Recensão de: Robert Kagan, O Paraíso e o Poder. A América e a Europa na Nova Ordem Mundial, Lisboa, Gradiva, 2003, 111 pp.

Revista Lusófona de Ciências Sociais

A Imaginação como Ilusão. Apontamentos para o cotejo Ricoeur/Freud

Paul Ricoeur é o filósofo contemporâneo que de um modo muito especial conseguiu dialogar com quase todas as correntes filosóficas e interligá-las em questões fulcrais para o pensamento filosófico actual. Uma delas, e aquela que desde 1991 elegemos como nosso quesito principal, é a questão da imaginação. Paradoxalmente é uma temática que o filósofo não desenvolveu. Mas é também aquela que, em nosso entender, subjaz a todo o entrelaçado do seu riquíssimo pensamento nomeadamente no impressionante trabalho sistematizador que faz da obra de Freud, no livro intitulado De l'interprétation, essai sur Freud, publicado em 1965. De l'interprétation, essai sur Freud organiza os conceitos e examina, tanto o detalhe como as linhas mestras do pensamento freudiano, pelo comentário de importantes passagens da obra de Freud, de entre as quais salientamos: a passagem da teoria da sedução para as teorias que valorizam a fantasia. Nesta obra Ricoeur destaca o amor de Freud pelas artes e o seu preconceito contra a religião, sendo nesse amor e nessa rejeição que interceptamos a possível inteligibilidade da imaginação, na psicanálise, como ilusão.

Weak systems of Gandy, Jensen and Devlin

In Part I, we formulate and examine some systems that have arisen in the study of the constructible hierarchy; we find numerous transitive models for them, among which are supertransitive models containing all ordinals that show that Devlin's system BS lies strictly between Gandy's systems PZ and BST'; and we use our models to show that BS fails to handle even the simplest rudimentary functions, and is thus inadequate for the use intended for it in Devlin's treatise. In Part II we propose and study an enhancement of the underlying logic of these systems, build further models to show where the previous hierarchy of systems is preserved by our enhancement; and consider three systems that might serve for Devlin's purposes: one the enhancement of a version of BS, one a formulation of Gandy-Jensen set theory, and the third a subsystem common to those two. In Part III we give new proofs of results of Boffa by constructing three models in which, respectively, TCo, AxPair and AxSing fail; we give some sufficient conditions for a set not to belong to the rudimentary closure of another set, and thus answer a question of McAloon; and we comment on Gandy's numerals and correct and sharpen other of his observations.

Antimicrobial susceptibility determined by the E test, Löwenstein-Jensen proportion, and DNA sequencing methods among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates discrepancies, preliminary results

Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains resistant to streptomycin (SM), isoniazid (INH), and/or rifampin (RIF) as determined by the conventional Löwenstein-Jensen proportion method (LJPM) were compared with the E test, a minimum inhibitory concentration susceptibility method. Discrepant isolates were further evaluated by BACTEC and by DNA sequence analyses for mutations in genes most often associated with resistance to these drugs (rpsL, katG, inhA, and rpoB). Preliminary discordant E test results were seen in 75% of isolates resistant to SM and in 11% to INH. Discordance improved for these two drugs (63%) for SM and none for INH when isolates were re-tested but worsened for RIF (30%). Despite good agreement between phenotypic results and sequencing analyses, wild type profiles were detected on resistant strains mainly for SM and INH. It should be aware that susceptible isolates according to molecular methods might contain other mechanisms of resistance. Although reproducibility of the LJPM susceptibility method has been established, variable E test results for some M. tuberculosis isolates poses questions regarding its reproducibility particularly the impact of E test performance which may vary among laboratories despite adherence to recommended protocols. Further studies must be done to enlarge the evaluated samples and looked possible mutations outside of the hot spot sequenced gene among discrepant strains.

