Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0415916860
ISBN13:9780415916868
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:Routledge
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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Art Arts, Music & Photography Communication & Journalism Communication & Media Studies Feminist Theory Gay & Lesbian Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting History Media Studies Politics & Social Sciences Pop Culture Psychoanalysis Psychology Psychology & Counseling Social Science Social Sciences Themes Women in Art Women's StudiesCustomer Reviews
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