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Throwing the Case Open: The Impossible Subject of Luisa Passerini’s Autobiography of a Generation (2020)

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For John Forrester, the ‘case’, particularly in its psychoanalytic version, makes possible a science of the particular – knowledge open to the differences of individuals and situations. This article takes up that aspect of Forrester’s account that linked the psychoanalytic case with forms of autobiography – new narrations of that particular self. After Freud, many authors – literary and psychoanalytic – have taken up the challenge of narrating subjectivity in new forms, engaging a quasi-psychoanalytic framework (H. D., Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick are examples). Focusing on Luisa Passerini’s text Autobiography of a Generation, which deals with the Italian experience of 1968, the article examines some of the features of such hybrid texts, and argues that psychoanalysis makes a contribution not just to the forms of self-investigation they pursue, but more significantly to the search for a radically new methodology of narration. Such models end up as ‘impossible’ cases, but in so doing they explore new interdisciplinary means for understanding the historical shaping of subjectivity.

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Authors & Contributors
Forrester, John M.
Angela Megan Sells
Bar-Haim, Shaul
Weitzenkorn, Rachel
Böhmer, Maria
Dennis P. Slattery
Concepts
Psychoanalysis
Case studies
Psychology
Autobiographies
Subjectivity
Reasoning in science
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
United States
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