Forum and intensive lectures at Nanjing University

"The body being seen, the body being shown" /
SHIMIZU Akiko (Queer and feminist theory, University of Tokyo)

This lecture offers a rereading of recent gender and sexuality theory and examines the political possibilities and problems concerning “my body” which is perceived through the visual senses. In concrete terms, the class starts with the consideration of the position of the visual body in queer theory, and after outlining the relations between transsexual body theory, which is in confrontation with this kind of visual queer theory and the theories of psychological analysis they derive from respectively, the lecture introduces several attempts to negotiate the unavoidable vulnerability of the “body that is being looked at”.

1. Introduction: the visual queer
2. A perceivable transition
3. Freud’s body, Lacan’s body
4. Who is watching me?
5. Attempts to cross the mirror
6. Pass and paradox

References
＊Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity
    -- Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
＊Jay Prosser, Second Skins Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
    -- ‘Mourning and Melancholia
＊Jacques Lacan, ‘The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience’
＊Kaja Silverman, Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema
＊Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One
＊Jay Prosser, Second Skins
＊Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
    - ‘Mourning and Melancholia’
＊Jacques Lacan, ‘The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience’
＊Kaja Silverman, Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema
＊Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One