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Love and Death—and Other Somatic Transactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Abstract

This paper both elaborates and interrogates the transactional model of human experience at the center of Shannon W. Sullivan's Living Across and Through Skins. In particular, it highlights the need (especially given her concerns and commitments) to supplement her account with a psychoanalytic reading of our gendered subjectivities. Moreover, it stresses the necessity to focus on such humanly important—and irreducibly somatic—phenomena as grief and eros.

Type
Symposium on Shannon Sullivan's Living Across and Through Skins
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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