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Crítica à Alteração da Lei Maria da Penha: Tutela e Responsabilidade
RESUMO A Lei Maria da Penha, ao transformar os crimes contra a mulher em crimes de ação penal pública incondicionada, torna o processo contra o agressor uma iniciativa do Estado, independentemente da vontade da mulher vítima da agressão.
Paula Dias Moreira Penna +1 more
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Disintegration, Salvation, and/or Madness in Dostoevsky
ABSTRACT Psychological fragmentation and derangement suffuse Dostoevsky's fiction. This paper argues that the madness of Dostoevsky characters derives from intense wounds to the self: humiliating lacerations that impel fugue and disintegration. Such vulnerable, frangible characters seek to escape and deny themselves to avoid being seen for who they are.
Jerry Piven
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Kristeva's Thérèse: Mysticism and Modernism
This essay focuses on Julia Kristeva’s recent volume Thérèse mon amour: Sainte Thérèse d’Avila (2008), describing and placing this blend of novel, play, psychoanalytic cultural theory, and case history in the context of her work.
Carol Mastrangelo Bové
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden
Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
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In Shit We Stand United: Solidarity and Separation on the Lower Grounds
In his Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud quotes a poem by Heinrich Heine: "Selten habt Ihr mich verstanden/selten auch verstand ich Euch./Nur wenn wir im Kot uns fanden,/so verstanden wir uns gleich". ("Rarely did you understand me, and rarely did I
Robert Pfaller
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Masochism Revisited: Reflections on Masochism and Its Childhood Antecedents [PDF]
Masochism, originally described as sexual perversion by Sacher von Masoch, was elaborated by Freud to include personality pathology, and further developed by Bieber and others. The DSM-III included sexual perversion and personality pathology as separate diagnoses, but were totally eliminated from the DSM-IV. It is the author's thesis that the masochist'
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A Case for Contingent Absurdity
Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
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Spice It Up: The Impact of Spiciness and Arousal on Cultured Meat Consumption
ABSTRACT Cultured meat is an emerging, sustainable protein source; however, it falls short in several aspects, including perceived naturalness, nutritional value, and sensory appeal. Building upon the theory of benign masochism, the research proposes that the sensory imagery of spicy flavour can heighten emotional arousal and, in turn, drive ...
Chien Duong +3 more
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Congelare tutto il reale. Il problema della negazione nell’interpretazione deleuzeana del masochismo. [PDF]
This paper aims to explore the meaning of Deleuze’s interpretation of masochism. This work focuses on the concept of dénegation of the worldly reality, which describes the distance between two different types of cold.
Alessio Calabrese
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Of Pit Bulls and Men : Tamed Manhood in Harry Crews’s An American Family (2006)
The article analyzes the decline and reinstatement of southern manhood through the main male protagonist of Harry Crews’s novella An American Family: The Baby with the Curious Markings (2006), his last published book of fiction.
Marcel ARBEIT
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