Kirsten Lentz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1718875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten Lentz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Lentz |
| SIGNATURE | LENTZ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Intersexuality, Transgenderism, Bisexuality
When the Analyst Dies and the Patient Goes Missing
This essay argues with urgency the need for psychoanalysts to redress a dangerous lacuna in psychoanalytic praxis. There is, Lentz argues, a disturbing inattention to the quiet but devastating reality that many treatments end because the analyst has died or has become too ill to practice. Lentz focuses on patients’ traumatic experiences of this kind of loss, which can ultimately render the treatment harmful rather than healing. Through clinical e…
Emergent Subjectivity
Kirsten Lentz uses Preciado’s Testo Junkie (2013) as an occasion to explore the rivalry between psychoanalysis and social theory in their attempts to account for human subjectivity. Although a commonsense view holds that the 2 fields have completely different relationships to temporality—psychoanalysts fix their gaze to the past, whereas social theorists imagine radical futures—the distinction is more complex than it appears. The analyst does not…
Quality versus Relevance
Kirsten Marthe Lentz received her Ph.D. from Brown University in May 2000. She is currently working on a book-length project on 1970s television. Lentz's work has also appeared in Cultural Studies (1993) and Madonnarama: Essays on Sex and Popular Culture (1993), edited by Paul Smith and Lisa Frank
The popular pleasures of female revenge (or rage bursting in a blaze of gunfire)
‘You are a beautiful woman ... Why would you want to become a cop?’ ‘Because I like to slam people's heads up against walls.’ (Kathryn Bigelow, Blue Steel, 1989) ‘Women are seething with repressed anger and rage, feelings that could well burst to the surface in a blaze of gunfire.’ (Sonny Jones, editor of Women & Guns, 1991a: 15)
Quality versus Relevance
Kirsten Marthe Lentz received her Ph.D. from Brown University in May 2000. She is currently working on a book-length project on 1970s television. Lentz's work has also appeared in Cultural Studies (1993) and Madonnarama: Essays on Sex and Popular Culture (1993), edited by Paul Smith and Lisa Frank
The popular pleasures of female revenge (or rage bursting in a blaze of gunfire)
‘You are a beautiful woman ... Why would you want to become a cop?’ ‘Because I like to slam people's heads up against walls.’ (Kathryn Bigelow, Blue Steel, 1989) ‘Women are seething with repressed anger and rage, feelings that could well burst to the surface in a blaze of gunfire.’ (Sonny Jones, editor of Women & Guns, 1991a: 15)
The popular pleasures of female revenge (or rage bursting in a blaze of gunfire)
‘You are a beautiful woman ... Why would you want to become a cop?’ ‘Because I like to slam people's heads up against walls.’ (Kathryn Bigelow, Blue Steel, 1989) ‘Women are seething with repressed anger and rage, feelings that could well burst to the surface in a blaze of gunfire.’ (Sonny Jones, editor of Women & Guns, 1991a: 15)
Quality versus Relevance
Kirsten Marthe Lentz received her Ph.D. from Brown University in May 2000. She is currently working on a book-length project on 1970s television. Lentz's work has also appeared in Cultural Studies (1993) and Madonnarama: Essays on Sex and Popular Culture (1993), edited by Paul Smith and Lisa Frank
Emergent Subjectivity
Kirsten Lentz uses Preciado’s Testo Junkie (2013) as an occasion to explore the rivalry between psychoanalysis and social theory in their attempts to account for human subjectivity. Although a commonsense view holds that the 2 fields have completely different relationships to temporality—psychoanalysts fix their gaze to the past, whereas social theorists imagine radical futures—the distinction is more complex than it appears. The analyst does not…
When the Analyst Dies and the Patient Goes Missing
This essay argues with urgency the need for psychoanalysts to redress a dangerous lacuna in psychoanalytic praxis. There is, Lentz argues, a disturbing inattention to the quiet but devastating reality that many treatments end because the analyst has died or has become too ill to practice. Lentz focuses on patients’ traumatic experiences of this kind of loss, which can ultimately render the treatment harmful rather than healing. Through clinical e…
Intersexuality, Transgenderism, Bisexuality
Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (2 works) · Anger (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Feeling (1 work)