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The purpose of this paper is to present a critical discussion of the concept of group’s identity through a dialogue between the works of Freud and Hardt & Negri. We work in the denaturalization of this concept, denouncing the conflicting forces that participate in its construction, forces that always emerge a sense of strange. Therefore, we emphasize the mobility and the incompleteness present in the identificatory mechanisms, incompleteness that binds to a memory of an identity intends to bury. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the area known as International Business (IB) is growing in Brazil and in the world, research in this field has been dominated by functionalist approaches and tend to ignore issues of power. Furthermore, the area has adopted anglo-american references acritically, which suggests an epistemic coloniality. Thus, the aim of this paper is to suggest a critical approach as a way of conducting research in the area of International Business in Brazil. So, we recount the origins of the field, show its resistance to the adoption of critical and / or reflective approaches. We then denaturalized the area of IB to propose the de-colonization as an alternative to the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work begins with a philosophical view of nature and then approaches it in its historical and operational dimension. The notion of nature as a double-real and as an illusion producer allows a critique to the way reality is considered, displacing what is real from its duplication and redimensioning it in the time of the event. Death is approached from the view of subjective changes that happened alongside History, pointing out the predominant way of experiencing it in the contemporary society: death displaced in time, phantasmatic death. Then it takes the dominant frameworks around aids epidemics and -- through a clinical case -- discusses the use of the denaturalization concept in the equation aids = death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]