Steven Botticelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1718843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Botticelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Botticelli |
| SIGNATURE | BOTTICELLI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Buenos Aires |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6071-3289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
La constitución de un "nosotros" desde las críticas al humanismo moderno
La modernidad europea postula al individuo como figura antropológica originaria, base de la dimensión social. En ese contexto donde el "yo" es el punto de partida indefectible, la constitución de un "nosotros" se presenta como un problema específicamente moderno que encuentra al humanismo como respuesta principal. Pero ese humanismo que alcanzó a funcionar durante varios siglos parece hoy haber entrado en crisis a partir de cuestionamientos que l…
Foucault, Esposito y las posibilidades de una biopolítica afirmativa
Dentro del amplio campo problemático que configuran las diversas indagaciones en torno a la biopolítica, se destacan aquéllas que estipulan la necesidad de ampliar, profundizar, completar e incluso enmendar las significaciones que Michel Foucault le imprimiera a este concepto durante la década de 1970. El presente artículo tomará en consideración la “biopolítica afirmativa” desarrollada por Roberto Esposito, la cual aparece caracterizada como el …
Writing As Queer Practice And Pleasure
The "Ethical Turn" in Psychoanalysis
In the last decade there has been a great outburst of ethics upon the psychoanalytic scene, with the appearance of several books and many scholarly articles making a claim for a central role for ethics in our theorizing and practice. One might ask, Why now? In attempting to answer this question, the author considers the position of psychoanalytic therapists as “implicated subjects” (from Rothberg) within the neoliberal political economy, aware of…
Elucidar el triunfo de Cambiemos sin cuestionar la democracia
El triunfo de la Alianza Cambiemos en 2015 fue descripto como la primera vez en la historia argentina en la que un partido cuyo ideario resultaba fácilmente vinculable con las tradiciones oligárquicas, los principios conservadores y la impronta neoliberal lograba imponerse en una elección presidencial democrática. Este novedoso emergente supuso para la labor del pensamiento crítico un desafío inédito. En virtud de dar cuenta de este fenómeno, la …
Erections Exploding in Midair
Building on earlier work that aimed to understand the traumatogenic effects of war experiences on soldiers, Chaim Shatan (1989) introduces in “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” his conception of “eroticized violence.” He provides examples from his work with soldiers that are at once lurid and disturbing, yet also elliptical. These examples by their excess reflect the (micro)traumatic impact of Shatan’s years of listening to soldiers’ accounts of their war…
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process
My Freudian Cocaine Fantasia
This paper speculates that Freud’s use of cocaine during the formative years of his theorizing shaped a particular conception of the nature of desire. One can draw correspondences between the phenomenology of cocaine intoxication and certain aspects of Freud’s ideas about desire: desire as appetitive, solipsistic, focused on discharge, defined by a quality of “drivenness,” subordinating of pleasure. Although relational reconsiderations have expan…
La Gubernamentalidad Del Estado en Foucault
El presente artículo tiene por objetivo estipular algunas de las implicacionesque, dentro de la obra de Michel Foucault, supone la aparición de laperspectiva gubernamental. Para ello se especificarán algunos predicadosasociados a los conceptos de “gobierno” y “gubernamentalidad” ensu relación con ciertas nociones significativas como las de “poder” y“conducta”. Se señalarán los supuestos metodológicos que Foucault asumeal tomar al Estado como obje…
Danger, Pleasure, Vulnerability, Shame
Hartman's and Blechner's responses to my essay highlight some illuminating differences with my own theoretical and clinical inclinations. In particular, Hartman's postmodernism and Blechner's empiricism allow me to clarify my own thinking, in particular the centrality of my concern with vulnerability. Sedgwick's challenge to my clinical case says much of interest about shame. It also permits me to address misunderstandings that can take place bet…
Thinking the Unthinkable
This essay takes up the issue of anal sexuality among gay men in order to consider the relationship between bodily and psychic penetrability. The lack of recognition some gay men may experience with this aspect of their sexuality suggests the importance that feeling “mentalized” (e.g., Fonagy and Target, 1993 Fonagy , P. & Target , M. ( 1993 ). Aggression and the psychological self . International Journal of Psycho-Analysis , 74 , 471 – 485 .[Pub…
Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics
The "Ethical Turn" in Psychoanalysis
In the last decade there has been a great outburst of ethics upon the psychoanalytic scene, with the appearance of several books and many scholarly articles making a claim for a central role for ethics in our theorizing and practice. One might ask, Why now? In attempting to answer this question, the author considers the position of psychoanalytic therapists as “implicated subjects” (from Rothberg) within the neoliberal political economy, aware of…
Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics
Danger, Pleasure, Vulnerability, Shame
Hartman's and Blechner's responses to my essay highlight some illuminating differences with my own theoretical and clinical inclinations. In particular, Hartman's postmodernism and Blechner's empiricism allow me to clarify my own thinking, in particular the centrality of my concern with vulnerability. Sedgwick's challenge to my clinical case says much of interest about shame. It also permits me to address misunderstandings that can take place bet…
Thinking the Unthinkable
This essay takes up the issue of anal sexuality among gay men in order to consider the relationship between bodily and psychic penetrability. The lack of recognition some gay men may experience with this aspect of their sexuality suggests the importance that feeling “mentalized” (e.g., Fonagy and Target, 1993 Fonagy , P. & Target , M. ( 1993 ). Aggression and the psychological self . International Journal of Psycho-Analysis , 74 , 471 – 485 .[Pub…
La Gubernamentalidad Del Estado en Foucault
El presente artículo tiene por objetivo estipular algunas de las implicacionesque, dentro de la obra de Michel Foucault, supone la aparición de laperspectiva gubernamental. Para ello se especificarán algunos predicadosasociados a los conceptos de “gobierno” y “gubernamentalidad” ensu relación con ciertas nociones significativas como las de “poder” y“conducta”. Se señalarán los supuestos metodológicos que Foucault asumeal tomar al Estado como obje…
My Freudian Cocaine Fantasia
This paper speculates that Freud’s use of cocaine during the formative years of his theorizing shaped a particular conception of the nature of desire. One can draw correspondences between the phenomenology of cocaine intoxication and certain aspects of Freud’s ideas about desire: desire as appetitive, solipsistic, focused on discharge, defined by a quality of “drivenness,” subordinating of pleasure. Although relational reconsiderations have expan…
Erections Exploding in Midair
Building on earlier work that aimed to understand the traumatogenic effects of war experiences on soldiers, Chaim Shatan (1989) introduces in “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” his conception of “eroticized violence.” He provides examples from his work with soldiers that are at once lurid and disturbing, yet also elliptical. These examples by their excess reflect the (micro)traumatic impact of Shatan’s years of listening to soldiers’ accounts of their war…
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum-Seeking Process
Elucidar el triunfo de Cambiemos sin cuestionar la democracia
El triunfo de la Alianza Cambiemos en 2015 fue descripto como la primera vez en la historia argentina en la que un partido cuyo ideario resultaba fácilmente vinculable con las tradiciones oligárquicas, los principios conservadores y la impronta neoliberal lograba imponerse en una elección presidencial democrática. Este novedoso emergente supuso para la labor del pensamiento crítico un desafío inédito. En virtud de dar cuenta de este fenómeno, la …
Foucault, Esposito y las posibilidades de una biopolítica afirmativa
Dentro del amplio campo problemático que configuran las diversas indagaciones en torno a la biopolítica, se destacan aquéllas que estipulan la necesidad de ampliar, profundizar, completar e incluso enmendar las significaciones que Michel Foucault le imprimiera a este concepto durante la década de 1970. El presente artículo tomará en consideración la “biopolítica afirmativa” desarrollada por Roberto Esposito, la cual aparece caracterizada como el …
Writing As Queer Practice And Pleasure
The "Ethical Turn" in Psychoanalysis
In the last decade there has been a great outburst of ethics upon the psychoanalytic scene, with the appearance of several books and many scholarly articles making a claim for a central role for ethics in our theorizing and practice. One might ask, Why now? In attempting to answer this question, the author considers the position of psychoanalytic therapists as “implicated subjects” (from Rothberg) within the neoliberal political economy, aware of…
La constitución de un "nosotros" desde las críticas al humanismo moderno
La modernidad europea postula al individuo como figura antropológica originaria, base de la dimensión social. En ese contexto donde el "yo" es el punto de partida indefectible, la constitución de un "nosotros" se presenta como un problema específicamente moderno que encuentra al humanismo como respuesta principal. Pero ese humanismo que alcanzó a funcionar durante varios siglos parece hoy haber entrado en crisis a partir de cuestionamientos que l…
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