Max Cavitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1087704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Cavitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavitch |
| SIGNATURE | CAVITCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3933-123X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nick Stock and Nick Peim, The Lacanian Teacher
Whistler’s Mothers
The hyper-iconicization, sentimental nationalization, and mass merchandizing of the portrait commonly referred to as “Whistler’s Mother” (1871) have made it difficult to see as anything but another simulacrum of itself. Yet when studied alongside James McNeill Whistler’s far less well known but startlingly similar portrait of Thomas Carlyle (1873) both paintings appear quite differently. This psychohistorical essay takes a fresh look at both the …
Specimen Days
Safe, But Not Too Safe
The following correspondence, incomplete and edited for length, was conducted between 2005 and 2017—12 years out of the 15-year-long span of my almost entirely epistolary friendship with Philip Bromberg. With all the casualness and inadvertency of an email exchange, it nevertheless speaks—for us both—far more eloquently than anything I could write about the history of our friendship and about the various ways in which we shared our love of langua…
In the Interest of History
Psychoanalysis is often wrongly perceived to be uninterested in history. Yet, as the most comprehensive and sophisticated basis for the exploration of human consciousness, the field of psychoanalysis, from its inception to the present, has continued to offer unprecedented insights into how we perceive, record, and share the complexities of temporality. The aim of this article is to demonstrate, with the help of various works by Walter Benjamin—wo…
Specters of Translation
This essay explores the film collaborations of Franco-Egyptian filmmaker Safaa Fathy and Franco-Maghrebian philosopher Jacques Derrida, offering an extended reading of their court-métrage, Nom à la mer (2004)—a film about language, exile, and loss, made by a pair of wanderers both keenly interested in the spectral effects of translation as they haunt the filmic medium. Nom à la mer is a cinematic rendering of the French translation of Fathy's ori…
Do you love me
Curbside Quarantine
Slavery and its metrics
Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821) has long been credited – not without good reason – as the first known African-American author, and her one surviving work, the poem “Bars Fight” (c. 1746), is widely anthologized as the earliest surviving poem by an American slave. The story of the poem's survival – composed by Terry shortly after an Indian raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1746, and preserved and transmitted through memorization and recitation until …
Sex after death
By now it should be well understood, within and beyond the bounds of gender and sexuality studies, that queer praxis has been both a sustained response to a particular history of loss and an important contribution to the ongoing psychosocial project of theorizing mourning. Among other things, ‘queering’ mourning has meant overruling reticence with the antagonistically explicit; displacing mortuary and memorial decorum with improvised and impatien…
The Man That Was Used Up
Research Article| June 01 2003 The Man That Was Used Up: Poetry, Particularity, and the Politics of Remembering George Washington Max Cavitch Max Cavitch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 247–274. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-247 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Max Cavitch; The Man That Was Used Up: Poetry, Particu…
Sex after death
By now it should be well understood, within and beyond the bounds of gender and sexuality studies, that queer praxis has been both a sustained response to a particular history of loss and an important contribution to the ongoing psychosocial project of theorizing mourning. Among other things, ‘queering’ mourning has meant overruling reticence with the antagonistically explicit; displacing mortuary and memorial decorum with improvised and impatien…
The Man That Was Used Up
Research Article| June 01 2003 The Man That Was Used Up: Poetry, Particularity, and the Politics of Remembering George Washington Max Cavitch Max Cavitch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 247–274. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-247 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Max Cavitch; The Man That Was Used Up: Poetry, Particu…
Sex after death
By now it should be well understood, within and beyond the bounds of gender and sexuality studies, that queer praxis has been both a sustained response to a particular history of loss and an important contribution to the ongoing psychosocial project of theorizing mourning. Among other things, ‘queering’ mourning has meant overruling reticence with the antagonistically explicit; displacing mortuary and memorial decorum with improvised and impatien…
Slavery and its metrics
Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821) has long been credited – not without good reason – as the first known African-American author, and her one surviving work, the poem “Bars Fight” (c. 1746), is widely anthologized as the earliest surviving poem by an American slave. The story of the poem's survival – composed by Terry shortly after an Indian raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1746, and preserved and transmitted through memorization and recitation until …
Curbside Quarantine
Do you love me
Specters of Translation
This essay explores the film collaborations of Franco-Egyptian filmmaker Safaa Fathy and Franco-Maghrebian philosopher Jacques Derrida, offering an extended reading of their court-métrage, Nom à la mer (2004)—a film about language, exile, and loss, made by a pair of wanderers both keenly interested in the spectral effects of translation as they haunt the filmic medium. Nom à la mer is a cinematic rendering of the French translation of Fathy's ori…
Safe, But Not Too Safe
The following correspondence, incomplete and edited for length, was conducted between 2005 and 2017—12 years out of the 15-year-long span of my almost entirely epistolary friendship with Philip Bromberg. With all the casualness and inadvertency of an email exchange, it nevertheless speaks—for us both—far more eloquently than anything I could write about the history of our friendship and about the various ways in which we shared our love of langua…
In the Interest of History
Psychoanalysis is often wrongly perceived to be uninterested in history. Yet, as the most comprehensive and sophisticated basis for the exploration of human consciousness, the field of psychoanalysis, from its inception to the present, has continued to offer unprecedented insights into how we perceive, record, and share the complexities of temporality. The aim of this article is to demonstrate, with the help of various works by Walter Benjamin—wo…
Specimen Days
Whistler’s Mothers
The hyper-iconicization, sentimental nationalization, and mass merchandizing of the portrait commonly referred to as “Whistler’s Mother” (1871) have made it difficult to see as anything but another simulacrum of itself. Yet when studied alongside James McNeill Whistler’s far less well known but startlingly similar portrait of Thomas Carlyle (1873) both paintings appear quite differently. This psychohistorical essay takes a fresh look at both the …
Nick Stock and Nick Peim, The Lacanian Teacher
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