Matt Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 3745907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College, Oxford, United Kingdom |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2562-4771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Perec's Unsure Text
During a nightmarishly sleepless night, neither the first nor last endured by the protagonist of Georges Perec's Un homme qui dort, there appears a passage which seems to summon a self-reflexive reading: 'Il devrait y avoir des textes à ce sujet, des textes sûrs, qui permettraient de faire face à ces situations, beaucoup plus fréquentes qu'on ne le croit généralement.' 1 The protagonist, a student in post-war Paris, is in the midst of a crisis th…
On Bibliotherapy
This article offers a reading of the “care turn” through Régine Detambel, author and bibliotherapist. In Les Livres prennent soin de nous, she argues not only that literature can serve as therapy for its reader but also that the practice of bibliotherapy might help foster the autonomy both of patients and of literature. Drawing on work in the social sciences on matters of autonomy as it relates to both literature and contemporary therapeutic cult…
Notes on Loving a Mourner (with Roland Barthes and Others)
This essay examines the place of love in grief, staging a relation between a mourner and her lover. Taking as its point of departure Freud's observation that mourning leads to a ‘loss of the capacity to love’, it considers the effects bereavement might have on the bereaved's relations with those that love them, and the possibilities, pitfalls and ethics of care in such a context. This is explored largely through a reading of Roland Barthes's late…
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Notes on Loving a Mourner (with Roland Barthes and Others)
This essay examines the place of love in grief, staging a relation between a mourner and her lover. Taking as its point of departure Freud's observation that mourning leads to a ‘loss of the capacity to love’, it considers the effects bereavement might have on the bereaved's relations with those that love them, and the possibilities, pitfalls and ethics of care in such a context. This is explored largely through a reading of Roland Barthes's late…
On Bibliotherapy
This article offers a reading of the “care turn” through Régine Detambel, author and bibliotherapist. In Les Livres prennent soin de nous, she argues not only that literature can serve as therapy for its reader but also that the practice of bibliotherapy might help foster the autonomy both of patients and of literature. Drawing on work in the social sciences on matters of autonomy as it relates to both literature and contemporary therapeutic cult…
Perec's Unsure Text
During a nightmarishly sleepless night, neither the first nor last endured by the protagonist of Georges Perec's Un homme qui dort, there appears a passage which seems to summon a self-reflexive reading: 'Il devrait y avoir des textes à ce sujet, des textes sûrs, qui permettraient de faire face à ces situations, beaucoup plus fréquentes qu'on ne le croit généralement.' 1 The protagonist, a student in post-war Paris, is in the midst of a crisis th…
Art (3 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Psychotherapist (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work) · Bibliotherapy (1 work)