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Although first associated with the urban culture of Buenos Aires in the early part of this century, tango has become internationalized and has acquired meanings that permit it to be understood in other contexts. In particular, since the time of Valentino, it has become accommodated to the international cinema, where it is viewed not only as a cultural practice that expresses desire and sensuality, but as a sign that generates its meaning in part from other signs and other manifestations of the same sign. Beginning therefore with a consideration of cultural practice as repetition and variation, this paper will comment on several films in which tango is not only used as a motif but relies for our understanding of it on other contexts and sometimes other films in which tango has appeared.
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Le Virginal, the main narrator in Patrick Grainville's L'Atelier du peintre theorizes about the creative act (poiesis) in order to create a symbolic language grounded in arts and hermeneutics as expressed by iconic and verbal media. Ultimately, this leads to personal fictionalization and not a working symbolic structure, with the result that his system collapses. As Grainville's style rests on the destruction of symbolic language, it becomes autonomous of the hermeneutics expected by the reader. In the end, Grainville's “differential” writing prevails over Le Virginal's sexual outlook on the world.
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Art as a form of psychosocial intervention opens-up, for individuals and groups, the possibility to connect ‟differentlyˮ. The purpose of this article is to present artistic psychosocial intervention as a key to promote social justice for marginalized, precarious or oppressed groups and populations. In order to do this, we first present a theoretical overview and lay the groundwork for artistic psychosocial intervention in Quebec. Then, we present three aims associated with this kind of intervention: to promote ‟speaking outˮ, to foster the reflexive action, and to encourage an awareness of the collective dimensions of individual experiences. In analyzing these different forms of intervention, the authors wish to underscore the many contributions of this type of practice and to highlight its innovative nature.
Keywords: Intervention psychosociale artistique, intervention psychosociale, arts, populations marginalisées, artistic psychosocial intervention, psychosocial intervention, arts, marginalization
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The medicalization of addictive behaviors is a more and more privileged modality of social control. How does a condition like addiction behavior pass from a social status to a disease and medical status ? On what scientific and ideological basis does the discourse on medicalization permit to make these behaviors socially more acceptable, more desirable ? With a review of the literature, this article wishes to put the focus on the social tendency of medicalization in the field of addictions. To that end, four aspects will be privileged : 1- an attempt to define the medicalization process ; 2- an illustration of two emerging addictions : cyberaddiction and addiction to plastic surgery ; 3- an analysis of the addiction concept as a multifactor phenomenon ; 4- a critical view of the 12-step philosophy as it plays a major ideological role in the medicalization process. In conclusion, some paths of intervention and empowerment are suggested.
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AbstractBecause Augusta Webster's poetry involves explicit cultural critique, particularly in relation to gender ideology, it is important to turn to the textual history of her work in order to understand how these poems functioned within their original historical context. Her 1870 collection of dramatic monologues entitled Portraits foregrounds its own textual situation and the process of interpretation in its organization and material design. Read together as a collection, these poems suggest that discovering and then following a particular life path is a process of discerning, accepting, or choosing among different possibilities. Webster represents these possibilities as competing discourses, some of which are actual or imagined texts, whereas others are the ideological commonplaces of Victorian culture. Each of the speakers in Portraits explores his or her subjectivity through a process of discursive analysis and interpretation, which parallels the reading process that the structure of the volume encourages.