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Bracha L. Ettinger, Ph.D., Marcel Duchamp Chair & Professor of Psychoanalysis and Art at EGS. Artist and groundbreaking theoretician working at the intersection of feminine sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics.Her approach significantly extends the work of contemporary philosophers and psychoanalysts such as Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Deleuze-Guattari and Jacques Lacan, and challenges the works of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray. Her "matrixial" theory and language has aesthetical, analytic, ethical and political implications. Articulating the feminine, maternal and womb, the prematernal, presubject, trans-subjectivity, coemergence as pregnancy, wit(h)nessing and transference as reciprocal yet a-symmetrical co-birthing, her approach implicitly questions the necessity of Kristeva's sacrificial social contract, at the same time as she urges us to rethink the opening of a new ethical horizon via concepts such as trans-subjective com-passion, primary compassion and fascinance, claiming archaic "aesthetic" mental-psychic apprehension of the other and of the world as proto-ethical. The infant-m/Other transconnectivity includes other non-I(s) right from the start. Working through "borderlinking" in trans-subjective webs is neither symbiotic nor Oedipal. It brings about subjectivizing moments and actualizes human creative and ethical potentialities. Author of The Matrixial Borderspace. Ettinger's artworks, mainly paintings, drawing, Artist's books and photographs have been presented in major museums of contemporary art.
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