Diane O’donoghue
Biographic Data
| ID | 3771391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane O’donoghue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | O’donoghue |
| SIGNATURE | O’DONOGHUE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2998-8078 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Special issue introduction
What might become visible if our gaze shifted from the human remains of those who met untimely or violent death as the centre of our analytical gaze, to the margins of the scene in which they appear? The ethics, politics and practices provoked by such remains are not limited to the skeletal figure, but expand outward to implicate proximate material forms and human investments. The authors address these liminal material interactions. The authors a…
Last place
Both historical and contemporary records of mass contagion provide occasions for visibility to persons who otherwise remain little recognised and even less studied: those who bury the dead. While global reports attest to self-advocacy among cemetery workers in the current COVID-19 pandemic, the psychological complexities of their labour go virtually unseen. Findings on the experiences of those doing such work reveal a striking contrast. While soc…
Amnesias of a Freudian Kind
Freud's psychoanalytic project was indebted to mechanisms and effects that were made visible by acts of forgetting. Certain terms for that, such as repression, became dynamic constructions within his notions of unconscious functioning. But there is a notable example of a relevant concept, with currency in some later nineteenth-century scientific discourses, that seemingly remained purely descriptive for him: amnesia. This essay, the first of two …
Amnesias of a Freudian Kind, Part II
Amnesias of a Freudian Kind, Part II Diane O'Donoghue (bio) Part II This essay is the second of a two-part series that examines Freud's constructions of amnesia as they participated in "forgetting," both within the mechanisms of his psychoanalytic project and, far less investigated, as a way to fix the borders of his idea of an unconscious. As argued in Part One (O'Donoghue, 2021), the operations of forgetting that Freud would identify with repre…
Coda
Coda:Sigismund's Wolves Diane O'Donoghue (bio) As the essays in this issue vividly illustrate, Freud's "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis"—ubiquitously known as the "Wolf Man" case—can still lead the reader, one hundred years after its publication, down many fascinating yet little-traversed paths. And deep in the forest is the animal that, despite having its name endlessly evoked as the moniker for Freud's essay and the person whose story…
Moses in Moravia
Approaching eighty, Freud, in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, described his engagement with the story of Moses as enduring "throughout the whole of my life." The origins of this relationship, usually traced to Freud's experiences with the narratives of his childhood Bible, may have included early encounters, in the company of his Czech caretaker, with sculptural images as well. The first three years of Freud's life were spent in Moravia, where a …
The Magic of the Manifest
Textual evidence shows that dream interpretation preceded Freud by several millennia, but his method was unprecedented. In asserting that the dream's remembered, or manifest, content was merely a disguise for censored, latent meaning, he associated manifest content with notions of animism and magical thinking that characterized colonialist attitudes toward non-European cultures. This paper examines Freud's investment in devaluing dream imagery an…
Lingua Flora
Department of Visual and Critical Studies School of the Museum of Fine Arts Tufts University Boston, MA 02115 [email protected]
Negotiations of Surface
Freud's “The Aetiology of Hysteria” (1896) begins with the description of an excavation. With this passage as a point of departure, the role of archaeology in Freud's early psychoanalytic formulations is examined. The archaeological imagery in his later writings and the collection of ancient objects that came to fill his consulting room and library are well known, but the passage must be contextualized in its own moment to show the influences tha…
Critical Distance
Using the approaches of contemporary critical theory, this article examines the construction of the art history of Bronze Age China. In doing so, it becomes evident that an adherence to normative definitions of art and writing has restricted access to the visual resources available from this period. Although there is evidence that significant ideological connections existed between these aspects of early Chinese representation, this relationship …
Negotiations of Surface
Freud's “The Aetiology of Hysteria” (1896) begins with the description of an excavation. With this passage as a point of departure, the role of archaeology in Freud's early psychoanalytic formulations is examined. The archaeological imagery in his later writings and the collection of ancient objects that came to fill his consulting room and library are well known, but the passage must be contextualized in its own moment to show the influences tha…
Lingua Flora
Department of Visual and Critical Studies School of the Museum of Fine Arts Tufts University Boston, MA 02115 [email protected]
Critical Distance
Using the approaches of contemporary critical theory, this article examines the construction of the art history of Bronze Age China. In doing so, it becomes evident that an adherence to normative definitions of art and writing has restricted access to the visual resources available from this period. Although there is evidence that significant ideological connections existed between these aspects of early Chinese representation, this relationship …
Negotiations of Surface
Freud's “The Aetiology of Hysteria” (1896) begins with the description of an excavation. With this passage as a point of departure, the role of archaeology in Freud's early psychoanalytic formulations is examined. The archaeological imagery in his later writings and the collection of ancient objects that came to fill his consulting room and library are well known, but the passage must be contextualized in its own moment to show the influences tha…
Lingua Flora
Department of Visual and Critical Studies School of the Museum of Fine Arts Tufts University Boston, MA 02115 [email protected]
The Magic of the Manifest
Textual evidence shows that dream interpretation preceded Freud by several millennia, but his method was unprecedented. In asserting that the dream's remembered, or manifest, content was merely a disguise for censored, latent meaning, he associated manifest content with notions of animism and magical thinking that characterized colonialist attitudes toward non-European cultures. This paper examines Freud's investment in devaluing dream imagery an…
Moses in Moravia
Approaching eighty, Freud, in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, described his engagement with the story of Moses as enduring "throughout the whole of my life." The origins of this relationship, usually traced to Freud's experiences with the narratives of his childhood Bible, may have included early encounters, in the company of his Czech caretaker, with sculptural images as well. The first three years of Freud's life were spent in Moravia, where a …
Coda
Coda:Sigismund's Wolves Diane O'Donoghue (bio) As the essays in this issue vividly illustrate, Freud's "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis"—ubiquitously known as the "Wolf Man" case—can still lead the reader, one hundred years after its publication, down many fascinating yet little-traversed paths. And deep in the forest is the animal that, despite having its name endlessly evoked as the moniker for Freud's essay and the person whose story…
Amnesias of a Freudian Kind
Freud's psychoanalytic project was indebted to mechanisms and effects that were made visible by acts of forgetting. Certain terms for that, such as repression, became dynamic constructions within his notions of unconscious functioning. But there is a notable example of a relevant concept, with currency in some later nineteenth-century scientific discourses, that seemingly remained purely descriptive for him: amnesia. This essay, the first of two …
Amnesias of a Freudian Kind, Part II
Amnesias of a Freudian Kind, Part II Diane O'Donoghue (bio) Part II This essay is the second of a two-part series that examines Freud's constructions of amnesia as they participated in "forgetting," both within the mechanisms of his psychoanalytic project and, far less investigated, as a way to fix the borders of his idea of an unconscious. As argued in Part One (O'Donoghue, 2021), the operations of forgetting that Freud would identify with repre…
Special issue introduction
What might become visible if our gaze shifted from the human remains of those who met untimely or violent death as the centre of our analytical gaze, to the margins of the scene in which they appear? The ethics, politics and practices provoked by such remains are not limited to the skeletal figure, but expand outward to implicate proximate material forms and human investments. The authors address these liminal material interactions. The authors a…
Last place
Both historical and contemporary records of mass contagion provide occasions for visibility to persons who otherwise remain little recognised and even less studied: those who bury the dead. While global reports attest to self-advocacy among cemetery workers in the current COVID-19 pandemic, the psychological complexities of their labour go virtually unseen. Findings on the experiences of those doing such work reveal a striking contrast. While soc…
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