Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smart, Genevieve

Titel

Impossible Births: Childbirth Beyond the (M)other in Jacques Lacan and Mina Loy

Ist Teil von

• PSYART (Gainesville, Fla.), 2021-01, p.1-1

Ort / Verlag

Gainesville: University of Florida

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]it explicates the ways in which Loy and Lacan centre childbirth in theories of artistic and cosmic creation. The 1980s trend towards 'representing reproduction' has since cumulated in a proliferation of studies which position childbirth as a site of female experience and maternal identity (c.f. Marçal 2005; Balsam 2013). By explicating Loy and Lacan's intersubjective approach to parturition, moreover, this study aims to illuminate the ways in which birth can offer a radical critique to the atomised notions of selfhood which underpin dominant Western individualist ideologies. [...]far, critical scholarship on Lacan and parturition remains sparse. With particular emphasis on the function of the cosmic, the spiritual, and the creative in Loy and Lacan, this section will analyse the ways in which the writers link parturition to both world creation and the creation of art.