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Pettey, Homer Boyd. "Faulkner and fetishism." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184671.
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This study compares fetishistic desires exhibited within Faulkner's fiction to the narrative strategies governing those texts. It surveys Faulkner's thematic and narrative experiments with fetishism from his first poems and sketches through his major novels. His early works, especially "Nympholepsy" and The Marble Faun, capture fetishistic moments of longing and lack of fulfillment, attraction and repulsion. Faulkner's novels, though, re-enact the dynamics of fetishism by means of their narrative strategies; thus, Faulkner achieves a correspondence between the fictional form and the fetish depicted. Because his texts engage us within their shifting temporality and symbolic repetitions, as readers we invariably fall prey to the fetishistic desires his narratives initiate and imitate. Interpretive problems necessarily arise concerning the reader's relationship to the text and desire for meaning. In As I Lay Dying, multiple points-of-view call our attention to the validity of interpretive perception; in Sanctuary, rape operates as Faulkner's master trope for both the characters' and reader's struggles for dominance; in Absalom, Absalom!, writing and reading history are obsessions shared by the narrators and the reader. My readings are informed by several interdisciplinary approaches to fetishism, such as: icon-worship and totemism from anthropology; object and linguistic substitutions from psychoanalysis; commodity exchange and reification from Marxist theories; and sign production and displacement from post-structuralism. Instead of imposing a general taxonomy for fetishism, I have allowed each text's narrative and thematic structures to guide my readings and, therefore, consciously matched my readings to the particular fetishes his narratives engender.
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Wong, Yu-bon Nicholas. "The pomobody body parts, desire and fetishism /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39707507.
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Wong, Yu-bon Nicholas, and 黃裕邦. "The pomobody: body parts, desire and fetishism." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39707507.
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Kocela, Christopher. "Fetishism as historical practice in postmodern American fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38213.
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This study contends that postmodern American fiction dramatizes an important shift of philosophical perspective on the fetish in keeping with recent theories of fetishism as a cultural practice. This shift is defined by the refusal to accept the traditional Western condemnation of the fetishist as primitive or perverse, and by the effort to affirm more productive uses for fetishism as a theoretical concept spanning the disciplines of psychoanalysis, Marxian social theory, and anthropology. Analyzing the depiction of fetishistic practices in selected contemporary American novels, the dissertation utilizes fetish theory in order to clarify the unique textual and historiographic features of postmodernist fiction. It also emphasizes the way in which conventional ideas about history and teleology are necessarily challenged by an affirmative orientation toward the fetish. Part One of the dissertation, comprising the first two chapters, traces the lineage of Western thinking about fetishism from Hegel, Marx, and Freud to Derrida, Baudrillard, and Jameson, among others. Recognizing that traditional theories attribute the symbolic power of the fetish to its mystification of historical origins, Part One posits that poststructuralist and postmodernist contributions to the subject enable, but do not develop, an alternative concept of fetishism as a practice with constructive historical potential. Part Two of the study seeks to develop this historical potential with reference to prominent descriptive models of postmodernist fiction, and through close readings of five contemporary American authors: Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Robert Coover, John Hawkes, and Don DeLillo. The four chapters of Part Two each examine the fictional representation of fetishism within a different theoretical framework, focusing on, respectively: temporality and objectivity in postmodern fiction theory; the interrelation between psychoanalytic theory and female fetishism in novels by Pynchon and Acker
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Wellby, Poppy Loesje Kaitlin. "Fairies, frying-pans and fetishism : fables of femininity." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431437.
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Benson, Tracey. "The museum of the personal : souvenirs and nostalgia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16204/1/Tracey_Benson_Thesis.pdf.
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This research paper examines the role of the souvenir in terms of social relations and notions of self-identity and/or autobiography. Many types of souvenir objects (commercial and non-commercial) are explored as being agents that participate in the construction of identity. Commodity fetishism, nostalgia and fetishism are examined as key elements that define the social relations surrounding the souvenir. The notion of home and family is also explored as a fundamental aspect of how identity is constructed.
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Benson, Tracey. "The museum of the personal : souvenirs and nostalgia." Queensland University of Technology, 2001. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16204/.
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This research paper examines the role of the souvenir in terms of social relations and notions of self-identity and/or autobiography. Many types of souvenir objects (commercial and non-commercial) are explored as being agents that participate in the construction of identity. Commodity fetishism, nostalgia and fetishism are examined as key elements that define the social relations surrounding the souvenir. The notion of home and family is also explored as a fundamental aspect of how identity is constructed.
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Annetts, Alex. "Masculinity and gear fetishism in audio technology community discourse." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/702044/.
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This thesis is a study of audio technology community discourse and its historical features. I contend that the audio technology domain is fundamentally exclusive and hierarchically stratified, based on discursively inscribed prerequisites to participation and enunciation, notably a hegemonic masculine performance, gear fetishism and the articulation of technical knowledge. I show that communities organised around audio technology, socially construct and perpetuate these features as components of their respective discourses. I expose all three elements to be rooted in culturally embedded gender stereotypes, dating back to a nineteenth century dichotomy of public and private space. I present a deconstruction of the complex discursive performances of masculinity and offer opportunities for privileged masculine recordists to critically reflect upon their dominance and homogeneity within the domain as an original contribution to knowledge. In this endeavour, I investigate the emergence and development of exclusive tropes as components of audio technology culture, and demonstrate how they continue to be perpetuated in the face of both social and technological developments that offer possibilities to destratify the community hierarchy and enunciative function. My methodology is based on a comparative discourse analysis of industry and academic texts, as well as the communities that surround and influence the construction of modern audio technology discourse. Case studies are conducted of two leading industry publications: Tape Op and Sound On Sound, and supplemented by an exploration of Women's Audio Mission. I combine these sources with interview material gathered from relevant industry professionals. In doing so, I observe how the audio technology community has maintained barriers to participation, often in the face of technological progress that offers supposed opportunities for democratisation. My work presents an argument against this notion, exposing the supposed democratisation as an illusion of accessibility and thus as mere massification.
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Annetts, Alex. "Masculinity and gear fetishism in audio technology community discourse." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/702044/6/Annetts_2015.pdf.
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This thesis is a study of audio technology community discourse and its historical features. I contend that the audio technology domain is fundamentally exclusive and hierarchically stratified, based on discursively inscribed prerequisites to participation and enunciation, notably a hegemonic masculine performance, gear fetishism and the articulation of technical knowledge. I show that communities organised around audio technology, socially construct and perpetuate these features as components of their respective discourses. I expose all three elements to be rooted in culturally embedded gender stereotypes, dating back to a nineteenth century dichotomy of public and private space.
I present a deconstruction of the complex discursive performances of masculinity and offer opportunities for privileged masculine recordists to critically reflect upon their dominance and homogeneity within the domain as an original contribution to knowledge. In this endeavour, I investigate the emergence and development of exclusive tropes as components of audio technology culture, and demonstrate how they continue to be perpetuated in the face of both social and technological developments that offer possibilities to destratify the community hierarchy and enunciative function.
My methodology is based on a comparative discourse analysis of industry and academic texts, as well as the communities that surround and influence the construction of modern audio technology discourse. Case studies are conducted of two leading industry publications: Tape Op and Sound On Sound, and supplemented by an exploration of Women's Audio Mission. I combine these sources with interview material gathered from relevant industry professionals. In doing so, I observe how the audio technology community has maintained barriers to participation, often in the face of technological progress that offers supposed opportunities for democratisation. My work presents an argument against this notion, exposing the supposed democratisation as an illusion of accessibility and thus as mere massification.
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Weng, Cho-jui. "Pile Up, And Swing Back : Abstract Expressions of Travel Fetishism." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk Design & Illustration, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3664.
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O'Kane, Chris. "Fetishism and social domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno and Lefebvre." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47217/.
