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Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Release: November 07, 1996

ISBN: 0415916860

ISBN 13: 9780415916868

Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Release: November 07, 1996

ISBN: 0415916860

ISBN 13: 9780415916868

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