0000050695 00000 n Sedgwick’s definitions of paranoid vs. reparative reading have three primary sources: Melanie Klein, Silvan Tomkins, and Foucault (whose mid-career work is mostly paranoid, and late work, mostly reparative). Selected Papers from the Second Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory. It may not be redistributed or altered. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. The title of Lee Edelman's book No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive about sums it up, but Leo Bersani's work in Intimacies and Tim Dean's book Unlimited Intimacy are also exemplary of the trend. She proposed a less aggressive, less thesis-driven, less angst-ridden style of critique that would seek to repair the damage of homophobia and other forms of prejudice and violence rather than simply revealing allegedly new and ever more insidious forms of abuse in rather unlikely places. The paranoid position, Sedgwick writes, is “understandably marked by hatred, envy, and anxiety […] a position of terrible alertness to the dangers posed by the hateful and envious part-objects that one defensively projects into, carves out of, and ingests from the world around one” (128). trailer 0000269555 00000 n that’s a really reparative reading….” as if that critique positions the writer as naive or unenlightened at best, revisionist and retrograde at worst. *, parcftp.xerox.com/pub/Moo/papers/GenderMOO. Sedgwick advocates thinking about critical practice in terms of Kleinian “positions.” Though I haven’t read Klein, I think positions are sort of similar to Foucault’s notion of tactics or strategies of resistance. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2010-025. Published By: Wayne State University Press, Read Online (Free) relies on page scans, which are not currently available to screen readers. She invited, but never quite wrote, a reparative reading that urges us to question the incapacity of paranoid readings to account for the very queer pleasures they ostensibly seek to enable. xref Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick In 2003, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick published the essay «Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading. 0000009694 00000 n South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 2011; 110 (1): 101–119. So?” In her words: “for someone to have an unmystified view of systemic oppressions does not intrinsically or necessarily enjoin that person to any specific train of epistemological or narrative consequences. Select a purchase Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 0000007906 00000 n Even more troubling, for her, is this: “it seems to me a great loss when paranoid inquiry comes to seem entirely coextensive with critical theoretical inquiry rather than being viewed as one kind of cognitive/affective theoretical practice among other, alternative kinds” (126). Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 18 of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Pan-American Postnationalism: Another World Order, Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, George Eliot and Daniel Deronda: The Prostitute and the Jewish Question, ‘Our Native Clay’: Racial and Sexual Identity and the Making of Americans in The Bridge, Figures in Black: Words, Sign and the “Racial.” Self, Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism, The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After, The Author of Sandford and Merton: A Life of Thomas Day, Esq, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Photographic Relations: Willa Cather, Laura Gilpin, A Study of the Small Room in The Professor’s House, Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Why is Diotima a Woman? ), then revised and republished in 2003 as part of Sedgwick’s final essay collection. 0000232574 00000 n They emphasize practices of engagement over fixed identity positions, and are non-prescriptive, flexible, and responsive to the needs of the moment (rather than aiming at ideological purity, consistency, etc.). on the other. The Authority of Illusion: Feminism and Fascism in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts. Purchase this issue for $24.00 USD. Sedgwick acknowledges that paranoid methods of reading have helped draw attention to hegemonic class, gender, and race relations. All Rights Reserved. She writes: “Simply put, paranoia tends to be contagious; more specifically, paranoia is drawn toward and tends to construct symmetrical relations, in particular, symmetrical epistemologies.” (126). Theodor Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, In Dora’s Case: Freud – Hysteria – Feminism, Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel, Theodor Herzl: A Psychoanalytic Study in Charismatic Political Leadership, The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of History.
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