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El trabajo consiste en dar cuenta de cuatro posicionamientos de verdad ficticia derivados del drama de Sabina Berman, Feliz Nuevo Siglo doktor Freud, en torno al caso Dora de Sigmund Freud. De esta puesta de escena inherente a la estructura histérica se revelan los fantasmas de prostitución, de la seducción del padre, de la instauración de la feminidad y de la diversidad textual de la (contra) transferencia. El drama lleva la clínica a una dimensión de debate crítico donde el mismo Freud se encuentra dividido entre las formulaciones de su teoría sexual y las cuestiones inéditas que provoca el testimonio de la experiencia singular No sólo se abre el telón de fondo de las condiciones sociales e históricas que enmarcan un ejercicio de clínica de la palabra y la subjetividad sino aquellas que determinan las complejas relaciones entre los sexos y los esquemas imaginarios-ideológicos que inciden en el pensamiento de Freud.

La presente propuesta didáctica sobre Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, del director español Pedro Almodóvar, tiene como objetivo fundamental acercar al aprendiente avanzado de Español como Lengua Extranjera (ELE) al universo del director manchego. La unidad didáctica planteada permitirá, por un lado, entender las diferentes formas de demostrar el amor en hombres y mujeres, así como identificar y utilizar diferentes formas lingüísticas de expresión del amor, de la seducción y del engaño en español. Por otro lado, facilitará el conocimiento de los usos culturales de las relaciones amorosas en España. En definitiva, este trabajo busca contribuir a desarrollar la competencia lingüística y sociocultural en un alumnado avanzado de ELE.

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El modelo de masculinidad deseable asociado al fenómeno de la seducción ha sido constituido de forma generalizada en base a presupuestos evolucionistas y biologicistas. Desde una perspectiva socio construccionista y de género analizamos el proceso de construcción de la masculinidad que se reproduce en el manual de seducción «Apocalipsex: los 10 mandamientos de la seducción», mediante la herramienta analítica Grounded Theory. Del análisis concluimos que este manual, respaldándose en estudios de corte biologicista y evolucionista; construye y reproduce como deseable un modelo de masculinidad cuyas pautas de seducción tienen lugar a partir de la virilidad, la actividad sexual, el poder, la dominación, la autoridad, la actividad, la agencia, el riesgo, la presencia, la protección, la insensibilidad y la racionalidad. Asimismo, se trata de forma despectiva a los hombres que no encajan en este modelo, y a las mujeres se las reduce y presenta como objetos sexuados que representan y dotan de masculinidad a los hombres.

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This article discusses four different positions of fictional truth derived from Sabina Berman's play, Feliz Nuevo Siglo Doktor Freud, on Dora's clinical case. The staging inherent to the hysteric structure reveals the fantasies of prostitution, of the seduction of the father, of the instauration of femininity and of the textual diversity of (counter) transference. The play takes clinical work to a dimension of critical debate in which Freud finds himself divided between the different formulations of his sexual theory and the breakthroughs brought about by the testimony of the singular experience. It reveals not only the background of social and historical conditions that frame the clinical exercise of the word and subjectivity, but also the conditions that determine complex relations between sexes and imaginary-ideological schemes that influence Freud's thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El objeto de este trabajo se describen dos formas de dominación: el adoctrinamiento y la seducción, con el objetivo de hacer ver su actual vigencia. En este contexto, se aporta el advertir como la población es mayoritariamente seducida e impone las condiciones. El método es el propio de los ensayos filosóficos y la reflexión sobre los acontecimiento de actualidad. Se utilizan las fuentes de los sociólogos y filósofos de mayor prestigio actual como lo son G. Lipovetzsky y Z. Bauman, G., P. Sibilia, O. Reboul. La estrategia de análisis utilizada es la que pone de manifiesto y critica, con originalidad el mecanismo de seducción: el seducido está en la condición de necesidad, primero y, después, de placenteramente esclavizado, por lo que no advertirá la dominación que se ejerce sobre él, perdiéndose sutilmente la libertad humana. La adicción a la propia imagen (selfish) y al celular o teléfono móvil es un claro ejemplo, que los adictos difícilmente querrán admitir. En conclusión se ponen de manifiesto las estrategias narcisistas de supervivencia: retirarse en el presente, reciclando la juventud. El narcisismo neutraliza el universo social, vaciando las instituciones de sus inversiones emocionales y el yo se vacía de su identidad, por eso requiere constantemente de las selfishes para reírse de sí mismo. El yo pierde su referencia de unidad por exceso de información insustantiva.

El azafrán es una flor bien conocida en la Antigüedad. Empleada como condimento culinario; esencia de perfumes; ingrediente de preparados médicos y tinte de tejidos, las fuentes textuales la asociaron preferentemente al mundo femenino. Sin embargo, también observamos su presencia entre los hombres, de tal forma que la planta y sus usos guardaban un valor polisémico, objeto principal de nuestro trabajo. En el presente artículo estudiamos los diversos significados del azafrán en función de los sujetos que los utilizan: vírgenes, mujeres casadas y hombres; y a través, principalmente, del vestido obtenido de su tintura, el krokotos. Siguiendo como metodología de trabajo el análisis estructural, se consultaron los textos antiguos para observar el modo y motivo por el cual vestían de azafrán algunas jóvenes vírgenes antes de casarse; las esposas seducían con vestes azafranados a sus maridos; o ciertos hombres se disfrazaban de mujer con el krokotos. Fue posible, así, constatar el sentido de esta prenda como marcador de estatus entre niñas o casadas; esposas modestas o heteras; y hombres viriles o afeminados; valor que se articularía a través del motivo de la seducción, presente en todos los estamentos estudiados.

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Las juventudes vienen atravesando una serie de problemáticas siendo el aspecto de la sexualidad en donde existen mayores y complejas dimensiones de interacción, aludiendo a una sexualidad simultánea y caracterizada por diversos rituales que se expresan a través del baile y del cortejo entre desconocidos en espacios reservados, supuestamente, para personas mayores de edad: discotecas visitadas por adolescentes que oscilan entre los 15 y 18 años de edad. Asimismo, por parte de las jóvenes mujeres, habrá un deseo de experimentar en constante conflicto con los valores que soportan sus comportamientos. Se concluye que la profundidad del problema en torno a la sexualidad juvenil es mucho más diverso y complejo de lo que se suele imaginar, siendo el estudio de los cuerpos y las emociones principal herramienta teórica para introducirnos a temas de interés social, económico y político.

This paper is divided in two parts: the first of it explores Theophile Gautier's life, a French writer little known in Mexico; the second of it analyses his text "The beloved Death", which appears in most anthologies. The paper deals with elements related not only with vampirism, but others that gave a defined personality to the next texts interwined in the tradition, such as romanticism, seduction, struggle between good and evil, femme fatale. Also, the figure of father Serapio becomes emblematic, because it is the direct antecedent of Dr. Van Helsing, who killed Dracula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo reflexiona sobre las joyas como armas de seducción de las mujeres griegas y, concretamente, sobre las de Afrodita, una divinidad multifacética cuya acción prioritaria se enmarca dentro del ámbito de la sexualidad y el amor. La diosa posee un ornamento mágico, el kestos himas, en cuya superficie están bordadas algunas de las emociones humanas como el deseo, la seducción y el amor. Dicha joya es la protagonista de algunos episodios muy interesantes de la literatura griega, especialmente el conocido como Dios Apate o el engaño de Hera para seducir a Zeus.

En 1972 durante una conferencia en Milán, Lacan introduce su formulación sobre el discurso capitalista. Según plantea, el discurso capitalista es el sustituto del discurso del amo, condenado a estallar. A partir de las novelas 1984 de George Orwell y Un mundo feliz de Aldous Huxley, se pretende explicar en qué sentido el discurso capitalista sustituye y articula el discurso del amo. 1984 ilustra la dominación del Gran Otro bajo la lógica del Gran hermano. Un mundo feliz permite comprender la relación entre tecnociencia y programación cuyo resultado es la seducción como forma de control.

Es posible que haya escuchado hablar de pedagogía y seducción; no obstante, en la introducción se irá desglosando un parecer fundamentado sobre la pedagogía de la seducción. En este sentido, se propone un ensayo junto a una estrategia metodológica la cual sugiere la interpretación de algunas obras pictóricas para comprender un poco mejor la pedagogía de la seducción. A partir de resultados inspirados en tres acciones: la comunicación no verbal, la comunicación asertiva y la coreografía entre pantallas; habría que tener presente el saber interactuar con el cuerpo, del mismo modo que hace falta mantener una comunicación cercana con la empatía y en la serenidad, en la escucha activa y respetuosa; sin olvidar que el alumnado universitario se desenvuelve con las pantallas: las suyas y la que pueda utilizar el profesorado. Y, a modo de conclusión, toda esta propuesta de aproximación se establece sobre un diálogo simbólico en pro de mejorar la docencia universitaria.

