Eyal Rozmarin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1718697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eyal Rozmarin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eyal |
| FAMILY NAME | Rozmarin |
| SIGNATURE | ROZMARIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Belonging on the Edge
Psychoanalysis has the capacity to explain how and why people join together and against each other. If we understand identity and identification, if we understand belonging, we might be able to see how we could free ourselves from the visceral forces that pull us into mad, warring factions, making us destroy each other when we could be neighbors
Belonging and Its Discontents
For a long time, I have been interested in belonging: in how we are forced but also need to belong in communities, in how collective identifications form our subjective identities, in how belonging is the subject-matter of our very sense of self. I have also been interested in un-belonging, in what happens to us when we are refused or choose to refuse a collective affiliation, in the dynamic of alienation, betrayal and freedom that ensues. The pa…
The Birth of the Death Drive
This article is based on a presentation given on April 10, 2022, as part of a panel during the international conference” Sabina Spielrein and Early Female Pioneers of Psychoanalysis”. It is an effort to answer the question that was the title of the panel: “Is the Death Drive Gendered?” My answer was, and remains simple: Yes, it is: the death drive is masculine. To say it in a more nuanced and accurate way, the construct of the death drive, as it …
On Moving Across Oneself, Collective Identity, Homo-Nationalis, and the Trans-Subject
This paper contemplates two notions that I have been exploring in relation to the frontier between subjects and collectives. The first is what I call homo-nationalis, the subject formed by and along the organizing principles of nationalism. This subject, I argue, reflects the ideology and reality of the nation-state. It is animated by its imaginaries and unsettled by its fragilities in the deepest psychological sense. The second is what I call th…
A Second Confusion of Tongues
In recent years, psychoanalysis has become more aware of, and concerned with, the ways in which social forces affect the development and experience of subjects directly. Yet as a discourse and theory of human development, contemporary psychoanalysis still lacks sufficient accounts for how the social becomes psychological. Freud’s psychoanalysis offers the concept of the superego as a means of explaining how social realities and norms enter and pl…
Gravity
Fathers Don’t Cry
A while ago, I was asked whether psychoanalysis had anything special to say about tears. Thinking through this question, it became clear to me that we cannot think about tears in psychoanalysis without thinking about gender—more specifically, the particular view of gender that psychoanalysis has been built upon, and for the most part retains, because this particular view solves for psychoanalysis some basic problems that it does not have the conc…
Response to Jon Mills
The Subject as Threshold
We tend to think subjectivity, and the subject, as somehow discrete and distinguishable, self-defining, even self-sufficient. The subject as owner of his own essence, capable of charting his own course, willful, and at least in potential free. An unethical self-deception according to Levinas (1935/2003). A dangerous delusion according to Adorno (1966/1973). Because the subject of self-awareness and freedom is also the subject of sovereignty, give…
Relational conundrums
Relational Psychoanalysis is by now a large and influential international psychoanalytic school with its own association and publications. For the joy of some and the lament or indifference of othe
You Must Change Your Life
A translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “The Archaic Torso of Apollo” is offered in tribute to the memory of a cherished friend and mentor
Little Samsons
This article tells the stories of 2 little boys, one a contemporary boy who falls off his bicycle in New York City, the other the mythical biblical hero Samson. I use these 2 stories to explore the role of abandonment in the formation, in boys, of a gendered sense of self. I argue that boys and men evolve under the shadow of parental and societal abandonment, a selective process where some aspects of personhood are accepted while others are refus…
Introduction to the Roundtable
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEyal RozmarinEyal Rozmarin, Ph.D., is co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and associate editor of the Routledge book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
Transgender Avant La Lettre? An Introduction
This introduction to a collection of essays by Adrienne Harris, Gregory Tentler, and Laurence Hegarty briefly highlights the main theme explored: central aspects of Forrest Bess's work and their relations with his personal struggles and with the artistic discourse that provided him with points of reference and audiences during the 1940s through the 1960s
Introduction
In this brief introduction to the collection of essays that follows, I point to what in my mind are some of the most pertinent and powerful aspects of Jessica Benjamin's The Bonds of Love (1988 Benjamin , J. ( 1988 ). The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination . New York , NY : Pantheon Books . [Google Scholar]), the author and book to whom this collection is dedicated. I tell of my first encounter with Jessica Ben…
Dori
One way to view the relation between mind and politics is to see society as oppressive. But here the author also understands discourse, including interpellation, as facilitative: subjects of ourselves and subjects to social forces, we can have the social context we need only if we find ourselves through it. In relating his work with Dori, like him an Israeli immigrant, Eyal Rozmarin wants to connect the idea of discourse in critical theory to a n…
Samson Now, an Introduction
In this introduction to the group of essays that follows by Sam Gerson, Jean-Max Gaudillière, Miri Rozmarin, and Udi Aloni, I trace the inspiration for this project, a collective contemplation of the figure of the biblical Samson using as its springboard David Grossman's book about Samson, Lion's Honey (2005 Grossman , D. ( 2005 ). Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson . New York , NY : Canongate . [Google Scholar]). I write about how the project emer…
War and Peace
This article attends the intersection of personal and collective memory. Drawing on the author's childhood memories, particularly those of his grandmother, the article explores the ways in which one's past is registered and reexperienced as an ongoing relation between intimate recollections and grand historical narratives. The article contrasts Homi Bhabha's (1994 Bhabha , H. ( 1994 ). The Location of Culture . New York , NY : Routledge . [Google…
I Am Yourself
This paper suggests that social and historical forces play an unconscious yet decisive role in our lives. Telling the story of a conversation between Israeli parents about the prospect of their children becoming soldiers, and of an analytic relationship between two Israelis, the paper aims to bring to light a hidden balance of power between family bonds and collective attachments. The paper uses ideas developed by Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze,…
Manifesto for Philosophy
The Subject as Threshold
We tend to think subjectivity, and the subject, as somehow discrete and distinguishable, self-defining, even self-sufficient. The subject as owner of his own essence, capable of charting his own course, willful, and at least in potential free. An unethical self-deception according to Levinas (1935/2003). A dangerous delusion according to Adorno (1966/1973). Because the subject of self-awareness and freedom is also the subject of sovereignty, give…
Relational conundrums
Relational Psychoanalysis is by now a large and influential international psychoanalytic school with its own association and publications. For the joy of some and the lament or indifference of othe
Introduction
In this brief introduction to the collection of essays that follows, I point to what in my mind are some of the most pertinent and powerful aspects of Jessica Benjamin's The Bonds of Love (1988 Benjamin , J. ( 1988 ). The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination . New York , NY : Pantheon Books . [Google Scholar]), the author and book to whom this collection is dedicated. I tell of my first encounter with Jessica Ben…
Manifesto for Philosophy
I Am Yourself
This paper suggests that social and historical forces play an unconscious yet decisive role in our lives. Telling the story of a conversation between Israeli parents about the prospect of their children becoming soldiers, and of an analytic relationship between two Israelis, the paper aims to bring to light a hidden balance of power between family bonds and collective attachments. The paper uses ideas developed by Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze,…
Dori
One way to view the relation between mind and politics is to see society as oppressive. But here the author also understands discourse, including interpellation, as facilitative: subjects of ourselves and subjects to social forces, we can have the social context we need only if we find ourselves through it. In relating his work with Dori, like him an Israeli immigrant, Eyal Rozmarin wants to connect the idea of discourse in critical theory to a n…
Samson Now, an Introduction
In this introduction to the group of essays that follows by Sam Gerson, Jean-Max Gaudillière, Miri Rozmarin, and Udi Aloni, I trace the inspiration for this project, a collective contemplation of the figure of the biblical Samson using as its springboard David Grossman's book about Samson, Lion's Honey (2005 Grossman , D. ( 2005 ). Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson . New York , NY : Canongate . [Google Scholar]). I write about how the project emer…
War and Peace
This article attends the intersection of personal and collective memory. Drawing on the author's childhood memories, particularly those of his grandmother, the article explores the ways in which one's past is registered and reexperienced as an ongoing relation between intimate recollections and grand historical narratives. The article contrasts Homi Bhabha's (1994 Bhabha , H. ( 1994 ). The Location of Culture . New York , NY : Routledge . [Google…
Introduction
