The Jacqueline Rose Reader

by Rose, Jacqueline; Clemens, Justin; Naparstek, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780822349785
• ISBN10: 0822349787
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-25
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Jacqueline Rose is a world-renowned critic and one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today. She is also among the most wide-ranging, with books on Zionism, feminism, Sylvia Plath, childrenrs"s fiction, and psychoanalysis. During the past decade, through public talks and pieces that Rose has contributed to theLondon Review of Books, theGuardian, and other publications, she has played a vital role in public debate about the policies and human-rights record of Israel in its relation to the Palestinians. Representing the entire spectrum of her writing,The Jacqueline Rose Readerbrings together essays, reviews, and book excerpts, as well as an extract from her novel. In the introduction, the editors provide a profound overview of her intellectual trajectory, highlighting themes that unify her diverse work, particularly her commitment to psychoanalytic theory as a uniquely productive way of analyzing literature, culture, politics, and society. Including extensive critical commentary, and a candid interview with Rose, this anthology is an indispensable introduction for those unfamiliar with Jacqueline Rosers"s remarkably original work, and an invaluable resource for those well-acquainted with her critical acumen.

Author Biography

Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London, and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. Her most recent publications include The Last Resistance, The Question of Zion, Sexuality in the Field of Vision, and On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World. Justin Clemens teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of several books and a co-editor of Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis, also published by Duke University Press. Ben Naparstek, formerly an Owen Fellow with the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University, is editor of the national Australian magazine The Monthly and the author of a collection of literary journalism, In Conversation.

Table of Contents

Reading Jacqueline Rose: An Introduction	p. 1
Analysis
Introduction to Part I	p. 27
Femininity and Its Discontents	p. 31
Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne	p. 48
Negativity in the Work of Melanie Klein	p. 61
Mass Psychology	p. 86
Nation
Introduction to Part II	p. 117
States of Fantasy	p. 123
Just, Lasting, Comprehensive	p. 138
Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual in the Modern World	p. 156
The Body of Evil: Arendt, Coetzee, and 9/11	p. 170
ôImponderables in Thin Airö: Zionism as Psychoanalysis (Critique)	p. 188
Representations
Introduction to Part III	p. 215
Sexuality in the Field of Vision	p. 221
Hamlet: The ôMona Lisaö of Literature	p. 228
Virginia Woolf and the Death of Modernism	p. 242
ôDaddyö	p. 257
Who Is Talking and to Whom?	p. 274
Excerpts from Albertine: A Novel	p. 300
Interventions
Introduction to Part IV	p. 315
ôInfinite Justiceö	p. 319
We Are All Afraid, But of What, Exactly?	p. 320
Why Zionism Today Is the Real Enemy of the Jews	p. 322
Reflections on Israel's 2008 Incursion into Gaza	p. 326
Why Howard Jacobson Is Wrong	p. 328
Holocaust Premises: Political Implications of the Traumatic Frame	p. 332
An Interview with Jacqueline Rose	p. 341
Notes	p. 361
A Select Bibliography, 1974-2011	p. 413
Index	p. 419
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