... Staying with the Trouble Haraway Eliot T S “Hollow Men The” Eliot Waste Land The Eliot Di Prima Diane Revolutionary Letters di Prima mourning melancholia elegy end of nature end of history psychoanalysis Anthropocene Juliana Spahr Joshua Clover Among familiar critical pronouncements...

... psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis in China, focusing on the notions of the unconscious, sexual desire, theory of the mind, and subjectivity. It looks at the arguments of Gao Juefu (1896–1993), China's most famous psychological researcher, against the primacy of both sexual desire and the unconscious...

...Romantic Intimacy is a study of shared feeling as imagined in eighteenth century ethics, romantic literature, and twentieth century psychoanalysis. The term “intimacy”—which has always referred both to the inmost and personal, and to relationships of exceptional closeness—captures a tension between...

... of Brown Wendy capitalism Capitalist Realism Fisher Fisher Mark “Resisting Left Melancholia” Brown utopia Bay Area Gay Liberation BAGL The Dialectical Imagination Jay Horkheimer Max Jay Martin The Dialectical Imagination domination psychoanalysis melancholia left melancholia reactionary right...

...This chapter follows the history of the language of the face of God from the Bible to midrashic and liturgical sources, as well as in psychoanalysis and philosophy. Idra Rabba the Partsufim sefirot Zohar abstraction Aristotle Divine the Guide of the Perplexed The Maimonides Judaism...

..., and of the theoretical apparatus of Lacanian psychoanalysis to the Spanish language and a distinctly orientalist imaginary, reflects yet another model of the changing relationship between psychoanalysis, nationalism, and the novel on the global stage. The chapter draws on Freudian models of mourning and melancholia...

.... Herzi's short story “Against the Pleasure Principle” (1992) conflates infibulation in the Horn of Africa, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Western obstetrics. It not only raises the issue of obstetrical complications, but also indirectly tackles female sexual pleasure. In her text, Herzi engages Sigmund...

... modern theories of desire and contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and discusses psychoanalysis in relation to melancholia, with an emphasis on the connection between love and loss. In his interpretation of Lucretius's De rerum natura, Ficino illustrates not only Lucretius's argument...

...The coda explores the paradoxical intimacy of psychoanalysis as theorized in the clinical writings of Sigmund Freud and a range of Anglo-American “relational” analysts. Psychoanalytic theory is shown to reduplicate the tensions between a belief in existential privacy and a reassuring confidence...

...This introductory chapter discusses a series of encounters between the critical study of nations and nationalism and globalization theory, between psychoanalysis and nationalism, and between psychoanalysis and deconstruction, in which “the nation” surfaces as an especially contested term. It traces...

...This chapter explores the convergence of imperialism, nationalism, and psychoanalysis through a reading of Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899), a novella that shares with the Freudian uncanny an oscillating temporality which renders the present continuous with the past and the self...

... Politics Rationalism Spinoza Baruch Affect Community formations of Judgment Materialism Attention Psychoanalysis Theatricality Feeling Instrumentality Unpredictability Conrad Joseph Personality Psychological content Bersani Leo Cameron Sharon Consciousness Performance Duration durée...

...-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. This chapter examines contemporary vitalist media theory, the so-called new materialisms, as well as several critiques of vitalist politics. It also examines vitalism's occult interests, as well as its historical competition with psychoanalysis as a go...

...Kenyan women's experiences of excision had been mediated via cultural anthropology, the anthropological novel, and male third-person narratives. The Kenyan female body seems to inform key texts not only in literature but in both African anthropology and European psychoanalysis. This chapter...

...Central to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis is the notion that the real cause of anxiety and trauma lies in the unconscious. For Freud, sexual desire is an essential quality of the unconscious to which all forms of experience are linked. Freud was more interested in constructing a theory of sexuality...