..., and Derrida all address the problem of history and that the relations among these thinkers deserve more attention than their polemical reception has allowed, particularly with regard to attacks on psychoanalysis as ahistorical. © 2009 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural...

... psyche, and the exceptional nature of the Freudian (and, I would add, Lacanian) texts in the history of psychoanalysis is that they allow unreadable pressures to infiltrate the readable, thus creating a type of readability at odds with how we have been taught to read while also accounting for that which...

... environment. — Receptive Bodies 44–45 In what follows I attempt to articulate the sense of Bersani’s several expositions of the concept of the “continuity of being,” as well as what I construe to be complementary expositions from diverse thinkers. I emphasize at the outset that, whatever (very...

... to coordinating the liberal values of a civil society. In 1805, Wordsworth, unable to write about his brother’s death, “turned my thoughts to the Poem on my own life,” which grew to over nine thousand lines. As he proclaims, it was “a thing unprecedented in Literary history that a man should talk so much about...

... of the adjective” is a desiring. The grammatical form of Bersani’s sentence indicates the argument’s torque: the plural subject turned with force into a singular object, and not in the form of a person, but as desire’s “opening.” In other words, they are an ardent receptiveness , to use the term...

... in our critical history looks profoundly like that of [ . . . ] a dead zone (think ‘impasse’).” By this Holland means that the black queer woman is a reminder of historical wrongs but not assimilated into a political future. Figure 1 Simone Leigh Installation, View 3. Luhring Augustine, New York...

... like? These are as much questions of rhetoric and aesthetics as they are of ontology and physics: regarding the first sentences of his essays and books, Bersani remarks (in Receptive Bodies ) that his notorious openers 1 have the effect of “momentarily immobilizing our attention,” and as a result...

... for their reception, Bersani brackets the literature on sociality and sexuality that has come before, including his own, which variously posits the homosexual and the queer as figures of radical negation. Averse to such recuperations of the sovereign self, Bersani’s bracketing instead makes space for the homoerotic...

..., France ceased to be the main exporter of ideas worldwide. Plagued by economic recession and self-doubt, suffering the consequences of what postcolonial scholars have called (all the while rightly calling for it) the “provincialization of Europe,” and engaged, for the first time in the long history...

.... 1987: 345 - 48 . Lyman David MD , and Winkelstein Warren MD . Letter. “ Minimal Risk of Transmission of aids -Associated Retrovirus Infection Oral-Genital Contact .” Journal of the American Medical Association 4 Apr . 1986 . Rpt. in The aids Reader: Documentary History...

... of the present” (Pensky 44).11 Pensky sees a “postmelancholic” potential in this heuristic, which simultaneously solicits a heightened receptivity toward the “trash of history” and its active messianic transformation.12...

... of spirituality—became the subject’s path to truth” ( “Will” 154 ). As much as Foucault suggests in History of Madness that the Age of Reason undergoes a second birth in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century medical reforms—and then in nineteenth-century positivist psychology as a counterpoint of sorts...

... , 1985 . 170 – 91 . James Robin . “ From Receptivity to Transformation .” Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy . Comp. Del Guadalupe Davidson Maria Gines Kathryn T. Marcano Donna-Dale L. . Albany : SUNY P , 2010 . 135 – 56 . Kant Immanuel...

...LYNNE JOYRICH Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2003 lynne joyrich is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of Reviewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Post-modern Culture...

... that, in the long history of patriarchal civilization, have been attributed to the female rather than the male. Formulated as the antithesis of the domi- nating masculine qualities, such feminine qualities would be receptivity, sensitivity...

... that link Tihanov’s work to Foucault’s and then compares a reconstructed version of Foucault’s project for literary theory to Tihanov’s project. © 2021 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2021 disciplines historicity history of ideas history of reception...

... which a virtual oneness with the world can be speculatively imagined. It is as a speculative philosopher of a mode or condition of freedom—one that no longer carries any definitive historical predicate, as in Hegel’s philosophy of history, or personal/identity assignment, as in post-Freudian sociology...

... . Stoyanov Enyo . “ The Political Dimensions of Mikhail Bakhtin’s Bulgarian Reception: Between Structuralism and Impressionism .” History of Humanities 4 . 2 ( 2019 ): 365 – 75 . Stoyanov Enyo . “ Poststructuralist Backgrounds: The Political Strategies of Resistance in the Literary...

... in the Histories of Art." Vision & Difference. New York: Routledge, 1988. 1-17. "Questions of Feminism: 25 Responses." October 71 (Winter 1995): 3-47. "The Reception of the Sixties." Roundtable. October 69 (Spring 1994): 3-21. Schor, Naomi. "Previous Engagements: The Reception of Irigaray." Burke, et aI., eds. 3...

... that are part of the classical erotic tradition. I argue that the intertextual web created by these letters is a key for deciphering their unique articulation of the feminine. The background assumption here is that the study of the feminine voice requires a consideration of the history of its adaptations...