Claire Pajaczkowska
Claire Pajaczkowska leads a group of doctoral researchers investigating the agency of tacit knowledge in the creative process, at the Royal College of Art, London. Her own PhD 'Before Language' (1989 School of Humanities, Middlesex University) was a study of psychoanalysis and materialism. Recent publications include Thread of Attachment in Textiles: the Journal of Cloth and Culture (Berg,2007); with Ivan Ward Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture (Routledge,2008); The Sublime Now (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010); and On Humming : Marion Milner's contribution to psychoanalysis.
Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture
Why do human beings feel shame? What is the cultural dimension of shame and sexuality? Can theory understand the power of affect? How is psychoanalysis integral to cultural theory? The experience of... (more)
The New Klein-Lacan Dialogues
This book provides a timely exploration and comparison of key concepts in the theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, two thinkers and clinicians whose influence over the development of... (more)