Artist psychoanalyst and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents anoriginal theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expressionacross the thresh... » 

Artist psychoanalyst and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents anoriginal theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expressionacross the thresholds of identity and memory. Ettinger works through Lacanslate works the antiOedipal perspectives of Deleuze and Guattari as well asobjectrelations theory to critique the phallocentrism of mainstream Lacaniantheory and to rethink the masculinefeminine opposition. She replaces thephallic structure with a dimension of emergence where objects images andmeanings are glimpsed in their incipiency before they are differentiated. Thisis the matrixial realm a shareable psychic dimension that underlies theindividual unconscious and experience.Concerned with collective trauma and memory Ettingers own experience as anIsraeli living with the memory of the Holocaust is a deep source of inspirationfor her paintings several of which are reproduced in the book. The paintingslike the essays replay the relation between the visible and invisible thesayable and ineffable the gaze the subject and the other.Bracha Ettinger is a painter and a senior clinical psychologist. She isprofessor of psychoanalysis and aesthetics at the University of Leeds Englandand Bezalel Academy Jerusalem.Judith Butler is professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at theUniversity of California Berkeley. Griselda Pollock is professor of fine artsat the University of Leeds. Brian Massumi is professor of communication at theUniversity of Montreal. «