Movement, Embrace: Adriana Cavarero with Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (and the Death Drive)

Hypatia ◽

10.1017/hyp.2020.49 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Angie Voela ◽

Cigdem Esin

Keyword(s):

Border Crossing ◽

Death Drive ◽

Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽

The Third ◽

Adriana Cavarero ◽

Relational Qualities ◽

Autobiographical Narrative

Abstract An experience of helplessness during the production of a collective autobiographical narrative offers an opportunity to explore points of convergence between Adriana Cavarero's postural philosophy and Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger's matrixial borderlinking. The narrative is treated as a live scene that enfolds the movement of the drive conceptualized in such a way as to avoid the prioritization of death over life. Five successive moves, inspired by Ettinger's rotation of the phallic prism, illuminate affinities between the two thinkers. The first rotation explores the matrixial and relational qualities that compose the scene. The second rotation approaches death from a notional beginning, prioritizing the presence of the mother and her assymmetrical relationship to the infant. The third rotation emphasizes the transformational character of Ettinger's matrixial movement and border-crossing, especially when examined in conjunction with Cavarero's maternal inclination. In the fourth rotation we show how inclination (clinamen) in Lacanian psychoanalysis is linked to the disappearance of the mother from the scene. The (re)introduction of the mother disrupts the Lacanian logic with the possibility of a beginning just as immanent as desire and lack. Movement, qua embrace and unity-disunity (fifth rotation), becomes an indispensable component of feminist ontology that captures the immanence of sharing in the matrixial-maternal plane.

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Forced migration and psychosocial health: meaning-making through autobiographical narratives in the UK

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v7i1.182 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 79-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maria Psoinos

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Forced Migration ◽

Psychosocial Health ◽

Autobiographical Narratives ◽

Narrative Interviews ◽

Negative Stereotypes ◽

The Third ◽

The Uk ◽

Autobiographical Narrative

This paper explores how refugees in the UK perceive the relation between their experience of migration and their psychosocial health. Autobiographical narrative interviews were carried out with fifteen refugees residing in the UK. The findings reveal a contrast between the negative stereotypes concerning refugees’ psychosocial health and the participants’ own perceptions. Two of the three emerging narratives suggest a more balanced view of refugees’ psychosocial health, since- in contrast to the stereotypes- most participants did not perceive this through the lens of ‘vulnerability’. The third narrative revealed that a hostile social context can negatively shape refugees’ perceptions of their psychosocial health. This runs counter to the stereotype of refugees as being exclusively responsible for their ‘passiveness’ and therefore for the problems they face.

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Thinking Materialistically with Locke, Lonzi, and Cavarero

10.5422/fordham/9780823290086.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 93-106

Author(s):

Olivia Guaraldo

Keyword(s):

John Locke ◽

The Body ◽

Musical Piece ◽

Political Dimension ◽

The Third ◽

Ternary Form ◽

The Subject ◽

Adriana Cavarero ◽

The Given ◽

Bodily Condition

A “scherzo” is a musical piece which traditionally retains the ternary form of the minuet but is considerably quicker. This is a materialist scherzo, since it treats three different authors that are all significantly concerned with the body. John Locke, Carla Lonzi, and Adriana Cavarero present three different modes of narrating sex: the first implicitly, the second explicitly, the third creatively. Cavarero’s relationality, whilst giving a provocatively creative account of orgasm, attributes to sex a grounding function in rethinking the subject. Yet that there is also a political dimension in this carnal account of orgasm. By exploring the possibilities of the given of our bodily condition—an anatomical destination to pleasure that is always relational—this etude defends relational ethics as providing a different perspective on how to imagine social and political forms of co-existence and non-violence, beyond and apart from the naturalized claim to “fundamental hostility.”

