Naomi Segal
Biographic Data
| ID | 642938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Segal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Segal |
| SIGNATURE | SEGAL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9837-5016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers
This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas – the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner’s real thoughts than anything they say; a piece of furniture with ingenious mechanisms created to conceal secrets may also reveal someone’s attempts to break in and thus…
A Petty Form of Suffering: A Brief Cultural Study of Itching
Itching is a petty form of suffering,' wrote André Gide in 1931. Itching may be occasional or obsessive; it positions a person inside a body that exists in familial and social contexts; it can be evoked in debates about righteousness and justice. This article begins with discussion of the work of Didier Anzieu, psychoanalyst author of The Skin-ego: among the nine 'functions' of the skin-ego that Anzieu describes, the last is 'toxicity', the skin …
Od literatury do piśmienności kulturowej. Wprowadzenie
s introduction to the volume From Literature to Cultural Literacy (which she edited with Daniela Koleva) focuses on the recent shift in literary scholarship away from poems, fiction or dramas. This shift, which concerns researchers as well as the discipline itself, results from a growing interest in contemporary social and cultural issues. It has led to the transformation of literary scholarship into literary-and-cultural studies -a field that is…
"The "Femme Fatale: A Literary and Cultural Version of Femicide
The figure of the femme fatale is understood as inviting her own murder. Supposedly, the cause of the violence done by a man in thrall to her, she is in fact the primary victim of this violence. In the French confessional narrative, the woman is always somehow at fault for the protagonist’s failure, whether by loving him too little or too much; she dies and he lives to tell the tale, recounting it to another man who listens and absolves. Thus, th…
Running in Circles: My Best Friend’s Wedding After 19 Years
This essay revisits My Best Friend’s Wedding (Hogan, 1997) 19 years later. It compares its way of combining laughter and tears with 2 genres of literature: Marivaux’s (1964) 18th-century comic theatre and the 19th-century novel of adultery, with its overtones of classical tragedy. In each, an outsider observes, envies, and seeks to destroy a “happy couple”: the 2 genres end, respectively, in a wedding or in death. How do 3 women view this film, a…
Skin-Ego: A New Translation by Naomi Segal
No Future without Humanities: Literary Perspectives
What might Humanities have to offer to the current big societal and technological challenges? The nine short position papers presented here were collected by Svend Erik Larsen from colleagues and members of the Academia Europaea Section for Literary and Theatrical Studies who have been actively involved in the changes within their discipline in the areas they introduce. They show emerging interdisciplinary fields, provide new insights, indicate s…
From Literature to Cultural Literacy
In recent years, the academic field of literary studies has changed radically. Literary scholars are now working on objects other than poems, dramas or fiction. This essay presents an ongoing strategic project, Cultural Literacy in Contemporary Europe, which was founded in 2007 and run in 2009-11 as an European Science Foundation & Cooperation in Science and Technology (ESF-COST) synergy. Its aim is to investigate and celebrate the range of resea…
‘The exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two epidermises’: Gestures of touch in Gattaca (1997), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and The Piano (1993)
Touch in film can communicate the success or failure of desire. The social contact of two epidermises – as defined by Chamfort in 1796 – is often mediate or indirect. Theorised by Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, the caress is the inverse of the haptic grasp. In this essay I look at two versions of the caressive gesture, found in Jane Campion’s The Piano, Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca and Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr Ripley. In no case is this simply t…
From Literature to Cultural Literacy
To Love and Be Loved: Sartre, Anzieu and Theories of the Caress
This essay is an examination of how love may be theorized in relation to the meeting of two skins in the caress. Starting and ending with the theories of psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu (1923-1999), it presents his theory of the moi-peau (skin-ego) and its development in the infant through experiences of primary care, the fantasy of a 'common skin with the mother' and the taboo on touching, and looks in detail at how this relates to the psycho-sexual…
War Conducted under Certain Rules, but Nonetheless War: Arbitration, Capital and Labour in the Western Australian Gold Mining Industry, 1901-14
Between 1900 and 1914 state arbitration in the mining industry in Western Australia, was driven more by the mining employers and less so by organised labour. The process and outcome of centralised wage fixing reflected the different logics of the protagonists' collective actions, which arose from the inequality of their resources, both strategic and material, and from the differences in the nature and difficulty of their organisational tasks. Col…
Compulsory Arbitration and the Western Australian Gold-Mining Industry: A Re-Examination of the Inception of Compulsory Arbitration in Western Australia