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We enter these processes of subjectivation in which the jazz musician experiences in himself other forms of corporeality, which are settled between subjection to schemes (Bourdieu) and breakup of the corsets by a theatricality on stage (Artaud). Apparently, in improvisation what is subversive and the reification of the musician as a free author take priority; nevertheless, we empirically observe a plural corporeality that goes beyond the space of the scene and that facilitates that all the actors (musicians, technicians, audience and researchers) take part in the process of creation. We found a solidarity network that continuously displaces the fixed points where music circulates; thus, when a musician is short of breath, his partner takes over. If what is fundamental in the praxis of music is the continuous alternatives it offers, we conclude with an ethical reflection on the transitory nature of music and its kairological temporality, in which the musician, feeling the briefness of the instant of the note that dies when it is born, joins the insignificance of his human condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a conference held in Milan in 1972, Lacan introduced his formulations on capitalist discourse as the substitute for the master’s discourse, which is doomed to explode. On the basis of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the article seeks to explain the manner in which the capitalist discourse replaces and articulates the master‘s discourse. 1984 illustrates the domination of the Big Other according to the logic of the Big Brother. Brave New World allows us to understand the relation between techno-science and programming, whose result is seduction as a form of control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay reflects on jewels as means of seduction for Greek women and, specifically, on those of Aphrodite, a multifaceted deity whose main action is framed within the sphere of sexuality and love. This goddess is the owner of a magical ornament, the kestos himas. On its surface are embroidered some human emotions like desire, seduction and love. This jewel has a leading role in some very interesting episodes of Greek literature, especially the one known as Dios Apate or Hera’s deception of Zeus in order to seduce him. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article was motivated by a question: what happens in places where, despite ancient interactions among human beings, animals and plants, there is no "natural" domain? Such is the problem we face in the case of some Otomi villages from the southern Huasteca, where alien to our biological categories, they apprehend the world according to other criteria. We address this issue assuming that ontological turn underlies the interactions between subject humans and non-humans. Nevertheless, endowed by will and agency, Otomi people daily exploit many entities that they consider to be subject. If animals and plants enjoy the same rights and qualities as human beings, how can we understand domestication in such cases? Where are the limits between wildness and the domestic domain defined? There are in principle only two approaches used by Amerindian people in dealing with the Other, whether the representatives be human or non-human: rapaciousness and alliance. Friends and enemies. War and kinship are the only two conditions that rule interactions among humans, and between them and non-human beings. Thus, if we wish to understand domestication among the Otomi of the southern Huasteca, we should focus on the relational continuum between cupidity and reciprocity. Under such coordinates, this article explores the details of the complex of domestication tactics found among the Otomi people, which can be understood as negotiation, seduction and kidnapping. These objectives are supported by many mechanisms, which can include diplomatic strategies, but above all are achieved by methods related to food and to sexual approaches. All these efforts have the common objective of converting alien entities (foreign enemies) into potential allies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We approach the piercing complex based on the theory of generalized seduction, with a focus on the so-called "orificial sexuality" and on parental fantasies, especially the piercing of the orifices, which eventually inoculate the fear of perforation in the child. We believe that the fear of piercing refers to the reality of the message (coming from the adult) and urges the child to translate the internal foreign body that is actually introduced into it, namely sexual stimulation. It is in this original penetration (of the message of the other) that we locate the change in the vector of explanation of the paralyzing fear found in the piercing complex, which according to Bonapartean thinking stems from a protocellular reaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El miembro de la Ilustración escocesa Henry Mackenzie es autor de tres novelas de las cuales la primera, The Man of Feeling, alcanza un éxito considerable dentro de la moda cultural del sentimentalismo británico. Nos interesa la definición de ciertos motivos temáticos y narrativos centrales en esta época y esta cultura: la benevolencia del hombre sentímental, el engaño del que es a menudo víctima, la seducción trágica de una heroína virtuosa a cargo de un villano libertino y la seducción protagonizada por estos mismos personajes típicos con un final feliz. Tales temas y tramas son centrales en la obra de Mackenzie y solamente a partir de ellos se puede articular el mundo de sus tres novelas y sus relatos más célebres. Por tanto, Mackenzie ha sido visto como la quintaesencia de lo sentimental. En sus temas y tipos se resume un cierto concepto de virtud (para el que utilizaremos el concepto de “ideologema”) propio de la narrativa de esta época y corriente cultural.

