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“I am because you are”
Relationality in the Works of Siri Hustvedt
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 244
2014
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Abstract
“I am because you are” is a key passage in ‘What I Loved’ (2003), contemporary American writer Siri Hustvedt’s third novel, and a recurring motif throughout both her fictional and nonfictional work. This volume examines relational identity formation in her writing, especially the relationship between self and other in photography and painting, the transgression of corporeal boundaries in hysteria and anorexia, and the effects of losing attachment figures on personal identity. Hustvedt reveals identity as a complex Product of conscious and unconscious interconnections within the social and biological environment. Through her unique investigations of these connections and the fragile boundaries between self and other, she enters new territory in the field of literary identity research. This volume further explores this territory through different discursive approaches, from philosophies of intersubjectivity to relational psychoanalysis.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table of Contents | IX | ||
| 1. Introduction | 1 | ||
| 2. Encountering the Other: Philosophies of Intersubjectivity | 21 | ||
| 2.1 Desire, Recognition, and the Master-Slave Stage: Siri Hustvedt and G. W. F. | 23 | ||
| 2.2 Dialogism: The Other as Complementation of the Self | 33 | ||
| 2.2.1 The Between, I-It, and I-You Relations: Martin Buber’s Philosophy of of Dialogue | 34 | ||
| 2.2.2 Discourse and the Other: M. M. Bakhtin’s Dialogical Principle | 41 | ||
| 2.3 Intersubjective Phenomenology: Embodiment as the Basis for Self-Other Relations | 45 | ||
| 2.3.1 Monadic Selves, Proprioception, and Intersubjective Community: Edmund Husserl’s Fifth Cartesian Meditation | 47 | ||
| 2.3.2 Co-Existence and Reciprocity: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of Embodied Intersubjectivity | 53 | ||
| 2.4 The Face-to-Face Encounter and the Mystery of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas’s Ethical Subjectivity | 59 | ||
| 3 Seeing on the Threshold: Self-Other Relations, Vision, and Visual Art in Siri Hustvedt’s Works | 67 | ||
| 3.1 The Self as a Hole in Vision: Subjectivity and the Gaze of the Other | 72 | ||
| 3.1.1 Jacques Lacan: The Specular Subject | 73 | ||
| 3.1.2 Jean-Paul Sartre’s Theory of Vision and Subjectivity | 78 | ||
| 3.1.3 M. M. Bakhtin: Vision and Consummation | 83 | ||
| 3.1.4 Alienation and Photographic Misrepresentation in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold and Other Works | 87 | ||
| 3.2 Moving toward the Other: Intersubjective Modes of Vision | 104 | ||
| 3.2.1 Voyeuristic Tendencies in Siri Hustvedt’s Writing: The Pleasure of the Look | 111 | ||
| 3.2.2 Painting as a Medium of Dialogue in Siri Hustvedt’s Intersubjective Vision of Art | 116 | ||
| 4 Identity and the Boundaries of the Body: Hysteria and Anorexia Nervosa in Siri Hustvedt’s Writing | 131 | ||
| 4.1 Boundaries of the Body | 138 | ||
| 4.2 The Self as a Reflection of the Other’s Desire: Hysteria | 142 | ||
| 4.3 Closing the Self Down: The Anorexic Struggle against the Open Body | 153 | ||
| 5 When the Other Goes Missing: Attachment, Loss, and Grief in Siri Hustvedt’s Writing | 171 | ||
| 5.1 Relational Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss | 173 | ||
| 5.1.1 Mother-Child Relations and Intersubjective Psychoanalysis | 175 | ||
| 5.1.2 D. W. Winnicott: Holding, Mirroring, Playing, and the False Self | 178 | ||
| 5.1.3 John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory | 183 | ||
| 5.1.4 Hustvedt’s Application of Relational Psychoanalysis | 187 | ||
| 5.2 Loss and Grief in What I Loved and The Sorrows of an American | 195 | ||
| 5.2.1 What I Loved: When Death Parts Self and Other | 197 | ||
| 5.2.2 The Sorrows of an American: Talking to Ghosts | 203 | ||
| 6. Conclusion | 209 | ||
| 7. Works Cited | 217 |
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