In this brief introduction to the collection of essays that follows, I point to what in my mind are some of the most pertinent and powerful aspects of Jessica Benjamin's The Bonds of Love (1988 Benjamin , J. ( 1988 ). The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination . New York , NY : Pantheon Books . [Google Scholar]), the author and book to whom this collection is dedicated. I tell of my first encounter with Jessica Ben…
Transgender Avant La Lettre? An Introduction
This introduction to a collection of essays by Adrienne Harris, Gregory Tentler, and Laurence Hegarty briefly highlights the main theme explored: central aspects of Forrest Bess's work and their relations with his personal struggles and with the artistic discourse that provided him with points of reference and audiences during the 1940s through the 1960s
Introduction to the Roundtable
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEyal RozmarinEyal Rozmarin, Ph.D., is co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and associate editor of the Routledge book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
Little Samsons
This article tells the stories of 2 little boys, one a contemporary boy who falls off his bicycle in New York City, the other the mythical biblical hero Samson. I use these 2 stories to explore the role of abandonment in the formation, in boys, of a gendered sense of self. I argue that boys and men evolve under the shadow of parental and societal abandonment, a selective process where some aspects of personhood are accepted while others are refus…
You Must Change Your Life
A translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “The Archaic Torso of Apollo” is offered in tribute to the memory of a cherished friend and mentor
Relational conundrums
Relational Psychoanalysis is by now a large and influential international psychoanalytic school with its own association and publications. For the joy of some and the lament or indifference of othe
Gravity
Fathers Don’t Cry
A while ago, I was asked whether psychoanalysis had anything special to say about tears. Thinking through this question, it became clear to me that we cannot think about tears in psychoanalysis without thinking about gender—more specifically, the particular view of gender that psychoanalysis has been built upon, and for the most part retains, because this particular view solves for psychoanalysis some basic problems that it does not have the conc…
Response to Jon Mills
The Subject as Threshold
We tend to think subjectivity, and the subject, as somehow discrete and distinguishable, self-defining, even self-sufficient. The subject as owner of his own essence, capable of charting his own course, willful, and at least in potential free. An unethical self-deception according to Levinas (1935/2003). A dangerous delusion according to Adorno (1966/1973). Because the subject of self-awareness and freedom is also the subject of sovereignty, give…
On Moving Across Oneself, Collective Identity, Homo-Nationalis, and the Trans-Subject
This paper contemplates two notions that I have been exploring in relation to the frontier between subjects and collectives. The first is what I call homo-nationalis, the subject formed by and along the organizing principles of nationalism. This subject, I argue, reflects the ideology and reality of the nation-state. It is animated by its imaginaries and unsettled by its fragilities in the deepest psychological sense. The second is what I call th…
A Second Confusion of Tongues
In recent years, psychoanalysis has become more aware of, and concerned with, the ways in which social forces affect the development and experience of subjects directly. Yet as a discourse and theory of human development, contemporary psychoanalysis still lacks sufficient accounts for how the social becomes psychological. Freud’s psychoanalysis offers the concept of the superego as a means of explaining how social realities and norms enter and pl…
Belonging on the Edge
Psychoanalysis has the capacity to explain how and why people join together and against each other. If we understand identity and identification, if we understand belonging, we might be able to see how we could free ourselves from the visceral forces that pull us into mad, warring factions, making us destroy each other when we could be neighbors
Belonging and Its Discontents
For a long time, I have been interested in belonging: in how we are forced but also need to belong in communities, in how collective identifications form our subjective identities, in how belonging is the subject-matter of our very sense of self. I have also been interested in un-belonging, in what happens to us when we are refused or choose to refuse a collective affiliation, in the dynamic of alienation, betrayal and freedom that ensues. The pa…
The Birth of the Death Drive
This article is based on a presentation given on April 10, 2022, as part of a panel during the international conference” Sabina Spielrein and Early Female Pioneers of Psychoanalysis”. It is an effort to answer the question that was the title of the panel: “Is the Death Drive Gendered?” My answer was, and remains simple: Yes, it is: the death drive is masculine. To say it in a more nuanced and accurate way, the construct of the death drive, as it …
Psychoanalysis (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works)