La fenomenología como posibilidad

Heidegger, en el parágrafo séptimo de Ser y Tienzpo, reconoció que el valor de la fenomenología reside en ser una posibilidad. Pues bien, se trata de indagar qué sentido pueda tener tal afirmación. Para ello, se analiza el sentido de los conceptos clave del planteamiento husserliano, teniendo encuenta toda su evolución y viendo cómo, de alguna manera, desde ellos quedan posibilitados la consideración y el estudio de ámbitos que, en cierta medida, significaban la ruptura del idealismo egológico y conciencialista, abriéndose a paradigmas filosóficos en los que se incluyen nuevas caracterizaciones de la subjetividad.

Sobre "fenomenología" y "hermenéutica". Aproximación a los conceptos de empatía y comprensión.

El trabajo parte de una consideración de la hermenéutica como filosofía que cuestiona el sentido de la experiencia en la configuración del mundo histórico-social e intenta mostrar conexiones entre el desarrollo de esta corriente y posibles aportaciones de la Fenomenología.El objetivo de la investigación es analizar la presencia de algunos motivos fenomenológicos en las actuales propuestas de superación del planteamiento hermenéutico elaborado por Gadamer y de raíz heideggeriana, atendiendo a algunos de los debates a los que ha dado lugar y destacando el interés del tema de la empatía en relación con el de la comprensión. Estas nociones indicarán formas específicas de abordar el problema de la experiencia en el contexto intersubjetivo del mundo social.

Mastectomy, Body De-Construction and Impact on Identity: A qualitative study

Objectives: This qualitative study aims at understanding the consequences of body deconstruction through mastectomy on corporality and identity in women with breast cancer. Design: Nineteen women were contacted through the hospital. All had to undergo mastectomy. Some were offered immediate breast reconstruction, others, because of cancer treatments, had no planned reconstruction. A qualitative reflexive methodological background was chosen. Method: Women were invited to participate in three semi-structured interviews, one shortly before or after mastectomy, and the other interviews later in their illness courses, after surgery. All interviews were transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was performed. The analysis of the first interview of each woman is presented in this article. Results: Mastectomy provokes a painful experience of body deconstruction. Even when immediate reconstruction is proposed, contrasted feelings and dissonance are expressed when comparing the former healthy body to the present challenged body entity. Body transformations are accompanied with experiences of mutilation, strangeness, and modify the physical, emotional social, symbolic and relational dimensions of the woman's gendered identity. Although the opportunity of breast reconstruction is seen as a possible recovery of a lost physical symmetry and body integrity, grieving the past body and integrating a new corporality leads to a painful identity crisis. Conclusion: With mastectomy, the roots of the woman's identity are challenged, leading to a re-evaluation of her existential values. The consequences of mastectomy transform the woman's corporality and embodiment, and question her identity. Psychological support is discussed in the perspective of our results.

Exact results for Wilson loops in arbitrary representations

We compute the exact vacuum expectation value of 1/2 BPS circular Wilson loops of TeX = 4 U(N) super Yang-Mills in arbitrary irreducible representations. By localization arguments, the computation reduces to evaluating certain integrals in a Gaussian matrix model, which we do using the method of orthogonal polynomials. Our results are particularly simple for Wilson loops in antisymmetric representations; in this case, we observe that the final answers admit an expansion where the coefficients are positive integers, and can be written in terms of sums over skew Young diagrams. As an application of our results, we use them to discuss the exact Bremsstrahlung functions associated to the corresponding heavy probes.

Effective squark/chargino/neutralino couplings: MadGraph implementation

We have included the effective description of squark interactions with charginos/neutralinos in the MadGraph MSSM model. This effective description includes the effective Yukawa couplings, and another logarithmic term which encodes the supersymmetry-breaking. We have performed an extensive test of our implementation analyzing the results of the partial decay widths of squarks into charginos and neutralinos obtained by using FeynArts/FormCalc programs and the new model file in MadGraph. We present results for the cross-section of top-squark production decaying into charginos and neutralinos.

Specificities of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the medically ill

Psychodynamic psychotherapy with patients suffering from somatic diseases is based on general principles of psychodynamic understanding, such as the influence of development and biographical elements on patient.s adaptation to illness or the role of defense mechanisms when facing existential threat. However, differences exist, such as the adaptation of the therapeutic setting, which thus loses some of its diagnostic and therapeutic power, or the early emergence of powerful transference, which cannot always be interpreted by the therapist. In addition, psychodynamic psychotherapy in the medically ill has some specificities, which differentiate it from classical psychoanalytic theory. The specificities concern, for example, transference of the medically ill, which is more adequately conceived by concepts of the existential analysis (Daseinsanalyse), or the patient.s loss of a sense of continuity, which needs an understanding beyond psychological theory taking into account philosophical (e.g. phenomenology), anthropological and ethical concepts.

