Eve Sedgwick's melancholic 'White glasses'

Textual Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-80

  Pearl, Monica B ^a  

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Author keywords

Aids; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Incorporation; Introjection; Melancholia; Mourning

Indexed keywords

EID: 35349026491     PISSN: 0950236X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0950236032000050744     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 'White glasses', Tendencies (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993), p. 255. Subsequent references will appear parenthetically within the text.
2. See, for example, 'Queer icons: queer studies', Pink Paper, 23 August 1996, p. 39 (where she is referred to, erroneously, as a 'dyke theorist').
3. For example: 'what is a married heterosexual woman doing at the epicenter of the queer studies boom?' and 'Sedgwick's alleged position as the ''queen of gay studies'' ' and 'searching for credibility and acceptance among the people she writes about but of whom she is not one'. Laura Cottingham, review of Tendencies, Out, January 1994, p. 50.
4. Sedgwick, Preface, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), p. viii.
5. Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990).
6. 'The term queer is notably absent in Sedgwick's . . . book Epistemology of the Closet.' Tim Dean, 'On the eve of a queer future', Raritan, vol. XV, no. 1 (summer 1995), p. 116.
7. Don Romesburg and Jennifer Finlay, 'The events that shaped the under 30 mind', The Advocate: The National Gay and Lesbian Newsmagazine, Issue 739/ 740, 19 August 1997, p. 12.
8. In Michael Lynch's own essay, 'Terrors of resurrection', the act of identification with Sedgwick is not through white glasses but through Eve Sedgwick herself. He introjects her not through cathexis with an inanimate object, but through her as herself, as 'Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick', pillar of a particular academic community. He writes the essay in her voice and provides the signature, in quotation marks, 'By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick' (Michael Lynch, 'Terrors of resurrection, ''By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick'' ' in Judith Laurence Pastore, ed., Confronting AIDS Through Literature: The Responsibilities of Representation (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993)).
9. Lynch himself comments on the common perception of illness, particularly HIV disease, as marking 'imminent morbidity'. Michael Lynch, 'Last onsets: teaching with AIDS', Profession, 1990, p. 34.
10. Sedgwick, 'Queer and now', Tendencies, p. 12.
11. Jackie Stacey, Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), p. 23.
12. Sigmund Freud, 'Mourning and melancholia' (1917) in James Strachey (trans.) and Angela Richards (ed.), On Metapsychology: The Theory of Psychoanalysis, vol. 11 of the Penguin Freud Library (London: Penguin, 1991), p. 252.
13. Juliana Schiesari, The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992), p. 44.
14. Freud, 'Mourning and melancholia', p. 258.
15. J. Laplanche and J-B. Pontalis, The Language of Psychoanalysis, trans. Donald Nicholson Smith (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1973; originally published in French in 1967), p. 229.
16. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York and London: Routledge, 1990), p. 58.
17. Nicola Diamond, 'Introjection', in ElizabethWright, ed., Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), p. 177.
18. Nicolas T. Rand, Introduction to Nicolas Abraham andMaria Torok, The Shell and the Kernel, trans. and ed. Rand (Chicago, IL, and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1994; originally published in French as L'ecorce et le noyau in 1987), p. 14.
19. Laplanche and Pontalis, The Language of Psychoanalysis, p. 211.
20. Torok, 'The illness of mourning and the fantasy of the exquisite corpse', in Abraham and Torok, The Shell and the Kernel, p. 113.
21. Abraham and Torok, 'Introjection-incorporation: Mourning or Melancholia', in Serge Lebovici and Daniel Widlöcher, eds, Psychoanalysis in France (New York: International Universities Press, 1980), p. 3.
22. Diamond, 'Introjection', p. 176.
23. Butler, Gender Trouble, pp. 67-8.
24. Abraham and Torok, The Shell and the Kernel, p. 127.
25. See Douglas Crimp, 'Mourning and militancy', October (winter 1989), vol. 51, pp. 3-18,
26. Michael Moon, 'Memorial rags', in George E. Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman, eds, Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1995).
27. Abraham and Torok, 'Introjection-incorporation: Mourning or Melancholia', p. 6.
28. Abraham and Torok, 'Introjection-incorporation', pp. 6-7.
29. Jacques Derrida, 'Fors', Foreword to Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, The Wolf Man's Magic Word: A Cryptonomy, trans. Nicholas Rand (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), p. xvii.
30. Schiesari, The Gendering of Melancholia, p. 40.
31. Kevin Kopelson, 'Fake it like a man', in David Bergman, ed., Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993), p. 265.
32. Edward King, Safety in Numbers: Safer Sex and GayMen (New York: Routledge, 1993), p. 3.
33. Edward King, Peter Scott and Peter Aggleton, 'HIV and AIDS', in Peter Aggleton, Kim Rivers, Ian Warwick and Geoff Whitty, eds, Learning About AIDS: Scientific and Social Issues, 2nd edn (London: Churchill Livingstone, 1994), p. 16.
34. Kopelson, 'Fake it like a man', p. 265.
35. Eric L. Santner, Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1990), p. 2.
36. Janet Sayers, 'Identification', in Elizabeth Wright, ed., Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), p. 167.
37. Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997), p. 132.
38. Freud, 'The ego and the id', p. 368.
39. Butler, The Psychic Life of Power, p. 134; original emphasis.
40. Elizabeth A. Grosz, 'Lesbian fetishism?', in Teresa de Lauretis, ed., differences, 3(2) (summer 1993), p. 39.
41. Freud, 'Fetishism' (1927), On Sexuality, trans. James Strachey (London: Penguin, 1991), The Penguin Freud Library, vol. 7, p. 352.
42. Naomi Schor, 'Fetishism', in Wright, Feminism and Psychoanalysis, p. 113.
43. See Grosz, 'Lesbian fetishism?', p. 39.
44. Schor, 'Fetishism', p. 114.
45. Anne McClintock, 'The return of female fetishism and the fiction of the phallus', New Formations, 19 (spring 1993), p. 4.
46. Freud, 'The uncanny' (1919), Art and Literature, trans. James Strachey (London: Penguin, 1985), The Penguin Freud Library, vol. 14, p. 352.
47. Freud, 'The psycho-analytic view of psychogenic disturbance of vision' (1910), ed., and trans. James Strachey, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Freud, vol. 11 (London: The Hogarth Press, 1957), p. 218; original emphasis.
48. See Freud, 'The uncanny', p. 356.