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In this paper we show that the conversion of Durtal appears in its epistemological dimension. For the hero, this dimension can be observed in his almost haunting attempt to understand his spiritual journey in the face of the unfathomable will of God. The analysis of his monologues explicitly demonstrates that, despite his conversion, Durtal sank into spiritual stagnation. Consequently, even spiritual accompaniment becomes for him only a palliative. For the Huysmansian hero, conversion has another dimension-this is a spiritual emancipation which is realized only in the contemplation of divine perfection to the detriment of all community rules imposed by the Church or by contemporary society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Les patients qui posent des demandes d'aide active à mourir sont peu accompagnés par les équipes de soins palliatifs. Ils sont souvent pensés comme des gens forts, hors-norme, au-dessus des considérations palliatives. Une analyse psychanalytique arrimée à la notion de pulsion de mort montre que le raisonnement initial peut s'inverser et que, face à la mort, le plus faible n'est peut-être pas celui qu'on croit ! Ma thèse avance qu'une désintrication pulsionnelle se produit dans la vie psychique. L'équilibre Pulsion de vie/Pulsion de mort vole en éclats au profit du passage au premier plan de la pulsion de mort : la demande d'aide active à mourir est alors la seule voix/voie qui permet à ce sujet de tenir encore dans la vie. Un patient qui demande à mourir est d'abord un sujet qui perd pied avec une dynamique désirante tournée vers le futur. Il n'est plus en mesure de gérer la complexité de l'expérience qu'il vit et se situe donc plus du côté de la faiblesse que de la force. Cette réflexion invite le soin palliatif, non pas à renverser le raisonnement habituel des prises en charge (la vie doit continuer de désirer la vie en première intention), mais à mettre du jeu , notamment au moment du déclin psychique qui annonce la fin. Est-il possible de penser l'effondrement terminal d'un sujet , le repérer, en tenir compte, s'y ajuster ? L'éthique qui accueille et accompagne le travail de la pulsion de mort est une éthique qui permet ce travail de pensée. Parce qu'ils sont paradoxalement plus fragiles, plus faibles, plus seuls face à leur point d'impossible – que ceux qui parviennent à faire face à la mort, que ceux qui parviennent à rester reliés aux autres – les patients qui demandent une aide à mourir devraient être accompagnés en priorité. Patients who request active assistance in dying receive little support from palliative care teams. They are often thought of as strong, exceptional people, above palliative considerations. A psychoanalytical analysis based on the notion of the death drive shows that the initial line of reasoning can be reversed and that, when faced with death, the weakest person may not be the one we believe! My thesis advances the theory that a disintegration of the death drive occurs in psychic life. The balance between the instinct of life and the instinct of death is upended, and the death drive takes precedence: the request for active assistance in dying is thus the only voice/pathway that allows this subject to continue to hold onto life. A patient who requests help in dying is first and foremost a subject who has lost their grip on a desire dynamic that is future-oriented. They are no longer able to manage the complexity of the experience they are going through and are, therefore, more on the side of weakness than strength. This reflection invites us to recommend palliative care, not for the purpose of countering the usual reasoning of care (life must continue to desire life as a first intention), but to allow for some leeway, especially at the time of psychic decline which heralds the end. Is it possible to think about a subject's terminal collapse, identify it, take it into account, adjust to it? The moral considerations that welcome and accompany the workings of the death drive are principles that render this manner of reasoning possible. Because they are paradoxically more fragile, weaker, and more alone in the face of their psychic impasse than those who are able to face death, and than those who manage to remain connected to others, the patients who seek help in dying should be accompanied as a priority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present paper focuses on the diary of the French painter Félix Ziem (1821-1911) and inquires the destiny of the painter emerging from his writings. Basing on the theories of diary writing (B. Didier, A. Girard, J. Lis), it shows how the artist represents his profession. The analyses convey that three elements are necessary for Félix Ziem to fulfill the destiny of the painter: hard work, dreamy contemplation of nature and travels. Those elements are described in detail in the three consecutive parts of the paper. The conclusions display a self-confident artist, influenced