... body (the biological unconscious). This work is used to argue that rather than turning away from anatomy, feminist theorists could turn toward anatomy more attentively, particularly in order to see what minded capacities the biological periphery holds. The second half of the chapter looks at how...

... The last thirty years have seen a great deal of scholarship on Benjamin’s optical unconscious, yet much of this work expands well beyond photography, the actual subject of Benjamin’s formulation. This chapter places the medium and its historically specific conditions at the center of renewed...

... This chapter examines one exemplary instance of the optical unconscious that lies latent in Freud’s interpretation of the “R is my uncle dream” as recounted in his Interpretation of Dreams . Drawing on the work of Freud, Benjamin, Gilman, Schmitt, and others, Fardy discusses how the dream...