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Spiritual Geopolitics

Journal of Early American History ◽

10.1163/18770703-00403001 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 212-238 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lauric Henneton

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

North America ◽

17Th Century ◽

Border Crossing ◽

Documentary Evidence ◽

The Third ◽

The Impact

This article is an attempt at reconceptualizing “Anglo-French relations” in seventeenth-century northeastern America by testing the concept of “spiritual geopolitics” (and its limits) in the case of the Anglo-French “interface” in northeastern America. Spiritual geopolitics is defined as the impact of confessional identities on geopolitical thinking and actions. Building on a binary religio-diplomatic context of the 16th and early 17th-century, the article first makes the case for Puritan spiritual geopolitics, consisting in a revision of familiar events through a new geopolitical lens. It then moves on to French anti-Protestant geopolitical thinking applied to North America, in particular in the second half of the century. While the first two sections argue that documentary evidence confirm “spiritual geopolitics” as a legitimate lens, the third section puts forward instances of religious border-crossing that plead in favor of a more nuanced, multilayered, concept of spiritual geopolitics in the period before the beginning of “Imperial Wars”.

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Explorations between Philosophy and History

HISTOREIN ◽

10.12681/historein.221 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Chris F.g. Lorenz

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of History ◽

Border Crossing ◽

Broad Sense ◽

Border Crossings ◽

Font Size ◽

History Writing ◽

The Third ◽

Essentially Contested Concepts ◽

Basic Ideas ◽

Point Of Departure

This introduction summarizes the basic ideas behind the articles collected in ‘Bordercrsossings’. The first basic idea is the idea that the writing of history has a ‘border crossing’ character, meaning that history writing involves border crossings 1. between history and philosophy, and 2. between history and ‚politics‘ in a broad sense. The second basic idea is that the dialectical mechanism of ‘inversion’ (of ‘negation’ and of ‘the unity of opposites’) is fundamental for our understanding of debates in philosophy of history and in historiography. The third idea is that interesting prejudices and other assumptions in both philosophy and in history are found by contrast, not by analysis (Feyerabend). Analysis of controversies is therefore the most fruitful point of departure in philosophy of history and in historiography. Because all key ideas in the humanities are ‘essentially contested concepts’ (Gallie) controversies are the ‘normal’ discursive condition in the humanities

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Articulations of the Real: from Lacan to Badiou

Paragraph ◽

10.3366/para.2011.0008 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 105-120

Author(s):

Lucy Bell

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Fundamental Difference ◽

Close Reading ◽

Death Drive ◽

Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽

Political Force ◽

The Real ◽

Mathematical Ontology ◽

The Individual ◽

The Way

This article gives a comparative analysis of the way in which Lacanian psychoanalysis and Alain Badiou's mathematical ontology understand the category of the real, respectively, as the foundation of individual subjectivity or the name of being-as-being. A number of shifts in focus arise from the fundamental difference in the location of the void: from the individual act to the collective event; from death drive to immortal truth; from subjective destitution and cathartic purification to transformative interventions and constitutive thought. These shifts are exemplified, elaborated and analysed through a close reading of the thinkers' respective commentaries on Sophocles' Antigone. Foregrounding what is philosophically at stake in these differences, the article defends Badiou against Lacanian critics (most notably Slavoj Žižek and Eleanor Kaufman) by examining the ethical and political force of his innovation.

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Alive or Undead? Biopolitics between Esposito's Vitalism and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Paragraph ◽

10.3366/para.2016.0184 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 65-81

Author(s):

Boštjan Nedoh

Keyword(s):

Racial Difference ◽

Human Life ◽

Alternative Conception ◽

Death Drive ◽

Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽

Key Concepts ◽

Logical Content ◽

Psychoanalytic Approach ◽

The Way

This article tries to establish a possible dialogue between the way in which two influential contemporary theories, Roberto Esposito's biopolitical theory and Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis, approach racism and the constitution of Otherness. After summing up key concepts in Esposito's theory, the article lays out the very deadlock in his work, represented by his assumption of racial difference or Otherness as inscribed in the bio-logical content of human life. However, by interpreting Jewishness under Nazism in terms of ‘undead’ ‘flesh without body’, Esposito himself crosses paths with the psychoanalytic approach, in so far as Lacan defined the Freudian death drive using the same term. The second part of the article is thus dedicated to the articulation of the relations between primal repression, trauma and jouissance, out of which can be derived an alternative conception of biopolitics, based on the discursive constitution of Otherness, rather than on the assumption that it is a biological fact.