El objetivo principal de este trabajo consiste en indagar sobre la heterogeneidad que se da en las estrategias de seducción desplegadas por los personajes de Jin Ping Mei (1617?), una de las novelas más eróticas del mundo. El trabajo parte del conjunto de ideas y proposiciones que nos ofrecen los textos literarios chinos alrededor de la hermosa cabellera femenina. Se analizan tanto las descripciones sobre el cabello como los artificios que se elaboran a través de este, cuidado conscientemente para la seducción: el color, el volumen y los adornos, prestando especial atención a la horquilla. Por otro lado, se trata de correr el velo y descubrir de la competitividad constante de seducción entre las “Medusas”.

El personaje Voyleano tiene modelos en el suicida Werther, de Goethe, y en el deseoso de morir Tediato de las Noches lúgubres, de Cadalso. Entran en la confección de la figura de Voyleano la nueva sensibilidad de la Ilustración, el dolor cósmico romántico y la exaltación de la psicología romántica. En la novela de Vayo se vive la invasión napoleónica de España, y tal ambiente se presta a seducciones libertinas, traiciones, grandes desilusiones y pérdida de la fe. Voyleano, como don Quijote, como Julien Sorel, como Emma Bovary y como varios personajes de Larra y Mesonero Romanos ha buscado un modelo o logos en un personaje anterior. Después de don Quijote, Voyleano es el primero de todos ellos. A Voyleano le parece poco noble y cobarde el acto físico del suicidio, y aunque se inspira en Werther, le atrae en Tediato el modo de suicidarse evitando el acto físico del suicidio.

Se estudia la teoría de la seducción de Jean Baudrillard mediante el análisis de la novela Hallucinating Foucault, de Patricia Duncker, para mostrar que el proceso de lectura es un acto seductor y un juego obsesivo entre lector y escritor. Estas características se comprueban con la inversión de las jerarquías presentes, del cambio de roles y de una muerte literal y metafórica. Hallucinating Foucault muestra la complejidad entre lector y escritor, vistos como compañeros de juego, parte de una relación que respectivamente alimenta su imaginación y su creatividad. Jean Baudrillard’s theory of seduction is studied by the analysis of the novel Hallucinating Foucault, by Patricia Duncker, to verify that the process of reading is a seductive act and a compulsive game among readers and writers. These features are shown by the reversal of the hierarchies present, the changing of roles and a literal and metaphorical death. Thus, Hallucinating Foucault shows the complexity between readers and writers, seen as playmates and partners that mutually feed one another’s imagination and creativity.

Reseña de De la ironía, el amor y la seducción en Kierkegaard, de Lilia Solórzano Esqueda.

Este trabajo se pregunta qué funciones desempeñaba la música entre los jóvenes de la primera mitad del siglo XVII en España, haciendo hincapié en sus aplicaciones en el contexto de las relaciones entre los sexos. La novela picaresca española puede apuntar indicaciones sobre cuál era la relación entre la música y la juventud en ese período, y en qué medida esta relación se debe a las características psicológicas de la edad o al contexto social en que tiene lugar. This paper wants to know which roles music played for youth in the first half of XVIIth century Spain, focusing on its application in the context of relationship between men and women. Spanish picaresque can point ways of which was the relationship between music and youth in that period, and how much this relationship is caused by psycological characteristics of youth or the social context.

