Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis for the HELIOS Loop within the LACANES Benchmark

Within the OECD/NEA Benchmarking of Thermal-Hydraulic Loop Models for Lead-Alloy Cooled Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems （LACANES）, the Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology takes part in the validation process of system codes and the characterization of the thermal-hydraulic behavior of an experimental loop operated with liquid lead-bismuth-eutectics. To confirm the calculations, the results were compared to experimental data obtained from the HELIOS facility at the Seoul National University and to the results of other benchmark participants. The comparison showed that the calculations are within measurement tolerance but nevertheless discrepancies among the participants exist. The pressure drop estimation is determined by a variety of empirical correlations for the friction and the form loss coefficients. Hence, uncertainty and sensitivity measures were applied to find out which parameter is more relevant for the overall pressure drop. In the frame of this investigation, the system code TRACE and the software system for uncertainty and sensitivity, SUSA, were used. The results show that the total pressure drop varies between -30 and ＋15% related to the reference case.

A Lacan's Three Orders Approach to Winter in July by Doris Lessing

As a famous English contemporary women writer, Doris Lessing always puts her attention on the female characters that live in South Africa. Their lives are pathetic and sad. This thesis tries to analyze one of Lessing's short stories— Winter in July from Lacan's three Orders approach. Lessing is a feminist, but the deeper description of the desire and struggle in men's inner world in her works is also remarkable.

The Gaze Theory

Gaze describes the relationship of the subject with the power and desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.The gaze can be motivated by the subject' s desire to control the object it sees,and an object that can likewise capture and hold the subject' s eye.The term ' gaze' is often defined as looking long and intently with affection at a subject.A person who determines a sense of themselves as an individual element in the world makes up the idea of the gaze.The concept of the gaze is also a central part of theories looking within modernity.

A Deconstructive Analysis of The Great Gatsby

Francis Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)is universally recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.He is also considered a member of the“Lost Generation”of the 1920s,and with the publication of The Great Gatsby he was catapulted to fame by a night which gives a concrete illustration to the Jazz Age.Taking the novel as a case in point,this paper,based on the theory of deconstruction,seeks to undertake a deconstructive interpretation towards the binary oppositions on which the projects rest—dream and reality,and the past and the present,in order to subvert logos-centrism represented by Gatsby’s disillusionment with his American dream.

The Blind Spot of the Sovereign Eye： On the Gaze in Merleau-Ponty and Lacan

In this essay I will explicate the gaze （le regard） and the ways in which it exceeds or transcends what we know as vision, the objectifying or representational power of the eyes. Building critically on Sartre, the gaze in Lacan and Merleau-Ponty is part of the technical apparatus used to describe the foundation, production, and reproduction of the subject. I will begin by discussing the role of visual perception in subject-formation in their respective work, differentiating between the Merleau-Pontian notion of the ＂gaze of the world,＂ i.e., the ways in which things cast their gaze upon us, and the Lacanian gaze as a manifestation of the scopic drive. Through an analysis of anamorphosis I will show （1） how the gaze evades the spectator, （2） what the relationship of the gaze is to the object petit a as the object of the scopic drive, and （3） how both Merleau-Ponty and Lacan require a movement that precedes and destabilizes the subject of intentional consciousness.

Bourriaud＇s Relational Aesthetics, Lacanian Aggressivity, and Teaching Contemporary Art History to Studio Art Students

Nicholas Bourriaud＇s relational aesthetics is regarded as a new approach to art history and criticism, but has recently been appropriated by many art programs as a pedagogical and productive strategy in the classroom. While there is much that is positive in Bourriaud＇s ideas in the first sense, its translation into a studio situation is problematic. Offering a corrective through Lacanian psychoanalysis, with acknowledgement of additional figures with corresponding ideas, it is proposed that Bourriaud＇s ideas are valuable additions to pedagogy generally but are equally in need of modifications that encompass a critical understanding of the desire structures of both students and faculty.

Falstaff: A Signifier Above and Beyond

This paper investigates the character of Falstaff in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part I and Henry IV Part II,using philosophical concepts drawn from the thought of Jacques Lacan.Here,Falstaff is treated as signifying the complete satisfaction of desire for eating,drinking,love-making,and the primitive and ideal states of the ego.Thus,Falstaff is beyond the pleasure principle.To satisfy his desire and become the ideal ego,Falstaff manipulates signifiers,facts,time,and common logic.Falstaff is above signifying chains,in that he uses others around him and disobeys the others(God,the king,and the Chief Justice).However,Falstaff cannot be reduced to nothing because he represents the primitive nature and existential desire of human beings.To allow people to enjoy Falstaff’s pleasures is a task in social development.Due to the excesses he reaches in satisfying his desires,Falstaff can only be allowed to exist in fantasy.Falstaff is thus a signifier haunted above and beyond.