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This thesis presents a comparative account of the theory of fetishism and its role in the social constitution and constituent properties of Marx's, Lukács', Adorno's and Lefebvre's theories of social domination. It aims to bring this unduly neglected aspect of fetishism to the fore and to stress its relevance for contemporary critical theory. The thesis begins with an introductory chapter that highlights the lack of a satisfactory theory of fetishism and social domination in contemporary critical theory. It also demonstrates how this notion of fetishism has been neglected in contemporary critical theory and in studies of Marxian theory. This frames the ensuing comparative, historical and theoretical study in the substantive chapters of my thesis, which differentiates, reconstructs and critically evaluates how Marx, Lukács, Adorno and Lefebvre utilize the theory of fetishism to articulate their theories of the composition and characteristics of social domination. Chapter 1 examines Marx's theory of fetish-characteristic forms of value as a theory of domination socially embedded in his account of the Trinity Formula. It also evaluates the theoretical and sociological shortcomings of Capital. Chapter 2 focuses on how Lukács' double-faceted account of fetishism as reification articulates his Hegelian, Marxian, Simmelian and Weberian account of dominating social mystification. Chapter 3 turns to Adorno's theory of the fetish form of the exchange abstraction and unpacks how it serves as a basis for his dialectical critical social theory of domination. Chapter 4 provides an account of how Lefebvre's theory of fetishism as concrete abstraction serves as the basis for a number of theories that attempt to socially embody an account of domination that is not overly deterministic. The critical evaluations in chapters 2-4 interrogate each thinker's conception of fetishism and its role in their accounts of the genesis and pervasiveness of social domination. The conclusion of the thesis consists of three parts. In the first part, I bring together and compare my analysis of Marx, Lukács, Adorno and Lefebvre. In part two, I consider whether their respective theories provide a coherent and cohesive critical social theory of fetishism and of the mode of constitution and the constituents of social domination. In part three, I move toward a contemporary critical theory of fetishism and social domination by synthesising elements of Lukács', Adorno's and Lefebvre's theories with a model of social constitution, reproduction and domination modelled on Marx's account of the Trinity Formula.
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Genovese, Danila. "The tragedy of Islamism in Britain : a fetishism for politics." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2011. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8zy04/the-tragedy-of-islamism-in-britain-a-fetishism-for-politics.
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This dissertation critically argues that the dominant representation of the dominated groups can mirror its way into the self-representation of those groups. Moreover, a fetishism for politics (i.e., a repression and denial of engagement in the political arena) deflects the interaction between the dominant and the dominated groups (in this case, the UK Government and Islamist parties in the UK) and ultimately disempowers them both. This research is an analysis of the discourses and practices of a large number of Islamist parties in the UK over a period of nearly 20 years (1989-2007); a period when they gained public attention during the debates over multiculturalism and the supposed threats to security from the rise of radical Islam. By ʻIslamist partiesʼ, I mean political groups who place their Muslim identity at the centre of their political practices and who see their political future in Islam. Such political groups are not just Muslims, but Islamists. In asserting this, I argue against the commonplace culturalist-orientalist approach that denies and rejects any ʻpoliticalʼ in relation to Islamists. As part of a dominant discourse, this culturalist-orientalist approach consists of a binary view whereby Islam is either a matter of private professed belief or a matter of a terrorist disruption into the Western democratic systems. In response to this stark dichotomy, I adopt a constructionist theoretical approach that sees ʻculturesʼ and ʻreligionsʼ as political acts within the terms of a power-relationship. Practically, I approach the issue based on two years of fieldwork amongst the British Islamists. I have interviewed a large number of Islamists from different parties. For practical and epistemological reasons, I divide them into two groups: the Participationists and the Rejectionists. Participationists are those who are willing to take part in British political life, for instance, by taking part in elections, while the Rejectionists are those who reject the British political system as illegitimate and plan to subvert it. The participationist parties act politically but show a strong reticence in adopting any political label themselves.The explanation for this lies in their fetishism for politics. Taking a collaborative and non-confrontational approach, they choose to remain in the category of the ʻfaith-groupsʼ. Ultimately, this delegitimizes their Islamist quest because it mirrors the dominant culturalist-orientalist discourse that depoliticizes and disempowers them. The rejectionist groups are those with a confrontational approach toward the dominant discourse; they promote an Islamic system as the alternative. They declare that their struggle is aimed at instituting a ʻKhilafahʼ so that the ʻPoliticalʼ is at the service of the ʻSpiritualʼ. My findings indicate that, paradoxically, the exact reverse is true. Their efforts promote a ʻsecularizationʼ of Islam; this is denied (repressed) by the Islamists themselves, and exorcized by the dominant discourse under the label of religious fundamentalism. The ʻfetishismʼ for politics from both the dominant and the dominated distorts their interaction, and is ultimately responsible, both for the political ʻfailureʼ of Islamist parties, and for the string of past and future terrorist attacks. The novelty of my approach has been to analyze the hiatus between the two parties -- the political stalemate and the security threat -- through the convex mirror of repression and exorcism; politics, as discoursed and practiced through the emotional, the visceral, and the de-sacralization of the secular and the religious at the same time. The novelty also lies in providing a new ethnography of a political actor -- the British Islamist -- whose politics has been underemphasized, and who has been much maligned and commented upon from a dominant culturalist-orientalist framework. The new ethnography acknowledges the agency of British Islamists as political actors and argues that they should be represented and recognized as such by the dominant discourse and by the Government. The Manichean representation of these political actors (British Islamists) as either faith groups or terrorists, debilitates the very democratic process and reproduces a recurrent security threat.
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Maiden, Shelby. "The Commodity Club: Commodity Fetishism in Modern Art and Tattoos." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/467.
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The current culture of commodity fetishism that surrounds both modern art and tattoos are disproportionately a part of the perpetuation of an artificial sense of society and community. It promotes the notion that by simply by inking the deeper layers of their skin or by spending millions on a painting that somehow one becomes elevated and enters an elite space, or club, of people like them.
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Booth, Anastasia G. "Playing with me: Feminine perspectives in fetishism and contemporary art." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/114001/2/Anastasia_Booth_Thesis.pdf.
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While many female contemporary art practitioners employ erotic fetishism in their work, the discourse surrounding fetishism is still perceived as primarily masculine. Critical feminist theorists are revisiting the fetish in order to explore previously marginalised and undervalued considerations of female sexual agency. While these theorists hint at fetish's strategic creative application and its ability to question hegemonic depictions of passive femininity, analyses do not articulate how sexual fetishism could be understood as a distinct creative stratagem. In response, this creative practice-led research project renegotiates fetishism as a critical feminist strategy and a distinct creative method in artistic practice.
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Kilic, Adam. "Fetishism and Displacement in John Fante's The Road to Los Angeles." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-78304.
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The Road to Los Angeles, the first novel written by Italian-American author John Fante, is most often recognized as a tale concerned with Italian-American alienation, xenophobia and existence on the periphery of mainstream society. This essay, however, aims to analyze the novel from the viewpoint of fetishism. Fetishism, a motif that constitutes a vast theoretical field in itself, will be analyzed using the lens of Freudian theory and more recent works by critics such as Louise J. Kaplan and Johanna Malt. While fetishism unproblematically can be defined as the misdirection of libidinal energy, and the objectification of a sexual object’s seductive powers, this essay also aims to throw light on the intricate nature and general applicability of fetishism. Fante depicts fetishism as essentially oxymoronic in its presence-absence duality, as instrumental in animating the inanimate and dehumanizing the sexual object. Fetishism, which in many ways shares an affinity with scopophilia and voyeurism, is essentially semiotic and instrumental in projecting the will onto the external world. Moreover, read through the lens of the inherent death drive, as theorized by Sigmund Freud, manifestations of brutal violence and self-torture are seen as direct counterparts to fetishism.
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Herian, Robert. "Equity fetishism : an analysis and theory of civil justice in modernity." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2018. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/359/.
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This thesis argues that the law of Equity is a means to complete justice for stakeholders of capitalism with a desire for and need to believe in the certainty and perfectibility of the symbolic of capitalist reason and logic. By applying a Marxist Freudian reading I claim that stakeholder desire for and insistence on certainty and perfectibility within contexts of Anglo-American, Western, capitalist civil justice is both characteristic of subjugation to the reason and logic of capital, and symptomatic of the power of the unconscious and of fantasy on subjectivity within capitalism. Starting with an account of the Tudor jurist, statesman and Lord Chancellor Thomas More in the sixteenth-century, this thesis explores the long durée of Equity and civil justice, including analyses of the role a neurotic legal community has in defining conscience, discretion and flexibility within the principles, substance and procedures of civil justice upon which the stakeholder relies. Equity, therefore, provides a means for stakeholder's to express their desire for what is missing, what they lack, in the symbolic, and the response to this desire is, I claim, the construction of an elaborate fantasy: Equity fetishism. As a theory of civil justice predicated on a conjunction of law, political economy and psychology, Equity fetishism explains Equity, as a body of jurisprudence, form of private law reasoning, and mode of adjudication, within domains of capitalist civil justice as being determined by fantasy and desire as it is defined by the normative discourses and processes of case-law, legislation and civil justice reform. As a structure in fantasy within civil justice Equity fetishism works in and through institutions such as private property and trusts in order to maintain stakeholder belief in the limitless possibilities of capital accumulation, which in turn maintains stakeholder disavowal of the realities of castration, subjective longing, loss, and limitation in the symbolic. Finally, this thesis aims to demonstrate that Equity fetishism is a vital consideration for critical and mainstream legal scholarship, as both a complementary and countervailing legal theory and discourse that is able to contribute to practical and theoretical legal thinking and education. Specifically, I argue, Equity fetishism accounts for and explains the influence of the vagaries of subjective psychic life on the development of institutions, concepts and practices in Equity and civil justice and, in particular, how these parallel and occur in harmony and agreement with capitalism.