Based on an ethnographic research with the Mehinako, an Aruaque group of the upper Xingu, the article considers the bonds between humans and apapayëi spirits, with an emphasis on illness and the rituals they mobilize. From what I have been able to learn from my Mehinako interlocutors, disease among humans is the product of a mythical punishment which generates an original asymmetry between those who have become apapayêi, and are not owners of goods and resources, and the present humans, owners of objects and food. The apapayêi try to change the asymmetry by forcing a reciprocity with the humans through the illnesses and the subsequent healing feasts, allowing the partial retribution of the loss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The next article analyzes the literary production of Jorge Cáceres and Jorge Onfray, two poets whose work are relevant to study the representation of the subjectivity and the homoerotic spaces existing in the Chilean culture during the fifties decade. Thus, the hypothesis postulated is that both poets turn to a seductive enunciation to say and unsay, deceptively, the divergent masculinity of their poetic voices. Cáceres works with surrealism and Onfray with carnival and a marvelous language. In both cases, these are rhetoric strategies that, through occultation and allegory, allows these poets to overcome the censorship and criminalization exercised through this time against the public expression of homoerotic desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Seduction and death involve the breakdown of the established order, each revealed as a guilty offender that manages profoundly to alter events. In the pages of naturalistic novels, the clinical gaze of the writer does not overlook the destruction of nature, represented through illness and death, or the destruction of the peculiar artifice of seduction and its staging. Indeed, both elements are united, in the consideration of taboos, as concepts somehow relegated to denial by oversight in almost all spheres of thought (Aries 1983; Baudrillard 2008). This article compares the seduction strategies described inThérèse Raquin(1867) of Emile Zola andLo prohibido(1884–1885) of Benito Pérez Galdós and their close association with death. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The episode of Jesus' temptations by the devil (Mt 4: 1-11; Mc 1: 12-13; Lk 4: 1-13) proposes several challenges to modern exegesis. Along with the topic of historicity, issues of theological and literary order (fonts, form and redaction) soon appear. Clearly, the story of the temptations of Jesus refers to the temptations of Israel: Ex 16; Dt 8: 2-5 / Ex 17: 1-7; Dt 6: 16 / Ex 23: 20-33; Dt 6: 12-15. But on the other hand, a literary analysis of Mt 4:1-11 noted striking similarities with Mt 14:13-33 (the introduction by «John the Baptist», selective and orderly use of adverbs, some scenarios related, a same issues and an almost identical lexicography). The abundance and the order of the similarities between the two passages invite to think of a development conscious and intended by the author. There is therefore a literary relationship between the temptations of Israel, the temptations of Jesus (Mt 4:1-11) and the three miracles of Jesus (Mt 14:13-33). The study shows that Mt 4: 1-11 greatly illuminates the meaning of Mt 14: 13-33, and vice versa. This relationship between Mt 14: 13-33 and Mt 4:1 -11 became richer by the analysis of Jn 6: 1-21 (parallel of Mt 14:13-33); a passage in which several authors see the temptations of Jesus (absent in the fourth Gospel). Here, we need also a theological analysis. In the Bible, «temptation» is a religious concept that affects the covenant between God and man. Agents can be the Lord (testing), the man (doubting) and the devil (seducing). They can suffer temptation the Lord or the man but never the devil. The temptations of Jesus are specific for two notes: Jesus is tempted by the devil as Son of God, and is also enticed to form an alternative alliance against God, the Father. The texts of Matthew studied show it, each one in their own way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author comments on the poetic category in the aesthetic from the reflexion on the female characters that were prey of the powers of seduction: Donna Elvira of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Maria Deaumarchais of Goethe's Clavijo, and John's Cordelia from the Diary of a Seducer. These female figures, whose poetic force is comparable to the one of Antigone, are different because of the power of seduction, for in these stage the pathetic female response does not consist in seeking for the oblivion and the relief of their sorrow, but in the remembrance and the pain of their most precious treasure.

This paper offers a commentary on the aesthetical categories of poetry and music towards seduction, categories that the “aesthete A”, who reflects the poetic personality, exhibits in The Alternative. The author points out the páthos of the poet not only directed to his listeners and readers, but to himself too, revealing, then, the true existential tragedy that the poet has to face, a tragedy he is so thoroughly aware of that only his peers can understand, his co-burried brothers: a society of dead poets. With this aesthetic figure, sorrow is dissociated from anguish in order to indicate that the poet only has a past while living in sorrow, whereas anguish always point to future and offers an illusion. But this can only be understood by a poet, one who suffers the same, and this is why when the poet is asked to sing again his so seducing poems, he is really asked to experience new suffering in his soul.

En este artículo nos interesa señalar, siguiendo las teorías del intercambio simbólico y de la seducción de Jean Baudrillard, que los intercambios en las sociedades primitivas responden a la lógica del don y el contra-don y el principio de reversibilidad, dando paso a un orden social en el cual sujeto y objeto establecen relaciones de seducción como alternativa a las relaciones de poder. Del mismo modo, nos interesa precisar que dichos intercambios ponen en circulación un objeto-símbolo único y singular encargado de sellar alianzas y servir de médium para transportar los poderes espirituales de la comunidad. Estas precisiones se realizan con el fin de poner en discusión las premisas de Carole Pateman y Luce Irigaray, quienes afirman que el intercambio de mujeres que se da en las comunidades primitivas muestra en germen a la mujer-objeto mercancía y la cultura patriarcalista. Lo que afirmamos es que en estos intercambios, la mujer adquiere el estatuto de mujer-símbolo encargada de mediar relaciones y sellar alianzas, noción que se encuentra distante de la categoría de un objeto-mercancía, sin que ella abandone plenamente la posición del sujeto.