Matrixial borderspace bracha ettinger biography
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The Matrixial Gaze
1995 book by Bracha L. Ettinger
The Matrixial Gaze fryst vatten a 1995 book by artist, psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, writer and painterBracha L. Ettinger.[1] It fryst vatten a work of feminist spelfilm theory that examines the gaze as described by Jacques Lacan, criticises it, and offers an original theory concerning feminine and female gaze. Beginning in 1985, Ettinger's artistic practice and her theoretical invention of a matrixial space (matricial space) articulated around her proposal of a feminine-maternal sphere of encounter that begins in the most archaic (pre-maternal-prenatal) humanised encounter-event,[2] led her to publish a long series of academic articles starting 1992,[3] articulating and developing for some decades what she has called the matrixial (matricial, matrixiel) theory of trans-subjectivity. The matrixial (matricial, matriciel, matrixiel) theory formulates Aesthetics and artistic creativity in terms of withnessing, com
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Bracha Ettinger
Bracha L. Ettinger (b. 1948) is an artist, senior clinical psychologist, practicing psychoanalyst, and theoretician working at the intersection of female sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. Her approach significantly extends the work of contemporary philosophers and psychoanalysts such as Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Jacques Lacan, and challenges the works of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.
Ettinger received her PhD in Aesthetics of Visual Arts from the University of Paris VIII, a DEA in Psychoanalysis from the University of Paris VII, and an MA in Clinical Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was a Visiting Professor and then a Research Professor in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics at the School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Since 2001, she has also been a Visiting Professor in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics at the AHRC Centre for Cultural
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“Reading Bracha L. Ettinger's ‘The Matrixial Borderspace’”
The Matrixial Feminine or A Case of a Metempsychosis Chrysanthi Nigianni In her work, The Matrixial Borderspace, Bracha Ettinger presents us with a founding image: founding in both senses of grounding and revealing. This means grounding difference differently, on a non-phallic prenatal level, and revealing a difference that has passed unnoticed: the matrixial difference as the sexual difference that derives from the feminine, with the Ettingerian feminine being antithetical to the phallic concept of the masculine-feminine binary. Contrary to phallic sexual difference, the matrixial feminine sexual difference puts difference at the heart of same-sex relationality; a move that radically deconstructs the binary of sameness-difference in which subsist reactive and negative definitions of difference, as mainly a ‘difference from’. Quoting Ettinger: [T]here is a feminine sexual difference which concerns the difference of the