Cecilia Sjöholm
Biographic Data
| ID | 4142225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia Sjöholm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sjöholm |
| SIGNATURE | SJÖHOLM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5333-4317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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The Thinking Fetus
Descartes’s philosophy of the passions is central for an understanding of seventeenth-century ideas of affects and emotions and for the history of emotions overall. But does it have bearing today? In this article, I argue that Descartes raises the question of how the infantile relation to the maternal body influences the emotional life of the adult, a question that is still relevant for psychoanalysis and neuropsychology. In the philosophical sch…
Doing Aesthetics with Arendt
Narkissos
Kroppar utan gränser. Om Kristevas omförhandling av det sociala kontraktet
In her essay "Women's time" from 1979, Kristeva asks why so many women have become attracted to terrorism. The reason seems to be, she argues, a rejection of the sacrificial logic implicated by the sociosymbolic contract defining the modern state. In choosing between "the terror of power or the power of terrorism" however, women find themselves caught in an impossible situation. Terrorist groups do not oppose themselves to terrorist regimes but r…
Crossing Lovers
Crossing Lovers
Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions could be read as a response to Merleau-Ponty's article “The Intertwining—The Chiasm” in The Visible and the Invisible. Like Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray describes corporeal intertwining or vision and touch. Counteracting the narcissistic strain in Merleau-Ponty's chiasm, she assumes that sexual difference must precede the intertwining. The subject is marked by the alterity or the “more than one” and encoded as a hist…
Crossing Lovers
Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions could be read as a response to Merleau-Ponty's article “The Intertwining—The Chiasm” in The Visible and the Invisible. Like Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray describes corporeal intertwining or vision and touch. Counteracting the narcissistic strain in Merleau-Ponty's chiasm, she assumes that sexual difference must precede the intertwining. The subject is marked by the alterity or the “more than one” and encoded as a hist…
Crossing Lovers
Crossing Lovers
Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions could be read as a response to Merleau-Ponty's article “The Intertwining—The Chiasm” in The Visible and the Invisible. Like Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray describes corporeal intertwining or vision and touch. Counteracting the narcissistic strain in Merleau-Ponty's chiasm, she assumes that sexual difference must precede the intertwining. The subject is marked by the alterity or the “more than one” and encoded as a hist…
Kroppar utan gränser. Om Kristevas omförhandling av det sociala kontraktet
In her essay "Women's time" from 1979, Kristeva asks why so many women have become attracted to terrorism. The reason seems to be, she argues, a rejection of the sacrificial logic implicated by the sociosymbolic contract defining the modern state. In choosing between "the terror of power or the power of terrorism" however, women find themselves caught in an impossible situation. Terrorist groups do not oppose themselves to terrorist regimes but r…
Narkissos
Doing Aesthetics with Arendt
The Thinking Fetus
Descartes’s philosophy of the passions is central for an understanding of seventeenth-century ideas of affects and emotions and for the history of emotions overall. But does it have bearing today? In this article, I argue that Descartes raises the question of how the infantile relation to the maternal body influences the emotional life of the adult, a question that is still relevant for psychoanalysis and neuropsychology. In the philosophical sch…
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Passions (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)