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Hazeldine, Lee Alan. "Fetishism reconfigured : surplus, equivalence and difference within the production of value." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2013. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/2168/.
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Given a post-structuralist critique of the metaphysics of presence within western thought, It is surprising that much contemporary theory that discusses fetishism still subscribes to concepts of substitution and disavowal which uphold a notion of self-present value. This study offers an original critique of traditional views of fetishism via a consideration of the role of surplus and equivalence within the production of value. Rather than describing fetishism in terms of a disavowal of a self-present determination of value, this critique recognizes that what is ultimately denied within traditional accounts is the artificial surplus production upon which its value is premised. An original account is proposed in which fetishism is perceived as an immanent productive process where difference generates signifiers of value. The fetish can be perceived as the means by which established measures of value are both endorsed and transgressed in relation to a restricted economy. This theory supplements the Bataillean notion of the fetish as an untransposable object of desire and considers the implications of a Deleuzean metaphysics of difference. The work of Deleuze offers a means to resolve the contradiction in which the fetish can be perceived as both an instigator and transgressor of value. As such, fetishism is found to be the archetype of value, rather than its substitute. An original contribution to the corpus of Deleuzean theory is made via an understanding of fetishism in relation to the Body Without Organs. Whereas fetishism has been discussed in terms of a reifying tendency, a wider consideration of Deleuze and Guattari’s work allows the notion to be considered from the point of view of transgression and becoming. Such a conception is found to have greater efficacy than current theories in that it allows the fetish to be understood as either a reified or transgressive value.
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Hamzah, Shareena Z. "Fetishism and fluidity : Jeanette Winterson's narratives of diverse pleasure and desire." Thesis, Swansea University, 2018. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40421.
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Jeanette Winterson is an influential and award-winning contemporary British writer whose books combine aspects of philosophy, spirituality, and sexual politics. This thesis explores Winterson’s treatment of the body, gender, and sexuality to examine the fluidity of desire and pleasure, focusing mainly on 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit', 'Boating For Beginners', 'The Passion', 'Sexing The Cherry', 'Written on The Body', 'The PowerBook', and 'The Daylight Gate'. The thesis illustrates the ‘alternative’ fetishism that Winterson consistently presents through the deconstruction of the body and the remapping of gender and sexuality. The study suggests that in Winterson’s work there is queering of fetishism that opens up a new perspective on the psychoanalytical reading of such texts. A queer reading of fetishism is an extremely useful analytical tool and the thesis suggests that insufficient critical attention has been paid to the possibilities it presents. The thesis uses an amalgamation of established and contemporary theoretical approaches to the body, gender, and sexuality to understand the challenge to boundaries that occurs in Winterson’s writing. Psychoanalytical theories from Freud, Lacan, Foucault, and Butler are employed, combined with an interdisciplinary span of contemporary literary criticism from post-structuralist, feminist, and cultural materialist perspectives. The study argues that Winterson refashions discourses of sexuality, identity, and gender through alternative fetishism to demonstrate the existence of diverse and fluid desire in the self and the other. The scope of fetishism in this thesis is not only limited to sex; there are chapters on bodily fetishism, food fetishism, and sexual fetishism. The thesis argues that through images of queer bodies, Winterson’s writing challenges the meaning of gender, sexuality, and identity and opens a new portal in the reading of diverse pleasure and desire as she commingles orthodox, normative, and contemporary notions of ‘fetishistic’ desire to create an alternative view of the subject.
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Blomberg, Kalle. "Financial Fetishism : Neoliberal Power and the Fictitious Sources of the Swedish Economy." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-155294.
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This thesis explores the conditions of neoliberal power through the lens of finance as a specific form of social mediation. Based on the recognition that neoliberal financialisation is mediated by financial forms that are characterised by a high degree of abstraction, the conceptualisation proceeds through an immanent critique aimed at tracing out the social sources behind them. In doing so it seeks to uncover the deep structures that make neoliberal power possible yet which tend to remain misrecognised through the refraction produced by its apparent forms. The highly financialised economy of Sweden serves as the concrete case for examining this social phenomenon. Neoliberal power, it is argued, derives its strength from a deepening fetishism that naturalises the alienated condition of the globalised capital relation, ultimately rooted in the way that money absents its own social source. This absenting gives rise to the false but necessary narcissistic social consciousness upon which the process as a whole relies. The absence of a concept of money’s own absenting in theories of neoliberal power tends to reproduce the detotalizing abstraction that the process itself depends on, with implications for the possibility for transformative change.
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Sorfa, David Ellery. "The fetishism of meaning : disavowal in Kafka, Svankmajer and the Quay brothers." Thesis, University of Kent, 2006. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.544145.
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According to Freud, fetishism is based on disavowal (Verleugnung): the possibility of believing two contradictory propositions to be true simultaneously. This thesis argues that the structure of the sign and of meaning more generally can be understood to function in exactly this way. The sign both is and is not that which it represents. Disavowal offers a theoretical explanation of the functioning of language, meaning and text based on a principle of the simultaneous existence of two contradictory propositions. The fetish is aligned with a series of concepts which, it is argued, have a similar contradictory structure: Sigmund Freud's unheimlich, Tzvetan Todorov's fantastic, Slavoj Žižek's real (incorporating Jacques Lacan's objet petit a and Alfred Hitchcock's McGuffin), Jacques Derrida's différance and Ferdinand de Saussure's sign. Theoretical underpinnings come from psychoanalysis, anthropology and Marxism. There is a consideration of the history of fetishism in philosophy and in film theory. Following the work of Derrida in Glas, an argument is made for the radical potential of the "generalised fetish", defined by disavowal. The thesis explores the action of fetishism in writing and film. Hair is used as one example of a symbolic object to show that an understanding of such a symbol is based on disavowal. The concept of fetishism is then used to explore the way in which the object is represented in the writings of Franz Kafka and the films of Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay. These works provide complex representations of objects on a thematic level while the texts themselves function as just such fetish objects on a formal level. It is the self-reflexive interaction between these two levels that makes these texts exemplary.
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Van, Meter Larry Allan. "The officer fetish." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1366.
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The Officer Fetish examines the fetishized American military officer and the
marginalized American enlisted man as they appear in post-World War II
American film, television, and literature. The fetishized officer, whose cathexis is
most prominent in the World War II-era propaganda film, has persisted as a
convention since the wara phenomenon that has contributed to the rise of
militarism in America. Chapter II lays the foundation of Marxist and Freudian
definitions of fetishism and fetishization, and then gauges those definitions with
two films, In Which We Serve (1942), a standard World War II propaganda film,
and Saving Private Ryan (1997), a film that postures itself as anti-war. Chapter
III examines war narratives as a medium that polices class in American culture.
The military, with its anti-democratic two-tiered rank system, is attractive to
many novels and films because of its strict class boundaries. Chapter IV
examines the degree to which so-called anti-war narratives contribute to
Americas rising economy of militarism.
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Lloyd, Gareth. "Commodity fetishism and domination: the contributions of Marx, Lukács, Horkheimer, Adorno and Bourdieu." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003005.
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This thesis seeks to trace domination theory back to the influential work done by Marx on commodity fetishism. Marx's work proves to be an original account of domination that explains how the dominated many accept the rule of the privileged few. The theory of commodity fetishism develops the idea that individuals come to adopt beliefs that bolster and reproduce the status quo of capitalism. For Marx, the way that individuals experience capitalism is different from the way that it actually works because, in fact, lived experience is actually false. Oppression, inequality and exploitation are thus hidden and the main source of conflict between the oppressed many and the privileged few is obscured. I seek to develop this insight of Marx's into a more comprehensive account of how dominating capitalism self maintains. Lukács' theory of reification explains how capitalism has become all-embracing because capitalism has developed its own type of rationality. This specific rationality shapes thought, which in turn, generates false beliefs that favour the continuation of the status quo. Horkheimer and Adorno argue that capitalism extends its influence by means of its deep involvement in modern culture. Today, culture has become an massive industry which inculcates the logic and principles of capitalism into individuals. For these theorists, capitalism has penetrated all areas of life; experience, knowledge and thought have become extensions of capitalism itself. Marx, Lukács, Horkheimer and Adorno give accounts of how false beliefs are put into practice. Hence the importance of the work of Bourdieu. Bourdieu's theory of distinction describes how the status quo in capitalism is maintained by the behaviour of individuals through their daily acts of consumption. I argue that the consumption of commodities reproduces the status quo in two ways: firstly, establishing an upper-class which takes the lead in patterns of consumption, and, secondly, by creating a middle class that follows its example. Finally, I relate Bourdieu's insights to the theories of Marx, Lukács, Horkheimer and Adorno and Bourdieu in order to arrive at a more inclusive account of how.
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Fallon, Breann. "The Role of Fetishisation in Genocide: Considering genocide propulsion via a religious studies methodology." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23698.
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Fetishisation is considered to be a useless and outdated methodology amongst religious studies scholars. This methodology is weighed down by a lack of clarity, as well as colonial, sexual and racist overtones. In truth, the much more popular notion of Durkheimian Totemism (1912) has left fetishisation in its wake. Scholars such as Roy Ellen (1998) have attempted to resurrect fetishisation as a methodology. Ellen presents the fetish as an that object ceases to be inanimate, transforming into a power conflated with a particular "spirit" (1988, 221), this "spirit" manipulating the individual as well as the community around which it is shaped. Despite this reworking of fetishisation, it still has not been readily drawn upon within the religious studies academy - this is perhaps due to the colonial history surrounding the term. Drawing upon Ellen's attempt to bring fetishisation out of the depths, this thesis shall again attempt to resurrect fetishisation, working through the negative history surrounding the term and applying the methodology to a new area of study. Here, fetishisation shall be considered within the context of religion and violence, fetishisation being used to consider the power of the machete in the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This project utilises primary material sourced from journalistic perpetrator interviews in order to assess if a fetishisation of the machete did take place, causing it to become a manipulating and influencing force. In comprehending the influence of the fetishised machete within the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, this case of genocide will not only be more clearly understood but fetishisation may be truly resurrected as a viable methodology for religious studies scholars.
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MacNeil, Robert. "Neoliberal Climate Policy in the United States: From Market Fetishism to the Developmental State." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23587.
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The research question animating this project is ‘what is the nature of neoliberalism’s influence on recent and contemporary US climate change policy?’ Situating itself against several growing bodies of literature which have sought to underscore the fetishism of markets in recent environmental and climate policy agendas under neoliberalism – e.g., the work of Heynen et al (2007) on ‘neoliberal environments’; Paterson and Newell’s (2010) work on neoliberalism and carbon markets; and the work of Dryzek et al (2003) on state forms and ecological modernization – this project argues that any such analysis must be predicated on a considerably more nuanced conception of (a) ‘neoliberalism’, (b) the historic role of states in fostering accumulation, and (c) the nature of policy development within any specific neoliberal context. Applying these theoretical re-conceptualizations to the American context, the project argues that a central tension informing contemporary US climate policy under neoliberalism can be understood a stand-off between two prevailing logics in the federal policy process: on the one hand, Washington’s attempt to build on its tradition of using state power to foster high-tech market development by cultivating the alternative energy realm as a developmental state project, and on the other, the anti-regulationist bent of neoliberalism which seeks to delegitimize the ‘pull’ policies required to ‘creatively destroy’ conventional energy and animate domestic alternative energy markets. Against the general conception of the US as a ‘climate laggard’ whose policy options are restricted market mechanisms and generally anathema to progressive ecological modernization, this body of work shows how the US has managed to develop a robust set of interventionist ‘push’ and ‘pull’ climate policies along ‘alternative policy pathways’, despite the prevailing anti-state rhetoric of neoliberalism.
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Barber, Trudy Anne. "Computer fetishism and sexual futurology : exposing the impact of arousal on technologies of cyberspace." Thesis, University of Kent, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422230.
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Livett, Kate School of English Media & Performing Arts UNSW. "Subjects, objects, and the fetishisms of modernity in the works of Gertrude Stein." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, Media and Performing Arts, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31931.
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This thesis reopens the question of subject/object relations in the works of Gertrude Stein, to argue that the fetishisms theorised by Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and later Walter Benjamin and Michael Taussig, and problematised by feminist critics such as Elizabeth Grosz, are central to the structure of those relations. My contribution to Stein scholarship is twofold, and is reflected in the division of my thesis into Part One and Part Two. Part One of this thesis establishes a model for reading the interconnections between subjects and objects in Stein???s work; it identifies a tension between two related yet different structures. The first is a fetishistic relation of subjects to objects, associated by Stein with materiality and nineteenth-century Europe, and the identity categories of the ???genius??? and the ???collector???. The second is a ???new??? figuration of late modernity in which the processual and tacility are central. This latter is associated by Stein with America and the twentieth century, and was a structure that she, along with other modernist artists, was developing. Further, Part One shows how these competing structures of subject/object relations hinge on Stein???s problematic formulations of self, nation, and artistic production. Part Two uses the model established in Part One to examine the detailed playing-out of the tensions and dilemmas of subject/object relations within several major Stein texts. First considered is the category of the object as it is constructed in Tender Buttons, and second the category of the subject as it is represented in the nexus of those competing structures in The Making of Americans and ???Melanctha???. The readings of Part Two engage with the major strands of Stein criticism of materiality, sexuality, and language in Tender Buttons, Stein???s famous study of objects. The critical areas engaged with in her biggest and most controversial texts respectively ??? The Making of Americans and ???Melanctha??? ??? include typology, ???genius???, and Stein???s methodologies of writing such as repetition/iteration, intersubjectivity, and ???daily living???. This thesis contends that the dilemma of subject/object relations identified and examined in detail is never resolved, indeed, its ongoing reverberations are productive up until and including her final work.
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Oberlander, Kristin M. "CULTURES IN OPPOSITION: THE BATTLE BETWEEN CORPORATE ORGANICS AND THE ORGANIC MOVEMENT." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1155088707.
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Oyeleye, Ayotunde Akinwale. "Advertising and commodity fetishism : praxis in a peripheral theatre of consumption : a study of advertising in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34607.
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This is a study of the advertising institution in Nigeria aimed to providing insights on the workings of foreign institutions introduced into traditional, pre-capitalist societies through the course of imperialism, in the general process of international capitalist expansion. This study then, represents a specific instance in what is essentially a diverse and complex process of assimilation into a world capitalist economy. In choosing advertising as a suitable medium for the analysis of such a process this study recognises the centrality of the advertising institution in advanced market economies; its increasing operations in developing countries; and the recognition of its role for the sustenance of the constituent consumer culture. The central contention in this work thus, is that modern product consumer advertising represents one of the most useful institution through which we can observe important social changes taking place in society. For Peripheral market economies like Nigeria, with a history of Imperial domination, advertising communication is a useful medium through which the process of cultural assimilation into the twentieth century consumer culture can be observed. In view of this recognition, this study follows the recent approach (in the study of advertising), to place the study on the twin pillars of history and culture in order first, to understand the dynamics of the wider dimensions within which society as a whole, and cultural practice in particular, operate; and secondly, to understand how the nature of these wider dimensions impact upon the workings of society and culture. This study then, involving analyses of Nigerian advertisements as a cultural form and, examination of the wider political economy of the Nigerian society, reveals evidence of social-cultural changes in the traditional patterns of social relations; how these have come about, largely as a result of Nigeria's historical link with international capitalist expansion; the role of local protagonists; and the ways that the nature of a peripheral market economy (including the role of local actors), forster cultural homogenisation particularly through the neglect of culture in National policy orientation, finance and administration.
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Ostrove, Geoffrey, and Geoffrey Ostrove. "The Political Economy of Financially Successful Independent Hip Hop Artists." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12466.
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From 2000 to 2010, America's music industry's annual revenue went from $4 billion to $2 billion. Much of this is attributed to the internet's ability to provide consumers with easy access to free music, and hip hop has been especially impacted by this trend.
Utilizing document analysis and personal interviews, this study found that the success of independent artists has influenced the business strategies of major record companies. In response to a dramatic decrease in record sales, major labels have made more of an effort to sign their artists to 360 deals, which allow the labels to profit from every aspect of an artist's brand or identity.
While some independent artists are the main beneficiary of the profits generated from their music and personal brand, they also reify the commodity-form capitalist system by attempting to turn their music and brand into a fetishized commodity and by turning their audience into a commodity.
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Ostrove, Geoffrey. "Towards a Political Economy of Urban Communication Technologies." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20514.
