Performance Anxieties

Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-91686-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization. Beginning with an historicized return to Freud and the meaning of Jewishness in Freud's day, Ann Pellegrini indicates how "race" and racialization are not incidental features of psychoanalysis or of modern subjectivity, but are among the generative conditions of both.

Performance Anxieties stages a series of playful encounters between elite and popular performance texts--Freud meets Sarah Bernhardt meets Sandra Bernhard; Joan Riviere's masquerading women are refigured in relation to the hard female bodies in the film Pumping Iron II: The Women; and the Terminator and Alien films. In re-reading psychoanalysis alongside other performance texts, Pellegrini unsettles relations between popular and elite, performance and performative.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pellegrini, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Seen Of Difference; Part 1 Jewishness; Chapter 1 Jewishness As Gender; Chapter 2 Entr' Acte; Chapter 3 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real); Part 2 Blackness; Chapter 4 Citing Identity, Sighting Identification; Chapter 5 Through The Looking Glass; Chapter 6 Between Men; Part 3 Womanliness; Chapter 7 Femmes Futiles; Chapter 8 The Included Middle; Chapter 9 Oedipus Reps;

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Pellegrini teaches in the Department of Women's Studies at Barnard College.