A poetics of resentment: memory and ethics in the work of Louise Bourgeois
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2017.139856Keywords:
Louise Bourgeois, memory, resentment, creativity, psychoanalysisAbstract
The aim of this paper is to address resentment as an eminently modern way of sensibility to locate oneself in the world and to develop a personal project of subjectivation. I will use the work of Louise Bourgeois because her way of understanding the creative process is a paradigmatic example of how resentment becomes creative and gives rise to the mentioned project of subjectivation. I will develop the idea that Bourgeois makes a resentful art because because resentment is her way of dealing with the most existentialist topic in her production, that is, how the subject can make sense of what others have done to him. To elaborate my position, I will rely on Judith Butler’s Giving an account of oneself.
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