by Romantic aesthetics, who consciously constructs in his diary a testimony of his life as an example of painter's destiny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The author of the paper propounds a hollistic outlook on how French writers of the 19th century perceived the fate of Poland in the most dramatic moment of its history, when it was fighting a fierce, and almost hopeless battle for its independence, having disappeared from the map of Europe. In textes of many poets, publicists and men of letters in France one can find a unique set of motifs that not only reveal a highly consistent way of thinking with respect to the situation Poland was in at the time, but also build a parallel vision of its future, and even hold a belief that Poland was to play a special role among European countries. In this paper the author identifies and discusses six such motifs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Dans cet article, j’essaie d’interpréter les premiers ouvrages de Jules Vuillemin comme une tentative de redéfinir la rationalité, et pas seulement comme un “moment” existentialiste, comme cela est souvent dit. De ce point de vue, je fais l’hypothèse d’une certaine continuité entre la première partie de son oeuvre et la suite, plus franchement technique et épistémologique. J’essaie de défendre cette lecture en quatre temps. D’abord, je montre que si Vuillemin commence par une méditation sur le destin, c’est dans la mesure où ce dernier révèle une forme intégrale de rationalisme. Ensuite, Vuillemin identifie une ambivalence fondamentale au sein de la vie affective humaine, entre les émotions (négatives) et les sentiments (positifs). En conséquence, il confère une valeur éminente, à la fois ontologique et épistémique, au sentiment, en particulier celui de joie et d’effort. Enfin, Vuillemin fait du travail le principe de la réalité, dans sa dimension à la fois factuelle et normative. Je conclus en soulignant comment la double dialectique du travail (division des fonctions symboliques et historicité) implique naturellement le projet d’une nouvelle philosophie des sciences et de la connaissance.

This paper discusses the psychodynamic and psychosocial vision in the life course of young vulnerable African immigrants placed in Maison d’enfants à Caractère Social. This settlement provides professional training or further education, training needed to stay in France, in order to have the proper papers. The issue of psychological and social fragmentation in these young people whose developmental process is marked by exile will be questioned in relation to concepts such as Fate and Destiny. The latter will also be questioned in light of the role and value of the work in these young evolving into a new socioeconomic and cultural context that tends to stigmatize. Through verbal and non-verbal data from psychological interviews, a group of speech and observation grids inspired by a questionnaire, we propose an analysis of personal trajectories in terms of process identification. This analysis can already go beyond the individual characteristics and highlight the crucial role embodied work to establish a social identity and out of the timeless state of exile.

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The majority of nowadays researchers of the religious phenomenon agree that, in the long run, the traditional church has known a decline in the majority of western countries. The key concept used when these changes are analyzed is secularization. Still, in this debate there are sufficient arguments that could either support or deny secularization. Nevertheless it seems sufficiently evident that secularization as a concept is more useful in explaining the changes that appear inside nowadays traditional church supporting both the decline of its power and influence as well as the processes of internal secularization. The modernizing forces extant on the level of the entire society are present (or act) inside many traditional religious institutions. The modern world's religions, beyond the dispute concerning certain concepts, should be analyzed outside the background marked by rapid changes, instability, and diversity. Even if the traditional forms of religion are losing from their power, religion still remains an important force in our social world. The interest for religion both in its traditional and recent forms seems to last. Religion offers to many people answers to complex questions about life and fate, questions that reason cannot explain satisfactorily. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Raising the relevance and the merit of Kimoni Iyay's work in the study of the Negro-African literature in its variations and ruptures, does place us in front of a demanding task to analyze first over all his impulses in the social-politico context then and current: colonization. It is in this way that we can then release the vitality or the audacity of his mind and grasp the reasons for social tearing and current anomie. In facing globalization and the ideology of the dominant society, a new world political order is needed. The turning point of pragmatism that our contemporary literature has taken does stimulate ethical thinking with regard to the vicissitudes (shifts) and the injustices of globalization in Africa and the world. He chants the political commitment of the citizens of the world on all sides. In the debate which we are conducting with Kimoni Iyay, we indeed inquire his thought to realize the place that Negro-African literature can still occupy and what destiny to assign to it in the concrete practical life of the citizens today. The political stakes (challenges) already seem decisive in this new critical writing of culture. In this perspective, it is necessary to wonder: How to overcome the malaise (discomfort) that invades the "black man" and his culture? Does not his survival depend on the adoption of the new order without losing one's his soul nor questioning one's his own traditions therein? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the present time, the African continent is going through a pathetic and pathological conjuncture. This crisis, considering its newness in scope, range and extent, questions percussively the African philosophy in the manner of Living together and World vision ; this implies the political, economical and social dimension. This article raises the questions which situate the philosophical reflection as to the existential stakes and challenges of Africa, and definitely, its destiny and fate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to highlight the impact of some symbols of good luck - the chimney sweeper, the horseshoe, the four-leaf clover, in the Romanian cultural space and in other cultural spaces. These symbols can be analyzed separately or can be correlated with the trinket (traditional talisman worn in honor of March 1th). The carrier, appealing to these symbols, has the certainty that he is under the guardianship of beneficial. In various cultural spaces it is believed that the above-mentioned symbols have the role of talisman, that attract and emanate a beneficial energy. The chimney sweeper/the roofer, anticipating the danger, has access to the horizontal and vertical plane, becoming an intermediary between microcosm and macrocosm. The roofer has the power to rule with rigorousness over the fire. The chimney sweeper knows the mysteries of the ambivalent fire - consuming or purifying. The horseshoe upright positioned brings good luck, while the horseshoe positioned downwards is meant to scatter the good luck. The horseshoe becomes a point of conjunction between beneficial and ill-fated, fearing even the Devil. It is believed that Ucigă-l Crucea (the Devil), being in need to shoe a hoof appealed to a blacksmith. Having a terrible pain, whenever he sees a horseshoe which is hanged up, he does not approach the respective place, being. The three-leaf clover becomes a symbol of the Trinity, of the Holy Trinity, Saint Patrick's emblem. The five or six-leaf clover brings bad luck, but the four-leaf clover, taken as a reminder by Eva when she was banished out of Eden, gives the bearer good luck because of its rarity, uniqueness. The theme of the good luck, correlated with the chimney sweeper, the horseshoe, the four-leaf clover, potentiates the vulnerability of the human being in front of the destiny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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L’auteur analyse le rapport entre le scénario du Casanova de Federico Fellini, écrit par le réalisateur en collaboration avec Zapponi, et l’Histoire de ma vie, l’autobiographie de Giacomo Casanova. La sélection des épisodes ainsi que les choix narratologiques opérées par les scénaristes montrent que le film vise, à travers un bouleversement parodique du texte original, à une démolition progressive du « mythe » du séducteur et de l’homme de lettre. Cette mécanisme déformant – qui trouve des correspondances dans les éléments propre au langage filmique – touche à son apogée dans la représentation caricaturale du rituel amoureux, jusqu’à la réduction de Casanova à un homme-machine : prodigieux athlète du sexe mais amant et intellectuel frustré.

Célèbre mythe revisité à la lumière des grands courants d’idées qui se sont succédé au fil des siècles, Œdipe devient, dans la filmographie pasolinienne, un personnage en cavale. Héros moderne, parfois violent, à la psychologie tourmentée, il ne peut supporter l’ambiguïté tragique de son destin qui fait de lui un personnage à la fois victime et coupable. À travers des décors oniriques peuplés de monstres sacrés, qui ne sont que le reflet des abysses de l’inconscient, la fuite d’Œdipe revêt, dans l’œuvre de Pasolini, une forte dimension symbolique, teintée de réminiscences autobiographiques. Confronté à une enquête introspective à laquelle il tente désespérément de se soustraire, Œdipe, en dépit de sa cécité, ne peut que parvenir là où tout a commencé.

