Her Mother Her Self: The Ethics of the Antigone Family Romance

Hypatia ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Family Romance ◽  
New Models

This essay discusses the implications of Irigaray's readings of the Antigone in the construction of a feminist ethics. By focusing on the gaps and intersections between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian phenomenology as formulative of Irigaray's eventual call for an ethics of sexual difference, 1 emphasize the inevitability of rethinking the functions of historicity, femininity, and maternity in the formation of new models of intersubjectivity.

‘Family Romance’ and the Oedipalization of Freudian Psychoanalysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Herman Westerink ◽  
Philippe Van Haute
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Difference Family ◽  
Radical Theory ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Family Romance ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
Informative Text

Although Freud's ‘Family Romances’ from 1909 is hardly ever discussed at length in secondary literature, this article highlights this short essay as an important and informative text about Freud's changing perspectives on sexuality in the period in which the text was written. Given the fact that Freud, in his 1905 Three Essays, develops a radical theory of infantile sexuality as polymorphously perverse and as autoerotic pleasure, we argue that ‘Family Romances’, together with the closely related essay on infantile sexual theories (1908), paves the way for new theories of sexuality defined in terms of object relations informed by knowledge of sexual difference. ‘Family Romances’, in other words, preludes the introduction of the Oedipus complex, but also – interestingly – gives room for a Jungian view of sexuality and sexual phantasy. ‘Family Romances’ is thus a good illustration of the complex way in which Freud's theories of sexuality developed through time.

scholarly journals An Inquiry into the Theory of the Matrix: Subjectivity, Gaze, and Desire in Kristina Inčiūraitė’s Video the Meeting (2012)

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-95
Author(s):  
Diana Romanskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Matrix Theory ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Town

Summary This article deals with the Matrix theory of subjectivity, gaze, and desire by feminist scholar Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger. Matrixial framework is explored in comparison to Lacanian psychoanalysis. The essay denotes the differences between split Lacanian model of the subject and Matrixial subjectivity based on plurality and continuity. I argue that Lacanian model which grounds the subject in fundamental lack and loss of corporal reality is insufficient for explaining specifically feminine experience in terms of temporality and collective memory, whereas the Matrix theory provides a conceptual apparatus for positive female identification and alliances between the past and the present. Ettinger’s Matrixial model is applied in the analysis of the 2012 video The Meeting by contemporary Lithuanian artist Kristina Inčiūraitė. I claim that the mode of desire in The Meeting is based on Matrixial gaze, which allows to formulate memory as co-created by two partners who share archaic knowledge of the Real, grounded in common relation to female sexual difference and intrauterine condition. Therefore, the article interprets the imagery of the town of Svetlogorsk in the video as coemerged mental images that affect each of the partners. I conclude that the Matrix theory overcomes the phallocentrism of classical psychoanalysis, allowing to reformulate the subject in terms of connectivity, compassion, and abilities to process Other’s trauma through positive cultural change.

scholarly journals Envisioning a Democratic Culture of Difference: Feminist Ethics and the Politics of Dissent in Social Movements

2019 ◽  
Vol 164 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-757
Author(s):  
Sheena J. Vachhani
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Democratic Culture ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Ethics And Politics

AbstractUsing two contemporary cases of the global #MeToo movement and UK-based collective Sisters Uncut, this paper argues that a more in-depth and critical concern with gendered difference is necessary for understanding radical democratic ethics, one that advances and develops current understandings of business ethics. It draws on practices of social activism and dissent through the context of Irigaray’s later writing on democratic politics and Ziarek’s analysis of dissensus and democracy that proceeds from an emphasis on alterity as the capacity to transform nonappropriative self-other relations. Therefore, the aims of the paper are: (i) to develop a deeper understanding of a culture of difference and to consider sexual difference as central to the development of a practical democratic ethics and politics of organizations; (ii) to explore two key cases of contemporary feminist social movements that demonstrate connected yet contrasting examples of how feminist politics develops through an appreciation of embodied, intercorporeal differences; and (iii) to extend insights from Irigaray and Ziarek to examine ways in which a practical democratic politics proceeding from an embodied ethics of difference forms an important advancement to theorising the connection between ethics, dissent and democracy.

scholarly journals Family Romances in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Márta Asztalos
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
Family Romance ◽  
Fathers And Sons

This paper examines narration and storytelling in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! Narration and storytelling are a paternal legacy and a family destiny as well, which bind the son to the father and the Grandfather. However, they also become the means of overwriting the paternal meta-narrative and endeavors of narrative self-fathering, self-begetting. In this reading, the “story-weaving” of the narrators and the story woven (by them) swirl around the same conflict: the “battle” of fathers and sons. It is explored how these paternal-filial power relations and conflicts work in both “layers” of the novel and how they influence each other. The argument will build on the insights of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, especially the theory of the Freudian family romance.

Review of New models for mass communication research.

1975 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 431-432
Author(s):  
ANTHONY G. GREENWALD
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
New Models

The Succession of Orthodoxies About Sexual Difference

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-329
Author(s):  
Howard S. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference

Educational Psychology Texts: Two New Models

1969 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 421-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. ROBERT DIXON
Keyword(s):  
Educational Psychology ◽  
New Models

Review of The Family Romance of the Imposter-Poet Thomas Chatterton.

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-202
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Family Romance ◽  
The Family

A Family RomanceA Family Romance

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 5252 (1919) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan C. Elms
Keyword(s):  
Family Romance

Anti-crisis measures or structural reforms: Russia’s economic policy in 2015

2016 ◽  
pp. 5-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Mau
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Energy Prices ◽  
New Models

The paper deals with 2015 trends and challenges for social and economic policy in the nearest future. The analysis of global crisis includes: uneven developments in the leading advanced and emerging economies; new models of economic growth which look differently in different countries; prospects of globalization and challenges of ‘regional globalization’; currency configurations of the future; energy prices dynamics and its influence on political and economic prospects of particular states. Current challenges are discussed in the context of previous 30 years. Among the main topics on Russia, there are approaches to a new growth model, structural transformation (including import substitution issues), economic dynamics, budget and monetary outlines, social issues. The priorities of economic policy are also considered.

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