The Undecidable Unconscious: A Journal of Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis, 2014
donald moss My work over the past twenty-fi ve years focused fi rst on homophobia, then on mascul... more donald moss My work over the past twenty-fi ve years focused fi rst on homophobia, then on masculinity, and now on "the sexual aberrations." The notion of "masquerade" informs all of that work: "homophobia as masquerade," "masculinity as masquerade," "sexual identity, aim and object as masquerade." I put "masquerade" in quotes here because I would also put its negative complement, "authenticity," into quotes. For me, then, clinical work takes place in a zone bounded by "masquerade" on one side and "authenticity" on the other. In this zone, the fi rst-person-singular voice-both my patient's and my own-is, in eff ect, placed in scare quotes. Neither voice is authentic or masquerading. Both, though, are psychoanalytic-no scare quotes added. I think of this zone-the clinical environment-as analogous, say, to the one created by an accelerator in physics-an environment that makes possible the illumination of otherwise nondetectable-unstable-particles. These particles are the constitutive determinants of perceptible and stable entities-atoms there, and clinical voices here. In the psychoanalytic situation, the quotidian fi rst-personsingular voice is placed under extreme strain. Its stability is temporarily disrupted. It tends to be restored again, perhaps reconfi gured, when it returns to its "natural" environments. There too, of course, stable fi rst-person-singular voices undergo extreme
Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2 vols.) by Etzel Cardeña and Michael Win... more Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2 vols.) by Etzel Cardeña and Michael Winkelman (Eds.) Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2011. 800 pp. ISBN 978-0-313-38308-3. $124.95 (set)
The Undecidable Unconscious: A Journal of Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis, 2014
donald moss My work over the past twenty-fi ve years focused fi rst on homophobia, then on mascul... more donald moss My work over the past twenty-fi ve years focused fi rst on homophobia, then on masculinity, and now on "the sexual aberrations." The notion of "masquerade" informs all of that work: "homophobia as masquerade," "masculinity as masquerade," "sexual identity, aim and object as masquerade." I put "masquerade" in quotes here because I would also put its negative complement, "authenticity," into quotes. For me, then, clinical work takes place in a zone bounded by "masquerade" on one side and "authenticity" on the other. In this zone, the fi rst-person-singular voice-both my patient's and my own-is, in eff ect, placed in scare quotes. Neither voice is authentic or masquerading. Both, though, are psychoanalytic-no scare quotes added. I think of this zone-the clinical environment-as analogous, say, to the one created by an accelerator in physics-an environment that makes possible the illumination of otherwise nondetectable-unstable-particles. These particles are the constitutive determinants of perceptible and stable entities-atoms there, and clinical voices here. In the psychoanalytic situation, the quotidian fi rst-personsingular voice is placed under extreme strain. Its stability is temporarily disrupted. It tends to be restored again, perhaps reconfi gured, when it returns to its "natural" environments. There too, of course, stable fi rst-person-singular voices undergo extreme
Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2 vols.) by Etzel Cardeña and Michael Win... more Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2 vols.) by Etzel Cardeña and Michael Winkelman (Eds.) Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2011. 800 pp. ISBN 978-0-313-38308-3. $124.95 (set)
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