Le hasard, dans l’ensemble de l’œuvre de Pirandello, peut être rapporté à deux sources : la nature et les autres hommes. Les hasards de Nature (celui de la naissance et de ses circonstances) sont intégrés par la Culture pour y devenir les éléments aliénants d’identification du sujet. L’autre hasard, « fondateur » du sujet en quelque sorte, est le nom (hasard de la naissance dans telle ou telle lignée familiale) ; et le nom est porteur de toute une histoire qui s’impose au sujet. Moscarda dans le roman Uno, nessuno e centomila et Mattia Pascal dans Il fu Mattia Pascal vont à rebours de cette construction aliénante et tentent, chacun à leur manière, des voies de libération. Toutefois, la voie la plus aboutie, même si elle ne fournit pas une solution définitive et radicale, est celle de l’art, en particulier de l’art théâtral dont peut faire l’expérience la comédienne Donata dans la pièce Trovarsi. L’art apparaît en effet comme la voie possible pour une réplique tenable et une expression moins inauthentique du sujet.

Prenant appui sur deux romans de Luigi Santucci (1911-1999), cette étude essaie d’analyser comment un écrivain chrétien contemporain a mis en scène le hasard, selon quelles stratégies et à quelles fins. Il apparaît ainsi que, si le XXe a été qualifié de “siècle du hasard”, l’auteur choisit de situer sa fiction dans la période qui le précède immédiatement, plongeant ses lecteurs dans un monde où le hasard peut être soit expliqué comme effet d’une providence qui met les individus à l’épreuve (Il velocifero, 1963), soit contemplé comme mauvaise fortune (Orfeo in paradiso, 1967).

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A tidal-cycle study at Destin Inlet, Northwest Florida, investigated intratidal and residual flow structures for the first time across the inlet. Underway current velocity profiles were combined with hydrographic station profiles at neap tides to document the appearance of tidal fronts, the distribution of tidal currents across two cross-sections, and the residual, or non-tidal, flow structure at the same cross-sections. Intratidal variations of water density and velocity showed the presence of fronts both in 1) late ebb-early flood and 2) late flood-early ebb tidal stages. Late ebb-early flood tidal intrusion fronts brought about depth-independent changes in water density >10 kg/m 3 in <2 h. Their counterparts, late flood-early ebb plume-like fronts, produced similar magnitude of variations in density but were depth-dependent. Diurnal tidal current distributions across the inlet followed a general behavior of a damped wave with strongest currents appearing near the surface and near the deepest part of the cross-sections (thalweg). However, curvature effects seemed to modify this behavior locally by shifting the maximum tidal current away from the thalweg. Frictional and curvature effects on the diurnal flows were confirmed by an analytical solution for tidal currents. The observed density gradients drove residual flows that were vertically sheared, with outflow at the surface and inflow near the bottom. Such residual flow distributions were reproduced by an analytical solution that diagnosed the flow structure as inherent of a dynamically narrow inlet with relatively weak frictional effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Composed of two separate periods by the economic crisis of 1929, the interwar period is characterized by a cut between the twenties and the thirties. In literature, this time interval is marked by a revival in all genres. Our goal is, first, to contextualize this cycle that will allow us to choose, eventually, a genre. Our election will focus on the novel that draws its material in the news, on "the modern novel [which] is a means of expression of the tragedy of the man [...] "as evidenced by Malraux. Never ceasing to care about human destiny, Malraux states in his Antimemoires "I'm interested in any man, that is The human condition." This concern, this tragedy of existence, the concern of the individual in all its forms will be presented, as we propose to show, not only in the work of Malraux, specifically in Man but also in that of Roger Martin du Gard - Les Thibault. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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