Dissertations / Theses: 'Despair'

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Ota, Toyotaka. "The archaeology of despair." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426271.

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Sawatzky, Dana Lynn. "Hopelessness in the social domain social hopelessness, depressive predictive certainty, stress, and depression /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq27321.pdf.

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Lawrance, Scott. "The transformation of despair to empowerment." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26551.

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The purpose of this existential-phenomenological study was to understand the structure of the transformation of despair to empowerment in the context of the nuclear threat. The structure described in this study is the common pattern underlying the experiences of five individuals who had undergone a transformation from despair to empowerment at least two years earlier. For purposes of a literature review, the phenomenon of study was regarded as one instance of the transformation from a constricted limit-situation typified by grief, anxiety and anger, to a broadened sense of meaning and experience of wholeness. Literature which addressed this broad question was surveyed as was research directly related to the nuclear threat. No previous exploration of this particular transformation was discovered. Following a presentation of my own assumptions and experience of this process, I present the findings of an existential-phenomenological study which follows Colaizzi (1978) and Giorgi (1985). The findings consist of themes and descriptions which are uncovered and validated from a series of interviews with the co-researchers. The results show a clearly discernible pattern of growth through acknowledgement, expression, and moving through anxiety and suffering. The process of empowerment is seen as a powerful embodiment of meaning and purpose in the lives of the co-researchers. The study highlights the need for helping professionals to come to terms with the issue of the nuclear threat. It provides a cohesive perspective with which helping professionals can work with clients who are suffering as a result of that threat or a range of other life events which lead to despair.
Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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McKenney, Jackie. "Hopelessness and temperament of youth in residential treatment." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000mckenneyj.pdf.

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Gilding, Jessica Mary. "Despair and empowerment as an environmental tool /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AEVH/09aevhg468.pdf.

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Hughes, Emily Joy. "Thrown Impossibility: The Ontological Structure of Despair." Thesis, Department of Philosophy, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9003.

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This thesis is a phenomenological analysis of the ontological structure of despair. It begins with an analysis of Heidegger’s work on ‘Affectedness’ whereby through the critique given by Ratcliffe it is seen that moods are primordial and condition the way the world can matter to the subject. It then expatiates the phenomenology of despair where despair is ‘lived impossibility as such.’ Explicating the phenomenology of despair then involves subjecting Freud’s essay ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ to a Heideggerian hermeneutic analysis as discussed by Kristeva and Foucault in particular and also Radden more generally. This phenomenology of despair is then drawn into comparison with Heideggerian ‘Anxiety’ and it is concluded that despair is comparable to Heideggerian anxiety when it is subject to a negative existential reduction as put forward by Dreyfus. The final section of this paper then maps the phenomenology of despair onto the temporality of Heidegger’s care structure, ultimately explicating the ontological structure of despair. This involves a close analysis of the radical diminishing of Heideggerian ‘Projection’ or ‘Understanding’ as is reflected in the radical disruption to temporality that occurs in despair, particularly the diminishing of the futural self- the most profound consequence of which is the loss of the capacity to project towards one’s ownmost possibility, that of death. It is argues that death becomes impossible which then means that life itself becomes impossible.

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Řehák, Vilém. "Kazimoto and Meursault: `Brothers´in despair and loneliness." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-97684.

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Makala haya yanashughulikia maswahli ya udhanaishi katika fasihi ya Kiswahili. Makala yanalinganisha riwaya mbili, Mgeni ya mwandishi wa Kifaransa anayeitwa Albert Camus na Kichwamachi ya mwandishi wa Kiwahili, Euphrase Kezilahabi, na kuonyesha jinsi riwaya hizo zinayofanana na zinavyotofautiana. Kwa vile Kichwamaji inafanana na Mgeni, ni sahihi humwita Kezilahabi mwandishi ya udhanaishi, lakini kuna tofauti nyingi pia baina ya riwaya hizo mbili. Tofauti moja ni kwamba Albert Camus anamtazama mtu peke yake na hali yake iliyotengwa kabisa na watu wengine, na Kezilahabi, licha ya mtu peke yake, anaizingatia jamii nzima na hali yake vilevile. Tofauti hii ni tokeo la sifa za communalism katika mawazo Kiafrika ya kimapokeo yanayotilia mkazo jamaa na jami, siyo mtu peke yake
This article analyses and compares the the two writings Kichwamaji by Euphrase Kezilahabi and L´etranger by Albert Camus. Written in the tradition of existentialism, the two writings have many similarities but also differ in some important aspects. While Camus sees the individual just by itself, Kezilahabi also includes the whole family and is writing with it in the tradition of the african communalism

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Meinke, John R. "A study to determine the levels of hopelessness in 18 year old students who do or do not smoke cigarettes." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000meinkej.pdf.

