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... of contemporary cultural materials (classics like the movies of John Waters and the early performances of Bette Midler, as well as such recent works as Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth , the television show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! , and music videos by Fergie, Nicki Minaj, and Psy) and show how...

... point in their lives, the NIMH predicts, most people have suffered or will suffer from depression. Reigning neurochemical, cognitive, and psy- chiatric understandings of depression emphasize function and dysfunction, but I would like to mobilize the idea that depression represents an affect...

... privatized in rapid-­fire succession, the psy boom provided new idioms for aligning market demands and self-­development. The new possibilities that psychological self-­work has opened up have been (perhaps predictably) unevenly distributed. That much has become clear in the Putin period...

... and the negative Oedipus complex, I explore questions of origin and the psy- chic genealogy of Borshay Liem’s maternal dilemma. I recognize that Borshay Liem’s documentary represents a singular set of experiences that may at first seem remote from the heterogeneous experiences of different transnational...

... from the ambitious metahistorical adventures in which Freud had indulged.”6 Similarly, Kenneth Lewes has suggested that the postwar period in the history of U.S. clinical psy- choanalysis “was characterized...

...- ceives of “the West” itself as a now universal “project” that produces the conflicted history same “stories” everywhere.17 If for Nandy “the West” is a particular psy- chology, for Asad it is a set of plots and narratives, and its dominance lies of Indianness...

... when our behavior is judged abnormal.21 The “doubling of psychiatry,” or what Foucault calls the “psy- ­function” of so many modern institutions, is generally a submerged feature of contemporary life; but incidents like the Virginia Tech...

... As such, how might we evaluate this psy- chic transaction, this psychic leap of faith in liberal reason? How are love and hate not universal concepts but differentially deployed, recognized, and circulated to circumscribe and to configure various object...

..., 2002). 19. Valverde, Diseases of the Will. See also Boyer, “Sin and Sanity.” 20. G. E. Berrios and M. Gili, “The Will and Its Disorders,” History of Psy- chiatry 6 (1995): 87 – 104; Vernon Bourke, Will in Western Thought (New York: Sheed...

... of himself as “half man, half woman”35—through psy- choanalysis and was treated by Dr. Sandor Raod, a Hungarian-born psy- chiatrist, who thought of “homosexuality as a perversion.”36 In Bern- stein’s case, his homosexuality, his love for the musical theater instead...

..., ed. David L. Eng and David Kazanjian (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 343 – 71; Paul Gilroy, Postcolonial Melancholia ( New York: Columbia University Press, 2005); Anne Anlin Cheng, The Melancholy of Race: Psy- choanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Oxford: Oxford...

... as a discur- sive formation that arises epistemologically. In that text, he engages psy- choanalysis as the domain of sexuality, using psychoanalysis to account for the hysterization of women’s bodies, the pedagogization of children’s sex, Social Text 84–85, Vol...

... the crash. They accepted the new world but did not embrace it. It still made them nervous.”29 Rather than treating this statement as an inference about mass psy- chology, it may be more interesting to understand it within a phenome- nology of investment...

.... 11. Etienne Balibar, for example, pursues the allegorical reading of psy- choanalysis in his theory of the nation-state and the citizen subject in his essay “Nation Form.” Balibar disaggregates the nation and the state as naming differ- ent processes...

... Oedipal neurosis.”27 Importantly, however, he does not use this to dismantle psy- choanalysis altogether; rather, he uses it as an example of the difference between blacks and whites. The Negro’s Masochism Fanon’s Negro’s...

.... The term jouissance indicates, in the Lacanian psy- choanalysis, the “perverse pleasure” that the subject derives from her or his own symptom. As pleasure that is impossible, jouissance signifies the ambivalence that the subject experiences in relation to his or her symp...

.... 44. Judith Butler, “Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification,” in The Psy- chic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997), 136. 45. Sarah Kofman, The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud’s Writings...

.... This 32 Moreton · S’More Inequality advice echoes not only the regimes mothers are asked to administer for their ADHD children, but none other than William James a century earlier: “There is no more miserable human being,” the father of American psy- chology asserted in the Principles...

... exhilaration nor terror marks Shadrack as a protogay figure who will pursue a different path of psy- 48 Joon Oluchi Lee ST84-85-03_Lee.indd 48 10/19/05 2:34:10 PM chic...

... the movement with which Chan experiments in making the “star” persona, JJ Chinois. Chan’s modulation of suburban ennui into a ludic key while repudiating the psy- choanalytic familial sagas so often central to the “white diaspora” from cities to suburbs also disavows...