Lisa Baraitser
Biographic Data
| ID | 304503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Baraitser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Baraitser |
| SIGNATURE | BARAITSER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6209-7838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Passivity and Gender: Psychical inertia and maternal stillness
Who is afraid of passivity? Historically, women and minoritized people have had good reason to be, given that passivity has been a way to keep them out of the world of "reason." Freud's move from the activity/passivity binary as the principle of all instinct, to its gendering as femininity/passivity and masculinity/activity, leads him to assert the "repudiation of femininity" as the bedrock of psychic life (Freud, S. 1937. "Analysis Terminable an…
Ethical conference economies? Reimagining the costs of convening academic communities when moving online
Online conferences are widely thought to reduce many of the costs of convening academic communities. From lower carbon emissions, lower fees, less difficulty in attending (particularly for marginalised researchers), and greater accessibility, virtual events promise to address many of the issues that in‐person events take for granted. In this article, we draw on a community economies framing from geographers J.K. Gibson‐Graham to argue for centrin…
Amy Allen, Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis
‘Time’ for ‘the People’: Reflections on ‘Psychoanalysis for the People: Free Clinics and the Social Mission of Psychoanalysis’
This article offers some reflections on two important conferences held at the Freud Museum in London during 2021, which has resulted in the publication of a remarkable special issue of Psychoanalysis and History. The conferences aimed at providing a new space to re-engage a long history of debate, started by Freud himself, about psychoanalysis as not only a form of mental health treatment, and a theory of mind, but a social and political project …
What about the coffee break?’ Designing virtual conference spaces for conviviality
Geography, like many other disciplines, is reckoning with the carbon intensity of its practices and rethinking how activities such as annual meetings are held. The Climate Action Task Force of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), for example, was set up in 2019 and seeks to transform the annual conference in light of environmental justice concerns. Mirroring shifts it geographic practice across the globe, these efforts point to a need t…
Ceasing, suspending and stopping: Taking care with time
Depressing time
Although in this chapter pays close attention to existential claims about the place of waiting in human experience, it suggests that waiting is significantly shaped by the promises and narratives of particular historical moments and lifeworlds, and their distinct ways of understanding time. The chapter uses a more dispersed, eclectic, and textual archive of experience to open up a theoretical account of melancholia/depression as a condition funda…
The maternal death drive: Greta Thunberg and the question of the future
Denise Riley and Lisa Baraitser in conversation
This conversation between Denise Riley (DR) and Lisa Baraitser (LB) took place in London on 21 April 2015, and was first published in the online journal Studies in the Maternal (Baraitser and Riley, 2016). The conversation centres on Riley’s book Time Lived, Without Its Flow (2012), which was re-issued by Picador in 2019
Introduction: The social life of time
This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record
Thinking Through Affect and Psychoanalysis: Introducing Papers from the Conference “Worldings, Tensions, Futures”
This is an introduction to the panel of papers collected from the affect theory conference “Worldings, Tensions, Futures,” comprising the stream focusing on psychoanalysis, affect and time
Postmaternal, Postwork and the Maternal Death Drive
The term 'postmaternal' has recently emerged as a way to articulate the effects of neoliberalism on the public devaluing of caring labour [Stephens, Julie. 2011. Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, and Care. New York: Columbia University Press]. This term suggests a valorisation of values associated with care and mothering that have traditionally been gendered and rely on a heterosexist matrix for their intelligibility. Marxist f…
Introduction: 2015 Symonds Prize Essay
Psychoanalysis and feminism and
Temporal Drag: Transdisciplinarity and the 'Case' of Psychosocial Studies
Psychosocial studies is a putatively 'new' or emerging field concerned with the irreducible relation between psychic and social life. Genealogically, it attempts to re-suture a tentative relation between mind and social world, individual and mass, internality and externality, norm and subject, and the human and non-human, through gathering up and re-animating largely forgotten debates that have played out across a range of other disciplinary spac…
Introduction: 2014 Symonds Prize Essay
Duration, Skin, and the Ageing Subject
I read Lynne Segal’s book Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing (2013) as a radical account of subjectivity in which, drawing on Freud, she proposes that what is lost, and therefore constitutive of the subject of old age, is time itself. This temporalization of subjectivity allows us to see more clearly the relation between time and materiality and more specifically between time, subject, and skin. I respond to Segal’s powerful work wit…
Collecting Time: Some Reflections on the Psychopolitics of Belonging