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By the year 2050, about three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities. Most cities are developed by state or federal governments; however, some cities are developed for the purpose of private interests that plan the city. While the concept of private companies planning and sometimes even owning cities is not a new development, there seems to currently be a rise in this trend, with communication corporations such as IBM, Google, Intel, and Cisco now taking advantage of this growing market.
Known as “smart” or “wired” cities, this new privatized way of planning communities allows major communication corporations to play an important role in shaping the future of our communities. Google, IBM, and Intel are all playing a role in planning the future of Portland, Oregon. By analyzing documents such as planning ordinances, financial reports, and government transcripts, as well as conducting interviews with city planners and corporate employees, this study found that many of the “smart” city efforts being undertaken by these communication corporations are intimately tied to their efforts to bring the Internet of Things (IoT) to fruition. Ultimately, the main goal of these efforts is to utilize urban communication technologies (UCTs) to gather data about community members by tracking their activities. In this emerging personal data economy, identities are the main commodity being fetishized.
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Landström, Katarina. "Financial Crisis and Experience Itself : The Beginning of a Redeeming Story in Iceland." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-255343.
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This thesis explores the experience – experience itself – of the economic crisis in Iceland 2008. This exploration takes its starting point in personal stories that together form a mythic narrative about the crisis in which the causes of the crisis are retroactively invented through the construction of a phantasmagoria. Since the reason for the stories peculiar form – their retroactive invention of the crisis’ causes – cannot be accounted for by the stories themselves, the stories are approached a symptoms of an experience that for some reason is articulated through a myth, rather than with the language of political economy, and this despite the fact that their narrators have experienced the consequences of a collapsed economic system. This thesis attempt to trace and formulate the experience that has given the personal stories illustrated in this thesis their mythic form.
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Silva, Pedro RogÃrio Sousa da. "Fetichismo, ideologia e educaÃÃo em Theodor Adorn." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=17346.
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgicoCoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior
Investigam-se os conceitos de fetichismo, ideologia e EducaÃÃo em Adorno. Para tanto, este escrito à apoiado na pesquisa teÃrica e bibliogrÃfica, mais especificamente, em torno da obra e das diversas categorias filosÃficas, sociolÃgicas e educacionais do Pensador supracitado, como tambÃm de seus interlocutores e comentadores. Delineiam-se, por essa via, o surgimento e a difusÃo do conceito de fetichismo por diversos autores, tais como Charles de Brosses, Marx, Freud e Adorno, entre outros. EsboÃa-se, em seguida, o ponto de interseÃÃo de Marx com Adorno acerca do fetichismo. Discutem-se, com efeito, o fetichismo na mÃsica erudita e o dualismo entre dois compositores â Schoenberg e Stravinsky â bem como o elemento musical e suas correlaÃÃes com o Fetichismo da Mercadoria Cultural em Adorno, mostrando que a investigaÃÃo acerca da mÃsica constitui um problema importante, que implica a contradiÃÃo para o pensamento adorniano. Pesquisa-se, ademais, o conceito de belo, mostrando, de modo sintÃtico, sua propagaÃÃo no curso da HistÃria da Filosofia, bem como a estÃtica contemporÃnea em Adorno, delineando algumas correntes artÃsticas, seus impactos e propÃsitos. Aponta-se outra apropriaÃÃo de Adorno feita em relaÃÃo ao escritor de O Capital, qual seja, o conceito de ideologia, porÃm, feita de modo divergente, e distinta, comparativamente à compreensÃo de Marx. Analisa-se, alÃm disso, o elo entre Adorno e Benjamin, isto Ã, as convergÃncias e as divergÃncias dos filÃsofos alemÃes a respeito de algumas conceituaÃÃes. Averigua-se, prontamente, o tormento de Auschwitz, mostrando sua origem, consequÃncias sociais e educacionais. Discute-se, outrossim, de que modo a EducaÃÃo pode evitar para que Auschwitz nÃo se repita. Examina-se, a posteriori, a crÃtica feita por Adorno à EducaÃÃo portadora de um carÃter instrumental, tÃcnico e quantitativo. De modo contrÃrio, com base em Adorno, pensa-se uma educaÃÃo nÃo idÃntica à lÃgica vigente, recuperando o aspecto da autonomia e da emancipaÃÃo humana. Reporta-se, por fim, ao conflito entre dois conceitos, no Ãmbito educacional â formaÃÃo e semiformaÃÃo.
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Butko, Sami. "Crises, Profit, and Exploitation: A Structural-Marxist Interpretation of the 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38014.
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This thesis explores the relationship between capitalism and exploitation in wake of the 2007-08 global financial crisis and subsequent economic recessions among the world’s most advanced capitalist nations. Starting from the position that not enough theoretical work has been done, particularly within criminology, to analyze the harms caused by crises in capitalism, I argue that a structural-Marxist framework can help fill this gap in the literature. By building a theoretical model based on Karl Marx’s original work on crises in capitalism, the structuralism of Louis Althusser, and as the philosophical materialism of David Harvey, I examine the ways in which the global financial crisis is not the unexpected event mainstream narratives maintain, but rather one that has been over a century in the making. On an empirical level, drawing insight from the Greek financial crisis, the model proposed is deployed to analyze the role that international financial institutions have had in the recent crisis and draw a link between these patterns and the status of modern capitalism, suggesting that the economic trauma we face now is intimately linked to the predisposition of capital (re)production and accumulation. This thesis ultimately underlines the fact that while we are governed by this ‘new’, more aggressive capitalism, it is also ‘the same’ in that Marx’s insights regarding the contradictions of capital accumulation are equally applicable today as they were in his time.
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Somerson, Wendy. "Sexual spaces : narratives of U.S. sexualities in the era of transnationalism /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9331.
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Freitas, Philippe Curimbaba. "Antinomia e expressão : Adorno ante o sismógrafo de Erwartung Op. 17 de Schoenberg /." São Paulo : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/95168.
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Orientador: Lia Vera TomásBanca: Florivaldo Menezes Filho
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Resumo: Este trabalho é uma abordagem analítica do monodrama Erwartung Op. 17 - obra do expressionismo musical composta por Schoenberg a partir do texto de Marie Pappenheim - que parte das reflexões estéticas de Theodor Adorno sobre a obra e sobre o expressionismo em geral, principalmente em sua Filosofia da Nova Música. O primeiro capítulo aborda os dois conceitos de expressão que caracterizam, na ótica de Adorno, a música anterior ao expressionismo: a expressão como simulação de paixões e a expressão como organização total da forma. Cada uma delas resultou, não obstante, em um bloqueio da expressão, decorrente da hipóstase quer seja do princípio formal abstrato, quer seja dos momentos particulares isolados do todo. Este bloqueio expressivo é desenvolvido no segundo capítulo, que aborda a dinâmica através da qual, num contexto de comercialização e fetichização da cultura, a música tende a forjar uma aparente reconciliação entre a parte e o todo, entre o universal e o singular. A música expressionista realiza uma crítica dessa aparência de conciliação e dá lugar ao singular não mediatizado pela forma. Toma, como conteúdo, os gestos orgânicos, os conteúdos anímicos não mediatizados pelo conceito e pela forma e estabelece o registro documental de gestos orgânicos como procedimento formal. Em virtude do seu princípio expressivo, Erwartung se assemelha a um sismograma, que registra os abalos sísmicos. No entanto, o resultado dessa negação dos esquemas formais - tanto temático-motívicos como harmônicos - não é um simples abandono da forma em detrimento do conteúdo, mas um novo tipo de relação entre forma e conteúdo, que é desenvolvido no último capítulo, dedicado à análise musical
Abstract: This research is an analytical approach of the monodrama Erwartung Op. 17 - work from the musical expressionism composed by Schoenberg from Marie Pappenheim's text - which starts from Adorno's aesthetic reflections about the work and the expressionism as a whole, mainly in his Philosophy of New Music. The first chapter approaches the two concepts of expression that characterizes, in Adorno's view, music before the expressionism: the expression as simulation of affections and the expression as total organization of form. However, each one of these ways of expression resulted in a blockade of expression, due to hypostasis either of abstract formal principle, or of individual moments separated from the whole. This expressive blockade is developed in chapter two, which approaches the dynamics whereby, in contexts of commercialization and fetishization of culture, music trends to forge an apparent reconciliation of the part and the whole, of universal and singular. Expressionist music accomplishes a critic of this appearance of reconciliation and conveys the form nonmediated singularity. It takes, as content, organic gestures, spiritual contents non-mediated through concept and form and establishes documentary record of organic gestures as formal procedure. Due to its expressive principle, Erwartung resembles a seismogram, which records the seismic events. However, as a result of this denial of formal schemas - either thematic-motivic or harmonic - we don't see a mere refusal of form over content, but a new kind of relation of form and content, which is developed in last chapter, dedicated to musical analysis
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Mayrhofer, Sonja Nicole. "From ekphrasis and the fantastic to commodity fetishism in the Roman de Thebes and Chretien de Troyes' Erec et Enide." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2940.