N=1 SQCD-like theories with N_f massive flavors from AdS/CFT and beta functions

We study new supergravity solutions related to large-N c N=1 supersymmetric gauge field theories with a large number N f of massive flavors. We use a recently proposed framework based on configurations with N c color D5 branes and a distribution of N f flavor D5 branes, governed by a function N f S(r). Although the system admits many solutions, under plausible physical assumptions the relevant solution is uniquely determined for each value of x ≡ N f /N c . In the IR region, the solution smoothly approaches the deformed Maldacena-Núñez solution. In the UV region it approaches a linear dilaton solution. For x < 2 the gauge coupling β g function computed holographically is negative definite, in the UV approaching the NSVZ β function with anomalous dimension γ 0 = −1/2 (approaching − 3/(32π 2)(2N c  − N f )g 3)), and with β g  → −∞ in the IR. For x = 2, β g has a UV fixed point at strong coupling, suggesting the existence of an IR fixed point at a lower value of the coupling. We argue that the solutions with x > 2 describe a"Seiberg dual" picture where N f  − 2N c flips sign.

Challenges to patient-centred care in a general internal medicine context: findings from an exploratory study

Introduction. If we are to promote more patient-centred approaches in care delivery, we have to better characterize the situations in which being patient-centred is difficult to achieve. Data from professionals in health and social care are important because they are the people charged with operationalizing patient-centred care (PCC) in their daily practice. However, empirical accounts from frontline care providers are still lacking, and it is important to gather experiences not only from doctors but also from the other care providers. Indeed, experiences from different professions can help inform our understanding of patient care, which is expected to be both patient-centred and collaborative. Methods. This study was based on the following research question: What factors make the provision of PCC difficult to achieve? Sample and setting. A purposeful sampling technique was used, allowing for a series of choices about the participants and their professional affiliation. Because patient-centredness is the focus, 3 professions appeared to be of special interest: general internists, nurses and social workers. The study was undertaken in the General Internal Medicine Division of a teaching hospital located in a North American context. Data Collection. To answer the research question, a methodological approach based on a theory called phenomenology was chosen. Accordingly, semi-structured interviews were used since they generate understanding of the meanings different individuals have of their lived world. Interviews with 8 physicians, 10 nurses and 10 social workers were eventually conducted. Data analysis. An inductive thematic analysis was employed to make sense of the interview data. Results. The thematic analysis allowed identifying various types of challenges to PCC. Although most of the challenges were perceived by all three groups of professionals, they were perceived to a different degree across the professions, which likely reflected the scope of practice of each profession. The challenges and their distribution across the professions are illustrated in Table 1. Examples of challenges are provided in Table 2. Discussion. There is a tension between what is supposed to be done - what stands in the philosophy of patient -centredness - and what is currently done - the real life with all the challenges to PCC. According to some participants' accounts, PCC clearly risks becoming a mere illusion for health care professionals on which too great pressures are imposed.

La controverse avant le film : quelle politique pour Good Night, And Good Luck ?

This article aims to explain how newspapers commented on the movie Good Night, and Good Luck before its release. The media coverage anticipated George Clooney's film as a partisan attack launched against George W. Bush's policy since 9/11. Clooney advocates another reading: the historic confrontation between journalist Edward Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarty permits to reflect on the crucial role that the media play for democracy. Such reflection tries to prevent the dividing of the public sphere into antagonistic camps opposing "friends" to "foes," a division that undermines the possibility of a true pluralism. Our socio-semiotic analysis will focus on the critical work accomplished by the media, and on the way that work determines the collective meaning of a cultural object. Simultaneously, we will discuss the necessary conditions for pluralism in a public sphere.

El Camino de Santiago : Estudi qualitatiu sobre vivències i relacions amb un camí interior

Estudi sobre la vivència i les relacions entre pelegrins dins l'espai del Camino de Santiago, entès com un entorn ple de simbolismes religiosos, no religiosos i socials. La branca d'estudis culturals aporta l'anàlisi de valors, creences, comportaments i simbologia de l'entorn, així com la seva implicació amb aquests comportaments. Com a conceptes importants per aprofundir hi ha els valors, l'experiència individual i comunitària, el camí existencial, el camí social, la interrelació o el contacte.

