How to Do Things with Aggressions?
Elizabeth A. Wilson: Eingeweide, Pillen, Feminismus. Edition Patrick Frey. 2022.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2022.203Keywords:
Affect, Queer Theory, Depression, PsychoanalysisAbstract
Elizabeth Wilson's 2015 publication "Gut Feminism" is now available in German. Drawing on empirical data from neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, she not only reformulates her longstanding preoccupation with the biological body, with depression and its pharmaceutical treatment, but also proposes that feminist politics should be "radically negative" and embrace its own damaging potential. In doing so, Wilson not only challenges previous "affirmative" or "reparative" readings of feminist neo-materialisms, but emphasizes (unconscious) aggression, loss, and harm in queer theory's "reparative turn."
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