The Matrixial Borderspace

by Ettinger, Bracha L.

• ISBN13: 9780816635863
• ISBN10: 0816635862
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-22
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

Artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents an original theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. Ettinger works through Lacan's late works, the anti-Oedipal perspectives of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as object-relations theory to critique the phallocentrism of mainstream Lacanian theory and to rethink the masculine-feminine opposition. She replaces the phallic structure with a dimension of emergence, where objects, images, and meanings are glimpsed in their incipiency, before they are differentiated. This is the matrixial realm, a shareable, psychic dimension that underlies the individual unconscious and experience. Concerned with collective trauma and memory, Ettinger's own experience as an Israeli living with the memory of the Holocaust is a deep source of inspiration for her paintings, several of which are reproduced in the book. The paintings, like the essays, replay the relation between the visible and invisible, the sayable and ineffable; the gaze, the subject, and the other. Bracha Ettinger is a painter and a senior clinical psychologist. She is professor of psychoanalysis and aesthetics at the University of Leeds, England, and Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. Judith Butler is professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Griselda Pollock is professor of fine arts at the University of Leeds. Brian Massumi is professor of communication at the University of Montreal.

Author Biography

Bracha L. Ettinger is professor of psychoanalysis and aesthetics at the University of Leeds, England, and a visiting lecturer at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem

Table of Contents

Foreword: Bracha's Eurydice	vii
Judith Butler
Introduction. Femininity: Aporia or Sexual Difference?	1	(40)
Griselda Pollock
The Matrixial Gaze	41	(52)
The With-In-Visible Screen	93	(30)
Wit(h)nessing Trauma and the Matrixial Gaze	123	(34)
The Heimlich	157	(6)
Transcryptum: Memory Tracing In/For/With the Other	163	(10)
Weaving a Woman Artist with-in the Matrixial Encounter-Event	173	(28)
Afterword. Painting: The Voice of the Grain	201	(14)
Brian Massumi
Notes	215	(12)
Works	227	(12)
Bracha L. Ettinger
Publication History	239	(2)
Index	241