Starting with the return to the aesthetic of the 'peace camp' that we have seen in the 2011 pro-democracy uprisings stretching from North Africa and the Middle East to the central squares of Madrid and Athens, this paper re-reads Luisa Passerini's classic 1988 text, Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968, as a way of understanding the intergenerational dynamics of protest. Passerini's text reads the events of 1968 through collecting political…
Mush time: Communality and the temporal rhythms of family life
In this short piece, I respond to the invitation to write differently about families, relationships and societies by drawing out an anecdotal approach to theorising family time. The anecdote I use highlights the temporal dimensions of family life, and the ways that time can be ‘mushed’, resisting the rhythms of late-capitalist domestic life. By ‘mushing’ time, ‘the ‘kids’ in the anecdote propose an alternative undifferentiated experience of commu…
Giving an Account of Another: Commentary on Rozmarin's “Maternal Silence”
This discussion of Miri Rozmarin's “Maternal Silence” (this issue) situates Rozmarin's article within a wider literature on motherhood and writing before moving on to argue that although a powerful account of maternal ethics, Rozmarin's call for a certain stepping aside from maternal narrative has particular resonance with discourses of maternal masochism. I argue that the child's “open future” cannot be protected by maternal silence as, followin…
Pleasure, Pain, and Procrastination: Reflections on the Experience of Doing Memory-Work Research
The focus of this article is the process of doing memory-work research. We tell the story of our experience of what it was like to use this approach. We were enthused to work collectively on a “discovery” project to explore a method with which we were unfamiliar. We hoped to build working relationships based on mutual respect and the desire to focus on methodology and its place in our psychological understanding. The empirical activities highligh…
Delay: On temporality in Luisa Passerini’s Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968
Communality Across Time: Responding to Encounters withMaternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
I am grateful to the editors and contributors for this wonderful collection of articles that respond to Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (Baraitser, 2009 Baraitser , L. ( 2009 ). Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption . London , UK : Routledge . [Google Scholar]). Rather than restaging the arguments I made in the book, I attempt here to extend my discussion of the maternal subject as a figure that disrupts or interrupts ou…
On reading Transpositions: A response to Rosi Braidotti's Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics
Maternal encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Studies
Introduction: The social life of time
This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record
Mothers who Make Things Public
This paper is an attempt to elaborate two concerns: those of maternal ethics, and notions of making things public. I attempt to bring these two concerns together and think them alongside one another, in hopefully productive ways. I want, in other words, to think about the ethics of what mothers 'make public', whether this is understood in its most rudimentary form, of enabling a child to express something, to make public an affective state, for i…
Temporal Drag: Transdisciplinarity and the 'Case' of Psychosocial Studies
Psychosocial studies is a putatively 'new' or emerging field concerned with the irreducible relation between psychic and social life. Genealogically, it attempts to re-suture a tentative relation between mind and social world, individual and mass, internality and externality, norm and subject, and the human and non-human, through gathering up and re-animating largely forgotten debates that have played out across a range of other disciplinary spac…
What about the coffee break?’ Designing virtual conference spaces for conviviality
Geography, like many other disciplines, is reckoning with the carbon intensity of its practices and rethinking how activities such as annual meetings are held. The Climate Action Task Force of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), for example, was set up in 2019 and seeks to transform the annual conference in light of environmental justice concerns. Mirroring shifts it geographic practice across the globe, these efforts point to a need t…
Postmaternal, Postwork and the Maternal Death Drive
The term 'postmaternal' has recently emerged as a way to articulate the effects of neoliberalism on the public devaluing of caring labour [Stephens, Julie. 2011. Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, and Care. New York: Columbia University Press]. This term suggests a valorisation of values associated with care and mothering that have traditionally been gendered and rely on a heterosexist matrix for their intelligibility. Marxist f…
Ceasing, suspending and stopping: Taking care with time
Mush time: Communality and the temporal rhythms of family life
In this short piece, I respond to the invitation to write differently about families, relationships and societies by drawing out an anecdotal approach to theorising family time. The anecdote I use highlights the temporal dimensions of family life, and the ways that time can be ‘mushed’, resisting the rhythms of late-capitalist domestic life. By ‘mushing’ time, ‘the ‘kids’ in the anecdote propose an alternative undifferentiated experience of commu…