Moving the Posts： Two Models of Sports Research

This essay presents two models of sports research, one characterized by a didactic and normative relation to its object, while wedded to a view of language characterized by a transparent and non-mediated relation between signifier and signified, and another result of the linguistic turn and an interest in reception studies and audiences. The latter has failed to deliver on its promise to democratize sports studies, as it has become centrally engaged in mapping audiences as consumers. Through a narrative analysis of three stories by Kafka, the essay shows how these models can be seen as employing specific narrative forms, and how Kafka＇s last installment in The Hunger Artist sequel offered a different perspective of the relation between art and society. This latter form of narrative may take sports studies beyond the hold of what psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan referred to as the specular phase of subject formation and into an imaginary servitude characteristic of the social ＇T＇, formed in the closing phase of the Mirror Stage.

On the Women Image in The Woman Warrior — Based on the Theory of Lacan's Symbolic Order

According to the theory of Lacan's symbolic order, gender identity is determined by the culture that people live in.The culture is the chief determinant of women's gender and their destiny. The Woman Warrior is the autobiographical novel of Maxine Hong Kingston, in which there are different women images who live in different cultures. The this paper focuses on analyzing the tragic fate of"no name woman"who lives in traditional Chinese patriarchy culture and the hard experience of"I"who struggles between Chinese patriarchy culture and American feminism culture.

Narrating a Fantasmatic Unity： On the Contemporary Sinophone Discourse of China＇s Civilizational Subjectivity

A powerful discourse centered on China＇s civilizational subjectivity has emerged in the Sinophone intellectual world since the early 2000s. Among many promoters of this intellectual trend, Gan Yang, together with his slogan of the ＂fusion of three traditions,＂ is indeed most influential. This study employs Lacanian psychoanalytic technics to tackle Gan Yang＇s thesis, treating the latter not just an object for textual analysis, but more deeply （and fruitfully）, that for psychoanalysis. The findings of the study reveal the presence of a fantasmatic structure framing and guaranteeing Gan＇s （sharply inconsistent） vision of China＇s civilizational subjectivity. Such fantasmatic formation can be referred to as the ＂Great Dragon fantasy＂-a fantasy about China＇s civilizational unity and glory.

The Imago of Revolution Psychoanalysis and Class Consciousness An Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Class Consciousness （...and Some Extracts from the Dialectics Money/Death Drive）

For the purpose of the investigations, we propose in the present paper that we have been carrying out for some years into new perspectives for a Marxist Psychoanalysis; we try the consistence of Marxist psychoanalysis with the pre- Leninist idea of Class consciousness as developed in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and in the unpublished books of Das Kapital （notably the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall）. The roots of Freudian Marxists （Reich and Fenichel above all, but Sabina Spielrein too） are put into a comparative analysis with Marxian psychiatry arising from the de-colonization process （Fanon） and with the teaching of Jacques Lacan about Marxist concepts such as plus value and reification, and eventually with the proposal on the political Unconscious developed by Fredric Jameson. Finally, it comes the hypothesis that Psychoanalysis could correspond to Class consciousness.

Lacanian Interpretation of Dorian Gray’s Self-Identifying under the Influence of Others

In Oscar Wilde's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray,the protagonist Dorian Gray undergoes the psychological journey from ignorance to self-realization under the influence of Others including Lord Henry Wotton,artist Basil Hallward,and the magic portrait.It is due to the profound impact from the outside world that Dorian Gray alienates from his original self and remolds himself into an entity that is guided by Others.In interacting with Others,especially the intrusive patriarchal signifier,Dorian Gray acquires his self-identity through accepting and modulating his various images reflected in others'discourses,which can be interpreted in relation to the progression of three phases of Jacques Lacan's Mirror Stage Theory and three levels of semiotic complexity.A Lacanian reading of the early mirror stage of ego formation can be extended to better understand Dorian Gray's self-construction process on both a psychoanalytical and semiotic level,with an emphasis that Dorian Gray's journey to search for self is based on the powerful influence of the Others.The paper suggests that characters around Dorian Gray are playing respective roles of mother,father,and the mirror that dominate an infanfs seilf-identification between Lacanian Imaginary and Symbolic orders.

The Psychosis of Power:A Lacanian Reading of Augusto Roa Bastos’s I the Supreme

In the mid-seventies,Paraguay was two decades into what would ultimately be the second longest dictatorship in its history,second only to the reign of its“founding father,”Doctor Jose Rodriguez Gaspar de Francia.The regime of Alfredo Stroessner justified its existence and articulated its continued role in Paraguayan politics on a genealogy of national identity that had its supposed roots in the Francia government,Francia’s political ideology and,in fact,in the historical person of Francia himself.In this essay I show how the great Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos’s 1974 novel,I,the Supreme,takes aim at the“kernel of the real”in the Stroessner regime’s political genealogy,using fiction to make evident its anamorphic manipulation of national and nationalist identity.By taking at its word the regime’s historical discourse,I,the Supreme reveals the psychotic logic animating its version of political power.