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Border Crossing and Self-Placement of Characters with a Migratory Background in Contemporary German Novels

Journal of Frontier Studies ◽

10.46539/jfs.v6i2.290 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 85-102

Author(s):

Annabelle Jänchen

Keyword(s):

Mother Tongue ◽

Adolescent Literature ◽

Migration Background ◽

Border Crossing ◽

Border Crossings ◽

German Studies ◽

Migrant Literature ◽

The Third ◽

Migratory Background ◽

Different Levels

The existence of a “Migrant literature” is heavily debated in German studies, especially when it comes to authors like those of the third voice, who are socialized in Germany and speak German as their mother tongue. Nonetheless, novels that deal with migration and living with migrant backgrounds have similar characteristics. This article is primarily about the topic of crossing borders in such migrant novels by Olga Grjasnowa, Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Dimitrij Kapitelman. Which effects does border crossing have on characters with a migration background? The novels examined are not only characterized by a border crossing of migration from east to west, but actually even by multiple border crossings on different levels, that are always linked to each other. The literature of the third voice unites aspects of migration, but equally also aspects of adolescent literature and family sagas. That is shown, among other things, in the presentation and meaning of boundaries and their crossings as identity-creating moments and as coping strategies. Therefore, these border crosser stories enable new perspectives compared to conventional family sagas and adolescent literature.

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Deleuze, Freud and the Three Syntheses

Deleuze Studies ◽

10.3366/dls.2017.0270 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 297-327

Author(s):

Henry Somers-Hall

Keyword(s):

Close Reading ◽

Death Drive ◽

Pleasure Principle ◽

The Third

The aim of this paper is to provide a close reading of Deleuze's complex account of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Difference and Repetition. The first part provides a reading of Beyond the Pleasure Principle itself, showing why Freud feels the need to develop a transcendental account of repetition. In the second, I show the limitations of Freud's account, drawing on the work of Weismann to argue that Freud's transcendental model mischaracterises repetition. In the third part, I show how Freud's account of the death drive is shadowed by Deleuze's own non-representational transcendental account.

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Explorations between philosophy and history

HISTOREIN ◽

10.12681/historein.217 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 59 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Chris F.G. Lorenz

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of History ◽

Border Crossing ◽

Broad Sense ◽

Border Crossings ◽

History Writing ◽

The Third ◽

Essentially Contested Concepts ◽

Basic Ideas ◽

Point Of Departure ◽

History And Theory

This introduction summarizes the basic ideas behind the articles collected in Przekraczanie granic: eseje z filozofii historii i teorii historiografii [Bordercrossings: essays on the philosophy of history and theory of historiography]. The first basic idea is the idea that the writing of history has a “border crossing” character, meaning that history writing involves border crossings, first, between history and philosophy and, second, between history and “politics” in a broad sense. The second basic idea is that the dialectical mechanism of “inversion” (of “negation” and of “the unity of opposites”) is fundamental for our understanding of debates in the philosophy of history and in historiography. The third idea is that interesting prejudices and other assumptions in both philosophy and in history are found by contrast, not by analysis (Feyerabend). Analysis of controversies is therefore the most fruitful point of departure in the philosophy of history and in historiography. Because all key ideas in the humanities are “essentially contested concepts” (Gallie), controversies are the “normal” discursive condition in the humanities.

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The Death Drive of Evolution (From the Perspective of Depressive Realism)

Stasis ◽

10.33280/2310-3817-21-11-1-156-180 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 156-180

Author(s):

Julie Reshe

Keyword(s):

Sigmund Freud ◽

Evolutionary Biology ◽

Charles Darwin ◽

Central Place ◽

Natural Order ◽

Death Drive ◽

Human Species ◽

Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽

Human Exceptionalism ◽

Psychoanalytic Thought

This paper analyses Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud as depressive realists who attempted to dethrone the human species from their central place in nature and history. Both evolutionary theory and Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis partly preserve the idea of human exceptionalism, while considering psychoanalysis’s negative conceptualization of humans as the most maladapted species. This maladaption is conventionally conceptualized in psychoanalysis as a rupture from the natural order and is sometimes presented as the embodiment of the death drive. Such a concept of the death drive tends to be seen as an exclusively human drive. Developments in recent evolutionary biology and psychoanalytic thought suggest ways to elaborate on the concept of the death drive as not being exclusively human. Nature’s evolution is not the embodiment of progress that results in the appearance of the human species, and it is not the embodiment of a harmony from which humans deviate, but it is rather a rupture with itself. Nature as such is an embodiment of the death drive.

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