Jeremy Elkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 4397370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Elkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Elkins |
| SIGNATURE | ELKINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On “Beginning” in Analysis
While we speak casually about the beginning of an analysis, we are also aware that there are different senses of beginning in the context of an analysis. Certain differences surrounding the nature of beginning reflect technical-theoretical debates within the field. But in addition and more broadly, the various senses of beginning represent different dimensions of our understanding and experience of analysis. In this essay, I explore some of these…
Trauma and Transcendence
Revisiting Destruction in “The Use of an Object”
"The Use of an Object" (1969a) has been widely recognized as among Winnicott's great papers and has deservedly received a good deal of attention. Much of that attention has focused on the importance that the paper gives to the role of destruction in bringing about the experience of externality. Yet the nature of that destruction has too often been assumed based on Winnicott's earlier writings. In the view that follows from that, destruction is eq…
Motility, Aggression, and The Bodily I
Among the central ideas associated with the name of Winnicott, scant mention is made of motility. This is largely attributable to Winnicott himself, who never thematized motility and never wrote a paper specifically devoted to the topic. This paper suggests both that the idea of motility is nonetheless of central significance in Winnicott's thought, and that motility is of central importance in the development and constitution of the bodily I. In…
Political Science, Political Theory, and the Liberal Arts
What does it mean to think about political science as a liberal arts discipline? This paper examines that question in relation to three sets of relationships: between the disciplinary practice(s) of studying politics (“political science,” broadly speaking) and the practice(s) of politics; between political science research or scholarship and the teaching of political science; and between political theory and the rest of political science (and mor…
Truth and Democracy
Scholars from a variety of fields, including prominent political and legal theorists, philosophers, and intellectual historians, take up the question of whether democratic politics requires talk about truth, and, if so, how truth should matter to democratic politics.
Law and Sacrifice
In this essay, I pursue the idea of legal judgments as articulations of a (collective) body. I begin by examining the relation between the pleasure principle and the reality principle as a tension within modern legal-constitutional thought; and I discuss one traditional idea of legal sacrifice within those terms: as a suspension or withholding of a sovereign pleasure will in favor of a reality principle. In the second part of the article, I argue…
The Model of War
During the past half-century, the United States has declared war on (among else) poverty, cancer, crime, drugs, and terrorism. This essay examines, in the context of these, war as a model for responding to domestic political problems and focuses on the role that that model has played in representing the state and its relation to those evils identified as the enemy
Revolutionary Politics
Motility, Aggression, and The Bodily I
Among the central ideas associated with the name of Winnicott, scant mention is made of motility. This is largely attributable to Winnicott himself, who never thematized motility and never wrote a paper specifically devoted to the topic. This paper suggests both that the idea of motility is nonetheless of central significance in Winnicott's thought, and that motility is of central importance in the development and constitution of the bodily I. In…
The Model of War
During the past half-century, the United States has declared war on (among else) poverty, cancer, crime, drugs, and terrorism. This essay examines, in the context of these, war as a model for responding to domestic political problems and focuses on the role that that model has played in representing the state and its relation to those evils identified as the enemy
Revisiting Destruction in “The Use of an Object”
"The Use of an Object" (1969a) has been widely recognized as among Winnicott's great papers and has deservedly received a good deal of attention. Much of that attention has focused on the importance that the paper gives to the role of destruction in bringing about the experience of externality. Yet the nature of that destruction has too often been assumed based on Winnicott's earlier writings. In the view that follows from that, destruction is eq…
Revolutionary Politics
Law and Sacrifice
In this essay, I pursue the idea of legal judgments as articulations of a (collective) body. I begin by examining the relation between the pleasure principle and the reality principle as a tension within modern legal-constitutional thought; and I discuss one traditional idea of legal sacrifice within those terms: as a suspension or withholding of a sovereign pleasure will in favor of a reality principle. In the second part of the article, I argue…
The Model of War
During the past half-century, the United States has declared war on (among else) poverty, cancer, crime, drugs, and terrorism. This essay examines, in the context of these, war as a model for responding to domestic political problems and focuses on the role that that model has played in representing the state and its relation to those evils identified as the enemy
Truth and Democracy
Scholars from a variety of fields, including prominent political and legal theorists, philosophers, and intellectual historians, take up the question of whether democratic politics requires talk about truth, and, if so, how truth should matter to democratic politics.
Political Science, Political Theory, and the Liberal Arts
What does it mean to think about political science as a liberal arts discipline? This paper examines that question in relation to three sets of relationships: between the disciplinary practice(s) of studying politics (“political science,” broadly speaking) and the practice(s) of politics; between political science research or scholarship and the teaching of political science; and between political theory and the rest of political science (and mor…
Motility, Aggression, and The Bodily I
Among the central ideas associated with the name of Winnicott, scant mention is made of motility. This is largely attributable to Winnicott himself, who never thematized motility and never wrote a paper specifically devoted to the topic. This paper suggests both that the idea of motility is nonetheless of central significance in Winnicott's thought, and that motility is of central importance in the development and constitution of the bodily I. In…
Revisiting Destruction in “The Use of an Object”
"The Use of an Object" (1969a) has been widely recognized as among Winnicott's great papers and has deservedly received a good deal of attention. Much of that attention has focused on the importance that the paper gives to the role of destruction in bringing about the experience of externality. Yet the nature of that destruction has too often been assumed based on Winnicott's earlier writings. In the view that follows from that, destruction is eq…
Trauma and Transcendence
On “Beginning” in Analysis
While we speak casually about the beginning of an analysis, we are also aware that there are different senses of beginning in the context of an analysis. Certain differences surrounding the nature of beginning reflect technical-theoretical debates within the field. But in addition and more broadly, the various senses of beginning represent different dimensions of our understanding and experience of analysis. In this essay, I explore some of these…
Law (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Aggression (2 works)