Abstract
Bracha L. Ettinger’s writing addresses the central questions of philosophy, psychoanalysis and art—being and becoming, body and mind, consciousness and the Unconscious, subject and object of desire, alterity, difference and relationality.1 Artist-painter, artist-theorist and psychoanalyst, Ettinger recasts our understanding of the formation of the human subject that traverses the three registers of subjectivity defined by Jacques Lacan as the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic, addressing both the psycho-linguistic and the psycho-social. Developing a vocabulary of new concepts starting from Matrix and Metramorphosis (Chapter 1) Ettinger radically enlarges psychoanalytical, philosophical, feminist and cultural theorizations of both subjectivity and sexual difference.2 Moreover, by doing so, she both reveals the connection between the subject and sexual difference while exposing the bias of psychoanalysis in relation to their entwining. Ettinger proposes a theory of subjectivity-as-encounter to supplement and shift but not displace the prevailing psychoanalytical theories of subjectivity founded solely on separation. This introduction situates Ettinger's intervention in feminist, cultural and psychoanalytical theories of subjectivity, difference, and ethics.
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