Papers by Juliet Flower MacCannell
S1, 2008
This explores Lacan's encounter with James Joyce's work and his grasp of the new era of the Imagi... more This explores Lacan's encounter with James Joyce's work and his grasp of the new era of the Imaginary as it eclipses the Symbolic. This is where Lacan developed his theses on the Sinthome.
Concreta edited José Cuyas, 2022
A further elaboration, with its impact on the current architecture of cities across the world, of... more A further elaboration, with its impact on the current architecture of cities across the world, of my earlier exploration of Strangers and their inexplicable persistence.
Literature and Psychology, 1992
Stendhal's "Mathematical Passion" and his drawings and reflections in his autobiography, La Vie d... more Stendhal's "Mathematical Passion" and his drawings and reflections in his autobiography, La Vie de Henry Brulard.
Reclaiming San Francisco, ed. James Brook, Chris Carlsson, and Nancy Peters, San Francisco: City Lights Books, pp. 137-150., 1998
Artist led tour of San Francisco, venturing to find a San Francisco not presented, shaped and sol... more Artist led tour of San Francisco, venturing to find a San Francisco not presented, shaped and sold by corporate tourist industry interests.
I believe that the task of inventing better futures may stagger the imagination and paralyze hope... more I believe that the task of inventing better futures may stagger the imagination and paralyze hope, but we cannot relinquish this holy call.-Emilio Ambasz, architect Although Freud thought structurally (early on he employed the word "architecture" to designate the peculiar organization of hysteria; Freud, 1897), his theories never inspired experimentation in spatial thinkers that they did in narrative and visual artists-among whom filmmakers perhaps hold pride of place. (Lacan is the more usual link with film, but other studies have also emphasized Freud. See MacCannell, 2000.) True, Freud rarely neglected to mark the site-specificity of the key mental events that set off his speculations-events befalling him or his patients, or even whole civilizations: the Acropolis, Vienna, Thebes, Egypt, Sinai. Yet space hardly seems as crucial to his theory as the newly effracted dimensions Freud discovered in time. Thus we recall his awakening to long-repressed memories when he finds himself on the Acropolis, and not the architectural wonders surrounding him in that spot (Freud, 1936). We focus more on the phobias induced in "Little Hans" by the horses in the streets of Vienna than on the streets themselves, or on the splendors of the Schoenbrunn Palace (although, it too, plays its part in Hans' mental disturbance; Freud, 1909). And we think more about the unconscious desires of the son and his oedipal guilt (or his perverse enjoyment) than about the particular spatial arrangements of his mother's bedroom, although Freud sometimes offers such details (Freud, 1909). If Freud uncovered the melodramatic return of a repressed ancient Thebes,
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory
Modern European Criticism and Theory
Modern European Criticism and Theory, 2006
Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory
Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans., 2023
Capitalism begins by getting rid of sex--that's what Lacan said. I explore the sexual indifferenc... more Capitalism begins by getting rid of sex--that's what Lacan said. I explore the sexual indifference that has flowed from this startling insight in contemporary life.
Adorno, Culture, Feminism , 1999
Why psychoanalytic theory is a better way to approach works of art and their relation to culture,... more Why psychoanalytic theory is a better way to approach works of art and their relation to culture, politics and inequality than the admixture of theorist that Adorno embraced. Why? Because of his incapacity to take the feminine into account as he ought to have
Introducing Literary Theories, 2019
Introducing Literary Theories, 2019
Author(s): Maccannell, Juliet Flower | Abstract: The question of 'the postcolonial' is vi... more Author(s): Maccannell, Juliet Flower | Abstract: The question of 'the postcolonial' is viewed from the perspective of psychoanalysis, using Lacan, Hannah Arendt and others to consider the way European whites' unconscious psychological reaction (and role of the maternal) to those they encountered as they purveyed their version of "the Good" to those they colonized.
On Psychoanalysis and Violence, 2018
Filozofski Vestnik, 2017
Almost a century ago (1919) famed American anthropologist A. L. Kroeber undertook a study of wome... more Almost a century ago (1919) famed American anthropologist A. L. Kroeber undertook a study of women's fashion using magazines from 1844 to the time of his writing. He was excited to learn, via objective measurements of skirt length and width, waist size, distance from model's mouth to hemline, et al., that fashions always change. He concluded that the fact of change proved our civilization was an actually existing "higher order" (a supra-individual realm he called the "Superorganic")-and that it was alive. 1 Why does the opposite now hold sway? The clear patterns of fashion change that characterized the century Kroeber documented as well as the following one (the Edwardian to the Reagan eras) seem to have ground slowly to a halt. The decades since the 1990s show very few identifiable differences of the sort that distinguished the long slender dresses with diminutive waistlines and hobble skirts of the 1910s from the 1920s' short hemlines, flat chests and absent or 1 A. L. Kroeber, "On the Principle of Order in Civilization as Exemplified by Changes in Fashion," The American Anthropologist New Series, 21, (3/Jul.-Sept. 1919), p. 260. Changes let us see "what lies beyond ourselves as individuals": that "a succession of human beings have contributed to the same end": That which touches and permeates our lives at all moments, which is the material on which our energies is released, which could not be if we did not exist, but which yet endures before and after, and grows and changes into forms that are not of its own making but of its own definite unfolding.
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Papers by Juliet Flower MacCannell
A major tenet of postwar western culture was that the social bond was decaying first and fastest in its cities. Intersubjective ties were ultimately deemed too fragile to support civil (democratic) society. Those who continued to assert, as the homeless still doggedly do, that civic space 'belongs' to them and to 'the people', find their claims swept aside by reference to a looming, unspecific menace to the City, where actual crimes or threatened nuclear, interpersonal and terrorist violence are only its confirming signs not the thing itself
The urban theoretical office BAVO invited scholars from a diversity of disciplines to reflect on the current eclipse of urban politics. Urban Politics Now offers an in-depth analysis of the many symptoms that plague the neoliberal city, such as gratuitous violence, zero tolerance, consumptive hedonism and socioeconomic segregation. It also proposes ways to re-establish the city as the driving force behind a democratic politics with an emancipatory agenda.
While all contributions are global in scope, focus lies on recent urban developments in Western Europe and the Netherlands in particular.
Edited by BAVO (Gideon Boie & Matthias Pauwels)
With contributions by Guy Baeten, BAVO, Friedrich von Borries & Matthias Böttger, Bülent Diken & Carsten Bagge Lautsen, Henk van Houtum & Bas Spierings, Dieter Lesage, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Merijn Oudenampsen, Neil Smith, Edward W. Soja, Yannis Stavrakakis, Erik Swyngedouw and Slavoj Žižek.
Publisher: nai010 publishers (March 1, 2008)
Series: Reflect (Book 6)
Paperback: 240 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9056626167
ISBN-10: 9056626167