Bracha L. Ettinger Seminar: Late Lacan and After (session one)

Bracha L. Ettinger offers a seminar for Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics on the later Lacan and the topological and conceptual tools developed in Lacan’s work including the sphere, klein bottle, torus and cross-cap. From these interventions, Bracha reconsiders the Freudian notion of eros, or life drive.

Bio of Bracha L. Ettinger:

Doctor Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger is an immanent artist-painter and influential artist-theorist, philosopher, supervising psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, member of NLS, WAP and TAICP, whose pioneering work has emerged during the 1990s and caused major transformations in the fields of contemporary European painting as well as in philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical studies, art theory and art history, film and literary studies, and feminism. Based in Tel Aviv, her art, both abstract and symbolic, is a research of depth and colour as light, and of archival traces of trauma, which engage with historical and personal memory in relation to women in war, oblivion, trauma and witnessing.

Ettinger, expert of the late Lacanian period and a translator of Lacan to Hebrew, is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Art at the EGS and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at GCAS College. She is one of the leading theorists in the realm of contemporary French philosophy, feminism and psychoanalysis. Her matrixial theory offers a metaphysical paradigm for rethinking subjectivity, transubjectivity, the maternal and the feminine. Her artworks, mainly paintings, drawings, artist's notebooks, and video, have been presented at exhibitions worldwide at major museums of contemporary art and have been the subject of several monographs.

Her most recent shows include solo show at the Silesian Museum in Katowice, Espressioni in Castello di Rivoli and an upcoming solo show at the Castello, Turin, Psychic Wounds in The Warehouse, Dallas, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial and an upcoming solo show at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London. Amongst her own publications are And My Heart Wound-Space published on the occasion of the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), The Matrixial Borderspace and Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics - Selected essays covering 25 years in two volumes, edited by Griselda Pollock.

Bracha led the biggest rescue, evacuation and saving operation in the history of the Middle East: saving the drowning young men of the Eilat shipwreck when she was 19 years old. She was wounded during the operation, and suffered shell-shock after it. Only 50 years later, most recently, this event was released from secrecy, and she was given the highest Air-Force medal for her Heroism. Ettinger is a supporter of the Palestinian rights, and an activist member in "Physicians for Human Rights-Israel".

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