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Wisneski, Patrice. "Hopelessness in adolescent alcohol abusers." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000wisneskip.pdf.

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Saint, Louis Kimberlie. "Haiti: A Nation Fallen from Grace and Into Despair." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/991.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.
Bachelors
Arts and Sciences
Political Science

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Michalczyk, Rachel Elizabeth. "Homelessness: Reflections of Fragmentation & Despair in Our Society." Thesis, Boston College, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/370.

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Thesis advisor: Susan A. Michalczyk
For my thesis I not only looked at the research that has been done on the topic of homelessness, but I also used my first-hand experience from volunteering at Pine Street Inn, a homeless shelter in Boston's South End. Although I focused more specifically on the older homeless population, I also looked at how society perceives the homeless in general. I realized that the homeless are constantly looked down upon by the more fortunate members of society, and that they are seen as some how deserving of their situation. I came to the conclusion that before we can eradicate homelessness, we, as a society, must change out attitudes and perceptions of the homeless. We must view the homeless as individuals, as human beings
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program

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Henning, Stacy Lynn. "Comfort, despair and other matters of scale and perspective." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316622855.

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Hamilton, Kelli. "Pregnancy and its relationship to the level of hopelessness in teens." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998hamiltonk.pdf.

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Nieminski, Cynthia M. "Hopelessness, its impact on at-risk students and a comparison of alternative education programs." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000nieminskic.pdf.

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Laffe, Stacia A. "Eating pathology in relationship to hopelessness." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001laffes.pdf.

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Heidtke, Staci L. "Hopelessness and high risk parenting attitudes in relation to child abuse and neglect." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001heidtkes.pdf.

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Kent, Cinthia Polanco. "Alcohol abuse and hopelessness scores in young adults." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001kentc.pdf.

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Lindsley, Benjamin. "COMPARING CONCEPTIONS OF DOUBT IN ZEN BUDDHISM AND KIERKEGAARD." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1998.

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Benjamin S. Lindsley, for the Masters Degree in Philosophy, presented on APRIL 14, 2016, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: COMPARING CONCEPTIONS OF DOUBT IN ZEN BUDDHISM AND KIERKEGAARD MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Douglas Berger This thesis compares the concept of existential doubt as depicted by Søren Kierkegaard with the concept of existential doubt espoused by Keiji Nishitani in his interpretation of Zen Buddhism in order to ultimately show the conceptual similarities between both traditions’ concepts of negation, reflection, and methods for eliminating doubt. These points of philosophical concurrence will advance the assertion that Divine unity in the Christian tradition and enlightened becoming in the Zen Buddhist tradition both require an existential-doubt-induced annihilation of self-conception, facilitated through a supra-subjective re-orientation, which starts from the standpoint of subjective immediacy and resettles at the ground of absolute nothingness. This explication will serve as a means to guide the existential inquirer through the experience of doubt and offer tangible methods to assuage the maladies which accompany the experience.

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Jackson, Patrick Earl. "This side of despair : forms of hopelessness in modern poetry /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421604231&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-340). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Dison, Naomi Judith. "The power of laments in alleviating despair : revisiting Hebrew laments." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3559.

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Wong, Michelle Grace. "Vicarious futurity : parental hope and despair for their children's future." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28115.

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The current thesis examines vicarious futurity, or the hope and despair that parents have for the future of their children. Qualitative studies describe parents’ hope for their child’s filture as enabling them to find positive benefits from their child’s illness or disability, and the tension between vicarious hope and Vicarious despair motivating parents to strive for a better future (Barnard, 1995; Bland & Darlington, 2002; Herth, 1993; Kearney, 1994; Larson, 1998; Riley, 1997; Schall, 2000). However, there have been no studies quantifying the hope and despair that parents have for their child’s future.

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Nowicki, Andrzej. "Between Hope and Despair: an Australian composer and the environment." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16366.

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To gain insights into the relationships between composer, social context and current environmental issues by creating a body of original works, contextualised by the relevant literature and secondly by reflection on these inter-relationships, especially of the composer’s internal journey, in the form of a personal evaluation or autoethnography.