1957.- George Jensen

Rehabilitació de la planta baixa d'una casa en la reconversió a disseny d'interior d'un local comercial destinat a exposició i venda d'objectes de regal de plata, cristall i porcellana. On actualment ja s'establia a la banda esquerra una botiga que es reaprofitarà. També s'inclou la rehabilitació de façana del mateix local.

La psychologie d'Aristote chez Freud : essai de psychologie comparée

VEsquisse (1895) ainsi que le chapitre VII de L'interprétation du rêve (1900) de Freud offrent un modèle psychologique - sous-jacent à toute la psychanalyse élaborée par la suite - qui présente des analogies frap¬pantes avec les conceptions aristotéliciennes sur la psyché, principalement développées dans le De l'âme et les Petits traités d'histoire naturelle. Ceci peut se comprendre entre autres par le fait que les seuls cours uni¬versitaires de psychologie et de philosophie que Freud fréquenta, parallèlement à ses études de médecine, furent ceux du théologien, psychologue et philosophe Franz Brentano, grand spécialiste d'Aristote, dont l'impact de l'enseignement sur le jeune Freud est aujourd'hui mieux connu grâce à son échange épistolaire, au début de ses études, avec son ancien ami de gymnase Eduard Silberstein. En effet, plus d'un élément du paradigme psychologique aristotélicien, qui chez cet auteur s'ancre dans la biologie, semblent trouver écho chez Freud : ainsi, la génération de diverses sortes de représentation au sein de l'appareil psychique par l'investissement des traces mnésiques, chez Freud, fait penser à la production ât phantâsmata dans l'âme, par le travail de la phantasîa sur les mouvements résiduels de la perception sensorielle, chez Aristote. De là, ce sont autant le fonctionnement mnésique, que l'explication des phénomènes du rêve et de l'hallucination, que la compréhension du désir dans sa capacité de mettre en mouvement le vivant animé (c'est-à-dire un être doté d'une âme) qui vont représenter les points d'articulation de cette comparaison. -- The Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) as well as Chapter VII of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900) offer a psychological model - underlying the entire psychoanalysis developed hereafter - which is strikingly similar to Aristotelian conceptions of the psyche in On the Soul and Little Physical Treatises. One explanation may be that the only lectures in psychology and philosophy that Freud attended at university, alongside lectures in medicine, were given by the theologist, psychologist, and philosopher Franz Brentano, who had a deep knowledge of Aristotle. Because of young Freud's correspondence with his high school friend Eduard Silberstein at the beginning of his studies, the influence of Brentano's teachings on Freud is now better known. Indeed, much of the Aristotelian psychological paradigm - rooted in biology - seems to echo in Freud's writings. Thus, the production of various sorts of representations within the psychic apparatus by means of the investment in memory traces in Freud's model evokes the phantâsmata generated in the soul by the action of phantasîa on the residual movements of the sensory perception in Aristotle's psychology. From there, this comparison will hinge as much on the operation of memory as on the explanation of the phenomena of dreams and hallucinations, as on the understanding of desire in its ability to set the animated living being (i.e. a being with a soul) in motion.

Freud, l'art moderne et les "misérables cannibales nus": une perspective décalée sur le destin des pulsions

La «modernité» de la psychanalyse, comme entreprise à la fois thérapeutique et de savoir, dépend-elle, pour tout ou partie, du fond animique prétendument archaïque ou primitif défini par cette discipline comme son principal objet d'étude? Rapportée à l'horizon épistémique de la psychanalyse, cette articulation entre archaïsme et modernité aurait-elle seulement été du goût de Freud? En interrogeant de manière critique les rapports de Freud à l'art «moderne», à l'art «classique» et aux arts «primitifs», ce texte entend simultanément mettre en évidence l'importance du paradigme des arts dans la constitution de l'identité épistémique de la psychanalyse et proposer une possible relecture des relations entre nature et culture ou du phénomène de sublimation, tels que définis par le fondateur de la psychanalyse.