Noreen Giffney
Biographic Data
| ID | 1634804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noreen Giffney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noreen |
| FAMILY NAME | Giffney |
| SIGNATURE | GIFFNEY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5587-8780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Use of an Object
I reflect on the act of responding and its relation to the nature of encounter, the premise that underpins the interdisciplinary project that resulted in the publication of the book, Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (2017a), edited by Eve Watson and myself. I consider, more specifically, the potential use of the book as an object within the context of psychoanalytic discussions around object usage
The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory
Book synopsis: This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work – identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. A combination of distinguished and emerging scholars from a wide range of international locations, put the terms ‘queer’ and ‘theory’ under interrogation in and effort to map the relations and disjunctions between them. These contributors are especially attendant to t…
Queering the Non/Human
Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory
A Theory of Thinking: A Theory of Desiring
This article focuses on aspects of what is broadly known as countertransference in centering on the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion’s explicit theory of thinking as constituting an implicit theory of desiring. I make a distinction between the discursive terms “thoughts,” “thinking,” “desires,” “desiring,” “wants,” and “craving” and tease out their relationship to one another for clinical practice. I explore how thinking and desiring operate in and aro…
Sex as Evacuation
This article focuses on the representation of sexual activity in the film Shame, directed by Steve McQueen (2011). I concentrate on the sexual encounters of the film’s male protagonist Brandon within the broader context of his relationship with his sister Sissy. I consider how psychoanalytic understandings of the paranoid-schizoid position can help us to think about how Brandon is represented in the film and, by extension, what a Kleinian psychoa…
Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies
Introduction (Noreen Giffney and Katherine O'Donnell) * SECTION I * GENEALOGIES: CONTEXTUALIZING THE FIELD * Lesbian Studies After The Lesbian Postmodern: Toward a New Genealogy (Laura Doan) * A Lesbian-Feminist Journey Through Queer Nation (Bonnie Zimmerman) * A Seat at the Table: Some Unpalatable Thoughts on Shame, Envy and Hate in Institutional Cultures (Sally R. Munt) * SECTION II * READINGS: DESIRING FICTIONS * Queer Paradox/Paradoxical Quee…
Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference
Theory on the Edge brings together some of the foremost specialists working at the interdisciplinary interface between Irish Studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies in
Desiring (With) Bion: An Experience in Reading
To Encounter a Child: Maternal Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of Reading
This article offers an outline and preliminary analyses of key aspects of Lisa Baraitser's (2009 Baraitser , L. ( 2009 ). Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption . London, UK, and New York , NY : Routledge . [Google Scholar]) Maternal Encounters as a situating opening piece in a special feature arising from an intensive seminar on Baraitser's work held in Dublin in September 2010. The first section opens out some of the psychoanalytic imp…
Monstrous Mongols
The Lesbian Premodern
Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusi
Quare Éire
In this position piece we will briefly introduce The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research, which we founded and have convened at University College Dublin, Ireland, since January 2003. We will do this in an effort to illustrate how the aims and development of The(e)ories have mirrored, but also deviated from the US/UK-centric model of Queer Theory which (although largely a myth) continues to dominate discussions of sexuality. In this, we…
Denormatizing Queer Theory: More Than (Simply) Lesbian and Gay Studies
Denormatizing Queer Theory: More Than (Simply) Lesbian and Gay Studies
Sex as Evacuation
This article focuses on the representation of sexual activity in the film Shame, directed by Steve McQueen (2011). I concentrate on the sexual encounters of the film’s male protagonist Brandon within the broader context of his relationship with his sister Sissy. I consider how psychoanalytic understandings of the paranoid-schizoid position can help us to think about how Brandon is represented in the film and, by extension, what a Kleinian psychoa…
Denormatizing Queer Theory: More Than (Simply) Lesbian and Gay Studies
Quare Éire
In this position piece we will briefly introduce The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research, which we founded and have convened at University College Dublin, Ireland, since January 2003. We will do this in an effort to illustrate how the aims and development of The(e)ories have mirrored, but also deviated from the US/UK-centric model of Queer Theory which (although largely a myth) continues to dominate discussions of sexuality. In this, we…
The Lesbian Premodern
Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusi
To Encounter a Child: Maternal Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of Reading
This article offers an outline and preliminary analyses of key aspects of Lisa Baraitser's (2009 Baraitser , L. ( 2009 ). Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption . London, UK, and New York , NY : Routledge . [Google Scholar]) Maternal Encounters as a situating opening piece in a special feature arising from an intensive seminar on Baraitser's work held in Dublin in September 2010. The first section opens out some of the psychoanalytic imp…
Monstrous Mongols
Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference
Theory on the Edge brings together some of the foremost specialists working at the interdisciplinary interface between Irish Studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies in
Desiring (With) Bion: An Experience in Reading
Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies
Introduction (Noreen Giffney and Katherine O'Donnell) * SECTION I * GENEALOGIES: CONTEXTUALIZING THE FIELD * Lesbian Studies After The Lesbian Postmodern: Toward a New Genealogy (Laura Doan) * A Lesbian-Feminist Journey Through Queer Nation (Bonnie Zimmerman) * A Seat at the Table: Some Unpalatable Thoughts on Shame, Envy and Hate in Institutional Cultures (Sally R. Munt) * SECTION II * READINGS: DESIRING FICTIONS * Queer Paradox/Paradoxical Quee…
Sex as Evacuation
This article focuses on the representation of sexual activity in the film Shame, directed by Steve McQueen (2011). I concentrate on the sexual encounters of the film’s male protagonist Brandon within the broader context of his relationship with his sister Sissy. I consider how psychoanalytic understandings of the paranoid-schizoid position can help us to think about how Brandon is represented in the film and, by extension, what a Kleinian psychoa…
The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory
Book synopsis: This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work – identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. A combination of distinguished and emerging scholars from a wide range of international locations, put the terms ‘queer’ and ‘theory’ under interrogation in and effort to map the relations and disjunctions between them. These contributors are especially attendant to t…
Queering the Non/Human
Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory
A Theory of Thinking: A Theory of Desiring
This article focuses on aspects of what is broadly known as countertransference in centering on the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion’s explicit theory of thinking as constituting an implicit theory of desiring. I make a distinction between the discursive terms “thoughts,” “thinking,” “desires,” “desiring,” “wants,” and “craving” and tease out their relationship to one another for clinical practice. I explore how thinking and desiring operate in and aro…
The Use of an Object
I reflect on the act of responding and its relation to the nature of encounter, the premise that underpins the interdisciplinary project that resulted in the publication of the book, Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (2017a), edited by Eve Watson and myself. I consider, more specifically, the potential use of the book as an object within the context of psychoanalytic discussions around object usage
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Queer theory (6 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Human sexuality (4 works)