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Ip, Yee-ting. "The role of hope in buffering hopelessness and suicide ideation." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38572126.

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Olson, Jennifer Leigh. "A study contrasting the levels of hopelessness between adolescents who participate in or do not participate in athletics." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000olsonj.pdf.

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Jull, Barbara. "Psychotherapeutic experiential interventions for activists, examining the Despair and Empowerment paradigm." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0022/MQ51569.pdf.

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Stachniewski, J. "The persecutory imagination : English puritanism and the literature of religious despair." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376025.

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Wood, Robin. "From despair to hope studies in HIV and tuberculosis 1992-2011." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3487.

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Wilson, Douglas 1965. "The ideology of despair : William Faulkner and the metaphysics of absence." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1997. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27635.

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Lindvall, Johan. "The Road to Despair : Hope and hopelessness in the post-apocalyptic setting." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-12947.

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This essay deals with the attitude relating to the portrayal of hopelessness in The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006), and to the post-apocalyptic setting in general. Considering how the seemingly meaningless events portrayed in The Road can be related to the traditional Christian apocalypse, and whether it upholds or discards the values found therein is examined in the essay. Furthermore, after a lengthy analysis of how hope may not be so absent as one might believe at first glance when introduced to such a grim setting, the specificity of the place of The Road and its setting in the post-apocalyptic genre becomes the final part of the essay.

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Pauly, Jason. "Designing Byron's «Dasein»: the anticipation of existentialist despair in Lord Byron's poetry." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21912.

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In the broadest sense this paper exhibits an existentialist impulse in Byron's poetry. More particularly, I examine four of Byron's major works to analyze the similar ways in which his characters become alert to their being through the emotion of despair, and as a result I contend that Byron can be read anticipating the existentialist aim to explore being in terms of angst. Achieving awareness of being through despair means that Byron's characters fall back on nothing but themselves, that is to say, on the presence of their being, which suggests that an embedded ontology is at work in Byron's poetical thinking. This ontology is best understood in terms of his Dasein, which similarly conceives of being by virtue of its presence, its thereness.
Au sens le plus large cette thèse expose une impulsion existentialiste dans la poésie de Lord Byron. De façon plus particulière, j'examine quatre des principales oeuvres de Lord Byron afin d'analyser les similitudes entre les manières qu'ont ses personnages de réaliser pleinement leur propre existence à travers l'émotion du désespoir. Je soutiens donc que Lord Byron peut être lu comme anticipant le désir existentialiste d'explorer l'être en termes d'angoisse. En prenant conscience de l'être à travers le désespoir, les personnages de Byron se rabbattent sur eux-mêmes, en d'autres mots, sur la présence de leur être. Cela me permet de proposer la présence d'une ontologie incrustée dans la pensée poétique de l'auteur. Cette ontologie se comprend le plus aisément par le terme Dasein, qui de façon similaire conçoit l'être simplement en vertu de sa présence.

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McGovern, Cliona. "The coroner's service in Ireland : an analysis of a system in despair." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419590.

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Baseotto, Paola. ""Disdeining life, desiring leaue to die" Spenser and the psychology of despair." Stuttgart Ibidem-Verl, 2003. http://d-nb.info/989622096/04.

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Hama, Ayumi. "Between Hope and Despair: The UN Observer Missions of ONUCA and MINURSO." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1244498516.

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Lilly-Weber, Jeanne M. "Dealing with nuclear-related emotions : an investigation of the despair and empowerment process /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487322984316999.

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Farquharson, Anja B. "The effect of hopelessness on students engaged in pattern misbehavior a replication /." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002farquharsona.pdf.

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Kelly, Rachael. "Wine, despair and women's clothing: gender anxieties in screen representations of Marcus Antonius." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.587495.

