[English below]
Zadovoljstvo nam je najaviti kako ćemo u petak, 18.04. u 18h, u MaMi ugostiti Sigi Jöttkandt, istaknuto ime međunarodne scene teorijske psihoanalize. Prenosimo njezin poziv:
“Kako razumjeti nevjerojatne slike koje su putem mreža stizale iz Irana krajem 2022. godine – slike žena koje ne nose veo, kose koja slobodno vije, gorućih hidžaba podignutih poput zastava na štapovima? Vidimo tisuće i tisuće gologlavih žena – i gotovo isto toliko muškaraca – koje uzvikuju revolucionarni slogan zyhiona (“Žena, život, sloboda“). U svom predavanju nadovezat ću se na određene teme koje proizlaze iz evokativnog teksta anonimne žene “L”, koja dokumentira svoju reakciju kada je vidjela fotografije pobune. Usredotočujući se na pitanje vela, moje se izlaganje bavi pitanjima gledanja i mimetizma, te ulogom koju oni imaju u formiranju određenih vrsta grupa – onih ženskih. U Grupnoj psihologiji i analizi ega, Freud razrađuje model grupa usredotočenih na hipnotičku, eksternu figuru uživanja, no u iranskoj pobuni susrećemo se s vrlo različitom strukturom, internom figurom Druge žene čija jouissance organizira jedan drukčiji odnos prema totalitetu. Ta jouissance Druge žene nadilazi spekularne modele identifikacije u korist onoga što ja teoretiziram, uz malu pomoć topologije, kao kolektivnu “pred-sliku”.”
Sigi Jöttkandt profesorica je engleskog jezika na Sveučilištu Novog Južnog Walesa u Australiji. Suosnivačica je i urednica časopisa S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique i Umbr(a), a pokrenula je i izdavačku kuću Open Humanities Press. Autorica je knjiga Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic [2005.], First Love: A Phenomenology of the One [2010.] , te The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame [2024.].
Ulaz je besplatan, a predavanje će se održati na engleskom jeziku.
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[English version]
It is our pleasure to announce that on Friday, April 18th, at 6 PM in MaMa, we will host Sigi Jöttkandt, a prominent figure in the international scene of theoretical psychoanalysis. We are sharing her invitation:
“How are we to understand the extraordinary images streaming out of Iran in late 2022 – images of women unveiled and unveiling, hair flying freely, burning hijabs proffered up like flags on sticks? We see thousands and thousands of women – and almost as many men – bare-headed, chanting the revolutionary slogan, “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” (“Woman, Life, Freedom”). In this talk, I shall pursue some threads arising arising from an evocative text written by an anonymous woman, “L”, who documents her reaction to seeing photographs of the revolt. Centring on the question of the veil, my talk addresses issues of seeing and of mimeticism, and the part these play in the formation of certain kinds of groups – feminine ones. In Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Freud elaborates a model of groups focused on an hypnotic, external figure of enjoyment, yet in the Zhina Uprising we encounter a very different structure, an internal figure of the Other woman whose jouissance organizes another relation to the totality. This jouissance of the Other woman outruns specular models of identification in favor of what I theorize, with a little help from topology, as a collective “pre-image”.”
Sigi Jöttkandt is a professor of English at the University of New South Wales in Australia. She is the co-founder and editor of S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique and Umbr(a), and has also launched the publishing house Open Humanities Press.” She is the author of the books Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic (2005), First Love: A Phenomenology of the One (2010), and The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame (2024).
Admission is free, and the lecture will be held in English.
