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The relationship between history and psychoanalysis has long been
contentious, starting with Freud’s ambivalence toward history,
with some declaring the two fields to be largely incommensurable.
The contributors to this special issue rethink this complicated
dynamic, demonstrating both the uses of psychoanalysis for
interrogating historical narratives and the importance of history
for psychoanalytic analysis. Essays address how psychoanalysis
reframes the ways historians have represented the Holocaust and the
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, investigate neoliberal group
psychology by studying the emergence of QAnon, trace the political
trajectories of psychoanalysis in the mid-twentieth century, and
find previously unexplored links between Freud and the US
plantation economy. Together, the essays testify to the importance
of considering the unconscious dimensions of thought when
attempting to understand the workings of politics and
representations of the past. Contributors. Max Cavitch, Zahid R.
Chaudhary, Alex Colston, Brian Connolly, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon,
David L. Eng, Joan Wallach Scott, Carolyn Shapiro, Michelle
Stephens
Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo
throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great
cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians
debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while
jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented a new prohibition
organized around the nuclear family. Novelists crafted fictional
tales of accidental incest resulting from the severed ties between
public and private life, while antislavery writers lamented the
ramifications of breaking apart enslaved families. Phrenologists
and physiologists established reproduction as the primary
motivation of the incest prohibition while naturalizing the
incestuous eroticism of sentimental family affection. Ethnographers
imagined incest as the norm in so-called primitive societies in
contrast to modern civilization. In the absence of clear biological
or religious limitations, the young republic developed numerous,
varied, and contradictory incest prohibitions. Domestic Intimacies
offers a wide-ranging, critical history of incest and its various
prohibitions as they were defined throughout the nineteenth
century. Historian Brian Connolly argues that at the center of
these convergent anxieties and debates lay the idea of the liberal
subject: an autonomous individual who acted on his own desires yet
was tempered by reason, who enjoyed a life in public yet was
expected to find his greatest satisfaction in family and home.
Always lurking was the need to exercise personal freedom with
restraint; indeed, the valorization of the affectionate family was
rooted in its capacity to act as a bulwark against licentiousness.
However it was defined, incest was thus not only perceived as a
threat to social stability; it also functioned to regulate social
relations-within families and between classes as well as among
women and men, slaves and free citizens, strangers and friends.
Domestic Intimacies overturns conventional histories of American
liberalism by placing the fear of incest at the heart of
nineteenth-century conflicts over public life and privacy, kinship
and individualism, social contracts and personal freedom.
This study guide is the academic companion to Brian Connolly's
"Wolf Journal." Set in the Allegheny Mountains of northern
Pennsylvania, farm boy Jimmy Warren finds wolf tracks in the snow -
even though no wolves have been in these woods for a hundred years.
The tracks lead him deeper into his passion for nature guided by
Hawk, an old Susquehannock storyteller. Along the way, Jimmy falls
in love with the beautiful Sherry Woolman who shares his love of
the wild. As a school project, Jimmy keeps a journal on wolves. In
order to protect the wolf he discovered, Jimmy writes about him as
if he is fiction. The Tanner brothers, a derelict pair of would-be
bounty hunters, threaten to destroy the perfect balance of nature
that Jimmy has found. "Wolf Journal" is a journey into the natural
world where intricate details, like the imprint of a wing in snow,
tell a larger story - one of endangered species, an endangered
planet, and the human spirit that strives to understand and
protect.
Connexions investigates the ways in which race and sex intersect,
overlap, and inform each other in United States history. An expert
team of editors curates thought-provoking articles that explore how
to view the American past through the lens of race and sexuality
studies. Chapters range from the prerevolutionary era to today to
grapple with an array of captivating issues: how descriptions of
bodies shaped colonial Americans' understandings of race and sex;
same-sex sexual desire and violence within slavery; whiteness in
gay and lesbian history; college women's agitation against
heterosexual norms in the 1940s and 1950s; the ways society used
sexualized bodies to sculpt ideas of race and racial beauty; how
Mexican silent film icon Ramon Navarro masked his homosexuality
with his racial identity; and sexual representation in
mid-twentieth-century black print pop culture. The result is both
an enlightening foray into ignored areas and an elucidation of new
perspectives that challenge us to reevaluate what we "know" of our
own history. Contributors: Sharon Block, Susan K. Cahn, Stephanie
M. H. Camp, J. B. Carter, Ernesto Chavez, Brian Connolly, Jim
Downs, Marisa J. Fuentes, Leisa D. Meyer, Wanda S. Pillow, Marc
Stein, and Deborah Gray White.
Connexions investigates the ways in which race and sex intersect,
overlap, and inform each other in United States history. An expert
team of editors curates thought-provoking articles that explore how
to view the American past through the lens of race and sexuality
studies. Chapters range from the prerevolutionary era to today to
grapple with an array of captivating issues: how descriptions of
bodies shaped colonial Americans' understandings of race and sex;
same-sex sexual desire and violence within slavery; whiteness in
gay and lesbian history; college women's agitation against
heterosexual norms in the 1940s and 1950s; the ways society used
sexualized bodies to sculpt ideas of race and racial beauty; how
Mexican silent film icon Ramon Navarro masked his homosexuality
with his racial identity; and sexual representation in
mid-twentieth-century black print pop culture. The result is both
an enlightening foray into ignored areas and an elucidation of new
perspectives that challenge us to reevaluate what we "know" of our
own history. Contributors: Sharon Block, Susan K. Cahn, Stephanie
M. H. Camp, J. B. Carter, Ernesto Chavez, Brian Connolly, Jim
Downs, Marisa J. Fuentes, Leisa D. Meyer, Wanda S. Pillow, Marc
Stein, and Deborah Gray White.
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