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The love affair between Cleopatra and Mark Antony has been the subject of considerable mythological reworking in the 2000 years since their suicides, and the reputations of both have fallen foul to manipulation by Augustan propaganda. As such, Antony is generally represented in popular culture as a deeply flawed character, subject to emotional and physical excesses that are understood in gendered terms as relating to his exhibition of defective or inadequate masculinity. Covering a period of over seventy years, this thesis analyses textual engagements with the Antony-myth on both the large and small screen in an attempt to sketch the progression, in western, English-speaking popular culture, of the representation of masculinities, both idealized and defective, and to situate the screen Antony as a critical meme in the transmission of hegemonic masculinity. Whilst the cultural function of Cleopatra has been widely interrogated by feminist scholars of a variety of disciplines, in an attempt to recuperate her iconography from Augustan invective, this thesis is the first attempt to effect a similar study of Antony's mythologization and function within popular culture. The thesis 'is divided into six chapters, with a separate Appendix. Chapter 1 discusses the roots of the Antony-icon in Roman political invective, whilst Chapter 2 examines two elements of that invective that have been left out of his screen iconography. The third chapter considers Shakespeare's Antony as a cultural template for Antony-on-screen, and the fourth looks at the iconography of his screen narratives. Chapter 5 begins to unpack Antony's modern construction by analyzing his masculine performance alongside the other key male figures in his narratives, and 'the final chapter considers the adaptations made to the legend in the service of making Antony's deficient performance of masculinity intelligible to twentieth and twenty-first century audiences. The thesis concludes by situating these developments along a continuum of changing cultural conceptions of masculinity

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Palattella, Nina. ""We All Wanna Die, Too": Emo Rap and Collective Despair in Adolescent America." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1587048361192438.

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Jutila, Alexander Lee. ""An Abyss of Anarchy, Nihilism, and Despair"| Historical Representations of Anarchists in Britain." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13419186.

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Studies on historical representations of anarchists tend to focus on terrorist depictions and how they compare to the actual activities of the anarchist movement. Using British print media, this thesis explores other political, cultural, and social representations of anarchists in an effort to expand the field beyond a strict focus on terrorism. In addition, this thesis will also investigate the ways Cesare Lombroso and Havelock Ellis shaped discussions of anarchists in the British public sphere.

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Oftedahl, Linda. "Hopelessness and hours of services received by elderly and disabled clients." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001oftedahll.pdf.

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Bordere, Tashel C. ""Caught up" between hope and despair : black teenage males' experiences with death in New Orleans /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3115526.

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Bennett-Powell, Gabriel Anne. "Despair, destruction and creation : a study of the works of Emmanuel Bove, 1898-1945." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404406.

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Emmanuel Bove wrote some thirty novels and short stories between 1924 and 1945. His writing represented a challenge to the 'Belles lettres ', and was celebrated by Max Jacob and Rainer-Maria Rilke, praised by Samuel Beckett and rediscovered by Peter Handke. His work describes a disintegrating society using the perspective of a central character whose experience of the day-to-day is of a hostile world, be it in a family environment or a country at war, that causes physical and mental illness. Bove's work anticipates the Absurd and Existentialist literature, and its expression of ennui is an aspect of its modernity. Previous studies of Bove's work have analysed its aesthetic qualities and its narrative structures, and compared it with the Nouveau Roman, the literature of the Absurd and Existentialism, Russian novels of the nineteenth century and English!American writing of the first half of the twentieth century. In this study, fiction is shown to be a social and psychological archive, representing the rejection and alienation of the subject, his material deprivation and mental suffering. Despair is emphasised as a constant in the threatening experience that is everyday life. The importance of the family and of socio-historical influences on the subject's condition is discussed. The study examines the possibility of redemption by writing, and analyses how the texts give expression to artistic creation as a positive response to the negative experience of the everyday. The thesis claims that Bove's work is an exploration of the human psyche, its experience of trauma and its responses. It analyses the representation of suffering and the causes of the destruction of the individual. The theoretical support for the interpretation of the texts is drawn mainly from the disciplines of psychology and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytical theory underpins also the interpretation of references in the text to artistic creation that is indicated as one of the possible responses to suffering. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part One gives an introduction to Bove's life and work (Chapter I); it places Bove's writings in the literary historical context of the development of novel writing from Dostolevski to the Nouveau Roman (Chapter 2), and discusses the approach of previous critics to Bove's work (Chapter 3). Part Two presents an analysis of the expression given to the despair and destruction of the subject and to the compensatory, therapeutic value of creative writing. Chapter 4 focuses on the mind and Chapter 5 on the body.

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Bhat, Javaid Iqbal. "Romance, Freedom and Despair: Mapping the Continuities and Discontinuities in the Kashmir English Novel." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1459246248.

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Howland, O. F. "Drinking, despair and the state and ethnography of a brewing subculture in rural Kenya." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4686/.