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The Roman de Thèbes and Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide are romances of an Anglo-Norman tradition, which were crafted during the second half of the 12th-century. The Roman de Thèbes, most probably created during the 1150s, is an anonymous reworking of Statius' first-century Thebaïd and relates the story of the battle between Greeks and Thebans, which breaks out because Oedipus' sons fight over their inherited lands. Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide, an Arthurian romance, was created in ca. 1170 and culminates with the coronation of Erec as the new king of his lands. Both of these texts therefore deal with questions of land inheritance and were, very significantly, written during important stages in Henry II's career, as it was during this time frame that Henry II (1133-1189) gained dominance in the British Isles as well as in western continental Europe. My thesis will discuss these works separately, devoting the subsequent section to the ekphrastic accounts featured in the Roman de Thèbes. This chapter will focus on mappa mundi and Amphiareus' chariot and will discuss how these moments mirror the ambitions of Henry II during the early stages of his reign. Moreover, the penultimate section will then move on to discuss the coronation scene featured in Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide, with a special emphasis on Erec's robe. This discussion will also examine how this scene mirrors the historical occurrences in of the late 1160s, during which time Henry tried to establish his authority in Brittanny. Ultimately, I will attempt to weave these moments together to provide a comprehensive reading of these ekphrastic accounts.
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Widholm, Madelene. "DEN FYSISKA DRAGNINGSKRAFTEN : En etnologisk studie av människors fysiska agerande gentemot kulturarvsföremål i slottsmiljöer." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-374522.
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Denna kandidatuppsats i etnologi har till syfte att utifrån ett etnologiskt perspektiv förstå den fysiska relation som kan uppstå mellan kulturhistoriska föremål och människor. Bakgrunden till denna studie är museum och slottsmiljöers behov av ”Var vänligen rör ej”-skyltar. Studien har utgått från Kungliga slottet i Stockholm där etnografiska insamlingsmetoder såsom semistrukturerade intervjuer och observationer har genomförts för att tillhandahålla materialet för undersökningen. Maurice Merleau-Pontys tankar om kroppens fenomenologi, teorier om fetishism samt approriering har används som analysverktyg för att tolka och förstå det insamlade materialet. Studiens resultat visar hur människor ger uttryck för en attraktion gentemot objekten. Detta kommer till uttryck genom att de antigen upplever ett behov av dokumentation alternativt ett specifikt rörelsemönster eller ett närmande. Det kulturhistoriska rummet kan även utgöra en fysisk dragningskraft likväl som specifika lösa föremål. Människor vill närma sig objekten för att komma åt det kollektiva värde som objektet har tillskrivits men agerandet kan även förstås som att det finnas en tidigare omedveten kroppslig erfarenhet gentemot vad man tror är ett liknande föremål. Agerandet gentemot objekten kan även tolkas som ett uttryck för ett behov av appropriation. Studiens resultat bidrar därför med kunskap och insikt om relationen mellan kulturarvsföremål och människor. Hur och varför denna relation kan uttrycka sig i ett fysiskt agerande.
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Armond, Fabricio Fernandes. "Autossacrifício: formação e dissolução de si na contemporaneidade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-10042015-124255/.
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Defendemos nesta dissertação que formas radicais de controle de si pela superação do sofrimento físico e das necessidades corporais são respostas subjetivas à configuração do modo de vida social contemporâneo. Modo de vida cujo núcleo está no que autores marxistas chamam de alienação e de fetichismo da mercadoria. Procuraremos examinar o fenômeno que em psiquiatria ganhou o nome de anorexia nervosa ou anorexia mental como uma dessas respostas que, ao mesmo tempo em que renega esse modo de vida, acaba por reafirmar algumas de suas premissas centrais.We intend to defend that radical forms of self-control by overcoming physical suffering and bodily needs are subjective responses to the contemporary form of life. Form of life which core lies in what Marxist authors call alienation and commodity fetishism. We will seek to examine the phenomena in psychiatry called \"anorexia nervosa\" or \"anorexia mental\" as one of those responses that, at the same time denies this form of life, and, on the other hand, reaffirms some of its central assumptions.
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Cervetto, Martin R. "Lo parafilico como estructurador de la ficcion en la narrativa de Felisberto Hernandez." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1423581004.
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Boetcher, Derek Nicholas. "The Art-Union and Photography, 1839-1854: The First Fifteen Years of Critical Engagement between Two Cultural Icons of Nineteenth-Century Britain." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84178/.
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This study analyzes how the Art-Union, a British journal interested only in the fine arts, approached photography between 1839 and 1854. It is informed by Karl Marx’s materialism-informed commodity fetishism, Gerry Beegan’s conception of knowingness, Benedict Anderson’s imagined community, and an art critical discourse that was defined by Roger de Piles and Joshua Reynolds. The individual chapters are each sites in which to examine these multiple theoretical approaches to the journal’s and photography’s association in separate, yet sometimes overlapping, periods. One particular focus of this study concerns the method through which the journal viewed photography—as an artistic or scientific enterprise. A second important focus of this study is the commodification of both the journal and photography in Britain. Also, it determines how the journal’s critical engagement with photography fits into the structure and development of a nineteenth-century British social collectivity focused on art and the photographic enterprise.
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Terry, Lesley L., and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Food, feeding and female sexual arousal." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Psychology, c2010, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2510.
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Feederism is a fat fetish subculture that eroticizes eating, feeding, and gaining weight.
This thesis attempts to explain the practice of Feederism using an evolutionary approach.
Chapter one examines the historical and cross-cultural meaning of fat and its association
with fertility, health, and beauty. Chapter one also reviews the current literature on fat
admiration and Feederism, and introduces some possible explanations for what
Feederism is, and how it can be conceptualized. Chapter two describes a case study that
was conducted on a female member of the Feederism community. The results of this case
study add support to the hypothesis that Feederism is paraphilic. Chapter three describes
a psychophysiological study that tested how members of the general population respond
to and rate feeding stimuli. This study was conducted to determine whether Feederism is
an exaggeration of a more normative and functional mate selection strategy. The results
of this study demonstrate that males and females both respond to and rate feeding stimuli
similarly. No definitive conclusions were drawn with respect to the exaggeration
hypothesis, because, although participants did subjectively rate the feeding stimuli as
more sexually arousing than neutral stimuli, they did not genitally respond to the feeding
stimuli significantly more than to the neutral stimuli. Chapter four summarizes the results
of the two studies and discusses how these finding might inform future research on
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Kao, Kuo-Kuei. "Love in sociological thought : a conceptual genealogy." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2008. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16788.
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This thesis conducts a conceptual genealogy of love in sociological thought. It traces the passage of a positive logic of love: a disappearing logic conceived in Goethe's art, cultivated from the social science of Comte and Marx to classical non/Marxist sociology, and finally extinguished by late/modern reflexive sociology. Recovering the lineage of Comte, Durkheim and Parsons, it defends an economic politics of love in the positivist tradition against the political culture of classical sociology and the bio-politics of current sociology. After the demise of Marxist political economy, it examines a new order of love transversal to the socialist and capitalist organizations. The tripartite thesis argues that the sociological tradition has been tarrying with a social order of love evolved from Goethe's ethic of death and renunciation. This order expresses a disorganizing phenomenology of fate as the modern world traverses from the fated causes. to fatal consequences of love. In the causal loop, the fated-fatal order of love encounters the act, freedom and risk in a multiple unfolding of reality with minimal difference. Part I explores how a religious-political belief of fetishism practiced by Comte and Marx comes across its fate in the historical act. Part 11 explicates why a cultural-political calling for fraternity theorized by classical non/Marxist sociologists runs up against its fate in sexual freedom. Part Ill reveals that a bio-political interest in reflexivity methodized by late/modern sociologists tumbles upon its fate in social risk. In conclusion, however, the thesis suggests that an event of posthumous life after the liberation of humanity continues to occur in a state of emergency because the passion for fate escalating from social science to sociology is driven by an unrequited love of Humanity.
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Ghelere, Gabriela Doll. "Ação, representação e o fetichismo da mercadoria." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-30092014-160302/.
