Hannah Arendt was famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and
feminism. Nonetheless, psychoanalytic feminist theory can offer a
new interpretive strategy for deconstructing her equally famous
opposition between the social and the political.
Supplementing critical readings of Arendt's most significant
texts (including The Human Condition, On Revolution, Rahel
Varnhagen, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem,
and The Life of the Mind) with the insights of contemporary
psychoanalytic, feminist, and social theorists, Norma Claire
Moruzzi reconstitutes the relationship in Arendt's texts between
constructed social identity and political agency.
Moruzzi uses Julia Kristeva's writings on abjection to clarify
the textual dynamic in Arendt's work that constructs the social as
a natural threat; Joan Riviere's and Mary Ann Doane's work on
feminine masquerade amplify the theoretical possibilities implicit
in Arendt's own discussion of the public, political mask.
In a bold interdisciplinary synthesis, Moruzzi develops the
social applications of a concept (the mask) Arendt had described as
limited to the strictly political realm: a new conception of
(political) agency as (social) masquerade, traced through the
marginal but emblematic textual figures who themselves enact the
politics of social identity.
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