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Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics: Volume 1 1990-2000 is a carefully edited collection of Bracha L. Ettinger’s psychoanalytic writings published between 1990 and 2000. Ettinger is a post-Lacanian feminist scholar who has developed a matrixial approach to psychoanalysis. Matrixial psychoanalysis gives form to an Other (non-phallic) axis of difference relating to the feminine, ethics, alterity, art, and aesthetics. With a deft understanding of Ettingerian theory, Griselda Pollock has edited a stunning volume that everyone interested in feminist psychoanalytic theory, art, culture, trauma, ethics, politics, and difference will find compelling.
Pollock is an accomplished feminist theorist in her own right who has, over the years, interpreted and elaborated upon Ettinger’s theory and art practice (Pollock, 2004, 2009, 2013). Pollock not only introduces new readers to Ettingerian theory but makes compelling arguments about how Ettinger’s scholarship is relevant to feminism and to psychoanalysis more generally. In so doing, Pollock makes Ettingerian theory accessible to an interdisciplinary audience, thereby enabling different international audiences to understand the importance and gravity of Ettinger’s contributions to feminism, art, psychoanalytic theory, and culture. Most readers familiar with Ettingerian psychoanalysis will know The Matrixial Borderspace (2006), the collection edited by Brian Massumi that includes Ettinger’s formative writings on the Other sexual difference (OSD). But few will have read the significant body of work Ettinger previously published as book chapters, articles, artist statements, or presented at art openings, public lectures, conference keynotes, etc. This volume includes many of these important works.
In the preface and introduction Pollock situates Ettingerian psychoanalysis in feminist theory, art criticism, aesthetics, literary theory, cultural theory, Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Important dist