Valerio Amoretti
Biographic Data
| ID | 6240725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerio Amoretti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerio |
| FAMILY NAME | Amoretti |
| SIGNATURE | AMORETTI V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Psychic Work of Reading
This essay argues that reading involves a form of unconscious psychic work that has the potential to deeply affect and transform the reader. Recent discussions about the practice of reading shunned psychoanalysis because of its alleged reliance on a suspicious epistemology rooted in the Freudian-Lacanian framework. But object-relations theory offers an alternative paradigm, as Eve Sedgwick knew when she proposed the concept of “reparative reading…
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On the Psychic Work of Reading
This essay argues that reading involves a form of unconscious psychic work that has the potential to deeply affect and transform the reader. Recent discussions about the practice of reading shunned psychoanalysis because of its alleged reliance on a suspicious epistemology rooted in the Freudian-Lacanian framework. But object-relations theory offers an alternative paradigm, as Eve Sedgwick knew when she proposed the concept of “reparative reading…
Affect (linguistics (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Freudian slip (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Object (grammar (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Psychic (1 work) · Psychoanalysis (1 work)