La radicalización Heideggeriana del método fenomenológico

Este trabajo quiere esclarecer cómo y por qué, en la doctrina del «primer» Heidegger,la hermenéutica emerge como el complemento metodológico indispensable para el transcendentalismo de la fenomenología. Constata que la afinidad metodológica es el vínculo decisivo entre esta doctrina y la ontología fundamental, en contraste con una manifiesta disparidad temática: la conciencia, la intencionalidad y la reflexión son tres cruciales referenciasfenomenológicas que carecen de contrapartida fundamental-ontológica. Pero si Heidegger preserva la dimensión transcendental recogida de la fenomenología, tambiénimprime a su doctrina un carácter específicamente hermenéutico, patente en la transformación que recibe la noción capital de Auslegung. Hermenéutica y transcendentalismo, en efecto,no sólo no son antagónicos sino que estjn armonizados en el rnodus operandi de la ontología fundamental. En su indagación del a priori de toda constitución de sentido, tributaria de un antideductivismo tan exacerbado como el de la fenomenología, Heidegger introduce una dimensión metodológica inédita. Al fin y al cabo, la automostración del ser no ocupa el lugar teórico, supuestamente ametódico, que la fenomenología asigna a la in-mediatez.Entender esta mutación del método fenomenológico, desde luego, conlleva explorar en detalle cómo integró Heidegger las dispares componentes doctrinales de la ontología fundamental y por qué se empeñó en cuestionar el carácter neutral que se suele exigir al método.Transponiendo el transcendentalismo presencialista de Husserl en un proyecto ontológico, reinterpretó la metodología de la «intuitividad presentificadora» hasta hacerla compatible con una noción radicalmente ampliada de fenómeno. Así una indagación fenomenológica legítima ha de investigar transcendentalmente el «sentido del ser» como el apriori absoluto.La fenomenología ha de ser realizada como ontología.

El significat de les activitats aquàtiques del nadó des d'una perspectiva evolutiva

Aquest article pretén d’aprofundir des d’una perspectiva evolutiva en l’estudi i l’anàlisi de les activitats aquàtiques del nadó. A partir d’aquí, l’article interpreta des de l’òptica filogenètica i ontogenètica de les activitats aquàtiques dels nadons, quin significat tindran aquestes activitats en el seu desenvolupament general. Per assolir els objectius fixats, l’article utilitza un enfocament fenomenològic (Husserl, 1996) que se sustentarà conceptualment en l’abordatge filogenètic del desenvolupament psicomotriu de Fonseca (1998). Partint d’aquesta estructura, s’estudiaran les raons filogenètiques i ontogenètiques que ens poden significar les activitats aquàtiques del nadó per tal que, en última instància, i des de la línia més existencial de la fenomenologia (Sartre, 1999; Merleau-Ponty, 2000), puguem argumentar la significació evolutiva d’aquestes activitats.

Probing quantum gravity using photons from a flare of the active galactic nucleus Markarian 501 observed by the MAGIC telescope

We analyze the timing of photons observed by the MAGIC telescope during a flare of the active galactic nucleus Mkn 501 for a possible correlation with energy, as suggested by some models of quantum gravity (QG), which predict a vacuum refractive index similar or equal to 1 + (E/M-QGn)(n), n = 1, 2. Parametrizing the delay between gamma-rays of different energies as Delta t = +/-tau E-1 or Delta t = +/-tau E-q(2), we find tau(1) = (0.030 +/- 0.012) s/GeV at the 2.5-sigma level, and tau(q) = (3.71 +/- 2.57) x 10(-6) s/GeV2, respectively. We use these results to establish lower limits M-QG1 > 0.21 X 10(18) GeV and M-QG2 > 0.26 x 10(11) GeV at the 95% C.L. Monte Carlo studies confirm the MAGIC sensitivity to propagation effects at these levels. Thermal plasma effects in the source are negligible, but we cannot exclude the importance of some other source effect.

Estructuración natural de las relaciones entre sonidos de altura definida : aproximación fenomenológica a las relaciones tonales

La mayoría de tratados de armonía enfocan las relaciones armónicas como el resultado de unas combinaciones concretas y hasta cierto punto aleatorias de sonidos y solamente muy de vez en cuando encontramos justificaciones de por qué unos determinados procesos armónicos tienen un resultado vivencial específico; incluso en esos casos, las explicaciones se quedan habitualmente en nada. En este trabajo estudiaremos a fondo cuáles son los fundamentos esenciales sobre los que se basa la música, entendida como un encadenamiento de frecuencias que, si bien es solamente una parte del todo musical, constituye un elemento muy importante. Para ello, la fenomenología de la música –el estudio del efecto de los sonidos sobre la conciencia humana– nos proporcionará las herramientas necesarias.