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Home brewed alcohol is responsible for a significant proportion of alcohol related harms across Africa, yet in Kenya where the problem receives much media attention, pombe ya kienyeji (home brew) has been significantly under-researched. Existing research offers limited information regarding the personal stories and daily lives of people within this sub-culture which would inform us about the social and political contexts of alcohol. This thesis is a description of the sub-culture of home-made fermented beers in a rural, geographically isolated and politically marginalised region of southern Kenya. The research was conducted using a mixed methods ethnographic approach including participant observation, focus groups, informal interviews, drawing exercises with children, body mapping, life story interviews and oral histories, community mapping, reflexive focus groups, photography, and the ethnographer working as a Mama Pima (the woman who serves the beer). Research took place over a period of three years from 2011-2014, with around 24 months spent in the field. Home brewed beers are an integral part of the local economy, providing employment and financial independence for many women, enabling them to send their children to school and look after their families. The study uses the concepts of structural violence, and demasculinity, as analytical perspectives to explain and rationalise the behaviour of drinkers, brewers and other relevant actors within ‘Kijiji’, the study site. These chapters make the case that state level structural violence is a precipitator of alcoholism, and that domestic violence witnessed from an early age is normalised in many households. For the women who brew, a climate of mistrust and fear of the authorities pervades everyday life. Focus group discussions shed light on the changing role of alcohol within society and the different meanings ascribed to it since independence. Life stories indicate that violence witnessed and suffered in childhood are precursors to problematic drinking behaviour in later life. There are clearly defined gender roles in production and consumption of alcohol with women primarily undertaking production and sale of brew, and men dominating the drinking scene. A full description of the brews and brewing process, environments, and drinking dens are recorded. Whether actual levels of consumption have increased in real terms is beyond the scope of this study. The empirical results demonstrate that structural violence is deeply embedded in rural Kenyan society and provide an alternative to the commonly held belief that brewers and drinkers are deviant or criminal. Brewers and drinkers still manage to create for themselves a meaningful life within this context and construct realities in which they can express self-worth and respect. This study makes an addition to the existing body of literature concerning alcohol and health in East Africa, and provides a detailed insight into the daily lives and motivations, local realities and challenges for people within the sub-culture of home brew in rural Kenya.

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Herrmann, Andrew F. "“I Know I’m Unlovable”: Desperation, Dislocation, Despair, and Discourse on the Academic Job Hunt." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/754.

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Failure, according to the academic canonical narrative, is anything other than a tenure-track professorship. The academic job hunt is fraught with unknowns: a time of fear, hope, and despair. This personal narrative follows the author’s three-year journey from doctoral candidate, to visiting assistant professor, to the unemployment line. Using a layered account and through a Foucauldian lens the author examines the academic success narrative, delving into the emotional bipolarity during the job search, and the use technologies of the self. It concludes with a reexamination of academic discourses and the canonical narrative of academic success as well as an appeal to continue to do good work.

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Ip, Yee-ting, and 葉以霆. "The role of hope in buffering hopelessness and suicide ideation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38572126.

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Stone, Kristen L. "Rats exhibit behavioral despair and hormonal alterations after social defeat stress implications for major depression /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0017942.

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Winterling, Jeanette. "Hope and Despair : Philosophy of life, expectations and optimism in cancer patients and their spouses." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7580.

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Lindgren, Britt-Marie. "Self-harm - hovering between hope and despair : experiences and interactions in a health care context." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-48505.