Pleasure, Pain, and Procrastination: Reflections on the Experience of Doing Memory-Work Research
The focus of this article is the process of doing memory-work research. We tell the story of our experience of what it was like to use this approach. We were enthused to work collectively on a “discovery” project to explore a method with which we were unfamiliar. We hoped to build working relationships based on mutual respect and the desire to focus on methodology and its place in our psychological understanding. The empirical activities highligh…
Mum's the Word: Intersubjectivity, Alterity, and the Maternal Subject
Where motherhood and ethics are brought together, it is usually under the rubric of an “ethic of care,” with the mother-child relationship figured as a paradigmatic example of such an ethic. In this article I make use of Levinas' account of ethics as first philosophy to flesh out a notion of “maternal alterity” as an alternative to a maternal ethics based on the various complex mental and emotional tasks that make up care. This represents an atte…
Ethical conference economies? Reimagining the costs of convening academic communities when moving online
Online conferences are widely thought to reduce many of the costs of convening academic communities. From lower carbon emissions, lower fees, less difficulty in attending (particularly for marginalised researchers), and greater accessibility, virtual events promise to address many of the issues that in‐person events take for granted. In this article, we draw on a community economies framing from geographers J.K. Gibson‐Graham to argue for centrin…
The maternal death drive: Greta Thunberg and the question of the future
Duration, Skin, and the Ageing Subject
I read Lynne Segal’s book Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing (2013) as a radical account of subjectivity in which, drawing on Freud, she proposes that what is lost, and therefore constitutive of the subject of old age, is time itself. This temporalization of subjectivity allows us to see more clearly the relation between time and materiality and more specifically between time, subject, and skin. I respond to Segal’s powerful work wit…
Communality Across Time: Responding to Encounters withMaternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
I am grateful to the editors and contributors for this wonderful collection of articles that respond to Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (Baraitser, 2009 Baraitser , L. ( 2009 ). Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption . London , UK : Routledge . [Google Scholar]). Rather than restaging the arguments I made in the book, I attempt here to extend my discussion of the maternal subject as a figure that disrupts or interrupts ou…
Marginalia
In this paper, we explore the way in which the ‘margins’ can be a space for excitement as well as for threat. We examine how the pursuit of truth can be disrupted by marginalia, which appear as unwanted intrusions. However, attending to these marginal experiences and interruptions produces opportunities for newness, among them recognition of the value of trivia and failure. A literary example is given to show how texts might be read against thems…
Maternal Encounters
Winner of the 2009 Feminist & Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Award! Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the extremity of feelings it provokes, and the profound changes it seems to prompt in identity, relationship and sense of self. However, although motherhood can catapult us into a state of internal disarray, it can also provide us with a unique chance to make ourselves anew. How then do we understand thi…
On Waiting for Something to Happen
Marginalia
In this paper, we explore the way in which the ‘margins’ can be a space for excitement as well as for threat. We examine how the pursuit of truth can be disrupted by marginalia, which appear as unwanted intrusions. However, attending to these marginal experiences and interruptions produces opportunities for newness, among them recognition of the value of trivia and failure. A literary example is given to show how texts might be read against thems…
On Giving and Taking Offence
Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Studies
Mum's the Word: Intersubjectivity, Alterity, and the Maternal Subject
Where motherhood and ethics are brought together, it is usually under the rubric of an “ethic of care,” with the mother-child relationship figured as a paradigmatic example of such an ethic. In this article I make use of Levinas' account of ethics as first philosophy to flesh out a notion of “maternal alterity” as an alternative to a maternal ethics based on the various complex mental and emotional tasks that make up care. This represents an atte…
Maternal encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
Mothers who Make Things Public
This paper is an attempt to elaborate two concerns: those of maternal ethics, and notions of making things public. I attempt to bring these two concerns together and think them alongside one another, in hopefully productive ways. I want, in other words, to think about the ethics of what mothers 'make public', whether this is understood in its most rudimentary form, of enabling a child to express something, to make public an affective state, for i…
On reading Transpositions: A response to Rosi Braidotti's Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics
Giving an Account of Another: Commentary on Rozmarin's “Maternal Silence”
