How to Do Things with Aggressions?

Elizabeth A. Wilson: Eingeweide, Pillen, Feminismus. Edition Patrick Frey. 2022.

Authors

  • Sarah Sandelbaum Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2022.203

Keywords:

Affect, Queer Theory, Depression, Psychoanalysis

Abstract

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."

Author Biography

Sarah Sandelbaum, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Sarah Sandelbaum works at the Department of Social Theory and Research at Goethe University Frankfurt a. M. on queer theory, decolonial epistemologies, feminist social critique, and artistic/political practices.

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Buchcover, Abbildung von knall-pinken Schlauchstrukturen, die wie Eingeweide aussehen

Published

2022-06-08

How to Cite

Sandelbaum, S. (2022). How to Do Things with Aggressions? : Elizabeth A. Wilson: Eingeweide, Pillen, Feminismus. Edition Patrick Frey. 2022. Open Gender Journal, 6. https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2022.203

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