Bodies, Affects, Politics

This book seeks to understand the coexistence of bodily regimes and the politics that emerge from the clash between them:
* Presents a novel conceptual model for understanding the relationship between bodies and affects
* Reworks Ranciè re's notions of the distribution of the sensible and the aesthetic unconscious
* Establishes a dynamic and multiple understanding of the repressive, distributive and communicative unconscious by rethinking Freudian psychoanalysis
* Utilizes a variety of empirical materials, from Hollywood movies to Freud's case studies
* Sets its argument about politics within the context of significant social events to ensure its conceptual and empirical material is relevant to the contemporary political moment

List of Figures vi
Series Editors' Preface viii
Preface ix
1 Introduction: Bodies, Affects and Their Politicisation 1
2 Dislocated by Epidermal Schemas: Skin, Race and a Proper Place for the Body 27
3 The Chafing of Bodily Regimes: Skin and the Corporeal Model of the Ego 49
4 Bodies, Affects and Their Passionate Forms: Animal Phobias and the Topologies of Bodily and Psychic Space 70
5 The Worldliness of Unconscious Processes: The Repressive and Distributive Functions of the Unconscious 91
6 The Transference of Affect: The Communicative Function of the Unconscious 113
7 Crazy about Their Bodies: The Art-work of Sharon Kivland and the Politics of the Female Body 136
8 Conclusion: Bodies, Affects, Politics 158
References 179
Index 192