Description
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.
PerformanceAnxieties 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.Author: Ann Pellegrini
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/07/1996
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.03w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9780415916868
ISBN10: 0415916860
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Media Studies
About the Author
Ann Pellegrini teaches in the Department of Women's Studies at Barnard College.
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