Search Results for psychoanalysis

...Valerio Amoretti Abstract This essay argues that reading involves a form of unconscious psychic work that has the potential to deeply affect and transform the reader. Recent discussions about the practice of reading shunned psychoanalysis because of its alleged reliance on a suspicious epistemology...

..., the essay analyzes fantasy’s place in global violence and in the psychology of impunity. How does The Act of Killing signal a crisis in the global distribution of affect and accountability? How do bodily symptoms crystallize the negativity that underwrites social relations? The essay deploys psychoanalysis...

... with Freudian psychoanalysis and Roland Barthes’s theory on photography, the author demonstrates how the process of retrieving memories and recovering from trauma can be achieved through “bricolage.” In doing so, this essay sheds light on the unique narratology conveyed through Sebald’s quasi-realistic lens...

... psychoanalysis, we argue that both artists seek in their different acts of critical reading the best ways to materialize the visionary operations of voice by giving it greater aesthetic and ethical effectiveness, in the hope of perfecting the fierce maternal form of the modern superego, and thereby exorcising...

...Donald E. Pease “ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof : Restoring Tennessee Williams’s Production of the 1950s Primal Scene” explores the productive exchanges between the domains of drama and psychoanalysis by removing the “primal scene” from its embeddedness within psychoanalytic theory and resituating...

... and the Dreyfus Affair but downplays the political implications of Proust’s aesthetics. Her focus on psychoanalysis leads her incorrectly to interpret his lucidity about Marcel’s cruelty as latent repudiation. Prendergast invokes nation and citizenship in his analysis of Proustian skepticism but largely neglects...

... of Jürgen Habermas on her discourse theory, and how both find psychoanalysis beneficial in the task of restoring speech and addressing muteness. In short, this reconstruction provides a brief overview of the theoretical infrastructure rather than an exhaustive exposition and assessment. clwarr2...

... sermon, the flesh, psychoanalysis, and Black culture, for instance, we gather the image that is the most appropriate presentation of Black thought, which is that of thinking in the thick of it. [email protected] Copyright ©2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Every time I finish reading...

... is a political creature in the most global sense of the term. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth 1. The Without Alibi of Psychoanalysis In Geopsychoanalysis and the Rest of the World delivered at the opening of a Franco Latin American meeting that took place in Paris in February 1981, Jacques Derrida...

... on the subject, which I find best suited to my purposes: Jean-Michel Rabaté’s edited col- lection of critical essays by various hands, Lacan in America, and his own authored text, Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Litera- ture.11 Before doing so, however, I must say something further...

... attempts to cor- relate political ideology with psychoanalysis. But it was not the first venture by the Frankfurt School into empirical social psychology. Already in the 1920s, Erich Fromm had conducted empirical research on the political atti- tudes of the working class in Germany (1984...

..., 1845–1915. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. Davis, Walter. Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative. SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Dawes, Kwame, ed. Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone...

... Copyright ©2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Nadia Bou Ali is associate professor and director of the Critical Humanities for the Liberal Arts Program at the American University of Beirut. She is the author of Hall of Mirrors: Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic (2020), and coeditor...

... 2004 Contributors Emily Apter is professor of French and comparative literature at New York University. She is the author of Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (1999), Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of- the Century...

..., that is to say, to our science as well as to our literature, in an indiscernible manner (if so, one can understand why Freud went out of his way sometimes to credit literature with what psychoanalysis “wants to say By my count, though, this makes two “laws.” There would be first the law...

... readings and was well aware that she would likely never get around to reading all of them provokes the question: If one truly knows this, why on earth is one doing it anyway? What we are faced with are cases of méconnaissance , to use a term from Lacanian psychoanalysis that is not easily translated...

... at Dartmouth College and a psychoanalyst with a practice in New York City. She is the author of Lacan and Race, in After Lacan: Literature, Theory, and 220 boundary 2 / November 2019 Psychoanalysis in the Twenty- First Century. She is the deputy managing editor of The Lacanian Review, and a member...

... of linguistics and psychoanalysis. As Foucault himself points out (2:436), it was Merleau-Ponty’s lectures on Saussure that introduced Saussure’s linguistic structuralism to the French scene. Merleau- Ponty’s bridge from phenomenology to structuralism is sketched in the fol- lowing sentence from his essay...

... Not Speak Its Own Name: The Neoliberal Thought Collective under Erasure .” Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 23 , September 2014 . http://cms.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP23-Mirowski.pdf . Morgan David . 2016 . “ How Psychoanalysis Can Help Us Make Sense...

... terminological reference work for psychoanalysis by Jean Laplanche and J.-B. Pontalis has no entry for or discussion of iden- tity. Its major entry is for identification. I quote the primary definition in full: ‘‘psychological process whereby the subject assimilates an aspect, prop- erty or attribute...