Genre Trouble and the Poetic Risk of Form: A Response to Kathleen Del Mar Miller

ABSTRACT

This response to Kathleen Del Mar Miller’s paper “A Radically Open Analysis: Writing as Wrapping, Video as Skin” (this issue) focuses on the question of form: the form of the psychoanalytic case study and forms of embodiment.

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A Radically Open Analysis: Writing as Wrapping, Video as Skin

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Notes

¹ I am here borrowing from and thinking alongside Hortense Spillers’ landmark essay, “‘All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother’: Psychoanalysis and Race” (Spillers, 1996).

² “blank, adj. and adv.”. OED Online. June 2021. Oxford University Press. https://www-oed-com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/view/Entry/19885?isAdvanced=false&result=2&rskey=rOoBpI& (accessed June 07, 2021).

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Ann Pellegrini

Ann Pellegrini, Ph.D., is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a candidate in adult psychoanalysis at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. Pellegrini’s books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (coauthored with Janet R. Jakobsen). Pellegrini and Avgi Saketopoulou won the first Tiresias Paper Award from the International Psychoanalytic Association for their co-written paper “A feminine boy: normative investments and reparative fantasy at the intersections of gender, race, and religion.”