Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm From a Psychoanalytic Perspective - Variable Speed(s)

Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s) explores philosophical and psychoanalytic theories, as well as artworks, that show sensible bodily rituals for reviving our social and subjective lives. It informs readers on how to find rituals for syncing ourselves with others and world rhythms.

List of contents

Introduction: Rhythmic Transformations
Part I: Variable Measures
1. Killing Eve: Inflections of Rebirth and Pathogenesis
2. Repetition to Revolution: Jordan Peele's Us
3. Radical Temporalities of Trauma, Melancholia, and Disaster
Part II: Speed
4. Uncut Gems: Dashing between the Red and the Black
5. Running with Thieves: Baby Driver and The Beat My Heart Skipped
6. Burning: Afterburn and Lawlessness in the Anthropocene
Part III: Slowness
7. "I repeated the routine": The Lacanian Drive in Ling Ma's Severance and COVID-19
8. Richtering Rhythms: Never Look Away

About the author

Jessica Datema, PhD, is professor of Literature at Bergen Community College, USA. Dr Datema also received a creative writing certificate for studies accomplished at the University of Cambridge, and she has written and edited two other books.
Angie Voela, PhD, is senior lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK. She has published several journal articles, including "We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, the Family and Popular Culture" and is the author and editor of two previous books.

Summary

Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s) explores philosophical and psychoanalytic theories, as well as artworks, that show sensible bodily rituals for reviving our social and subjective lives. It informs readers on how to find rituals for syncing ourselves with others and world rhythms.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Voela Datema
• Assisted by: Jessica Datema (Editor), Datema Jessica (Editor), Angie Voela (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032046372
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3204637-2
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Media Studies, Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis