Analiza Fragmenta: Književnost, histerija, biseksualnost

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Title (english): An Analysis of Fragment: Literature, Hysteria, Bisexuality
• Author: Mirela Dakić https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1117-2145
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Croatian language and literature)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Theory and History of Literature

Abstract (croatian)

S polazištem u Freudovu Fragmentu analize slučaja histerije, tekstu poznatijem pod naslovom Dorin slučaj, koji je ostavio dubok trag u
suvremenoj teoriji, a napose u njezinim feminističkim odvjetcima, rad će se usredotočiti na status književnosti u feminističkoj raspravi o
histeriji. Upućujući na psihoanalitički pojam (bi)seksualnosti, razmotrit ćemo relaciju feminističkih koncepcija histerije i književnosti, njihove
implikacije za političke dimenzije i metodološke procedure feminističkoga disciplinarnog polja te njihov udio u povratnoj sprezi književnosti,
feminističke kritike, psihoanalize i dekonstrukcije. Sagledat ćemo raspravu koja polazi od Freuda i privlači doprinose različitih teorijskih
provenijencija, među kojima ćemo istaknuti nesuglasja o histeriji u francuskoj teoriji (Cixous – Clément) te kritičke analize Peggy Kamuf,
koje ih upleću u širu polemiku o politici (čitanja) ne samo književnoga nego i teorijskoga, a stoga i psihoanalitičkoga teksta.

Abstract (english)

The essay starts with Freud’s Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, relating its
discordant lines of argumentation with the psychoanalytic concept of (bi)sexuality,
as it was developed from Studies on Hysteria to Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality,
the latter of which was published in same year as the “Dora case”. We consider
the aspects in which Freud’s contradictory analysis of the case becomes central
to the feminist debate on hysteria in Hélène Cixous’s and Catherine Clément’s
classic The Newly Born Woman. The analysis points to the constitutive relation of
the authors’ disagreement on hysteria and different conceptions of literature and
politics presented in their study and the subsequent polemical discussions. We
further approach the dissent about the political and methodological framework of
feminist criticism in the Anglo-American reception of the French authors, wherein gynocritics Elaine Showalter and Sandra M. Gilbert renounce the question of
hysteria. Alternatively, deconstructive critical reading by Peggy Kamuf is grounded
in Derrida’s approach to literature. Kamuf traces the main misunderstandings in
Cixous’s reception, by interpreting her oeuvre as emblematic of so-called semi-theory
and semi-politics, trying to deconstruct oppositions between a theoretical, political,
and poetical text. Through the lens of semi-theory, the relation between Cixous’s
semi-concept of a woman, as a reference without a referent, and the psychoanalytic
understanding of bisexuality and hysteria, has far-reaching consequences on the
reading of psychoanalytic text as literary and hysterical, as it compulsively repeats
the very fragmentary pattern it tries to interpret.

• Keywords (croatian): histerija; književnost; feministička kritika; biseksualnost; politika
• Keywords (english): hysteria; literature; feminist criticism; bisexuality; politics
• Language: croatian
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Umjetnost riječi : Časopis za znanost o književnosti, izvedbenoj umjetnosti i filmu
• Numbering: vol. 65, no. 1-2, pp. 51-72
• p-ISSN: 0503-1583
• e-ISSN: 1849-1693
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22210/ur.2021.065.1_2/03
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:989772
• Publication: 2021
• Document URL: https://hrcak.srce.hr/267118
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2022-05-05 08:52:42