{"id":1479,"date":"2022-03-09T20:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:08:16","slug":"which-discourse-theory-lacan-emergency-capitalism-paranoia-fabio-vighi-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"Life Drive and the Feminine | Bracha L. Ettinger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Event date and location<\/span>: 25 November 2021, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<section id=\"gmaec3977\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m3 alignwide section-gmaec3977 gutentor-module gutentor-container-cover\"><div class=\"grid-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MMFPfzVGHIk?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This Lacan in Scotland seminar &#8216;Life Drive and the Feminine&#8217; took place on Zoom on Thursday 25 November 2021. Professor Bracha L. Ettinger speaks about novel concept of the &#8216;life-drive&#8217;. It is chaired by Dr Calum Neill, Director of Lacan in Scotland, and the presentation is followed by a discussion with the audience. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video is edited by Bracha L. Ettinger herself and her team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Video timestamps: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMFPfzVGHIk&amp;t=0s\">0:00<\/a> &#8211; Intro <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMFPfzVGHIk&amp;t=319s\">05:19<\/a> &#8211; Presentation <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMFPfzVGHIk&amp;t=3831s\">1:03:51<\/a> &#8211; Discussion <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMFPfzVGHIk&amp;t=6632s\">1:50:32<\/a> &#8211; Closing Remarks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Description of the event: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through an interpretation of Lacan\u2019s lamella, arguing that in Freudian and Lacanian theory Life-drive is another name for Death-drive, Prof. Bracha L. Ettinger will take us from the feminine in the late Lacan to the feminine-Matrixial in her own work to suggest a supplementary Life drive and Eros. Accordingly, she will return to and extend her earlier argument (2015, and further developed in 2019) which works from a consideration of the subject qua being-towards-death (Heidegger) and the emphasis on Death-drive in psychoanalysis to the idea of subjectivity qua being-towards-birth with being-toward-birthing, where humanized life is inseparable from com-passion and a non-sexuated Love appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professor Bracha L. Ettinger<\/strong> is an artist, senior clinical psychologist, practicing psychoanalyst, and theoretician working at the intersection of female sexuality, psychoanalysis, ethics and aesthetics. She coined the &#8216;matrixial\u00a0space&#8217; in 1985 and has extensively developed this originary feminine-maternal, prematernal-presubjective field in academic\u00a0publications since 1992. Her approach significantly extends the work of contemporary philosophers and psychoanalysts such as Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, F\u00e9lix Guattari, and Jacques Lacan, and challenges the works of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">List of Reading for Bracha L. Ettinger&#8217;s Seminar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bracha L. Ettinger,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Matrix and Metramorphosis&#8221;.<\/strong>&nbsp;In:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Differences<\/em>. Vol. 4, n\u00ba 3,&nbsp;<strong>1992<\/strong>.&nbsp;Reprinted as ch.1 in: Bracha L. Ettinger,&nbsp;<em>Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics. Vol I<\/em>, Pelgrave Macmillan, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bracha L. Ettinger,&nbsp;<strong><em>The Matrixial Gaze<\/em><\/strong>.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Feminist Arts &amp; Histories Network \u2013 Dept. of Fine Art, Leeds University,&nbsp;<strong>1995<\/strong>.Reprinted in:&nbsp;<em>Drawing Papers,&nbsp;<\/em><em>n\u00ba 24,&nbsp;<\/em>2001.&nbsp;Reprintd as ch.1 in Bracha L. Ettinger,&nbsp;<em>The Matrixial Borderspace<\/em>, University of Minnesota Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bracha L. Ettinger,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;The Feminine\/Prenatal Weaving in the Matrixial Subjectivity-as-Encounter&#8221;<\/strong>.&nbsp;<em>Psychoanalytic Dialogues<\/em>. Vol. VII (3): 363\u2013405,&nbsp;<strong>1997<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bracha&nbsp;L. Ettinger,&nbsp;&#8220;<strong>Perpetual Exile and Enigmatic Afterlife<\/strong>.&#8221; Keynote Lecture at&nbsp;<em>Writing Aesthetics<\/em>.&nbsp;IAPL 27th&nbsp;Annual Conference. University of Leeds. 31 May 2003. A Limited Publication document,&nbsp;AHRB Centre CATH, University of Leeds,<strong>&nbsp;2003.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bracha L. Ettinger,&nbsp;&#8220;Demeter-Persephone Complex, Entangled Aerials of the Psyche and Sylvia Plath&#8221;.&nbsp;<em>ESC Journal,<\/em>40.1:&nbsp;<em>Hysteria Manifest<\/em>,&nbsp;<strong>2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bracha L. Ettinger, &#8220;<strong>Laius Complex and Shocks of Maternality. Reading Franz Kafka and Sylvia Plath<\/strong>&#8220;.&nbsp;<em>Interdisciplinary Handbook of Trauma and Culture<\/em>, Yochai Ataria, David Gurevitz, Haviva Pedaya, Yuval Neria, eds., New York and Heidelberg: Springer,&nbsp;<strong>2016<\/strong>: 279-301.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a><\/a><strong>Beyond the Death-drive, Beyond the Life-drive\u2014Being-toward-Birthing&nbsp;with&nbsp;Being-toward-Birth.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Copoiesis and the Matrixial Eros\u2014Metafeminist Notes<\/strong>&#8220;. Image-Text.&nbsp;<em>Aberrant Nuptials: Deleuze and Artistic Research 2<\/em>. Edited by Paulo de Assis and Paolo Giudici.&nbsp;Leuven: Leuven University Press,&nbsp;<strong>2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date and location: 25 November 2021, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recordings","category-video"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}