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differences (2015) 26 (2): 93–105.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Bonnie Honig Margarethe von Trotta’s film Hannah Arendt starts and ends with its protagonist on the couch. Hannah Arendt’s intellectual objection to psychoanalysis notwithstanding, this framing invites us to consider the psychoanalytical symptoms Arendt’s own thinking is caught up in. The essay...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 117–156.
Published: 01 May 2009
... contributions to the topic. Anna Freud was the official inheritor of the psychoanalytic movement, and it was her task to transform the movement into a stable (political) organization with rules of conduct and of the transmission of knowledge. The author traces this transformation through the debates...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 33–50.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Anna Kornbluh This essay argues that a specifically psychoanalytic theory of solidarity underscores its symbolic dimension. While other traditions conceive solidarity as primarily action or affect, psychoanalytic emphases on free association, punctuation, and construction opens onto a theory...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2022
...—that has structured the psychoanalytic social bond from the origins of the talking cure. In putting the subject to grips with the disorienting effects of intersubjectivity, psychoanalysis constructs an ethical relation grounded in the illocutionary enactment of the subject’s negativity, sustaining a bond...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 110–140.
Published: 01 December 2022
... (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...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 90–109.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Rachel Greenspan Where does the consulting room begin and end? And how do those limits impact the therapeutic aims of psychoanalysis? Drawing on clinical work conducted at the margins of European empire across the twentieth century, this essay explores how psychoanalytic notions of political...
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 93–135.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., the essay rethinks the very definition of imaginary narcissism through historically specific contexts of psychic fragmentation under colonial and postcolonial capitalism, offering a differential and material account of the production of identity politics that is at once decolonial and psychoanalytic...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 100–118.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Samia Vasa A psychoanalytic reading of Catharine MacKinnon’s Toward a Feminist Theory of the State brings into focus her overwhelmingly queer-negative investment in sexuality. This essay considers select parts of her book to argue that MacKinnon ends up repeating what she claims to end...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 181–198.
Published: 01 May 2009
... into conversation with its historical allies, Western Marxism and feminism. The author engages with the work of Giorgio Agamben, Françoise Vergès, and Bertrand Ogilvie through a psychoanalytic framework shaped by her understanding of contemporary disposability. She associates disposability with melancholia...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 46–72.
Published: 01 September 2010
... in the integration of Lacanian psychoanalytic and queer/feminist concerns: Judith Butler's Antigone's Claim and Tim Dean's Beyond Sexuality . Dean's project to ``de-gender'' desire offers a reply to Butler's concerns about the compulsory heterosexuality of the Oedipal scene; however, both texts...
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 135–162.
Published: 01 May 2020
... psychoanalytic thought. With these three movements, the essay traces the implications of Derrida’s “principled” critique of the economy of the death drive for his consideration of the death penalty. © 2020 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2020 aneconomy death...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 262–279.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ronjaunee Chatterjee This essay considers psychoanalytic theories of love in the work of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Jacques Lacan. Though there is no coherent theory of love in psychoanalysis, paying attention to love in the analytic situation—that is, to transference—allows us to read...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Adrian Rifkin This essay argues that Leo Bersani’s immersion in a discipline of reading theoretical and psychoanalytic texts and literature with close critical attention effectively writes out his observations from an epistemology of being gay. His attention to visual materials is similarly acute...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 244–251.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and that justifies favoring a psychoanalytic framework over Bourdieu’s, whatever the power of Bourdieu’s thinking about naming and about structures of domination. This article challenges Bersani’s reading of Genet’s novel, which is more sociological that Bersani allows for. It also challenges Bersani’s understanding...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 May 2023
...: following the death of the psychoanalytic subject, the aesthetic subject appears. This essay, however, returns to the scene of the sexual. It traces the path of sexual practices discussed by Bersani, from gay anal intercourse to rimming, finally introducing fisting as a sexual practice that deserves...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 217–227.
Published: 01 May 2023
... relation to masochism. Very similar notions of self-shattering not structured by the other, the world, or the couple are formulated by Gilles Deleuze in the late 1960s, but in this case as characteristics of Sadean demonstrative reason fully distinct from a psychoanalytic position that would insist...
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 84–108.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Steven Swarbrick Freud’s readings of Shakespeare are notorious for their universalizing claims about human sexuality. What is less commonly noticed, and what this article foregrounds, is the asexuality that underwrites psychoanalytic theories of sex. Venus and Adonis shows that Shakespeare’s poem...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 27–61.
Published: 01 September 2016
... structurally committed to mother-hating and mother-blaming, the article explores psychoanalytical foundations for the ethical questions of responsibility in the common but always historically differentiated struggle to incite and sustain the spaces of democratic subjectivities imagined beyond the paradigms...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 72–92.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of Are You My Mother? ’s own analysis in order to make room for readings that resist taking the text at its word. Although Are You My Mother? proclaims loyalty to the psychoanalytic theories of Donald Winnicott, Bechdel employs the metaphor of the mirror and the formal qualities of comics to complicate...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 69–78.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Calvin Warren This meditation is an experimentation with Hortense Spiller’s concept of psychoanalytics . It considers the hieroglyph as a repetitive and enacted (but unrepresentable) force of historical trauma marking black bodies and passed between them generationally (much like the Lacanian...
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