Introduction: Jane Austen, Persuasion
The introduction for Jane Austen's Persuasion.
“Sontag on Smut: Fifty Years Later”
Essay published by Salmagundi.
Introduction: Teju Cole, Punto d’ombra
The introduction for Teju Cole's book Punto d’ombra.
“Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman”
In her 1856 essay, “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,” George Eliot wrote, “Happily, we are not dependent on argument to prove that Fiction is a department of literature in which women can, after their kind, fully equal men.” Would anyone argue with this today? Is writing an activity that depends on the sex of the writer?
Introduction, Jean Baptiste Huynh: Nature
The preface for Jean Baptiste Huynh's book Nature.
“Much Ado About Hairdos”
An essay published in the book Me, My Hair, and I.
“Phantasiegestalt”
Essay published in the book Die Grimmwelt: Von Arschlein bis Zettel.
“I wept for four years and when I stopped I was blind”
In this paper, I suggest that examining the ideas about hysteria from the past, especially those of Charcot and Janet are fertile areas of study, including the illness and its relation to hypnosis, shock, suggestion, and dissociation theory. I also address the role of the imaginary and the imagination in the illness and critique the implicit dualist model used in most brain imaging studies that distorts the integration of psyche and soma.
“Suicide and the Drama of Self Consciousness”
Since suicide became a medical, not an ethical problem in the West, it has been associated with pathology. The dubious statistic cited in the current literature is that over 90% of all people who kill themselves are mentally ill. But what is the self being killed in suicide?
“Underground Sexism: What was that you just said?”
Published in the book Fifty Shades of Feminism.
“Philosophy Matters in Brain Matters”
Essay published in Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy.
“The Real Story”
Essay published in Salmagundi magazine.
“Freud’s Playground”
Essay published in Salmagundi magazine.
“A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women”
Catalogue essay for “Frauen: Picasso, Beckmann, de Kooning.”
“Margaret Bowland’s Theatrum Mundi”
Catalogue essay for Margaret Bowland’s “Excerpts from the Great American Songbook”.
