Performance Anxieties - Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race

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.

List of contents

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;

About the author

Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a practicing psychoanalyst. Their books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (coauthored with Janet R. Jakobsen).

Product details

• Authors: Ann Pellegrini, Pellegrini Ann
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.1996
• EAN: 9780415916868
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91686-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 370 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / Popular Culture, Humanities, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Feminism and feminist theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies