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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 161–165.
Published: 01 December 2014
...David L. Eng This essay is a tribute to José Esteban Muñoz (1967–2013). It explores Muñoz’s engagement with psychoanalytic theory and affective difference as they play out in queer theory’s “antisocial thesis.” I suggest that Muñoz’s conception of racial identity as a performative cluster of common...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 37–54.
Published: 01 September 2021
... history, and reading psychoanalytic theory, among others. After describing the origins of the Stalled! project in recent public discourse on “transgender toilets,” and its practical designs for abolishing the gender binary in space, the article suggests that concepts of transness make sense only...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 103–128.
Published: 01 March 2001
... realities of the postwar period the conser-
vatism of this ongoing clinical “revisionism.” With this postwar emphasis
on interpersonal relations, for Marcuse, “psychoanalytic theory turns into
ideology: the ‘personality...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): np.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., and psychoanalytic theory to analyze female social
subjectivity, sexuality, and transgendered/transsexual subjectivities. She
is completing a book tentatively titled “Sexing the Teacher: School Sex
Scandals and Queer Pedagogies of Female Desire.” Her work has been
published in Gender and Education...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 45–70.
Published: 01 June 2016
... are emblematic of, drive-induced coldness and cruelty seal the ultimate “waning of affect” on the level of acting. Acting is replaced by acting out, and Hurt is lost. The relationship between drive and affect is a rather complicated issue in psychoanalytical theory and too difficult to be tackled here...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 125–147.
Published: 01 December 2020
... material violences will enable scholars and activists to connect nodes of oppressive mechanisms and be able to recognize how (what looks like) gender operates in the vein of other social and subjectifying processes. I also work with the psychoanalytic theory of suture, the stitching up of the subject’s...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 75–113.
Published: 01 September 2015
... or whiteness — can stand
in a fetishistic relationship to phallic presence and absence. She writes:
In psychoanalytic theories of the sexual fetish, “having” the phallus is the
position of power, whereas “being” the phallus, the reflection...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 17–38.
Published: 01 June 2017
... journals in the field: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association , Psychoanalytic Quarterly , and Psychoanalytic Study of the Child . They were not known for including work that challenged Hartmann’s theory. 49 Ego psychology and American neoliberalism are not simply coeval, however...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2016
...
theory of the death drive might be considered the psychoanalytic corollary
of Sartre’s “boomerang,” a detailed exegesis of the damaging effects that
war, violence, and colonialism exacted on the European psyche. In short,
Freud’s death drive marked...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 77–95.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Deleuze and Guattari’s abstractions more concrete and allows us to review the ethical stakes of their project by providing a historical foil for their theories. Ultimately, I argue, reading them together allows us to revisit queer concepts of kinship from different historical and theoretical frames. ©...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2021
... with their histories and politics by using methodologies from such fields as critical race studies, disability studies, literary studies, queer and transgender theory, psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, visual culture, architecture, and design. This issue populates the sexological archive with an expansive array...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2019
... democracies, authoritarian regimes, and interrupted decolonial formations around the globe all organize such a relation differently. The abject attachment to one’s own subjection cannot be explained away by well-worn theories of “false consciousness” if—to echo Sigmund Freud’s key insight signaled above...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 17–42.
Published: 01 December 2007
.... The second analytical frame I have in mind, however, might be termed
the failure of self-government, specifically, the ineffable, self-annihilating trauma and
experience of trauma as it emerges in the psychoanalytic literatures. The
two would not appear to fit together very neatly, at least...
Journal Article
Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 219–233.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the temporal space of “anteri-
ority” has been a huge part of several influential projects in queer studies:
Michael Warner’s critiques of “normal,” Sedgwick’s theory of “shame,”
and Leo Bersani’s work on “homos” all find rich archives of sexual vari-
ance in what...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 111–134.
Published: 01 March 2005
... 2005 by Duke University Press.
Meanwhile, queer and psychoanalytic theory allow us to see that the
Gehring case is scandalous not because it involves an instance of profes-
sional misconduct (although it does) but because it taps...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 81–102.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of equality — serve a
similar diacritical purpose as languages of loathing?
After returning from the field, I found myself reading psychoanalytic
writings on language and depression. While I had been interested in grief
82...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 103–125.
Published: 01 June 2001
...?
Butler begins her critique of economistic leftist thought with the observa-
tion that the very distinction between material and cultural life is highly
suspect. In traditional Marxist theory, for example, racism and sexism...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 1–7.
Published: 01 September 2007
...: A Meditation on Mexico,” translated from Spanish by Eileen
Brockbank, explores how national historiography is itself transnationally
produced. In an essay that combines psychoanalytic and postcolonial the-
ory, Gorbach examines the genealogy of the hysteric in Mexican medical
history. She follows...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 57–68.
Published: 01 December 2005
... contact
over a Freudian model of pain and ego formation in response to recent
reevaluations of negative affect in queer theory. So far, a simultaneously
psychoanalytic and historicist loss—perhaps replacing or subsuming struc...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 125–141.
Published: 01 June 2016
... the status of criticism and theory has changed subtly in recent years, particularly with the advent of new materialism and the larger ontological turn in contemporary theory. This article reassesses Jameson in the context of today’s new materialism, with an eye on the relationship between politics...
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