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Naming Argentina: The Subject of Torture and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Greenspan, Rachel

New literary history, 2024-09, Vol.54 (4), p.1573-1593 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Naming Argentina: The Subject of Torture and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Autor: Greenspan, Rachel
Assuntos: Argentine literature ; Authoritarianism ; Coups d'etat ; Dictators ; Ethics ; Fiction ; Humanitarianism ; Literary history ; Military deployment ; Military police ; Politics ; Psychoanalysis ; Reparations ; Self concept ; Valenzuela, Luisa (1938- )
É parte de: New literary history, 2024-09, Vol.54 (4), p.1573-1593
Descrição: The concurrent diffusion of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Argentina and the state’s deployment of torture and disappearance during the most recent military dictatorship have led many critics to interpret the turn to Lacan as a cerebral substitute for political protest after the coup d’état. This essay examines how the ruling junta’s specific forms of violence provoked a crisis in the relationship between psychoanalysis and humanism, erupting in the literary field through the figure of the desaparecida . In tension with human rights discourses prevailing in the 1980s, Luisa Valenzuela’s experimental fiction explores the subject’s fragmentation under conditions of state terror and the ethical ambivalence of humanitarian efforts to repair the ego in the wake of torture.
Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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