In 1900, Western Australia, a self-governing British colony, adopted compulsory conciliation and arbitration legislation, the first Australian colony to do so. This article focuses primarily on the roles the colonial state and capital played in the adoption of the legislation and proposes a broader, more complex explanation for the introduction of the legislation than current mainstream Western Australian historiography, which, mostly, constructe…
The Intervention That Wasn't: A New Look at the McArthur-Forrest Cyanide Patent Conflict in Western Australia
The patented McArthur-Forrest gold extraction process played a significant role in facilitating gold recovery in Western Australia after 1897. The patent-holders failed, however, both to obtain income commensurate with their efforts and to extend their patent rights in Western Australia. This paper revises existing historical accounts of the cyanide royalties dispute in Western Australia in the light of new sources and focuses on industry-state r…
Women among the Spheres
Andre Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy
This book makes a powerful and somtimes contentious contribution to current debates in gender, feminist, and queer theory. Tracing the hydraulic image in a range of theoretical texts on pedagogy, pederasty, reproductive fantasy, and the anthropology of body fluids, Naomi Segal goes on to examine this imagery in the writings of André Gide. Gide's sexuality was explicitly central to everything he wrote, but it was complex and diverse, motivated as …
Romancing the Postmodern
Modernism and Cultural Transfer: Gabriel Preil and the Tradition of Jewish Literary BilingualismFeldmanYael S. Modernism and Cultural Transfer: Gabriel Preil and the Tradition of Jewish Literary Bilin…
Midrash and feminism
The Unintended Reader: Feminism and Manon Lescaut
The Riddle of Freud: Jewish Influences on His Theory of Female SexualityRoithEstelle The Riddle of Freud: Jewish Influences on His Theory of Female Sexuality Tavistock Publications: The New Library of…
Parfois j'ai peur que ce que j'ai supprimé ne se venge
A Petty Form of Suffering: A Brief Cultural Study of Itching
Itching is a petty form of suffering,' wrote André Gide in 1931. Itching may be occasional or obsessive; it positions a person inside a body that exists in familial and social contexts; it can be evoked in debates about righteousness and justice. This article begins with discussion of the work of Didier Anzieu, psychoanalyst author of The Skin-ego: among the nine 'functions' of the skin-ego that Anzieu describes, the last is 'toxicity', the skin …
To Love and Be Loved: Sartre, Anzieu and Theories of the Caress
This essay is an examination of how love may be theorized in relation to the meeting of two skins in the caress. Starting and ending with the theories of psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu (1923-1999), it presents his theory of the moi-peau (skin-ego) and its development in the infant through experiences of primary care, the fantasy of a 'common skin with the mother' and the taboo on touching, and looks in detail at how this relates to the psycho-sexual…
Compulsory Arbitration and the Western Australian Gold-Mining Industry: A Re-Examination of the Inception of Compulsory Arbitration in Western Australia
In 1900, Western Australia, a self-governing British colony, adopted compulsory conciliation and arbitration legislation, the first Australian colony to do so. This article focuses primarily on the roles the colonial state and capital played in the adoption of the legislation and proposes a broader, more complex explanation for the introduction of the legislation than current mainstream Western Australian historiography, which, mostly, constructe…
Andre Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy
This book makes a powerful and somtimes contentious contribution to current debates in gender, feminist, and queer theory. Tracing the hydraulic image in a range of theoretical texts on pedagogy, pederasty, reproductive fantasy, and the anthropology of body fluids, Naomi Segal goes on to examine this imagery in the writings of André Gide. Gide's sexuality was explicitly central to everything he wrote, but it was complex and diverse, motivated as …
Parfois j'ai peur que ce que j'ai supprimé ne se venge
The Riddle of Freud: Jewish Influences on His Theory of Female SexualityRoithEstelle The Riddle of Freud: Jewish Influences on His Theory of Female Sexuality Tavistock Publications: The New Library of…
The Unintended Reader: Feminism and Manon Lescaut
Modernism and Cultural Transfer: Gabriel Preil and the Tradition of Jewish Literary BilingualismFeldmanYael S. Modernism and Cultural Transfer: Gabriel Preil and the Tradition of Jewish Literary Bilin…
Midrash and feminism
Romancing the Postmodern
Andre Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy
This book makes a powerful and somtimes contentious contribution to current debates in gender, feminist, and queer theory. Tracing the hydraulic image in a range of theoretical texts on pedagogy, pederasty, reproductive fantasy, and the anthropology of body fluids, Naomi Segal goes on to examine this imagery in the writings of André Gide. Gide's sexuality was explicitly central to everything he wrote, but it was complex and diverse, motivated as …
Women among the Spheres
The Intervention That Wasn't: A New Look at the McArthur-Forrest Cyanide Patent Conflict in Western Australia
The patented McArthur-Forrest gold extraction process played a significant role in facilitating gold recovery in Western Australia after 1897. The patent-holders failed, however, both to obtain income commensurate with their efforts and to extend their patent rights in Western Australia. This paper revises existing historical accounts of the cyanide royalties dispute in Western Australia in the light of new sources and focuses on industry-state r…
Compulsory Arbitration and the Western Australian Gold-Mining Industry: A Re-Examination of the Inception of Compulsory Arbitration in Western Australia
In 1900, Western Australia, a self-governing British colony, adopted compulsory conciliation and arbitration legislation, the first Australian colony to do so. This article focuses primarily on the roles the colonial state and capital played in the adoption of the legislation and proposes a broader, more complex explanation for the introduction of the legislation than current mainstream Western Australian historiography, which, mostly, constructe…
War Conducted under Certain Rules, but Nonetheless War: Arbitration, Capital and Labour in the Western Australian Gold Mining Industry, 1901-14
Between 1900 and 1914 state arbitration in the mining industry in Western Australia, was driven more by the mining employers and less so by organised labour. The process and outcome of centralised wage fixing reflected the different logics of the protagonists' collective actions, which arose from the inequality of their resources, both strategic and material, and from the differences in the nature and difficulty of their organisational tasks. Col…
To Love and Be Loved: Sartre, Anzieu and Theories of the Caress
This essay is an examination of how love may be theorized in relation to the meeting of two skins in the caress. Starting and ending with the theories of psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu (1923-1999), it presents his theory of the moi-peau (skin-ego) and its development in the infant through experiences of primary care, the fantasy of a 'common skin with the mother' and the taboo on touching, and looks in detail at how this relates to the psycho-sexual…
From Literature to Cultural Literacy
No Future without Humanities: Literary Perspectives
What might Humanities have to offer to the current big societal and technological challenges? The nine short position papers presented here were collected by Svend Erik Larsen from colleagues and members of the Academia Europaea Section for Literary and Theatrical Studies who have been actively involved in the changes within their discipline in the areas they introduce. They show emerging interdisciplinary fields, provide new insights, indicate s…
From Literature to Cultural Literacy
In recent years, the academic field of literary studies has changed radically. Literary scholars are now working on objects other than poems, dramas or fiction. This essay presents an ongoing strategic project, Cultural Literacy in Contemporary Europe, which was founded in 2007 and run in 2009-11 as an European Science Foundation & Cooperation in Science and Technology (ESF-COST) synergy. Its aim is to investigate and celebrate the range of resea…
‘The exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two epidermises’: Gestures of touch in Gattaca (1997), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and The Piano (1993)
Touch in film can communicate the success or failure of desire. The social contact of two epidermises – as defined by Chamfort in 1796 – is often mediate or indirect. Theorised by Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, the caress is the inverse of the haptic grasp. In this essay I look at two versions of the caressive gesture, found in Jane Campion’s The Piano, Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca and Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr Ripley. In no case is this simply t…
Running in Circles: My Best Friend’s Wedding After 19 Years
This essay revisits My Best Friend’s Wedding (Hogan, 1997) 19 years later. It compares its way of combining laughter and tears with 2 genres of literature: Marivaux’s (1964) 18th-century comic theatre and the 19th-century novel of adultery, with its overtones of classical tragedy. In each, an outsider observes, envies, and seeks to destroy a “happy couple”: the 2 genres end, respectively, in a wedding or in death. How do 3 women view this film, a…
Skin-Ego: A New Translation by Naomi Segal
Od literatury do piśmienności kulturowej. Wprowadzenie
s introduction to the volume From Literature to Cultural Literacy (which she edited with Daniela Koleva) focuses on the recent shift in literary scholarship away from poems, fiction or dramas. This shift, which concerns researchers as well as the discipline itself, results from a growing interest in contemporary social and cultural issues. It has led to the transformation of literary scholarship into literary-and-cultural studies -a field that is…
"The "Femme Fatale: A Literary and Cultural Version of Femicide
The figure of the femme fatale is understood as inviting her own murder. Supposedly, the cause of the violence done by a man in thrall to her, she is in fact the primary victim of this violence. In the French confessional narrative, the woman is always somehow at fault for the protagonist’s failure, whether by loving him too little or too much; she dies and he lives to tell the tale, recounting it to another man who listens and absolves. Thus, th…
A Petty Form of Suffering: A Brief Cultural Study of Itching
Itching is a petty form of suffering,' wrote André Gide in 1931. Itching may be occasional or obsessive; it positions a person inside a body that exists in familial and social contexts; it can be evoked in debates about righteousness and justice. This article begins with discussion of the work of Didier Anzieu, psychoanalyst author of The Skin-ego: among the nine 'functions' of the skin-ego that Anzieu describes, the last is 'toxicity', the skin …
The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers
This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas – the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner’s real thoughts than anything they say; a piece of furniture with ingenious mechanisms created to conceal secrets may also reveal someone’s attempts to break in and thus…
Sociology (15 works) · Art (11 works) · Literature (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)