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Background The definition of self-harm used in this project is repeated, impulsive behaviour causing tissue damage, yet not intended as a suicide attempt. Instead of wishing to die, the person who self-harms wishes to be relieved from anxiety. The thesis comprises four studies and the overall aim was to describe experiences of care among people who self-harm, professional caregivers, and close relatives (parents), and to explore interpretative repertoires that jointly construct the interaction between people who self-harm and their professional caregivers. Methods The participants were nine women who self-harmed (I), six nurses, three of each sex (II), five mothers and one stepfather (III), and six women who self-harmed in two psychiatric inpatient wards and their caregivers (IV). Data were collected through narrative interviews (I, II, III), participant observations (IV), and informal interviews (IV). The interviews lasted between 40 and 50 minutes (I), between 40 and 65 minutes (II), and between 30 and 85 minutes (III). The observations including informal interviews in study IV comprised 150 hours of descriptive observations and 40 hours of focused observations. The data were analysed using qualitative content analysis (I, II), phenomenological hermeneutics (III), and discursive psychology (IV). Results People who self-harmed experienced care as inferior, not satisfying their needs. The findings presented a paradox; on the one hand, the women realised that society considered self-harm an inappropriate way to alleviate mental suffering, and on the other hand, they experienced self-harm as the only way to survive and to foster hope in themselves (I). Caregivers felt powerless and burdened when unable to identify and satisfy the women’s needs. Feelings of fear, frustration, and abandonment created a significant burden for caregivers (II). Parents’ lived experience of the professional care and caregivers of their self-harming adult children could be described as a hostage drama. As in a hostage situation, parents felt held to emotional ransom by deficient care and sometimes hostile caregivers (III). The interpretative repertoires that jointly constructed the interaction between those who self-harmed and their professional caregivers, were for the caregivers a fostering and a supportive repertoire, and for the women who self-harmed a victim and an expert repertoire. The interactions between a fostering caregiver and a woman as expert or as victim, and between a supportive caregiver and a woman as victim, were complicated and promoted feelings of hopelessness among the participants. Interactions between a supportive caregiver and a woman as expert were more satisfying and raised hope among the participants (IV). Synthesis of findings Hope and hopelessness ran together as a thread of meaning throughout the studies. All participants experienced and expressed hope and hopelessness in various ways. The self-harming women hovered between hope and hopelessness, hoping for help and support, but led back to hopelessness by their experiences in care. The women used self-harm as a way to cope and to maintain hope in themselves. The parents initially had confidence in healthcare and hoped for help. However, their experiences of meeting deficient care often made them feel hopeless. Parents paid an emotional ransom when they accepted deficient care for their daughters. The caregivers felt frustrated, angry, and powerless, and their view of self-harm as an endless behaviour led to hopelessness. However, they struggled to see the women’s abilities, not only their difficulties, and described how they had to try to see self-harm in another way. Caregivers who were convinced that it was possible to stop self-harming and leave it behind were able to bring hope to themselves, to parents, and to the women who self-harmed. The present studies suggest that there is a difference between self-harm and suicide attempts or suicide. Other researchers echo these findings. Conclusions Paradoxically, self-harm usually seems to be a life sustaining act, a way of raising hope in oneself. The importance of caregivers who listen and try to understand people who self-harm, as well as their close family members, is evident. By asking open-ended questions and being non-judgemental, listening, and showing a genuine interest in the person’s lived experience; caregivers can inspire hope in people who self-harm.
Bakgrund Självskadebeteende definieras i denna avhandling som ett upprepat, impulsivt beteende där hudskada uppstår. Avsikten med handlingen är inte att begå självmord, stället har personen en önskan att lindra ångest. Avhandlingen består av fyra delstudier och det övergripande syftet var att beskriva erfarenheter av vård bland personer med självskadebeteende, professionella vårdare och närstående (föräldrar), samt att belysa tolkningsrepertoarer som konstruerar interaktionen mellan personer med självskadebeteende och deras professionella vårdare. Metod Deltagarna var nio kvinnor med självskadebeteende (I), sex sjuksköterskor, tre av vardera kön (II), fem mammor och en styvpappa (III) samt sex kvinnor med självskadebeteende som vårdades vid två psykiatriska slutenvårdsavdelningar och deras professionella vårdare (IV). Datainsamlingsmetoder var narrativa intervjuer (I, II, III), deltagande observationer samt informella intervjuer (IV). De narrativa intervjuerna varade mellan 40 och 50 minuter (I), mellan 40 och 65 minuter (II) samt mellan 30 och 85 minuter (III). Beskrivande deltagande observationer genomfördes, totalt 150 timmar, varav ca 40 timmar var fokuserade deltagande observationer. Data analyserades med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys (I, II), fenomenologisk hermeneutik (III) samt diskurspsykologi (IV). Resultat Personerna med självskadebeteende upplevde att vården var undermålig och att den inte tillfredställde deras behov. Resultaten visar en paradox, å ena sidan insåg kvinnorna att samhället i stort anser att självskadebeteende är ett oacceptabelt sätt att hantera psykiskt lidande, å andra sidan, upplevde kvinnorna att självskadandet var det som gjorde det möjligt att överleva och att inge sig själv hopp (I). Professionella vårdare kände sig maktlösa och tyngda när de inte kunde identifiera och tillfredsställa kvinnornas behov av vård. Vårdarnas rädsla, frustration och känsla av övergivenhet, vilka medförde en känsla av att vara belastad, framkom (II). Den levda erfarenheten av professionell vård och vårdare bland föräldrar till vuxna barn med självskadebeteende beskrevs som ett gisslandrama. Föräldrar till en dotter i en gisslansituation betalade en känslomässig lösensumma när de mötte en undermålig och ibland fientlig vård (III). De dominerande tolkningsrepertoarerna som tillsammans konstruerade interaktionen för vårdarna var en fostrande och en stödjande repertoar. För kvinnorna med självskadebeteende dominerade en offer och en expertrepertoar. Interaktionen mellan en fostrande vårdare och kvinna som expert eller offer, samt en stödjande vårdare och en kvinna som offer, var mer komplicerad och ingav hopplöshet bland deltagarna. Interaktionen mellan en stödjande vårdare och en kvinna som expert var mer tillfredsställande och främjade hopp bland deltagarna. Syntes av resultat Hopp och hopplöshet visade sig vara ”en röd tråd” genom delstudierna. Alla deltagare upplevde och uttryckte hopp och hopplöshet på olika sätt. Kvinnorna svävade mellan känslor av hopp och hopplöshet, med önskningar om hjälp och stöd men deras erfarenheter av vård ingav hopplöshet. Kvinnorna använde självskada som en hanteringsstrategi och som ett sätt att inge sig själv hopp. Föräldrarna hade initialt ett förtroende för vården och hade förhoppningar om hjälp, men deras erfarenheter av att möta en undermålig vård ingav istället en känsla av hopplöshet. Föräldrarna betalade en känslomässig lösensumma när de accepterade en dålig vård för sin dotter. Vårdarna kände sig frustrerade, arga och maktlösa och deras syn på självskadebeteende som något ändlöst ingav hopplöshet. Vårdarna kämpade för att se kvinnornas förmågor, inte bara deras svårigheter och försökte förstå självskadebeteende. Vårdare som var övertygade om att det var möjligt att sluta skada sig och lämna det bakom sig lyckades inge sig själv, föräldrarna och kvinnorna med självskadebeteende hopp. Resultaten från föreliggande studier tyder på en skillnad mellan självskadebeteende och självmordsförsök eller självmord, vilket även stöds av andra forskare. Slutsatser Paradoxalt nog verkar självskadebeteende vara ett livsuppehållande beteende, ett sätt att inge sig själv hopp. Betydelsen av vårdare som lyssnar och försöker förstå personen som skadar sig och närstående är tydlig. Genom att ställa öppna frågor och tala på ett icke dömande sätt, samt genom att lyssna och visa ett genuint intresse för personens upplevelser, kan vårdare förmedla hopp.

