American Imago articles from March 1995

American Imago archives from March 1995

In memoriam - Donald Kaplan.(editor of American Imago)
March 22, 1995... Donald Martin Kaplan was born on May 8, 1927 in the borough of the Bronx in the city of New York. He died at one o'clock on a sunny Tuesday afternoon on September 20, 1994 in Greenwich Village, across the street from his home, and office, and...

Reading Freud's life. (biographical depictions of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and their misapprehensions)(includes bibliography)
March 22, 1995... Naturally the writer's life will be seen as irrelevant to his works if you reduce biography to the level of gossip. But if you respect the biographer's art, a better alternative presents itself. Rather than maintain that a philosopher's...

The affirmation of primary repression rethought: reflections on the state of the self in its unconscious relational world.(includes bibliography)
March 22, 1995... Introduction In this paper I shall offer some critical reflections on the state of the self in its unconscious relational world. The principal issue I shall be concerned with is that of connecting a conception of the human subject as...

Lacan The Absolute Master.
March 22, 1995... Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen. Translated by Douglas Brick. Stanford: Stanford UP. 1991. How to read Jacques Lacan is a question. Lacan may be read, Malcolm Bowie suggests, as "one who can think fruitfully only from inside someone else's text" (7)....

Lacan.
March 22, 1995... Malcolm Bowie. London: Montana, 1991. How to read Jacques Lacan is a question. Lacan may be read, Malcolm Bowie suggests, as "one who can think fruitfully only from inside someone else's text" (7). The image of a creative renovator--occupying...

Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction.
March 22, 1995... Elizabeth Grosz. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. How to read Jacques Lacan is a question. Lacan may be read, Malcolm Bowie suggests, as "one who can think fruitfully only from inside someone else's text" (7). The image of a creative...

Trauma, gender identity, and sexuality: discourses on fragmentation.(includes bibliography)
March 22, 1995... In the past several years, a number of discourses--among them cultural criticism, psychoanalytic theories of the self, trauma research, and avant garde art--have arisen to discuss the fragmentation of the self, and these discourses can be quite...