| Title | The Psychoanalysis That Dare Not Speak Its Name |
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| Contributor | Ona Nierenberg (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0167.1.29 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/clinical-encounters-in-sexuality-psychoanalytic-practice-and-queer-theory/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Nierenberg, Ona |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2017-03-07 |
| Long abstract | In the opening essay of Love In A Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar, Colm Tóibin refers to Borges’s essay “The Argentine Writer and Tradition” to describe the position of exile as a condition for creation, for the possibility of the emergence of the new. Tóibin situates gay literary figures alongside the Jew-ish, Argentine, and Irish artists that Borges refers to, underlin-ing that the place of estrangement, of foreignness, is the sine qua non for speaking at the limits of the sayable. While certainly not sufficient, extra-territoriality is absolutely necessary to affect a break with the mortifications referred to by Freud (1926a) as “the compact majority” (274). |
| Page range | pp. 427–433 |
| Print length | 7 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |