry is the relation between body and soul (Tanenbaum 2002: 211). It will be seen that this relation is the central concern of Powers’ metaphysical poetry. My close reading of Powers’ work as metaphysical is according to a Christian literary theory which agrees with Hass ‘that the study of the text and textual hermeneutics in the twenty-first century will continue because of a particular resurgence of religion’ (2007: 856). It is augmented by two emphases, a scientific (based on Gallagher’s 2009 study of the neurophysiology of attention), and a philosophical (based on Fromm’s 1976 analysis of the ‘being mode’, and on Buber’s 1947 analysis of attentiveness to the present moment). My study thereby contributes to Christian literary theory. There are one hundred and eighty two poems in The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers. This thesis refers, to greater or lesser extents, to one hundred and seventy six of the poems, and comprehensive examination of their metaphysical aspect is the primary focus of the thesis. My examination of the poems demonstrates that Powers’ poetry can justly be described as metaphysical, which definition of her work serves to highlight an important and hitherto neglected aspect of her work, that she is a metaphysical poet of the finest calibre, and that renewed attention to her work is timely. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English studies)