Residencies
Tamara Dellutri | Writer in ResidenceJane Phillips Award 2015
05 May - 05 May 2015
Until the 30th June
If there is something that makes Freud's psychoanalysis extraordinary to me it is its rigorous upside-down logic. Its profound disdain towards the immediately evident, ordered, coherent. Its unapologetic disregard of what is displayed with grace. When it comes to subjectivity, psychoanalysis’ rather ingenious curiosity finds clarity in those little moments that oscillate from play to catastrophe. What repeats to boredom, what belongs to the order of the comic, the detail that does not fit, the shameful—the odd. If Freud’s idea of the unconscious and later Jacques Lacan re-elaboration of the concept introduced us to something epistemologically new, is this suspicion-as-method to think ourselves and the world we live in.
I think of writing with Freud’s invention on the horizon: writing as an invitation to think from within the fracture of meaning, from within which does not make sense. Writing as a form of giving no meaning a place, which in turn, is a form of coming to terms with the limit of knowledge and the impossibility of a fully reconciled society. Writing as the encounter of something un-knowable and un-curable at the core of the human: writing as a ‘making’ born from that discovery, born from that disappointment.
About | Tamara Dellutri
Tamara was born in Argentina and has lived in Swansea for the past ten years. She studied Philosophy, Music and Visual Arts and is currently training as a Psychoanalyst at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London. She is interested in critical writing, particularly on themes that account for the subject’s struggle in contemporary culture. Tamara is interested in Political Theory, the Arts and the clinic of Psychoanalysis. The Jane Phillips Writer in Residency Award is a brilliant opportunity —‘a room of one’s own’—that Tamara is very pleased to inhabit. At the moment Tamara is writing an essay on Materialism, Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics.
Further residencies are due to be announced shortly.
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