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Este trabalho consiste em abordar o conceito de fetichismo da mercadoria, de Karl Marx, presente principalmente na obra O Capital. Ao fazer essa abordagem, a pesquisa encontrou aspectos de certa teoria da ação que estariam presentes na problemática do fetichismo. As relações entre a ação e a representação formam o eixo que permeia toda a pesquisa. Está dividida em três capítulos. No primeiro, se apresenta o fetichismo como um problema que relaciona de modo muito particular a ação e a representação. Para refletir sobre estes aspectos buscamos, nos capítulos seguintes, alguns pontos da teoria da ação de Aristóteles como a responsabilidade moral, a diferença entre práxis e poiêsis, a divisão entre o intelecto prático e o teórico e a figura do acrático. Tais conceitos são articulados de modo que o fetichismo pode ser visto como um problema de uma teoria da açãoThis work addresses the concept of commodity fetishism, from Karl Marx\'s book The Capital. By doing this approach, this research has found certain aspects of the theory of action that would be present in the problematic of fetishism. The relationship between action and representation form the axis that permeates all research. It is divided into three chapters. At the first, it presents fetishism as a problem that relates most particularly the action and representation. To think about these aspects we look for, in the following chapters, some points of the action theory of Aristotle as a moral responsibility, the difference between praxis and poiesis, the division between the theoretical and the practical intellect and the figure of akratic. Such concepts are so articulated that fetishism can be seen as a problem of a theory of action
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Dock, Samuel. "Un signe à la surface : traversée psychanalytique d’un fétichisme contemporain." Thesis, Université de Paris (2019-....), 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UNIP7104.
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Le fétichisme s’inscrit dans un lignage épistémologique fait d’emprunts et d’assimilations où les disciplines qui s’en emparent se trouvent transvaluées, dans leurs méthodologies et leurs dogmes, à mesure qu’elles s’en saisissent pour penser des phénomènes internes à leur champ. « Paradigme des perversions » pour Freud, « Perversion des perversions » pour Lacan, le fétichisme joue un rôle décisif dans la constitution des appareils théoriques métapsychologiques permettant l’analyse des variations érotiques, mais aussi du rapport du sujet à l’objet dans une acception plus universelle. Ces modèles conservent-ils leur pertinence lorsque le fétichisme n’est plus un item déterminé dans l’espace mais une surface dont s’enveloppe le sujet pour éprouver son corps différemment et en modifier l’image ? Qu’en est-il quand la vocation du fétiche n’est plus seulement de favoriser la jouissance mais s’emploie comme un épiderme supplémentaire mobilisé au quotidien, dans des contextes excédant la sphère sexuelle ? Cette recherche questionne l’utilisation de matières artificielles dans un fétichisme d’allure nouvelle, permis par des évolutions industrielles récentes, non exclusivement érotiques. Des productions qui engagent l’ensemble de la corporéité, de la sensorialité à sa représentativité. Notre méthodologie repose sur une série d’entretiens cliniques et une réévaluation comparative de corpus freudiens, postfreudiens et lacaniens. La spécificité du concept de fétichisme, au croisement de l’individuel et du collectif, nous imposera de faire retour à ses origines sociologiques et anthropologiques, à plus forte raison que ce sont ces disciplines qui aujourd’hui réinvestissent cet objet d’étude délaissé par la psychanalyse contemporaine, pour l’historiciser, en désigner les formes actuelles et leurs soubassements culturels et politiques, en contrecarrer les instrumentalisations normatives. L’hypothèse d’un néofétichisme dont nous remarquons les destins dans la vie psychique du sujet singulier comme au sein la société postmoderne permet dès lors de réfléchir au devenir du concept de perversion, notamment dans l’abord des sexualités minoriséesFetishism is part of an epistemological lineage made up of borrowings and assimilations, in which the disciplines that appropriate it are transvalued, in both their methodologies and dogmas, as they use it to consider phenomena that are internal to their field. “Paradigm of perversions” for Freud, “perversion of perversions” for Lacan, fetishism plays a decisive role in the constitution of the theoretical metapsychological frameworks that renders possible the analysis of the erotic variations, but also the subject’s relationship with the object in a more universal sense. When fetishism is no longer an object determined in space, but a surface in which the subject encases himself in order to experience his body differently and modify its image, do these models retain their relevance? What happens when the vocation of the fetish is no longer merely to promote enjoyment, but is used as an additional epidermis mobilized on a daily basis, in contexts beyond the sexual sphere? This research questions the use of artificial materials in a fetishism of a new aspect, made possible by recent industrial developments, not exclusively erotic. Productions that engage corporeality as a whole, from sensoriality to its representativeness. Our methodology relies on a series of clinical interviews and a comparative reassessment of Freudian, Post-Freudian and Lacanian corpora. The specificity of the concept of fetishism, at the intersection of the individual and the collective, will require us to return to its sociological and anthropological origins, all the more so since it is these disciplines which are nowadays reinvesting this object of study abandoned by contemporary psychoanalysis, in order to historicize it, to designate its current forms and their cultural and political underpinnings, and to thwart its normative instrumentalization. The hypothesis of a neo-fetishism, the fates of which we note in the psychic life of the singular subject as well as in postmodern society, therefore allows us to reflect on the future of the concept of perversion, particularly in the approach to minorized sexualities
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Giazitzoglu, Andreas George. "“Working out our melancholy, our muscles and our masculinities” : depression, anomie, alienation, commodity fetishism, body-modification and masculinity in a de-industrialised Northumbrian town." Thesis, Durham University, 2010. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/342/.
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This thesis is ‘about’ two places. Firstly, it is about Town A, which is a milieu located in South-East Northumberland (UK). Town A was once culturally and socio-economically defined by its coalmining industry. Town A’s last remaining mine closed around thirty years ago; at which point Town A became de-industrialised. Town A’s de-industrialisation, and subsequent, on-going transition from an industrial into a post-industrial economy and culture ‘frames’ this work and its dialectics. Secondly, this research is about Gym D, which is a gym that is located in Town A. Gym D attracts the areas’ ‘hard core’ (as distinct from casual) body-building community. Steroid use is rife among the gym’s close-knit community. This thesis proposes that three typologies of working class males have co-evolved and currently co-exist in Town A and use Gym D. These typologies, as I have labelled them, are the Drifters’, the Changers’ and the Traditionalists’. The three groups have all been ‘constructed’ by different cultural habitus’ that have entered and now operate in Town A. The Drifters’ are all consensually unemployed. The Drifters share an anti-work ethic, and rely upon the Welfare state’s benefit systems for their survival. The Drifters constitute Town A’s ‘Chav’, ‘underclass’ culture and masculinity. In contrast, the Changers are all embourgeoised individuals, who aspire to be ‘middleclass’, global, yuppie men. The Changers dress and act differently to other users of Gym D and also socialise in Newcastle’s ‘fantasy spaces’, instead of the ‘rough’ spaces in and around Town A. The Changers all work in white-collar, post-industrial jobs; many of them have been to university. The Changers have thus successfully assimilated into the North-East’s emerging post-industrial economy. Simultaneously, the Traditionalists’ manage to retain Town A’s ‘traditional’, coalmining, artisan identity and lifestyle; despite such becoming increasingly obsolete. The Traditionalists’ all endeavour to perform ‘proper’, ‘hard’ (blue collar) jobs; and continue to live and act as the Town A miner stereotypically did, particularly during their leisure lives. Epistemologically, this work does three things. Firstly, this work examines the contrasting ways that the three typologies of life identified in this research: 1) experience a disjunction in their lives between ‘how things are’ and ‘how things should be’; 2) work/labour (or fail to work), 3) spend money/buy commodities. By so doing, this work considers how relevant the theories of anomie, alienation and commodity fetishism are to users of Gym D today. I consider how the ‘mass sadness’ that afflicts my participants’ lived experiences can be accounted for and contextualised by the theories. Secondly, this work considers how my participants’ ‘gym labour’ and ‘commodity bodies’ relates to their experiences of anomie, alienation and commodity fetishism. I ask ‘does my participants’ involvement with Gym D alleviate or extend their psycho-social depression’? Thirdly, this work considers how the ‘commodity bodies’ that my participants’ have constructed in Gym D relates to their existences and identities at a semiotic level. I suggest that my participants’ modified bodies act as communicative devices in their existences, which denote metaphoric and social information about my participant groups’, within their distinctive, subjective cultural experiences. This thesis is a product of the phenomenological tradition. Its arguments are substantiated by a series of qualitative interviews and a period of ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted ‘on’ my participants.
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Arrivé, Éric. "Les dynamiques du fétichisme numérique : le cas Bitcoin." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2084.
