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l i v i n g a t t e n t i o n on teresa brennan edited by alice a. jardine, shannon lundeen, and kelly oliver Living Attention SUNY series in Gender Theory Tina Chanter, editor Living Attention On Teresa Brennan Edited by Alice A. Jardine Shannon Lundeen Kelly Oliver S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K P R E S S Published by STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS ALBANY © 2007 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, address State University of New York Press 194 Washington Avenue, Suite 305, Albany, NY 12210-2384 Production by Ryan Morris Marketing by Anne M. Valentine Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Living attention : On Teresa Brennan / edited by Alice A. Jardine, Shannon Lundeen, Kelly Oliver. p. cm. — (SUNY series in gender theory) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7079-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7080-0 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Brennan, Teresa, 1952– 2. Psychoanalysis and feminism. 3. Psychoanalysis. 4. Feminity. 5. Philosophy, Modern. I. Brennan, Teresa, 1952– II. Jardine, Alice. III. Lundeen, Shannon. IV. Oliver, Kelly. BF175.4.F45L58 2007 150.92—dc22 2006020751 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Biographical Note on Teresa Brennan ﱡﱢﱣﱡ Teresa Brennan was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1952 and died February 3, 2003 as a result of a tragic hit-and-run. At the time of her death she held the Schmidt Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at Flor- ida Atlantic University. Brennan received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Sydney, a master’s degree from the University of Melbourne, and a doctorate from Kings College, Cambridge University. Before com- ing to Florida Atlantic University, she was a visiting professor at Harvard, Brandeis, and Cornell Universities, New School for Social Research, the University of Amsterdam, the University of London, Oxford University, and the University of Melbourne. Upon arriving at Florida Atlantic, Brennan founded an innovative doc- toral program in the Comparative Studies Department. Designed by Bren- nan for scholars active in the public arena, the Public Intellectuals Program brought an impressive group of visiting scholars and activists to the univer- sity. Brennan also worked with the United Nations World Health Organiza- tion, where she was an invited philosopher. Brennan’s books include Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1989); The Interpretation of the Flesh: Freud and Femininity (1992); History After Lacan (1993); Vision in Context: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight (edited with Martin Jay, 1996); Exhausting Modernity: Grounds for a New Economy (2000); and Globalization and Its Terrors: Daily Life in the West (2003). Her last book, The Transmission of Affect, was published posthumously by Cornell University Press in 2004. v Contents ﱡﱢﱣﱡ Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Shannon Lundeen 1. A Surplus of Living Attention: Celebrating the Life and Ideas of Teresa Brennan 1 Alice A. Jardine 2. Living A Tension 13 Kelly Oliver 3. Time Difference: The Political Psychoanalysis of Teresa Brennan 23 Robyn Ferrell 4. Heidegger after Brennan 33 Anne O’Byrne 5. Repressed Knowledge and the Transmission of Affect 45 Susan James 6. Emotion, Affect, Drive: For Teresa Brennan 57 Charles Shepherdson 7. After Teresa Brennan 79 Kalpana Rahita Seshadri vi viii Contents 8. Ubuntu and Teresa Brennan’s Energetics 91 Drucilla Cornell 9. What’s Not Seen 101 Gillian Beer 10. Reading Brennan 107 Jane Gallop 11. Can We Make Peace? For Teresa Brennan 117 Julia Kristeva A Eulogy for Teresa Brennan 127 Susan Buck-Morss List of Contributors 133 Index 137 Acknowledgments ﱡﱢﱣﱡ Alice A. Jardine: I am sincerely grateful to the faculty and staff of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University, and especially to the Chair of WGS, Afsaneh Najmabadi, for their generous support of the memo- rial conference in Teresa’s honor held at Harvard on May 1, 2004. I am grate- ful to my co-editors, Shannon Lundeen and Kelly Oliver, for their spirit and determination to make this volume happen. I want to express my sin- cere admiration for the many friends and colleagues from around the world who have spoken at one or more of the conferences and panels organized in Teresa’s honor since her untimely death. I especially want to thank Teresa’s daughter, Sangi; Angela Williams, Sangi’s guardian angel; my many priceless friends; and my own dear Anna for all their love and moral support during the time this volume was being compiled. Finally, thank you, Teresa, for teaching me so much about what really matters in our short lives on earth, and espe- cially about how to give and receive a quality of Living Attention that can really make a difference. Shannon Lundeen: I would like to thank my co-editors, Kelly Oliver and Alice Jardine, for giving me the opportunity to work on such an inspiring and robust collection of essays on Teresa Brennan. I would also like to thank Teresa for her unwavering commitments to feminist theory, social justice, and radical thinking and activism, all of which are evident in the scholarship that she has left us. To each of the authors in this volume, I would like to express my gratitude for not only your insightful, critical essays, but also for your receptivity, fl exibility, and promptness during the editing stages of the book. Finally, I would like to express my appreciation to my family and friends for supporting me in this and all other projects that I’ve taken on. Kelly Oliver: Thanks to Elizabeth Grosz for helping to organize the Teresa Brennan Memorial Symposium at Stony Brook University, Manhattan, Octo- ber 2–4, 2003. Thanks to all of the participants, some of whom have contrib- uted to this volume. Shannon Lundeen, Michael Sigrist, and Julie Sushytska provided invaluable assistance for that event. Thanks to Shannon Lundeen ix

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