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McDonald, Mary Ellen. "Integrity, despair, locus of control and life satisfaction among elderly residents of homes for adults." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41702.

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As the number of elderly individuals in the population continues to increase, the demand for alternatives to group care settings will also increase. Homes for adults represent an example of the diversification of long term care options by providing care to elderly individuals in a setting that is more home-like and less institutionalized than traditional nursing homes. Since previous research is often limited to nursing home residents, the study of home for adult residents offers a fresh approach to sample selection, and provides reassurance that the needs of elderly residents are indeed being met not only in terms of custodial care but also in a therapeutic sense that enhances life satisfaction. In this study, the relationship of integrity/despair, locus of control, and life satisfaction was examined in a sample of elderly persons who reside in homes for adults. The participants were 17 males and 83 females, ranging in age from 60 to 95 and reporting fair to good health. It was hypothesized that elderly individuals who felt in control of their lives would also be more satisfied with life, Additionally, it was proposed that elderly individuals who looked back on their lives and were not satisfied would be afraid to die and would feel little or no control over their lives. Death anxiety, as measured by the Death Anxiety scale (Templer, 1970) was used to define integrity/despair. The indicator of locus of control was the Mastery Scale (Pearlin & Schooler, 1978), and life satisfaction was assessed with the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale (Lawton, 1975). Correlation analysis yielded the following results: (a) the more internal an individual’s locus of control score, the lower the death anxiety score, (b) the more internal the locus of control, the higher the life satisfaction score, and (c) the higher the life satisfaction, the lower the death anxiety score. These findings supported the hypotheses and indicate that elderly individuals who feel in control are also satisfied with their lives and are not afraid to die.
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Reeher, Jennifer M. "“The Despair of the Physician”: Centering Patient Narrative through the Writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523435451243392.

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