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Notre recherche part du constat empirique de l’omniprésence et de l’extension permanente des techniques numériques dans des domaines variés de la vie sociale contemporaine, et ce alors que ces techniques ne se déploient tous azimuts que depuis le tournant des années 1960. Jusqu’à cette date, leur conception et leur mise au point étaient menées en vue d’améliorer la productivité de tâches calculatoires bien spécifiques, dans les domaines scientifique, militaire et statistique. Ce constat d’un déferlement numérique nous amène à nous interroger sur les ressorts de sa dynamique, notamment en lien avec ceux de la production marchande qui constitue le contexte particulier de son avènement. Notre démarche consiste à concevoir un modèle socio-technique de l’informatique qui puisse rendre compte de ces spécificités et qui s’appuie sur une analyse formelle des propriétés de la machine au coeur de l’informatique, à savoir l’ordinateur, que nous caractérisons par la forme bifide abstrait/concret de son fonctionnement. Après avoir fixé le cadre théorique dans lequel peut être saisi la rencontre entre numérique et capital, il s’agira pour nous de proposer une mise à l’épreuve de ce cadre sur des objets qui animent aujourd’hui les débats au sein des sciences de l’information et de la communication, avec l’étude de cas d’une application numérique démarrée en 2009 et qui a initiée une nouvelle classe de plateformes, à savoir respectivement Bitcoin et les cryptomonnaiesOur research starts from the empirical observation of the omnipresence and the permanent extension of the digital techniques in various domains of the contemporary social life, and that these techniques spread all over the place since the turn of the 1960s. At that time, their design and development was carried out with a view to improving the productivity of very specific computational tasks in the scientific, military and statistical fields. This observation of a digital surge leads us to question its dynamics, particularly in relation to those of commodity production which constitutes the particular context of its advent. Our approach is to design a socio-technical model of computing that can account for these features and which is based on a formal analysis of the properties of the machine at the heart of computing, namely the computer, which wecharacterize by the simultaneous abstract and concrete forms of its running. After having set up the theoretical framework in which the meeting between digital and capital can be grasped, it will be for us to propose a test of this framework on objects that animate the debates today in the information and communication sciences, with the case study of Bitcoin, a digital application started in 2009 and which initiated cryptocurrencies as a new class of platforms
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Silva, Marco Aurélio de Carvalho. "Fetichismo e masoquismo: dois paradigmas da estrutura perversa." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5262.
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O objeto desta pesquisa é a estrutura perversão e seus desdobramentos na relação com o gozo, abarcando o fetichismo e o masoquismo como os dois paradigmas dessa estrutura. Seu objetivo central é investigar como a Verleugnung e o gozo se conjugam para manter as duas modalidades de gozo perverso acima descritas. Seus objetivos complementares procuram estabelecer a genealogia do pai em Freud e a intrínseca relação que o Urvater possui com a fantasia perversa. A primeira parte da dissertação versa sobre a perversão como estrutura clínica, elaboração proposta por Jacques Lacan. Nela é discutida a questão do simbólico, onde uma lei opera para que o discurso seja o veículo através do qual um diagnóstico em psicanálise seja proposto. Do simbólico, a dissertação concentra-se no gozo, no capítulo seguinte, a fim de elaborar de uma diferença estrutural mais fidedigna entre neurose, psicose e perversão. Em seguida, a pesquisa entra na questão da Verleugung do gozo como uma possível aproximação entre o fetichismo e o masoquismo como paradigmas da estrutura perversa.The object of this research aims to investigate perversion and its implications in its relation to jouissance, encompassing fetishism and masochism as the two paradigms of perversion. Its main objective centers upon the investigation of how Verleugnung and jouissance, combined, act to keep the two paradigms, aforementioned, the key references to perversion. Its second objective relies upon the establishment of the genealogy of the father in Freuds work as well as its intrinsic relation to what role Urvater plays in the perverse fantasy. In the first part of the research, emphasis is given to perversion as a structure, a theory proposed by Jacques Lacan. Still in this part of the investigation, the realm of the symbolic is depicted in order to enhance the law that operates in a discourse, a vehicle by which a psychoanalytic diagnosis is proposed. From the symbolic realm, the research centers upon Jouissance, in chapter two, so as to elaborate a more accurate strucutural diagnosis among neurosis, psychosis and perversion. Last but not least, the research investigates the Verleugnung of Jouisance as a possible approach to place both fetishism and masochism under the same paradigm of perversion.
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Lundgren, Lotten. "The Swedish bilberry industry : a case study on food commodification and spatial irrationalities." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-193898.
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Bonny, Pierre. "Les prises de risque sexuel liées au VIH-sida chez les gays : pari inconscient et logique fétichiste du désir." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00731618.
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L'objectif de cette thèse est de repérer les mécanismes psychopathologiques inconscients susceptibles de conduire des sujets gays à prendre des risques par rapport au VIH/sida. D'un point de vue épidémiologique, les homosexuels masculins constituent en effet la " population " la plus touchée par cette épidémie en France. Or, les études de psychologie comportementale et de sociologie constructionniste déjà menées sur ce sujet sont limitées dans leur analyse par des présupposés rationalistes et des méthodologies directives. En partenariat avec des associations de lutte contre le sida, nous avons mené des entretiens basés sur l'association libre, le transfert, et analysés à l'aune du signifiant selon les enseignements de Freud et de Lacan. S'en dégage un savoir inédit, propre à chaque sujet, et qui traverse l'ensemble des cas. Le moment de bascule dans le risque intervient comme une tentative de séparation par rapport à une problématique inconsciente dans laquelle le sujet se vit aliéné. Cette problématique a pour fondement structural le rejet du phallus du don dans l'Autre, auquel le sujet se vit réduit lors de ruptures amoureuses ou quand la réalisation de soi dans une pratique artistique devient impossible. Dans ces contextes, le sida fait l'objet d'une fétichisation, susceptible de mortifier davantage encore le sujet. Mais en lui redonnant la parole là où elle lui a manqué dans l'acte, des entretiens orientés par la psychanalyse sont à mêmes de le détourner du risque. Par rapport à ces cas de structure fétichiste, des cas de psychose sont enfin discutés, qui permettent d'envisager une clinique continuiste des suppléances au manque dans l'Autre
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Carvalho, Diego Pedrosa. "Fetichismo, regressão e mal-estar: uma interlocução entre Adorno e Freud sobre o estado da cultura." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2016. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1761.
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A Europa do início do século XX, marcada, sobretudo, pela Primeira Guerra Mundial, pela Revolução Russa e pela ascensão dos regimes totalitários, foi terreno de reflexões valiosas acerca dos caminhos e descaminhos civilizacionais. Recorrendo a Freud e Adorno, sob o recorte histórico da década de 30, intento resgatar as relevantes contribuições de ambos no que tange à discussão sobre o estado da cultura. Em O mal-estar na civilização, publicado em 1930, Freud destaca o papel repressor da civilização sobre os impulsos de amor e de agressividade dos homens, indo além, assim, do propósito de proteção dos mesmos contra as intempéries da natureza e contra seus próprios humores, e representando, desta forma, um duplo obstáculo para a felicidade humana. Em O fetichismo na música e a regressão da audição, de 1938, Adorno denuncia a regressão social vivenciada em seu tempo e, consequentemente, o empobrecimento subjetivo, a partir da evolução do processo de mercantilização da arte, em que a música, fetichizada, passa a ser consumida por ouvintes regressivos pelo seu valor de troca, em detrimento do valor de uso. Utilizando os conceitos de fetichismo, regressão e mal-estar como elementos mediadores, busco demonstrar um encontro objetivo entre a discussão freudiana e o ensaio de Adorno.
The early twentieth century Europe, marked mainly by the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the rise of totalitarian regimes, was ground for valuable reflections on the paths and misdirections of civilization. Using the thoughts of Freud and Adorno concerning the historical period of the 1930's, I attempt to rescue their relevant contributions regarding the discussion on the state of culture. In Civilization and its discontents, published in 1930, Freud highlights the repressive role of civilization over man‟s impulses of love and aggression, going beyond its protection purposes against the harsh conditions of nature and against man‟s own moods, and then representing a double barrier to human happiness. In On the fetish-character in music and the regression of listening (1938), Adorno denounces the social regression experienced in his time and, consequently, the subjective impoverishment resulting from the growing process of commodification of art, in which music, fetishized, becomes consumed by regressive listeners due to its exchange value, rather than to its use value. Using the concepts of fetishism, regression and discontent as mediating elements, I try to show an objective meeting between Freud's reflections and Adorno's essay.