Bracha Ettinger. Psychoanalysis and Matrixial Borderspace. 2007 5/11

http://www.egs.edu/ Bracha L. Ettinger, Israeli-French psychoanalyst, painter, artist and feminist theorist, discussing her paintings, notebooks and work on the matrixial borderspace, trans-subjectivity, co-poiesis and trauma. She describes the relation between her artistic practice and psychoanalytic practice. Bracha L. Ettinger at a public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007

Born in Tel Aviv (and of Israeli and British nationality), Bracha L. Ettinger received her Ph.D. in Aesthetics of Art from the University of Paris VIII, a D.E.A. in Psychoanalysis from the University of Paris VII, and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the Marcel Duchamp Professor of Psychoanalysis and Art at the Media & Communications Division, European Graduate School (EGS), Saas-Fee. She lives in Paris.

Bracha L. Ettinger presents an original theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. Ettinger works through Lacan's late works, the anti-Oedipal perspectives of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as object-relations theory to critique the phallocentrism of mainstream Lacanian theory and to rethink the masculine-feminine opposition. She replaces the phallic structure with a dimension of emergence, where objects, images, and meanings are glimpsed in their incipiency, before they are differentiated. This is the matrixial realm, a shareable, psychic dimension that underlies the individual unconscious and experience. Professor Ettinger is author of several books and more than seventy psychoanalytical essays on what she has named matrixial trans-subjectivity.

Bracha L. Ettinger is the author of The Matrixial Borderspace (2006), Thinking the Feminine (2004), The Matrixial Gaze (1995), Lictenberg Ettinger, Bracha. Matrix-Borderlines (1993), Matrix: A Shift Beyond the Phallus (1993), and co-authored Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger: Artworking: 1985-1999 (2000), 3x An Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin (2005), What Would Euridyce Say? with Emmanuel Levinas (1997), A Threshold Where We Are Afraid with Edmund Jabès (1993) and Time is the Breath of the Spirit (1993) with Emmanuel Levinas.

Bracha L. Ettinger has exhibited her painting and artwork The Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp (Gorge(l), 2006), KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (ARS 06 Biennale, 2006), Villa Medici, Rome, (Memory, 1999), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Kabinet, 1997), The Pompidou Center (Face à l'Histoire, 1997), with solo exhibitions in the Drawing Center, NY, 2001; The Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels (2000); Museum of Art, Pori (1996); The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1995); the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA), Oxford; The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (1993); Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne; (1992) and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais (1988).

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The fragility, or rather, the sense of fragility, comes from the (newly founded) awareness and openness to the rich world of emotions and sensations, that until now where within the blind spot of the 'I' identification with them, but with time the cause for that sense of fragility is recognised as the source for strength and creativity.

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the 'ego', Ettinger's 'I', as the part of us that is identified with all the things we are actually not, feelings, thoughts, etc. is painted as the thing that we have to transcend if we wish to become happy. The way I see it, the 'I', 'ego', is something for the 'Non I' to get acquainted with, to observe and get to understand its motives etc., and no less importantly, enjoy watching and getting educated by.

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(Part 1 of 2) To use Tolle's 'ego', Ettinger's 'I', and Tolle's 'true self, awareness, the silent observer', Ettinger's 'Non I', I put it thus: The ego is always in for ride i.e. the, to put it in Ettinger's terms, 'I' coexists with the 'Non I'. My drive to saying, 'The ego is always in for the ride' comes from the fact that in Tolle's account,(See part 2 for this comment)