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Thinking the Feminine

Aesthetic Practice as Introduction to Bracha Ettinger and the Concepts of Matrix and Metramorphosis

AHRB Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, England

Bracha Ettinger (formerly known as Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger) is an Israeli-born Paris-based artist, analyst and feminist theorist who has produced over the last decade a major theoretical intervention through a tripartite practice. This article offers an expository introduction and overview of core aspects of her theoretical contribution while relating it to major trends in feminist and general cultural theory of subjectivity, hysteria, memory, trauma and the aesthetic. Organized in several parts, each section addresses the developing vocabulary, terminology and significance of her work. With core concepts are Matrix, metramorphosis, trans-subjectivity, co-poïesis, co-emergence and co-affection, Ettinger’s theory opens out beyond the blind spots of advanced feminist thought. From its independent and original theorization of subjectivity-as-encounter and an-other sexual difference, Bracha Ettinger challenges our attempts to think about femininity associated with the work of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray. Linked to, but distinct from, the philosophical speculations of Deleuze and Levinas, this work creates a transferential theoretical space for Jewish and feminine difference, sexuality, subjectivity and the traumatic residues of modern catastrophe that has major repercussions for cultural, aesthetic, ethical, political and psychoanalytic theory.

Key Words: aesthetic theory • cultural theory • feminist theory • matrixial theory • psychoanalytic theory • subjectivity • trans-subjectivity

Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 21, No. 1, 5-65 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0263276404040479


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