.... The Skin Ego . Trans. Chris Turner. New Haven: Yale up, 1989 . Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter . New York: Routledge, 1993 . Chiland, Colette. Transsexualism: Illusion and Reality . London: Sage, 2003 . Freud, Sigmund. The Ego and the Id. 1923 . The Standard Edition of the Complete...

... of group formation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It turns to the work of Freud in order to propose an analysis of the “corporate ego,” joining Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) and Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) with the work of the sociologist of science Bruno Latour...

... become further embedded within the infrastructure of everyday encounters, giving rise to something we might call the erotic life of anti-racism. The femme alter ego, then, emerges not only as an agent of retribution but as a kind of ressentiment to racist intimacy. 9 By reassigning the sense...

... that the feminine eroticizes the body and orients the drive toward its impossible object and that analysis is interminable because in both men and women the feminine is rejected by the ego. Lacan largely passes over Freud’s bisexual thesis. Through his reading of Wittgenstein, whose Tractatus takes up Fliess’s...

... of the ego, desire is linked to the anxiety induced by the loss of the ego ideals and the encounter with castration. The corollary is that the practice of psychoanalysis is founded on the confrontation with the anxiety provoked by the desire of the Other and the assumption that only this can result in real...

... models of nondual consciousness and brings Bersani’s later writings into conversation with musical experience. In Bersani’s encounter with Proust and music, musical experience proffers a powerful ego solvent in favor of ontological interpenetration. An attention to music—here, that of Morton Feldman...

...Ani Maitra In radical Lacanian cultural critique, affirmations of unconscious desire and the reinvention of the symbolic order are frequently founded upon dismissals of the imaginary ego and its paranoid obsessions with meaning, coherence, and identity politics. By bringing Lacan’s theorization...

... of a relatively stable ego, then how can psychoanalysis productively contribute to the analysis of the democratic political sphere? This article treats this question through an analysis not only of Sigmund Freud's incursions into what he called “a wider social stage” but also of his daughter's particular...

... and an impoverishment of ego that, she maintains, ultimately provides a critical agency. © 2009 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2009 ranjana khanna is Professor in the English Department, the Literature Program, and Women's Studies and is Margaret Taylor Smith...

... (ego psychology) psychoanalysis and its legal and training institutions, in parallel with the retheorization of transference love toward a stable notion of erotic transference. The author argues that professional psychoanalytic institutions and associations only began to legislate boundary violation...

... narcissism. By this Bersani asks us to move past the psychic dynamics of ego formation and their implicit violence to make way for a mode of relationality in which subjects coexist absent of any demands on one another. This approach draws from Bersani’s own eviscerating critique of the heteronormative...

..., Bersani embraces this instability of identification that may ultimately cause the subject to collapse. Gay sex practices provide the occasion for this scene of vertigo, which, in Bersani’s work, opens a space that exists after the fall of the ego and that is often further explored through a turn to art...

... not the harmony of self and world but an ego-disseminating spiritualization of the senses. This examination of Intimacies ’ final passage also tracks a distinctively Bersanian oscillation between particularizing and universalizing engagements with the world in a mise en abyme structure that articulates...

... by the individual subject or by the collective. To understand how an act of the unconscious can be received as catastrophic, whether by the actor or by others, we first have to consider both the resistance to the act at the level of the ego and its censorship by culture and civilization. For this we need to be more...

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... sameness ontologically incompatible with analyzable egos” ( Homos 125 ). Difference in turn becomes “the nonthreatening margin of, or supplement to, a seductive sameness” (150), “accidents of personality” ( Bersani and Phillips 82 ) that may be overlooked by a narcissistic gaze that has no need...

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... finite: they’re about transforming the field, transforming the way we might know the past, and how we might come to learn our own future. Alter Egos, New Media, and Black/Queer Performativity Two months...

.... 1978–86 . Foucault Michel . “ Technologies of the Self .” Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault . Ed. Martin Luther H. , Gutman Huck , and Hutton Patrick H. . Amherst : U Massachusetts P , 1988 . 16 – 49 . Freud Sigmund . The Ego and the Id...

... , 1990 . Grubrich-Simitis Ilse , ed. and “ Metapsychology and Metabiology .” Author Sigmund Freud. A Phylogenetic Fantasy: An Overview of the Transference Neuroses . Cambridge, MA : Belknap/Harvard , 1987 . 73 – 107 . Hartmann Heinz . Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation...