Archive Fevers - Couverture souple

Blake, Tara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911343777 ISBN 13 : 9781911343776

Editeur : Boiler House Press, 2022

Synopsis

Archive Fevers offers a new generation of psychologically-engaged readers a playful queer/feminist interpretation of Jaques Derrida’s Archive Fever (1995). Through its creative critical form, the book demonstrates the unconscious life of research while interrogating the often misunderstood, overlooked or misrepresented landscape of individual gender-queer experiences of therapy.

Utilising the framework of experimental narrative fiction, Blake elucidates Derrida’s concept of archive fever, Freud’s seminal concept of the death drive and Avita Ronell’s concept of haunted writing.

The relationship between anthropology, psychoanalysis and surrealism during the early 20th century is examined throughout. Surrealism, though shunned by anthropology and psychotherapy, asserts an urgent contemporary usefulness.

The role of technology in psychotherapy comes under necessary scrutiny, the ever-chainging backdrop of a global pandemic adding yet another layer of relevance to current phsychotherapy practice.

The resulting narrative brings to the fore the bizarre, messy, disturbing, sometimes gruesome aspects of archival and ethnographic research that are usually left out of formal accounts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tara Blake is a writer and psychotherapist who lives in the Southeast. Archive Fevers is her first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Boiler House Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911343777
• ISBN 13: 9781911343776
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible