This study investigated the claim that humans will readily form team relationships with computers . Drawing from the group dynamic literature in human – human interactions , a laboratory experiment ( n 5 56) manipulated identity and interdependence to create team af filiation in a human – computer interaction . The data show that subjects who are told they are interdependent with the computer a...

This article argues that legal determinations of filiation are normative ideological constructions about how societal relations between parents and children should be ordered. They are based upon regular understandings of the relationship between biological and social facts and, as this article demonstrates, operate to create an asymmetrical relationship between the categories between paternity...

The process of self destruction in suicidal behavior for borderline patients seems to have a breaking function of filiation which has to live in mortify parental desire- or non-desire, both of them reflect a lack of investment. It tries to reach a part of the adolescent's body, figuration place of filial alienation, neither in a death desire, but in will rebirth.