This discussion of Miri Rozmarin's “Maternal Silence” (this issue) situates Rozmarin's article within a wider literature on motherhood and writing before moving on to argue that although a powerful account of maternal ethics, Rozmarin's call for a certain stepping aside from maternal narrative has particular resonance with discourses of maternal masochism. I argue that the child's “open future” cannot be protected by maternal silence as, followin…
Pleasure, Pain, and Procrastination: Reflections on the Experience of Doing Memory-Work Research
The focus of this article is the process of doing memory-work research. We tell the story of our experience of what it was like to use this approach. We were enthused to work collectively on a “discovery” project to explore a method with which we were unfamiliar. We hoped to build working relationships based on mutual respect and the desire to focus on methodology and its place in our psychological understanding. The empirical activities highligh…
Delay: On temporality in Luisa Passerini’s Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968
Communality Across Time: Responding to Encounters withMaternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
I am grateful to the editors and contributors for this wonderful collection of articles that respond to Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (Baraitser, 2009 Baraitser , L. ( 2009 ). Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption . London , UK : Routledge . [Google Scholar]). Rather than restaging the arguments I made in the book, I attempt here to extend my discussion of the maternal subject as a figure that disrupts or interrupts ou…
Collecting Time: Some Reflections on the Psychopolitics of Belonging
Starting with the return to the aesthetic of the 'peace camp' that we have seen in the 2011 pro-democracy uprisings stretching from North Africa and the Middle East to the central squares of Madrid and Athens, this paper re-reads Luisa Passerini's classic 1988 text, Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968, as a way of understanding the intergenerational dynamics of protest. Passerini's text reads the events of 1968 through collecting political…
Mush time: Communality and the temporal rhythms of family life
In this short piece, I respond to the invitation to write differently about families, relationships and societies by drawing out an anecdotal approach to theorising family time. The anecdote I use highlights the temporal dimensions of family life, and the ways that time can be ‘mushed’, resisting the rhythms of late-capitalist domestic life. By ‘mushing’ time, ‘the ‘kids’ in the anecdote propose an alternative undifferentiated experience of commu…
Introduction: 2014 Symonds Prize Essay
Duration, Skin, and the Ageing Subject
I read Lynne Segal’s book Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing (2013) as a radical account of subjectivity in which, drawing on Freud, she proposes that what is lost, and therefore constitutive of the subject of old age, is time itself. This temporalization of subjectivity allows us to see more clearly the relation between time and materiality and more specifically between time, subject, and skin. I respond to Segal’s powerful work wit…
Introduction: 2015 Symonds Prize Essay
Psychoanalysis and feminism and
Temporal Drag: Transdisciplinarity and the 'Case' of Psychosocial Studies
Psychosocial studies is a putatively 'new' or emerging field concerned with the irreducible relation between psychic and social life. Genealogically, it attempts to re-suture a tentative relation between mind and social world, individual and mass, internality and externality, norm and subject, and the human and non-human, through gathering up and re-animating largely forgotten debates that have played out across a range of other disciplinary spac…
Postmaternal, Postwork and the Maternal Death Drive
The term 'postmaternal' has recently emerged as a way to articulate the effects of neoliberalism on the public devaluing of caring labour [Stephens, Julie. 2011. Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, and Care. New York: Columbia University Press]. This term suggests a valorisation of values associated with care and mothering that have traditionally been gendered and rely on a heterosexist matrix for their intelligibility. Marxist f…
Thinking Through Affect and Psychoanalysis: Introducing Papers from the Conference “Worldings, Tensions, Futures”
This is an introduction to the panel of papers collected from the affect theory conference “Worldings, Tensions, Futures,” comprising the stream focusing on psychoanalysis, affect and time
Depressing time
Although in this chapter pays close attention to existential claims about the place of waiting in human experience, it suggests that waiting is significantly shaped by the promises and narratives of particular historical moments and lifeworlds, and their distinct ways of understanding time. The chapter uses a more dispersed, eclectic, and textual archive of experience to open up a theoretical account of melancholia/depression as a condition funda…
The maternal death drive: Greta Thunberg and the question of the future
Denise Riley and Lisa Baraitser in conversation
This conversation between Denise Riley (DR) and Lisa Baraitser (LB) took place in London on 21 April 2015, and was first published in the online journal Studies in the Maternal (Baraitser and Riley, 2016). The conversation centres on Riley’s book Time Lived, Without Its Flow (2012), which was re-issued by Picador in 2019
Sociology (27 works) · Psychology (25 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Psychoanalysis (16 works) · Art (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (7 works)