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Light Rooms: Medium, Mourning and Mania

Saturday, April 13, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Speaker

Elizabeth Abel, Ph.D.

What happens when psychoanalysis joins in conversation with photography? Arguing that light is a “carnal medium” that provides an umbilical connection between the photographed object and the viewer, Roland Barthes recovers a neglected thread of early psychoanalytic discourse about mourning, in which “mania” had been a prominent term. Focusing on a few scenes from Virginia Woolf’s memoir “A Sketch of the Past” and her autobiographical novel To the Lighthouse in tandem with Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida and a case history by Karl Abraham, I align the concept of mania with the medium of photography and the affective particularities of mourning for a mother.

Venue

Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704 United States
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Phone
510-848-7800
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SPEAKER

Elizabeth Abel, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Abel is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis and Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow; the editor of Writing and Sexual Difference; and the co-editor of Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis and Feminism. She has published essays on gender, race, psychoanalysis, and visual culture. Her current project tracks the afterlives of Virginia Woolf in unexpected places.

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